The Marginalized Auxiliary Particle Filter

In this paper we are concerned with nonlinear systems subject to a conditionally linear, Gaussian sub-structure. This structure is often exploited in high-dimensional state estimation problems using the marginalized (aka Rao-Blackwellized) particle filter. The main contribution in the present work is to show how an efficient filter can be derived by exploiting this structure within the auxiliary particle filter. Based on a multisensor aircraft tracking example, the superior performance of the proposed filter over conventional particle filtering approaches is demonstrated