Author: Andrew Adie

Idea In general, I think most people have an intuitive idea of what “optimization” and “optimal” mean: to find the solution that minimizes all constraints (cost, time, materials, labor, energy, etc.). But mathematically in the generalized nonlinear case, it is extremely difficult to find a true global minimum on a function’s surface with iterative methods.…

Idea State estimation is the art of making confident analyses from noisy data. There are several techniques to achieve this. Some more simple, some more complex. The current industry standard is a variation of Kalman filtering, but other options like least squares, MSE, and particle filtering are also options. State estimation plays a key role…