TR2017-093

Particle Gibbs with Ancestor Sampling for Identification of Tire-Friction Parameters


    •  Berntorp, K., Di Cairano, S., "Particle Gibbs with Ancestor Sampling for Identification of Tire-Friction Parameters", World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), DOI: 10.1016/​j.ifacol.2017.08.2585, July 2017, vol. 50, pp. 14849-14854.
      BibTeX TR2017-093 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Berntorp2017jul,
      • author = {Berntorp, Karl and Di Cairano, Stefano},
      • title = {Particle Gibbs with Ancestor Sampling for Identification of Tire-Friction Parameters},
      • booktitle = {World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)},
      • year = 2017,
      • volume = 50,
      • number = 1,
      • pages = {14849--14854},
      • month = jul,
      • publisher = {Elsevier},
      • doi = {10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.2585},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2017-093}
      • }
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    Control, Signal Processing

Abstract:

Particle Gibbs with Ancestor Sampling (PGAS) is a particle Markov chain Monte Carlo method (PMCMC) for Bayesian inference and learning. PGAS conditions on a referencestate trajectory in the underlying particle filter using ancestor sampling. In this paper, we leverage PGAS for identification of cornering-stiffness parameters in road vehicles only using production-grade sensors. The cornering-stiffness parameters are essential for describing the motion of the vehicle. We show how PGAS can be adapted to efficiently learn the stiffness parameters by conditioning on the noise-input trajectory instead of the state trajectory. We verify on a three-minute long experimental test drive that our method correctly identifies the tire-stiffness parameters.