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- From: mark@cs.ualberta.ca (Mark Green)
- Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
- Subject: Re: TECH: Filtering head position/orientation data
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:01:49 -0700
- Organization: University of Alberta
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- In article <1jcou3INNped@shelley.u.washington.edu> thinman@netcom.com (Technical
- ly Sweet) writes:
- >
- >diego@minerva.st.dsi.unimi.it (Diego Montefusco) writes:
- >
- >>That's exactly what I thought a Kalman filter did... I said I'm
- >>completely new to this kind of things, so I'm probably in error.
- >
- >I don't know either. Chris Shaw or Mark Green at U. of Alberta
- >might care to comment; their MR toolkit has had a Kalman filter
- >tool for a long time. How useful is it, guys?
- >
- >
- >--
- >
- >Lance Norskog
- >thinman@netcom.com
- >Data is not information is not knowledge is not wisdom.
-
-
- A key part of a Kalman filter is the noise model, this is basically
- a stochastic process that models the noise and signal that you are
- dealing with. With an appropriate model a Kalman filter does a very
- good job of predicting over a short range (several samples), but with
- an inappropriate model you are much better off with no filtering. Our
- major contribution was not the idea of using Kalman filtering (other people
- had tried it before, and found that it didn't work), but a could model
- to use in the filter. With the filter on it is possible to play real-time
- games (like handball) that require reflex action and good hand-eye
- coordination, without the filter the game is much harder to play. Our
- handball demo is our main test of quality of interaction. Over the years
- we have needed to change the rules, as our toolkit got better, the
- game got easier to play, so we needed to make it harder to keep the
- interest.
-