INVESTOR TAKEAWAYWe introduce Contractor Filters (CFs), a set-membership architecture for nonlinear continuous-time state estimation with bounded uncertainties and sporadic outliers. CFs represent feasible states symbolically by compositions of contractors rather than rematerializing a geometric enclosure after each update.
ORIGINAL PAPERContractor Filters
WHAT WE KNOWThis provides an abstraction layer between the set-theoretic filtering equations and their numerical realization, so prediction, correction, ambiguity, and outlier handling can be expressed within one algebra without prescribing a state geometry. We derive an exact nominal recursion and a guaranteed robust enclosure, with validated flow inclusions preserving soundness. Optional sub-paving compression then provides finite outer representations.
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