Estimation of symmetric positive-definite matrices from imperfect measurements

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1721-1725

  Chen, Yixin ^a,b   McInroy, John E ^b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Covariance estimation; Educational testing problem; Mass estimation; Matrix modification problem; Stiffness estimation; Symmetric positive definite matrix

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTELLIGENT STRUCTURES; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; ROBOTICS; STIFFNESS;

SYMMETRIC POSITIVE-DEFINITE MATRICES;

INTELLIGENT CONTROL;

EID: 0036806003     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2002.803545     Document Type: Article

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