Kalman Filter Matlab [exclusive] May 2026

dt = 0.1; % time step F = [1 dt; 0 1]; % state transition H = [1 0]; % measurement matrix Q = [0.01 0; 0 0.01]; % process noise R = 0.1; % measurement noise % Initial guess x = [0; 0]; P = eye(2);

% Simulated measurements true_pos = 0:dt:10; meas = true_pos + sqrt(R)*randn(size(true_pos)); kalman filter matlab

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% Kalman loop for k = 1:length(meas) % Predict x = F x; P = F P*F' + Q; % Plot plot(true_pos, 'g-', meas, 'ro', est_pos, 'b--')

After struggling with prediction/correction steps for a while, I implemented a basic Kalman filter for a 1D motion model in MATLAB. Sharing a clean working example.

% Plot plot(true_pos, 'g-', meas, 'ro', est_pos, 'b--') legend('True', 'Noisy', 'Kalman estimate')

Estimate position and velocity from noisy measurements.