The contributor implements a state of the art smoother for continuous-time systems with additive Gaussian noise. The system's dynamics can be described as an ordinary differential equation with locally additive Gaussian random fluctuations, in other words a stochastic ordinary differential equation.
Given a series of measurements observed over time, containing statistical noise and other inaccuracies, the task is to produce an estimate of the unknown trajectory of the system that led to the observations.
Linear continuous-time systems are smoothed with the fixed-lag Kalman-Bucy smoother (related to the Kalman–Bucy_filter). It relies on coupled ODEs describing how mean and covariance of the conditional distribution of the latent system state evolve over time. A versatile implementation in Julia is missing.
Expected Results: Build efficient implementation of non-linear smoothing of continuous stochastic dynamical systems.
Recommended Skills: Gaussian random variables, Bayes' formula, Stochastic Differential Equations
Mentors: Moritz Schauer
Rating: Hard, 350 hours