2023-12-07
life-travel-reflections
In the summer of 2023, I got my Swiss motorboat license in Zurich. I trained for it also in Zurich. I have also written a blog post in the past, about how to get a Swiss motorboat license. …
2023-09-13
robotics-perception-systems
A while ago I had written about IMU pre-integration (blog-link). Particularly, I had played around with the inertial measurements data (IMU data) and tried to dig a bit deeper on what …
2023-09-11
life-travel-reflections
Going around Switzerland, it is hard to miss its beautiful lakes. This summer (2023) I was fortunate enough to have figured out the process and obtained my boating licenses in Switzerland. …
2021-10-26
robotics-perception-systems
A while ago, I had explored the theory of IMU preintegration in the context of sensor fusion using a factor graph. The basic concept is that to use imu measurement as between factors for …
2021-01-18
life-travel-reflections
The year 2020 turned out to be a year of COVID. My flights to back home in Dec 2020 got cancelled. So spend a part of the holiday to take my art of casting a bit further. In the end, I could …
2020-07-07
math-estimation-optimization
Estimation of parameters is a central problem in various fields of applied science. In robotics and machine learning, literally a good solution to a problem is cast as an optimization …
2020-04-22
math-estimation-optimization
Gaussian distribution have these nice property that under linear transformation the resulting distribution is still a Gaussian distribution. This property is successfully exploited by the …
2020-04-13
life-travel-reflections
In Jan 2020, right after my Ph.D. defense I set my sights on lost wax casting for jewellery. It was a great learing experience for me as it was something totally new to me. Some things I …
2020-04-09
math-estimation-optimization
We often come across a vector valued function which needs linearization. Depending on the form though, doing it manually is very tedious and prone to error. In this post, let us try to use a …
2020-04-08
robotics-perception-systems
Overview In this post I am going to briefly tell you about Kalman filter and one of its extensions to non-linear cases, ie. the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF). I will give a concrete example …
2020-01-21
math-estimation-optimization
How to learn Linear Algebra ?
My recommendation is that stop following all the random material. It rather confuses you. If you get stumped by things like "Eigen Vector", "Singular Values", …
2019-10-16
math-estimation-optimization
Don't get bogged down by the heavy sounding title. Let's dissect the title first. "Special Euclidean Group" refers to the Euclidean transform aka the rotation and translation matrix …