@inproceedings{adc37dbbeae4480c95aa8cfb442fe335,
title = "What is the Lagrangian for Nonlinear Filtering",
abstract = "Duality between estimation and optimal control is a problem of rich historical significance. The first duality principle appears in the seminal paper of Kalman-Bucy, where the problem of minimum variance estimation is shown to be dual to a linear quadratic (LQ) optimal control problem. Duality offers a constructive proof technique to derive the Kalman filter equation from the optimal control solution.This paper generalizes the classical duality result of Kalman-Bucy to the nonlinear filter: The state evolves as a continuous-time Markov process and the observation is a nonlinear function of state corrupted by an additive Gaussian noise. A dual process is introduced as a backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE). The process is used to transform the problem of minimum variance estimation into an optimal control problem. Its solution is obtained from an application of the maximum principle, and subsequently used to derive the equation of the nonlinear filter. The classical duality result of Kalman-Bucy is shown to be a special case.",
author = "Kim, {Jin Won} and Mehta, {Prashant G.} and Meyn, {Sean P.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 IEEE.; 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2019 ; Conference date: 11-12-2019 Through 13-12-2019",
year = "2019",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1109/CDC40024.2019.9030206",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "1607--1614",
booktitle = "2019 IEEE 58th Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2019",
address = "United States",
}