Ultimate Guide to Kalman Filters for Beginners (with MATLAB Code Downloads)
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% --- Plot Results --- figure; subplot(2,1,1); hold on; plot(0:dt:T, true_state(1,:), 'k--', 'LineWidth', 2); plot(0:dt:T, measurements, 'rx', 'MarkerSize', 3); plot(0:dt:T, estimated_states(1,:), 'b-', 'LineWidth', 1.5); ylabel('Position (meters)'); legend('True','Measured','KF Estimate','Location','best'); title('Kalman Filter for Train Tracking'); I will open result 0, result 1, result