There has been significant recent interest of particle filters for nonlinear state estimation. Particle filters evaluate a
posterior probability distribution of the state variable based on observations in Monte Carlo simulation using so-called importance
sampling. However, degeneracy phenomena in the importance weights deteriorate the filter performance. We propose in this paper
a novel particle filter, which combines the ideas of Gaussian sum filter based on the Gaussian mixture approximation of the
posteriori distribution and Evolution strategies based particle filter using selection process in evolution strategies. Numerical
simulation study indicates the potential to create high performance filters for nonlinear state estimation.
This work is partially supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
(C)(2)14550447.