Before revision: Its creator Jeffrey Uhlmann explained that "unscented" was an arbitrary name that he adopted to avoid it being referred to as the “Uhlmann filter” though others have indicated that "unscented" is a contrast to "scented" intended as a euphemism for "stinky" <ref?</ref> Background Many filtering and control methods represent estimates of the state of a system in the form of a mean vector and an associated error covariance matrix.
After revision: Its creator Jeffrey Uhlmann explained that "unscented" was an arbitrary name that he adopted to avoid it being referred to as the “Uhlmann filter” though others have indicated that "unscented" is a contrast to "scented" intended as a euphemism for "stinky" Background Many filtering and control methods represent estimates of the state of a system in the form of a mean vector and an associated error covariance matrix.