Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930–2023) was a Hungarian-American mathematician and engineer best known for his significant contributions to the fields of control theory and estimation, particularly for developing the Kalman filter. The Kalman filter is an algorithm that provides estimates of unknown variables by minimizing the mean of the squared errors, and it has widespread applications in various domains, including robotics, navigation, signal processing, and economics.
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