Source code for stonesoup.sampler.particle

from collections.abc import Callable

import numpy as np

from .base import Sampler
from ..base import Property
from ..types.state import ParticleState
from ..types.array import StateVectors


[docs] class ParticleSampler(Sampler): """Particle sampler. A generic :class:`~.Sampler` which wraps around most distribution sampling functions from :class:`numpy` and :class:`scipy`, that returns a :class:`~.ParticleState` """ distribution_func: Callable = Property( doc="Callable function that returns samples from the desired distribution.") params: dict = Property( doc="Dictionary containing the keyword arguments for :attr:`distribution_func`.") ndim_state: int = Property( doc="Number of dimensions in each sample.")
[docs] def sample(self, params=None, timestamp=None, **kwargs): """Samples from the desired distribution and returns as a :class:`~.ParticleState` Parameters ---------- params : dict, optional Keyword arguments for :attr:`distribution_func`. These parameters will update the parameters specified in the class properties and can either be completely redefined or the subset of parameters that need changing. timestamp : datetime.datetime, optional Timestamp for the returned :class:`~.ParticleState`. Default is ``None``. Returns ------- particle state : :class:`~.ParticleState` The particle state containing the samples of the distribution """ if params is not None: params_update = params params = self.params.copy() params.update(**params_update) else: params = self.params.copy() samples = self.distribution_func(**params) # If samples is 1D, make it 2D if len(np.shape(samples)) == 1: samples = np.array([samples]) # get the number of samples returned nsamples = (set(np.shape(samples)) - set(np.array([self.ndim_state]))).pop() # Ensure the correct shape of samples for the state_vector if np.shape(samples)[0] != self.ndim_state: samples = samples.T particles = ParticleState(state_vector=StateVectors(samples), weight=np.array([1 / nsamples] * nsamples), timestamp=timestamp) return particles