Multimodal sensor fusion of inertial, strain, and distance data for state estimation of adaptive structures using particle filtering. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), July 3-7, 2017, Munich, 921--928, 2017. [PUMA: (numerical Buildings, Optical State Strain Strain, adaptive data, distance estimation, filtering filtering, fusion, gauges, inertial measurement, methods), multimodal optical particle scanning sensor sensors, state strain structure structures, supports, system, truss variables]