Over the past years Robust PCA has been established as a standard tool for
reliable low-rank approximation of matrices in the presence of outliers.
Recently, the Robust PCA approach via nuclear norm minimization has been
extended to matrices with linear structures which appear in applications such
as system identification and data series analysis. At the same time it has been
shown how to control the rank of a structured approximation via matrix
factorization approaches. The drawbacks of these methods either lie in the lack
of robustness against outliers or in their static nature of repeated
batch-processing. We present a Robust Structured Low-Rank Approximation method
on the Grassmannian that on the one hand allows for fast re-initialization in
an online setting due to subspace identification with manifolds, and that is
robust against outliers due to a smooth approximation of the ℓp-norm cost
function on the other hand. The method is evaluated in online time series
forecasting tasks on simulated and real-world data