[Jared Russell]

In the realm of FIRST, "statistical analysis" done in real-time in any form is novel. In the realm of academic robotics, you'd have to be more specific as to what you mean, e.g. it sounds like you could be talking about a Kalman Filter (where you trade off between how much you trust your sensors vs. how much you trust your "model" of the world based on statistical properties of your sensor readings).