A Computer Program for Double Sweep Optimal Smoothing.

Abstract

This report documents the double sweep smoothing program used at AMSAA to determine an aircraft's position, velocity, and acceleration from radar tracking data. It includes a tutorial guide to the underlying mathematics. A quadratic programming problem with linear constraints is formulated, reduced to a system of difference equations with initial and endpoint boundary conditions, and solved using Bryson's double sweep method. The iterative solution is programmed in simple, machine independent FORTRAN with top down structured programming. A listing is supplied and card decks are available.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA066512

Entities

People

  • Robert A. Scheder

Organizations

  • United States Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Cartesian Coordinates
  • Computations
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Equations
  • Measurement
  • Operating Systems
  • Quadratic Programming
  • Radar Tracking
  • Structured Programming
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Three Dimensional

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Computer Science.