Adaptive Target Tracking for Underwater Maneuvering Targets.

Abstract

This report examines the problem of adaptively tracking a maneuvering submarine in two dimensional space utilizing passive time delay and Doppler frequency measurements of unknown or randomly varying center frequencies. The target is free to maneuver in velocity and depth with tracking being done in the vertical plane. It is pointed out how to incorporate bearing measurements into the present polar model to achieve a three dimensional target tracking capability. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA081253

Entities

People

  • Richard L. Moose

Organizations

  • Virginia Tech

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Propagation
  • Adaptive Filters
  • Computational Science
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Data Science
  • Doppler Effect
  • Equations Of State
  • Estimators
  • Kalman Filtering
  • Kalman Filters
  • Mathematical Filters
  • Measurement
  • Probability
  • Radial Velocity
  • Sound Waves
  • Spectra
  • Target Tracking

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Robotics and Automation.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects
  • Space - Spacecraft Maneuvers