Cooperative Estimation of Targets by Multiple Aircraft
Abstract
A cooperative estimator of aerial target motion was designed and evaluated using an Extended Kalman Filter and a Monte-Carlo simulation. The estimator was designed to combine tracking information from two cooperating fighter aircraft which are tracking a single aerial target in either range and angle, or in angle-only. The cooperation occurs when information, in the form of raw measurements or state estimates, is transferred between aircraft via a telemetry link. The design and evaluation were both preliminary in the sense that necessary information about attackers' relative position and orientation was assumed error-free, that transmission delays and other details of a data link were not included, tracker errors were modeled as white noise, and timing and word-length constraints of actual real-time filter software was not addressed.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1980
- Accession Number
- ADA085799
Entities
People
- Ralph S. Bryan
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology