Adaptive Laser Pointing and Tracking Problem

Abstract

The digital implementation of a negating phase shift that operates perfectly under ideal conditions was a major accomplishment. The establishment of a zero level of 10 to the -8th power was also significant. The incorporation of the exponential smoothing technique to minimize the effect of measurement noise was important since it uncovered a possible connection between the size of the target image and its performance throughout the pattern recognition process. However, the major obstacle that surface during the execution of this project was a filter divergence problem. It has been proposed that this problem can be solved by implementing the Fourier transform derivative property instead of the forward-backward difference method to compute the spatial derivative of the non-linear h function.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA100870

Entities

People

  • James Singletery Jr

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Computer Programs
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Data Processing
  • Differential Equations
  • Eigenvalues
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Kalman Filters
  • Lasers
  • Measurement
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Phase Shift
  • Recognition
  • Signal Processing
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Approximation Theory.
  • Computer Vision.
  • Theoretical Analysis.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Bayesian Inference
  • AI & ML - Machine Learning Algorithms
  • Directed Energy