Bearings Only Target Tracking-Maneuvering Target

Abstract

The estimation of the position and velocity of a sonar target moving in a two-dimensional frame is studied in this paper. The estimator is a Kalman filter which processes noisy bearings of the target gathered by the tracker. The case of maneuvering targets is examined a solution using a variable value of the system's noise covariance matrix is studied. Simulation programs in FORTRAN are provided for a simple example and for maneuvering and nonmaneuvering bearings-only targets. Originator-supplied keywords: Kalman filter, Passive tracking, Bearings-only tracking, and Extended kalman filter.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA154035

Entities

People

  • Dimitrios Kourkoulis

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Cartesian Coordinates
  • Computers
  • Covariance
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Equations Of State
  • Estimators
  • Filters
  • Filtration
  • Kalman Filtering
  • Kalman Filters
  • Mathematical Filters
  • Measurement
  • Schools
  • Target Tracking

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Inertial Navigation Systems.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.
  • Statistical inference.