Design of a Sensor-Blending Kalman Filter for the R2P2 Fine-Tracking System

Abstract

The performance of a sensor blending scheme for two different band- width sensors is significantly improved when a Kalman filter is used to blend the outputs vice classical control methods. This Kalman filter signal blender is designed and implemented in a computer program developed for this thesis. Several tracking scenarios are simulated and analyzed. These scenarios are representative of the input expected into the sensors on a Space Based Laser. Keywords: Kalman filter; Adaptive gating; Sensor blending. Theses.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA225433

Entities

People

  • Terrance J. Bauer

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bandwidth
  • Blending
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Differential Equations
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Filters
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Response
  • Kalman Filters
  • Line Of Sight
  • New York
  • Schools
  • Space Based
  • United States
  • United States Military Academy

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects