Use of an Extended Kalman Filter

Abstract

The error introduced by the DF accuracy of three direction Finding equipments used on board two surface units providing bearing measurements is used to evaluate the performance of the ESM systems through the Extended Kalman Filter equations, and to appreciate the result in the estimation process by evaluating how the improvement of the tracking process is reduced as the error introduced by the DF accuracy of the ESM systems is increased. The process is conducted at three different scenarios involving a change in course of 0, 45 and 90 degrees, and it can be seen how the maneuver detection algorithm stop working when the DF accuracy reaches 4.6 deg. for the second scenario and 9.6 deg. for the scenario Nr 3.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA238639

Entities

People

  • Juan J. Sanchez

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Angular Acceleration
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Direction Finding
  • Equations
  • Estimators
  • Filters
  • Kalman Filters
  • Maneuvers
  • Measurement
  • Navigation
  • Simulations
  • Standards
  • Target Tracking
  • United States
  • Warning Systems

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.
  • Spectroscopy.