Improved tracking of maneuvering targets: the use of turn-rate distributions for acceleration modeling

• Published in: MFI'94 : 1994 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems :October 2-5, 1994, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. pp. 515 - 520
• Main Author: Helferty, J.P.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 1994
• Subjects: Acceleration; Coordinate measuring machines; Filters; Humans; Linear systems; Markov processes; Position measurement; Probability distribution; State estimation; Target tracking

Tactically maneuvering targets are difficult to track since acceleration cannot be observed directly and the accelerations are induced by human control or an autonomous guidance system; therefore they are not subject to deterministic models. A common tracking system is the two-state Kalman Filter wi...