临近空间高超声速滑跃式轨迹目标跟踪技术

针对临近空间目标飞行速度快、机动特性强和加速度突变的特性,提出一种地心直角(ECEF)坐标系下基于目标特性分析的修正强跟踪滤波(MSTF)算法。首先,通过对ECEF坐标系下目标量测的无偏转化处理,以有效减小目标高超声速飞行所带来的旋转、平移和线性化误差影响;接着,在对目标特性充分分析的基础上,合理构建强跟踪滤波(STF)模型,通过对模型参数的自适应调节,以有效实现临近空间高超声速滑跃式轨迹目标的精确跟踪;最后,结合统计学原理对目标加速度的突变进行合理检测和补偿,以进一步修正强跟踪滤波模型的跟踪精度。仿真结果表明,与现有的临近空间目标跟踪算法相比,该算法具有较高的定位跟踪精度。     

基于改进的FCM和信息熵修正的航迹融合算法

在局部航迹信息质量不均衡条件下,选择所有局部航迹进行航迹融合的算法会造成系统航迹质量下降。为了提高跟踪性能,提出了一种基于改进的模糊C均值(FCM)和信息熵修正的航迹融合算法。通过交互式多模型(IMM)滤波后的航迹信息对聚类数据做“质量”修正,改进后的FCM算法对局部航迹进行聚类分析,利用信息熵和隶属度对局部航迹进行选择和融合,达到修正聚类中心和提高系统航迹质量的效果。仿真结果表明：当多个传感器跟踪机动目标时,在传感器的观测精度发生变化和存在量测丢失的情况下,该算法的跟踪性能优于已知的航迹融合算法。     

引入神经网络的交互式多模型算法

在交互式多模型算法中引入神经网络算法以改进目标跟踪的精度。利用神经网络算法对基于机动目标“当前”统计模型的均值和方差自适应滤波算法进行修改,提高该算法的性能,然后采用交互作用多模型算法跟踪机动目标,提高了机动目标的跟踪精度。     

强跟踪滤波在高超声速滑翔目标跟踪中的应用

高超声速滑翔目标(HGT)机动模式复杂多样、轨迹形态灵活多变,增加了跟踪模型建模的不确定性,导致目标跟踪的精度低。为了提高跟踪精度,提出了一种基于强跟踪滤波的高超声速滑翔目标跟踪方法。首先,在地基雷达坐标系下建立目标运动模型和量测模型,利用维纳随机过程来表征运动模型中未知项的变化特性。其次,采用强跟踪无迹卡尔曼滤波(UKF)算法对目标运动状态进行估计,提高模型不确定性存在时滤波器的状态跟踪能力。最后,利用目标常用的基于标准轨迹的制导方法生成了一条可行飞行轨迹。仿真结果表明,该方法的跟踪精度高,强跟踪滤波能够有效降低模型不确定性存在时的状态估计误差。     

一种混合的多机动目标跟踪算法研究

提出了一种混合的多机动目标跟踪算法:交互多模型模糊联合概率数据关联算法(IMM-FJPDA),该算法将交互多模型算法(IMM)和模糊联合概率数据关联算法(FJPDA)相结合,它克服了IMM-JPDA算法计算量大和IMM-FDA算法在强杂波环境中跟踪精度差的问题.给出了基于模糊C均值(FCM)算法的多机动目标跟踪步骤.仿真结果表明IMM-FJPDA算法跟踪精度与IMM-JPDA算法相当,但计算量明显减小,提高了跟踪实时性.     

基于视觉注意机制的认知雷达数据关联算法

针对传统关联波门设计方法在应用于机动目标跟踪时容易引起失跟、以及概率数据关联算法不适于多交叉目标跟踪的问题,提出了一种基于人类视觉选择性注意机制和知觉客体的"特征整合"理论的认知雷达数据关联算法。算法以综合交互式多模型概率数据关联算法为基础,采取假设目标最大机动水平已知的"当前"统计模型和匀速运动模型作为模型集,通过实时交互使关联波门能够随目标机动动态调整,较好地兼顾了雷达计算耗时和跟踪成功率。在利用目标位置特征的基础上,进一步提取、整合目标运动特征,对关联波门交叉区域公共量测进行分类,使多交叉目标跟踪问题转化为多个单目标跟踪问题,优化了传统概率数据关联算法。仿真结果表明：与传统关联波门设计方法相比,算法跟踪失败率和计算耗时明显降低;而且在计算资源增加不大的情况下,杂波环境适应性也得到了显著增强。     

基于角速度估计自适应的IMM目标跟踪算法

为了解决目标强机动时目标跟踪算法模型集不匹配的问题,提出了一种基于角速度估计的自适应交互式多模型算法。通过对角速度的估计,在目标的不同运动模式下选取最优模型集,角速度估计精度高时,通过角速度估计值构造模型集,减小模型间竞争;角速度估计精度低时,采用标准IMM算法的模型集,提高模型集的覆盖范围,从而提高跟踪精度。仿真结果表明该方法能够明显提升目标跟踪性能,对强机动目标的跟踪效果尤其显著。     

纯方位二维目标跟踪的航迹起始算法

 针对传统航迹起始算法在纯方位目标定位和跟踪系统应用中存在的弊端,提出了一种完全基于角度量测的快速航迹起始算法。该方法通过深入分析目标在角度坐标下的运动特性,给出了全新的关联门构造方法。该波门技术有效提高了纯方位二维目标真实量测的确认效率,极大限制了虚假航迹随密集杂波的扩张。利用此波门,通过基于逻辑的方法对仅有角度量测的目标航迹进行扩展。该方法有效地解决了角度坐标系下机动目标的航迹起始分辨率下降的问题,为基于单个被动传感器纯方位跟踪系统进行快速、准确的航迹起始提供了新的思路。仿真结果及实际应用表明了此算法的有效性和实用性。     

多飞航导弹目标协同跟踪技术研究

针对多飞航导弹对目标协同跟踪精度较低的问题,提出了一种基于弹载雷达组网和GPS/INS组合导航的无偏不敏自适应融合跟踪算法。首先,通过领弹和攻击弹的优化布站,以有效提高多飞航导弹对目标的定位跟踪精度和突防能力;在时空协同的基础上,利用无偏不敏转换对各飞航导弹的目标量测进行预处理,以减小因旋转、平移和线性化误差所带来的影响;最后,结合统计双门限判决机制,利用自适应融合跟踪算法来有效实现多飞航导弹目标协同跟踪精度的提高。仿真结果表明,与现有的弹载雷达跟踪算法相比,该算法具有较高的定位跟踪精度。     

基于IMM-UIF的多无人机纯角度机动目标跟踪

针对单无人机不能及时捕捉到目标的运动状态信息,很容易跟丢目标的问题,结合无迹信息滤波(UIF)算法和交互多模型(IMM)算法,提出了基于IMM-UIF的多无人机分布式融合估计算法。将各个无人机上的观测信息传输至中心节点,并统一优化各无人机的控制输入。仿真结果表明,基于IMM-UIF的多无人机分布式融合估计算法比基于IMM-UIF的单无人机跟踪精度提高了约30%,有效融合多无人机平台的量测信息,实现对目标稳定的高精度跟踪。     

Tracking a 3D maneuvering target with passive sensors

A novel application of the interacting multiple models (IMM) algorithm in which passive infrared sensors are fused for tracking a target maneuvering in three dimensions is discussed. More accurate models of target motion are proposed to improve performance. When the general models are used to describe the maneuvering periods, it is shown that the IMM behaviour is not satisfactory, in that the innovations associated with the different models do not discriminate between the corresponding target maneuvering regimes. The turning of the Markov chain transition matrix, i.e., a priori information, is then crucial to obtaining the correct ordering of the a posteriori regime probabilities. On the contrary, a more satisfactory behavior of the IMM algorithm is obtained by carefully selecting the target motion models in the different regimes     

Maneuvering target tracking using IMM method at high measurementfrequency

The problem of tracking a maneuvering target with a high measurement frequency is considered. The measurement noise is significantly correlated when the measurement frequency is high. A simple decorrelation process is proposed to enhance the interacting multiple model (IMM) algorithm to track a maneuvering target with correlated measurement noise. It is found that the decorrelation process may improve system performance significantly, especially in velocity and acceleration estimations     

基于交互多模型和中值滤波的加速度估计方法

针对交互多模型算法对目标加速度估计误差较大的不足,提出了一种基于交互多模型和中值滤波的目标加速度估计方法.通过对交互多模输出的加速度信息进行中值滤波提高对加速度估计的精度.计算机仿真表明,该方法比交互多模型对匀速目标,特别是机动目标具有更好的加速度估计能力,且便于工程实现.     

Multisensor tracking of a maneuvering target in clutter

An algorithm is presented for tracking a highly maneuvering target using two different sensors, a radar and an infrared sensor, assumed to operate in a cluttered environment. The nonparametric probabilist data association filter (PDAF) has been adapted for the multisensor (MS) case, yielding the MSPDAF. To accommodate the fact that the target can be highly maneuvering, the interacting multiple model (IMM) approach is used. The results of single-model-based filters and of the IMM/MSPDAF algorithm with two and three models are presented and compared. The IMM has been shown to be able to adapt itself to the type of motion exhibited by the target in the presence of heavy clutter. It yielded high accuracy in the absence of acceleration and kept the target in track during the high acceleration periods     

Reduced state estimators for consistent tracking of maneuvering targets

Linear Kalman filters, using fewer states than required to completely specify target maneuvers, are commonly used to track maneuvering targets. Such reduced state Kalman filters have also been used as component filters of interacting multiple model (IMM) estimators. These reduced state Kalman filters rely on white plant noise to compensate for not knowing the maneuver - they are not necessarily optimal reduced state estimators nor are they necessarily consistent. To be consistent, the state estimation and innovation covariances must include the actual errors during a maneuver. Blair and Bar-Shalom have shown an example where a linear Kalman filter used as an inconsistent reduced state estimator paradoxically yields worse errors with multisensor tracking than with single sensor tracking. We provide examples showing multiple facets of Kalman filter and IMM inconsistency when tracking maneuvering targets with single and multiple sensors. An optimal reduced state estimator derived in previous work resolves the consistency issues of linear Kalman filters and IMM estimators.     

A nonlinear IMM algorithm for maneuvering target tracking

In target tracking, the measurement noise is usually assumed to be Gaussian. However, the Gaussian modeling of the noise may not be true. Noise can be non-Gaussian. The non-Gaussian noise arising in a radar system is known as glint noise. The distribution of glint noise is long tailed and will seriously affect the tracking performance. We develop a new algorithm that can effectively track a maneuvering target in the glint environment The algorithm incorporates the nonlinear Masreliez filter into the interactive multiple model (IMM) method. Simulations demonstrate the superiority of the new algorithm     

Modified input estimation technique using pseudoresiduals

An adaptive tracking filter for maneuvering targets is proposed using modified input estimation technique. Pseudoresiduals are defined using measurements and the velocity estimate at the hypothesized maneuver onset time. With the pseudoresiduals and a new target model representing transitions of nominal accelerations, a new input estimation method for tracking a maneuvering target is derived. Since the proposed detection technique is more sensitive to maneuvers than previous work, the shorter window length can be employed to detect and compensate target maneuvers. Also shown is that the tracking performance of the proposed filter is similar to that of interacting multiple model method (IMM) with 3 models, while computational loads of our method are drastically reduced     

Track segment association, fine-step IMM and initialization with Doppler for improved track performance

In this work we present a new track segment association technique to improve track continuity in large-scale target tracking problems where track breakages are common. A representative airborne early warning (AEW) system scenario, which is a challenging environment due to highly maneuvering targets, close target formations, large measurement errors, long sampling intervals, and low detection probabilities, provides the motivation for the new technique. Previously, a tracker using the interacting multiple model (IMM) estimator combined with an assignment algorithm was shown to be more reliable than a conventional Kalman filter based approach in tracking similar targets but it still yielded track breakages due to the difficult environment. In order to combine the broken track segments and improve track continuity, a new track segment association algorithm using a discrete optimization approach is presented. Simulation results show that track segment association yields significant improvements in mean track life as well as in position, speed, and course rms errors. Also presented is a modified one-point initialization technique with range rate measurements, which are typically ignored by other initialization techniques, and a fine-step IMM estimator, which improves performance in the presence of long revisit intervals. Another aspect that is investigated is the benefit of "deep" (multiframe or N-dimensional, with N > 2) association, which is shown to yield significant benefit in reducing the number of false tracks.     

Bearings-only tracking of maneuvering targets using abatch-recursive estimator

We present a new batch-recursive estimator for tracking maneuvering targets from bearings-only measurements in clutter (i.e., for low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) targets), Standard recursive estimators like the extended Kalman Iter (EKF) suffer from poor convergence and erratic behavior due to the lack of initial target range information, On the other hand, batch estimators cannot handle target maneuvers. In order to rectify these shortcomings, we combine the batch maximum likelihood-probabilistic data association (ML-PDA) estimator with the recursive interacting multiple model (IMM) estimator with probabilistic data association (PDA) to result in better track initialization as well as track maintenance results in the presence of clutter. It is also demonstrated how the batch-recursive estimator can be used for adaptive decisions for ownship maneuvers based on the target state estimation to enhance the target observability. The tracking algorithm is shown to be effective for targets with 8 dB SNR