Comments on “Discrete-time observability and estimabilityanalysis for bearings-only target motion analysis”

Discusses the extensive mathematical analysis carried out by the authors of the original paper [see ibid., vol. 33, no. 1, p. 178-201, 1997] and submits the following points. The authors used pseudo measurements for recasting the observability problem into a linear framework. They treated the bearings-only passive target tracking system as a deterministic system. It is already established that for deterministic systems, the pseudo measurements are linear functions of the states of the system, though the coefficient matrix is a nonlinear function of the original measurements, By using the pseudo measurements in a linear observer, global stability can be shown. However, if the pseudo measurement observer, for which the analysis is mostly carried out by the authors, is used in a noisy environment as a pseudo measurement filter (PMF), biased estimates are arrived at. Hence, though the approach of authors is quite direct and provides insights about the algebraic structure of the BOT problem, as pseudo measurements are used throughout the analysis is not of much use to the TMA community, as the nonlinear measurement equation along with measurement noise are required to be considered in the BOT problem to obtain unbiased results     

Target motion analysis with multiple arrays: performance analysis

The performance analysis of source trajectory estimation using measurements provided by multiple platforms (or arrays) is studied. In numerous practical situations, the maneuvering ability of the receiver (e.g., a ship towing linear arrays) is limited, leading to the assumption that the observer motion is rectilinear and uniform. Even if this hypothesis appears quite restrictive, practical and tactical considerations fully justify its interest. This leads to consider multiple (platform) target motion analysis (denoted MTMA) and to analyze the performance of such trajectory estimation methods     

对卫星目标的仅测角天基单站无源定位可观测性分析

可观测性分析是无源定位与跟踪系统的前提和基础。由于卫星运动系统方程是状态变量的隐函数形式,以及观测方程的非线性,使得对卫星目标仅测角无源定位的可观测性研究难度较大。鉴于此,从伪线性化角度对非线性系统方程进行改造,推导了关于状态变量的显性系统状态方程,对仅测角条件下的单星对星无源定位系统进行了可观测性分析,为进一步研究仅测角单星对星的无源定轨跟踪提供了理论基础。最后给出了仿真实例,验证了理论分析的正确性。     

Bernoulli particle flter with observer altitude for maritime radiation source tracking in the presence of measurement uncertainty

For maritime radiation source target tracking in particular electronic counter measures（ECM）environment,there exists two main problems which can deteriorate the tracking performance of traditional approaches.The frst problem is the poor observability of the radiation source.The second one is the measurement uncertainty which includes the uncertainty of the target appearing/disappearing and the detection uncertainty（false and missed detections）.A novel approach is proposed in this paper for tracking maritime radiation source in the presence of measurement uncertainty.To solve the poor observability of maritime radiation source target,using the radiation source motion restriction,the observer altitude information is incorporated into the bearings-only tracking（BOT）method to obtain the unique target localization.Then the two uncertainties in the ECM environment are modeled by the random fnite set（RFS）theory and the Bernoulli fltering method with the observer altitude is adopted to solve the tracking problem of maritime radiation source in such context.Simulation experiments verify the validity of the proposed approach for tracking maritime radiation source,and also demonstrate the superiority of the method compared with the traditional integrated probabilistic data association（IPDA）method.The tracking performance under different conditions,particularly those involving different duration of radiation source opening and switching-off,indicates that the method to solve our problem is robust and effective.     

Bearings-only tracking for maneuvering sources

Classical bearings-only target-motion analysis (TMA) is restricted to sources with constant motion parameters (usually position and velocity). However, most interesting sources have maneuvering abilities, thus degrading the performance of classical TMA. In the passive sonar context a long-time source-observer encounter is realistic, so the source maneuver possibilities may be important in regard to the source and array baseline. This advocates for the consideration and modeling of the whole source trajectory including source maneuver uncertainty. With that aim, a convenient framework is the hidden Markov model (HMM). A basic idea consists of a two-levels discretization of the state-space. The probabilities of position transition are deduced from the probabilities of velocity transitions which, themselves, are directly related to the source maneuvering capability. The source state sequence estimation is achieved by means of classical dynamic programming (DP). This approach does not require any prior information relative to the source maneuvers. However, the probabilistic nature of the source trajectory confers a major role to the optimization of the observer maneuvers. This problem is then solved by using the general framework of the Markov decision process (MDP)     

Constant-speed target tracking via bearings-only measurements

The observability properties of the constant-speed target tracking problem via bearings-only measurements are investigated. It is shown that there exists a one-dimensional unobservable foliation which is computed. Explicit formulas are given to recover the observable part. It is shown that the direction of target trajectory is observable and that the whole state is observable if either the norm of the velocity or the distance is also known. A nonlinear observer which has a parallel structure and tolerates faults on distance measurements is presented. Finite-dimensional filters for the approximating models in the case of noisy measurements are given on the basis of output function polynomial approximations     

Passive localization by a single moving observer using TOA only with unknown SRI: Observability analysis and algorithm

Passive localization by a single moving observer using Time of Arrival (TOA) only with an unknown Signal Repetition Interval (SRI) is investigated in this paper. Observability analysis is performed first. The observability condition for uniquely determining the emitter position and SRI is derived. The conditional Cramer-Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) is also analyzed. It is found that the ambiguity of the SRI integer of the first TOA does not affect the theoretical estimation precision of the emitter position and SRI. A Reference-Fixed Differential TOA (RFDTOA)-based Iterative Maximum Likelihood Estimator (IMLE) is proposed, which only needs O(M) computational operations. Theoretical analysis and simulation results show that the Mean Square Error (MSE) of the proposed algorithm could attain the CRLB with moderate Gaussian measurement noise.     

Optimization of observer trajectories for bearings-only targetlocalization

The problem of bearings-only target localization is to estimate the location of a fixed target from a sequence of noisy bearing measurements. Although, in theory, this process is observable even without an observer maneuver, estimation performance (i.e., accuracy, stability and convergence rate) can be greatly enhanced by properly exploiting observer motion to increase observability. This work addresses the optimization of observer trajectories for bearings-only fixed-target localization. The approach presented herein is based on maximizing the determinant of the Fisher information matrix (FIM), subject to state constraints imposed on the observer trajectory (e.g., by the target defense system). Direct optimal control numerical schemes, including the recently introduced differential inclusion (DI) method, are used to solve the resulting optimal control problem. Computer simulations, utilizing the familiar Stansfield and maximum likelihood (ML) estimators, demonstrate the enhancement to target position estimability using the optimal observer trajectories     

基于奇异值分解的组合导航可观测度计算

以捷联惯组为主惯导的组合导航系统具有短时定位精度高、可靠性强等优点,但其依然存在长时间导航精度不高、运算量大、组合效率不高等问题。为更好地完善组合导航系统的误差补偿和抑制技术,对SINS/DVL组合导航系统的可观测性能进行了研究。在分段定常系统(Piece-wise Constant System,PWCS)的可观测性分析方法及基于奇异值分解的系统状态可观测度分析方法基础上,结合可观测性矩阵的遗传特性,提出了一种简化的状态量可观测性分析方法,并对该方法进行了理论仿真。为方便比较状态量的可观测程度,对各状态的可观测度进行了归一化处理。最后,通过湖面跑船实验设计了不同的航迹机动方式,计算了关键导航参数的可观测性能。实验证明,该方法可以实时计算组合导航参数的可观测度,根据可观测度设计的航迹可以有效提高导航精度,定位精度可提高1个量级,收敛速度也获得了明显提高。     

Moving scanning emitter tracking by a single observer using time of interception: Observability analysis and algorithm

The target motion analysis (TMA) for a moving scanning emitter with known fixed scan rate by a single observer using the time of interception (TOI) measurements only is investigated in this paper.By transforming the TOI of multiple scan cycles into the direction difference of arrival (DDOA) model,the observability analysis for the TMA problem is performed.Some necessary conditions for uniquely identifying the scanning emitter trajectory are obtained.This paper also proposes a weighted instrumental variable (WIV) estimator for the scanning emitter TMA,which does not require any initial solution guess and is closed-form and computationally attractive.More importantly,simulations show that the proposed algorithm can provide estimation mean square error close to the Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) at moderate noise levels with significantly lower estimation bias than the conventional pseudo-linear least square (PLS) estimator.     

基于改进粒子群算法辨识Volterra级数的目标机动轨迹预测

目标机动轨迹预测是空战态势感知和目标威胁评估的重要前提。针对传统目标机动轨迹预测模型复杂度大、预测精度低等问题，结合目标机动轨迹时间序列的混沌特性，提出一种基于相空间重构理论和Volterra泛函级数的目标机动轨迹预测模型。该模型首先采用0-1检测法验证了目标机动轨迹时间序列具有混沌特性；其次，利用C-C法确定嵌入维数和时间延迟，对目标机动轨迹时间序列进行了相空间重构；然后，引入Volterra泛函级数预测模型，为了克服高阶Volterra核函数求解复杂的难题，提出一种混沌变异自适应粒子群算法，构建一种基于改进粒子群算法辨识的Volterra级数预测模型，并将其应用于目标机动轨迹预测；最后，将所提算法与卡尔曼滤波算法以及机器学习算法进行单步和多步预测对比，同时将改进粒子群算法与其他智能算法进行性能比较。仿真结果表明：所提预测模型具有良好的单步和多步预测性能，改进的粒子群算法具有参数辨识精度高、收敛速度快的优点。     

基于卫星信息的惯导系统可观测性分析

可观测性分析是组合导航系统进行滤波器设计的重要内容,直接影响状态估计时的收敛速度和收敛精度,因而需要对状态变量的可观测程度进行定量分析。文章针对基于卫星的惯导系统在机动方式时的可观测性分析进行研究,改进了组合导航系统的可观测度,省略了外观测量的求取,有效减少了计算量,简化了分析步骤。仿真结果证明了该方法的有效性。     

Observability analysis of piece-wise constant systems. II.Application to inertial navigation in-flight alignment [militaryapplications]

For pt.I see ibid., vol.28, no.4, p.1056-67, Oct. 1992. The method of analyzing the observability of time-varying linear systems as piecewise constant systems (PWCS) is applied to the analysis of in-flight alignment (IFA) of inertial navigation systems (INS) whose estimability is known to be enhanced by maneuvers. The validity of this approach to the analysis of IFA is proven. The analysis lays the theoretical background to, and clearly demonstrates the observability enhancement of, IFA. The analytic conclusions are confirmed by covariance simulations. Although INS IFA was handled to various degrees in the past, a comprehensive control theoretic approach to the problem is introduced. The analysis yields practical conclusions and a procedure previously unknown     

一种常规机动下机载SINS/GPS组合导航系统的可观测性分析

为保证机载捷联惯组的导航精度能够达到要求,需要对惯组定期进行返厂标定,成本高、周期长,也影响载机的使用效率,故而机载惯组在线标校技术的研究一直在不断进行中。对大中型运输机的机载惯组而言,由于其机体较大、机动能力较差,很难完成诸如S机动等复杂的机动动作,故而需要对其常规飞行机动状态下机载SINS/GPS组合导航系统的可观测性进行分析。利用GPS提供的速度和位置信息作为外部观测量来设计Kalman滤波器,采用基于分段线性定常系统(PWCS)的奇异值分解法(SVD),对飞机静止、起降、匀速飞行、匀加减速飞行、转弯等一系列常规机动条件下系统的可观测性和可观测度进行研究。通过Matlab仿真和转台实验,验证了组合导航系统可观测性分析结论的有效性,可为机载惯组的在线标校提供一定参考。     

Observability Requirements for Three-Dimensional Tracking via Angle Measurements

Observability requirements previously established for bearings-only tracking in two dimensions are extended to a class of three-dimensional estimation algorithms capable of processing any pairwise combination of azimuth bearing, conical bearing, and depth/elevation angle measurements. Although these algorithms are intrinsically nonlinear, it is shown that they can be analyzed in a linear framework without sacrificing mathematical rigor. A simplified observability criterion, applicable to both autonomous and nonautonomous linear systems, is presented and utilized to specify conditions on own-ship motion which are both necessary and sufficient for a unique tracking solution. Further analysis reveals that observability dependence on own-ship maneuvers for the three-dimensional algorithms considered here parallels the concomitant two-dimensional requirements. An interesting difference, however, is that under certain conditions, a unique tracking solution can be obtained in three dimensions for unaccelerated own-ship motion.     

Data fusion and tracking using HMMs in a distributed sensor network

This work deals with the problem of multiple target tracking, from the measurements made on a field of passive sonars activated by an active sonar (multistatic network). The difficulties encountered then are of two kinds: each sensor alone does not provide full observability of a target, and multiple, possibly maneuvering targets moving in a cluttered environment must be dealt with. The algorithm presented here is based on a discrete Markovian modelization of the targets evolution in time. It starts with a fusion of the detections obtained at each measurement time. Tracking and target motion analysis (TMA) are next achieved thanks to dynamic programming (DP). This approach leads to multiple and maneuvering target tracking, with few assumptions; for instance, the use of deterministic target state models are avoided. Simulation results are presented and discussed.     

机动弹道对抗导弹防御系统的效能分析

为了研究机动弹道对抗导弹防御系统的突防效能,梳理了弹道导弹防御系统的组成与作战流程,通过剖析系统的信息流向与处理过程,提炼出机动弹道突防导弹防御系统的机理,即采用机动弹道可使导弹预警信息处理能力下降,从而破坏、瘫痪导弹防御系统,实现导弹的有效突防.通过仿真滑翔机动弹道和椭圆弹道,并对计算的跟踪弧段、弹道估计和预报误差进行比较,结果表明：采用机动弹道,观测弧段压缩44％,弹道估计误差增大数倍,有效预报时间大大缩短.因此,采用机动弹道是导弹突防的一种有效手段.     

有向拓扑条件下针对机动目标的分布式协同制导律设计

研究了在有向拓扑条件下针对机动目标的分布式协同制导律的设计问题。首先，根据飞行器与目标之间追击过程的几何关系建立制导过程系统模型，针对该模型的非线性问题采用动态反馈线性化方法进行处理。将目标未知机动视为干扰，通过扩张状态观测器进行观测，同时将该估计值用于制导律的设计中，通过直接补偿的方式剔除目标机动对飞行器剩余飞行时间的影响。然后，将所设计的制导律代入到制导模型中，利用一致性分析方法将多飞行器协同制导问题转化为一致性问题，利用极点分析的方法对非一致性子空间的收敛性进行分析，得到协同制导律收敛的充要条件。最后，通过仿真分析的方式对所设计的协同制导律以及制导律的参数选取方法进行分析。     

Observability in passive target motion analysis

The nature of observability of nonlinear systems encountered in passive target motion analysis (TMA) is carefully examined. The approach proposed here is based upon a well-chosen criterion which allows us to answer the major observability questions     

一种扩展的比例导引规律及其弹道方程的构建

在传统的动力学微分方程的基础上提出了一种扩展的比例导引法 ,并给出了该导引规律下的相对弹道方程。文中的推理过程表明 ,这种导引规律对导弹、目标的运动速度几乎没有限制 ,理论上说明运用该制导规律的导弹将能对付高机动大速度目标 ,其弹道方程的建立 ,使得研究该制导规律下的弹道特性成为可能。