THE PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER ON RADAR TARGET TRACKING

Year 2006, Volume: 6 Issue: 2, 147 - 155, 02.01.2012

Engin Avcı Ibrahim Turkoglu Mustafa Poyraz

Abstract

THE PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER ON RADAR TARGET TRACKING

Keywords

Radar, Target tracking, Extended Kalman filter (EKF)

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• Fig. 1. Position estimate error of the EKF 200 Time (s) Fig. 2. The real target position and estimated target position by the EKF Time (s) Fig. 3. Target velocity estimate error of the EKF Time (s) Fig. 4. The real target velocity and estimated target velocity by the EKF Time (s) Fig. 5. Target acceleration knowledge estimate error of the EKF Time (s) Fig. 6. The real target acceleration knowledge and estimated target acceleration knowledge by the EKF