In order to improve tracking accuracy when initial estimate is inaccurate or outliers exist,a bearings-only tracking approach called the robust range-parameterized cubature Kalman filter(RRPCKF)was proposed.Firstly,th...In order to improve tracking accuracy when initial estimate is inaccurate or outliers exist,a bearings-only tracking approach called the robust range-parameterized cubature Kalman filter(RRPCKF)was proposed.Firstly,the robust extremal rule based on the pollution distribution was introduced to the cubature Kalman filter(CKF)framework.The improved Turkey weight function was subsequently constructed to identify the outliers whose weights were reduced by establishing equivalent innovation covariance matrix in the CKF.Furthermore,the improved range-parameterize(RP)strategy which divides the filter into some weighted robust CKFs each with a different initial estimate was utilized to solve the fuzzy initial estimation problem efficiently.Simulations show that the result of the RRPCKF is more accurate and more robust whether outliers exist or not,whereas that of the conventional algorithms becomes distorted seriously when outliers appear.展开更多
Dear editor,Space-time adaptive processing(STAP)techniques can effectively suppress strong ground clutter and detect moving target for airborne phased array radar by combing spatial signals and the temporal pulses sim...Dear editor,Space-time adaptive processing(STAP)techniques can effectively suppress strong ground clutter and detect moving target for airborne phased array radar by combing spatial signals and the temporal pulses simultaneously[1].It is known that,when the clutter satisfies the independent and identically-distributed(i.i.d.)condition,the sample matrix inversion(SMI)-based STAP[1]requires twice the number of degree of freedom展开更多
基金Projects(51377172,51577191) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
文摘In order to improve tracking accuracy when initial estimate is inaccurate or outliers exist,a bearings-only tracking approach called the robust range-parameterized cubature Kalman filter(RRPCKF)was proposed.Firstly,the robust extremal rule based on the pollution distribution was introduced to the cubature Kalman filter(CKF)framework.The improved Turkey weight function was subsequently constructed to identify the outliers whose weights were reduced by establishing equivalent innovation covariance matrix in the CKF.Furthermore,the improved range-parameterize(RP)strategy which divides the filter into some weighted robust CKFs each with a different initial estimate was utilized to solve the fuzzy initial estimation problem efficiently.Simulations show that the result of the RRPCKF is more accurate and more robust whether outliers exist or not,whereas that of the conventional algorithms becomes distorted seriously when outliers appear.
基金supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61421001,61331021)
文摘Dear editor,Space-time adaptive processing(STAP)techniques can effectively suppress strong ground clutter and detect moving target for airborne phased array radar by combing spatial signals and the temporal pulses simultaneously[1].It is known that,when the clutter satisfies the independent and identically-distributed(i.i.d.)condition,the sample matrix inversion(SMI)-based STAP[1]requires twice the number of degree of freedom
