The task of tracking extended objects or (partly) unresolvable group targets raises new challenges for both data association and track maintenance. Extended objects may give rise to more than one detection per opportu...
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(纸本)9783000248832
The task of tracking extended objects or (partly) unresolvable group targets raises new challenges for both data association and track maintenance. Extended objects may give rise to more than one detection per opportunity where the scattering centers may vary from scan to scan. On the other end, group targets (i. e., a number of closely spaced targets moving in a coordinated fashion) often will not cause as many detections as there are individual targets in the group due to limited sensor resolution capabilities. In both cases, tracking and data association under the one target-one detection assumption are no longer applicable. This paper deals with the problem of maintaining a track for an extended object or group target with varying number of detections. Herein, object extension is represented by a random symmetric positive definite matrix. A recently published Bayesian approach to tackling this problem is analyzed and discussed. From there, a new approach is derived that is expected to overcome some of the weaknesses the Bayesian approach suffers from in certain applications.
The cardinalized probability hypothesis density (CPHD) filter is a recursive Bayesian algorithm for estimating multiple target states with varying target number in clutter. In the present work, it is shown that a miss...
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The cardinalized probability hypothesis density (CPHD) filter is a recursive Bayesian algorithm for estimating multiple target states with varying target number in clutter. In the present work, it is shown that a missed detection in one part of the field of view has a significant effect on the probability hypothesis density (PHD) arbitrarily far apart from the missed detection. In the case of zero false alarm rate, this effect is particularly pronounced and can be calculated by solving the CPHD filter equations analytically. While the CPHD filter update of the total cardinality distribution is exact, the local target number estimate close to the missed detection is artificially strongly reduced. A first ad-hoc approach towards a ldquolocallyrdquo cardinalized PHD filter for reducing this deficiency is presented and discussed.
The task of tracking extended objects or (partly) unresolvable group targets raises new challenges for both data association and track maintenance. Extended objects may give rise to more than one detection per opportu...
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The task of tracking extended objects or (partly) unresolvable group targets raises new challenges for both data association and track maintenance. Extended objects may give rise to more than one detection per opportunity where the scattering centers may vary from scan to scan. On the other end, group targets (i. e., a number of closely spaced targets moving in a coordinated fashion) often will not cause as many detections as there are individual targets in the group due to limited sensor resolution capabilities. In both cases, tracking and data association under the one target-one detection assumption are no longer applicable. This paper deals with the problem of maintaining a track for an extended object or group target with varying number of detections. Herein, object extension is represented by a random symmetric positive definite matrix. A recently published Bayesian approach to tackling this problem is analyzed and discussed. From there, a new approach is derived that is expected to overcome some of the weaknesses the Bayesian approach suffers from in certain applications.
This paper addresses the efficient state estimation for mixed linear/nonlinear dynamic systems with noisy measurements. Based on a novel density representation - sliced Gaussian mixture density - the decomposition int...
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This paper addresses the efficient state estimation for mixed linear/nonlinear dynamic systems with noisy measurements. Based on a novel density representation - sliced Gaussian mixture density - the decomposition into a (conditionally) linear and nonlinear estimation problem is derived. The systematic approximation procedure minimizing a certain distance measure allows the derivation of (close to) optimal and deterministic estimation results. This leads to high-quality representations of the measurement-conditioned density of the states and, hence, to an overall more efficient estimation process. The performance of the proposed estimator is compared to state-of-the-art estimators, like the well-known marginalized particle filter.
The problem of tracking objects moving in Cartesian space with sensors delivering polar measurements has been under investigation of several researchers for quite some time now. Different proposals for using measureme...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0662478304
The problem of tracking objects moving in Cartesian space with sensors delivering polar measurements has been under investigation of several researchers for quite some time now. Different proposals for using measurement conversion techniques in combination with a linear Kalman filter have been made in order to reduce the range bias that shows up in the filter estimates when a Cartesian pseudo-measurement is created from the polar measurements by applying the respective conversion formulae in combination with a corresponding linearized form of the measurement error covariance matrix. It turns out that the actual behavior of these different approaches strongly depends on the specific situation under consideration where observed effects range from a truly (approximate) suppression of conversion bias up to an even increased bias. In this paper, a systematic approach to analyzing the bias effects of measurement conversion in certain typical tracking situations is presented. Starting from this approach, a new measurement conversion technique is proposed that yields consistent unbiased estimates in these cases.
The problem of tracking objects moving in Cartesian space with sensors delivering polar measurements has been under investigation of several researchers for quite some time now. Different proposals for using measureme...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9780662478300;0662478304
The problem of tracking objects moving in Cartesian space with sensors delivering polar measurements has been under investigation of several researchers for quite some time now. Different proposals for using measurement conversion techniques in combination with a linear Kalman filter have been made in order to reduce the range bias that shows up in the filter estimates when a Cartesian pseudo-measurement is created from the polar measurements by applying the respective conversion formulae in combination with a corresponding linearized form of the measurement error covariance matrix. It turns out that the actual behavior of these different approaches strongly depends on the specific situation under consideration where observed effects range from a truly (approximate) suppression of conversion bias up to an even increased bias. In this paper, a systematic approach to analyzing the bias effects of measurement conversion in certain typical tracking situations is presented. Starting from this approach, a new measurement conversion technique is proposed that yields consistent unbiased estimates in these cases.
The problem of tracking objects moving in Cartesian space with sensors delivering polar measurements has been under investigation of several researchers for quite some time now. Different proposals for using measureme...
详细信息
The problem of tracking objects moving in Cartesian space with sensors delivering polar measurements has been under investigation of several researchers for quite some time now. Different proposals for using measureme...
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The problem of tracking objects moving in Cartesian space with sensors delivering polar measurements has been under investigation of several researchers for quite some time now. Different proposals for using measurement conversion techniques in combination with a linear Kalman filter have been made. As one possible alternative approach, an (approximate) best linear unbiased estimator (BLUE) has been proposed. In this paper, some of these approaches are reinvestigated by means of a common representation form for all covered techniques (that is, including the BLUE filter) that helps analyzing and understanding the general behavior of these estimators. Some noteworthy results are presented. It will be argued that the BLUE filter in its original form may be prone to yielding indefinite estimation error variance matrices and that later variants of this filter do not exhibit this behavior. A new initialization method for these filters will be derived
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