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In this paper, a plain data-driven and simulation-based approach to object tracking is investigated. The basic idea is to use the probabilistic model of the tracking problem to simulate a large amount of state and observation sequences. Both are fed into a regression algorithm that learns a mapping from the observations to the states. In particular, we consider random forest regression and apply it...
In this paper, a joint revisit and dwell time management (JRDTM) strategy for single target tracking based on the predicted Bayesian Cramer-Rao lower bound (BCRLB) in phased array radar system is addressed. We achieve the time resources management by formulating and solving an optimization problem, which is to minimize the resource amount used for tracking with the tracking accuracy of the target...
In this paper, we will investigate a joint beam and dwell time allocation strategy for multiple targets tracking based on the phased array radar system. We achieve the resources allocation by formulating and solving an optimization problem, which is to minimize the total dwell time on all targets with the tracking accuracy of each target satisfying a pre-designed requirement. Since the Bayesian Cramer-Rao...
In multiple-target tracking problem, data association technique plays an significant role. When targets move closely or crosswise, performances of conventional data association algorithms which use kinematic information only may be degraded. Actually, beside the kinematic information, sensors always can obtain feature information about the target, and incorporating the features into data association...
A problem of state estimation with destination constraint is considered in this paper. An anti-radiation missile (ARM) often moves towards the target along a trajectory which is almost linear in the X-Y plane. The linear constraint for trajectory and target position are known as priori and can be used to enhance the performance of a tracking filter. In this paper, a destination constrained Kalman...
In this paper, a new centralized algorithm is developed to estimate the registration error and target states jointly based on the generalized labeled multi-Bernoulli (GLMB) filter. The bias pseudo-measurements are calculated with the tracks generated by the GLMB filter. Then, the bias estimates are computed to compensate the measurements for multi-target tracking. Since the estimates of the sensor...
This paper compares the tracking performance that can be achieved when using a nonlinear drag model for a helicopter, a constant drag motion model, and a baseline constant acceleration model. A particle filter is used for state estimation to address problems associated with nonlinear drag and nonlinear measurements of helicopter pose. We demonstrate that the inclusion of this nonlinear kinematic effect...
The conventional multi-target tracking (MTT) algorithms usually suffer from computational intractability problem. The appearance of Iterative Joint Integrated Probabilistic Data Association (iJIPDA) filter solves this problem by providing a tradeoff between the tracking performance and computational cost for computational resource management of sensor systems. However, the iJIPDA filter essentially...
Aiming at the radiation control problem for sensor scheduling, a sensor scheduling algorithm based on partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) is proposed. The target model is set up in the three-dimensional space, and the tracking task requirement is given by fuzzy logic theory. Then the radiation risk model is formulated as a POMDP, and the sensor radiation risk is dynamic updated by...
In this paper, we address the target detection problem using multi-sensor dynamic programming based track before detect (DP-TBD) methods. First, we give two implementation methods of multi-sensor DP-TBD under the centralized processing and the distributed processing, respectively. Then, in order to improve the implementation efficiency of the multi-sensor DP-TBD, we further propose an improved DP-TBD...
To address multi-sensor robust track-to-track association in the presence of sensor biases and missed detections, where sensors biases is time-varying and non-uniform, the target of different sensors is non-identical, the robust track-to-track association algorithm based on t-distribution mixture model is proposed. The robust track-to-track association problem is turned into the non-rigid point matching...
Advanced driver assistance systems rely on the availability of robust information on the driving situation and the driver's needs and intentions to operate reasonably and safely. For this, they have to be enabled to identify and assess both the driving situation and the driver's intentions on the basis of features that can be measured by the vehicle. In case of the prediction of lane change maneuvers...
Conventional point object model based automotive radar tracking system assumes at most one detection received from the target object at a time. However, in real applications for an extended object, such as a passenger car, located within a close range to a high-resolution radar or LIDAR, the system usually receives multiple reflections from different parts of the object. This can introduce large bias...
The Gaussian inverse Wishart (GIW) filter is a promising filter for extended target tracking and draws tremendous attention in recent years. The Gaussian and the inverse Wishart distributions are used to describe the target's kinematical and extended states, respectively. However, the filter for estimating the extended state contains predicting position error and causes large error of the extended...
Several estimation algorithms have been developed in the literature to improve the radar tracking performance of ballistic targets. The most widely used one of these algorithms is the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) where nonlinear system and measurement models and linearization techniques are used. In the first method presented in this paper, the kinematic state vector composed of the position and velocity...
In order to solve the problem that asynchronous multi-source multi-track cannot be correlated effectively, a trajectory similarity model for asynchronous multi-source multi-track and a track correlation algorithm based on this model are proposed in this paper. Based on the idea of searching potential matched data points under spatial and temporal constraints, the optimal matched point is determined...
In order to improve the comprehensive defense capability of netted radar system while tracking the multi-targets cooperatively, a more reasonable evaluation indicator is required to evaluate the overall performance of the netted radar system. The new evaluation indicators for radar deployment and allocation in the netted radar management are proposed quantitatively in this paper. As they consist of...
This paper is the companion-paper of another paper presented in FUSION'17 concerning bearings-only target motion analysis (BOTMA). In this one, bearing data are replaced by range data: we study observability in range-only target motion analysis (ROTMA). When the observer is in constant turn motion, the target's trajectory is observable, as in BOTMA. If the observer is in constant acceleration motion,...
A multiple hypothesis tracking (MHT) algorithm based on multi-feature fusion is presented in this paper to counter range deception jammings. Sparse decomposition coefficients and bispectrum features are extracted to distinguish the targets and the jammings. A two-stage fusion structure using neural network and Dempster-Shafer evidence theory is designed to implement multi-feature fusion so as to get...
For the over-the-horizon radar (OTHR) based target tracking, the reflecting height of the ionosphere, which reflects radar signals, is important. Existing methods assume that this height is exactly known a priori. In practice, however, we can only determine its range, not its specific value. To circumvent this problem, we propose to use a multiple-model approach in which each model corresponds to...
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