Tracking short-range ballistic targets

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2011

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Acar, Recep Serdar

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The trajectories of ballistic targets are determined significantly by the characteristics that are specific to them. In this thesis, these characteristics are presented and a set of algorithms in order to track short-range ballistic targets are given. Firstly, motion and measurement models for the ballistic targets are formed and then four different filtering techniques are built on these models which are the extended Kalman filter, the unscented Kalman filter, the particle filter and the marginalized particle filter. The performances of these filters are evaluated by making Monte Carlo simulation. The simulations are run using target scenarios obtained according to six degrees-of-freedom trajectory for ballistic targets. Apart from the tracking errors of the filters, drag parameter estimations and the effect of drift calculation on the filter performances are investigated. The estimation results obtained by each filter are discussed in detail by making various simulations.

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Monte Carlo method., Statistical physics.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613604/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/21074

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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R. S. Acar, “Tracking short-range ballistic targets,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2011.