A novel target tracking method of MMW monopulse radar

Author

Zhong-chuan Zhang ; Yan Zhang ; MU, Shan-xiang ; Jin-Dong Zhang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Nanjing Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Nanjing

fYear

2008

fDate

7-11 June 2008

Firstpage

156

Lastpage

158

Abstract

A novel target tracking method in glint noise environment of millimeter wave monopulse radar is proposed. Firstly, the right frequency span of transmit pulse is selected to reduce the correlation of echo pulses. Secondly, the amplitude weighting method is applied to each angular measure result of multi frequency agility pulses. And then the state estimate was implemented using nonlinear non-Gaussian mixture kalman filter. This method has been simulated based on a MMW digital sum/difference monopulse linear array system model. The simulation result shows the method can constrain glint effectively and tracking target precisely.

Keywords

Kalman filters; echo; radar tracking; target tracking; MMW monopulse radar; amplitude weighting; echo pulse correlation; glint noise environment; kalman filter; millimeter wave monopulse radar; monopulse linear array system; nonGaussian filter; nonlinear filter; target tracking; Frequency measurement; Gaussian noise; Millimeter wave radar; Millimeter wave technology; Pulse measurements; Radar cross section; Radar signal processing; Radar tracking; Target tracking; Working environment noise; MMW; Monopulse Radar; Target Tracking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Neural Networks and Signal Processing, 2008 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2310-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2311-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICNNSP.2008.4590330

Filename

4590330