Programmable user-friendly Kalman filter design tool

Author

Marko, Ronald A.

Author_Institution

Lockheed Sanders Inc., Nashua, NH, USA

fYear

1992

fDate

18-22 May 1992

Firstpage

375

Abstract

The use of interactive Kalman filter design tool capability in threat-warning sensor systems is described. A programmable Kalman filter design tool kit (PKDFT) is used to improve engineering concept development productivity through rapid prototyping of Kalman models and reduce hardware performance support requirements while preserving the robustness of the solution through proper choice of state, measurement, and input vector dimensions. This synthetically generated database system allows the user to interactively analyze cause-effect relationships between filter variables and easily interpreted filter output graphs. The result is a real-time airborne threat tracking solution that accomplishes the specified mission

Keywords

Kalman filters; aircraft instrumentation; circuit CAD; database management systems; filtering and prediction theory; interactive systems; military computing; military systems; software prototyping; tracking; user interfaces; Kalman models; cause-effect relationships; database system; filter output graphs; filter variables; hardware performance support requirements; interactive Kalman filter; missile warming; programmable design; rapid prototyping; real-time airborne threat tracking solution; threat-warning sensor; user-friendly Kalman filter design tool; Aerospace simulation; Covariance matrix; Design engineering; Equations; Filtering; Kalman filters; Noise measurement; Q measurement; Sensor systems; State estimation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace and Electronics Conference, 1992. NAECON 1992., Proceedings of the IEEE 1992 National

Conference_Location

Dayton, OH

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0652-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NAECON.1992.220544

Filename

220544