Probabilistic Multi-Hypothesis Tracking for Distributed Multi-Static Active Sonar

Author

Hempel, Christian G.

Author_Institution

Naval Undersea Warfare Center Div., Newport, RI

fYear

2006

fDate

10-13 July 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The PMHT algorithm is sufficiently mature to be applicable to mono-static active sonar and other researchers have investigated PMHT for multi-sensor systems. An important modification of PMHT to utilize echo amplitude information in addition to range and bearing measurements developed. In multi-static active systems different source/receiver combinations will observe the same target at different aspect angles and different signal to noise ratios. Any multi-static tracking algorithm attempting to use amplitude information must model the effects of target aspect on the amplitudes of the observed echoes. This paper presents a scheme to use an aspect dependent model of target strength to adapt the parameters in the distribution for target echo amplitude. Results on simulated data demonstrating the improvement that can be achieved with the new method are also presented

Keywords

probability; sensor fusion; sonar tracking; target tracking; PMHT algorithm; aspect dependent model; distributed multistatic active sonar; multisensor system; probabilistic multihypothesis tracking; source-receiver combination; target echo amplitude information; Clustering algorithms; Data structures; Global Positioning System; Performance evaluation; Position measurement; Sensor systems; Signal to noise ratio; Sonar applications; Sonar measurements; Target tracking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Fusion, 2006 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Florence

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0953-5

Electronic_ISBN

0-9721844-6-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIF.2006.301760

Filename

4086046