Target tracking in the presence of ECM: a filter design tool

Author

Rago, Constantino ; Mahra, R.K.

Author_Institution

Scientific Syst. Co. Inc., Woburn, WA, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

9-11 Mar 1997

Firstpage

514

Lastpage

518

Abstract

This paper describes a filter design tool (FDT) that allows the user to design, tune and evaluate tracking filters to track highly manoeuvring targets in the presence of electronic counter measures (ECM) and false alarms using a monopulse phase array radar (MPAR). The goal is to keep track of the target 95% of the time, using the minimum amount of energy possible (maximum time between dwells and minimum energy waveforms). The solution approach used in the filter design tool is based on the interacting multiple model-probabilistic data association (IMM-PDA) Kalman filter, with adaptive time between dwells, adaptive waveform selection and passive standoff jammer (SOJ) tracking

Keywords

adaptive Kalman filters; antenna phased arrays; circuit CAD; digital filters; electronic countermeasures; jamming; probability; radar antennas; radar computing; radar tracking; tracking filters; ECM; Kalman filter; adaptive dwell time; adaptive waveform selection; electronic counter measures; false alarms; filter design tool; interacting multiple model-probabilistic data association; manoeuvring targets; maximum dwell time; minimum energy waveforms; monopulse phase array radar; passive standoff jammer tracking; target tracking; tracking filters; Adaptive filters; Counting circuits; Electrochemical machining; Electronic countermeasures; Passive filters; Phase measurement; Phased arrays; Radar measurements; Radar tracking; Target tracking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Theory, 1997., Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Southeastern Symposium on

Conference_Location

Cookeville, TN

ISSN

0094-2898

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7873-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SSST.1997.581720

Filename

581720