A passive tracking filter for missile capture

Author

Song, Taek L. ; Ahn, Jo Young ; Um, Tae Yoon

Author_Institution

Agency for Defense Dev., Daejeon, South Korea

Volume

26

Issue

5

fYear

1990

fDate

9/1/1990 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

867

Lastpage

875

Abstract

A practical filter is suggested for ground-based missile tracking in a capture-guidance mode utilizing angle-only measurements from a passive missile sensor, and its performance is evaluated by a realistic system-simulation study. A missile-acceleration model that provides inputs to the filter is also suggested. The filter has a decoupled structure of independent azimuth and elevation channels, which requires fewer computations in solving the filter gain compared to a coupled structure. Simulation results show good tracking performance of the filter when used in association with the proposed missile-acceleration model

Keywords

missiles; passive filters; tracking systems; angle-only measurements; capture-guidance mode; coupled structure; decoupled structure; filter gain; ground-based missile tracking; missile capture; missile-acceleration model; passive missile sensor; passive tracking filter; simulation; Acceleration; Aerodynamics; Computational modeling; Infrared sensors; Missiles; Nonlinear dynamical systems; Passive filters; Radar tracking; Sensor systems; Target tracking;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9251

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/7.102719

Filename

102719