• DocumentCode
    913168
  • Title

    A nearly unbiased inherently stable bearings-only tracker

  • Author

    Holtsberg, Anders ; Holst, Jan H.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Math. Stat., Lund Inst. of Technol., Sweden
  • Volume
    18
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1993
  • fDate
    4/1/1993 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    138
  • Lastpage
    141
  • Abstract
    A pseudolinear estimator for bearings only tracking is presented. It is demonstrated through calculations and simulations that it has a performance close to the computationally far more complex maximum-likelihood estimator, in contrast to the earlier well-known pseudolinear estimator in Cartesian coordinates. Using the mean time point as the time reference of this estimator is necessary in order to avoid bias
  • Keywords
    estimation theory; signal detection; tracking systems; mean time point; pseudolinear estimator; signal detection; simulations; time reference; unbiased inherently stable bearings-only tracker; Computational modeling; Gaussian noise; Kalman filters; Maximum likelihood estimation; Measurement errors; Noise measurement; Recursive estimation; Search methods; Target tracking; Time measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Oceanic Engineering, IEEE Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0364-9059
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/48.219533
  • Filename
    219533