A new algorithm, the "shifted Rayleigh filter," is introduced for two- or three-dimensional bearings-only tracking problems. In common with other "moment matching" tracking algorithms such as the extended Kalman filter and its modern refinements, it approximates the prior conditional density of the target state by a normal density; the novel feature is that an exact calculation is then performed to update the conditional density in the light of the new measurement. The paper provides the theoretical justification of the algorithm. It also reports on simulations involving variants on two scenarios, which have been the basis of earlier comparative studies. The first is a "benign" scenario where the measurements are comparatively rich in range-related information; here the shifted Rayleigh filter is competitive with standard algorithms. The second is a more "extreme" scenario, involving multiple sensor platforms, high-dimensional models and noisy measurements; here the performance of the shifted Rayleigh filter matches the performance of a high-order bootstrap particle filter, while reducing the computational overhead by an order of magnitude.


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    Title :

    Shifted Rayleigh filter: a new algorithm for bearings-only tracking


    Contributors:
    Clark, J.M.C. (author) / Vinter, R.B. (author) / Yaqoob, M.M. (author)


    Publication date :

    2007-10-01


    Size :

    1190274 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English