Multistatic Passive Radar Multi-target Tracking Under Target-measurement-illuminator Data Association Uncertainty

Abstract

Different from the traditional multi-target tracking problem which has the measurements to targets data association uncertainty problem, the multistatic passive radar multi-target tacking system has the additional measurements to illuminators data association uncertainty problem, which means the data association relationship is three dimensional. A novel target-measurement-illuminator Probabilistic Multiple Hypothesis Tracking (PMHT) algorithm is proposed, which introduces a new data association variable to represent the data association relationship. The proposed algorithm is based on the Expectation-Maximization (EM). To handle the nonlinear problem of range-Doppler measurements, the Unscented Kalman Smoother (UKS) is used to get the multi-targets’ estimated states. To increase the data association accuracy, the measurements are set to mixture Gaussian distribution. Simulation results show that for the FKIE passive radar data set, the proposed algorithm can track multi-targets effectively in dense clutter environment.