Sequential linear filtering with non‐linear position and Doppler measurements for target tracking

Abstract

For radar target tracking with non-linear measurements, a sequential linear filtering method is proposed in this study, which includes a linear filter based on the position measurements and a linear sequential filter based on the range rate measurement. The linear radar measurement equation in the sequential filter is estimated based on the position filtering result. Furthermore, the feedback information during tracking is adaptively selected according to the quality of the angle measurements. When tracking the manoeuvring target, the proposed sequential linear filtering with adaptive information feedback is combined with the interacting multiple model (IMM) framework, and the IMM filter based on sequential linear filtering with adaptive model probability selection is proposed. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms in non-manoeuvring and manoeuvring target tracking. Compared with traditional algorithms, the tracking performance is improved by the proposed algorithms in both typical non-manoeuvring and manoeuvring scenes.