J4 ›› 2016, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (1): 167-172.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-2400.2016.01.030

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Modified instrumental variable method for bearings-only target tracking

YU Jing1;WEN Jun2;LI Caicai3;LI Ya'an   

  1. (1. College of Marine Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical Univ., Xi'an  710072, China;
    2. School of Computer & Electrical Information, Guangxi Univ., Nanning  530004, China;
    3. School of Electronic Engineering, Xidian Univ., Xi'an  710071, China)
  • Received:2015-05-06 Online:2016-02-20 Published:2016-04-06
  • Contact: YU Jing E-mail:yujing@nwpu.edu.cn

Abstract:

To overcome the biased estimation of the pseudo-linear algorithm in bearings-only target tracking, a modified instrumental variable algorithm is proposed. In the new algorithm, the current bearings-only estimation angle is acquired by polyfitting several previous bearings angles. Then the estimated angle is used as the instrumental variable to get the motion parameters by applying the least-square method. The algorithm can achieve the theoretical unbiased estimation. Simulation results illustrate that the new modified instrumental variable algorithm has a better convergence rate and estimation accuracy than the existing research and that it is more suitable for engineering practice.

Key words: target tracking, pseudo-linear estimation, instrumental variable, control theory

CLC Number: 

  • TN953