J4 ›› 2009, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (3): 438-442.

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Near-space platform aided passive tracking algorithm for super-low-altitude targets

NIU Xin-liang1;ZHAO Guo-qing1;LIU Yuan-hua2;CHANG Hong1   

  1. (1. Research Inst. of Electronic Countermeasures, Xidian Univ., Xi'an  710071, China;
    2. State Key Lab. of Integrated Service Networks, Xidian Univ., Xi'an  710071, China)
  • Received:2008-04-25 Revised:2008-09-23 Online:2009-06-20 Published:2009-07-04
  • Contact: NIU Xin-liang E-mail:xlniu1983@qq.com

Abstract:

A novel near-space platform aided passive location method for super-low-altitude targets using TDOA is proposed. The new method uses a near-space platform as the baseline in the height to form a redundant location system consisting of several subsystems. Each subsystem can obtain a set of location results with ambiguity. After eliminating the ambiguity by the nearest matching, the new method can improve the location accuracy in the whole observed airspace by SWLS fusion. A better tracking performance can be achieved by applying this method to starting the tracking for super-low-altitude targets and keeping the tracking through UKF. Simulation results show that the proposed method comes to stabilization within 50 s and that its tracking initial error can be reduced to the hectometer level with the measurement precision of 20 ns. But the traditional method requires 250 s to go to stabilization and its tracking initial error is greater than the kilometer level.

Key words: tracking, passive location, Kalman filtering, TDOA, super-low-altitude targets

CLC Number: 

  • TN971