Three-dimensional electro-optical tracker

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1987-07-08

1989-08-08

Tarcza, Thomas H.

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342 77, G01S 1300

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ABSTRACT:
Improved performance in an electro-optical tracker is achieved by incorporating range measurements. Further, the tracker uses a Kalman filter in which the target is modeled as the superposition of two Gaussian ellipsoids in space and projected onto an image plane.

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Maybeck et al, "Adaptive Tracking of Multiple Hot Spot Target IR Images", IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, vol. 28, No. 10, 10/1983, pp. 937-943.
Maybeck et al, "A Target Tracker Using Spatially Distributed Infrared Measurements", IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, vol. AC-25, pp. 222-225, 4/1980.
Maybeck et al, "An Adaptive Kalman Filter for Target Image Tracking", IEEE Trans. Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 17, pp. 173-179, 3/1981.

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