Intelligent Kalman Filter for Tracking an Anti-Ship Missile

An intelligent Kalman filter (IKF) is proposed for tracking an incoming anti-ship missile. In the proposed IKF, the unknown target acceleration is regarded as an additive process noise. When the target maneuver is occurred, the residual of the Kalman filter increases in proportion to its magnitude. From this fact, the overall process noise variance can be approximated from the filter residual and its variation at every sampling time. A fuzzy system is utilized to approximate this valiance, and the genetic algorithm (GA) is applied to optimize the fuzzy system. In computer simulations, the tracking performance of the proposed IKF is compared with those of conventional maneuvering target tracking methods.