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A Survey on Track Fusion for Radar Target Tracking

레이다 항적융합 연구의 최근 동향

  • 최원용 (경북대학교 전자전기컴퓨터학부) ;
  • 홍순목 (경북대학교 전자전기컴퓨터학부) ;
  • 이동관 (국방과학연구소) ;
  • 정재경 (국방과학연구소)
  • Published : 2008.02.28
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Abstract

An architecture for multiple radar tracking systems can be broadly categorized according to the methods in which the tracking functions are performed : central-level tracking and distributed tracking. In the central-level tracking, target tracking is performed using observations from all radar systems. This architecture provides optimal solution to target tracking. In distributed tracking, tracking is performed at each radar system and the composite track information is formed through track fusion integrating multiple radar-level tracks. Track-to-track fusion and track-to-track association are required to perform in this architecture. In this paper, issues and recent research on the two tracking architectures are surveyed.

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