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ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA ›› 2020, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (S2): 724395-724395.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2020.24395

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Nonlinear filtering for spaceborne radars based on variational Bayes

YAN Wenxu1,2, LAN Hua1,2, WANG Zengfu1,2, JIN Shuling3, PAN Quan1,2   

  1. 1. School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710129, China;
    2. Key Laboratory of Information Fusion Technology, Ministry of Education, Xi'an 710129, China;
    3. China Electronics Technology Group Corporation 38th Research Institute, Hefei 230088 China
  • Received:2020-06-11 Revised:2020-06-25 Published:2020-07-17
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China (61873211)

Abstract: Spaceborne radars play an important role in early warning defense systems because of their unique advantages such as wide detection range, long distance and all-weather surveillance capability. Due to the high-speed movement of the platform and the strong nonlinear observation function, high-accuracy target tracking for spaceborne radars is difficult. In this paper, we propose a variational Bayes-based nonlinear filtering method, which transforms the nonlinear state estimation problem into an optimization problem. The analytical solution is obtained via a closed-loop iteration manner. Moreover, a pitch angle estimation method is presented using the a priori information of target height. Simulation results show that, compared with the extended Kalman filter, unscented Kalman filter, and the converted measurement Kalman filter, the proposed variational Bayes-based nonlinear filtering method achieves the best estimation accuracy.

Key words: spaceborne radars, target tracking, variational Bayes, nonlinear filtering, pitch estimation

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