A Survey of Maneuvering Target Tracking Using Kalman Filter

Abstract

Maneuvering target tracking technology is widely used in both military and civilian fields.Kalman filtering technique is the key technology for maneuvering target tracking.However, due to the uncertainty of the environment and the diversity of the sensors, the defects of traditional Kalman filter are revealed.To solve these problems, a variety of new Kalman filters have been proposed.In this paper, we sum up the application of different Kalman filters for target tracking in various environments, including the adaptive Kalman filter, the extended Kalman filter(EKF), and the unscented Kalman filter(UKF), and analyze the key problems including the improvement of accuracy, real time performance and robustness.