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Traditional multi‐target tracking algorithms assume that each target can generate at most one detection per scan. However, a target may produce multiple detections (MDs) in many practical applications, e.g. over‐the‐horizon radar (OTHR), tracking for extended target and tracking with multiple sensors. In this study, the authors propose a new algori...
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... Meanwhile, according to the assumptions of VIHs, the existing OTHR target tracking approaches can be classified into four groups. The approaches in the first group assumed that the VIH of each layer is a known constant [11][12][13][14]. The second group, assumed that the VIH of each layer is an unknown constant which could be estimated by a joint optimization scheme [10,15]. ...
In the target localization of skywave over-the-horizon radar (OTHR), the error of the ionospheric parameters is one main error source. To reduce the error of ionospheric parameters, a method using both the information of reference sources (e.g., terrain features, ADS-B) in ground coordinates and the corresponding OTHR measurements is proposed to estimate the ionospheric parameters. Describing the ionospheric electron density profile by the quasi-parabolic model, the estimation of the ionospheric parameters is formulated as an inverse problem, and is solved by a Markov chain Monte Carlo method due to the complicated ray path equations. Simulation results show that, comparing with using the a prior value of the ionospheric parameters, using the estimated ionospheric parameters based on four airliners in OTHR coordinate registration process, the ground range RMSE of interested targets is reduced from 2.86 to 1.13 km and the corresponding improvement ratio is up to 60.39%. This illustrates that the proposed method using reference sources is able to significantly improve the accuracy of target localization.
Aiming at the problems of low accuracy and high loss rate when the traditional target tracking (TT) method is applied to the TT of the moving operation of the transmission line, a transmission line based on an inspection robot and edge computing (EC) is proposed: the mobile job TT method. First, the basic framework of the TT algorithm is proposed, relying on the edge device to develop the TT system for mobile operations on the transmission line. Video information is collected by an intelligent inspection robot and sent to the target tracking system in the edge device for processing to obtain accurate data. Then, the gradient disappearance and explosion problems caused by the increase of network depth are solved by using the deep residual network. The traditional deep residual network is improved by introducing the improved bidirectional feature reinforcement network and the classification and regression subnet. The loss of position texture information is remedied, and the accurate tracking of the moving target on transmission line is realized. Finally, the real-time data acquisition of mobile operation target is realized by using an intelligent inspection robot, and the experimental verification is conducted. The proposed algorithm is compared and analyzed against the three other algorithms using the same data set through simulation experiments. The results show the precision, recall rate, accuracy, and comprehensive evaluation index F1 value of the proposed algorithm rank highest, reaching 93.8%, 90.2%, 83.8%, and 89.8%, respectively, compared with the other algorithms.
The ionosphere is the propagation medium for radio waves transmitted by an over-the-horizon radar (OTHR). Ionospheric parameters, typically, virtual ionospheric heights (VIHs), are required to perform coordinate registration for OTHR multitarget tracking and localization. The inaccuracy of ionospheric parameters has a significant deleterious effect on the target localization of OTHR. Therefore, to improve the localization accuracy of OTHR, it is important to develop accurate models and estimation methods of ionospheric parameters and the corresponding target tracking algorithms. In this paper, we consider the variation of the ionosphere with location and the spatial correlation of the ionosphere. We use a Gaussian Markov random field (GMRF) to model the VIHs, providing a more accurate representation of the VIHs for OTHR target tracking. Based on expectation-conditional maximization and GMRF modeling of the VIHs, we propose a novel joint optimization solution, namely ECM-GMRF, to perform target state estimation, multipath data association and VIHs estimation simultaneously. In ECM-GMRF, the measurements from both ionosondes and OTHR are exploited to estimate the VIHs, leading to a better estimation of the VIHs which improves the accuracy of data association and target state estimation, and vice versa. The simulation indicates the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.
