Design of a Sensor-Blending Kalman Filter for the R2P2 Fine-Tracking System

摘要

The performance of a sensor blending scheme for two different band-width sensorsis significantly improved when a Kalman filter is used to blend the outputs via classical control methods. This Kalman filter signal blender is designed and implemented in a computer program developed for this thesis. Several tracking scenarios are simulated and analyzed. These scenarios are representative of the input expected into the sensors on a Space Based Laser. Keywords: Kalman filter; Adaptive gating; Sensor blending. Theses. (SDW)