Eli Brookner – Tracking & Kalman Filtering Made Easy
ELI BROOKNER, DSc, is a Consulting Scientist with Raytheon Company in Sudbury, Massachusetts. Over a long and distinguished career, he has conceived and/or designed numerous radar systems, including Wake Measurement Radar and the first TWT radar put into space. A world-renowned teacher and lecturer, he is editor and principal contributor of three previous books: Radar Technology, Aspects of Modern Radar, and Practical Phased Array Antenna Systems.
This book presents the first truly accessible treatment of radar tracking; Kalman, Swerling, and Bayes filters for linear and nonlinear ballistic and satellite tracking systems; and the voltage-processing methods (Givens, Householder, and Gram-Schmidt) for least-squares filtering to correct for computer round-off errors. Tracking and Kalman Filtering Made Easy emphasizes the physical and geometric aspects of radar filters as well as the beauty and simplicity of their mathematics. An abundance of design equations, procedures, and curves allows readers to design tracking filters quickly and test their performance using only a pocket calculator!
Here’s what you’ll get:
- The voltage-processing approach to least-squares filtering
- The correlation between such procedures as discrete orthogonal Legendre polynomial (DOLP) and voltage processing
- The mathematical sameness of tracking and estimation problems on the one hand, and sidelobe canceling and adaptive array processing on the other
- The massively parallel systolic array sidelobe canceler processor
- Important computational accuracy issues
- An appended comparison between the Kalman and the Swerling filters, written by Dr. Peter Swerling