Accession Number:

ADA247036

Title:

Effects of Non-Normal Outlier-Prone Error Distribution on Kalman Filter Track

Descriptive Note:

Master's thesis

Corporate Author:

NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA

Personal Author(s):

• De Souza Neto, Jose B.

Report Date:

1991-09-01

Pagination or Media Count:

69.0

Abstract:

This report is about the effects of non-normality on the efficiency of the Kalman filter, particularly when the distribution of measurement errors is still symmetric but the tails are extended, which means that the observations are outlier-prone. Kalman Filter.

Descriptors:

• *MEASUREMENT
• *DISTRIBUTION
• *EFFICIENCY
• *KALMAN FILTERING
• CONTROL SYSTEMS
• RECURSIVE FILTERS
• FILTERS
• DIGITAL FILTERS
• NORMALITY
• ELECTRONIC SUPPORT MEASURES
• ERRORS
• THESES
• WHITE NOISE
• TARGET RECOGNITION
• DETECTORS

Subject Categories:

• Operations Research
• Target Direction, Range and Position Finding
• Acoustics
• Electricity and Magnetism

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE