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Development of Practical PDA Logic for Multitarget Tracking by Microprocessor
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A simplified form of probabilistic data association (PDA) logic was developed for real-time multitarget tracking by a microprocessor associated with a radar track-while-scan system. A variety of practical problems with the method led to a relatively complex set of algorithms, while certain fundamental shortcomings of the approach still threatened performance due to anomalous behavior in some situations. Ultimately, the weighted-average updating feature of the PDA approach was abandoned in favor of a "nearest-neighbor PDA" method, which utilizes the PDA association probabilities to associate a single measurement with each track.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Fitzgerald, R. J.
- Venue
- 1986 American Control Conference
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 1986-06
- Pages
- 889-898
- ISSN
- 0743-1619 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2113024825
- Cited by
- 179
- References
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- FWCI
- 1.16
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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