Fixed-lag alpha-beta filter for target trajectory smoothing

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1417-1421

  Ogle, Terrence L ^a   Blair, William D ^a  

^a GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

ALPHA-BETA FILTER; KALMAN SMOOTHER; TARGET TRAJECTORY SMOOTHING;

KALMAN FILTERING;

EID: 14744301283     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2004.1386894     Document Type: Article

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