A consistent, debiased method for converting between polar and Cartesian coordinate systems

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3086, Issue , 1997, Pages 110-121

  Julier, Simon J ^a   Uhlmann, Jeffrey K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coordinate systems; Estimation; Kalman filtering; Navigation; Tracking

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; COORDINATE MEASURING MACHINES; ESTIMATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; KALMAN FILTERS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; NAVIGATION; RADAR; RADAR SYSTEMS; SPHERES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CARTESIAN; CARTESIAN COORDINATE SYSTEMS; COORDINATE SYSTEMS; FOURTH ORDER; JACOBIANS; KALMAN FILTERING; ORDER INFORMATION; ORDER TRANSFORMATION; TRACKING; VEHICLE NAVIGATION;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 51449110542     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.277178     Document Type: Conference Paper

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