Track Association Based on the Empirical Mode Decomposition in Passive
Localization
Abstract
In distributed passive localization and tracking system, the track
observed by the subsystem seems like Brownian motion track, because the
tracked target is non-cooperative target and its maneuver is often
complex, and the localization accuracy is poor. These track
characteristics will seriously disturb track association between
different subsystems. In order to solve this problem, the track to track
association algorithm based on empirical mode decomposition (EMD) is
proposed in this letter. Each dimension data of the track from each
subsystem is processed by EMD and the high frequency components are
eliminated. A track motion trend (MT) vector is created by collecting
the rest components of the processed data. For these vectors, the
corresponding rule is constructed, in which the association threshold is
self-adaptive, and the assumption of the target motion model is not
required. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can
accomplish track association effectively in passive localization
systems.