Print Email Facebook Twitter Object Tracking in Images of an Airborne Wide Angle FMCW Radar Title Object Tracking in Images of an Airborne Wide Angle FMCW Radar Author Maas, J.B. (TU Delft Control & Simulation) van Gent, R.N.H.W. (Selfly B.V) Hoekstra, J.M. (TU Delft Control & Simulation) Date 2018 Abstract Object tracking is performed when surveillance applications have multiple observations of an object over time. An example of such a surveillance application is mounting a wideangle Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar system on board of a General Aviation aircraft. This is done in order to observe its environment in detail, including noncooperative objects such as birds and windmills. Data generated by such a system follows different physical laws than the images of standard visual applications. In this paper, a novel tracking algorithm is introduced which is tailor-made for FMCW applications. The algorithm is tested in a simulated crowded general aviation airspace, and the resulting tracks are qualitatively and quantitatively analysed. The proposed algorithm performs better than a traditional algorithm on all aspects, but tracking errors can still be made in rare cases. The proposed algorithm can be used in conjunction with research focusing on observation quality or assignment problems. Subject Object TrackingGeneral AviationSense-andavoidFMCW RadarModellingKalman FilteringAliasingSimulation ExperimentIndependent Surveillance To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f90bfea6-7a37-4712-8711-b81f60cab2c3 Source 2018 International Conference on Research in Air Transportation: Barcelona, Spain, 2018 Event ICRAT 2018: 2018 International Conference on Research in Air Transportation, 2018-06-26 → 2018-06-29, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2018 J.B. Maas, R.N.H.W. van Gent, J.M. Hoekstra Files PDF ICRAT_2018_paper_13_1.pdf 4.98 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:f90bfea6-7a37-4712-8711-b81f60cab2c3/datastream/OBJ/view