Abstract

Knowing the benefits that a passive air target tracking system gives the host aircraft attempting to conceal its own presence on the battlefield, it is desired to determine whether the aircraft can also deliver one of its own lock-on-after-launch air-to-air missiles to the target via use of the same passive system. The objective of this thesis is to demonstrate that a passive six-state track filter can be successfully used within such a weapon delivery system. The role of the filter within the system is to track the enemy target in cartesian space utilizing only line-of-sight measurements and to track the launched missile similarly, but with the aid of a pre-computed acceleration profile. The six-state passive track filter equations for both the target and missile are first developed from the general case and then encoded into a computer simulation. An investigation into the observability characteristics of the passive track filter is made to determine the physical requirements that enable effective passive ranging. The system is then evaluated using Monte-Carlo analysis techniques. Computer simulation results show that a passive tracking algorithm embedded within a weapon delivery system can be successfully used to direct the missile to the target.

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Graduation Date

1991

Semester

Fall

Advisor

Harris, Michael

Degree

Master of Science (M.S.)

College

College of Engineering

Department

Electrical Engineering

Degree Program

Electrical Engineering

Format

PDF

Pages

116 p.

Language

English

Length of Campus-only Access

None

Access Status

Masters Thesis (Open Access)

Identifier

DP0027994

Subjects

Dissertations, Academic -- Engineering; Engineering -- Dissertations, Academic

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