Development of a MATLAB Based Target Tracking Simulation Environment

Abstract

A simulation environment for tracking of maneuvering targets in clutter is developed in MATLAB. The simulation environment allows to generate 2-dimensional surveillance radar measurements and to run various target tracking algorithms on these measurements. As a first simulation example, IMM-NNJPDA algorithm, which incorporates NNJPDA data association and IMM filter structure, is implemented and the performance of this algorithm is investigated in an example scenario. By this simulator, in the future, it is aimed that statistical test and evaluation of different radar sensors, scenarios, target tracking methods and data fusion architectures will be performed