Determination and Validation of a Mathematical Model of a Target With Variable Trajectory using the Kalman Filter Technique

Abstract

According to the open information in the press media, recent advances in the development and implementation of aircraft and other types of vehicles or objects which can move with a variable trajectory (on a random or pseudo-random trajectory), brought some concern regarding how to track these objects. The classical methods to track the moving objects which are moving on the ballistic trajectory are not applicable in this case. The design and build new types of interceptors can take the considerable resources and time. However, it is well known fact from the history of science and technology that the solution of problems, which seem at the first glance as difficult or impossible to solve, perhaps can be found if one will look on the problem from the different angle. One of the possible solutions for the above task is suggested in this paper.