← Back to Publications

Performance verification of a target tracking system with a laser rangefinder

Jihoon Lee, Suwon Lee, Youngjun Lee, Youdan Kim, Yongjun Heo, Taedong Yoon

IEEE Access, Vol. 9, pp. 30993-31009, 2021 · 9 citations

FIGURE 4. Target tracking simulator and performance analyzer.
FIGURE 4. Target tracking simulator and performance analyzer.
FIGURE 2. Flow chart of the development process.
FIGURE 2. Flow chart of the development process.

Figures and captions reproduced from the paper (© the authors and original publisher).

A target tracking system with a laser rangefinder is developed, and the performance of the developed system is verified by a numerical simulation and field tests. To develop the target tracking system, appropriate coordinate systems, motion models, and estimation methods are selected, and a range filter is designed to compensate for the measurement errors of the laser rangefinder. The range filter independently processes the range measurements so that the target filter continuously produces the target information. The entire target tracking system development process is described in detail to facilitate future work of a similar nature. A scenario-based Monte Carlo simulation is performed to compare the performances of various state estimation methods. Experimental tests involving a low-speed fishing boat and a drone are performed to verify the performance and effectiveness of the proposed scheme. A separate performance analysis program with a graphical user interface is developed to analyze the simulation and field test results.

IEEE Xplorehttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9356604/Author PDFhttps://jihoonlee91.github.io/papers/pdfs/2021-target-tracking-laser-rangefinder.pdfDOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3060061https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3060061BibTeX@article{Lee2021, title = {Performance verification of a target tracking system with a laser rangefinder}, author = {Jihoon Lee and Suwon Lee and Youngjun Lee and Youdan Kim and Yongjun Heo and Taedong Yoon}, year = {2021}, journal = {IEEE Access}, volume = {9}, pages = {30993-31009}, doi = {10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3060061}, }