This project will compare and improve approaches to resolving the multipath and tracking for sonar and radar applications. A range of approaches to handing multiple contact tracking will be compared and a way of including all known principal sources of error in the tracking models will be developed. This work will improve contact localisation and provide a better understanding of error sources than the traditional approach of extended Kalman filter.

Project staff and support

Trevor Wood (Postgraduate Associate, University of Oxford)
Irene Moroz (Academic supervisor, University of Oxford)
Philip Bond (Academic co-supervisor, University of Oxford)
Stephen Long (Industrial supervisor, Thales Underwater Systems)
David Allwright (Technology Translator, Industrial Mathematics KTN)

This project is being carried out at the University of Oxford, in conjunction with Thales Underwater Systems. It is supported by an EPSRC industrial CASE award, made available through the Knowledge Transfer Network for Industrial Mathematics. Start date: April 2008; duration: 3.5 years.