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Estimation and Tracking: Principles, Techniques, and Software

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I think any person who major in target tracking system related to the Kalman filter must see this book. This book present the fundamentals of state estimation theory and the tools for the design of state-of-the-art algorithms for target tracking.

The book covers the basic concepts and estimation techniques for static and dynamic systems, linear and nonlinear, as well as adaptive estiomation. This constitutes a one semester graduate course in estimation theory in an electrical/systems engineering program.

The discussion deals mainly with discrete time estimation algorithms, which are natural for digital computer implementation. The basic state estimation algorithm-the Kalman filter-is presented in discrete as well as in continuous time. The use of the estimation algorithms is illustrated on kinematic motion models because they reveal all the major issues and in particular the subtleties encountered in estimation, and this serves as an introdution to tracking.

Guidelines for tracking filter design-selection of the filter design parameters-are given and illustrated in several examples.

At the end of each chapter, a number of problems that enhance the understanding of the theory and the connection of the theoretical material to the real world are given.

And I have this book as text for my paper.

I don't usually write online reviews but this book is so clear and useful that I really want to recommend it to others. It is well written with a good outline and summary for every chapter. It also has a pretty diverse range of topics on estimation, including an introductory chapter on basic estimation approaches (e.g., ML, MAP, least squares), and very practical extensions (e.g., state augmentation, square-root filters). Even though I am not in EE and some of the examples are thus not particularly helpful to me, I still find this book one of the best of all the estimation/Kalman filter books out there.

I have had this book for a while now. It was on the shelves of a collegues desk, collecting dust, when I started working with tracking a little over a year ago with no prior background in the field (I am a physicist). It is now no longer collecting dust at it is now on my shelves instead. For the first introductory steps within this field, I found the book a little too advanced. However, after having spend some time on some more introductory and old school texts, like "Tracking and Kalman Filtering made Easy" by Brookner, I have learned to appreciate the enourmous usefulness of this book.

The formalism is very concise. The choise of symbols is consistent and logical througout the book. The words and terminology is very precise, which has become evident to me, after reading other sources. The examples are very useful and spot on for many of my applications. Like the two-model uniform motion/nearly coordinated turn IMM as an excellent estimator workhorse in tracking.

Just this morning, I was struggling to understand the term "dilution of precision" - a measure, which is available in various flavours in some GPS devices. I had searched the net, read on Wikipedia, etc, but still could not quite get my grips on the exact meaning of the term. Then I recalled I had "the purple book". I looked up "dilution of precision", and of course, the term was explained in the most useful and concise way there on a little more than a page, following a treatment of other GPS accuracy terms, which set things quite well in perspective, and made me understand GPS accuracy much better.

Many of the problems are already very useful for specific applications. Solving the problems actually gives very useful results.

The book has steadily grown into my favorite resource for the estimation part of tracking and one of the best text books I have available, like Numerical recipes.... I simply enjoy reading it, and as I flip through the pages I find more and more useful stuff, especially in the last chapters. With text books it is often such that the last chapters become harder and harder and more and more marginal for practical use. Here, although the later parts are more advanced, they are also increasingly useful - for me at least.

I purchased a book that's a likeNew. It was shipped very fast; I got it in a few days after I ordered. The book was actually new - no bent and clean like new.
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