An H∞ approach to multi-source tracking

In this paper, a novel H approach is proposed for tracking of polarized co-channel sources using an array of tripole antennas. The proposed approach partitions the observation data matrix into two sub-matrices that are used, in conjunction with a new state-space model, to provide an H-type recursive estimation of a linear combiner. The linear combiner then provide estimates of the noise and signal subspaces, from which the directions of the incident signals can be estimated and tracked. The proposed technique is also capable of handling the tracking of appearing / disappearing sources during the observation interval and, furthermore, can accommodate array modeling uncertainties. The difficult problem of tracking the crossing sources can be successfully handled by using diversely polarized array.