A Matlab Tool for Development and Testing of Track Initiation and Multiple Target Tracking Algorithms

Digital computer simulation is a valuable tool, used for the design, analysis, and testing of complex systems whose behavior cannot be easily evaluated by means of analysis. Simulation includes three main steps, as follows: input data generation, modeling of examined system and performance evaluation with proper visualization. By their very nature, radar data processing algorithms are well suited to computer simulation. Simulation programs are often coded in general purpose high-level languages, such as C++, Pascal, Ada, or Java. This is mainly due to the popularity of these languages among programmers and computer users, as well as to their availability and portability. But the most complex algorithms can be easily coded by means of Matlab. The Matlab language can be learnt quickly and after that the engineers can fully exploit its power with high productivity. Matlab compiler translates *.m files to C code for real time implementation purposes. In spite of the fact, that the resulting code consists almost completely of calls to Matlab *.dll functions and the performance is similar to that of standard *.m files, the translation can be regarded as a good initial step of migration to C code.