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Cramer-Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) Analysis & Evaluation

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We have a facility with analytic manipulations that enabled the following:

insights in obtaining new theoretical results at the point were they were needed to expand and improve the existing theory, as conveyed below in references [1], [2], and applied in [3]-[8]. Also see the recent [9] by others that cite us.

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Historical Account of our experience therein:

[1] Kerr, T. H., “A New Multivariate Cramer-Rao Inequality for Parameter Estimation (Application: Input Probing Function Specification),” Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Phoenix, AZ, pp. 97-103, December 1974.

 

[2] Kerr, T. H., “Status of CR-Like Lower bounds for Nonlinear Filtering,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. AES-25, No. 5, pp. 590-601, September 1989 (Author’s reply in Vol. AES-26, No. 5, pp. 896-898, September 1990).

 

[3] Kerr, T. H., “Cramer-Rao Lower Bound Implementation and Analysis for NMD Radar Target Tracking,” TeK Associates Technical Report No. 97-101 (for MITRE), Lexington, MA, 26-30 Oct. 1997.

[4] Kerr, T. H., “NMD White Paper on Designated Action Item,” MITRE, Bedford, MA, January 1998.

[5] Kerr, T. H., “Cramer-Rao Lower Bound Implementation and Analysis: CRLB Target Tracking Evaluation Methodology for NMD Radars,” MITRE Technical Report, Contract No. F19628-94-C-0001, Project No. 03984000-N0, Bedford, MA, February 1998.

 

[6] Kerr, T. H., “Developing Cramer-Rao Lower Bounds to Gauge the Effectiveness of UEWR Target Tracking Filters,” Proceedings of AIAA\BMDO Technology Readiness Conference and Exhibit, Colorado Springs, CO, 3-7 August 1998.

 

[7] Kerr, T. H., UEWR Design Notebook-Section 2.3: Track Analysis, TeK Associates, Lexington, MA, (for XonTech, Hartwell Rd, Lexington, MA), XonTech Report No. D744-10300, 29 March 1999.

[8] Kerr, T. H., “A Critical View of Some New and Older approaches to EWR Target Tracking: A Summary and Endorsement of Kalman Filter-Related Techniques,” a tutorial submitted to IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Ed. by Peter Willett (in review and expected to appear in 2005).

[9] Hue, C., Le Cadre, J.-P., Perez, P., “Posterior Cramer-Rao Bounds for Multi-Target Tracking,” IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 37-49, January 2006.

[10] Gault, S., Hachem, W., Ciblat, P., “Joint Sampling Clock Offset and Channel Estimation for OFDM Signals: Cramer-Rao Bound and Algorithm,” IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol. 54, No. 5, pp. 1875-1885, May 2006.

[11] Yetik, I. S., Nehorai, A., “Performance Bounds on Image Registration,” IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol. 54, No. 5, pp. 1737-1749, May 2006.

[12] Zou, Q., Lin, Z., Ober, R. J., “The Cramer-Rao Lower Bound for Bilinear Systems,” IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol. 54, No. 5, pp. 1666-1680, May 2006.

[13] Eldar, Y., “Uniformly Improving the Cramer-Rao Bound and Maximum-Likelihood Estimation,” IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol. 54, No. 8, pp. 2943-2956, Aug. 2006.

[14] Brehard, T., Le Cadre, J.-P., “Closed-Form Posterior Cramer-Rao Bounds for Bearings-Only Tracking,” IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 1198-1223, Oct. 2006.

[15] Au-Yueng, C. K., Wong, K. T., “CRB: Sinusoid-Sources' Estimation using Collocated Dipoles/Loops,” IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 94-109, Jan. 2009.

[16] Kay, S., Xu, C., “CRLB via  the Characteristic Function with Application to the K-Distribution,” IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 1161-1168, July 2008.

[17] Smith, S. T., “Statistical Resolution Limits and the Complexified Cramer-Rao Bound,” IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol. 53, No. 5, pp. 1597-1609, May 2005.

[18] Smith, S. T., “Covariance, Subspace, and Intrinsic Cramer-Rao Bounds,” IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol. 53, No. 5, pp. 1610-1630, May 2005.

[19] Gini, F., Regggianini, R., Mengali, U., “The Modified Cramer-Rao Lower Bound in Vector Parameter Estimation,” IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 52-60, Jan. 1998.   

[20] Buzzi, S., Lops, M., Sardellitti, S., “Further Results on Cramer-Rao Bounds for Parameter Estimation in Long-Code DS/CDMA Systems,” IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol. 53, No. 3, pp. 1216- 1221, Mar. 2005.

[21] Branko Ristic, “Cramer Rao Bounds for Target Tracking,” International Conference on Sensor Networks and Information Processing, 6 Dec. 2005.

[22] Boers, Y., Driessen, H., “A Note on Bounds for Target Tracking with Pd < 1,” IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 640-646, Apr. 2009.

Gaussian Confidence Region or uncertainty ellipsoid (associated with target tracking) goes from “being a pancake” (at the horizon) to “being a football” (after sufficient radar returns have accrued). When knowledge of target’s trajectory is sufficiently accurate, then the target can be successfully intercepted.

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