Counter-UAV program
The track picture that lies.
A radar update arrives every tenth of a second. The fusion node must propagate dozens of coupled target states and full covariance matrices before the next measurement — on hardware that also runs detection, classification, and weapon assignment. When the prediction integrator blows up or drifts NEES-inconsistent, the kill chain breaks upstream. The operator sees a ghost track or loses a real one.
UKF is accurate enough at moderate dimension. At dim=140 it becomes the cost and consistency bottleneck. Standard scipy EKF predict does not survive the validated slate at all.