CADO EM FPGA PARA O RASTREIO DE FOGUETES BALÍSTICOS* DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF KALMAN FILTER EMBEDDED IN FPGA FOR TRACKING OF BALLISTIC ROCKET DISEÑO E IMPLEMENTACIÓN DE FILTRO KALMAN EMBARCARON EN FPGA PARA DETECCIÓN DE ROCKET BALLISTIC

This work is an approach about the Kalman filter with respect to its design, mathematical modeling, filtering algorithm and implementation in FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays). Also make a brief study on the programmable logic device (PLD) type FPGA, its architecture and its applications. After the study of the Kalman filter on FPGA and passes to the step of embedded on the filter in FPGA type hardware exploring its features parallel processing. The final step is to validate the filter running filtering algorithm in FPGA using real data from launching ballistic rockets. The data were provided by the Alcan-tara Launch Center (CLA). The main contribution of this work is the implementation of a reconfigurable FPGA architecture, ensuring fast enough to radar platform with high accuracy and good tracking capability rockets.