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 — often timing out entirely. SolvFilter's validated pitch is as a UKF alternative at scale, not a drop-in replacement for every scipy EKF deployment.