As it is well-known, in recent years the Kalman filter has been extensively used in the engineering field. The authors tried to apply the extended Kalman filter for optimal estimation of ship's positiion which is fixed by simultaneous visual (or radio) bearings to two known locations. In practical piloting, bearings are generally measured intermittently, so in this case the original Kalman filter can not be applied because of the long sampling time. In this paper, the extended Kalman filter is revised in order to be used in such an unfavorable case, adn the Digital simulation is conducted by using the revised extended Kalman filter under various noise conditiions. Good results have been obtaiend and effectiveness of the proposed filter has been confirmed.

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