Firstly we analyse the properties of Strong Tracking Filter (STF) and Interacting Multiple Model Algorithm and find that STF is a parameter-adaptive algorithm and IMM is a model-adaptive algorithm.It means that they may be combined effectively.Secondly we propose a new method based on the Least-Squared Estimation to search for the fading factor in STF.After that
we design a Strong-Tracking Multiple Model Estimator (STMME) by combining the new STF with IMM.Finally
the simulations show that STMME greatly improves accuracy of velocity and acceleration compared with the conditional IMM when tracking the maneuvering target.And the computation burden increases only 6%.