The invention belongs to the technical field of
passive detection, and relates to a high-position passive
time difference positioning method based on motion multistation. The method comprises the steps: building a
time difference positioning model, and respectively determining the coordinate position of a main
station and the coordinate positions of auxiliary stations; solving the
time difference according to a formula that a distance difference is the product of light velocity and the time difference: d<i1>=c*tau<i1>, wherein i=2, 3, ...,M; forming a time difference
observation matrix through the coordinate position of the main
station, the coordinate positions of all auxiliary stations and the solved time difference, wherein the
impact on the positioning precision is considered, and the
noise follows the
Gaussian distribution (mean value = 0, and variance is sigma2). According to the invention, an intelligent search strategy in a CS
algorithm is introduced to solve a
nonlinear optimization problem in a time difference
positioning system, thereby solving the problems that the calculation burden of the time difference
observation matrix is large and the calculation complexity is high. The method can achieve the high-precision
estimation of the position of a
radiation source, can quickly approach to a
global optimal solution without depending on a priori condition of the initial target position, and is not liable to cause the positioning fuzziness and a no-solution condition.