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In previous works, it has been shown that the estimation problem of a thrusting/ballistic object in the three-dimensional space can be solved with two-dimensional measurements (azimuth and elevation angles starting from the launch time) assuming the launch point is perfectly known. In this paper, the problem is extended to estimate the target's trajectory with measurements starting after the launch...
Autonomous vehicles operating in dynamic environments rely on precise localization. In this paper we present a novel approach for cooperative localization of vehicular systems and an infrastructure RADAR which is resilient against outliers generated from the RADAR. The problem of cooperative localization is represented as a factor graph, where interrelated topologies (including that of outliers) are...
The paper addresses the problem of distributed sensor fusion in the framework of random finite set. The Generalized Covariance Intersection (GCI) rule of multi-target densities is extensively used in multi-target Bayesian filtering scheme. But there are two problems in GCI which are unreasonable design of fusion weight and unable to tackle informative differentiation. In order to get rid of the bad...
In the multiple target tracking scenarios, the correct matching between targets and measurements is critical. There have been many approaches to resolve this problem called data association. In this paper, a regression method is proposed to resolve the data association problem. In the logistic regression model, nine potential predictor variables are designed which are related to the geometric information...
This paper considers the multi-target tracking (MTT) problem in multi-input multi-output (MIMO) radar systems with the “defocused transmit-focused receive” (DTFR) operating mode, in which each transmitter forms a defocused beam to illuminate the whole surveillance region and each receiver adopts a focused beam to acquire a high angular resolution. When MIMO radars work in the DTFR operating mode,...
This paper considers the sensor selection problem for target tracking in large-scale sensor networks. We propose a new sensor selection strategy based on dual-criterion optimization. Both the bias change detection and information gain maximization are considered as criteria in our proposed sensor selection strategy. This new approach extends the sensor selection problem from single criterion optimization...
In this paper, we consider the fluctuating targets detection problem in a distributed multi-sensor network. A multi-sensor multi-frame track-before-detect (MS-MF-TBD) procedure is proposed to sufficiently make use of the target energy diversity in space and time dimensions (space-time diversity). Two MS-MF-TBD methods, the multi-sensor maximum likelihood-probabilistic data association (MS-ML-PDA)...
We develop an Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm for the simultaneous tracking and shape estimation of a star-convex object based on multiple spatially distributed measurements. In order to formulate the problem within the EM framework, the unknown measurement sources on the object are modeled as hidden variables. As the measurement sources are continuous quantities, we develop a suitable discretization...
In this paper, we investigate cooperative passive sensor trajectory planning for tracking a target where the tracking error is sensor trajectory dependent. We consider the problem under a scenario of tracking a moving target using two unmanned bearings-only sensors. The basic idea is to maximise the target information acquired from the processing measurements of the two sensors by cooperatively scheduling...
This paper considers the parameter estimation problem of linear system by constructing the iterative and stochastic measurement schedule (ISMS) rule for efficiently implementing the maximum likelihood (ML). When the unknown parameter varies or even mutates with the time proceeding, in the existing measurement schedule rule, estimator can not keep both accuracy and speed of parameter estimation due...
This paper is concerned with the fusion estimation problem for multi-sensor discrete time-invariant linear systems with multiple time delays and colored measurement noise. A fast sequential covariance intersection (SCI) fusion Kalman filter is given based on the augmented Kalman filter in the linear minimum variance sense, which avoids the calculation of the cross covariance matrices between local...
This work documents our investigation of multiple target tracking filters in proximity sensor networks when the target power levels are not known. The challenge is that when the targets are close, it is hard to determine if the sensor reports are the results of a loud target or multiple quiet targets. Given the binary measurements:1 for detection of targets and 0 for nondetection of targets, the works...
With the ubiquity of information distributed in networks, performing recursive Bayesian estimation using distributed calculations is becoming more and more important. There are a wide variety of algorithms catering to different applications and requiring different degrees of knowledge about the other nodes involved. One recently developed algorithm is the distributed Kalman filter (DKF), which assumes...
This paper considers locating a static source on Earth using the time difference of arrival (TDOA) and frequency difference of arrival (FDOA) measurements obtained by a dual-satellite geolocation system. The TDOA and FDOA from the source are subject to unknown time and frequency offsets because the two satellites are imperfectly time-synchronized or frequency-locked. The satellite locations are not...
Multi-resolution grid computation is a technique used to speed up source localization with a Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) algorithm. In the case where the source is located midway between grid points, the MLE algorithm may choose an incorrect location, causing following iterations of the search to close in on an area that does not contain the source. To address this issue, we propose a modification...
Particle filters are a widely used tool to perform Bayesian filtering under nonlinear dynamic and measurement models or non-Gaussian distributions. However, the performance of particle filters plummets when dealing with high-dimensional state spaces. In this paper, we propose a method that makes use of multiple particle filtering to circumvent this difficulty. Multiple particle filters partition the...
In this paper, we evaluate the performance of labelled and unlabelled multi-Bernoulli conjugate priors for multi-target filtering. Filters are compared in two different scenarios with performance assessed using the generalised optimal sub-pattern assignment (GOSPA) metric. The first scenario under consideration is tracking of well-spaced targets. The second scenario is more challenging and considers...
The multiple hypothesis tracker (MHT) has historically been considered a gold standard for multi-target tracking. In this paper we show that the key formula for hypothesis probabilities in Reid's MHT can be derived from the modern theory of finite set statistics (FISST) insofar as appropriate assumptions (Poisson models for clutter and undetected targets, no target-death, linear-Gaussian Markov target...
This paper deals with the problem of estimating the state of a discrete-time stochastic linear system based on data collected from multiple sensors with limited communication resources. For the cases of transmitting measurements and local state estimates, respectively, we design data-driven communication schemes based on a normalized innovation vector and corresponding fusion rules in the (approximate)...
Traffic control and vehicle route planning require accurate estimates of the traffic state in order to be successfully implemented. This estimation problem can be solved by using particle filters in conjunction with macroscopic traffic models such as the stochastic compositional model. The accuracy of the estimates can be decreased for road segments where there are no measurements available. However,...
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