Distributed Sensor Networks
Abstract
The Distributed Sensor Networks (DSN) program is aimed at developing and extending target surveillance and tracking technology in systems that employ multiple spatially distributed sensors and processing resources. Such a system would be made up of sensors, data bases, and processors distributed throughout an area and interconnected by an appropriate digital data communication system. The detection, tracking, and classification of low flying aircraft has been selected to develop and evaluate DSN concepts in the light of a specific system problem. A DSN test bed has been developed and is being used to test and demonstrate DSN techniques and technology. The overall concept calls for a mix of sensor types. The initial test-bed sensors are small arrays of microphones at each node augmented by TV sensors at some nodes. This Semiannual Technical Summary (SATS) reports results for the period 1 October 1984 through 31 March 1985. Progress in the development of distributed tracking algorithms and their implementation in the DSN test-bed system is reviewed in Section II. Test-bed versions of distributed acoustic tracking algorithms now have been implemented and tested usingg simulated acoustic data. This required developing a solution to a basic distributed tracking problem: the information feedback problem. Target tracks received by one node from another node often implicitly include information that originally was obtained from the receiving node.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 26, 1985
- Accession Number
- ADA160596
Entities
People
- Richard T. Lacoss
Organizations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology