A General Theory of Signal Integration for Fault-Tolerant Distributed Sensor Network

Abstract

In recent years, the increasing sophistication of surveillance systems and tracking mechanisms has generated a great deal of interest in the development of new computational structures and architectures for detecting and tracking multiple targets, using data from many sensors. The design of spatially distributed target-detection-and-tracking systems involves the integration of solutions obtained by solving subproblems in data-association, hypothesis testing, data fusion, etc. This must include the cooperative solution of problems by a decentralized and loosely coupled collection of processors, each of which integrates information received from a cluster of spatially distributed sensors into a manageable and reliable output for further integration at a higher level. This process requires the design of efficient architectures and computational techniques to abstractly represent and integrate sensor information.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 20, 1991
Accession Number
ADA242695

Entities

People

  • Sundaraja Sitharama Iyengar

Organizations

  • Louisiana State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Data Association
  • Data Fusion
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Information Processing
  • Multiple Targets
  • Networks
  • Parallel Computing
  • Parallel Processing
  • Programming Languages
  • Sensor Networks
  • Target Detection
  • Technical Information Centers
  • Wireless Sensor Networks

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Operations Research
  • Robotics and Automation.
  • Theoretical Analysis.