Sensor, User, Mission (SUM) Resource Management and Their Interaction with Level 2/3 Fusion

Abstract

This paper describes a new approach to tracking multiple groups of targets using the concept of the generalized Janossy measure density function. Each group is modeled by a group state that consists of a group common state and an unknown number of individual target component states. In order to represent a probability distribution of such a group state, we propose to use a generalized version of the Janossy measure density function. We will formulate our tracking problem as a distributed estimation problem in which each local sensor processing unit (node) produces single-frame-based group-level detections and a central fusion center (node) fuses those detections into group tracks. A simple illustrative example will be given.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA521365

Entities

People

  • Erik Blasch

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Computers
  • Data Fusion
  • Data Processing
  • Dimensionality Reduction
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Knowledge Management
  • Models
  • Operations Research
  • Reliability
  • Resource Management
  • Risk
  • Risk Analysis
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.