Distributed Environmentally-Adaptive Detection, Classification, and Localization Using a Cooperative Sensor Network

Abstract

The specific objective of this effort is to develop distributed detection, classification, and localization (DCL) algorithms suitable for application to the nonlinear inversion problems encountered in ocean acoustics that can be nested within an over-reaching system concept of a cooperative sensor network. Joint parameter estimation processes were developed wherein both target parameters and environmental acoustic parameters (primarily bottom geoacoustic) are estimated. The latest tracking work incorporated a likelihood surface formulation with the JPDA algorithm. We've determined that work is still needed to improve the performance of the JPDA algorithm with the likelihood surface formulation. Results were encouraging for the baseline tracking scenario where the truth is known. An initial framework for creating target times series associated with a contact-based tracking data set was expanded and a physically-motivated feature set and classifier was improved with the addition of classification.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 29, 2010
Accession Number
ADA538746

Entities

People

  • David W. Krout
  • Jack Mclaughlin
  • Robert Miyamoto

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustics
  • Algorithms
  • Aspect Angle
  • Classification
  • Data Sets
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Geometry
  • Machine Learning
  • Military Research
  • Multistatic Tracking
  • Networks
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Sensor Networks
  • Signal Processing
  • Target Tracking
  • Wireless Sensor Networks

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.