• DocumentCode
    2461741
  • Title

    Distributed Target Tracking in a Wireless Sensor Network

  • Author

    Kam, Clement ; Hodgkiss, William S.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    Oct. 29 2006-Nov. 1 2006
  • Firstpage
    1999
  • Lastpage
    2003
  • Abstract
    We study the problem of accurately tracking a target moving through a wireless sensor network employing proximity sensors. We address the issues of estimating target location, having measurements irregularly spaced in time, and improving energy efficiency by applying a Kalman filter in a distributed architecture. The behavior of the tracker and its second order statistics are studied to provide insight into the operation of the tracking sensor network. Simulations illustrate the performance of the tracking system.
  • Keywords
    Kalman filters; target tracking; wireless sensor networks; Kalman filter; distributed target tracking; energy efficiency; proximity sensors; target location estimation; wireless sensor network; Battery charge measurement; Energy efficiency; Energy measurement; Equations; Robustness; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Strain measurement; Target tracking; Time measurement; Wireless sensor networks;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Signals, Systems and Computers, 2006. ACSSC '06. Fortieth Asilomar Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Pacific Grove, CA
  • ISSN
    1058-6393
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0784-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1058-6393
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ACSSC.2006.355116
  • Filename
    4176926