Title :
Robust Kalman track fusion in target tracking with uncertainties
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Southwest Univ. for Nat., Chengdu, China
Abstract :
In this paper, we consider the robust Kalman filtering based track fusion problem in multi-sensor network. We deal with the dynamic systems when the convariance of the measurement noises suffers norm-bounded uncertainties and propose a minimax robust track fusion method by minimizing the worst-case fusion error variance for all feasible noises covariance matrix. The numerical simulations demonstrate the performance of our method in the dynamic systems with uncertain noise covariance, which outperforms that of the nominal Kalman target tracking fusion method.
Keywords :
Kalman filters; covariance matrices; minimax techniques; numerical analysis; sensor fusion; target tracking; minimax robust track fusion method; multisensor network; noises covariance matrix; norm bounded uncertainties; numerical simulations; robust Kalman filtering; robust Kalman track fusion; target tracking; worst case fusion error variance; Covariance matrix; Kalman filters; Noise; Noise measurement; Robustness; Target tracking; Uncertainty;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Problem-Solving (ICCP), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0602-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0601-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICCPS.2011.6092304