TY - GEN
T1 - Tracking targets with self-organizing distributed ground sensors
AU - Moore, J.
AU - Keiser, T.
AU - Brooks, R.
AU - Phoha, S.
AU - Friedlander, D.
AU - Koch, J.
AU - Reggio, A.
AU - Jacobson, N.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - This paper describes a fully distributed approach to target tracking that we have implemented and tested in a military setting. The approach is built upon local sharing of robust statistics that summarize local events. Local collaboration extracts detection information such as time, velocity, position, heading and target type from the summary statistics. The groups of nodes used for local collaboration are determined dynamically at run time. Local collaboration information is compared with a list of tracks in the immediate vicinity. Associating detections to tracks is currently done using a variation of the nearest-neighbor metric. This paper extends our previous work by using mobile code daemons to support multiple hypothesis tracking methods. This is done in a resourceconstrained environment by using the network to swap sohare modules dynamically. Results from field tests of the approach are provided. This includes a dependability analysis of the distributed approach versus centralized systems.
AB - This paper describes a fully distributed approach to target tracking that we have implemented and tested in a military setting. The approach is built upon local sharing of robust statistics that summarize local events. Local collaboration extracts detection information such as time, velocity, position, heading and target type from the summary statistics. The groups of nodes used for local collaboration are determined dynamically at run time. Local collaboration information is compared with a list of tracks in the immediate vicinity. Associating detections to tracks is currently done using a variation of the nearest-neighbor metric. This paper extends our previous work by using mobile code daemons to support multiple hypothesis tracking methods. This is done in a resourceconstrained environment by using the network to swap sohare modules dynamically. Results from field tests of the approach are provided. This includes a dependability analysis of the distributed approach versus centralized systems.
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U2 - 10.1109/AERO.2003.1235137
DO - 10.1109/AERO.2003.1235137
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84879357967
SN - 078037651X
SN - 9780780376519
T3 - IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings
SP - 2113
EP - 2123
BT - 2003 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Proceedings
T2 - 2003 IEEE Aerospace Conference
Y2 - 8 March 2003 through 15 March 2003
ER -