A Distributed Multiobject Tracking Algorithm for Passive Sensor Networks

摘要

The multiobject tracking problem is one that has gained much attention in recent years. The primary difficulty is the subproblem of associating measurements among several (perhaps an unknown number) of targets. In the present work, a recently proposed algorithm is modified and extended for application in distributed processing passive networks. This is done by distributing the measurement-target association problem to the individual sites in the network and then combining each site's resulting associations to form the desired target tracks. Computer simulations were run to demonstrate the capabilities of the procedure.