Multi-Sensor Data Fusion in Command and Control and the Merit of ArtificialIntelligence

摘要

The human operator observing the real world is confronted with a huge amount ofdata from multiple sensor systems observing that world. Multisensor data fusion (MSDF) is one of the emerging fields in advanced information processing, concerned with fusing sensor data from these multiple sensor systems. Artificial intelligence provides techniques to represent this knowledge and to reason with it. These techniques are discussed in the context of a generic framework comprising a world model and fusion processes. These techniques can contribute to an effective updating of the world model and can support its fusion processes. In addition, a global distributed fusion architecture based on the framework is proposed. As specific domain of fusion, battlefield surveillance is considered. This paper shows the potential use of artificial intelligence in multi-sensor data fusion.