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Chapter 3: <strong>Information</strong> <strong>Technology</strong> for Interoperability <strong>and</strong> Decision...<br />

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selects the track having the smallest trace of the covariance. This scheme<br />

is included in the evaluation as a benchmark of the worst performance<br />

achieved when no fusion is performed.<br />

• Naive Fusion: In this scheme, each sensor node performs its own local<br />

Kalman filter resulting in local optimal tracks, which are sent to the fusion<br />

center. In the fusion center the tracks are fused to a global estimate as if they<br />

were decorrelated. Given a set of local tracks {( x s |<br />

, s |<br />

)}<br />

S<br />

kk<br />

Pkk s 1<br />

the fused parameters<br />

are obtained via the decorrelated fusion equations (24) <strong>and</strong> (25).<br />

As the local optimal tracks are correlated to each other if process noise<br />

is assumed, this fusion scheme ignores these cross-correlations.<br />

• Distributed Kalman Filter (DKF): Our approach to T2TF is the decorrelated<br />

DKF, which was proven to be exact under perfect data association<br />

conditions previously. It is based on a product representation for the global<br />

posterior density:<br />

S<br />

k<br />

s s<br />

k1 Z N( xk 1; xk 1| k1 , Pk 1| k1<br />

s1<br />

px ( |<br />

) ).<br />

(26)<br />

The decorrelated DKF described in [6] uses a covariance globalisation step.<br />

For known posterior covariance matrices P s<br />

1| 1<br />

, the globalised prediction<br />

k k s 1, , S<br />

parameters are given by<br />

<br />

1<br />

<br />

<br />

<br />

s1<br />

<br />

Pkk | 1 SF <br />

kk | 1<br />

P <br />

k1| k1 Fkk | 1 Q<br />

<br />

kk | 1 ,<br />

(27)<br />

<br />

s <br />

<br />

<br />

x SF P P x<br />

(28)<br />

s s1 s1<br />

s<br />

.<br />

k| k1 <br />

k| k1 k1| k1 k1| k1 k1| k1 s <br />

In the scenario considered in this paper the posterior covariances of the remote<br />

sensors are known at each node. However, when the sensor measurement characteristic<br />

is geometry dependent, as with radar, the posterior covariances of the remote<br />

sensor nodes are not known as they are dependent on the target-sensor geometry,<br />

<strong>and</strong> there are no data transmissions between the sensors. In this case, it is possible to<br />

replace the exact remote covariances by approximations based on the local estimate<br />

<strong>and</strong> a radar model applied to known parameters of other sensors.<br />

• Distributed Kalman Filter with Feedback (DKF-FB): For the DKF with FB,<br />

we assume that the fusion center transmits the fused track to all sensors at<br />

each time step. With the global covariance Pk<br />

1| k 1<br />

for time available,<br />

the globalised prediction is given by the following lines.<br />

<br />

P S P F Q<br />

<br />

kk | 1 Fkk | 1 k1| k1 kk | 1 <br />

kk | 1 ,<br />

x SF P P x<br />

s s<br />

s<br />

.<br />

k| k1 <br />

k| k1 k1| k1 k1| k1 k1| k1

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