The Effect of the Common Process Noise on the Two-Sensor Fused-Track Covariance |
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Authors: | Yaakov Bar-Shalom Campo L |
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Institution: | Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Connecticut; |
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Abstract: | This note deals with the effect of the common process noise on the fusion (combination) of the state estimates of a target based on measurements obtained by two different sensors. This problem arises in a multisensor environment where each sensor has its information processing (tracking) subsystem. In the case of an ?-? tracking filter the effect of the process noise is that, over a wide range of its variance, the uncertainty area corresponding to the fused estimates is about 70 percent of the single-sensor uncertainty area as opposed to 50 percent obtained if the dependence is ignored. |
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