Author:
Zhou Shenghua,Wang Linhai,Liu Ran,Chen Yidi,Peng Xiaojun,Xie Xiaoyang,Yang Jian,Gao Shibo,Shao Xuehui
Abstract
Angle-only sensors cannot provide range information of targets and in order to determine accurate position of a signal source, one can connect distributed passive sensors with communication links and implement a fusion algorithm to estimate target position. To measure moving targets with sensors on moving platforms, most of existing algorithms resort to the filtering method. In this paper, we present two fusion algorithms to estimate both the position and velocity of moving target with distributed angle-only sensors in motion. The first algorithm is termed as the gross least square (LS) algorithm, which takes all observations from distributed sensors together to form an estimate of the position and velocity and thus needs a huge communication cost and a huge computation cost. The second algorithm is termed as the linear LS algorithm, which approximates locations of sensors, locations of targets, and angle-only measures for each sensor by linear models and thus does not need each local sensors to transmit raw data of angle-only observations, resulting in a lower communication cost between sensors and then a lower computation cost at the fusion center. Based on the second algorithm, a truncated LS algorithm, which estimates the target velocity through an average operation, is also presented. Numerical results indicate that the gross LS algorithm, without linear approximation operation, often benefits from more observations, whereas the linear LS algorithm and the truncated LS algorithm, both bear lower communication and computation costs, may endure performance loss if the observations are collected in a long period such that the linear approximation model becomes mismatch.
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Biochemistry,Instrumentation,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Analytical Chemistry
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