On Pooling-Based Track Fusion Strategies : Harmonic Mean Density

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Autori principali: Sharma, Nikhil, Bhaumik, Shovan, Tharmarasa, Ratnasingham, Kirubarajan, Thiagalingam
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author Sharma, Nikhil
Bhaumik, Shovan
Tharmarasa, Ratnasingham
Kirubarajan, Thiagalingam
author_facet Sharma, Nikhil
Bhaumik, Shovan
Tharmarasa, Ratnasingham
Kirubarajan, Thiagalingam
contents In a distributed sensor fusion architecture, using standard Kalman filter (naive fusion) can lead to degraded results as track correlations are ignored and conservative fusion strategies are employed as a sub-optimal alternative to the problem. Since, Gaussian mixtures provide a flexible means of modeling any density, therefore fusion strategies suitable for use with Gaussian mixtures are needed. While the generalized covariance intersection (CI) provides a means to fuse Gaussian mixtures, the procedure is cumbersome and requires evaluating a non-integer power of the mixture density. In this paper, we develop a pooling-based fusion strategy using the harmonic mean density (HMD) interpolation of local densities and show that the proposed method can handle both Gaussian and mixture densities without much changes to the framework. Mathematical properties of the proposed fusion strategy are studied and simulated on 2D and 3D maneuvering target tracking scenarios. The simulations suggest that the proposed HMD fusion performs better than other conservative strategies in terms of root-mean-squared error while being consistent.
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spellingShingle On Pooling-Based Track Fusion Strategies : Harmonic Mean Density
Sharma, Nikhil
Bhaumik, Shovan
Tharmarasa, Ratnasingham
Kirubarajan, Thiagalingam
Signal Processing
Systems and Control
In a distributed sensor fusion architecture, using standard Kalman filter (naive fusion) can lead to degraded results as track correlations are ignored and conservative fusion strategies are employed as a sub-optimal alternative to the problem. Since, Gaussian mixtures provide a flexible means of modeling any density, therefore fusion strategies suitable for use with Gaussian mixtures are needed. While the generalized covariance intersection (CI) provides a means to fuse Gaussian mixtures, the procedure is cumbersome and requires evaluating a non-integer power of the mixture density. In this paper, we develop a pooling-based fusion strategy using the harmonic mean density (HMD) interpolation of local densities and show that the proposed method can handle both Gaussian and mixture densities without much changes to the framework. Mathematical properties of the proposed fusion strategy are studied and simulated on 2D and 3D maneuvering target tracking scenarios. The simulations suggest that the proposed HMD fusion performs better than other conservative strategies in terms of root-mean-squared error while being consistent.
title On Pooling-Based Track Fusion Strategies : Harmonic Mean Density
topic Signal Processing
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06716