Consensus Tracking of an Underwater Vehicle Using Weighted Harmonic Mean Density

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Autori principali: Dubey, Ved Prakash, Bhaumik, Shovan
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author Dubey, Ved Prakash
Bhaumik, Shovan
author_facet Dubey, Ved Prakash
Bhaumik, Shovan
contents This paper addresses an underwater target tracking problem in which a large number of sonobuoy sensors are deployed on a surveillance region. The region is divided into several sub-regions, where a single tracker, capable of generating track is installed. Each sonobuoy can measure the direction of arrival of acoustic signals (known as bearing angles) and communicate the measurements with the local tracker. Further, each local tracker can communicate with all other trackers, where each of them can exchange their estimate and finally a consensus is reached. We propose a weighted harmonic mean density (HMD) based tracking to reach a consensus and provide a solution for the fusion of Gaussian densities. In this approach, optimal weights are assigned by minimizing the Kullback-Leibler divergence measure. Performance of the proposed method is measured using root mean square error, percentage of track divergence, and normalized estimation error squared. Simulation results demonstrate that the optimized HMD-based fusion outperforms existing fusion methods during a distributed tracking.
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spellingShingle Consensus Tracking of an Underwater Vehicle Using Weighted Harmonic Mean Density
Dubey, Ved Prakash
Bhaumik, Shovan
Signal Processing
This paper addresses an underwater target tracking problem in which a large number of sonobuoy sensors are deployed on a surveillance region. The region is divided into several sub-regions, where a single tracker, capable of generating track is installed. Each sonobuoy can measure the direction of arrival of acoustic signals (known as bearing angles) and communicate the measurements with the local tracker. Further, each local tracker can communicate with all other trackers, where each of them can exchange their estimate and finally a consensus is reached. We propose a weighted harmonic mean density (HMD) based tracking to reach a consensus and provide a solution for the fusion of Gaussian densities. In this approach, optimal weights are assigned by minimizing the Kullback-Leibler divergence measure. Performance of the proposed method is measured using root mean square error, percentage of track divergence, and normalized estimation error squared. Simulation results demonstrate that the optimized HMD-based fusion outperforms existing fusion methods during a distributed tracking.
title Consensus Tracking of an Underwater Vehicle Using Weighted Harmonic Mean Density
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03130