Dynamic Target Tracking with Integration of Communication and Coverage using Mobile Sensors

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2009

Authors

Hongbin Li (Author) Other; Luis Almeida (Author) FEUP; Youxian Sun (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: IECON: 2009 35TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF IEEE INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS, VOLS 1-6

Pages: 2636-2641

35th Annual Conference of the IEEE-Industrial-Electronics-Society (IECON 2009)

Porto, PORTUGAL, NOV 03-05, 2009

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Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Engineering > Computer engineering

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Authenticus ID: P-007-T3E

DOI: 10.1109/iecon.2009.5415257

Abstract (EN): This paper presents a decentralized motion coordination algorithm for distributed sensing of dynamic noncooperative targets in a noisy environment by multiple cooperating mobile sensors. Mobile sensors, by nature, adjust their positions to increase the quality of sensing. In this case, we consider the existence of imperfect communications and limited sensing range. Connectivity and coverage constraints are also considered and included in the cost function that is used to drive the sensors so that information sharing among them as well as a certain degree of area coverage are maintained. The gradient-descent method is employed to minimize the global cost function. We examine the trade-offs in performance between sensing, communication and coverage. Several simulations are used to show the effectiveness of the proposed control approach and preliminary experimental results validate our tracking method.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 6