On design of sequential sensor fusion system

Most algorithms currently proposed for sensor integration implicitly assume that the signals from all sensors are synchronized, but this does not hold in real situations. The paper proposes to handle time-variant sensor combination systems by a sequence, and formulates a method to verify that the designed sequence is stable, together with a method to predict theoretically the performance of the designed sequence based on the mutual information rate. This enables a sequence of sensor combinations to be designed rationally.