Distributed Multi-Sensor Multi-View Fusion of PHD Filter for Maneuvering Targets

This paper addresses the problem of maneuvering multi-target tracking by a network of sensors having different and limited fields of view (FoV s). Each local sensor runs the Gaussian Mixture Probability Hypothetical Density (GMPHD) filter. Due to the target maneuver, based on a single motion model, severe tracking performance degradation can be observed. We propose to use multi-model (MM) method to realize the adaptation to motion characteristic so as to overcome maneuverability of targets. Then considering FoV s of sensors in the network are different and limited, the standard weighted arithmetic average (WAA) fusion is no longer applicable and leads to an underestimation of the target number. Therefore, we use state-dependent WAA (SD-WAA) fusion rule, which performs the WAA in a more robust way by calculating a set of state-related fusion weights. Numerical experiment is designed to demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed method.