Simulation-based sensing-system configuration for dynamic dispatching

The paper presents a methodology for determining the initial configuration of a set of sensors for a surveillance task. It serves to complement a dynamic dispatching methodology, which selects and maneuvers subsets of sensors to achieve optimal data acquisition in real-time. Specifically, given a priori information about the expected object trajectory, the initial sensor poses are determined such that the sensing-system effectiveness is maximized. This is achieved using a constrained, nonlinear, direct search method in combination with simulations of the sensing-system performance (i.e., dynamic dispatching to adjust the sensor poses in response to the object motion).