A Distributed Cooperative Target Tracking with Binary Sensor Networks
Authors
Zijian Wang, Eyuphan Bulut, and Boleslaw K. Szymanski
Abstract
Target tracking is a typical and important cooperative sensing application of wireless sensor networks. We study it in its most basic form, assuming the binary sensing model in which each sensor can return only 1-bit information regarding target’s presence or absence within its sensing range. A novel, real-time and distributed target tracking algorithm is proposed. The algorithm reduces the
uncertainty of the target location from a two-dimensional area into a one-dimensional arc and estimates the target velocity and trajectory in a distributed and asynchronous manner. Extensive simulations show that our algorithm achieves good performance by yielding highly accurate estimates of the target’s location, velocity and trajectory.
Publication Date
May, 2008
Venue
IEEE ICC2008 CoopNet Workshop, Beijing, China
Published To
Conference
Publication Type
Externally published
ITA Area
Project 9, Technical area 3
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