Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2024, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (7): 2184-2190.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2024.07.02

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Multi-sensor multi-target tracking based on distributed PMHT

Siyi YAO1, Wanchun LI1,*, Lin GAO1, Huaguo ZHANG1, Hangwei HU2   

  1. 1. School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
    2. Beijing Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Beijing 100074, China
  • Received:2023-05-18 Online:2024-06-28 Published:2024-07-02
  • Contact: Wanchun LI

Abstract:

In the field of target tracking, probability multiple hypothesis tracking (PMHT) algorithm, as a batch processing algorithm, has much less computation than the traditional multiple hypothesis tracking algorithm. Currently, the application of PMHT algorithm is limited by centralized processing. On the basis of the traditional algorithm, this study firstly derives the algorithm likelihood under sensor network to obtain the post-correlation parameter under multi-sensor algorithm, followed by hybrid consensus based on the consensus processing strategy, and finally the posteriori estimation of the target parameters is accomplished by using Kalman filtering. This study enables the PMHT algorithm to be applied to the fully distributed sensor network without fusion centers. The experimental results show that under different clutter densities, the distributed PMHT has more than 90% improvement in tracking error compared to the single-sensor algorithm. Distributed PMHT has close tracking performance and faster computation compared to centralized algorithms.

Key words: multi-target tracking, probability multiple hypothesis tracking (PMHT), consensus, centralized state estimation, distributed state estimation

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