Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2025, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (6): 1739-1745.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2025.06.02

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Optimal arithmetic average fusion and its application in different fields of view

Yu XUE, Xi'an FENG   

  1. School of Marine Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China
  • Received:2024-12-05 Online:2025-06-25 Published:2025-07-25
  • Contact: Xi'an FENG

Abstract:

A decorrelation arithmetic average (AA) fusion algorithm of Gaussian mixture probability hypothesis density (GM-PHD) filters is proposed to achieve optimal tracking of a time-varying number of uncertain targets within different field of view (FOV). Given that the multi-target AA fusion is decomposed into multiple groups of single-target component merging by association operation, optimal decorrelation estimation fusion is firstly derived by reshaping the Bayesian fusion and then is applied as the merging method of single-target components. Since the derived decorrelation estimation fusion requires prior estimates, a hierarchical structure involving a master filter dedicated to automatically providing prior estimates is designed. To address the underestimated target cardinality arising from different FOV, the fusion node compensates for weight of single-target components according to FOV. Simulation results demonstrate the proposed algorithm's optimality in various scenarios, which improves the multi-target tracking accuracy.

Key words: probability hypothesis density (PHD) filter, decorrelation, Bayesian fusion, hierarchical structure, master filter

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