Robust Multi-Sensor Fusion: A Decision-Theoretic Approach

Gerda Kamberova; Max Mintz

doi:10.1117/12.969975

1 March 1990 Robust Multi-Sensor Fusion: A Decision-Theoretic Approach

Gerda Kamberova, Max Mintz

Proceedings Volume 1198, Sensor Fusion II: Human and Machine Strategies; (1990) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.969975
Event: 1989 Symposium on Visual Communications, Image Processing, and Intelligent Robotics Systems, 1989, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Abstract

Many tasks in active perception require that we be able to combine different information from a variety of sensors which relate to one or more features of the environment. Prior to combining these data, we must test our observations for consistency. The purpose of this paper is to examine sensor fusion problems for linear location data models using statistical decision theory (SDT). The contribution of this paper is the application of SDT to obtain: (i) a robust test of the hypothesis that data from different sensors are consistent; and (ii) a robust procedure for combining the data which pass this preliminary consistency test. Here, robustness refers to the statistical effectiveness of the decision rules when the probability distributions of the observation noise and the a priori position information associated with the individual sensors are uncertain. The standard linear location data model refers to observations of the form: Z = θ + V, where V represents additive sensor noise and 0 denotes the "sensed" parameter of interest to the observer. While the theory addressed in this paper applies to many uncertainty classes, the primary focus of this paper is on asymmetric and/or multimodal model, which allow one to account for very general deviations from nominal sampling distributions. This paper extends earlier results in SDT and multi-sensor fusion obtained by Zeytinoglu and Mintz (1984, 1988), and McKendall and Mintz (1988).

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Gerda Kamberova and Max Mintz "Robust Multi-Sensor Fusion: A Decision-Theoretic Approach", Proc. SPIE 1198, Sensor Fusion II: Human and Machine Strategies, (1 March 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.969975

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