Report-to-target assignment in multisensor multitarget tracking

Abstract

The authors discuss two issues that need to be addressed for extending a practical single-sensor multitarget tracking algorithm to the case of tracking with multiple sensors. These issues correspond to the compensation of the algorithm for asynchronous reporting rates from multiple sensors, and the interpretation and implementation of an nscan approximation technique for assigning reports from multiple sensors to targets. Procedures that account for these issues and have been demonstrated using real data are also provided.<>