On a Decentralized Active Sensing Strategy using Mobile Sensor Platforms in a Network

-- Timothy H. Chung, Vijay Gupta, Joel W. Burdick and Richard M. Murray,  IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2004 (CDC '04). Volume 2,  14-17 Dec. 2004 Page(s):1914 - 1919.

In this paper, we consider the problem of active sensing using mobile sensor nodes that are jointly estimating the state of a dynamic target as a sensor network.  We propose a gradient search-based decentralized algorithm that demonstrates the benefits of distributed sensing.  We then examine the task of tracking multiple targets. We use a greedy algorithm for associating sensors with targets along with the gradient-search strategy for sensor vehicle motion planning. Simulation results show that these simple decentralized strategies perform quite well and the sensor nodes exhibit interesting cooperative behavior.

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