Dynamically adaptable ra-best 2-d assignment algorithm and multilevel parallelization

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1145-1160

  Popp, Robert L ^a  

^a BAE SYSTEMS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSIGNMENT ALGORITHM; JOINT PROBABILISTIC DATA ASSOCIATION (JPDA); MULTILEVEL PARALLELIZATION; MULTIPLE HYPOTHESIS TRACKING (MHT);

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

RADAR TRACKING;

EID: 0033309381     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/7.805433     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Balas, E., Miller, D., Pekny, J., and Toth, P. (1991) A parallel shortest augmenting path algorithm for the assignment problem. Journal of the ACM, 38, 4 (Oct. 1991), 985-1004.
2. Balinski, M. (1985) Signature methods for the assignment problem. Operations Research, 33, 3 (May-June 1985), 527-536.
3. Bar-Shalom, Y., and Li, X. R. (1993) Estimation and Tracking: Principles, Techniques and Software. Boston, MA: Artech House, 1993.
4. Bar-Shalom, Y., and Li, X. R. (1995) Multitarget-Multisensor Tracking: Principles and Techniques. Storrs, CT: YBS Publishing, 1995.
5. Bertsekas, D. (1988) The auction algorithm: A distributed relaxation method for the assignment problem. Annals of Operations Research: Special Issue on Parallel Optimization, 1988.
6. Bertsekas, D., and Castanon, D. (1991) Parallel synchronous and asynchronous implementations of the auction algorithm. Parallel Computing, 17 (1991), 707-732.
7. Brogan, W. (1989) Algorithm for ranked assignments with applications to multiobject tracking. Journal of Guidance, 12, 3 (May 1989), 357-364.
8. Cox, I., and Miller, M. (1995) On finding ranked assignments with application to multitarget tracking and motion correspondence. IEEE Transactions Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 32, 1 (Jan. 1995), 486-489.
9. Cox, I., Miller, M., Danchick, R., and Newnam, G. (1997) A comparison of two algorithms for determining ranked assignments with application to multitarget tracking and motion correspondence. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 33, 1 (Jan. 1997), 295-300.
10. Danchick, R., and Newnam, G. (1993) A fast method for finding the exact yV-best hypotheses for multitarget tracking. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 29, 2 (Apr. 1993), 555-560.
11. Deb, S., Pattipati, K. R., and Bar-Shalom, Y. (1993) A multisensor-multitarget data association algorithm for heterogeneous sensors. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 29, 2 (Apr. 1993), 560-568.
12. Deb, S., Yeddanapudi, M, Pattipati, K., and Bar-Shalom, Y. (1997) A generalized S-D assignment algorithm for multisensor-multitarget state estimation. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 33, 2 (Apr. 1997), 523-538.
13. Drummond, O., Castanon, D., and Bellovin, M. (1990) Comparison of 2-D assignment algorithms for sparse, rectangular, floating point, cost matrices. Journal of SDI Panels on Tracking (Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria, VA), 4/1990 (Dec. 1990), 81-97.
14. Jonker, R., and Volgenant, A. (1987) A shortest augmenting path algorithm for dense and sparse linear assignment problems. Journal of Computing, 38 (1987), 325-340.
15. Kurien, T., Castanon, D., and Lublin, L. (1997) Surveillance and sensor management algorithms for rapid detection of time-critical targets. Technical report TR-794, Alphatech, Inc., 1997.
16. Miller, M., Stone, H., and Cox, I. (1995) Optimization to Murty's algorithm for determining a ranked set of assignments. Technical report, NEC Research Institute, 1995.
17. - (1994) Multithreaded Programming Guide. Sun Microsystems, Inc., Mountain View, CA., 1994.
18. Murty, K. (1968) An algorithm for ranking all the assignments in order of increasing cost. Operations Research, 16 (1968), 682-687.
19. Nagarajan, V, Chidambara, M., and Sharma, R. (1987) Combinatorial problems in multitarget tracking - A comprehensive survey. IEE Proceedings, 134, 1 (1987), 113-118.
20. Pattipati, K., and Deb, S. (1989) Comparison of assignment algorithms with applications to the passive sensor data association problem. In Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Control and Application, Jerusalem, Israel, 1989.
21. Pattipati, K., Deb, S., Bar-Shalom, Y, and Washburn, R. (1992) A new relaxation algorithm and passive sensor data association. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 37, 2 (Feb. 1992), 197-213.
22. Poore, A., and Rijavec, N. (1991) Multitarget tracking, multidimensional assignment problems, and Lagrangian relaxation. Proceedings of SDI Panels on Tracking (Aug. 1991), 51-74.
23. Poore, A. B., and Rijavec, N. (1993) A Lagrangian relaxation algorithm for multidimensional assignment problems arising from multitarget tracking. S1AM Journal of Optimization, 3, 3 (Aug. 1993), 544-563.
24. Poore, A. B., and Rijavec, N. (1995) Partitioning multiple data sets via multidimensional assignments and Lagrangian relaxation. In DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, 1995.
25. Popp, R. L., Pattipati, K. R., Bar-Shalom, Y, and Ammar, R. A.(1997) Shared-memory parallelization of the data association problem in multitarget tracking. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 8, 10 (Oct. 1997), 993-1005.
26. Popp, R., Pattipati, K., Bar-Shalom, Y., and Yeddanapudi, M. (1997) Parallelization of a multiple model multitarget tracking algorithm with superlinear speedups. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 33, 1 (Jan. 1997), 281-290.
27. Popp, R., Pattipati, K., and Bar-Shalom, Y (1998) Multitarget tracking algorithm parallelizations for air traffic surveillance. Annals of Operations Research: Special Issue on Parallel Optimization, 1999.
28. Popp, R., Pattipati, K., Bar-Shalom, Y, and Gassner, R. (1998) An adaptive m-best S-D assignment algorithm and parallelization for multitarget tracking. Presented at the IEEE Aerospace Conference, Snowmass, CO, Mar. 1998.
29. Powell, M., Kleiman, S., Barton, S., Shah, D., Stein, D., and Weeks, M. (1991) SunOS multi-thread architecture. In Proceedings of the USENIX '91 Conference, Dallas, TX, 1991, 1-14.
30. Reid, D. (1979) An algorithm for tracking multiple targets. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, AC-24, 6 (Dec. 1979), 423-432.
31. Roecker, J. (1994) A class of near optimal JPDA algorithms. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 30,2 (Apr. 1994), 504-510.
32. Tsaknakis, H. (1987) Multiassignment algorithms for CSO tracking. Alphatech, Inc., Burlington, MA, 1987.
33. Yeddanapudi, M., Bar-Shalom, Y, and Pattipati, K. R. (1997) IMM estimation for multitarget-multisensor air traffic surveillance. IEEE Proceedings, 85, 1 (Jan. 1997), 80-94.
34. Zhou, B., and Böse, N. (1993) Multitarget tracking in clutter: Fast algorithms for data association. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 29, 2 (Apr. 1993), 352-363.