Covariance consistency methods for fault-tolerant distributed data fusion

Information Fusion

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 201-215

  Uhlmann, Jeffrey K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Control; Convex optimization; Covariance Intersection; Covariance Union; Data fusion; Deconfliction; Distributed processing; Fault tolerance; Kalman filter; Network management; Network centric; Semidefinite programming

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; KALMAN FILTERING; OPTIMIZATION;

DATA FUSION;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0042830773     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1566-2535(03)00036-8     Document Type: Article

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