Studying the complexities in distributed object tracking systems

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 2035-2041

  Llinas, James ^a  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed tracking; Estimation; Filtering; Information fusion; Resource management

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

DISTRIBUTED OBJECT TRACKING SYSTEMS; INFORMATION FUSION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0242721969     PISSN: 08843627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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