Source localization and tracking using distributed asynchronous sensors

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3991-4003

  Li, Teng ^a   Ekpenyong, Anthony ^b   Huang, Yih Fang ^c  

^a MARVELL SEMICONDUCTOR INC   (United States)

^b TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

^c University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

Asynchronous sensors; Kalman filter; Localization; Sensor network; Synchronization; Time difference of arrival (TDOA); Time of arrival (TOA); Tracking

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); KALMAN FILTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSORS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRACKING (POSITION);

ASYNCHRONOUS SENSORS; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER (EKF); MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATES (MLE); SOURCE LOCALIZATION ALGORITHM; TIME-OF-ARRIVAL (TOA);

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 33749382605     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2006.880213     Document Type: Article

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