A fast and fault-tolerant convex combination fusion algorithm under unknown cross-correlation

2009 12th International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 571-578

  Wang, Yimin ^a   Li, X Rong ^b  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNO College of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Chernoff information; Convex combination; Covariance intersection; Decentralized network; Distributed fusion; Fault tolerant

Indexed keywords

CHERNOFF INFORMATION; CONVEX COMBINATION; COVARIANCE INTERSECTION; DECENTRALIZED NETWORK; DISTRIBUTED FUSION; FAULT-TOLERANT;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; INFORMATION FUSION; OPTIMIZATION;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 70449403453     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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