Distributed estimation fusion under unknown cross-correlation: An analytic center approach

13th Conference on Information Fusion, Fusion 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Wang, Yimin ^a   Li, X Rong ^b  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNO College of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytic center; Convex combination; Covariance intersection; Decentralized network; Distributed fusion; Settheoretic estimation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC CENTER; CONVEX COMBINATION; COVARIANCE INTERSECTION; DECENTRALIZED NETWORKS; DISTRIBUTED FUSION; SETTHEORETIC ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION FUSION; OPTIMIZATION;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 79952416239     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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