Distributed estimation fusion with unavailable cross-correlation

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 259-278

  Wang, Yimin ^a   Li, X Rong ^b  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNO College of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE PARAMETERS; CHEBYSHEV CENTER; CLOSED FORM; CONVEX COMBINATIONS; COVARIANCE INTERSECTION; CROSS CORRELATIONS; DEGREE OF ROBUSTNESS; DISTRIBUTED ESTIMATION; DISTRIBUTED FUSION; ESTIMATION FUSION; FAULT-TOLERANT; FUSION ALGORITHMS; INCOHERENCY; INFORMATION THEORETIC CRITERION; ROBUST FUSION;

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION THEORY;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84862927706     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2012.6129634     Document Type: Review

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