Title
Jointly-Optimized Searching and Tracking with Random Finite Sets
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the problem of joint searching and tracking of multiple mobile targets by a group of mobile agents. The targets appear and disappear at random times inside a surveillance region and their positions are random and unknown. The agents have limited sensing range and receive noisy measurements from the targets. A decision and control problem arises, where the mode of operation (i.e., search or track) as well as the mobility control action for each agent, at each time instance, must be determined so that the collective goal of searching and tracking is achieved. We build our approach upon the theory of random finite sets (RFS) and we use Bayesian multi-object stochastic filtering to simultaneously estimate the time-varying number of targets and their states from a sequence of noisy measurements. We formulate the above problem as a non-linear binary program (NLBP) and show that it can be approximated by a genetic algorithm. Finally, to study the effectiveness and performance of the proposed approach we have conducted extensive simulation experiments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/TMC.2019.2922133
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Bayesian target tracking,intelligent systems,sensor control,area coverage
Journal
19
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
10
1536-1233
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Savvas Papaioannou163.55
Panayiotis Kolios29525.07
Theocharis Theocharides320526.83
Christos G. Panayiotou447258.98
Marios Polycarpou52020206.96