Clustering-based Control of Discrimination Power in Target Tracking Applications

Abstract:- The paper addresses the problem of the target-tracking in military surveillance operations. More specifically, a closed-loop approach to adapt the sensing and tracking operations is proposed and compared to the conventional open-loop approach. The objective is to control and maintain, over a certain area, the level of discrimination power required by the mission objectives. The control strategy is based on two cascade loops. The outer loop uses clustering techniques to characterize the area in terms of discrimination power. This high level information is exploited by the inner loop to compute optimal track update and sensor scheduling strategy