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F. Meyer, O. Hlinka, H. Wymeersch, E. Riegler, F. Hlawatsch:
"Distributed Localization and Tracking of Mobile Networks Including Noncooperative Objects";
IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, 2 (2016), 1; 57 - 71.

We propose a Bayesian method for distributed sequential localization of mobile networks composed of both cooperative agents and noncooperative objects. Our method provides a consistent combination of cooperative self-localization (CS) and distributed tracking (DT). Multiple mobile agents and objects are localized and tracked using measurements between agents and objects and between agents. For a distributed operation and low complexity, we combine particle-based belief propagation with a consensus or gossip scheme. High localization accuracy is achieved through a probabilistic information transfer between the CS and DT parts of the underlying factor graph. Simulation results demonstrate significant improvements in both agent self-localization and object localization performance compared to separate CS and DT, and very good scaling properties with respect to the numbers of agents and objects.

Agent network, belief propagation, consensus, cooperative localization, distributed estimation, distributed tracking, factor graph, gossip, message passing, sensor network.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TSIPN.2015.2511920

http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_248229.pdf