Data Fusion and Collaborative State Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks

Download or read book Data Fusion and Collaborative State Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks written by Hiba Haj Chhadé and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of the thesis is to develop fusion algorithms for data collected from a wireless sensor network in order to locate multiple sources emitting some chemical or biological agent in the air. These sensors detect the concentration of the emitted substance, transported by advection and diffusion, at their positions and communicate this information to a treatment center. The information collected in a collaborative manner is used first to locate the randomly deployed sensors and second to locate the sources. Applications include, amongst others, environmental monitoring and surveillance of sensitive sites as well as security applications in the case of an accidental or intentional release of a toxic agent. However, the application we consider in the thesis is that of landmine detection and localization. In this approach, the land mines are considered as sources emitting explosive chemicals. The thesis includes a theoretical contribution where we extend the Belief Propagation algorithm, a well-known data fusion algorithm that is widely used for collaborative state estimation in sensor networks, to the bounded error framework. The novel algorithm is tested on the self-localization problem in static sensor networks as well as the application of tracking a mobile object using a network of range sensors. Other contributions include the use of a Bayesian probabilistic approach along with data analysis techniques to locate an unknown number of vapor emitting sources.