Sensor management for multi-target detection and tracking based on PCRLB

This article presents an information theory based sensor management method to be used for aerospace multi-target collaborative detection and tracking. The proposed sensor management method follows an information theoretic approach, in which PCRLB is used to calculate the tracking accuracy of multi-target. The detection particles are employed to determine the detection probability of incoming targets. Moreover, BPSO is adopted as well to find the optimal allocation scheme of sensors for maximizing the tracking accuracy and detection probability. The results of simulation experiments demonstrate that the proposed method succeeds in assigning sensors optimally in region surveillance task.