Robust bounded-error tracking in wireless sensor networks

Farah Mourad-Chehade (1) , Hichem Snoussi (1) , Michel Kieffer (2) , Cédric Richard (3)

1 LM2S - Laboratoire Modélisation et Sûreté des Systèmes
2 L2S - Laboratoire des signaux et systèmes
3 LAGRANGE - Joseph Louis LAGRANGE

A wireless sensor network (WSN) consists of spatially distributed sensors connected via a wireless link. Sensors may be designed for pressure, temperature, sound, vibration, motion... This paper considers the problem of target tracking in a WSN. This problem is especially challenging in presence of measurements which are outliers. Two algorithms for target tracking robust to outliers are proposed. They only assume that the maximum number of outliers is known. Based on interval analysis, these algorithms perform a set-membership estimation using either SIVIA or a combinatorial technique. In both cases, sets of boxes guaranteed to contain the actual target location are provided.

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Signal and Image Processing; Engineering Sciences [physics]; Signal and Image processing; Computer Science [cs]; Networking and Internet Architecture [cs.NI]

Farah Mourad-Chehade, Hichem Snoussi, Michel Kieffer, Cédric Richard. Robust bounded-error tracking in wireless sensor networks. SYSID 2012, Jul 2012, Bruxelles, Belgium. pp.1-6. ⟨hal-00727519⟩