Dynamic Multidimensional Assignment Algorithm for Multisensor Information Fusion System.

Data association, one of the key and difficult problems for multi-target tracking, is the decision process of linking the measurements or the tracks deemed to be of common origin under certain criteria. All typical data association algorithms can be deducted into special Multidimensional Assignment Problem. However, present S-D assignment algorithm only associates the synchronous measurements from different sensors, which only generate the static result. In this paper, the static assignment algorithm(S-D) has been generalized to the dynamic Multidimensional Assignment Problem by means of combining the measurements set and the tracks set. The main challenge in the assignment problem is that it is NP-hard. The solution using Hopfield neural network (HNN) is presented in this paper. The simulation results illustrate that this method can decrease the computing burden greatly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]