A simple testbed for real-time sensor-to-shooter applications of decentralized data fusion
Lewis A. Binns, Andrew R. Cooke, Sam Fryers, Phil Greenway, David Mullin, David Nicholson, Dimitris Valachis · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2003
In this paper we describe a simple physical test-bed, developed to allow practical experimentation in the use of Decentralised Data Function (DDF) in sensor-to-shooter applications. Running DDF over an ad hoc network of distributed sensors produces target location information. This is used to guide a Leica laser-tracker system to designate currently tracked targets. We outline how the system is robust to network and/or node failure. Moreover, we discuss the system properties that lead to it being completely “plug-and-play”, as, like the distributed sensor nodes, the “shooter” does not require knowledge of the overall network topology and can connect at any point.