An information-based approach to sensor resource allocation.
Chris Kreucher · 2005
I would like to acknowledge the significant contributions to this work made by my advisors Dr. Keith Kastella and Professor Alfred O. Hero III. They have played equally important and complimentary roles in shaping the work reported in this thesis. Dr. Kastella’s early work in the development of the joint multitarget probability and Kullback-Leibler methods for sensor management provided the starting point for the work reported in the first two chapters of this thesis. Furthermore, his guidance and advice throughout the development of my extensions was instrumental in making this work a success. I also want to acknowledge his role as program manager at General Dynamics in setting up an environment where I was able to meet the requirements of the University while simultaneously remaining employed at General Dynamics. Professor Hero’s work using the Rényi Divergence in other problem domains pro-vided the impetus for its adoption here. His guidance and advice on information based sensor scheduling and the multistage extensions was crucial to the work re-