Multi-BS Fusion Scheme for PHD Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
Tao Du, Jie Yang, Shuqiang Xia, Shi Jin · 2023
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is expected to improve the energy and spectral efficiency of communication systems. Probability hypothesis density (PHD) simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) without explicit data association is one of the mainstream algorithms for implementing sensing function in ISAC. However, most existing research focused on multi-sensor and multi-user sensing fusion, while few studies involve multi base station (BS) fusion schemes. In this study, we introduce the virtual reference point rather than common used virtual anchor to model reflecting surface to form a consistent description of the surrounding environment among different BSs. Then, the estimation results of BSs are sequentially utilized as prior information, which is compared with arithmetic average (AA) and generalized covariance intersection (GCI) fusion algorithms. To improve the poor performance of existing schemes when filed of view (FoV) of different BSs is partial overlapped, we propose the concept of establishing global cloud map. The AA fusion algorithm is integrated into cloud fusion to improve the map estimation performance. Simulation results demonstrate that the performance of sequential fusion is superior to AA and GCI schemes when FoVs of different BSs are fully overlapped. Besides, the cloud map fusion scheme can obtain global maps even if some features are no longer in FoV, as well as improve the accuracy and stability of local maps estimation for each BS.