Mobile Intelligent Autonomous Systems

35	Modelling Out-of-Sequence Measurements A Copulas-Based Approach Bhekisipho Twala

CONTENTS

35.1    Introduction

35.2    The Copulas Strategy

35.3    Experiments and Results

35.4    Concluding Remarks

Acknowledgements

References

35.1    INTRODUCTION

Within the general framework of multi-sensor applications, a difficult step in target tracking and filtering (i.e., the process of maintaining state estimates of one or several instances or objects over a period of time) is the handling of out-of-sequence measurements (OOSM). Most of the work on tracking and filtering has been based on the assumption that measurements are immediately available to an agent. However, it is not difficult to conceive situations in which measurements are subject ...