Foundations and Applications of Sensor Management

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hero, Alfred O. (Editor), Castañón, David A. (Editor), Cochran, Douglas (Editor), Kastella, Keith (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2008.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Coding theory.; Control engineering.; Robotics.; Mechatronics.; Electrical engineering.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Communications Engineering, Networks.; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics.; Coding and Information Theory.; Electrical Engineering.

Foundations and Applications of Sensor Management presents the emerging theory of sensor management with applications to real-world examples such as landmine detection, adaptive signal and image sampling, multi-target tracking, and radar waveform scheduling. It is written by leading experts in the f...

Table of Contents:

• Overview of Book
• Stochastic Control Theory for Sensor Management
• Information Theoretic Approaches to Sensor Management
• Joint Multi-Target Particle Filtering
• Pomdp Approximation Using Simulation and Heuristics
• Multi-Armed Bandit Problems
• Application of Multi-Armed Bandits to Sensor Management
• Active Learning and Sampling
• Plan-In-Advance Active Learning 0f Classifiers
• Application of Sensor Scheduling Concepts to Radar
• Defense Applications
• Appendices.