Consensus-Based Distributed Fusion for Networked Antiaircraft Fire Control System

Renovation of networked campaign modality results in the development of networked antiaircraft fire control system. The traditional network antiaircraft fire control system usually needs a fusion center for target tracking and decision, which would not be suitable for system expansion and may easily suffer from packet loss. Inspired by applications of multi-agent consensus theories, we propose a novel framework of distributed air defense fire control system. Track fusion based on Consensus-Kalman filter technique is put forward, and the filter structure is designed for open architecture and flexibility. The packet loss between the sub-systems is also considered. The proposed structure can be scalable and robust for applications. The illustrative numerical example is provided to demonstrate the usefulness and flexibility of the proposed approach.