A Data Fusion Multi-Agent System of Sensor Network based on Data Fields

Sensor network is the key for the network centric warfare. With the goal of providing mobile commanders with the improved situational awareness that result from a shared common operational picture, multi-sensor data fusion technologies of the battlefield become a crucial issue. In this paper, a cooperating multi-agent architecture sentinel-agent model is introduced, which provides a data fusion framework with autonomous asynchronous mobile software agents to migrate among computing nodes in a network and exploit the resources at those nodes. Then a data fusion model based on data field is introduced and analysed in detail.