Airborne multisensor management for multitarget tracking

This paper proposed a framework for airborne multisensor management for multitarget tracking, considering each of multiple unmanned aircraft as a sensor. The purpose of the algorithm is to quantify the performance of the multitarget tracking and to determine the time and location of the sensor deployment. Utilizing the posterior Cramer-Rao lower bound, the inverse of the Fisher information matrix, the performance metric and the optimization technique for the airborne sensor system are newly defined. An example for implementing the proposed multisensor management algorithm is given with simulation results.