• DocumentCode
    74764
  • Title

    Counting Moving Bodies Using Sparse Sensor Beams

  • Author

    Erickson, Lawrence H. ; Jingjin Yu ; Yaonan Huang ; LaValle, Steven M.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
  • Volume
    10
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    Oct. 2013
  • Firstpage
    853
  • Lastpage
    861
  • Abstract
    This paper examines the problem of determining the distribution of a number of indistinguishable moving bodies located in regions separated by sensor beams that can detect whether a body moves across them. We characterize the conditions under which an exact distribution of bodies can be determined, and compute bounds on the expected number of sensor observations required to determine this exact distribution for a certain movement model of the bodies.
  • Keywords
    beams (structures); object tracking; sensors; bodies exact distribution; counting moving bodies; movement model; moving bodies number; sensor observations; sparse sensor beams; Filtering; Laser beams; Random variables; Robots; Sensors; Tracking; Upper bounds; Filtering; robots; tracking;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1545-5955
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TASE.2013.2260149
  • Filename
    6519270