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Fusing sensor information using fuzzy measures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

Hans Odeberg
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Measurement Technology, Linkoping Institute of Technology, S–581 83 Linköping (Sweden)

Summary

In a measurement system with intelligent, distributed sensor processes, complementary observations from different sensor need be combined with each other. This paper describes a method based on fuzzy measures, in which a global ‘fusion algorithm’ questions the sensors as to their support and opinion of a hypothesis. The sensor opinions are clustered into groups based on their support of each others' opinions, and fused using a new fuzzy operator.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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