Joachim Clemens, Robert Wille, Kerstin Schill,
"Towards the exploitation of formal methods for information fusion"
: Multisensor, Multisource Information Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications, 2016
Original Titel:
Towards the exploitation of formal methods for information fusion
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Buchtitel:
Multisensor, Multisource Information Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications
Original Kurzfassung:
When an autonomous system has to act in or interact with an environment, a suitable representation of it
is required. In the past decades, many different representation forms - especially spacial ones - have been
proposed and even more information fusion techniques were developed in order to build these representations
from multiple information sources. However, most of these algorithms do not exploit the full potential of the
available information. This is caused by the fact that they are not able to handle the full complexity of all possible
solutions compatible with the information and that they rely on restrictive assumptions (i.e. independencies)
in order to make the computation feasible. In this work, a new methodology is envisioned that utilizes formal
methods, in particular solvers for Pseudo-Boolean Optimization, to drop some of these assumptions. In order to
illustrate the ideas, information fusion based on belief functions and occupancy grid maps are considered. It is
shown that this approach allows for considering dependencies among multiple cells and thus significantly reduces
the uncertainty in the resulting representation.
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