Random weighting estimation for fusion of multi-dimensional position data

Abstract This paper adopts the concept of random weighting estimation to multi-sensor data fusion. It presents a new random weighting estimation methodology for optimal fusion of multi-dimensional position data. A multi-sensor observation model is constructed for multi-dimensional position. Based on this observation model, a random weighting estimation algorithm is developed to estimate position data from a single sensor. Using the random weighting estimations from each single sensor, an optimization theory is established for optimal fusion of multi-sensor position data. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed methodology can effectively fuse multi-sensor dimensional position data, and the fusion accuracy is much higher than that of the Kalman fusion method.