MICRO AND NANO MULTISENSOR DATA FUSION FOR NAVIGATION APPLICATIONS: A REVIEW

11th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM2011, www.sgem.org, SGEM2011 Conference Proceedings/ ISSN 1314-2704, June 20-25, 2011, Vol. 2, 717-724 pp

ABSTRACT

In this paper we emphasize the main methods of data fusion with potential applications
in navigation systems with micro and nano sensors. In the introduction are outlined
some basic features of data fusion process. Further the work is structured as it follows:
2) Architectures for sensor data fusion, 3) Models for sensor data fusion; 4) Sensor data
fusion methods, 5) Sensor management. At the point 2 of this paper are presented
information regarding different types of data fusion architectures, and also the criteria
used for classifying these architectures. In section 3 are reviewed, analyzed and
compared several models of data fusion, while section 4 analyzed the unified estimation
fusion methods. In section 5 was made a study in terms of sensor management and
information exchange between them in the idea of increasing functionality and also
increasing the degrees of autonomy, reconfiguration and redundancy for system based
on sensor networks.

Keywords: miniature sensors, data fusion, navigation