학술논문

A Bayesian Network for the Classification of Human Motion as Observed by Distributed Radar
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electron. Syst. Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on. 58(6):5661-5674 Dec, 2022
Subject
Aerospace
Robotics and Control Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Radar
Sensors
Radar measurements
Doppler effect
Calibration
Radar tracking
Bayes methods
Cognitive radar
dynamic Bayesian network
micro-Doppler signature
radar network
radar resource management
radar target classification
Language
ISSN
0018-9251
1557-9603
2371-9877
Abstract
In this article, a statistical model of human motion as observed by a network of radar sensors is presented where knowledge on the position and heading of the target provides information on the observation conditions of each sensor node. Sequences of motions are estimated from measurements of instantaneous Doppler frequency, which captures informative micromotions exhibited by the human target. A closed-form Bayesian estimation algorithm is presented that jointly estimates the state of the target and its exhibited motion class which are described by a hidden Markov model. To correct errors in the estimated motion class distribution introduced by faulty modeling assumptions, calibration of the probability distribution and measurement likelihood is performed by isotonic regression. It is shown, by modeling sensor observation conditions and by isotonic calibration of the measurement likelihood that a cognitive resource management system is able to increase classification accuracy by 5${\%}$–10${\%}$ while utilizing sensor resources in accordance with defined mission objectives.