Multisensor Fusion: A Minimal Representation Framework (Series in Intelligent Control and Intelligent Automation, Volume 11)

The fusion of information from sensors with different physical characteristics, such as sight, touch, sound, etc., enhances the understanding of our surroundings and provides the basis for planning, decision-making, and control of autonomous and intelligent machines.The minimal representation approach to multisensor fusion is based on the use of an information measure as a universal yardstick for fusion. Using models of sensor uncertainty, the representation size guides the integration of widely varying types of data and maximizes the information contributed to a consistent interpretation.In this book, the general theory of minimal representation multisensor fusion is developed and applied in a series of experimental studies of sensor-based robot manipulation. A novel application of differential evolutionary computation is introduced to achieve practical and effective solutions to this difficult computational problem.Rajive Joshi is the author of 'Multisensor Fusion: A Minimal Representation Framework (Series in Intelligent Control and Intelligent Automation, Volume 11)' with ISBN 9789810238803 and ISBN 9810238800.