Review Article

A Survey on Multisensor Fusion and Consensus Filtering for Sensor Networks

Table 1

Multisensor fusion rules.

Types of estimation errors Fusion rulesComments

No correlations (independent)ā€‰
Optimal

Known correlations (correlated)ā€‰
Optimal

Unknown correlations (unknown correlated)ā€‰
Suboptimal

, , , and . Covariance intersection rule, where , , and .