Quantum Mechanical Approach to Modelling Reliability of Sensor Reports
This work addresses reliability modeling for sensor data fusion in applications such as defense, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing evidence theory methods.
The paper tackles the problem of modeling sensor report reliability in multi-sensor data fusion by proposing a quantum mechanical approach based on sensor properties, which modifies evidence combination to address uncertainty and interference in practical scenarios like battlefields.
Dempster-Shafer evidence theory is wildly applied in multi-sensor data fusion. However, lots of uncertainty and interference exist in practical situation, especially in the battle field. It is still an open issue to model the reliability of sensor reports. Many methods are proposed based on the relationship among collected data. In this letter, we proposed a quantum mechanical approach to evaluate the reliability of sensor reports, which is based on the properties of a sensor itself. The proposed method is used to modify the combining of evidences.