Battlefield Sensor Fusion

Welcome

Tennessee State University's Center of Excellence in Intelligent Sensor Fusion is a multi-disciplinary research initiative established with the support of the U.S. Department of Defense through Army Research Office.

The Center research mission is to develop decentralized and scalable sensor data and information fusion technologies applicable to large array of distributed multiple modality smart sensors scattered randomly in the battlefield environment.  The program involves multi-disciplinary research faculty and students from two participating universities.

With the emergence of: new micro-scale sensor technology, deployment of large number of inexpensive, small-scale,    self-organizing, fault tolerant, multi-modal network of sensors scattered over a large terrain is achievable.  Such sensor networks can significantly improve military battlefield:

  • command,
  • control,
  • communications,
  • computing,
  • intelligence,
  • surveillance,
  • reconnaissance, and
  • targeting systems.

In the rapidly changing battlefields, interoperatability of distributed sensory system is not only vital to allow reliable assessment of the correct terrain situation critical for strategic decision-making, but also when counteraction is warranted by the actions of the adversary.

Our Center's vision is to exploit potentials of data fusion techniques for advancement of fundamental understanding of sensor networks scalability, distributed sensing behaviors, fault tolerance schemes, hierarchical communication protocols, sensor network informatics, and power efficient fusion techniques in highly uncertain environment.  In particular, our research is focused on  severely constrained sensor with limited functionality in energy, sensing, computation power, and communication capabilities.

 

 

 

 






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