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Sensor registration by global optimization procedures

US7974816B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignees

AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. · US
Raytheon Company · US
University of Florida Research Foundation, INC. · US

Inventors

Mauricio Guilherme de Carvalho Resende · Holmdel, US
Michael J. Hirsch · Leipzig, DE
Panagote Miltiades Pardalos · Gainesville, US

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 2, 2009
Grant date	Jul 5, 2011
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 2, 2029

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F7/544
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Disclosed are method and apparatus for registering multiple sensors collecting data from multiple objects. Sensor registration is decomposed into a two-step procedure. The first step corrects systematic errors. The second step assigns objects measured by one sensor to objects measured by a second sensor. Systematic errors are corrected by generating the global minimum of a systematic error function. One embodiment for generating the global minimum uses a Continuous Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure.

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