Patent ID: 6757668
Filing Date: 2004-06-29
Classification: G05B,G06K

Abstract:
An computer implemented information fusion configuration used for generating an output state of a system, the information fusion configuration comprising:a plurality of sensors associated with the system, each sensor related to at least one class of the system and sensing data related to the at least one class; a plurality of classification tools each designed to receive selected outputs from the sensors, and to generate classification outputs representing a state of at least one class of the system; and an information fusion tool configured to receive the outputs of the classification tools as inputs, and having a hierarchical architecture which manipulates the inputs to generate an output of aggregated fused information for a particular class of the system and wherein the information fusion tool uses a priori information concerning the classification tools, wherein a source of the priori information is from at least one of confusion matrices developed for individual classification tools, a relevance matrix corresponding to the classification tools supplying information to the fusion tool and a reliability matrix corresponding to the classification tools supplying information to the fusion tool.