Target tracking based on the extended H-infinity filter in wireless sensor networks

In this paper, we propose a new target tracking approach for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) by using the extended H-infinity filter. First, the extended H-infinity filter for nonlinear discrete-time systems is deduced through the Krein space analysis scheme. Then, the proposed extended H-infinity filtering algorithm is applied to target tracking in wireless sensor networks. Finally, experiments are conducted through a small wireless sensor network test-bed. Both experimental and simulation results illustrate that the extended H-infinity filtering algorithm is more accurate to track a moving target in wireless sensor networks than using the extended Kalman filter in the case of having no knowledge of the statistics of the environment and the target to be tracked. © 2011 South China University of Technology, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.