Compartmentalized Covariance Intersection: A Novel Filter Architecture for Distributed Localization

Adam Wiktor,Stephen Rock,Adam Wiktor,Stephen Rock

This paper introduces the Compartmentalized Covariance Intersection (CCI) algorithm, a consistent technique to fuse measurements in cooperative navigation networks. The algorithm reduces the excess conservatism of standard Covariance Intersection (CI) by assuming that correlation is only present within each measurement stream and not across the different sources. This assumption allows the sources...