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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2016

Information Fusion of Conflicting Input Data.

Uwe Mönks, Helene Dörksen, Volker Lohweg, Michael Hübner

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Uwe MönksinIT-Institute Industrial IT, Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences, Lemgo 32657, Germany. uwe.moenks@hs-owl.de.
Helene DörkseninIT-Institute Industrial IT, Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences, Lemgo 32657, Germany. helene.doerksen@hs-owl.de.
Volker LohweginIT-Institute Industrial IT, Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences, Lemgo 32657, Germany. volker.lohweg@hs-owl.de.
Michael HübnerESIT-Embedded Systems for Information Technology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum 44801, Germany. michael.huebner@ruhr-uni-bochum.de.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sensors, and also actuators or external sources such as databases, serve as data sources in order to realise condition monitoring of industrial applications or the acquisition of characteristic parameters like production speed or reject rate. Modern facilities create such a large amount of complex data that a machine operator is unable to comprehend and process the information contained in the data. Thus, information fusion mechanisms gain increasing importance. Besides the management of large amounts of data, further challenges towards the fusion algorithms arise from epistemic uncertainties (incomplete knowledge) in the input signals as well as conflicts between them. These aspects must be considered during information processing to obtain reliable results, which are in accordance with the real world. The analysis of the scientific state of the art shows that current solutions fulfil said requirements at most only partly. This article proposes the multilayered information fusion system MACRO (multilayer attribute-based conflict-reducing observation) employing the

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conflictDempster-Shafer theoryevidence theoryfuzzy set theoryinformation fusionpossibility theorysensor fusion

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PMID27801874
PMCPMC5134457

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