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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Multitarget-Tracking Method Based on the Fusion of Millimeter-Wave Radar and LiDAR Sensor Information for Autonomous Vehicles.

Junren Shi, Yingjie Tang, Jun Gao, Changhao Piao, Zhongquan Wang

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Junren ShiSchool of Automation, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2803-9439
Yingjie TangSchool of Automation, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China.
Jun GaoSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China.
Changhao PiaoSchool of Automation, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China.
Zhongquan WangSchool of Automation, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China.

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Chongqing Postdoctoral Research Special Funding Project No.2022CQBSHTB2010school-level research projects 22XJZXZD05The National Key Research and Development Program of China No. 2022YFE0101000
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Abstract

Multitarget tracking based on multisensor fusion perception is one of the key technologies to realize the intelligent driving of automobiles and has become a research hotspot in the field of intelligent driving. However, most current autonomous-vehicle target-tracking methods based on the fusion of millimeter-wave radar and lidar information struggle to guarantee accuracy and reliability in the measured data, and cannot effectively solve the multitarget-tracking problem in complex scenes. In view of this, based on the distributed multisensor multitarget tracking (DMMT) system, this paper proposes a multitarget-tracking method for autonomous vehicles that comprehensively considers key technologies such as target tracking, sensor registration, track association, and data fusion based on millimeter-wave radar and lidar. First, a single-sensor multitarget-tracking method suitable for millimeter-wave radar and lidar is proposed to form the respective target tracks; second, the Kalman filter temporal registration method and the residual bias estimation spatial registration method are used to realize the temporal and spatial registration of millimeter-wave radar and lidar data; third, use the sequential m-best method based on the new target density to find the track the correlation of different sensors; and finally, the IF heterogeneous sensor fusion algorithm is used to optimally combine the track information provided by millimeter-wave radar and lidar, and finally form a stable and high-precision global track. In order to verify the proposed method, a multitarget-tracking simulation verification in a high-speed scene is carried out. The results show that the multitarget-tracking method proposed in this paper can realize the track tracking of multiple target vehicles in high-speed driving scenarios. Compared with a single-radar tracker, the position, velocity, size, and direction estimation errors of the track fusion tracker are reduced by 85.5%, 64.6%, 75.3%, and 9.5% respectively, and the average value of GOSPA indicators is reduced by 19.8%; more accurate target state information can be obtained than a single-radar tracker.

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autonomous vehiclesdata fusionlidarmillimeter-wave radarmultitarget tracking

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PMID37571706
PMCPMC10422552

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