THE TARGET TRACKING IN MOBILE SENSOR NETWORKS

Tracking mobile targets using wireless sensor networks is a potential surveillance application of practical importance suitable for military as well as civilian fields. It can be used for guiding robots in hard to reach areas e.g. nuclear power plants etc. The capabilities of a simple target tracking solution can be enhanced by providing guidance information for a friendly object to reach the manoeuvring adversary target. This paper presents a practical architecture for target tracking using wireless sensor network by providing solutions to key components like node localization, time synchronization, target detection and tracking. The methodology presented here gives a solution to compute the state parameters of the adversary target, tracks it and associate the same with the location in the periphery of wireless sen sor networks. The simulation is done using OMNeT++ under Castalia framework.