Stealthy Optimal Range-Sensor Placement for Target Localization

TL;DR

This paper addresses the challenge of optimally placing range sensors to localize targets effectively while maintaining stealth, providing analytical solutions for 2D scenarios with multiple sensors and two targets.

Contribution

It introduces a novel analytical approach to the stealthy sensor placement problem in 2D for multiple sensors targeting two objects.

Findings

Analytical solutions for 2D sensor placement with two targets.

Balance between localization accuracy and stealthiness.

Applicable to scenarios with any number of sensors.

Abstract

We study a stealthy range-sensor placement problem where a set of range sensors are to be placed with respect to targets to effectively localize them while maintaining a degree of stealthiness from the targets. This is an open and challenging problem since two competing objectives must be balanced: (a) optimally placing the sensors to maximize their ability to localize the targets and (b) minimizing the information the targets gather regarding the sensors. We provide analytical solutions in 2D for the case of any number of sensors that localize two targets.