Path Detection for A Moving Target in Wireless Sensor Network Based on Clifford Algebra

Abstract

Recently, several applications are mainly depending on wireless sensor networks. So it became more important research side and this resulted in large number of studies to wireless sensor networks from different points of view. Most of researches done about wireless sensor networks are to obtain better target coverage in order to reduce energy and cost of the network. Also detection of targets in three-dimension space is a main research side due to its valuable and redundant usage in many applications. In this paper, three dimensional rotation matrix based on Clifford algebra is introduced that will provide simple and easy calculations when representing a detected moving target formulation. Then, a method for detecting the path for a moving target in a wireless sensor network is proposed by solving the moving target formulation and collecting the information about target states such as velocity and direction from each node in the network. Also, the information from each node is used to inform the neighbour node to start tracking target and estimate target path. The calculations of detecting target path using rotation operator and Clifford algebra are more simple.