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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2022
Applicant:
Raytheon Company, Arlington, VA (US);
Inventors:
Amit Surana, Newington, CT (US);
Yiqing Lin, Montgomery, NJ (US);
Tuhin Sahai, San Francisco, CA (US);
Laura A. Gordon, Aurora, CO (US);
David C. Fisher, Evergreen, CO (US);
Assignee:
Raytheon Company, Arlington, VA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 19/02 (2010.01); G01S 19/09 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 19/02 (2013.01); G01S 19/09 (2013.01);
Abstract
An auction-based distributed method for cooperative multi-target tracking by a plurality of satellites, includes distributed target tracking error and utilization computation as an auction bid across the satellite and uses message-passing to find best bid, handles different tracking requirements via definition of bids and modification of task definition used during the bidding process, and selected a list of auction winners to track the target.