15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
MULTI-CRITERIA FUSION FOR THE SELECTION OF ROADS OF AN ACCURATE MAP
M.E. El Najjar, Ph. Bonnifait
Heudiasyc UMR 6599.
Université de Technologie de Compiègne.
BP 20529, 60205 Compiègne Cedex, France.

To localize a vehicle on a map, a reliable road selection system is essential. For this purpose, the article presents a credebilist multi-criteria association algorithm that performs data association between the infrastructure information (the map) and the noisy measurements of two sensors (DGPS, Odometer). The algorithm takes into account the inaccuracy, the uncertainty and the redundancy of the data. The multi-criteria fusion process is realized using Belief Theory and Dempster-Shafer’s rule. A local strategy is developed to allot believes to two criteria. Experimental results show that the credibilist roads around an estimated position are well selected.
Keywords: Multi-Sensor Fusion, Uncertainty Modeling, Belief Theory, Map-Matching, Vehicle Localization

E-mail: maan@utc.fr
Session slot T-Tu-A05: Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles I/Area code 8f : Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles