Introduction
In Chapt. 1 we introduced a formal framework in which we represented a multi-sensor data fusion system as a distributed system of autonomous modules. In this chapter we shall consider the architecture of a multi-sensor fusion system and, in particular, the architecture of the “data fusion block” (Sect. 1.4).
The modules in the data fusion block are commonly called fusion nodes. A communication system allows the transfer of information from one node to another node via an exchange of messages. An algorithmic description of the fusion block is provided by the software which is embedded in the nodes and which determines the behaviour of the block and coordinates its activities.
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Mitchell, H.B. (2012). Architecture. In: Data Fusion: Concepts and Ideas. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27222-6_3
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