A novel method of underwater multitarget tracking sequencing and decision (UMTSD) based on analytic network process (ANP) model

The present methods of UMTSD, to our knowledge, all assume factors to be uncorrelated; actually they are in a complex and interdependent relationship. Our novel UMTSD method does not make such an assumption. Section 1 of the full paper presents the decision-making index set of target threat level, reality, voyage loss and observation attitude. Section 2 discusses our UMTSD method based on the ANP model. Subsection 2.2 uses Fig.3 to define the procedure of the ANP-based decision-making. Using the index set, subsection 2.3 constructs the supermatrix based on the ANP model to calculate the weighted supermatrix and obtain the limit supermatrix. Section 3 gives an application example of ANP decision-making for four-target tracking. Table 3 gives the weighted supermatrix; Table 4 presents the limit supermatrix. With Table 4, subsection 3.3 analyzes the results of the ANP decision-making. The analysis results, given in Table 5, show preliminarily that the ANP decision-making is feasible.