A kind of communication-aware cooperative target tracking algorithm is proposed, which is based on information consensus under multi-Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) communication noise. Each UAV uses the extended Kalman filter to predict target movement and get an estimation of target state. The communication between UAVs is modeled as a signal to noise ratio model. During the information fusion process, communication noise is treated as a kind of observation noise, which makes UAVs reach a compromise between observation and communication. The classical consensus algorithm is used to deal with observed information, and consistency prediction of each UAV's target state is obtained. Each UAV calculates its control inputs using receding horizon optimization method based on consistency results. The simulation results show that introducing communication noise can make UAVs more focused on maintaining good communication with other UAVs in the process of target tracking, and improve the accuracy of cooperative target tracking.Keywords: communication noise model; information fusion; receding horizon optimization IntroductionIn recent years, UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) are playing an increasingly important role in collaborative investigation, battlefield combat, target status monitoring and other fields [1-3]. One of the most popular area is the multi-UAVs cooperative target tracking problem which can be abstracted as a mobile sensor network configuration problem [4][5][6][7][8]. The optimal sensor configuration can greatly reduce uncertainty of target state estimation. In the traditional target tracking problem, communication between sensors (or UAVs) usually uses the disc model [3], which means that the UAV has a clear communication radius. But the real communication between UAVs is very complicated. The disc model is only an ideal model, which cannot be a good simulation model of real communication. There have been some researches on target tracking problem with communication awareness [9-12], but the communication models ignore the impact of interference and attenuation. In reality, quality of communication is affected by many factors. There are many characteristics of the wireless channel of networked UAVs, such as signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) [9,11,12], signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) [13,14], and throughput gains [15][16][17][18][19]. SINR is widely used to describe the quality of a transmission in presence of interference. In order to improve the network performance using UAVs as flying base stations in a device-to-device communication network, SINR model was used in Reference [13] to quantify communication quality. In Reference [14], the authors studied a cellular-enabled UAV communication system consisting of one UAV and multiple GBSs (ground base stations). The quality of GBS-UAV link was determined by the received SNR. A similar problem was also studied in Reference [15], where an UAV was dispatched as a mobile AP (access point) in an UAV-enabled wireless powered communication network. The wo...

Traditional methods of coherent diffraction imaging using random masks result in an insufficient difference between the diffraction patterns, making it challenging to form a strong amplitude constraint, causing significant speckle noise in the measurement results. Hence, this study proposes an optimized mask design method combining random and Fresnel masks. Increasing the difference between diffraction intensity patterns enhances the amplitude constraint, suppresses the speckle noise effectively, and improves the phase recovery accuracy. The numerical distribution of the modulation masks is optimized by adjusting the combination ratio of the two mask modes. The simulation and physical experiments show that the reconstruction results of PSNR and SSIM using the proposed method are higher than those using random masks, and the speckle noises are effectively reduced.