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The multisensor fusion estimation has attracted considerable research interest during the past decades and has found applications in a variety of areas, such as target tracking and localization, guidance and navigation, and fault detection [1, 2, 5, 17]. Multisensor fusion is used because of potentially improved estimation accuracy [2, 71] and enhanced reliability and robustness against sensor failures. Many useful fusion estimation methods have been presented in the literature (see, e.g., [8, 12, 14, 20, 25, 36, 41, 46, 58, 69, 70, 75, 77, 80, 86] and the references therein). Recently, the rapid developments of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have greatly widen applications of the multisensor fusion estimation theory, which in turn, helps the WSNs monitor the environment more accurately and efficiently. Therefore, the WSN-based multisensor fusion estimation and its applications have attracted considerable research interest during the past decade [22, 39, 57, 83].

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