In exteroceptive automotive sensor fusion, sensor data are usually only available as processed, tracked object data and not as raw sensor data. Applying a Kalman filter to such data leads to additional delays and generally underestimates the fused objects' covariance due to temporal correlations of individual sensor data as well as inter-sensor correlations. We compare the performance of a standard asynchronous Kalman filter applied to tracked sensor data to several algorithms for the track-to-track fusion of sensor objects of unknown correlation, namely covariance union, covariance intersection, and use of cross-covariance. For our simulation setup, covariance intersection and use of cross-covariance turn out to yield significantly lower errors than a Kalman filter at a comparable computational load.


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