National Defense Science and Technology Excellence Youth Talent Fund;Major Reearch Program Natioanl Natural Science Foundation of China (No.91538201);National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.61671463, No.61571454);Taishan Scholars Special Funding for Construction Projects (No.ts201712072);Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (No.ZR2017BG014)
A novel combination rule for evidence is proposed to deal with the "veto problem" in Dempster rule and the subjectively assigning the conflict information in the existing modified methods. This novel method combines the defined complementary evidence directly instead of using the pure Dempster multiplicative strategy
which successfully solves the "veto problem". It transfers the conflict to the evidence weight which can be processed directly with the novel combination rule instead of assigning the conflict subjectively. It is regarded as a generalized additive aggregation operator
which not only satisfies the commutative law and associative law
but also can combine the single focus elements directly and compound focus elements based on TBM. With the help of a multi-sensor fusion recognition example
the superiority of the proposed combination rule is illustrated and compared in detail.