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By studying the partially observable Markov decision process and the posterior Cramer\u2013Rao lower bound, a multi-sensor cooperative scheduling model and optimization objective function were established. The improvement of the particle filter algorithm by the beetle swarm optimization algorithm was studied to improve the tracking accuracy of the particle filter. Finally, the improved elephant herding optimization algorithm was used as the solution algorithm of the scheduling scheme, which further improved the algorithm performance of the solution model. 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