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In this paper we study the problem of tracking an object moving randomly through a network of wireless sensors. Our objective is to devise strategies for scheduling the sensors to optimize the tradeoff between tracking performance and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2013-02-07 George K. Atia , Venugopal V. Veeravalli , Jason A. Fuemmeler

We present ConFusion, an open-source package for online sensor fusion for robotic applications. ConFusion is a modular framework for fusing measurements from many heterogeneous sensors within a moving horizon estimator. ConFusion offers…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Timothy Sandy , Lukas Stadelmann , Simon Kerscher , Jonas Buchli

This paper introduces algorithms for target tracking in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) that enable reduction of data communication cost. The objective of the considered problem is to control movement of a mobile sink which has to reach a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-09-24 Bartlomiej Placzek

In this paper, we investigate the problem of joint searching and tracking of multiple mobile targets by a group of mobile agents. The targets appear and disappear at random times inside a surveillance region and their positions are random…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-06 Savvas Papaioannou , Panayiotis Kolios , Theocharis Theocharides , Christos G. Panayiotou , Marios M. Polycarpou

In this paper, consensus-based Kalman filtering is extended to deal with the problem of joint target tracking and sensor self-localization in a distributed wireless sensor network. The average weighted Kullback-Leibler divergence, which is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Lin Gao , Giorgio Battistelli , Luigi Chisci , Ping Wei

In this paper, we propose a radio-based passive target tracking algorithm using multipath measurements, including the angle of arrival and relative distance. We focus on a scenario in which a mobile receiver continuously receives radio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Ke Xu , Rui Zhang , He , Chen

This paper proposes a novel model-based policy gradient algorithm for tracking dynamic targets using a mobile robot, equipped with an onboard sensor with limited field of view. The task is to obtain a continuous control policy for the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Pengzhi Yang , Shumon Koga , Arash Asgharivaskasi , Nikolay Atanasov

We present MOTLEE, a distributed mobile multi-object tracking algorithm that enables a team of robots to collaboratively track moving objects in the presence of localization error. Existing approaches to distributed tracking make limiting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Mason B. Peterson , Parker C. Lusk , Jonathan P. How

This paper introduces a statistical model and corresponding sequential Bayesian estimation method for terrain-based navigation using side-scan sonar (SSS) data. The presented approach relies on slant range measurements extracted from the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Ellen Davenport , Junsu Jang , Florian Meyer

Graphical models have been widely applied in solving distributed inference problems in sensor networks. In this paper, the problem of coordinating a network of sensors to train a unique ensemble estimator under communication constraints is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Haipeng Zheng , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni , H. Vincent Poor

This paper proposes a theoretical framework for estimating a target-object shape, the location of which is not given, by using mobile distance sensors the locations of which are also unknown. Typically, mobile sensors are mounted on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-07 Hiroshi Saito , Tatsuaki Kimura

A power constrained sensor network that consists of multiple sensor nodes and a fusion center (FC) is considered, where the goal is to estimate a random parameter of interest. In contrast to the distributed framework, the sensor nodes may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Swarnendu Kar , Pramod K. Varshney

The goal of multi-object tracking is to detect and track all objects in a scene while maintaining unique identifiers for each, by associating their bounding boxes across video frames. This association relies on matching motion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Momir Adžemović , Predrag Tadić , Andrija Petrović , Mladen Nikolić

Tracking multiple targets in dynamic environments using distributed sensor networks is a fundamental problem in statistical signal processing. In such scenarios, the network of mobile sensors must coordinate their actions to accurately…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Aidan Blair , Amirali Khodadadian Gostar , Alireza Bab-Hadiashar , Xiaodong Li , Reza Hoseinnezhad

We design a sequential Monte Carlo scheme for the dual purpose of Bayesian inference and model selection. We consider the application context of urban mobility, where several modalities of transport and different measurement devices can be…

Computation · Statistics 2016-11-29 Luca Martino , Jesse Read , Victor Elvira , Francisco Louzada

Automatic lane tracking involves estimating the underlying signal from a sequence of noisy signal observations. Many models and methods have been proposed for lane tracking, and dynamic targets tracking in general. The Kalman Filter is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-29 Jiawei Huang , Zhaowen Wang

Maneuvering target tracking will be an important service of future wireless networks to assist innovative applications such as intelligent transportation. However, tracking maneuvering targets by cellular networks faces many challenges. For…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Lei Xie , Hengtao He , Shenghui Song , Yonina C. Eldar

We propose a linear time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) measurement model to improve \textit{distributed} estimation performance for localized target tracking. We design distributed filters over sparse (possibly large-scale) communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-27 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Themistoklis Charalambous

Multi-target tracking is an important problem in civilian and military applications. This paper investigates multi-target tracking in distributed sensor networks. Data association, which arises particularly in multi-object scenarios, can be…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Mark R. Leonard , Abdelhak M. Zoubir

Nonlinear systems play a significant role in numerous scientific and engineering disciplines, and comprehending their behavior is crucial for the development of effective control and prediction strategies. This paper introduces a novel…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Kaushal Kumar