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In this paper, the decentralized estimation and linear quadratic (LQ) control problem for a leader-follower networked system (LFNS) is studied from the perspective of asymmetric information. Specifically, for a leader-follower network, the…

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We consider nonparametric or universal sequential hypothesis testing problem when the distribution under the null hypothesis is fully known but the alternate hypothesis corresponds to some other unknown distribution. These algorithms are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-30 Jithin K. Sreedharan , Vinod Sharma

We study the problem of online learning in competitive settings in the context of two-sided matching markets. In particular, one side of the market, the agents, must learn about their preferences over the other side, the firms, through…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Chinmay Maheshwari , Eric Mazumdar , Shankar Sastry

This paper considers the problem of completing assemblies of passive objects in nonconvex environments, cluttered with convex obstacles of unknown position, shape and size that satisfy a specific separation assumption. A differential drive…

We present a method for the unattended gray-box identification of sensor models commonly used by localization algorithms in the field of robotics. The objective is to determine the most likely sensor model for a time series of unknown…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Christian Brommer , Alessandro Fornasier , Jan Steinbrener , Stephan Weiss

We consider a multi-adversary version of the supervisory control problem for discrete-event systems, in which an adversary corrupts the observations available to the supervisor. The supervisor's goal is to enforce a specific language in…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Masashi Wakaiki , Paulo Tabuada , Joao P. Hespanha

In this paper, we investigate the diagnosability verification problem of partially-observed discrete-event systems (DES) subject to unreliable sensors. In this setting, upon the occurrence of each event, the sensor reading may be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-28 Weijie Dong , Xiang Yin , Shaoyuan Li

The problem of quickest change detection (QCD) in anonymous heterogeneous sensor networks is studied. There are $n$ heterogeneous sensors and a fusion center. The sensors are clustered into $K$ groups, and different groups follow different…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-23 Zhongchang Sun , Shaofeng Zou , Ruizhi Zhang , Qunwei Li

This paper addresses distributed parameter estimation in randomized one-hidden-layer neural networks. A group of agents sequentially receive measurements of an unknown parameter that is only partially observable to them. In this paper, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-23 Yinsong Wang , Shahin Shahrampour

Energy is often the most constrained resource for battery-powered wireless devices and the lion's share of energy is often spent on transceiver usage (sending/receiving packets), not on computation. In this paper we study the energy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Yi-Jun Chang , Tsvi Kopelowitz , Seth Pettie , Ruosong Wang , Wei Zhan

This paper addresses the problem of selecting the minimum number of dedicated sensors to achieve observability in the presence of unknown inputs, namely, the state and input observability, for linear time-invariant systems. We assume that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-20 Ranbo Cheng , Yuan Zhang , Amin MD Al , Yuanqing Xia

Sensor selection is an important design problem in large-scale sensor networks. Sensor selection can be interpreted as the problem of selecting the best subset of sensors that guarantees a certain estimation performance. We focus on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri , Geert Leus

Navigation is an essential ability for mobile agents to be completely autonomous and able to perform complex actions. However, the problem of navigation for agents with limited (or no) perception of the world, or devoid of a fully defined…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Danilo Perico , Paulo E. Santos , Reinaldo Bianchi

In this paper, we consider a general distributed estimation problem in relay-assisted sensor networks by taking into account time-varying asymmetric communications, fading channels and intermittent measurements. Motivated by centralized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Shanying Zhu , Yeng Chai Soh , Lihua Xie

A distributed pose localization framework based on direction measurements is proposed for a type of \textit{leader-follower} multi-agent systems in $\mathbb{R}^3$. The novelty of the proposed localization method lies in the elimination of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-11 Quoc Van Tran , Brian D. O. Anderson , Hyo-Sung Ahn

We consider a decentralized detection problem in a power-constrained wireless sensor networks (WSNs), in which a number of sensor nodes collaborate to detect the presence of a deterministic vector signal. The signal to be detected is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Jun Fang , Hongbin Li , Zhi Chen , Shaoqian Li

Limited information availability represents a fundamental challenge for control of multi-agent systems, since an agent often lacks sensing capabilities to measure certain states of its own and can exchange data only with its neighbors. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-13 Chuan Yan , Tao Yang , Huazhen Fang

Discourse Entity (DE) recognition is the task of identifying novel and known entities introduced within a text. While previous work has found that large language models have basic, if imperfect, DE recognition abilities (Schuster and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Xiaomeng Zhu , Robert Frank

We study agnostic active learning, where the goal is to learn a classifier in a pre-specified hypothesis class interactively with as few label queries as possible, while making no assumptions on the true function generating the labels. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Chicheng Zhang , Kamalika Chaudhuri

A crucial challenge in decentralized systems is state estimation in the presence of unknown inputs, particularly within heterogeneous sensor networks with dynamic topologies. While numerous consensus algorithms have been introduced, they…

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