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Nowadays, the prevalence of sensor networks has enabled tracking of the states of dynamic objects for a wide spectrum of applications from autonomous driving to environmental monitoring and urban planning. However, tracking real-world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Rui Yu , Zhenyuan Yuan , Minghui Zhu , Zihan Zhou

We consider the problem of decentralized deep learning where multiple agents collaborate to learn from a distributed dataset. While there exist several decentralized deep learning approaches, the majority consider a central parameter-server…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Aditya Balu , Zhanhong Jiang , Sin Yong Tan , Chinmay Hedge , Young M Lee , Soumik Sarkar

Decentralized visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a powerful tool for multi-robot applications in environments where absolute positioning systems are not available. Being visual, it relies on cameras, cheap, lightweight…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Titus Cieslewski , Siddharth Choudhary , Davide Scaramuzza

In this paper, we present a distributed estimation setup where local agents estimate their states from relative measurements received from their neighbours. In the case of heterogeneous multi-agent systems, where only relative measurements…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Jingbo Wu , Valery Ugrinovskii , Frank Allgöwer

This paper investigates sensor scheduling for state estimation of complex networks over shared transmission channels. For a complex network of dynamical systems, referred to as nodes, a sensor network is adopted to measure and estimate the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-12 Peihu Duan , Lidong He , Lingying Huang , Guanrong Chen , Ling Shi

This paper develops a decentralized approach to mobile sensor coverage by a multi-robot system. We consider a scenario where a team of robots with limited sensing range must position itself to effectively detect events of interest in a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Walker Gosrich , Siddharth Mayya , Rebecca Li , James Paulos , Mark Yim , Alejandro Ribeiro , Vijay Kumar

The problem of communicating sensor measurements over shared networks is prevalent in many modern large-scale distributed systems such as cyber-physical systems, wireless sensor networks, and the internet of things. Due to bandwidth…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Marcos M. Vasconcelos

Data collecting agents in large networks, such as the electric power system, need to share information (measurements) for estimating the system state in a distributed manner. However, privacy concerns may limit or prevent this exchange…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-28 E. Veronica Belmega , Lalitha Sankar , H. Vincent Poor

One of the most essential prerequisites behind a successful task execution of a team of agents is to accurately estimate and track their poses. We consider a cooperative multi-agent positioning problem where each agent performs single-agent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Milutin Pajovic , Vikrant Shah , Philip V. Orlik

In this paper it is established that any jointly controllable, jointly observable, multi-channel, discrete or continuous time linear system with a strongly connected neighbor (communication) graph can be exponentially stabilized with any…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-02 Fengjiao Liu , Lili Wang , Daniel Fullmer , A. Stephen Morse

In this paper, we study the distributed adaptive estimation problem of continuous-time stochastic dynamic systems over sensor networks where each agent can only communicate with its local neighbors. A distributed least squares (LS)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-07 Xinghua Zhu , Zhixin Liu

A general decentralized computational framework for set-valued state estimation and prediction for the class of systems that accept a hybrid state machine representation is considered in this article. The decentralized scheme consists of a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-02-28 Naim Bajcinca , Yashar Kouhi , Vladislav Nenchev , Jörg Raisch

This paper proposes a novel consensus-based distributed filter over directed graphs under the collectively observability condition. The distributed filter is designed using an augmented leader-following information fusion strategy, and the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Xiaoxu Lyu , Guanghui Wen , Yuezu Lv , Zhisheng Duan , Ling Shi

Effective multi-robot teams require the ability to move to goals in complex environments in order to address real-world applications such as search and rescue. Multi-robot teams should be able to operate in a completely decentralized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Brian Reily , Terran Mott , Hao Zhang

This article is concerned with decentralized sequential testing of multiple hypotheses. In a sensor network system with limited local memory, raw observations are observed at the local sensors, and quantized into binary sensor messages that…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-04-12 Yan Wang , Yajun Mei

We propose a decentralized learning algorithm over a general social network. The algorithm leaves the training data distributed on the mobile devices while utilizing a peer to peer model aggregation method. The proposed algorithm allows…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-28 Anusha Lalitha , Xinghan Wang , Osman Kilinc , Yongxi Lu , Tara Javidi , Farinaz Koushanfar

This paper introduces a novel decentralized implementation of a continuification-based strategy to control the density of large-scale multi-agent systems on the unit circle. While continuification methods effectively address micro-to-macro…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-27 Beniamino Di Lorenzo , Gian Carlo Maffettone , Mario di Bernardo

In this paper, we address the problem of controlling a network of mobile sensors so that a set of hidden states are estimated up to a user-specified accuracy. The sensors take measurements and fuse them online using an Information Consensus…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Charles Freundlich , Soomin Lee , Michael M. Zavlanos

Tracking multiple targets in dynamic environments using distributed sensor networks is a challenging problem for situational awareness in connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs). In such scenarios, the network of mobile sensors must coordinate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-05 Aidan Blair , Amirali Khodadadian Gostar , Alireza Bab-Hadiashar , Xiaodong Li , Reza Hoseinnezhad

Distributed quantum sensing leverages quantum correlations among multiple sensors to enhance the precision of parameter estimation beyond classical limits. Most existing approaches target phase estimation and rely on a shared phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Piotr T. Grochowski , Matteo Fadel , Radim Filip