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With the advancement of IoT technologies and the rapid expansion of cyber-physical systems, there is increasing interest in distributed state estimation, where multiple sensors collaboratively monitor large-scale dynamic systems. Compared…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-23 Ruixuan Zhao , Guitao Yang , James Fleming , Boli Chen

Timeout control is a simple mechanism used when direct feedback is either impossible, unreliable, or too costly, as is often the case in distributed systems. Its effectiveness is determined by a timeout threshold parameter and our goal is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Ali Kebarighotbi , Christos G. Cassandras

Recent advances in electronics are enabling substantial processing to be performed at each node (robots, sensors) of a networked system. Local processing enables data compression and may mitigate measurement noise, but it is still slower…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Luca Ballotta , Luca Schenato , Luca Carlone

This paper considers the problem of distributed state estimation using multi-robot systems. The robots have limited communication capabilities and, therefore, communicate their measurements intermittently only when they are physically close…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Reza Khodayi-mehr , Yiannis Kantaros , Michael M. Zavlanos

Delay tomography has so far burdened source and receiver measurement nodes in a network with two requirements such as path establishment and clock synchronization between them. In this letter, we focus on the clock synchronization problem…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-02-24 Kensuke Nakanishi , Shinsuke Hara , Takahiro Matsuda , Kenichi Takizawa , Fumie Ono , Ryu Miura

We study the problem of monitoring distributed systems where computers communicate using message passing and share an almost synchronized clock. This is a realistic scenario for networks where the speed of the monitoring is sufficiently…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Luis Miguel Danielsson , César Sánchez

We investigate the scenario where a perturbed nonlinear system transmits its output measurements to a remote observer via a packet-based communication network. The sensors are grouped into N nodes and each of these nodes decides when its…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-10 E. Petri , R. Postoyan , D. Astolfi , D. Nešić , W. P. M. H. Heemels

An event-based state estimation approach for reducing communication in a networked control system is proposed. Multiple distributed sensor agents observe a dynamic process and sporadically transmit their measurements to estimator agents…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-27 Sebastian Trimpe

We consider the problem of finding optimal time-periodic sensor schedules for estimating the state of discrete-time dynamical systems. We assume that {multiple} sensors have been deployed and that the sensors are subject to resource…

Applications · Statistics 2016-11-17 Sijia Liu , Makan Fardad , Engin Masazade , Pramod K. Varshney

In this paper a new distributed asynchronous algorithm is proposed for time synchronization in networks with random communication delays, measurement noise and communication dropouts. Three different types of the drift correction algorithm…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Milos S. Stankovic , Srdjan S. Stankovic , Karl Henrik Johansson

This letter proposes a novel distributed compressed estimation scheme for sparse signals and systems based on compressive sensing techniques. The proposed scheme consists of compression and decompression modules inspired by compressive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-05 S. Xu , R. C. de Lamare , H. V. Poor

In the present work, an embedded PI controller is designed for speed regulation of DC servomotor over a wireless network. The embedded controller integrates PI controller with a proposed time-delay estimator and an adaptive digital Smith…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-03 Santosh Mohan Rajkumar , Sayan Chakraborty , Rajeeb Dey , Dipankar Deb

In this work, we consider a binary sequential hypothesis testing problem with distributed and asynchronous measurements. The aim is to analyze the effect of sampling times of jointly $\textit{wide-sense stationary}$ (WSS) Gaussian…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-12 Nandan Sriranga , Saikiran Bulusu , Baocheng Geng , Pramod K. Varshney

Dissipative engineering constitutes a framework within which quantum information processing protocols are powered by system-environment interaction rather than by unitary dynamics alone. This framework embraces noise as a resource, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 M. J. Kastoryano , M. M. Wolf , J. Eisert

An event-based state estimation approach for reducing communication in a networked control system is proposed. Multiple distributed sensor-actuator-agents observe a dynamic process and sporadically exchange their measurements and inputs…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-01-30 Sebastian Trimpe

Large-scale distributed computing systems often contain thousands of distributed nodes (machines). Monitoring the conditions of these nodes is important for system management purposes, which, however, can be extremely resource demanding as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Tiffany Tuor , Shiqiang Wang , Kin K. Leung , Bong Jun Ko

The stochastic nature of time delays and sampling intervals in Networked Control Systems poses significant challenges for controller synthesis and analysis, often leading to conservative designs and degraded performance. This work presents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Matheus Wagner , Marcelo M. Morato , Antônio Augusto Fröhlich , Julio E. Normey-Rico

Efficient simulation of the timing jitter in passively mode-locking lasers is key to their numerical investigation and optimization. We introduce a method based on the pulse-period fluctuation auto-correlation function and compare it…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-22 Stefan Meinecke , Kathy Lüdge

A distributed adaptive algorithm to estimate a time-varying signal, measured by a wireless sensor network, is designed and analyzed. One of the major features of the algorithm is that no central coordination among the nodes needs to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2008-10-22 Carlo Fischione , Alberto Speranzon , Karl H. Johansson , Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

The problem of multi-hypothesis testing with controlled sensing of observations is considered. The distribution of observations collected under each control is assumed to follow a single-parameter exponential family distribution. The goal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Aditya Deshmukh , Srikrishna Bhashyam , Venugopal V. Veeravalli