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We revisit the linear search problem where a robot, initially placed at the origin on an infinite line, tries to locate a stationary target placed at an unknown position on the line. Unlike previous studies, in which the robot travels along…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Jurek Czyzowicz , Evangelos Kranakis , Danny Krizanc , Lata Narayanan , Jaroslav Opatrny , Sunil Shende

We consider the problem of estimating the locations of a set of points in a k-dimensional euclidean space given a subset of the pairwise distance measurements between the points. We focus on the case when some fraction of these measurements…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Venkatesan Ekambaram , Giulia Fanti , Kannan Ramchandran

The problem of planning sensing trajectories for a mobile robot to collect observations of a target and predict its future trajectory is known as active target tracking. Enabled by probabilistic motion models, one may solve this problem by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Jennifer Wakulicz , Ki Myung Brian Lee , Teresa Vidal-Calleja , Robert Fitch

Fine localization in autonomous driving platforms is a task of broad interest, receiving much attention in recent years. Some localization algorithms use the Euclidean distance as a similarity measure between the local image acquired by a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-12 Samuel Todd Flanagan , Drupad K. Khublani , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Siddharth Agarwal , Ankit Vora

In this work a robust and scalable cooperative multi-agent searching and tracking framework is proposed. Specifically, we study the problem of cooperative searching and tracking of multiple moving targets by a group of autonomous mobile…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Savvas Papaioannou , Panayiotis Kolios , Theocharis Theocharides , Christos G. Panayiotou , Marios M. Polycarpou

In this paper we deal with a practical problem that arises in military mission planning. The problem is to plan a path for one, or more, agents to reach a target without being detected by enemy sensors. Agents are not passive, rather they…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-01 J. E. Beasley

Motivated by the need to secure cyber-physical systems against attacks, we consider the problem of estimating the state of a noisy linear dynamical system when a subset of sensors is arbitrarily corrupted by an adversary. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-24 Shaunak Mishra , Yasser Shoukry , Nikhil Karamchandani , Suhas Diggavi , Paulo Tabuada

This paper studies a leader-follower formation tracking problem where the leaders are moving at the same unknown bounded velocity. A distance-based control law is proposed for follower agents to maintain the desired distances in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Dung Van Vu , Minh Hoang Trinh , Hyo-Sung Ahn

We consider the problem of detecting a small subset of defective items from a large set via non-adaptive "random pooling" group tests. We consider both the case when the measurements are noiseless, and the case when the measurements are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-25 Chun Lam Chan , Pak Hou Che , Sidharth Jaggi , Venkatesh Saligrama

Simultaneous localization and tracking (SLAT) in sensor networks aims to determine the positions of sensor nodes and a moving target in a network, given incomplete and inaccurate range measurements between the target and each of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-14 Pınar Oğuz-Ekim , João Gomes , João Xavier , Paulo Oliveira

We study the problem of distributed coverage control in a network of mobile agents arranged on a line. The goal is to design distributed dynamics for the agents to achieve optimal coverage positions with respect to a scalar density field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-25 P. Davison , N. E. Leonard , A. Olshevsky , M. Schwemmer

Surveillance performance is studied for a wireless eavesdropping system, where a full-duplex legitimate monitor eavesdrops a suspicious link efficiently with the artificial noise (AN) assistance. Different from the existing work in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Zihao Cheng , Jiangbo Si , Zan Li , Danyang Wang , Naofal Al-Dhahir

The ability of a sensor node to determine its physical location within a network (Localization) is of fundamental importance in sensor networks. Interpretating data from sensors will not be possible unless the context of the data is known;…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Sameer Tilak , Vinay Kolar , Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh , Kyoung-Don Kang

Pseudo-label learning methods have been widely applied in weakly-supervised temporal action localization. Existing works directly utilize weakly-supervised base model to generate instance-level pseudo-labels for training the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Quan Zhang , Yuxin Qi , Xi Tang , Rui Yuan , Xi Lin , Ke Zhang , Chun Yuan

The effectiveness of quantum illumination (QI) of a lossy target is investigated in a realistic setting in which the signal sequentially interacts with a noisy environment and the target. The target is considered at a temperature distinct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Shilpi Srivastava , Shubhrangshu Dasgupta

Many modern wireless devices with accurate positioning needs also have access to vision sensors, such as a camera, radar, and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR). In scenarios where wireless-based positioning is either inaccurate or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Haozhou Hu , Harpreet S. Dhillon , R. Michael Buehrer

Characterized by a cross-disciplinary nature, the bearing-based target localization task involves estimating the position of an entity of interest by a group of agents capable of collecting noisy bearing measurements. In this work, this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-20 Beniamino Pozzan , Giulia Michieletto , Mehran Mesbahi , Angelo Cenedese

Economic model predictive control and tracking model predictive control are two popular advanced process control strategies used in various of fields. Nevertheless, which one should be chosen to achieve better performance in the presence of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-07 Jiangbang Liu , Song Bo , Benjamin Decardi-Nelson , Jinfeng Liu , Jingtao Hu , Tao Zou

Trajectory estimation involves determining the trajectory of a mobile robot by combining prior knowledge about its dynamic model with noisy observations of its state obtained using sensors. The accuracy of such a procedure is dictated by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Abhishek Goudar , Angela P. Schoellig

Wireless Sensor Network holds a pivotal position and gained a lot of attention from researchers in recent years. Sensor nodes have been used in vast applications such as environment monitoring, security purpose applications, and target…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Muneeb A. Khan , Muazzam A. Khan , Maha Driss , Wadii Boulila , Jawad Ahmad