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Decentralized heading control is crucial for robotic network operations such as surveillance, exploration, and cooperative construction. However, few results consider decentralized heading control when the speed of heading adjustment is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-17 Timothy Anglea , Yongqiang Wang

In this study, we analyze the feasibility of distributed phase synchronization for coherent signal superposition, a fundamental enabler for paradigms such as coherent over-the-air computation (OAC), distributed beamforming, and interference…

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We propose a distributed algorithm for time synchronization in mobile wireless sensor networks. Each node can employ the algorithm to estimate the global time based on its local clock time. The problem of time synchronization is formulated…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Chenda Liao , Prabir Barooah

Improving the frequency precision by synchronizing a lattice of oscillators is studied in the phase reduction limit. For the most commonly studied case of purely dissipative phase coupling (the Kuramoto model) I confirm that the frequency…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-05-30 M. C. Cross

Pulse position modulation (PPM) is a popular signal modulation technique which creates M-ary data by means of the position of a pulse within a time interval. While PPM and its variations have great advantages in many contexts, this type of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-20 Yuichiro Fujiwara

Many network applications rely on the synchronization of coupled oscillators. For example, such synchronization can provide networked devices with a common temporal reference necessary for coordinating actions or decoding transmitted…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-27 Enrique Mallada , Randy A. Freeman , Ao Tang

Supporting increasingly higher rates in wireless networks requires highly accurate clock synchronization across the nodes. Motivated by this need, in this work we consider distributed clock synchronization for half-duplex (HD) TDMA wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-24 Itay Zino , Ron Dabora , H. Vincent Poor

A new simulation technique to obtain the synchronized steady-state solutions existing in coupled oscillator systems is presented. The technique departs from a semi-analytical formulation presented in previous works. It extends the model of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-22 Pedro Umpierrez , Victor Arana , Sergio Sancho

Operation of the array of coupled oscillators underlying the associative memory function is demonstrated for various interconnection schemes (cross-connect, star phase keying and star frequency keying) and various physical implementation of…

In the last decade, quantum computing has grown from novel physics experiments with a few qubits to commercial systems with hundreds of qubits. As quantum computers continue to grow in qubit count, the classical control systems must scale…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Yilun Xu , Abhi D. Rajagopala , Neelay Fruitwala , Gang Huang

Pulsar timing is a process of iteratively fitting pulse arrival times to constrain the spindown, astrometric, and possibly binary parameters of a pulsar, by enforcing integer numbers of pulsar rotations between the arrival times. Phase…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-13 Camryn Phillips , Scott Ransom

Understanding complex systems which exhibit desynchronization as an emergent property should have important implications, particularly in treating neurological disorders and designing efficient communication networks. Here were demonstrate…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-11-06 J. Borresen , D. Broomhead

The emergence of synchronization in a network of coupled oscillators is a fascinating topic in various scientific disciplines. A coupled oscillator network is characterized by a population of heterogeneous oscillators and a graph describing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Florian Dörfler , Michael Chertkov , Francesco Bullo

We consider models of identical pulse-coupled oscillators with global interactions. Previous work showed that under certain conditions such systems always end up in sync, but did not quantify how small clusters of synchronized oscillators…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-08-12 Kevin P. O'Keeffe , Pavel L. Krapivsky , Steven H. Strogatz

We investigate synchronization effects in quantum self-sustained oscillators theoretically using the micromaser as a model system. We use the probability distribution for the relative phase as a tool for quantifying the emergence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 C. Davis-Tilley , A. D. Armour

Asynchronous radio transceivers often lead to significant range and velocity ambiguity, posing challenges for precise positioning and velocity estimation in passive-sensing perceptive mobile networks (PMNs). To address this issue, carrier…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-24 Xiao-Yang Wang , Shaoshi Yang , Hou-Yu Zhai , Christos Masouros , J. Andrew Zhang

Phase, time, and frequency coordination are crucial for the coherent operation of distributed antenna arrays. This paper demonstrates a high accuracy decentralized time synchronization method for arrays with dynamic connectivity. To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-24 Naim Shandi , Jason M. Merlo , Jeffrey A. Nanzer

Synchronising ultra-short (~fs) and focussed laser pulses is a particularly difficult task, as this timescale lies orders of magnitude below the typical range of fast electronic devices. Here we present an optical technique that allows for…

Synchronization in networks of coupled oscillators is a widely studied topic with extensive scientific and engineering applications. In this paper, we study the frequency synchronization problem for networks of Kuramoto oscillators with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Saber Jafarpour , Elizabeth Y. Huang , Francesco Bullo

Clock synchronization procedures are mandatory in most physical experiments where event fragments are readout by spatially dislocated sensors and must be glued together to reconstruct key parameters (e.g. energy, interaction vertex etc.) of…