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A discrete time stochastic feedback control system with a noisy communication channel between the sensor and the controller is considered. The sensor has limited memory. At each time, the sensor transmits encoded symbol over the channel and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Aditya Mahajan , Demosthenis Teneketzis

In this study, we consider a remote estimation system that estimates a time-varying target based on sensor data transmitted over wireless channel. Due to transmission errors, some data packets fail to reach the receiver. To mitigate this,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Sirin Chakraborty , Yin Sun

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, we aim to design an optimal sampler for a system in which fresh samples of a signal (source) are sent through an unreliable channel to a remote estimator, and acknowledgments are sent back over a feedback channel. Both the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Jiayu Pan , Ahmed M. Bedewy , Yin Sun , Ness B. Shroff

A parameter estimation problem is considered, in which dispersed sensors transmit to the statistician partial information regarding their observations. The sensors observe the paths of continuous semimartingales, whose drifts are linear…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-02-01 Georgios Fellouris

This paper studies the remote state estimation problem of linear time-invariant systems with stochastic event-triggered sensor schedules in the presence of packet drops between the sensor and the estimator. It is shown that the system state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-04 Liang Xu , Yilin Mo , Lihua Xie

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

Many modern distributed systems consist of devices that generate more data than what can be transmitted via a communication link in near real time with high-fidelity. We consider the scheduling problem in which a device has access to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-20 Marcos M. Vasconcelos , Yifei Zhang

Unpredictable sensor-to-estimator delays fundamentally distort what matters for wireless remote state estimation: not just freshness, but how delay interacts with sensor informativeness and energy efficiency. In this paper, we present a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Nho-Duc Tran , Aamir Mahmood , Mikael Gidlund

In this paper, we study the remote estimation problem of a Markov process over a channel with a cost. We formulate this problem as an infinite horizon optimization problem with two players, i.e., a sensor and a monitor, that have distinct…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-01 Edoardo David Santi , Touraj Soleymani , Deniz Gunduz

Optimal sensor scheduling with applications to networked estimation and control systems is considered. We model sensor measurement and transmission instances using jumps between states of a continuous-time Markov chain. We introduce a cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-07 Farhad Farokhi , Karl H. Johansson

The performance of remote estimation over wireless channel is strongly affected by sensor data losses due to interference. Although the impact of interference can be alleviated by performing spectrum sensing and then transmitting only when…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xianghui Cao , Xiangwei Zhou , Yu Cheng

We address the problem of how to optimally schedule data packets over an unreliable channel in order to minimize the estimation error of a simple-to-implement remote linear estimator using a constant "Kalman'' gain to track the state of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Rahul Singh , Gopal Krishna Kamath , P. R. Kumar

We investigate the design of a remote state estimation system for a self-propelled particle (SPP). Our framework consists of a sensing unit that accesses the full state of the SPP and an estimator that is remotely located from the sensing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-17 Shinkyu Park , Nuno C. Martins

In order to operate in and interact with the physical world, robots need to have estimates of the current and future state of the environment. We thus equip robots with sensors and build models and algorithms that, given some measurements,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Frederike Dümbgen

Consider a discrete-time remote estimation system formed by an encoder, a transmission policy, a channel, and a remote estimator. The encoder assesses a random process that the remote estimator seeks to estimate based on information sent to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-05-04 David Ward , Nuno C. Martins

This paper investigates the problem of sensor scheduling for remotely estimating the states of heterogeneous dynamical systems over resource-limited and lossy wireless channels. Considering the low time complexity and high versatility…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-31 Taige Chang , Xianghui Cao , Wei Xing Zheng

In this paper we consider the problem of transmission power allocation for remote estimation of a dynamical system in the case where the estimator is able to simultaneously receive packets from multiple interfering sensors, as it is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-13 Matthias Pezzutto , Luca Schenato , Subhrakanti Dey

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

We consider a basic communication and sensing setup comprising a transmitter, a receiver and a sensor. The transmitter sends an encoded sequence to the receiver through a discrete memoryless channel, and the receiver is interested in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Han Wu , Hamdi Joudeh