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Identifying the main features and learning the causal relationships of a dynamic system from time-series of sensor data are key problems in many real-world robot applications. In this paper, we propose an extension of a state-of-the-art…

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This paper considers the problem of localising a stationary signal source using a team of mobile agents which only take binary measurements. Background false detection rates and missed detection probabilities are incorporated into the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-13 Daniel D. Selvaratnam , Iman Shames , Jonathan H. Manton , Branko Ristic

Discrete dynamic models are a powerful tool for the understanding and modeling of large biological networks. Although a lot of progress has been made in developing analysis tools for these models, there is still a need to find approaches…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2013-06-14 Jorge G. T. Zañudo , Réka Albert

In this work, we propose an easy-to-implement fixed-point algorithm for reconstructing a space-time dependent source in a subdiffusion model from lateral boundary measurements. The numerical scheme combines a Galerkin finite element method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Siyu Cen , Bangti Jin , Yavar Kian , Zhi Zhou

Understanding the dynamics of complex systems is a central task in many different areas ranging form biology via epidemics to economics and engineering. Unexpected behaviour of dynamic systems or even systems failure is sometimes difficult…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Dominik Kahl , Andreas Weber , Maik Kschischo

We present an algorithm to solve the problem of locating the source, or maxima, of a scalar field using a robot swarm. We demonstrate how the robot swarm determines its direction of movement to approach the source using only field intensity…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Antonio Acuaviva , Hector Garcia de Marina , Juan Jimenez

The paper presents an approach to olfactory search for a diffusive emitting source of tracer (e.g. aerosol, gas) in an environment with unknown map of randomly placed and shaped obstacles. The measurements of tracer concentration are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Branko Ristic , Alex Skvortsov , Andrew Walker

This paper investigates the problem of utilizing network topology and partial timestamps to detect the information source in a network. The problem incurs prohibitive cost under canonical maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) of the source…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-02 Xuecheng Liu , Luoyi Fu , Bo Jiang , Xiaojun Lin , Xinbing Wang

We discuss the localization of radiation sources whose number and other relevant parameters are not known in advance. The data collection is ensured by an autonomous mobile robot that performs a survey in a defined region of interest…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Tomas Lazna , Ludek Zalud

The current work is focusing on the implementation of a robust watermarking algorithm for digital images, which is based on an innovative spread spectrum analysis algorithm for watermark embedding and on a content-based image retrieval…

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This paper presents a new interaction point process that integrates geological knowledge for the purpose of automatic sources detection of multiple sources in groundwaters from hydrochemical data. The observations are considered as spatial…

Applications · Statistics 2023-02-07 Christophe Reype , Radu S. Stoica , Antonin Richard , Madalina Deaconu

Robotics has dramatically increased our ability to gather data about our environments, creating an opportunity for the robotics and algorithms communities to collaborate on novel solutions to environmental monitoring problems. To understand…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Yoonchang Sung , Zhiang Chen , Jnaneshwar Das , Pratap Tokekar

Automated analysis of complex systems based on multiple readouts remains a challenge. Change point detection algorithms are aimed to locating abrupt changes in the time series behaviour of a process. In this paper, we present a novel change…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Artem Ryzhikov , Mikhail Hushchyn , Denis Derkach

In many applications, a signal is deformed by well-understood dynamics before it can be measured. For example, when a pollutant enters a river, it immediately begins dispersing, flowing, settling, and reacting. If the pollutant enters at a…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2022-09-20 Connie Okasaki , Mevin B. Hooten , Andrew M. Berdahl

We propose a new method of discovering causal structures, based on the detection of local, spontaneous changes in the underlying data-generating model. We analyze the classes of structures that are equivalent relative to a stream of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Jin Tian , Judea Pearl

This paper studies the classical problem of detecting the locations of signal occurrences in a one-dimensional noisy measurement. Assuming the signal occurrences do not overlap, we formulate the detection task as a constrained likelihood…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Mordechai Roth , Amichai Painsky , Tamir Bendory

Remote sensors are becoming the standard for observing and recording ecological data in the field. Such sensors can record data at fine temporal resolutions, and they can operate under extreme conditions prohibitive to human access.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-06-26 Ethan W. Dereszynski , Thomas G. Dietterich

We study the nonlinear inverse source problem of detecting, localizing and identifying unknown accidental disturbances on forced and damped transmission networks. A first result is that strategic observation sets are enough to guarantee…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-11 Jean-Guy Caputo , Adel Hamdi

The problem of finding the optimal set of source nodes in a diffusion network that maximizes the spread of information, influence, and diseases in a limited amount of time depends dramatically on the underlying temporal dynamics of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-05-09 Manuel Gomez Rodriguez , Bernhard Schölkopf

Change-point analysis has been successfully applied to the detect changes in multivariate data streams over time. In many applications, when data are observed over a graph/network, change does not occur simultaneously but instead spread…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-06-21 Hanqing Cai , Tengyao Wang