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We consider the problem of tracking multiple, unknown, and time-varying numbers of objects using a distributed network of heterogeneous sensors. In an effort to derive a formulation for practical settings, we consider limited and unknown…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Fei Chen , Hoa Van Nguyen , Alex S. Leong , Sabita Panicker , Robin Baker , Damith C. Ranasinghe

We study a multi-robot assignment problem for multi-target tracking. The proposed problem can be viewed as the mixed packing and covering problem. To deal with a limitation on both sensing and communication ranges, a distributed approach is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Yoonchang Sung , Ashish Kumar Budhiraja , Ryan K. Williams , Pratap Tokekar

In bearing only tracking using a towed array, the array can sense the bearing angle of the target but is unable to differentiate whether the target is on the left or the right side of the array. Thus, the traditional tracking algorithm…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-06 Shreya Das , Ranjeet Kumar Tiwari , Shovan Bhaumik

The growing need for accurate and reliable tracking systems has driven significant progress in sensor fusion and object tracking techniques. In this paper, we design two variational Bayesian trackers that effectively track multiple targets…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Qing Li , Runze Gan , Simon Godsill

Tracking multiple targets in dynamic environments using distributed sensor networks is a fundamental problem in statistical signal processing. In such scenarios, the network of mobile sensors must coordinate their actions to accurately…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Aidan Blair , Amirali Khodadadian Gostar , Alireza Bab-Hadiashar , Xiaodong Li , Reza Hoseinnezhad

Bearing-only Target Motion Analysis (TMA) is a promising technique for passive tracking in various applications as a bearing angle is easy to measure. Despite its advantages, bearing-only TMA is challenging due to the nonlinearity of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Lin Li , Xueming Liu , Zhoujingzi Qiu , Tianjiang Hu , Qingrui Zhang

We consider multi-label prediction problems with large output spaces under the assumption of output sparsity -- that the target (label) vectors have small support. We develop a general theory for a variant of the popular error correcting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-06-02 Daniel Hsu , Sham M. Kakade , John Langford , Tong Zhang

We consider the problem of bearing-based visual homing: Given a mobile robot which can measure bearing directions with respect to known landmarks, the goal is to guide the robot toward a desired "home" location. We propose a control law…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-02-17 Roberto Tron , Kostas Daniilidis

Advances in machine learning algorithms for sensor fusion have significantly improved the detection and prediction of other road users, thereby enhancing safety. However, even a small angular displacement in the sensor's placement can cause…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zi-Xiang Xia , Sudeep Fadadu , Yi Shi , Louis Foucard

This paper investigates the problem of estimating biases affecting relative state measurements in a sensor network. Each sensor measures the relative states of its neighbors and this measurement is corrupted by a constant bias. We analyse…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Mingming Shi , Claudio De Persis , Pietro Tesi , Nima Monshizadeh

This paper presents a cooperative multi-robot multi-target tracking framework aimed at enhancing the efficiency of the heterogeneous sensor network and, consequently, improving overall target tracking accuracy. The concept of normalized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Jun Chen , Mohammed Abugurain , Philip Dames , Shinkyu Park

This paper addresses the challenge of assigning heterogeneous sensors (i.e., robots with varying sensing capabilities) for multi-target tracking. We classify robots into two categories: (1) sufficient sensing robots, equipped with range and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Seyed Ali Rakhshan , Mehdi Golestani , He Kong

High-resolution radar sensors are able to resolve multiple detections per object and therefore provide valuable information for vehicle environment perception. For instance, multiple detections allow to infer the size of an object or to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-29 Alexander Scheel , Klaus Dietmayer

Accurate parameter estimation such as angle of arrival (AOA) is essential to enhance the performance of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) in mmWave multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. This work presents a sensing-aided…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Ngoc-Son Duong , Khac-Hoang Ngo , Thai-Mai Dinh , Van-Linh Nguyen

An important step in a multi-sensor surveillance system is to estimate sensor biases from their noisy asynchronous measurements. This estimation problem is computationally challenging due to the highly nonlinear transformation between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Wenqiang Pu , Ya-Feng Liu , Junkun Yan , Hongwei Liu , Zhi-Quan Luo

If computational tractability were not an issue, multi-object estimation should integrate all measurements from multiple sensors across multiple scans. In this article, we propose an efficient numerical solution to the multi-scan…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-12-05 D. Moratuwage , B. -N. Vo , B. -T. Vo , C. Shim

Compressed sensing typically deals with the estimation of a system input from its noise-corrupted linear measurements, where the number of measurements is smaller than the number of input components. The performance of the estimation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jin Tan , Danielle Carmon , Dror Baron

Algorithmic Bias can be due to bias in the training data or issues with the algorithm itself. These algorithmic issues typically relate to problems with model capacity and regularisation. This underestimation bias may arise because the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 William Blanzeisky , Pádraig Cunningham

This paper addresses the challenges of optimally placing a finite number of sensors to detect Poisson-distributed targets in a bounded domain. We seek to rigorously account for uncertainty in the target arrival model throughout the problem.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Mingyu Kim , Harun Yetkin , Daniel J. Stilwell , Jorge Jimenez , Saurav Shrestha , Nina Stark

We study a scenario where a group of agents, each with multiple heterogeneous sensors are collecting measurements of a vehicle and the measurements are transmitted over a communication channel to a centralized node for processing. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-21 Matthew R. Kirchner , João P. Hespanha , Denis Garagić