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The present paper proposes a data-driven sensor selection method for a high-dimensional nondynamical system with strongly correlated measurement noise. The proposed method is based on proximal optimization and determines sensor locations by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Takayuki Nagata , Keigo Yamada , Taku Nonomura , Kumi Nakai , Yuji Saito , Shunsuke Ono

The optimal placement of sensors for environmental monitoring and disaster management is a challenging problem due to its NP-hard nature. Traditional methods for sensor placement involve exact, approximation, or heuristic approaches, with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Chen Wang , Victoria Huang , Gang Chen , Hui Ma , Bryce Chen , Jochen Schmidt

Accurate real-time wind vector estimation is essential for enhancing the safety, navigation accuracy, and energy efficiency of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Traditional approaches rely on external sensors or simplify vehicle dynamics,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Haowen Yu , Na Fan , Xing Liu , Ximin Lyu

Multi-sensor fusion is essential for autonomous vehicle localization, as it is capable of integrating data from various sources for enhanced accuracy and reliability. The accuracy of the integrated location and orientation depends on the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Changhong Lin , Jiarong Lin , Zhiqiang Sui , XiaoZhi Qu , Rui Wang , Kehua Sheng , Bo Zhang

Fluid antenna system promises to obtain enormous diversity in the small space of a mobile device by switching the position of the radiating element to the most desirable position from a large number of prescribed locations of the given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Zhi Chai , Kai-Kit Wong , Kin-Fai Tong , Yu Chen , Yangyang Zhang

Sequential filtering and spatial inverse problems assimilate data points distributed either temporally (in the case of filtering) or spatially (in the case of spatial inverse problems). Sometimes it is possible to choose the position of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Sahani Pathiraja , Claudia Schillings , Philipp Wacker

In [Bianco, L., Giuseppe C., and P. Reverberi. 2001. "A network based model for traffic sensor location with implications on O/D matrix estimates". Transportation Science 35(1):50-60.], the authors present the Sensor Location Problem: that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-28 David R. Morrison , Susan E. Martonosi

Sampling-based motion planning is the predominant paradigm in many real-world robotic applications, but its performance is immensely dependent on the quality of the samples. The majority of traditional planners are inefficient as they use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Tin Lai , Fabio Ramos

We consider the centralized detection of an intruder, whose location is modeled as uniform across a specified set of points, using an optimally placed team of sensors. These sensors make conditionally independent observations. The local…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2011-09-27 Waseem A. Malik , Nuno C. Martins , Ananthram Swami

In data assimilation, the model may be subject to uncertainties and errors. The weak-constraint data assimilation framework enables incorporating model uncertainty in the dynamics of the governing equations. We propose a new framework for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Alen Alexanderian , Hugo Díaz , Vishwas Rao , Arvind K. Saibaba

This article describes a multi-modal method using simulated Lidar data via ray tracing and image pixel loss with differentiable rendering to optimize an object's position with respect to an observer or some referential objects in a computer…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-07 Sean Zanyk-McLean , Krishna Kumar , Paul Navratil

The surveillance multisensor placement is an important optimization problem that consists of positioning several sensors of different types to maximize the coverage of a determined area while minimizing the cost of the deployment. In this…

Bayesian optimal sensor placement, in its full generality, seeks to maximize the mutual information between uncertain model parameters and the predicted data to be collected from the sensors for the purpose of performing Bayesian inference.…

Applications · Statistics 2019-06-17 Pinaky Bhattacharyya , James L. Beck

Flow-field reconstruction from sparse sensor measurements remains a central challenge in modern fluid dynamics, as the need for high-fidelity data often conflicts with practical limits on sensor deployment. Existing deep learning-based…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ruoyan Li , Guancheng Wan , Zijie Huang , Zixiao Liu , Haixin Wang , Xiao Luo , Wei Wang , Yizhou Sun

Gaussian process regression uses data measured at sensor locations to reconstruct a spatially dependent function with quantified uncertainty. However, if only a limited number of sensors can be deployed, it is important to determine how to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Jessie Chen , Hangjie Ji , Arvind K. Saibaba

We propose a strategy for optimizing a sensor trajectory in order to estimate the time dependence of a localized scalar source in turbulent channel flow. The approach leverages the view of the adjoint scalar field as the sensitivity of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Constantinos F. Panagiotou , Davide Cerizza , Tamer A. Zaki , Yosuke Hasegawa

This thesis presents a solution that enables aerial robots to reason about surrounding wind flow fields in real time using on board sensors and embedded flight hardware. The core novelty of this research is the fusion of range measurements…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Spencer Folk

This paper focuses on learning efficient sensor allocations that ensure observability of unknown high-dimensional linear systems using only a small number of sensors. Existing methods either require an impractically large number of sensors…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Yuyang Zhang , Derya Cansever , Na Li

Indoor positioning applications are craving for ever higher precision and accuracy across the entire coverage zone. Optimal anchor placement and the deployment of multiple distributed anchor nodes could have a major impact in this regard.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-16 Daan Delabie , Thomas Wilding , Liesbet Van der Perre , Lieven De Strycker

In contemporary imaging systems, achieving optimal auto-focus (AF) performance hinges on precise lens positioning. Extensive research has delved into refining algorithms for determining the ideal lens position across passive, active, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Ali Karaoglu