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We study two sensor assignment problems for multi-target tracking with the goal of improving the observability of the underlying estimator. We consider various measures of the observability matrix as the assignment value function. We first…
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…
We study the problem of assigning robots with actions to track targets. The objective is to optimize the robot team's tracking quality which can be defined as the reduction in the uncertainty of the targets' states. Specifically, we…
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.…
We consider the problem where a network of sensors has to detect the presence of targets at any of $n$ possible locations in a finite region. All such locations may not be occupied by a target. The data from sensors is fused to determine…
To ensure safety in confined environments such as mines or subway tunnels, a (wireless) sensor network can be deployed to monitor various environmental conditions. One of its most important applications is to track personnel, mobile…
We consider a scenario where a team of robots with heterogeneous sensors must track a set of hostile targets which induce sensory failures on the robots. In particular, the likelihood of failures depends on the proximity between the targets…
Bearing--only estimation is one of the fundamental and challenging problems in target tracking. As in the case of radar tracking, the presence of offset or position biases can exacerbate the challenges in bearing--only estimation. Modeling…
We consider the problem of tracking moving targets using mobile wireless sensors (of possibly different types). This is a joint estimation and control problem in which a tracking system must take into account both target and sensor…
Recent works in multiple object tracking use sequence model to calculate the similarity score between the detections and the previous tracklets. However, the forced exposure to ground-truth in the training stage leads to the…
This work focuses on the persistent monitoring problem, where a set of targets moving based on an unknown model must be monitored by an autonomous mobile robot with a limited sensing range. To keep each target's position estimate as…
We investigate the problem of monitoring multiple targets using a single mobile sensor, with the goal of minimizing the maximum estimation error among all the targets over long time horizons. The sensor can move in a network-constrained…
Utilizing the capabilities of configurable sensing systems requires addressing difficult information gathering problems. Near-optimal approaches exist for sensing systems without internal states. However, when it comes to optimizing the…
We consider the problem of tracking $n$ targets in the plane using $2n$ cameras. We can use two cameras to estimate the location of a target. We are then interested in forming $n$ camera pairs where each camera belongs to exactly one pair,…
In sparse target inference problems it has been shown that significant gains can be achieved by adaptive sensing using convex criteria. We generalize previous work on adaptive sensing to (a) include multiple classes of targets with…
In this paper we study the problem of tracking an object moving randomly through a network of wireless sensors. Our objective is to devise strategies for scheduling the sensors to optimize the tradeoff between tracking performance and…
We analyze the observability of motion estimates from the fusion of visual and inertial sensors. Because the model contains unknown parameters, such as sensor biases, the problem is usually cast as a mixed identification/filtering, and the…
This paper considers a set of sensors, which as a group are tasked with taking measurements of the environment and sending a small subset of the measurements to a centralized data fusion center, where the measurements will be used to…
We investigate the problem of persistent monitoring, where a mobile agent has to survey multiple targets in an environment in order to estimate their internal states. These internal states evolve with linear stochastic dynamics and the…
In this paper, we investigate the problem of joint searching and tracking of multiple mobile targets by a group of mobile agents. The targets appear and disappear at random times inside a surveillance region and their positions are random…