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Interferometers require accurate determination of the array configuration in order to produce reliable observations. A method is presented for finding the maximum-likelihood estimate of the telescope geometry, and of other instrumental…

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Next generation radio interferometric telescopes are entering an era of big data with extremely large data sets. While these telescopes can observe the sky in higher sensitivity and resolution than before, computational challenges in image…

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A block decomposition method is proposed for minimizing a (possibly non-convex) continuously differentiable function subject to one linear equality constraint and simple bounds on the variables. The proposed method iteratively selects a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Andrea Cristofari

The domain of radio astronomy is currently facing significant computational challenges, foremost amongst which are those posed by the development of the world's largest radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Preliminary…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-17 R. J. Lyon , J. M. Brooke , J. D. Knowles , B. W. Stappers

Sensor calibration is the fundamental block for a multi-sensor fusion system. This paper presents an accurate and repeatable LiDAR-IMU calibration method (termed LI-Calib), to calibrate the 6-DOF extrinsic transformation between the 3D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Jiajun Lv , Jinhong Xu , Kewei Hu , Yong Liu , Xingxing Zuo

Radio astronomy is transitioning to a big-data era due to the emerging generation of radio interferometric (RI) telescopes, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will acquire massive volumes of data. In this article we review…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Xiaohao Cai , Luke Pratley , Jason D. McEwen

Efficient and accurate low-rank approximation (LRA) methods are of great significance for large-scale data analysis. Randomized tensor decompositions have emerged as powerful tools to meet this need, but most existing methods perform poorly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Yichun Qiu , Weijun Sun , Guoxu Zhou , Qibin Zhao

Next generation radio-interferometers, like the Square Kilometre Array, will acquire tremendous amounts of data with the goal of improving the size and sensitivity of the reconstructed images by orders of magnitude. The efficient processing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-26 Alexandru Onose , Arwa Dabbech , Yves Wiaux

The aim of the new generation of radio synthesis arrays such as LOFAR and SKA is to achieve much higher sensitivity, resolution and frequency coverage than what is available now, especially at low frequencies. To accomplish this goal, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 S. Kazemi , S. Yatawatta , S. Zaroubi , A. G. de Bruyn , L. V. E. Koopmans , J. Noordam

Programmable linear optical interferometers are important for classical and quantum information technologies, as well as for building hardware-accelerated artificial neural networks. Recent results showed the possibility of constructing…

Calibration is an essential step in radio interferometric data processing that corrects the data for systematic errors and in addition, subtracts bright foreground interference to reveal weak signals hidden in the residual. These weak and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-08 Sarod Yatawatta

Accurate extrinsic calibration of multiple LiDARs is crucial for improving the foundational performance of three-dimensional (3D) map reconstruction systems. This paper presents a novel targetless extrinsic calibration framework for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Han Ye , Yuqiang Jin , Jinyuan Liu , Tao Li , Wen-An Zhang , Minglei Fu

A classical approach for solving discrete time nonlinear control on a finite horizon consists in repeatedly minimizing linear quadratic approximations of the original problem around current candidate solutions. While widely popular in many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Vincent Roulet , Siddhartha Srinivasa , Maryam Fazel , Zaid Harchaoui

Next generation radio observatories such as the MWA, LWA, LOFAR, CARMA and SKA provide a number of challenges for interferometric data analysis. These challenges include heterogeneous arrays, direction-dependent instrumental gain, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Miguel F. Morales , Michael Matejek

In this paper, we propose a fast and convergent algorithm to solve unassigned distance geometry problems (uDGP). Technically, we construct a novel quadratic measurement model by leveraging $\ell_0$-norm instead of $\ell_1$-norm in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Jun Fan , Xiaoya Shan , Xianchao Xiu

We have developed an algorithm that constructs a model of a reconfigurable optical interferometer, independent of specific architectural constraints. The programming of unitary transformations on the interferometer's optical modes relies on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Sergei S. Kuzmin , Ivan V. Dyakonov , Stanislav S. Straupe

Radio interferometric gain calibration can be biased by incomplete sky models and radio frequency interference, resulting in calibration artefacts that can restrict the dynamic range of the resulting images. It has been suggested that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-21 Ulrich Armel Mbou Sob , Hertzog Landman Bester , Oleg Smirnov , Jonathan Kenyon , Trienko Grobler

One of the biggest challenges in operating massive multiple-input multiple-output systems is the acquisition of accurate channel state information at the transmitter. To take up this challenge, time division duplex is more favorable thanks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Xiwen Jiang , Alexis Decurninge , Kalyana Gopala , Florian Kaltenberger , Maxime Guillaud , Dirk Slock , Luc Deneire

The advent of next-generation radio interferometers like the Square Kilometer Array promises to revolutionise our radio astronomy observational capabilities. The unprecedented volume of data these devices generate requires fast and accurate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Mostafa Cherif , Tobías I. Liaudat , Jonathan Kern , Christophe Kervazo , Jérôme Bobin

The new generation of radio synthesis arrays, such as LOFAR and SKA, have been designed to surpass existing arrays in terms of sensitivity, angular resolution and frequency coverage. This evolution has led to the development of advanced…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-19 Sanaz Kazemi , Sarod Yatawatta , Saleem Zaroubi