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We present a solution to the problem of spatio-temporal calibration for event cameras mounted on an onmi-directional vehicle. Different from traditional methods that typically determine the camera's pose with respect to the vehicle's body…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Xiao Li , Yi Zhou , Ruibin Guo , Xin Peng , Zongtan Zhou , Huimin Lu

Predicting observables in equilibrium states is a central yet notoriously hard question in quantum many-body systems. In the physically relevant thermodynamic limit, certain mathematical formulations of this task have even been shown to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Hamza Fawzi , Omar Fawzi , Samuel O. Scalet

Optimization problems with norm-bounding constraints arise in a variety of applications, including portfolio optimization, machine learning, and feature selection. A common approach to these problems involves relaxing the norm constraint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Danial Davarnia , Mohammadreza Kiaghadi

In this paper, our goal is to study fundamental foundations of linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control problems for stochastic linear time-invariant systems via Lagrangian duality of semidefinite programming (SDP) problems. In particular,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-21 Donghwan Lee

While the techniques in optimal control theory are often model-based, the policy optimization (PO) approach directly optimizes the performance metric of interest. Even though it has been an essential approach for reinforcement learning…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Feiran Zhao , Keyou You , Tamer Başar

Accurate and robust extrinsic calibration is necessary for deploying autonomous systems which need multiple sensors for perception. In this paper, we present a robust system for real-time extrinsic calibration of multiple lidars in vehicle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Sandipan Das , Ludvig af Klinteberg , Maurice Fallon , Saikat Chatterjee

In this paper, the CONFIG algorithm, a simple and provably efficient constrained global optimization algorithm, is applied to optimize the closed-loop control performance of an unknown system with unmodeled constraints. Existing Gaussian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-20 Wenjie Xu , Yuning Jiang , Bratislav Svetozarevic , Colin N. Jones

Linear-Quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) control is concerned with the design of an optimal controller and estimator for linear Gaussian systems with imperfect state information. Standard LQG assumes the set of sensor measurements, to be fed to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-18 Vasileios Tzoumas , Luca Carlone , George J. Pappas , Ali Jadbabaie

Modern autonomous systems typically use several sensors for perception. For best performance, accurate and reliable extrinsic calibration is necessary. In this research, we propose a reliable technique for the extrinsic calibration of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Sandipan Das , Bengt Boberg , Maurice Fallon , Saikat Chatterjee

Accurate LiDAR-Camera (LC) calibration is challenging but crucial for autonomous systems and robotics. In this paper, we propose two single-shot and target-less algorithms to estimate the calibration parameters between LiDAR and camera…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Yanyu Zhang , Jie Xu , Wei Ren

Sensor setups consisting of a combination of 3D range scanner lasers and stereo vision systems are becoming a popular choice for on-board perception systems in vehicles; however, the combined use of both sources of information implies a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Carlos Guindel , Jorge Beltrán , David Martín , Fernando García

External effects such as shocks and temperature variations affect the calibration of visual-inertial sensor systems and thus they cannot fully rely on factory calibrations. Re-calibrations performed on short user-collected datasets might…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Thomas Schneider , Mingyang Li , Cesar Cadena , Juan Nieto , Roland Siegwart

Correct radar data fusion depends on knowledge of the spatial transform between sensor pairs. Current methods for determining this transform operate by aligning identifiable features in different radar scans, or by relying on measurements…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Qilong Cheng , Emmett Wise , Jonathan Kelly

Many mathematical imaging problems are posed as non-convex optimization problems. When numerically tractable global optimization procedures are not available, one is often interested in testing ex post facto whether or not a locally…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-13 Joel W. LeBlanc , Brian J. Thelen , Alfred O. Hero

Recently, multi-sensors fusion has achieved significant progress in the field of automobility to improve navigation and position performance. As the prerequisite of the fusion algorithm, the demand for the extrinsic calibration of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Hou lanhua

Acoustic cameras have found many applications in practice. Accurate and reliable extrinsic calibration of the microphone array and visual sensors within acoustic cameras is crucial for fusing visual and auditory measurements. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Zhi Li , Jiang Wang , Xiaoyang Li , He Kong

This paper presents a framework for the targetless extrinsic calibration of stereo cameras and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensors with a non-overlapping Field of View (FOV). In order to solve the extrinsic calibrations problem…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Jinyong Jeong , Lucas Y. Cho , Ayoung Kim

As we aim to control complex systems, use of a simulator in model-based reinforcement learning is becoming more common. However, it has been challenging to overcome the Reality Gap, which comes from nonlinear model bias and susceptibility…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Gilwoo Lee , Siddhartha S. Srinivasa , Matthew T. Mason

Robotic calibration allows for the fusion of data from multiple sensors such as odometers, cameras, etc., by providing appropriate transformational relationships between the corresponding reference frames. For wheeled robots equipped with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Mohan Krishna Nutalapati , Lavish Arora , Anway Bose , Ketan Rajawat , Rajesh M Hegde

Accurate calibration of sensor extrinsic parameters for ground robotic systems (i.e., relative poses) is crucial for ensuring spatial alignment and achieving high-performance perception. However, existing calibration methods typically…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Jiang Wang , Yaozhong Kang , Linya Fu , Kazuhiro Nakadai , He Kong