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This paper addresses the problem of multitarget tracking using a network of sensing agents with unknown positions. Agents have to both localize themselves in the sensor network and, at the same time, perform multitarget tracking in the…

An effective perception system is a fundamental component for farming robots, as it enables them to properly perceive the surrounding environment and to carry out targeted operations. The most recent methods make use of state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Mulham Fawakherji , Ciro Potena , Alberto Pretto , Domenico D. Bloisi , Daniele Nardi

The automation of factories and manufacturing processes has been accelerating over the past few years, boosted by the Industry 4.0 paradigm, including diverse scenarios with mobile, flexible agents. Efficient coordination between mobile…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Federico Mason , Federico Chiariotti , Andrea Zanella , Petar Popovski

Multi-agent Markov Decision Process (MMDP) has been an effective way of modelling sequential decision making algorithms for multi-agent cooperative environments. A number of algorithms based on centralized and decentralized planning have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Rafid Ameer Mahmud , Fahim Faisal , Saaduddin Mahmud , Md. Mosaddek Khan

The development of precision agriculture has gradually introduced automation in the agricultural process to support and rationalize all the activities related to field management. In particular, service robotics plays a predominant role in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Francesco Salvetti , Simone Angarano , Mauro Martini , Simone Cerrato , Marcello Chiaberge

This work develops a fully decentralized multi-agent algorithm for policy evaluation. The proposed scheme can be applied to two distinct scenarios. In the first scenario, a collection of agents have distinct datasets gathered following…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Lucas Cassano , Kun Yuan , Ali H. Sayed

The exponential growth of scientific literature poses unprecedented challenges for researchers attempting to synthesize knowledge across rapidly evolving fields. We present \textbf{Agentic AutoSurvey}, a multi-agent framework for automated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yixin Liu , Yonghui Wu , Denghui Zhang , Lichao Sun

This paper introduces a decentralized multi-agent reinforcement learning framework enabling structurally heterogeneous teams of agents to jointly discover and acquire randomly located targets in environments characterized by partial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Gabriele Calzolari , Vidya Sumathy , Christoforos Kanellakis , George Nikolakopoulos

We study multi-agent coverage algorithms for autonomous monitoring and patrol in urban environments. We consider scenarios in which a team of flying agents uses downward facing cameras (or similar sensors) to observe the environment outside…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Shivang Patel , Senthil Hariharan , Pranav Dhulipala , Ming C Lin , Dinesh Manocha , Huan Xu , Michael Otte

Accurate, timely, and farm-level crop type information is paramount for national food security, agricultural policy formulation, and economic planning, particularly in agriculturally significant nations like India. While remote sensing and…

Stress detection and monitoring is an active area of research with important implications for the personal, professional, and social health of an individual. Current approaches for affective state classification use traditional machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Ramesh Kumar Sah , Hassan Ghasemzadeh

Predicting future sensory states is crucial for learning agents such as robots, drones, and autonomous vehicles. In this paper, we couple multiple sensory modalities with exploratory actions and propose a predictive neural network…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Xiaohui Chen , Ramtin Hosseini , Karen Panetta , Jivko Sinapov

Research has proven that stress reduces quality of life and causes many diseases. For this reason, several researchers devised stress detection systems based on physiological parameters. However, these systems require that obtrusive sensors…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-10-23 Andrey Bogomolov , Bruno Lepri , Michela Ferron , Fabio Pianesi , Alex , Pentland

The behavior of heterogeneous multi-agent systems is studied when the coupling matrices are possibly all different and/or singular, that is, its rank is less than the system dimension. Rank-deficient coupling allows exchange of limited…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Jin Gyu Lee , Hyungbo Shim

With the growing popularity of wearable devices, the ability to utilize physiological data collected from these devices to predict the wearer's mental state such as mood and stress suggests great clinical applications, yet such a task is…

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We propose a framework for the joint inference of network topology, multi-type interaction kernels, and latent type assignments in heterogeneous interacting particle systems from multi-trajectory data. This learning task is a challenging…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-05 Quanjun Lang , Xiong Wang , Fei Lu , Mauro Maggioni

Discovering an informative, or agent-centric, state representation that encodes only the relevant information while discarding the irrelevant is a key challenge towards scaling reinforcement learning algorithms and efficiently applying them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Lili Wu , Ben Evans , Riashat Islam , Raihan Seraj , Yonathan Efroni , Alex Lamb

Accurate and timely crop yield estimation is critical for global food security, agricultural policy, and farm management. The Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite constellation, with high spatial, temporal, and spectral resolution, has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Mohammadreza Narimani , Alireza Pourreza , Ali Moghimi , Parastoo Farajpoor

Quantification of physiological changes in plants can capture different drought mechanisms and assist in selection of tolerant varieties in a high throughput manner. In this context, an accurate 3D model of plant canopy provides a reliable…

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