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Cooperative perception is a promising technique for intelligent and connected vehicles through vehicle-to-everything (V2X) cooperation, provided that accurate pose information and relative pose transforms are available. Nevertheless,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Zhiying Song , Tenghui Xie , Hailiang Zhang , Jiaxin Liu , Fuxi Wen , Jun Li

Cooperative localization in agent networks based on interagent time-of-flight measurements is closely related to synchronization. To leverage this relation, we propose a Bayesian factor graph framework for cooperative simultaneous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Bernhard Etzlinger , Florian Meyer , Franz Hlawatsch , Andreas Springer , Henk Wymeersch

In this paper we study the problem of cooperative searching and tracking (SAT) of multiple moving targets with a group of autonomous mobile agents that exhibit limited sensing capabilities. We assume that the actual number of targets is not…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-02 Savvas Papaioannou , Panayiotis Kolios , Theocharis Theocharides , Christos G. Panayiotou , Marios M. Polycarpou

In this paper, we address the distributed pose estimation problem for multi-agent systems, where the agents have unknown static positions and time-varying orientations. The interaction graph is assumed to be directed and acyclic with two…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Mouaad Boughellaba , Abdelhamid Tayebi

Wireless localization is a key requirement for many applications. It concerns position estimation of mobile nodes (agents) relative to fixed nodes (anchors) from wireless channel measurements. Cooperative localization is an advanced concept…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-08 Henry Schulten , Gregor Dumphart , Antonios Koskinas , Armin Wittneben

We consider a multi-agent reinforcement learning problem where each agent seeks to maximize a shared reward while interacting with other agents, and they may or may not be able to communicate. Typically the agents do not have access to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Alex Tong Lin , Mark J. Debord , Katia Estabridis , Gary Hewer , Guido Montufar , Stanley Osher

Accurately estimating the positions of multi-agent systems in indoor environments is challenging due to the lack of Global Navigation Satelite System (GNSS) signals. Noisy measurements of position and orientation can cause the integrated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Frida Viset , Rudy Helmons , Manon Kok

This paper addresses the considerations that comes along with adopting decentralized communication for multi-agent localization applications in discrete state spaces. In this framework, we extend the original formulation of the Bayes…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Dom Huh , Prasant Mohapatra

Multi-robot localization has been a critical problem for robots performing complex tasks cooperatively. In this paper, we propose a decentralized approach to localize a group of robots in a large featureless environment. The proposed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Ruihua Han , Shengduo Chen , Yasheng Bu , Zhijun Lyu , Qi Hao

We consider the general problem of geometric task allocation, wherein a large, decentralised swarm of simple mobile agents must detect the locations of tasks in the plane and position themselves nearby. The tasks are represented by an a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Michael Amir , Yigal Koifman , Yakov Bloch , Ariel Barel , Alfred M. Bruckstein

In this paper, we investigate the distributed state estimation problem for a continuous-time linear multi-agent system (MAS) composed of $\mathit{m}$ agents and monitored by the agents themselves. To address this problem, we propose a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Shuaiting Huang , Haodong Jiang , Chengcheng Zhao , Peng Cheng , Junfeng Wu

Agents in cyber-physical systems are increasingly entrusted with safety-critical tasks. Ensuring safety of these agents often requires localizing the pose for subsequent actions. Pose estimates can, e.g., be obtained from various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Tobias Ladner , Yasser Shoukry , Matthias Althoff

In numerous settings, agents lack sufficient data to directly learn a model. Collaborating with other agents may help, but it introduces a bias-variance trade-off, when local data distributions differ. A key challenge is for each agent to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Franco Galante , Giovanni Neglia , Emilio Leonardi

In this paper, we propose a distributed algorithm to control a team of cooperating robots aiming to protect a target from a set of intruders. Specifically, we model the strategy of the defending team by means of an online optimization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Lorenzo Pichierri , Guido Carnevale , Lorenzo Sforni , Andrea Testa , Giuseppe Notarstefano

Collaborative perception has garnered considerable attention due to its capacity to address several inherent challenges in single-agent perception, including occlusion and out-of-range issues. However, existing collaborative perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Zhenyang Ni , Zixing Lei , Yifan Lu , Dingju Wang , Chen Feng , Yanfeng Wang , Siheng Chen

We consider the following problem - a group of mobile agents perform some task on a terrain modeled as a graph. In a given moment of time an adversary gets an access to the graph and positions of the agents. Shortly before adversary's…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Karol Gotfryd , Marek Klonowski , Dominik Pająk

Gathering is a fundamental task for multi-agent systems and the problem has been studied under various assumptions on the sensing capabilities of mobile agents. This paper addresses the problem for a group of agents that are identical and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Ariel Barel , Thomas Dagès , Rotem Manor , Alfred M. Bruckstein

This paper proposes a strategy to estimate the velocity and position of neighbor agents using distance measurements only. Since with agents executing arbitrary motions, instantaneous distance-only measurements cannot provide enough…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Bomin Jiang , Mohammad Deghat , Brian D. O. Anderson

This paper studies the problem of multi-agent cooperative localization of a common reference coordinate frame in $\mathbb{R}^3$. Each agent in a system maintains a body-fixed coordinate frame and its actual \textit{frame transformation}…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-11 Quoc Van Tran , Hyo-Sung Ahn

Predicting the motion of multiple agents is necessary for planning in dynamic environments. This task is challenging for autonomous driving since agents (e.g. vehicles and pedestrians) and their associated behaviors may be diverse and…