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In unknown non-convex environments, such as indoor and underground spaces, deploying a fleet of robots to explore the surroundings while simultaneously searching for and tracking targets of interest to maintain high-precision data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jun Chen , Jiaqing Ma , Philip Dames

Wireless Sensor Network holds a pivotal position and gained a lot of attention from researchers in recent years. Sensor nodes have been used in vast applications such as environment monitoring, security purpose applications, and target…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Muneeb A. Khan , Muazzam A. Khan , Maha Driss , Wadii Boulila , Jawad Ahmad

Autonomous driving holds great promise in addressing traffic safety concerns by leveraging artificial intelligence and sensor technology. Multi-Object Tracking plays a critical role in ensuring safer and more efficient navigation through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Lei Cheng , Arindam Sengupta , Siyang Cao

This research investigates decentralized control of mobile robots specifically for coverage problems. There are different approaches associated with decentralized control strategy for coverage control problems. We perform a comparative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Waqqas Ahmad

Data-target pairing is an important step towards multi-target localization for the intelligent operation of unmanned systems. Target localization plays a crucial role in numerous applications, such as search, and rescue missions, traffic…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Kasthurirengan Suresh , Samuel Silva , Johnathan Votion , Yongcan Cao

This paper focuses on the problem of decentralized pedestrian tracking using a sensor network. Traditional works on pedestrian tracking usually use a centralized framework, which becomes less practical for robotic applications due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Vikram Shree , Carlos Diaz-Ruiz , Chang Liu , Bharath Hariharan , Mark Campbell

Self-driving vehicles are a maturing technology with the potential to reshape mobility by enhancing the safety, accessibility, efficiency, and convenience of automotive transportation. Safety-critical tasks that must be executed by a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-04-27 Brian Paden , Michal Cap , Sze Zheng Yong , Dmitry Yershov , Emilio Frazzoli

As a key research direction in the field of multi-object tracking (MOT), UAV-based multi-object tracking has significant application value in the analysis and understanding of urban intelligent transportation systems. However, in complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Wenguang Tao , Xiaotian Wang , Tian Yan , Jie Yan , Guodong Li , Kun Bai

Effective tracking of surrounding traffic participants allows for an accurate state estimation as a necessary ingredient for prediction of future behavior and therefore adequate planning of the ego vehicle trajectory. One approach for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Patrick Palmer , Martin Krüger , Richard Altendorfer , Torsten Bertram

Multi-Object Tracking in thermal images is essential for surveillance systems, particularly in challenging environments where RGB cameras struggle due to low visibility or poor lighting conditions. Thermal sensors enhance recognition tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Duong Nguyen-Ngoc Tran , Long Hoang Pham , Chi Dai Tran , Quoc Pham-Nam Ho , Huy-Hung Nguyen , Jae Wook Jeon

From prehistoric encirclement for hunting to GPS orbiting the earth for positioning, target encirclement has numerous real world applications. However, encircling multiple non-cooperative targets in GPS-denied environments remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Fen Liu , Shenghai Yuan , Wei Meng , Rong Su , Lihua Xie

The motion planning and tracking control techniques of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV) are fundamentally significant for efficient and robust UUV navigation, which is crucial for underwater rescue, facility maintenance, marine resource…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Danjie Zhu , Tao Yan , Simon X. Yang

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…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Yizhuo Wang , Yutong Wang , Yuhong Cao , Guillaume Sartoretti

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deployed in mission-critical applications such as target tracking, where they must simultaneously sense dynamic environments, ensure reliable communication, and achieve precise control. A key…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Zhiyu Chen , Ming-Min Zhao , Songfu Cai , Ming Lei , Min-Jian Zhao

This paper presents a methodology for optimal target detection in a multi sensor surveillance system. The system consists of mobile sensors that guard a rectangular surveillance zone crisscrossed by moving targets. Targets percolate the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2007-05-23 K Madhava Krishna , Henry Hexmoor , Shravan Sogani

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) suffer from sensor drifts in GPS denied environments, which can cause safety issues. To avoid intolerable sensor drifts while completing the time-critical coordination task for multi-UAV systems, we propose a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-20 Wenbin Wan , Hunmin Kim , Yikun Cheng , Naira Hovakimyan , Petros G. Voulgaris , Lui Sha

Multiple people tracking is a key problem for many applications such as surveillance, animation or car navigation, and a key input for tasks such as activity recognition. In crowded environments occlusions and false detections are common,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Laura Leal-Taixé

In future wireless communication networks, existing active localization will gradually evolve into more sophisticated (passive) sensing functionalities. One main enabler for this process is the merging of information collected from the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Maximilian Bauhofer , Silvio Mandelli , Marcus Henninger , Thorsten Wild , Stephan ten Brink

Multi-camera tracking plays a pivotal role in various real-world applications. While end-to-end methods have gained significant interest in single-camera tracking, multi-camera tracking remains predominantly reliant on heuristic techniques.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil , Deep Patel , Iain Melvin

A wide range of applications require or can benefit from collaborative behavior of a group of agents. The technical challenge addressed in this chapter is the development of a decentralized control strategy that enables each agent to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-02-26 Zhen Kan , John M. Shea , Warren E. Dixon