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The process of association and tracking of sensor detections is a key element in providing situational awareness. When the targets in the scenario are dense and exhibit high maneuverability, Multi-Target Tracking (MTT) becomes a challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Rishabh Verma , R Rajesh , MS Easwaran

To efficiently deploy robotic systems in society, mobile robots must move autonomously and safely through complex environments. Nonlinear model predictive control (MPC) methods provide a natural way to find a dynamically feasible trajectory…

Sensor management in multi-object stochastic systems is a theoretically and computationally challenging problem. This paper presents a novel approach to the multi-target multi-sensor control problem within the partially observed Markov…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Xiaoying Wang , Reza Hoseinnezhad , Amirali K. Gostar , Tharindu Rathnayake , Benlian Xu , Alireza Bab-Hadiashar

In this paper, we propose two methods for tracking multiple extended targets or unresolved group targets with elliptical extent shape. These two methods are deduced from the famous Probability Hypothesis Density (PHD) filter and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Yuanhao Cheng , Yunhe Cao , Tat-Soon Yeo , Fu Jie , Wei Zhang

This paper presents a data-driven decentralized trajectory optimization approach for multi-robot motion planning in dynamic environments. When navigating in a shared space, each robot needs accurate motion predictions of neighboring robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Hai Zhu , Francisco Martinez Claramunt , Bruno Brito , Javier Alonso-Mora

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

Achieving persistent tracking of multiple dynamic targets over a large spatial area poses significant challenges for a single-robot system with constrained sensing capabilities. As the robot moves to track different targets, the ones…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Junbin Yuan , Brady Moon , Muqing Cao , Sebastian Scherer

We propose a method for tracking an unknown number of targets based on measurements provided by multiple sensors. Our method achieves low computational complexity and excellent scalability by running belief propagation on a suitably devised…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Florian Meyer , Paolo Braca , Peter Willett , Franz Hlawatsch

Passive multi-target tracking (MTT) aims to infer the kinematic states of multiple targets from noisy sensor data in which contributions from unknown target-emitted signals are superposed. Track-before-detect (TBD) methods improve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Nobutaka Ito , Yoshiaki Bando

Heterogeneous autonomous robot teams consisting of multirotor and uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) have the potential to enable various maritime applications, including advanced search-and-rescue operations. A critical requirement of these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Jess Stephenson , Nathan T. Duncan , Melissa Greeff

This paper presents a new online multi-agent trajectory planning algorithm that guarantees to generate safe, dynamically feasible trajectories in a cluttered environment. The proposed algorithm utilizes a linear safe corridor (LSC) to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Jungwon Park , Dabin Kim , Gyeong Chan Kim , Dahyun Oh , H. Jin Kim

We propose a solution of the multiple target tracking (MTT) problem based on sets of trajectories and the random finite set framework. A full Bayesian approach to MTT should characterise the distribution of the trajectories given the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Ángel F. García-Fernández , Lennart Svensson , Mark R. Morelande

This paper considers centralized mission-planning for a heterogeneous multi-agent system with the aim of locating a hidden target. We propose a mixed observable setting, consisting of a fully observable state-space and a partially…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Kasper Johansson , Ugo Rosolia , Wyatt Ubellacker , Andrew Singletary , Aaron D. Ames

This work addresses the practical problem of distributed formation tracking control of a group of quadrotor vehicles in a relaxed sensing graph topology with a very limited sensor set, where only one leader vehicle can access the global…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 S. Doodeman , Z. Tang , M. Jacinto , R. Cunha , C. Silvestre

Mobile target tracking is crucial in various applications such as surveillance and autonomous navigation. This study presents a decentralized tracking framework utilizing a Consensus-Based Estimation Filter (CBEF) integrated with the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Amir Ahmad Ghods , Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian

In real world scenarios, due to environmental or hardware constraints, the quadrotor is forced to navigate in pure inertial navigation mode while operating indoors or outdoors. To mitigate inertial drift, end-to-end neural network…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Shira Massas , Itzik Klein

This paper focuses on \textit{joint detection, tracking and classification} (JDTC) of a target via multi-sensor fusion. The target can be present or not, can belong to different classes, and depending on its class can behave according to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-24 Gaiyou Li , Ping Wei , Giorgio Battistelli , Luigi Chisci , Lin Gao

We tackle the problem of planning a minimum-time trajectory for a quadrotor over a sequence of specified waypoints in the presence of obstacles while exploiting the full quadrotor dynamics. This problem is crucial for autonomous search and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Robert Penicka , Davide Scaramuzza

Multi-target tracking (MTT) serves as a cornerstone technology in information fusion, yet faces significant challenges in robustness and efficiency when dealing with model uncertainties, clutter interference, and target interactions.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-21 Ming Lei , Shufan Wu

Existing FPV object tracking methods heavily rely on handcrafted modular pipelines, which incur high onboard computation and cumulative errors. While learning-based approaches have mitigated computational delays, most still generate only…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Fanxing Li , Shengyang Wang , Fangyu Sun , Shuyu Wu , Dexin Zuo , Yufei Yan , Wenxian Yu , Danping Zou