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In low-level sensory systems, it is still unclear how the noisy information collected locally by neurons may give rise to a coherent global percept. This is well demonstrated for the detection of motion in the aperture problem: as luminance…
This work shows the existence of optimal control laws for persistent monitoring of mobile targets in a one-dimensional mission space and derives explicit solutions. The underlying performance metric consists of minimizing the total…
In this paper, we study the performance of blind adaptive beamforming algorithms for smart antennas in realistic environments. A constrained constant modulus (CCM) design criterion is described and used for deriving a recursive least…
This paper targets control problems that exhibit specific safety and performance requirements. In particular, the aim is to ensure that an agent, operating under uncertainty, will at runtime strictly adhere to such requirements. Previous…
This paper presents the application of a Distributed Model Reference Adaptive Control (DMRAC) strategy for robust multi-agent synchronization of a network of drones. The proposed approach enables the development of controllers capable of…
Future wireless communication systems are envisioned to share radio frequency (RF) spectrum, with other services such as radars, in order to meet the growing spectrum demands. In this paper, we consider co-channel spectrum sharing between…
Cell tracking and segmentation assist biologists in extracting insights from large-scale microscopy time-lapse data. Driven by local accuracy metrics, current tracking approaches often suffer from a lack of long-term consistency and the…
Collaborative signal processing and sensor deployment have been among the most important research tasks in target tracking using networked sensors. In this paper, the mathematical model is formulated for single target tracking using mobile…
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In the communication scenario, we consider the problem of the discrimination between the signals of the Quantum Pulse Position Modulation. We propose a receiver scheme that employs repeated local measurements in distinct temporal slots…
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In this letter, we propose an airborne maneuverable bi-static integrated sensing and communication system where both the transmitter and receiver are unmanned aerial vehicles. By timely forming a dynamic bi-static range based on the motion…
Consider a mobile robot tasked with localizing targets at unknown locations by obtaining relative measurements. The observations can be bearing or range measurements. How should the robot move so as to localize the targets and minimize the…
The problem of detecting correlations from samples of a high-dimensional Gaussian vector has recently received a lot of attention. In most existing work, detection procedures are provided with a full sample. However, following common wisdom…
In this paper, we propose a radio-based passive target tracking algorithm using multipath measurements, including the angle of arrival and relative distance. We focus on a scenario in which a mobile receiver continuously receives radio…
In this paper, we investigate signal detection in multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems with hardware impairments, such as power amplifier nonlinearity and in-phase/quadrature imbalance. To deal with the complex…
In this study, we propose an algorithmic framework for solving a class of optimal control problems. This class is associated with the minimum-time interception of moving target problems, where a plant with a given state equation must…
We design a controller for an agent whose mission is to reach a stationary target while avoiding a family of obstacles which are not known a-priori. The agent moves in the two dimensional plane with non-trivial double integrator dynamics…
This letter presents a novel detection strategy for Spatially-Multiplexed Generalized Spatial Modulation systems. It is a multi-stage detection that produces a list of candidates of the transmitted signal vector, sorted according to the…