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The last decade has seen an explosion in data sources available for the monitoring and prediction of environmental phenomena. While several inferential methods have been developed that make predictions on the underlying process by combining…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-06 Eun-Hye Yoo , Andrew Zammit-Mangion , Michael G. Chipeta

The innovative agriculture system is revolutionizing how we farm, making it one of the most critical innovations of our time! Yet it faces significant connectivity challenges, particularly with the sensors that power this technology. An…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-18 Mohamed Naeem

The conditional diffusion model has been demonstrated as an efficient tool for learning robot policies, owing to its advancement to accurately model the conditional distribution of policies. The intricate nature of real-world scenarios,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Wenhao Yu , Jie Peng , Huanyu Yang , Junrui Zhang , Yifan Duan , Jianmin Ji , Yanyong Zhang

The small amount of measurements in distribution grids makes their monitoring more difficult. Topological observability may not be possible, and thus, pseudo-measurements are needed to perform state estimation, which is required to control…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Miguel Picallo , Adolfo Anta , Bart De Schutter

Given a linear dynamical system affected by noise, we study the problem of optimally placing sensors (at design-time) subject to a sensor placement budget constraint in order to minimize the trace of the steady-state error covariance of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Lintao Ye , Sandip Roy , Shreyas Sundaram

Sequential filtering and spatial inverse problems assimilate data points distributed either temporally (in the case of filtering) or spatially (in the case of spatial inverse problems). Sometimes it is possible to choose the position of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Sahani Pathiraja , Claudia Schillings , Philipp Wacker

Water distribution networks (WDNs) are critical systems for our society and detecting leakages is important for minimizing losses and water waste. This makes optimal sensor placement for leakage detection very relevant. Existing sensor…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 J. J. H. van Gemert , V. Breschi , D. R. Yntema , K. J. Keesman , M. Lazar

In this work we propose and numerically analyze an algorithm for detection of a contaminant source using a dynamic sensor network. The algorithm is motivated using a global probabilistic optimization problem and is based on the analysis of…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-10-21 Sergio A. Almada Monter , Amarjit Budhiraja , Jan Hannig

We consider the centralized detection of an intruder, whose location is modeled as uniform across a specified set of points, using an optimally placed team of sensors. These sensors make conditionally independent observations. The local…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2011-09-27 Waseem A. Malik , Nuno C. Martins , Ananthram Swami

Sensor placement for the purpose of detecting/tracking news outbreak and preventing rumor spreading is a challenging problem in a large scale online social network (OSN). This problem is a kind of subset selection problem: choosing a small…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-12-09 Junzhou Zhao , John C. S. Lui , Don Towsley , Xiaohong Guan , Pinghui Wang

We propose a method to optimally position a sensor system, which consists of multiple sensors, each has limited range and viewing angle, and they may fail with a certain failure rate. The goal is to find the optimal locations as well as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Seong Jun Kim , Sung Ha Kang , Haomin Zhou

This paper studies sensor placement when detection performance varies stochastically due to environmental factors over space and time and false alarms are present, but a filter is used to attenuate the effect. We introduce a unified model…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-04 Mingyu Kim , Pronoy Sarker , Seungmo Kim , Daniel J. Stilwell , Jorge Jimenez

We consider a single-hop data gathering sensor cluster consisting of a set of sensors that need to transmit data periodically to a base-station. We are interested in maximizing the lifetime of this network. Even though the setting of our…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Samar Agnihotri , Pavan Nuggehalli

In WSN, each sensor is responsible for sensing environmental conditions and sending them to the one or more base stations. Battery-operated sensors are severely constrained by the amount of energy that can be spend for transmitting these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-10-16 Subhasis Bhattacharjee

The use of in-situ digital sensors for water quality monitoring is becoming increasingly common worldwide. While these sensors provide near real-time data for science, the data are prone to technical anomalies that can undermine the…

Sensor nodes are low cost, low power devices that are used to collect physical data and monitor environmental conditions from remote locations. Wireless Sensor Networks(WSN) are collection of sensor nodes, coordinating among themselves to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-03-18 Deepali Virmani , Satbir Jain

Many offline unsupervised change point detection algorithms rely on minimizing a penalized sum of segment-wise costs. We extend this framework by proposing to minimize a sum of discrepancies between segments. In particular, we propose to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Aurélien Serre , Didier Chételat , Andrea Lodi

In this paper, a new cooperation structure for spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks is proposed which outperforms the existing commonly-used ones in terms of energy efficiency. The efficiency is achieved in the proposed design by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-11 Younes Abdi , Tapani Ristaniemi

We propose Robust Narrowest Significance Pursuit (RNSP), a methodology for detecting localized regions in data sequences which each must contain a change-point in the median, at a prescribed global significance level. RNSP works by fitting…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-02-02 Piotr Fryzlewicz

Objective-The main purpose of this paper is to construct a data accuracy model for the maximal set of sensor nodes that sense a point event and forms a cluster with fully connected network between them. We determine the minimal set of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-01-12 Jyotirmoy Karjee , H. S Jamadagni