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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

Due to their passive nature and thus low energy consumption, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have shown promise as means of extending coverage as a proxy for connection reliability. The relative locations of the base station (BS),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-08 Ehsan Tohidi , Sven Haesloop , Lars Thiele , Slawomir Stanczak

6G networks require a flexible infrastructure to dynamically provide ubiquitous network coverage. Mobile Access Points (MAP) deployment is a promising solution. In this paper, we formulate the joint 3D MAP deployment and user association…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Esteban Catté , Mohamed Sana , Mickael Maman

We present a general mathematical framework for optimizing cell deployment and antenna configuration in wireless networks, inspired by quantization theory. Unlike traditional methods, our framework supports networks with deterministically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Saeed Karimi-Bidhendi , Giovanni Geraci , Hamid Jafarkhani

Non-geostationary (NGSO) satellite communications systems have attracted a lot of attention both from industry and academia, over the past several years. Beam placement is among the major resource allocation problems in multi-beam NGSO…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-20 Nariman Torkzaban , Asim Zoulkarni , Anousheh Gholami , John S. Baras

This paper presents a solution to the problem of monitoring a region of interest (RoI) using a set of nodes that is not sufficient to achieve the required degree of monitoring coverage. In particular, sensing coverage of wireless sensor…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-03-04 Mohammad Abu Alsheikh , Shaowei Lin , Hwee-Pink Tan , Dusit Niyato

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), coverage and deployment are two most crucial issues when conducting detection tasks. However, the detection information collected from sensors is oftentimes not fully utilized and efficiently integrated.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ruijie Liu , Tianxiang Zhan , Zhen Li , Yong Deng

An optimization method is proposed in this paper for novel deployment of given number of directional landmarks (location and pose) within a given region in the 3-D task space. This new deployment technique is built on the geometric models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Zike Lei , Xi Chen , Ying Tan , Xiang Chen , Li Chai

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is pertinent to many applications with varied network parameters. Sensor node placement in the application region whether it is indoor or outdoor is a major task as well as plays very remarkable role in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-04-27 R. Malathi , Alagarsamy , V. Veeramani , RD. Balaji

The sixth generation (6G) mobile communication networks are expected to offer a new paradigm of cellular integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). However, due to the intrinsic difference between sensing and communication in terms of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Ruoguang Li , Zhiqiang Xiao , Yong Zeng

We consider the problem of multi-robot sensor coverage, which deals with deploying a multi-robot team in an environment and optimizing the sensing quality of the overall environment. As real-world environments involve a variety of sensory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Brian Reily , Terran Mott , Hao Zhang

In mobile wireless sensor networks (MWSNs), each sensor has the ability not only to sense and transmit data but also to move to some specific location. Because the movement of sensors consumes much more power than that in sensing and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Ngoc-Tu Nguyen , Bing-Hong Liu , Shih-Yuan Wang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as aerial wireless base stations when cellular networks go down. Prior studies on UAV-based wireless coverage typically consider an Air-to-Ground path loss model, which assumes that the users are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Hazim Shakhatreh , Abdallah Khreishah , Ayoub Alsarhan , Issa Khalil , Ahmad Sawalmeh , Noor Shamsiah Othman

Sensor networks are ubiquitously used for detection and tracking and as a result covering is one of the main tasks of such networks. We study the problem of maximizing the coverage lifetime of a barrier by mobile sensors with limited…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-24 Amotz Bar-Noy , Dror Rawitz , Peter Terlecky

This paper addresses the fundamental problem of non-uniform area coverage in multi-agent systems, where different regions require varying levels of attention due to mission-dependent priorities. Existing uniform coverage strategies are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Sungjun Seo , Kooktae Lee

Motivated by the advances in 3D sensing technology and the spreading of low-cost robotic platforms, 3D object reconstruction has become a common task in many areas. Nevertheless, the selection of the optimal sensor pose that maximizes the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Miguel Mendoza , J. Irving Vasquez-Gomez , Hind Taud , Luis Enrique Sucar , Carolina Reta

This paper considers the problem of optimally deploying omnidirectional sensors, with potentially limited sensing radius, in a network-like environment. This model provides a compact and effective description of complex environments as well…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-06-18 Luca Greco , Matteo Gaeta , Benedetto Piccoli

Depth completion and object detection are two crucial tasks often used for aerial 3D mapping, path planning, and collision avoidance of Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Common solutions include using measurements from a LiDAR sensor;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Sara Hatami Gazani , Fardad Dadboud , Miodrag Bolic , Iraj Mantegh , Homayoun Najjaran

We show that a $k$-fold covering using translates of an arbitrary convex polygon can be decomposed into $\Omega(k)$ covers (using an efficient algorithm). We generalize this result to obtain a constant factor approximation to the sensor…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-05-08 Matt Gibson , Kasturi Varadarajan

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) show great promise in the realm of 6th generation (6G) wireless systems, particularly in the areas of localization and communication. Their cost-effectiveness and energy efficiency enable the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Han Yan , Hua Chen , Wei Liu , Songjie Yang , Gang Wang , Chau Yuen