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We propose a novel method for geolocalizing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in environments lacking Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). Current state-of-the-art techniques employ an offline-trained encoder to generate a vector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Theo Di Piazza , Enric Meinhardt-Llopis , Gabriele Facciolo , Benedicte Bascle , Corentin Abgrall , Jean-Clement Devaux

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as aerial base stations, are a promising solution for providing wireless communications, thanks to their high flexibility and autonomy. Moreover, emerging services, such as extended reality, require…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Javad Sabzehali , Vijay K. Shah , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Jeffrey H. Reed

This paper presents a novel on-line path planning method that enables aerial robots to interact with surfaces. We present a solution to the problem of finding trajectories that drive a robot towards a surface and move along it. Triangular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Michael Pantic , Lionel Ott , Cesar Cadena , Roland Siegwart , Juan Nieto

We consider the problem of estimating an RF-device's location based on observations, such as received signal strength, from a set of transmitters with known locations. We survey the literature on this problem, showing that previous authors…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Nachikethas A. Jagadeesan , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

This paper describes a numerical method for finding good packings in Grassmannian manifolds equipped with various metrics. This investigation also encompasses packing in projective spaces. In each case, producing a good packing is…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-29 I. S. Dhillon , R. W. Heath , T. Strohmer , J. A. Tropp

In this paper, we present a stochastic augmented Lagrangian approach on (possibly infinite-dimensional) Riemannian manifolds to solve stochastic optimization problems with a finite number of deterministic constraints.We investigate the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Caroline Geiersbach , Tim Suchan , Kathrin Welker

Antenna layout is an important design consideration for radio interferometers because it determines the quality of the snapshot point spread function (PSF, or array beam). This is particularly true for experiments targeting the 21 cm Epoch…

Radio maps provide metrics such as power spectral density for every location in a geographic area and find numerous applications such as UAV communications, interference control, spectrum management, resource allocation, and network…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-10 Yves Teganya , Daniel Romero

Shape spaces are fundamental in a variety of applications including image registration, morphing, matching, interpolation, and shape optimization. In this work, we consider two-dimensional shapes represented by triangular meshes of a given…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Roland Herzog , Estefanía Loayza-Romero

The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into next-generation wireless networks is a promising solution for providing flexible, efficient coverage. This paper explores the optimal deployment of a single UAV to cover an arbitrary…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Alexander Vavoulas , Nicholas Vaiopoulos , Konstantinos K. Delibasis , Harilaos G. Sandalidis

In Hamiltonian systems subjected to periodic perturbations the stable and unstable manifolds of the unstable periodic orbits provide the dynamical "skeleton" that drives the mixing process and bounds the chaotic regions of the phase space.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 David Ciro Taborda , Todd Edwin Evans , Iberê Luiz Caldas

We study optimization of finite sums of geodesically smooth functions on Riemannian manifolds. Although variance reduction techniques for optimizing finite-sums have witnessed tremendous attention in the recent years, existing work is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-11 Hongyi Zhang , Sashank J. Reddi , Suvrit Sra

Estimating the location where an image was taken based solely on the contents of the image is a challenging task, even for humans, as properly labeling an image in such a fashion relies heavily on contextual information, and is not as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Jesse M. Johns , Jeremiah Rounds , Michael J. Henry

In this paper, we study a navigation problem where a mobile robot needs to locate a mmWave wireless signal. Using the directionality properties of the signal, we propose an estimation and path planning algorithm that can efficiently…

In this paper, we present an adaptive gradient descent method for geodesically convex optimization on a Riemannian manifold with nonnegative sectional curvature. The method automatically adapts to the local geometry of the function and does…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Aban Ansari-Önnestam , Yura Malitsky

This paper describes an approach for fitting an immersed submanifold of a finite-dimensional Euclidean space to random samples. The reconstruction mapping from the ambient space to the desired submanifold is implemented as a composition of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Joshua Hanson , Maxim Raginsky

The one of the significant challenges faced by autonomous robotic ultrasound systems is acquiring high-quality images across different patients. The proper orientation of the robotized probe plays a crucial role in governing the quality of…

In a wireless network, the spatial location of the transmitters has a large impact on the achievable rate at each user location. The optimal placement of -- for example -- cellular base stations is a difficult non-convex problem, and is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Lukas Taus , Richard Tsai , Jeffrey G. Andrews

This paper presents a Riemannian metric-based model to solve the optimal path planning problem on two-dimensional smooth submanifolds in high-dimensional space. Our model is based on constructing a new Riemannian metric on a two-dimensional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Yu Zhang , Qi Zhou , Xiao-Song Yang

Millimeter wave (mmWave) localization algorithms exploit the quasi-optical propagation of mmWave signals, which yields sparse angular spectra at the receiver. Geometric approaches to angle-based localization typically require to know the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Anish Shastri , Joan Palacios , Paolo Casari