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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…

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This paper introduces a new approach to solve sensor management problems. Classically sensor management problems can be well formalized as Partially-Observed Markov Decision Processes (POMPD). The original approach developped here consists…

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In multiple target tracking, it is important to be able to evaluate the performance of different tracking algorithms. The trajectory generalized optimal sub-pattern assignment metric (TGOSPA) is a recently proposed metric for such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Viktor Nevelius Wernholm , Alfred Wärnsäter , Axel Ringh

We consider sensor scheduling as the optimal observability problem for partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDP). This model fits to the cases where a Markov process is observed by a single sensor which needs to be dynamically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Mohammad Rezaeian

In multi-object stochastic systems, the issue of sensor management is a theoretically and computationally challenging problem. In this paper, we present a novel random finite set (RFS) approach to the multi-target sensor management problem…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-04-14 Hung Gia Hoang , Ba Tuong Vo

Technological advancements in miniaturization and wireless communications are yielding more affordable and versatile sensors and, in turn, more applications in which a network of sensors can be actively managed to best support overall…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Patrick Kreidl

General unsupervised learning is a long-standing conceptual problem in machine learning. Supervised learning is successful because it can be solved by the minimization of the training error cost function. Unsupervised learning is not as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-04 Ilya Sutskever , Rafal Jozefowicz , Karol Gregor , Danilo Rezende , Tim Lillicrap , Oriol Vinyals

We consider the online planning problem for a team of agents to discover and track an unknown and time-varying number of moving objects from onboard sensor measurements with uncertain measurement-object origins. Since the onboard sensors…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Hoa Van Nguyen , Ba-Ngu Vo , Ba-Tuong Vo , Hamid Rezatofighi , Damith C. Ranasinghe

This paper addresses the challenges of optimally placing a finite number of sensors to detect Poisson-distributed targets in a bounded domain. We seek to rigorously account for uncertainty in the target arrival model throughout the problem.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Mingyu Kim , Harun Yetkin , Daniel J. Stilwell , Jorge Jimenez , Saurav Shrestha , Nina Stark

We present an instance of the optimal sensor scheduling problem with the additional relaxation that our observer makes active choices whether or not to observe and how to observe. We mask the nodes in a directed acyclic graph of the model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Andrew Warrington , Neil Dhir

We study the problem of tracking an object moving through a network of wireless sensors. In order to conserve energy, the sensors may be put into a sleep mode with a timer that determines their sleep duration. It is assumed that an asleep…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-02-07 Jason A. Fuemmeler , George K. Atia , Venugopal V. Veeravalli

Despite their success in various vision tasks, deep neural network architectures often underperform in out-of-distribution scenarios due to the difference between training and target domain style. To address this limitation, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Robin Gerster , Holger Caesar , Matthias Rapp , Alexander Wolpert , Michael Teutsch

We consider the problem of multiple sensor scheduling for remote state estimation of multiple process over a shared link. In this problem, a set of sensors monitor mutually independent dynamical systems in parallel but only one sensor can…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Duo Han , Junfeng Wu , Yilin Mo , Lihua Xie

We address the design of opportunistic spectrum access (OSA) strategies that allow secondary users to independently search for and exploit instantaneous spectrum availability. Integrated in the joint design are three basic components: a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yunxia Chen , Qing Zhao , Ananthram Swami

This paper presents a novel framework for goal-oriented optimal static sensor placement and dynamic sensor steering in PDE-constrained inverse problems, utilizing a Bayesian approach accelerated by low-rank approximations. The framework is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Marco Mattuschka , Noah An der Lan , Max von Danwitz , Daniel Wolff , Alexander Popp

This study proposes an airborne multisensor management algorithm for target tracking, taking each of multiple unmanned aircraft as a sensor. The purpose of the algorithm is to determine the configuration of the sensor deployment and to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Youngjoo Kim , Hyochoong Bang

This paper focuses on static source localization employing different combinations of measurements, including time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA), received-signal-strength (RSS), angle-of-arrival (AOA), and time-of-arrival (TOA) measurements.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-10 Kang Tang , Sheng Xu , Yuqi Yang , He Kong , Yongsheng Ma

We study the problem of sensor placement in environments in which localization is a necessity, such as ad-hoc wireless sensor networks that allow the placement of a few anchors that know their location or sensor arrays that are tracking a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-07-21 Ioana O. Bercea , Volkan Isler , Samir Khuller

Accurate parameter estimation such as angle of arrival (AOA) is essential to enhance the performance of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) in mmWave multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. This work presents a sensing-aided…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Ngoc-Son Duong , Khac-Hoang Ngo , Thai-Mai Dinh , Van-Linh Nguyen

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