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We consider a power-constrained sensor network, consisting of multiple sensor nodes and a fusion center (FC), that is deployed for the purpose of estimating a common random parameter of interest. In contrast to the distributed framework,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-16 Swarnendu Kar , Pramod K. Varshney

We present a geometric approach to designing distributed unknown input observers (DUIOs) for linear time-invariant systems, where measurements are distributed across nodes and each node is influenced by \emph{unknown inputs} through…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 Ruixuan Zhao , Guitao Yang , Thomas Parisini , Boli Chen

The direction of arrival (DOA) estimation algorithms are crucial in localizing acoustic sources. Traditional localization methods rely on block-level processing to extract the directional information from multiple measurements processed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Ruchi Pandey , Santosh Nannuru

Distributed optimization finds applications in large-scale machine learning, data processing and classification over multi-agent networks. In real-world scenarios, the communication network of agents may encounter latency that may affect…

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We study the policy evaluation problem in multi-agent reinforcement learning, modeled by a Markov decision process. In this problem, the agents operate in a common environment under a fixed control policy, working together to discover the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-13 Thinh T. Doan , Siva Theja Maguluri , Justin Romberg

This work considers the sensor scheduling for multiple dynamic processes. We consider $n$ linear dynamic processes, the state of each process is measured by a sensor, which transmits their local state estimates over wireless channels to a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Shuang Wu , Kemi Ding , Peng Cheng , Ling Shi

Goal-oriented communication entails the timely transmission of updates related to a specific goal defined by the application. In a distributed setup with multiple sensors, each individual sensor knows its own observation and can determine…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Federico Chiariotti , Andrea Munari , Leonardo Badia , Petar Popovski

Desynchronization approaches in wireless sensor networks converge to time-division multiple access (TDMA) of the shared medium without requiring clock synchronization amongst the wireless sensors, or indeed the presence of a central…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Dujdow Buranapanichkit , Nikos Deligiannis , Yiannis Andreopoulos

In this paper, we exploit the maximum correntropy criterion (MCC) to robustify the traditional time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) location estimator in the presence of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) propagation conditions. For the sake of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-10 Wenxin Xiong , Christian Schindelhauer , Hing Cheung So , Junli Liang , Zhi Wang

In this paper it is established that any jointly controllable, jointly observable, multi-channel, discrete or continuous time linear system with a strongly connected neighbor (communication) graph can be exponentially stabilized with any…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-02 Fengjiao Liu , Lili Wang , Daniel Fullmer , A. Stephen Morse

Time-distributed Optimization (TDO) is an approach for reducing the computational burden of Model Predictive Control (MPC). When using TDO, optimization iterations are distributed over time by maintaining a running solution estimate and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-25 Dominic Liao-McPherson , Terrence Skibik , Jordan Leung , Ilya Kolmanovsky , Marco M. Nicotra

This paper deals with the problem of designing a distributed fault detection and isolation algorithm for nonlinear large-scale systems that are subjected to multiple fault modes. To solve this problem, a network of communicating detection…

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Positioning is becoming a key component in many Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The main challenges and limitations are the narrow bandwidth, low power and low cost which reduces the accuracy of the time of arrival (TOA) estimation.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Guangjin Pan , Tao Wang , Xiufeng Jiang , Shunqing Zhang

Previous studies explained how the 2D positioning problem in indoor non line-of-sight environments can be addressed using ray tracing with noisy angle of arrival (AoA) measurements. In this work, we generalize these results on two aspects.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Vincent Corlay , Viet-Hoa Nguyen , Nicolas Gresset

In this work, we investigate direction finding in the presence of sensor gain uncertainties and directional perturbations for sensor array processing in a multi-frequency scenario. Specifically, we adopt a distributed optimization scheme in…

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We consider the problem of distributed state estimation of a linear time-invariant (LTI) system by a network of sensors. We develop a distributed observer that guarantees asymptotic reconstruction of the state for the most general class of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Aritra Mitra , Shreyas Sundaram

With the advancement of IoT technologies and the rapid expansion of cyber-physical systems, there is increasing interest in distributed state estimation, where multiple sensors collaboratively monitor large-scale dynamic systems. Compared…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-23 Ruixuan Zhao , Guitao Yang , James Fleming , Boli Chen

A simply structured distributed observer is described for estimating the state of a discrete-time, jointly observable, input-free, linear system whose sensed outputs are distributed across a time-varying network. It is explained how to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Lili Wang , Ji Liu , A. Stephen Morse , Brian D. O. Anderson

Positioning with one single communication between base stations and user devices can effectively save air time and thus expand the user volume to infinite. However, this usually demands accurate synchronization between base stations.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-27 Sihao Zhao , Xiaowei Cui , Shuang Xu , Mingquan Lu