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This paper proposes a novel particle filter for tracking time-varying states of multiple targets jointly from superpositional data, which depend on the sum of contributions of all targets. Many conventional tracking methods rely on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 Nobutaka Ito , Simon Godsill

In this paper we present a new population based metaheuristic called the fixed set search (FSS). The proposed approach represents a method of adding a learning mechanism to the greedy randomized adaptive search procedure (GRASP). The basic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Raka Jovanovic , Milan Tuba , Stefan Voss

Trajectory optimization of sensing robots to actively gather information of targets has received much attention in the past. It is well-known that under the assumption of linear Gaussian target dynamics and sensor models the stochastic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Jennifer Wakulicz , He Kong , Salah Sukkarieh

Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) focuses on modeling the relationship of detected objects among consecutive frames and merge them into different trajectories. MOT remains a challenging task as noisy and confusing detection results often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Tao Wang , Kean Chen , Weiyao Lin , John See , Zenghui Zhang , Qian Xu , Xia Jia

We study the collective motion of autonomous mobile agents on a ringlike environment. The agents' dynamics is inspired by known laboratory experiments on the dynamics of locust swarms. In these experiments, locusts placed at arbitrary…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Michael Amir , Noa Agmon , Alfred M. Bruckstein

Multi-agent systems driven by large language models (LLMs) have shown promising abilities for solving complex tasks in a collaborative manner. This work considers a fundamental problem in multi-agent collaboration: consensus seeking. When…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Huaben Chen , Wenkang Ji , Lufeng Xu , Shiyu Zhao

In multi-agent applications such as surveillance and logistics, fleets of mobile agents are often expected to coordinate and safely visit a large number of goal locations as efficiently as possible. The multi-agent planning problem in these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Zhongqiang Ren , Sivakumar Rathinam , Howie Choset

This paper considers a localized data-driven consensus problem for leader-follower multi-agent systems with unknown discrete-time agent dynamics, where each follower computes its local control gain using only their locally collected state…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-24 Zeze Chang , Junjie Jiao , Zhongkui Li

We study the problem of selecting limited features to observe such that models trained on them can perform well simultaneously across multiple subpopulations. This problem has applications in settings where collecting each feature is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Maitreyi Swaroop , Tamar Krishnamurti , Bryan Wilder

We consider the problem of using multiple agents to harvest data from a collection of sensor nodes (targets) scattered across a two-dimensional environment. These targets transmit their data to the agents that move in the space above them,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-25 Shili Wu , Yancheng Zhu , Aniruddha Datta , Sean B. Andersson

Learning in networks of binary synapses is known to be an NP-complete problem. A combined stochastic local search strategy in the synaptic weight space is constructed to further improve the learning performance of a single random walker. We…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-11-18 Haiping Huang , Haijun Zhou

We consider the spatial classification problem for monitoring using data collected by a coordinated team of mobile robots. Such classification problems arise in several applications including search-and-rescue and precision agriculture.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Xiaoshan Lin , Siddharth Nayak , Stefano Di Cairano , Abraham P. Vinod

We present RobustTP, an end-to-end algorithm for predicting future trajectories of road-agents in dense traffic with noisy sensor input trajectories obtained from RGB cameras (either static or moving) through a tracking algorithm. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Rohan Chandra , Uttaran Bhattacharya , Christian Roncal , Aniket Bera , Dinesh Manocha

Multi-agent multi-target tracking has a wide range of applications, including wildlife patrolling, security surveillance or environment monitoring. Such algorithms often make restrictive assumptions: the number of targets and/or their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Arundhati Banerjee , Jeff Schneider

We consider the problem of tracking a group of mobile nodes with limited available computational and energy resources given noisy RSSI measurements and position estimates from group members. The multilateration solutions are known for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Vikram Kumar , Reza Arablouei , Raja Jurdak , Branislav Kusy , Neil W. Bergmann

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

This work considers the problem of detecting signals from multiple sequentially observed data streams, where only one stream can be observed at every time instant. The goal is to detect signals as quickly as possible while controlling the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-07 Yiming Xing , Georgios Fellouris

This paper considers the problem of resource-constrained and noise-limited localization and estimation of dynamic targets that are sparsely distributed over a large area. We generalize an existing framework [Bashan et al, 2008] for adaptive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-09 Gregory E. Newstadt , Dennis L. Wei , Alfred O. Hero

A group of cooperative aerial robots can be deployed to efficiently patrol a terrain, in which each robot flies around an assigned area and shares information with the neighbors periodically in order to protect or supervise it. To ensure…

Multitarget Tracking (MTT) is the problem of tracking the states of an unknown number of objects using noisy measurements, with important applications to autonomous driving, surveillance, robotics, and others. In the model-based Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Juliano Pinto , Georg Hess , William Ljungbergh , Yuxuan Xia , Lennart Svensson , Henk Wymeersch