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This paper proposes a novel algorithm to determine the optimal placement of redundant inertial sensors such as accelerometers and gyroscopes (gyros) for increasing the sensing accuracy. In this paper, we have proposed a novel iterative…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Nitesh Sahu , Prabhu Babu , Arun Kumar , Rajendar Bahl

We study the problem of selecting $k$ experiments from a larger candidate pool, where the goal is to maximize mutual information (MI) between the selected subset and the underlying parameters. Finding the exact solution is to this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-26 Fengyi Li , Ayoub Belhadji , Youssef Marzouk

Distributed detection fusion with high-dimension conditionally dependent observations is known to be a challenging problem. When a fusion rule is fixed, this paper attempts to make progress on this problem for the large sensor networks by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Hang Rao , Xiaojing Shen , Yunmin Zhu , Jianxin Pan

Finite-horizon sequential experimental design (SED) arises naturally in many contexts, including hyperparameter tuning in machine learning among more traditional settings. Computing the optimal policy for such problems requires solving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Shali Jiang , Henry Chai , Javier Gonzalez , Roman Garnett

This paper addresses the problem of optimal control of robotic sensing systems aimed at autonomous information gathering in scenarios such as environmental monitoring, search and rescue, and surveillance and reconnaissance. The information…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-01-28 Mikko Lauri , Nikolay Atanasov , George J. Pappas , Risto Ritala

In this paper, we focus on activating only a few sensors, among many available, to estimate the state of a stochastic process of interest. This problem is important in applications such as target tracking and simultaneous localization and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Vasileios Tzoumas , Nikolay A. Atanasov , Ali Jadbabaie , George J. Pappas

This work addresses a Multi-Objective Shortest Path Problem (MO-SPP) on a graph where the goal is to find a set of Pareto-optimal solutions from a start node to a destination in the graph. A family of approaches based on MOA* have been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Zhongqiang Ren , Richard Zhan , Sivakumar Rathinam , Maxim Likhachev , Howie Choset

Bayesian optimization (BO) methods choose sample points by optimizing an acquisition function derived from a statistical model of the objective. These acquisition functions are chosen to balance sampling regions with predicted good…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Darian Nwankwo , David Bindel

Suppose $N$ independent Bernoulli trials are observed sequentially at random times of a mixed binomial process. The task is to maximise, by using a nonanticipating stopping strategy, the probability of stopping at the last success. We focus…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Alexander Gnedin , Zakaria Derbazi

A modern radar may be designed to perform multiple functions, such as surveillance, tracking, and fire control. Each function requires the radar to execute a number of transmit-receive tasks. A radar resource management (RRM) module makes…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Mahdi Shaghaghi , Raviraj S. Adve , Zhen Ding

This paper proposes a fast approximate message-passing (AMP) algorithm for solving compressed sensing (CS) recovery problems with 1D-finite-difference sparsity in term of MMSE estimation. The proposed algorithm, named ssAMP-BGFD, is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-07 Jaewook Kang , Hyoyoung Jung , Heung-No Lee , Kiseon Kim

In sequential experiments, subjects become available for the study over a period of time, and covariates are often measured at the time of arrival. We consider the setting where the sample size is fixed but covariate values are unknown…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-05-28 Mia S. Tackney , David C. Woods , Ilya Shpitser

In this paper, we address the problem of stochastic motion planning under partial observability, more specifically, how to navigate a mobile robot equipped with continuous range sensors such as LIDAR. In contrast to many existing robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Ke Sun , Brent Schlotfeldt , George Pappas , Vijay Kumar

Monte Carlo Tree Search is a cornerstone algorithm for online planning, and its root-parallel variant is widely used when wall clock time is limited but best performance is desired. In environments with continuous action spaces, how to best…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Junlin Xiao , Victor-Alexandru Darvariu , Bruno Lacerda , Nick Hawes

Joint estimation and scheduling for sensor networks is considered in a system formed by two sensors, a scheduler and a remote estimator. Each sensor observes a Gaussian source, which may be correlated. The scheduler observes the output of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Marcos M. Vasconcelos , Urbashi Mitra

In this paper, we address the problem of sampling-based motion planning under motion and measurement uncertainty with probabilistic guarantees. We generalize traditional sampling-based tree-based motion planning algorithms for deterministic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Qi Heng Ho , Zachary N. Sunberg , Morteza Lahijanian

This paper addresses the problem of active learning of a multi-output Gaussian process (MOGP) model representing multiple types of coexisting correlated environmental phenomena. In contrast to existing works, our active learning problem…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-25 Yehong Zhang , Trong Nghia Hoang , Kian Hsiang Low , Mohan Kankanhalli

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

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 present PESMO, a Bayesian method for identifying the Pareto set of multi-objective optimization problems, when the functions are expensive to evaluate. The central idea of PESMO is to choose evaluation points so as to maximally reduce…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-23 Daniel Hernández-Lobato , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato , Amar Shah , Ryan P. Adams