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We introduce a novel shape-sensing method using Resistive Flex Sensors (RFS) embedded in cable-driven Continuum Dexterous Manipulators (CDMs). The RFS is predominantly sensitive to deformation rather than direct forces, making it a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Chenhan Zhang , Shaopeng Jiang , Heyun Wang , Joshua Liu , Amit Jain , Mehran Armand

This work investigates Distributed Detection (DD) in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), where spatially distributed sensors transmit binary decisions over a shared flat-fading channel. To enhance fusion efficiency, a reconfigurable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Domenico Ciuonzo , Alessio Zappone , Marco Di Renzo , Ciro D'Elia

A crucial challenge in decentralized systems is state estimation in the presence of unknown inputs, particularly within heterogeneous sensor networks with dynamic topologies. While numerous consensus algorithms have been introduced, they…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-13 Zida Wu , Ankur Mehta

Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) models have shown remarkable capacity for pattern formation and complex global behaviors stemming from local coordination. However, in the original implementation of NCA, cells are incapable of adjusting their…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Ettore Randazzo , Alexander Mordvintsev , Craig Fouts

Distributed radar sensors enable robust human activity recognition. However, scaling the number of coordinated nodes introduces challenges in feature extraction from large datasets, and transparent data fusion. We propose an end-to-end…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-07 Mina Shahbazifar , Zolfa Zeinalpour-Yazdi , Matthias Hollick , Arash Asadi , Vahid Jamali

This paper addresses the problem of navigation control of a general class of uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems in a bounded workspace of $\mathbb{R}^n$ with static obstacles. In particular, we propose a decentralized control protocol…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Alexandros Filotheou , Alexandros Nikou , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Sparse signals, encountered in many wireless and signal acquisition applications, can be acquired via compressed sensing (CS) to reduce computations and transmissions, crucial for resource-limited devices, e.g., wireless sensors. Since the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-27 Markus Leinonen , Marian Codreanu

Distributed learning paradigms, such as federated or decentralized learning, allow a collection of agents to solve global learning and optimization problems through limited local interactions. Most such strategies rely on a mixture of local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Christian A. Schroth , Stefan Vlaski , Abdelhak M. Zoubir

Modern robotic manipulation primarily relies on visual observations in a 2D color space for skill learning but suffers from poor generalization. In contrast, humans, living in a 3D world, depend more on physical properties-such as distance,…

This article seeks to advance coded compressed sensing (CCS) as a practical scheme for unsourced random access. The original CCS algorithm features a concatenated structure where an inner code is tasked with support recovery, and an outer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Jamison R. Ebert , Vamsi K. Amalladinne , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Krishna R. Narayanan

Objective: Deep learning-based neural decoders have emerged as the prominent approach to enable dexterous and intuitive control of neuroprosthetic hands. Yet few studies have materialized the use of deep learning in clinical settings due to…

In this paper, we exploit the theory of compressive sensing to perform detection of a random source in a dense sensor network. When the sensors are densely deployed, observations at adjacent sensors are highly correlated while those…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Thakshila Wimalajeewa , Pramod K. Varshney

In this paper, we present Neural-Swarm, a nonlinear decentralized stable controller for close-proximity flight of multirotor swarms. Close-proximity control is challenging due to the complex aerodynamic interaction effects between…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Guanya Shi , Wolfgang Hönig , Yisong Yue , Soon-Jo Chung

In this paper, we propose a learning approach for sparse code multiple access (SCMA) signal detection by using a deep neural network via unfolding the procedure of message passing algorithm (MPA). The MPA can be converted to a sparsely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Chao Lu , Wei Xu , Hong Shen , Hua Zhang , Xiaohu You

In this paper, we present a novel information processing architecture for safe deep learning-based visual navigation of autonomous systems. The proposed information processing architecture is used to support a perceptual attention-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Keuntaek Lee , Gabriel Nakajima An , Viacheslav Zakharov , Evangelos A. Theodorou

Representation learning is a widely adopted framework for learning in data-scarce environments, aiming to extract common features from related tasks. While centralized approaches have been extensively studied, decentralized methods remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Donghwa Kang , Shana Moothedath

In this paper, we study the problem of jointly retrieving the state of a dynamical system, as well as the state of the sensors deployed to estimate it. We assume that the sensors possess a simple computational unit that is capable of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Andreea B. Alexandru , Sergio Pequito , Ali Jadbabaie , George J. Pappas

Number-conserving cellular automata (NCCA) are particularly interesting, both because of their natural appearance as models of real systems, and because of the strong restrictions that number-conservation implies. Here we extend the…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2007-05-23 Andres Moreira

Decentralized optimization is critical for solving large-scale machine learning problems over distributed networks, where multiple nodes collaborate through local communication. In practice, the variances of stochastic gradient estimators…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Hongxu Chen , Ke Wei , Luo Luo

Spectrum resources management of growing demands is a challenging problem and Cognitive Radio (CR) known to be capable of improving the spectrum utilization. Recently, Power Spectral Density (PSD) map is defined to enable the CR to reuse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Mohammad Eslami , Seyed Hamid Safavi , Farah Torkamani-Azar , Esfandiar Mehrshahi