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In a wireless sensor network, multilevel quantization is necessary in order to find a compromise between the smallest possible power consumption of the sensors and the detection performance at the fusion center (FC). The general methodology…
This paper proposes a new state estimator for discrete-time nonlinear dynamical systems with unknown-but-bounded uncertainties and state linear inequality and nonlinear equality constraints. Our algorithm is based on constrained zonotopes…
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…
Zonotopes are widely used for over-approximating forward reachable sets of uncertain linear systems for verification purposes. In this paper, we use zonotopes to achieve more scalable algorithms that under-approximate backward reachable…
This paper proposes a novel consensus-based distributed filter over directed graphs under the collectively observability condition. The distributed filter is designed using an augmented leader-following information fusion strategy, and the…
We propose a method to perform set-based state estimation of an unknown dynamical linear system using a data-driven set propagation function. Our method comes with set-containment guarantees, making it applicable to safety-critical systems.…
Bias estimation or sensor registration is an essential step in ensuring the accuracy of global tracks in multisensor-multitarget tracking. Most previously proposed algorithms for bias estimation rely on local measurements in centralized…
Distributed estimation based on measurements from multiple wireless sensors is investigated. It is assumed that a group of sensors observe the same quantity in independent additive observation noises with possibly different variances. The…
This paper addresses the density based multi-sensor cooperative fusion using random finite set (RFS) type multi-object densities (MODs). Existing fusion methods use scalar weights to characterize the relative information confidence among…
Single time-scale distributed estimation of dynamic systems via a network of sensors/estimators is addressed in this letter. In single time-scale distributed estimation, the two fusion steps, consensus and measurement exchange, are…
The constrained zonotope is a polytopic set representation widely used for set-based analysis and control of dynamic systems. This paper develops methods to formulate and solve optimization problems for dynamic systems in real time using…
This work proposes a robust data-driven tube-based zonotopic predictive control (TZPC) approach for discrete-time linear systems, designed to ensure stability and recursive feasibility in the presence of bounded noise. The proposed approach…
We propose two distributed set-based observers using strip-based and set-propagation approaches for linear discrete-time dynamical systems with bounded modeling and measurement uncertainties. Both algorithms utilize a set-based diffusion…
Consensus is a popular technique for distributed state estimation. This formulation allows networks of connected agents or sensors to exchange information about the distribution of a set of targets with their immediate neighbors without the…
Autonomous vehicles and mobile robotic systems are typically equipped with multiple sensors to provide redundancy. By integrating the observations from different sensors, these mobile agents are able to perceive the environment and estimate…
This paper investigates an issue of distributed fusion estimation under network-induced complexity and stochastic parameter uncertainties. First, a novel signal selection method based on event-trigger is developed to handle network-induced…
In distributed sensor networks, sensors often observe a dynamic process within overlapping regions. Due to random delays, these correlated observations arrive at the fusion center asynchronously, raising a central question: How can one fuse…
In this paper, we tackle decision fusion for distributed detection in a randomly-deployed clustered wireless sensor networks (WSNs) operating over a non-ideal multiple access channels (MACs), i.e. considering Rayleigh fading, pathloss and…
Disturbance noises are always bounded in a practical system, while fusion estimation is to best utilize multiple sensor data containing noises for the purpose of estimating a quantity--a parameter or process. However, few results are…
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) enable a wealth of new applications where remote estimation is essential. Individual sensors simultaneously sense a dynamic process and transmit measured information over a shared channel to a central fusion…