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This work shows the existence of optimal control laws for persistent monitoring of mobile targets in a one-dimensional mission space and derives explicit solutions. The underlying performance metric consists of minimizing the total…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Jonas Hall , Sean B. Andersson , Christos G. Cassandras

In this paper we present new algorithms and analysis for the linear inverse sensor placement and scheduling problems over multiple time instances with power and communications constraints. The proposed algorithms, which deal directly with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Cristian Rusu , John Thompson , Neil M. Robertson

Sequential Bayesian optimal experimental design (SBOED) for PDE-governed inverse problems is computationally challenging, especially for infinite-dimensional random field parameters. High-fidelity approaches require repeated forward and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Kaichen Shen , Peng Chen

This article presents a general and novel approach to the automation of goal-oriented error control in the solution of nonlinear stationary finite element variational problems. The approach is based on automated linearization to obtain the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-01 Marie E. Rognes , Anders Logg

Iron loss determination in the magnetic core of an electrical machine, such as a motor or a transformer, is formulated as an inverse heat source problem. The sensor positions inside the object are optimized in order to minimize the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Antti Hannukainen , Nuutti Hyvönen , Lauri Perkkiö

We present a real-time-capable set-based framework for closed-loop predictive control of autonomous systems using tools from computational geometry, dynamic programming, and convex optimization. The control architecture relies on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Abhinav G. Kamath , Abraham P. Vinod , Purnanand Elango , Stefano Di Cairano , Avishai Weiss

An optimal guidance method is developed that reduces sensitivity to parameters in the dynamic model. The method combines a previously developed method for guidance and control using adaptive Legendre-Gauss-Radau (LGR) collocation and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-09 Katrina L. Winkler , Anil V. Rao

This work presents a mathematical model to enable rapid prediction of airborne contaminant transport based on scarce sensor measurements. The method is designed for applications in critical infrastructure protection (CIP), such as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Marco Mattuschka , Daniel Walter , Max von Danwitz , Alexander Popp

Gaussian process regression uses data measured at sensor locations to reconstruct a spatially dependent function with quantified uncertainty. However, if only a limited number of sensors can be deployed, it is important to determine how to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Jessie Chen , Hangjie Ji , Arvind K. Saibaba

We consider infinite-dimensional linear Gaussian Bayesian inverse problems with uncorrelated sensor data, and focus on the problem of finding sensor placements that maximize the expected information gain (EIG). This study is motivated by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Alen Alexanderian , Steven Maio

The objective of this work is to quantify the reconstruction error in sparse inverse problems with measures and stochastic noise, motivated by optimal sensor placement. To be useful in this context, the error quantities must be explicit in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Phuoc-Truong Huynh , Konstantin Pieper , Daniel Walter

We address an optimal sensor placement problem through Bayesian experimental design for seismic full waveform inversion for the recovery of the associated moment tensor. The objective is that of optimally choosing the location of the…

Within the field of optimal experimental design, \emph{sensor placement} refers to the act of finding the optimal locations of data collecting sensors, with the aim to optimise reconstruction of an unknown parameter from finite data. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Christian Aarset , Tram Thi Ngoc Nguyen

This work introduces a new method to efficiently solve optimization problems constrained by partial differential equations (PDEs) with uncertain coefficients. The method leverages two sources of inexactness that trade accuracy for speed:…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-20 Matthew J. Zahr , Kevin T. Carlberg , Drew P. Kouri

Bayesian optimal sensor placement, in its full generality, seeks to maximize the mutual information between uncertain model parameters and the predicted data to be collected from the sensors for the purpose of performing Bayesian inference.…

Applications · Statistics 2019-06-17 Pinaky Bhattacharyya , James L. Beck

In this paper we deal with a practical problem that arises in military mission planning. The problem is to plan a path for one, or more, agents to reach a target without being detected by enemy sensors. Agents are not passive, rather they…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-01 J. E. Beasley

In this paper, a concurrent learning framework is developed for source search in an unknown environment using autonomous platforms equipped with onboard sensors. Distinct from the existing solutions that require significant computational…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-13 Zhongguo Li , Wen-Hua Chen , Jun Yang

We consider optimal design of PDE-based Bayesian linear inverse problems with infinite-dimensional parameters. We focus on the A-optimal design criterion, defined as the average posterior variance and quantified by the trace of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Elizabeth Herman , Alen Alexanderian , Arvind K. Saibaba

We present a nonlinear model predictive control (MPC) scheme for tracking of dynamic target signals. The scheme combines stabilization and dynamic trajectory planning in one layer, thus ensuring constraint satisfaction irrespective of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-21 Johannes Köhler , Matthias A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer

Sensory inference under conditions of uncertainty is a major problem in both machine learning and computational neuroscience. An important but poorly understood aspect of sensory processing is the role of active sensing. Here, we present a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Sheeraz Ahmad , Angela Yu