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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 2013-05-30 Sheeraz Ahmad , Angela J. Yu

We consider optimal experimental design (OED) for Bayesian nonlinear inverse problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs) under model uncertainty. Specifically, we consider inverse problems in which, in addition to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Alen Alexanderian , Ruanui Nicholson , Noemi Petra

Consider the problem of finding an optimal value of some objective functional subject to constraints over numerical domain. This type of problem arises frequently in practical engineering tasks. Nowdays almost all general methods for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Sergey Karpukhin

We consider a search problem where a robot has one or more types of sensors, each suited to detecting different types of targets or target information. Often, information in the form of a distribution of possible target locations, or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Ananya Rao , Howie Choset

In this paper, we address the challenging problem of optimal experimental design (OED) of constrained inverse problems. We consider two OED formulations that allow reducing the experimental costs by minimizing the number of measurements.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-17 Lars Ruthotto , Julianne Chung , Matthias Chung

In this paper we study an infinite-horizon persistent monitoring problem in a two-dimensional mission space containing a finite number of statically placed targets, at each of which we assume a constant rate of uncertainty accumulation.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-10 Jonas Hall , Logan E. Beaver , Christos G. Cassandras , Sean B. Andersson

Optimal experimental design (OED) is the general formalism of sensor placement and decisions about the data collection strategy for engineered or natural experiments. This approach is prevalent in many critical fields such as battery…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Ahmed Attia , Emil Constantinescu

We present a novel data-driven nested optimization framework that addresses the problem of coupling between plant and controller optimization. This optimization strategy is tailored towards instances where a closed-form expression for the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Ali Baheri , Chris Vermillion

This paper proposes an optimal autonomous search framework, namely Dual Control for Exploration and Exploitation (DCEE), for a target at unknown location in an unknown environment. Source localisation is to find sources of atmospheric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Wen-Hua Chen , Callum Rhodes , Cunjia Liu

Goal-oriented communication (GoC) is a form of semantic communication where the effectiveness of information transmission is measured by its impact on achieving the desired goal. In Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks, GoC can enable sensors…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Prasoon Raghuwanshi , Onel Luis Alcaraz López , I-Hong Hou , Vimal Bhatia , Matti Latva-aho

In sparse target inference problems it has been shown that significant gains can be achieved by adaptive sensing using convex criteria. We generalize previous work on adaptive sensing to (a) include multiple classes of targets with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Gregory E. Newstadt , Beipeng Mu , Dennis Wei , Jonathan P. How , Alfred O. Hero

Diffusion models have recently been shown to excel in many image reconstruction tasks that involve inverse problems based on a forward measurement operator. A common framework uses task-agnostic unconditional models that are later…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Alper Güngör , Bahri Batuhan Bilecen , Tolga Çukur

This paper presents a novel partial differential equation (PDE)-based framework for controlling an ensemble of robots, which have limited sensing and actuation capabilities and exhibit stochastic behaviors, to perform mapping and coverage…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Hendrik Kuiper , Spring Berman

This study proposes an airborne multisensor management algorithm for target tracking, taking each of multiple unmanned aircraft as a sensor. The purpose of the algorithm is to determine the configuration of the sensor deployment and to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Youngjoo Kim , Hyochoong Bang

This paper presents two new greedy sensor placement algorithms, named minimum nonzero eigenvalue pursuit (MNEP) and maximal projection on minimum eigenspace (MPME), for linear inverse problems, with greater emphasis on the MPME algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Chaoyang Jiang , Yeng Chai Soh , Hua Li

Low-cost air pollution sensors, offering hyper-local characterization of pollutant concentrations, are becoming increasingly prevalent in environmental and public health research. However, low-cost air pollution data can be noisy, biased by…

Applications · Statistics 2023-02-21 Claire Heffernan , Roger Peng , Drew R. Gentner , Kirsten Koehler , Abhirup Datta

We study optimal sensor placement for Bayesian state estimation problems in which sensors vary in cost and fidelity, resulting in a budget-constrained multifidelity optimal experimental design problem. Sensor placement optimality is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Gabriela Ramon , Geena Sarnoski , Vasishta Tumuluri , Hugo Díaz , Arvind K. Saibaba

The Inverse Optimal Control (IOC) problem is a structured system identification problem that aims to identify the underlying objective function based on observed optimal trajectories. This provides a data-driven way to model experts'…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-28 Han Zhang , Axel Ringh

Tracking multiple targets in dynamic environments using distributed sensor networks is a fundamental problem in statistical signal processing. In such scenarios, the network of mobile sensors must coordinate their actions to accurately…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Aidan Blair , Amirali Khodadadian Gostar , Alireza Bab-Hadiashar , Xiaodong Li , Reza Hoseinnezhad

The selection problem of an optimal set of sensors estimating the snapshot of high-dimensional data is considered. The objective functions based on various criteria of optimal design are adopted to the greedy method: D-optimality,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-09 Kumi Nakai , Keigo Yamada , Takayuki Nagata , Yuji Saito , Taku Nonomura