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We propose a distributed control algorithm for a multi-agent network whose agents deploy over a cluttered region in accordance with a time-varying coverage density function while avoiding collisions with all obstacles they encounter. Our…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-12 Alaa Z. Abdulghafoor , Efstathios Bakolas

Accurate watch time prediction is crucial for enhancing user engagement in streaming short-video platforms, although it is challenged by complex distribution characteristics across multi-granularity levels. Through systematic analysis of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Xu Zhao , Ruibo Ma , Jiaqi Chen , Weiqi Zhao , Ping Yang , Yao Hu

In this letter, we propose a Gaussian mixture model (GMM)-based channel estimator which is learned on imperfect training data, i.e., the training data are solely comprised of noisy and sparsely allocated pilot observations. In a practical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-14 Benedikt Fesl , Nurettin Turan , Michael Joham , Wolfgang Utschick

Fault-tolerant coverage control involves determining a trajectory that enables an autonomous agent to cover specific points of interest, even in the presence of actuation and/or sensing faults. In this work, the agent encounters control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-20 Savvas Papaioannou , Christian Vitale , Panayiotis Kolios , Christos G. Panayiotou , Marios M. Polycarpou

In this paper, we propose a class of discrete-time approximation schemes for stochastic optimal control problems under the $G$-expectation framework. The proposed schemes are constructed recursively based on piecewise constant policy. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Lianzi Jiang

Learning from demonstration (LfD) is an intuitive framework allowing non-expert users to easily (re-)program robots. However, the quality and quantity of demonstrations have a great influence on the generalization performances of LfD…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Hakan Girgin , Emmanuel Pignat , Noémie Jaquier , Sylvain Calinon

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

In this paper, we propose several set-point control schemes for achieving finite-time regulation in a class of Euler--Lagrange systems with $n$ degrees of freedom and uncertain potential energy. The proposed controllers are based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Emmanuel Cruz-Zavala , Jaime A. Moreno , Antonio Loría

In multi-target tracking (MTT), non-Gaussian measurement noise from sensors can diminish the performance of the Gaussian-assumed Gaussian mixture probability hypothesis density (GM-PHD) filter. In this paper, an approach that transforms the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Jiacheng He , Shan Zhong , Bei Peng , Gang Wang , Qizhen Wang

Generative control policies have recently unlocked major progress in robotics. These methods produce action sequences via diffusion or flow matching, with training data provided by demonstrations. But existing methods come with two key…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Vince Kurtz , Joel W. Burdick

Diffusion-based models for robotic control, including vision-language-action (VLA) and vision-action (VA) policies, have demonstrated significant capabilities. Yet their advancement is constrained by the high cost of acquiring large-scale…

We report on recent work on adaptive timestep control for weakly instationary gas flows [16, 18, 17] carried out within SFB 401, TPA3. The method which we implement and extend is a space-time splitting of adjoint error representations for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-22 Sebastian Noelle , Christina Steiner

A new upscaling procedure that provides 1D representations of 2D mixing-limited reactive transport systems is developed and applied. A key complication with upscaled models in this setting is that the procedure must differentiate between…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-05 Ricardo H. Deucher , Louis J. Durlofsky

In modelling time series data coming from different sources, frequencies can easily vary since some variable can be measured at higher frequencies, others, at lower frequencies. Given data measured over spatial units and at varying…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-05 Vladimir A. Malabanan , Joseph Ryan G. Lansangan , Erniel B. Barrios

Aerial operation in turbulent environments is a challenging problem due to the chaotic behavior of the flow. This problem is made even more complex when a team of aerial robots is trying to achieve coordinated motion in turbulent wind…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Diego Patiño , Siddharth Mayya , Juan Calderon , Kostas Daniilidis , David Saldaña

In this paper, we present a new control model for optimizing pressure and water quality operations in water distribution networks. Our formulation imposes a set of time-coupling constraints to manage temporal pressure variations, which are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Bradley Jenks , Aly-Joy Ulusoy , Filippo Pecci , Ivan Stoianov

Contour tracking plays a crucial role in multi-axis motion control systems, and it requires both multi-axial contouring as well as standard servo performance in each axis. Among the existing contouring control methods, the cross coupled…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Yue Cao , Zhen Zhang

Learning-based control methods utilize run-time data from the underlying process to improve the controller performance under model mismatch and unmodeled disturbances. This is beneficial for optimizing industrial processes, where the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-22 Efe C. Balta , Kira Barton , Dawn M. Tilbury , Alisa Rupenyan , John Lygeros

A physics-informed convolutional neural network is proposed to simulate two phase flow in porous media with time-varying well controls. While most of PICNNs in existing literatures worked on parameter-to-state mapping, our proposed network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Jungang Chen , Eduardo Gildin , John E. Killough

Large-scale swarm robotic systems consisting of numerous cooperative agents show considerable promise for performing autonomous tasks across various sectors. Nonetheless, traditional motion planning approaches often face a trade-off between…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Yunze Hu , Xuru Yang , Kangjie Zhou , Qinghang Liu , Kang Ding , Han Gao , Pingping Zhu , Chang Liu