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The small amount of measurements in distribution grids makes their monitoring more difficult. Topological observability may not be possible, and thus, pseudo-measurements are needed to perform state estimation, which is required to control…
This chapter provides an overview of state-of-the-art adaptive finite element methods (AFEMs) for the numerical solution of second-order elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs), where the primary focus is on the optimal interplay of…
A new approach for the parallel forward modeling of transient electromagnetic (TEM) fields is presented. It is based on a family of uniform-in-time rational approximants to the matrix exponential that share a common denominator independent…
An energy efficient use of large scale sensor networks necessitates activating a subset of possible sensors for estimation at a fusion center. The problem is inherently combinatorial; to this end, a set of iterative, randomized algorithms…
Additive manufacturing (AM) techniques hold promise but face significant challenges in process planning and optimization. The large temporal and spatial variations in temperature that can occur in layer-wise AM lead to thermal excursions,…
This paper delves into the Inverse Stefan problem, specifically focusing on determining the time-dependent source coefficient in the parabolic heat equation governing heat transfer in a semi-infinite rod. The problem entails the intricate…
This paper presents a model based adaptive monitoring method for the estimation of flow tracers, with application to mapping, prediction and observation of oil spills in the immediate aftermath of an incident. Autonomous agents are guided…
This paper introduces a novel model-free, real-time unicycle-based source seeking design. This design autonomously steers the unicycle dynamic system towards the extremum point of an objective function or physical/scalar signal that is…
Source localization, the act of finding the originator of a disease or rumor in a network, has become an important problem in sociology and epidemiology. The localization is done using the infection state and time of infection of a few…
We study a scenario where a group of agents, each with multiple heterogeneous sensors are collecting measurements of a vehicle and the measurements are transmitted over a communication channel to a centralized node for processing. The…
The main focus of beam alignment is to find the optimal beam which yields the largest received signal strength (RSS) with faster speed.In this paper, we demonstrate an efficient beam alignment scheme with our testbed. The algorithm we…
Multi-sensor fusion is essential for autonomous vehicle localization, as it is capable of integrating data from various sources for enhanced accuracy and reliability. The accuracy of the integrated location and orientation depends on the…
In this paper, we present a two-layer architecture for bearing-only sensor placement that improves upon classical D-optimal design. The first layer reweights particles by minimizing Kullback-Leibler divergence from the current distribution…
This article aims to provide an accessible, tutorial-style introduction to hybrid extremum-seeking systems, which are model-free, feedback-optimization controllers that incorporate hybrid dynamics, meaning both continuous-time and…
We address the problem of estimating the inputs of a dynamical system from measurements of the system's outputs. To this end, we introduce a novel estimation algorithm that explicitly trades off bias and variance to optimally reduce the…
This paper introduces a new approach to solve sensor management problems. Classically sensor management problems can be well formalized as Partially-Observed Markov Decision Processes (POMPD). The original approach developped here consists…
The design of an experiment, e.g., the setting of initial conditions, strongly influences the accuracy of the whole process of determining model parameters from data. We impose a sensitivity-based approach for choosing optimal design…
Optimal sensor placement (SP) usually minimizes an impact measure, such as the amount of contaminated water or the number of inhabitants affected before detection. The common choice is to minimize the minimum detection time (MDT) averaged…
We develop a framework for localized source detection in dynamical systems governed by nonlinear partial differential equations based on first and second-order sensitivity analysis. Building on the standard adjoint formulation, which…