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This paper focuses on static source localization employing different combinations of measurements, including time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA), received-signal-strength (RSS), angle-of-arrival (AOA), and time-of-arrival (TOA) measurements.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-10 Kang Tang , Sheng Xu , Yuqi Yang , He Kong , Yongsheng Ma

Position verification in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is quite tricky in presence of attackers (malicious sensor nodes), who try to break the verification protocol by reporting their incorrect positions (locations) during the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-05-06 Partha Sarathi Mandal , Anil K. Ghosh

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Antonio Candelieri , Andrea Ponti , Francesco Archetti

Place recognition plays an important role in achieving robust long-term autonomy. Real-world robots face a wide range of weather conditions (e.g. overcast, heavy rain, and snowing) and most sensors (i.e. camera, LiDAR) essentially…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Hogyun Kim , Byunghee Choi , Euncheol Choi , Younggun Cho

This paper improves visual-inertial systems to boost the localization accuracy for low-cost rescue robots. When robots traverse on rugged terrain, the performance of pose estimation suffers from big noise on the measurements of the inertial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Xiaoling Long , Qingwen Xu , Yijun Yuan , Zhenpeng He , Sören Schwertfeger

Robotic telescopes present the opportunity for the sparse temporal placement of observations when period searching. We address the best way to place a limited number of observations to cover the dynamic range of frequencies required by an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Eric S. Saunders , Tim Naylor , Alasdair Allan

The ability of robots to estimate their location is crucial for a wide variety of autonomous operations. In settings where GPS is unavailable, measurements of transmissions from fixed beacons provide an effective means of estimating a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Charles Schaff , David Yunis , Ayan Chakrabarti , Matthew R. Walter

This work considers the problem of quickest detection of signals in a coupled system of $N$ sensors, which receive continuous sequential observations from the environment. It is assumed that the signals, which are modeled by general It\^{o}…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-11 Hongzhong Zhang , Olympia Hadjiliadis , Tobias Schäfer , H. Vincent Poor

In randomly deployed networks, such as sensor networks, an important problem for each node is to discover its \textit{neighbor} nodes so that the connectivity amongst nodes can be established. In this paper, we consider this problem by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-02-21 Jeongho Jeon , Anthony Ephremides

Selecting cost-effective optimal sensor configurations for subsequent inference of parameters in black-box stochastic systems faces significant computational barriers. We propose a novel and robust approach, modelling the joint distribution…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-04 Paula Cordero-Encinar , Tobias Schröder , Peter Yatsyshin , Andrew Duncan

Accurate sensor placement is critical for modeling spatio-temporal systems such as environmental and climate processes. Neural Processes (NPs), particularly Convolutional Conditional Neural Processes (ConvCNPs), provide scalable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Feyza Eksen , Stefan Oehmcke , Stefan Lüdtke

In the realm of large-scale spatiotemporal data, abrupt changes are commonly occurring across both spatial and temporal domains. This study aims to address the concurrent challenges of detecting change points and identifying spatial…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-05 Zerui Zhang , Xin Wang , Xin Zhang , Jing Zhang

Autonomous robot networks are an effective tool for monitoring large-scale environmental fields. This paper proposes distributed control strategies for localizing the source of a noisy signal, which could represent a physical quantity of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-04-14 Nikolay A. Atanasov , Jerome Le Ny , George J. Pappas

Contextual proximity detection (or, co-presence detection) is a promising approach to defend against relay attacks in many mobile authentication systems. We present a systematic assessment of co-presence detection in the presence of a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Babins Shrestha , Nitesh Saxena , Hien Thi Thu Truong , N. Asokan

In object detection, determining which anchors to assign as positive or negative samples, known as anchor assignment, has been revealed as a core procedure that can significantly affect a model's performance. In this paper we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Kang Kim , Hee Seok Lee

We consider optimal sensor placement for hyper-parameterized linear Bayesian inverse problems, where the hyper-parameter characterizes nonlinear flexibilities in the forward model, and is considered for a range of possible values. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Nicole Aretz-Nellesen , Peng Chen , Martin A. Grepl , Karen Veroy

The surveillance multisensor placement is an important optimization problem that consists of positioning several sensors of different types to maximize the coverage of a determined area while minimizing the cost of the deployment. In this…

This paper describes performance bounds for compressed sensing in the presence of Poisson noise when the underlying signal, a vector of Poisson intensities, is sparse or compressible (admits a sparse approximation). The signal-independent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-04-30 Rebecca M. Willett , Maxim Raginsky

The ability of a sensor node to determine its physical location within a network (Localization) is of fundamental importance in sensor networks. Interpretating data from sensors will not be possible unless the context of the data is known;…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Sameer Tilak , Vinay Kolar , Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh , Kyoung-Don Kang

This work considers the problem of detecting signals from multiple sequentially observed data streams, where only one stream can be observed at every time instant. The goal is to detect signals as quickly as possible while controlling the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-07 Yiming Xing , Georgios Fellouris