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We consider the design of an optimal collision-free sensor schedule for a number of sensors which monitor different linear dynamical systems correspondingly. At each time, only one of all the sensors can send its local estimate to the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Han Duo , Wu Junfeng , Zhang Huanshui , Shi Ling

The paper addresses distributed multi-target tracking in the framework of generalized Covariance Intersection (GCI) over multistatic radar system. The proposed method is based on the unlabeled version of generalized labeled multi-Bernoulli…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-03-22 Meng Jiang , Wei Yi , Reza Hoseinnezhad , Lingjiang Kong

Some challenging problems in tracking multiple objects include the time-dependent cardinality, unordered measurements and object parameter labeling. In this paper, we employ Bayesian Bayesian nonparametric methods to address these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Bahman Moraffah , Antonia Papndreou-Suppopola

Real-world autonomous systems operate under uncertainty about both their pose and dynamics. Autonomous control systems must simultaneously perform estimation and control tasks to maintain robustness to changing dynamics or modeling errors.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Patrick Slade , Zachary N. Sunberg , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

In multi-robot multi-target tracking, robots coordinate to monitor groups of targets moving about an environment. We approach planning for such scenarios by formulating a receding-horizon, multi-robot sensing problem with a mutual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Micah Corah , Nathan Michael

The increasing use of autonomous robot systems in hazardous environments underscores the need for efficient search and rescue operations. Despite significant advancements, existing literature on object search often falls short in overcoming…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Matthew Collins , Jared J. Beard , Nicholas Ohi , Yu Gu

Inverse optimal control can be used to characterize behavior in sequential decision-making tasks. Most existing work, however, is limited to fully observable or linear systems, or requires the action signals to be known. Here, we introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Dominik Straub , Matthias Schultheis , Heinz Koeppl , Constantin A. Rothkopf

We address the problem of maintaining resource availability in a networked multi-robot team performing distributed tracking of unknown number of targets in an environment of interest. Based on our model, robots are equipped with sensing and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Ragesh K. Ramachandran , Nicole Fronda , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

This paper addresses security challenges in multi-robot systems (MRS) where adversaries may compromise robot control, risking unauthorized access to forbidden areas. We propose a novel multi-robot optimal planning algorithm that integrates…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ziqi Yang , Roberto Tron

Multi-target tracking in the maritime domain is a challenging problem due to the non-Gaussian and fluctuating characteristics of sea clutter. This article investigates the use of machine learning (ML) to the detection and tracking of low…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-26 Caden Sweeney , Du Yong Kim , Branko Ristic , Brian Cheung

Sensor placement optimization methods have been studied extensively. They can be applied to a wide range of applications, including surveillance of known environments, optimal locations for 5G towers, and placement of missile defense…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Lukas Taus , Yen-Hsi Richard Tsai

This paper considers multi-goal motion planning in unstructured, obstacle-rich environments where a robot is required to reach multiple regions while avoiding collisions. The planned motions must also satisfy the differential constraints…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Yuanjie Lu , Erion Plaku

Multi-robot motion planning problems often have many local minima. It is essential to visualize those local minima such that we can better understand, debug and interact with multi-robot systems. Towards this goal, we present the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Andreas Orthey , Marc Toussaint

An important step in a multi-sensor surveillance system is to estimate sensor biases from their noisy asynchronous measurements. This estimation problem is computationally challenging due to the highly nonlinear transformation between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Wenqiang Pu , Ya-Feng Liu , Junkun Yan , Hongwei Liu , Zhi-Quan Luo

A robust (deterministic) filtering approach to the problem of optimal sensor selection is considered herein. For a given system with several sensors, at each time step the output of one of the sensors must be chosen in order to obtain the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-09 Srinivas Sridharan

The deployment of the sensor nodes (SNs) always plays a decisive role in the system performance of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this work, we propose an optimal deployment method for practical heterogeneous WSNs which gives a deep…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Long Chen , Yingying Xu , Fangyi Xu , Qian Hu , Zhenzhou Tang

In this work, we are dedicated to multi-target active object tracking (AOT), where there are multiple targets as well as multiple cameras in the environment. The goal is maximize the overall target coverage of all cameras. Previous work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Zheng Chen , Jian Zhao , Mingyu Yang , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

Modern recommender systems often deal with a variety of user interactions, e.g., click, forward, purchase, etc., which requires the underlying recommender engines to fully understand and leverage multi-behavior data from users. Despite…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Jingcao Xu , Chaokun Wang , Cheng Wu , Yang Song , Kai Zheng , Xiaowei Wang , Changping Wang , Guorui Zhou , Kun Gai

Leveraging the power of a graph neural network (GNN) with message passing, we present a Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) method to solve stochastic orienteering problems with chance constraints. While adhering to an assigned travel budget the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Marcos Abel Zuzuárregui , Stefano Carpin

In this paper, a unified three-layer hierarchical approach for solving tracking problems in multiple non-overlapping cameras is proposed. Given a video and a set of detections (obtained by any person detector), we first solve within-camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Yonatan Tariku Tesfaye , Eyasu Zemene , Andrea Prati , Marcello Pelillo , Mubarak Shah