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Goal-oriented planning, or anticipating a series of actions that transition an agent from its current state to a predefined objective, is crucial for developing intelligent assistants aiding users in daily procedural tasks. The problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Md Mohaiminul Islam , Tushar Nagarajan , Huiyu Wang , Fu-Jen Chu , Kris Kitani , Gedas Bertasius , Xitong Yang

We apply a reinforcement meta-learning framework to optimize an integrated and adaptive guidance and flight control system for an air-to-air missile. The system is implemented as a policy that maps navigation system outputs directly to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-05 Brian Gaudet , Roberto Furfaro

Variable message sign (VMS) is an effective traffic management tool for congestion mitigation. The VMS is primarily used as a means of providing factual travel information or genuine route guidance to travelers. However, this may be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Bai Liu , Ke Han , Jianming Hu

This paper introduces a novel algorithm for multiagent offline trajectory generation based on distributed model predictive control. Central to the algorithm's scalability and success is the development of an on-demand collision avoidance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Carlos E. Luis , Angela P. Schoellig

This paper considers the problem of multiple human target tracking in a sequence of video data. A solution is proposed which is able to deal with the challenges of a varying number of targets, interactions and when every target gives rise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-06 Ata-ur-Rehman , Syed Mohsen Naqvi , Lyudmila Mihaylova , Jonathon Chambers

The practical problem of tracking a maneuvering aircraft during flight has always been a crucial task in order to safeguard airborne assets from unknown threats. Therefore, the need for an efficient target detection and identification…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Raja Manish , David Webster

We address the problem of assigning a team of drones to autonomously capture a set desired shots of a dynamic target in the presence of obstacles. We present a two-stage planning pipeline that generates offline an assignment of drone to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Aaron Ray , Alyssa Pierson , Hai Zhu , Javier Alonso-Mora , Daniela Rus

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) is a critical problem in computer vision, essential for understanding how objects move and interact in videos. This field faces significant challenges such as occlusions and complex environmental dynamics,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Luiz C. S. de Araujo , Carlos M. S. Figueiredo

We present a novel guidance law that uses observations consisting solely of seeker line of sight angle measurements and their rate of change. The policy is optimized using reinforcement meta-learning and demonstrated in a simulated terminal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Brian Gaudet , Roberto Furfaro , Richard Linares

A cooperative salvo strategy is proposed in this paper which achieves consensus among the interceptors within a pre-defined arbitrary settling time. Considering non-linear engagement kinematics and a system lag to capture the effect of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-23 Rajib Shekhar Pal , Shashi Ranjan Kumar , Dwaipayan Mukherjee

In this paper, we address the vision-based detection and tracking problems of multiple aerial vehicles using a single camera and Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) as well as the corresponding perception consensus problem (i.e., uniqueness and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Rundong Ge , Moonyoung Lee , Vivek Radhakrishnan , Yang Zhou , Guanrui Li , Giuseppe Loianno

Multi-object nonprehensile transportation in teleoperation demands simultaneous trajectory tracking and tray orientation control. Existing methods often struggle with model dependency, uncertain parameters, and multi-object adaptability. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Xinyang Fan , Zhaoyang Chen , Shu Xin , Yi Ren , Zainan Jiang , Fenglei Ni , Hong Liu

We present a new method for multi-modal, long-term vehicle trajectory prediction. Our approach relies on using lane centerlines captured in rich maps of the environment to generate a set of proposed goal paths for each vehicle. Using these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Lingyao Zhang , Po-Hsun Su , Jerrick Hoang , Galen Clark Haynes , Micol Marchetti-Bowick

We use reinforcement meta learning to optimize a line of sight curvature policy that increases the effectiveness of a guidance system against maneuvering targets. The policy is implemented as a recurrent neural network that maps navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Brian Gaudet , Roberto Furfaro

Autonomous Nano Aerial Vehicles have been increasingly popular in surveillance and monitoring operations due to their efficiency and maneuverability. Once a target location has been reached, drones do not have to remain active during the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-01 Truong-Dong Do , Nguyen Xuan-Mung , Sung-Kyung Hong

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is crucial for various multi-agent analyses such as evaluating team sports tactics and player movements and performance. While pedestrian tracking has advanced with Tracking-by-Detection MOT, team sports like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Li Yin , Calvin Yeung , Qingrui Hu , Jun Ichikawa , Hirotsugu Azechi , Susumu Takahashi , Keisuke Fujii

Previous path guiding techniques typically rely on spatial subdivision structures to approximate directional target distributions, which may cause failure to capture spatio-directional correlations and introduce parallax issue. In this…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Honghao Dong , Guoping Wang , Sheng Li

Discriminative representation is crucial for the association step in multi-object tracking. Recent work mainly utilizes features in single or neighboring frames for constructing metric loss and empowering networks to extract representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 En Yu , Zhuoling Li , Shoudong Han

Multi-vehicle trajectory planning (MVTP) is one of the key challenges in multi-robot systems (MRSs) and has broad applications across various fields. This paper presents ESCoT, an enhanced step-based coordinate trajectory planning method…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Junkai Jiang , Yihe Chen , Yibin Yang , Ruochen Li , Shaobing Xu , Jianqiang Wang

We consider multitarget detection and tracking problem for a class of multipath detection system where one target may generate multiple measurements via multiple propagation paths, and the association relationship among targets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Hua Lan , Shuai Sun , Zengfu Wang , Quan Pan , Zhishan Zhang