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Parameter inference of dynamical systems is a challenging task faced by many researchers and practitioners across various fields. In many applications, it is common that only limited variables are observable. In this paper, we propose a…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-01-01 Yu Chen , Jin Cheng , Arvind Gupta , Huaxiong Huang , Shixin Xu

Numerically solving partial differential equations (PDEs) can be challenging and computationally expensive. This has led to the development of reduced-order models (ROMs) that are accurate but faster than full order models (FOMs). Recently,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Christophe Bonneville , Youngsoo Choi , Debojyoti Ghosh , Jonathan L. Belof

We introduce a new method to perform preliminary orbit determination for space debris on low Earth orbits (LEO). This method works with tracks of radar observations: each track is composed by $n\ge 4$ topocentric position vectors per pass…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-01-30 Giovanni F. Gronchi , Linda Dimare , Davide Bracali Cioci , Helene Ma

Ordinary differential equation (ODE) models are widely used to describe systems in many areas of science. To ensure these models provide accurate and interpretable representations of real-world dynamics, it is often necessary to infer…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-24 Selva Salimi , David J. Warne , Christopher Drovandi

In this thesis a probabilistic framework is developed and proposed for Dynamic Object Recognition in 3D Environments. A software package is developed using C++ and Python in ROS that performs the detection and tracking task. Furthermore, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Pouria Mehrabi

We develop two general methods to infer the gravitational potential of a system using steady-state tracers, i.e., tracers with a time-independent phase-space distribution. Combined with the phase-space continuity equation, the time…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-13 Jiaxin Han , Wenting Wang , Shaun Cole , Carlos S. Frenk

Parameter inference in ordinary differential equations is an important problem in many applied sciences and in engineering, especially in a data-scarce setting. In this work, we introduce a novel generative modeling approach based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Philippe Wenk , Gabriele Abbati , Michael A Osborne , Bernhard Schölkopf , Andreas Krause , Stefan Bauer

Accurate relative orbit determination is a significant challenge in modern space operations, particularly when relying only on angular measurements. The inherent observability limitations of this approach make initial state estimation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Kui Xie , Giovanni Romagnoli , Giordana Bucchioni , Alberto Bemporad

Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have achieved state-of-the-art results for novel view synthesis. However, efficiently capturing high-fidelity reconstructions of specific objects within complex scenes remains a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Haiyi Li , Qi Chen , Denis Kalkofen , Hsiang-Ting Chen

Automated 3D pose estimation of satellites and other known space objects is a critical component of space situational awareness. Ground-based imagery offers a convenient data source for satellite characterization; however, analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Maxim Bazik , Brien Flewelling , Manoranjan Majji , Joseph Mundy

We propose a method to account for the Earth oblateness effect in preliminary orbit determination of satellites in low orbits with radar observations. This method is an improvement of the one described in (Gronchi et al 2015), which uses a…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Helene Ma , Giovanni F. Gronchi , Davide Bracali Cioci

A fundamental challenge in physics-informed machine learning (PIML) is the design of robust PIML methods for out-of-distribution (OOD) forecasting tasks. These OOD tasks require learning-to-learn from observations of the same (ODE)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 S Chandra Mouli , Muhammad Ashraful Alam , Bruno Ribeiro

Probabilistic state-estimation approaches offer a principled foundation for designing localization systems, because they naturally integrate sequences of imperfect motion and exteroceptive sensor data. Recently, probabilistic localization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Ming Xu , Tobias Fischer , Niko Sünderhauf , Michael Milford

In this work, we demonstrate continuous-time radar-inertial and lidar-inertial odometry using a Gaussian process motion prior. Using a sparse prior, we demonstrate improved computational complexity during preintegration and interpolation.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Keenan Burnett , Angela P. Schoellig , Timothy D. Barfoot

Projection-based model reduction is among the most widely adopted methods for constructing parametric Reduced-Order Models (ROM). Utilizing the snapshot data from solving full-order governing equations, the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-16 Xiao Liu , Jingyi Feng , Xinchao Liu

Gaussian ODE filtering is a probabilistic numerical method to solve ordinary differential equations (ODEs). It computes a Bayesian posterior over the solution from evaluations of the vector field defining the ODE. Its most popular version,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-23 Hans Kersting , Maren Mahsereci

We present Flow-Induced Diagonal Gaussian Processes (FiD-GP), a compression framework that incorporates a compact inducing weight matrix to project a neural network's weight uncertainty into a lower-dimensional subspace. Critically, FiD-GP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Moule Lin , Andrea Patane , Weipeng Jing , Shuhao Guan , Goetz Botterweck

Within Bayesian state estimation, considerable effort has been devoted to incorporating constraints into state estimation for process optimization, state monitoring, fault detection and control. Nonetheless, in the domain of state-space…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-28 Rodrigo A. González , Angel L. Cedeño , Koen Tiels , Tom Oomen

The computation of the Minimum Orbital Intersection Distance (MOID) is an old, but increasingly relevant problem. Fast and precise methods for MOID computation are needed to select potentially hazardous asteroids from a large catalogue. The…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-22 Jose M. Hedo , Manuel Ruiz , Jesus Pelaez

We consider the motion planning problem for stochastic nonlinear systems in uncertain environments. More precisely, in this problem the robot has stochastic nonlinear dynamics and uncertain initial locations, and the environment contains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Weiqiao Han , Ashkan Jasour , Brian Williams