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Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-24 Xiao-Yang Wang , Shaoshi Yang , Hou-Yu Zhai , Christos Masouros , J. Andrew Zhang

As autonomous cars are rolled out into new environments, their ability to solve the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem becomes critical. In order to tackle this problem, autonomous vehicles rely on sensor suites that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Anne Collin , Antonio Terán Espinoza

Due to more population congestion and car ownership, the provision of parking spaces for vehicles is becoming a crucial factor. This paper aims to present a novel Internet of Things (IoT)--based smart car parking system that can effectively…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Abdullah Al Mamun , Abdul Hasib , Abu Salyh Muhammad Mussa , Rakib Hossen , Anichur Rahman

The localization problem in a wireless sensor network is to determine the coordination of sensor nodes using the known positions of some nodes (called anchors) and corresponding noisy distance measurements. There is a variety of different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-19 Pouya Mollaebrahim Ghari , Reza Shahbazian , Seyed Ali Ghorashi

In this article, we propose an energy-efficient data gathering scheme for wireless sensor network called Sleep-Route, which splits the sensor nodes into two sets - active and dormant (low-power sleep). Only the active set of sensor nodes…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Chayan Sarkar , Vijay S. Rao , R. Venkatesha Prasad

The study of approximate mechanism design for facility location problems has been in the center of research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and economics for the last decades, largely due to its practical importance in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Hau Chan , Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Bo Li , Minming Li , Chenhao Wang

Cooperative spectrum sensing, despite its effectiveness in enabling dynamic spectrum access, suffers from location privacy threats, merely because secondary users (SUs)' sensing reports that need to be shared with a fusion center to make…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Mohamed Grissa , Attila Yavuz , Bechir Hamdaoui

The vivid success of the emerging wireless sensor technology (WSN) gave rise to the notion of localization in the communications field. Indeed, the interest in localization grew further with the proliferation of the wireless sensor network…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-23 Hadeel Elayan , Raed Shubair

For several tasks, ranging from manipulation to inspection, it is beneficial for robots to localize a target object in their surroundings. In this paper, we propose an approach that utilizes coarse point clouds obtained from miniaturized…

It has been shown that cooperative localization is capable of improving both the positioning accuracy and coverage in scenarios where the global positioning system (GPS) has a poor performance. However, due to its potentially excessive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-19 Tiejun Lv , Hui Gao , Xiaopeng Li , Shaoshi Yang , Lajos Hanzo

While it is often critical for indoor-location- and proximity-aware applications to know whether a user is in a space or not (e.g., a specific room or office), a key challenge is that the difference between standing on one side or another…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Scott A. Carter , Daniel Avrahami , Nami Tokunaga

A common approach to localize a mobile robot is by measuring distances to points of known positions, called anchors. Locating a device from distance measurements is typically posed as a non-convex optimization problem, stemming from the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Frederike Dümbgen , Connor Holmes , Timothy D. Barfoot

This paper addresses an uplink localization problem in which the base station (BS) aims to locate a remote user with the aid of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). This paper proposes a strategy in which the user transmits pilots over…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-23 Zhongze Zhang , Tao Jiang , Wei Yu

Accurate indoor node localization is critical for practical Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications, as Global Positioning System (GPS) fails to provide reliable Line-of-Sight (LoS) conditions in most indoor environments. Real-world…

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3D semantic occupancy prediction is crucial for finely representing the surrounding environment, which is essential for ensuring the safety in autonomous driving. Existing fusion-based occupancy methods typically involve performing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Ji Zhang , Yiran Ding , Zixin Liu

Indoor localization has recently witnessed an increase in interest, due to the potential wide range of services it can provide by leveraging Internet of Things (IoT), and ubiquitous connectivity. Different techniques, wireless technologies…

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Indoor positioning is currently recognized as one of the important features in emergency, commercial and industrial applications. The 5G network enhances mobility, flexibility, reliability, and security to new higher levels which greatly…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Maria Posluk , Jesper Ahlander , Deep Shrestha , Sara Modarres Razavi , Gustav Lindmark , Fredrik Gunnarsson

With the growth of smart building applications, occupancy information in residential buildings is becoming more and more significant. In the context of the smart buildings' paradigm, this kind of information is required for a wide range of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-26 Sangkeum Lee , Sarvar Hussain Nengroo , Hojun Jin , Yoonmee Doh , Chungho Lee , Taewook Heo , Dongsoo Har

In communication-denied or contested environments, Line-of-Sight (LoS) communication (e.g free space optical communication using infrared or visible light) becomes one of the most reliable and efficient ways to send information between…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Md Mahbubur Rahman , Franklin Abodo , Leonardo Bobadilla , Brian Rapp

We address the problem where a mobile search agent seeks to find an unknown number of stationary objects distributed in a bounded search domain, and the search mission is subject to time/distance constraint. Our work accounts for false…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Harun Yetkin , Collin Lutz , Daniel Stilwell