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Quantum physics enables parameter estimation with precisions beyond the capability of classical sensors. Quantum criticality is a key resource for this quantum-enhanced sensing, but experimental realization has been challenging due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Lei Xiao , Saubhik Sarkar , Kunkun Wang , Abolfazl Bayat , Peng Xue

This paper studies the convergence of the estimation error process and the characterization of the corresponding invariant measure in distributed Kalman filtering for potentially unstable and large linear dynamic systems. A gossip network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-13 Di Li , Soummya Kar , Jose' M. F. Moura , H. Vincent Poor , Shuguang Cui

An important part of system modeling is determining parameter values, particularly for biomolecular systems, where direct measurements of individual parameters are typically hard. While Extended Kalman Filters have been used for this…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-13 Abhishek Dey , Kushal Chakrabarti , Krishan Kumar Gola , Shaunak Sen

In multi-robot systems, traditional radio frequency (RF) communication struggles with contention and jamming. Optical communication offers a strong alternative. However, conventional frame-based cameras suffer from limited frame rates,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Harmeet Dhillon , Pranay Katyal , Brendan Long , Rohan Walia , Matthew Cleaveland , Kevin Leahy

Sensing a magnetic field with an atomic magnetometer operated in real time presents significant challenges, primarily due to sensor non-linearity, the presence of noise, and the need for one-shot estimation. To address these challenges, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Julia Amoros-Binefa , Jan Kolodynski

Critical phenomena of quantum systems offer a promising strategy to improve measurement precision. So far, many criticality-enhanced quantum metrological schemes have been proposed by using the adiabatically evolved photonic states of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Ken Chen , Jia-Hao Lv , Wen Ning , Zhen-Biao Yang , Shi-Biao Zheng

Location information of sensor nodes has become an essential part of many applications in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). The importance of location estimation and object tracking has made them the target of many security attacks. Various…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-04-17 Ali P. Fard , Mahdy Nabaee

Detailed dynamical systems' models used in the life sciences may include hundreds of state variables and many input parameters, often with physical meaning. Therefore, efficient and unique input parameter identification, from experimental…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-29 Harry Saxton , Xu Xu , Ian Halliday , Torsten Schenkel

The extraction of weak signals plays a crucial role in quantum precision measurement, where the estimation results are often limited by low signal-to-noise ratios. Here, we demonstrate a parameter-estimation framework based on the adaptive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Yihan Wang , Xiaofeng Jin , Yuchuan Ming , Jianxiang Miao , Xiao-Ming Lu , M. W. Mitchell , Jia Kong

This paper is concerned with the linear/nonlinear Kalman-like filtering problem under binary sensors. Since innovation represents new information in the sensor measurement and serves to correct the prediction for the Kalman-like filter…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-28 Zhongyao Hu , Bo Chen , Yuchen Zhang , Li Yu

Inconsistency issue is one crucial challenge for the performance of extended Kalman filter (EKF) based methods for state estimation problems, which is mainly affected by the discrepancy of observability between the EKF model and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yang Song , Liang Zhao , Shoudong Huang

The Kalman filter (KF) is one of the most widely used tools for data assimilation and sequential estimation. In this work, we show that the state estimates from the KF in a standard linear dynamical system setting are equivalent to those…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-08-04 Maria Jahja , David C. Farrow , Roni Rosenfeld , Ryan J. Tibshirani

The Kalman filter (KF) is an optimal linear state estimator for linear systems, and numerous extensions, including the extended Kalman filter (EKF), unscented Kalman filter (UKF), and cubature Kalman filter (CKF), have been developed for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Shida Jiang , Junzhe Shi , Scott Moura

The ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) is a widely used methodology for state estimation in partial, noisily observed dynamical systems, and for parameter estimation in inverse problems. Despite its widespread use in the geophysical sciences,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Claudia Schillings , Andrew M. Stuart

Autonomous mobile robot competitions judge based on a robot's ability to quickly and accurately navigate the game field. This means accurate localization is crucial for creating an autonomous competition robot. Two common localization…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-18 Ethan Kou , Acshi Haggenmiller

Open quantum systems can undergo dissipative phase transitions, and their critical behavior can be exploited in sensing applications. For example, it can be used to enhance the fidelity of superconducting qubit readout measurements, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-13 Enrico Rinaldi , Roberto Di Candia , Simone Felicetti , Fabrizio Minganti

Attitude estimation is crucial in aerospace engineering, robotics, and virtual reality applications, but faces difficulties due to nonlinear system dynamics and sensor limitations. This paper addresses the challenge of attitude estimation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Yash Pandey , Rahul Bhattacharyya , Yatindra Nath Singh

In real-world applications the Perspective-n-Point (PnP) problem should generally be applied in a sequence of images which a set of drift-prone features are tracked over time. In this paper, we consider both the temporal dependency of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Mohammad Amin Mehralian , Mohsen Soryani

Precise frequency and phase synchronization are among the important aspects in a coherent distributed phased array antenna system, and are among the most challenging to achieve for microwave frequencies and above. We propose a high accuracy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-09 Mohammed Rashid , Jeffrey A. Nanzer

We propose a Neural-Enhanced Distributed Kalman Filter (NDKF) for multi-sensor state estimation in nonlinear systems. Unlike traditional Kalman filters that rely on explicit analytical models and assume centralized fusion, NDKF leverages…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Siavash Farzan , Bennett Parisi