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Probabilistic Planning for Maritime Search and Rescue

Luis Marques, Jose Javier Escribano Macias, Panagiotis Angeloudis · 2023

Maritime accidents cause thousands of disappearances every year, with migrant crossings being particularly dangerous and under-reported. Current coastal and NGO search and rescue services are unable t…

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Minsight: A Fingertip-Sized Vision-Based Tactile Sensor for Robotic Manipulation

Iris Andrussow, Huanbo Sun, Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, Georg Martius · 2023

Intelligent interaction with the physical world requires perceptual abilities beyond vision and hearing; vibrant tactile sensing is essential for autonomous robots to dexterously manipulate unfamiliar…

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Distributed detection of ARMA signals

Joao Domingos, Joao Xavier · 2023

This paper considers a distributed detection setup where agents in a network want to detect a time-varying signal embedded in temporally correlated noise. The signal of interest is the impulse respons…

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Vehicular Applications of Koopman Operator Theory -- A Survey

Waqas Manzoor, Samir Rawashdeh, Alireza Mohammadi · 2023

Koopman operator theory has proven to be a promising approach to nonlinear system identification and global linearization. For nearly a century, there had been no efficient means of calculating the Ko…

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An Information-State Based Approach to Linear Time Varying System Identification and Control

Mohamed Naveed Gul Mohamed, Raman Goyal, Suman Chakravorty, Ran Wang · 2022

This paper considers the problem of system identification for linear time varying systems. We propose a new system realization approach that uses an "information-state" as the state vector, where the …

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Parameter-Covariance Maximum Likelihood Estimation

Alex Nguyen-Le, Victor M. Preciado · 2022

Linear time series modelling is dominated by the use of purely autoregressive models even though incorporating moving average components can greatly improve parsimony. We present a convex formulation …

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A Hybrid Cable-Driven Robot for Non-Destructive Leafy Plant Monitoring and Mass Estimation using Structure from Motion

Gerry Chen, Harsh Muriki, Cedric Pradalier, Yongsheng Chen, Frank Dellaert · 2022

We propose a novel hybrid cable-based robot with manipulator and camera for high-accuracy, medium-throughput plant monitoring in a vertical hydroponic farm and, as an example application, demonstrate …

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CARMA: Fair and efficient bottleneck congestion management via non-tradable karma credits

Ezzat Elokda, Carlo Cenedese, Kenan Zhang, Andrea Censi, John Lygeros, Emilio Frazzoli, Florian Dorfler · 2022

This paper proposes a non-monetary traffic demand management scheme, named CARMA, as a fair solution to the morning commute congestion. We consider heterogeneous commuters traveling through a single b…

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An Alternative Derivation of the Gaussian Noise model

Alberto Bononi, Paolo Serena · 2022

By extending the results in Bononi 2012, we provide here a complete alternative derivation of Turin Gaussian Noise (GN) model for dual-polarization dispersion uncompensated coherent optical links. Thi…

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Tackling Real-World Autonomous Driving using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Paolo Maramotti, Alessandro Paolo Capasso, Giulio Bacchiani, Alberto Broggi · 2022

In the typical autonomous driving stack, planning and control systems represent two of the most crucial components in which data retrieved by sensors and processed by perception algorithms are used to…

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X-CAR: An Experimental Vehicle Platform for Connected Autonomy Research Powered by CARMA

Goodarz Mehr, Prasenjit Ghorai, Ce Zhang, Anshul Nayak, Darshit Patel, Shathushan Sivashangaran, Azim Eskandarian · 2022

Autonomous vehicles promise a future with a safer, cleaner, more efficient, and more reliable transportation system. However, the current approach to autonomy has focused on building small, disparate …

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Universal Graph Filter Design based on Butterworth, Chebyshev and Elliptic Functions

Zirui Ge, Haiyan Guo, Tingting Wang, Zhen Yang · 2022

Graph filters are crucial tools in processing the spectrum of graph signals. In this paper, we propose to design universal IIR graph filters with low computational complexity by using three kinds of f…

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Modal Estimation on a Warped Frequency Axis for Linear System Modeling

Orchisama Das, Jonathan S. Abel · 2022

Linear systems such as room acoustics and string oscillations may be modeled as the sum of mode responses, each characterized by a frequency, damping and amplitude. Here, we consider finding the mode …

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High-dimensional dynamic factor models: a selective survey and lines of future research

Marco Lippi, Manfred Deistler, Brian Anderson · 2022

High-Dimensional Dynamic Factor Models are presented in detail: The main assumptions and their motivation, main results, illustrations by means of elementary examples. In particular, the role of singu…

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Vision-based Navigation for a Small-scale Quadruped Robot Pegasus-Mini

Deng Ganyu, Luo Jianwen, Sun Caiming, Pan Dongwei, Peng Longyao, Ding Ning, Zhang Aidong · 2021

Quadruped locomotion is currently a vibrant research area, which has reached a level of maturity and performance that enables some of the most advanced real-world applications with autonomous quadrupe…

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WLS Design of ARMA Graph Filters using Iterative Second-Order Cone Programming

Darukeesan Pakiyarajah, Chamira U. S. Edussooriya · 2021

We propose a weighted least-square (WLS) method to design autoregressive moving average (ARMA) graph filters. We first express the WLS design problem as a numerically-stable optimization problem using…

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Smart Home Energy Management: Sequence-to-Sequence Load Forecasting and Q-Learning

Mina Razghandi, Hao Zhou, Melike Erol-Kantarci, Damla Turgut · 2021

A smart home energy management system (HEMS) can contribute towards reducing the energy costs of customers; however, HEMS suffers from uncertainty in both energy generation and consumption patterns. I…

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Optimal Frequency Regulation using Packetized Energy Management

Sarnaduti Brahma, Adil Khurram, Hamid Ossareh, Mads Almassalkhi · 2021

Packetized energy management (PEM) is a demand dispatch scheme that can be used to provide ancillary services such as frequency regulation. In PEM, distributed energy resources (DERs) are granted unin…

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An Information-state based Approach to the Optimal Output Feedback Control of Nonlinear Systems

Raman Goyal, Ran Wang, Mohamed Naveed Gul Mohamed, Aayushman Sharma, Suman Chakravorty · 2021

This paper develops a data-based approach to the closed-loop output feedback control of nonlinear dynamical systems with a partial nonlinear observation model. We propose an information state based ap…

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Image Restoration for Remote Sensing: Overview and Toolbox

Benhood Rasti, Yi Chang, Emanuele Dalsasso, Loic Denis, Pedram Ghamisi · 2021

Remote sensing provides valuable information about objects or areas from a distance in either active (e.g., RADAR and LiDAR) or passive (e.g., multispectral and hyperspectral) modes. The quality of da…

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