Multi-robot target detection and tracking: taxonomy and survey

C Robin, S Lacroix - Autonomous Robots, 2016 - Springer
Target detection and tracking encompasses a variety of decisional problems such as
coverage, surveillance, search, patrolling, observing and pursuit-evasion along with others …

Online learning with inexact proximal online gradient descent algorithms

R Dixit, AS Bedi, R Tripathi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider nondifferentiable dynamic optimization problems such as those arising in
robotics and subspace tracking. Given the computational constraints and the time-varying …

Distributed state estimation using intermittently connected robot networks

R Khodayi-mehr, Y Kantaros… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers the problem of distributed state estimation (DSE) using multirobot
systems. The robots have limited communication capabilities and, therefore, communicate …

A Tutorial on Distributed Optimization for Cooperative Robotics: from Setups and Algorithms to Toolboxes and Research Directions

A Testa, G Carnevale, G Notarstefano - arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.04257, 2023 - arxiv.org
Several interesting problems in multi-robot systems can be cast in the framework of
distributed optimization. Examples include multi-robot task allocation, vehicle routing, target …

Tracking moving agents via inexact online gradient descent algorithm

AS Bedi, P Sarma, K Rajawat - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multiagent systems are being increasingly deployed in challenging environments for
performing complex tasks such as multitarget tracking, search-and-rescue, and intrusion …

Local strong convexity of source localization and error bound for target tracking under time-of-arrival measurements

YM Pun, AMC So - IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we consider a time-varying optimization approach to the problem of tracking a
moving target using noisy time-of-arrival (TOA) measurements. Specifically, we formulate the …

Mathematical programming for multi-vehicle motion planning problems

P Abichandani, G Ford, HY Benson… - 2012 IEEE International …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Real world Multi-Vehicle Motion Planning (MVMP) problems require the optimization of
suitable performance measures under an array of complex and challenging constraints …

Tracking and regret bounds for online zeroth-order Euclidean and Riemannian optimization

AI Maass, C Manzie, D Nesic, JH Manton… - SIAM Journal on …, 2022 - SIAM
We study numerical optimization algorithms that use zeroth-order information to minimize
time-varying geodesically convex cost functions on Riemannian manifolds. In the Euclidean …

Optimized Gradient Tracking for Decentralized Online Learning

SD Sharma, K Rajawat - IEEE Transactions on Signal …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work considers the problem of decentralized online learning, where the goal is to track
the optimum of the sum of time-varying functions, distributed across several nodes in a …

Distributed active state estimation with user-specified accuracy

C Freundlich, S Lee… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we address the problem of controlling a network of mobile sensors so that a set
of hidden states are estimated up to a user-specified accuracy. The sensors take …