Scalable decentralised decision making and optimisation in heterogeneous teams

GM Mathews, HF Durrant-Whyte… - … on Multisensor Fusion …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers the scenario where multiple autonomous agents must cooperate in
making decisions to minimise a common team cost function. A distributed optimisation …

Decentralized worst-case estimation and control in mobile sensor networks

TR Nelson - 2010 - search.proquest.com
This thesis develops a framework for simultaneous decentralized estimation and control,
where each agent exchanges information with its neighbors to improve the estimate quality …

Distributed learning from interactions in social networks

F Sasso, A Coluccia… - 2018 European Control …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider a network scenario in which agents can evaluate each other according to a
score graph that models some interactions. The goal is to design a distributed protocol, run …

Fast distributed estimation of empirical mass functions over anonymous networks

H Terelius, D Varagnolo, C Baquero… - … IEEE Conference on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The aggregation and estimation of values over networks is fundamental for distributed
applications, such as wireless sensor networks. Estimating the average, minimal and …

Distributed cooperative active sensing using consensus filters

P Yang, RA Freeman, KM Lynch - Proceedings 2007 IEEE …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the problem of multiple mobile sensor agents tracking the position of one or
more moving targets. In our formulation, each agent maintains a target estimate, and each …

An approach to distributed estimation of time-varying signals by multi-agent systems

F Caccavale, F Pierri - 2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a novel distributed estimation scheme for multi-agent systems is devised,
where each agent communicates only with a subset of neighbouring mates. It is assumed …

A decision theoretic approach to Gaussian sensor networks

F Davoli, M Marchese… - 2009 IEEE International …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the acquisition of measurements from a source, representing a physical
phenomenon, by means of sensors deployed at different distances, and measuring random …

Decentralized asset management for collaborative sensing

RP Malhotra, MJ Pribilski, PA Toole… - … Sensors, Systems, and …, 2017 - spiedigitallibrary.org
There has been increased impetus to leverage Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (SUAS) for
collaborative sensing applications in which many platforms work together to provide critical …

Efficient learning by consensus over regular networks

Z Weng, PM Djurić - 2014 IEEE International Conference on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In a network, each agent communicates with its neighbors. All the agents have initial
observations, and they update their beliefs with the average of the beliefs in their …

Propagation of agent performance parameters in wireless sensor networks

JC Cuevas-Martínez, J Canada-Bago… - Highlights in Practical …, 2011 - Springer
Wireless sensor networks are composed of resource-constrained sensor nodes, powered by
batteries, with limited CPU and memory, and wireless communication. In spite of the fact that …