Spectral sparsification for communication-efficient collaborative rotation and translation estimation

Y Tian, JP How - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose fast and communication-efficient optimization algorithms for multirobot rotation
averaging and translation estimation problems that arise from collaborative simultaneous …

Active collaborative localization in heterogeneous robot teams

I Spasojevic, X Liu, A Ribeiro, GJ Pappas… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Accurate and robust state estimation is critical for autonomous navigation of robot teams.
This task is especially challenging for large groups of size, weight, and power (SWAP) …

Decentralization and acceleration enables large-scale bundle adjustment

T Fan, J Ortiz, M Hsiao, M Monge, J Dong… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Scaling to arbitrarily large bundle adjustment problems requires data and compute to be
distributed across multiple devices. Centralized methods in prior works are only able to …

Stochastic gradient tracking methods for distributed personalized optimization over networks

Y Huang, J Xu, W Meng, HT Wai - 2022 IEEE 61st Conference …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we consider a distributed optimization problem over a network of nodes whose
cost functions depend on a decision variable consisting of two parts: global (shared) part …

Distributed Optimization With Personalization: A Flexible Algorithmic Framework

Y Huang, J Xu, W Meng, HT Wai… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider a distributed personalized optimization problem over a network of nodes
whose cost functions depend on a decision variable consisting of two parts: global (shared) …

Algorithms and Systems for Scalable Multi-Agent Geometric Estimation

Y Tian - 2023 - dspace.mit.edu
Collaborative geometric estimation, which enables multiple agents to construct globally
consistent geometric models of the environment (eg, maps and robot poses) from noisy local …