Sensing and Actuation Design for Large-Scale Complex Systems
Vasileios Tzoumas, Nikolay A. Atanasov, Sergio Pequito, Ali Jadbabaie, George Pappas

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Vasileios Tzoumas, Nikolay A. Atanasov, Sergio Pequito, Ali Jadbabaie, George Pappas. "Sensing and Actuation Design for Large-Scale Complex Systems". Talk or presentation, October, 2016.

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In this poster, we focus on sensing and actuation design for large-scale systems. In the context of sensing design, we consider the problem of activating only a few sensors, among many available, to estimate the state of a stochastic process of interest. This problem is important in applications such as target tracking and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). It is challenging since it involves stochastic systems whose evolution is largely unknown, sensors with nonlinear measurements, and limited operational resources that constrain the number of active sensors at each measurement step. We provide an algorithm applicable to general stochastic processes and nonlinear measurements whose time complexity is linear in the planning horizon and whose performance is a multiplicative factor 1/2 away from the optimal performance. For important classes of Gaussian processes and nonlinear measurements corrupted with Gaussian noise, our algorithm enjoys the same time complexity as the state-of-the-art algorithms for linear systems and measurements. In the context of actuation design, we assess trade-offs between number of actuated nodes and required time-to-control in complex networks. To this end, we use both synthetic and real networks.

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    Vasileios Tzoumas, Nikolay A. Atanasov, Sergio Pequito, Ali
    Jadbabaie, George Pappas. "Sensing and Actuation Design
    for Large-Scale Complex Systems". Talk or presentation,
     October, 2016.
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    @presentation{TzoumasAtanasovPequitoJadbabaiePappas16_SensingActuationDesignForLargeScaleComplexSystems,
        author = {Vasileios Tzoumas and Nikolay A. Atanasov and
                  Sergio Pequito and Ali Jadbabaie and George Pappas},
        title = {Sensing and Actuation Design for Large-Scale
                  Complex Systems},
        month = {October},
        year = {2016},
        abstract = {In this poster, we focus on sensing and actuation
                  design for large-scale systems. In the context of
                  sensing design, we consider the problem of
                  activating only a few sensors, among many
                  available, to estimate the state of a stochastic
                  process of interest. This problem is important in
                  applications such as target tracking and
                  simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). It
                  is challenging since it involves stochastic
                  systems whose evolution is largely unknown,
                  sensors with nonlinear measurements, and limited
                  operational resources that constrain the number of
                  active sensors at each measurement step. We
                  provide an algorithm applicable to general
                  stochastic processes and nonlinear measurements
                  whose time complexity is linear in the planning
                  horizon and whose performance is a multiplicative
                  factor 1/2 away from the optimal performance. For
                  important classes of Gaussian processes and
                  nonlinear measurements corrupted with Gaussian
                  noise, our algorithm enjoys the same time
                  complexity as the state-of-the-art algorithms for
                  linear systems and measurements. In the context of
                  actuation design, we assess trade-offs between
                  number of actuated nodes and required
                  time-to-control in complex networks. To this end,
                  we use both synthetic and real networks.},
        URL = {http://terraswarm.org/pubs/851.html}
    }
    

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