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48 results for Drone Interception

A drone catches another agile drone using competitive reinforcement learning.

problem Intercepting an agile drone with another agile drone.
method Formulated as a Competitive Reinforcement Learning problem, trained with PPO, using a high-fidelity simulation environment.
result Trained policies outperform common heuristic baselines in catch rate, time to catch, and crash rate.

Deep RL drone trained to compete against classical path planning in drone racing.

problem Optimizing long-term drone racing strategies using reinforcement learning.
method Used PPO algorithm on a simulated quadrotor in a racing environment created with AirSim.
result Deep RL agent outperformed classical path planning in drone racing competitions.

Drone optimizes collaborative learning for neural networks.

problem Training a shared neural network with heterogeneous data from multiple devices.
method Drone collects and aggregates model parameters from devices, optimizing trajectory for best accuracy.
result Significant improvement in final accuracy and speedup in training time.

In this paper, we consider same-day delivery with vehicles and drones. Customers make delivery requests over the course of the day, and the dispatcher dynamically dispatches vehicles and drones to deliver the goods to customers before their delivery deadline. Vehicles can deliver multiple packages in one route but trav…

2019-10-25abs ↗pdf ↗

A drone-based MOT algorithm tracks vehicles using neural network detections and TPMBM filter.

problem Tracking multiple vehicles from drone-mounted cameras.
method Neural network for object detection, TPMBM filter for trajectory estimation, von-Mises Fisher distribution for DOA.
result TPMBM filter optimally estimates vehicle trajectories.

The problems of outliers detection and robust regression in a high-dimensional setting are fundamental in statistics, and have numerous applications. Following a recent set of works providing methods for simultaneous robust regression and outliers detection, we consider in this paper a model of linear regression with i…

2017-12-07abs ↗pdf ↗

New method uses unlabeled data to estimate intercept in case-control logistic regression.

problem Estimating intercept in case-control logistic regression.
method Construct likelihood function, use iterative algorithm to find maximum likelihood estimator.
result Proposed method identifies intercept and improves estimation efficiency.

A new method for drone-based geo-localization using style and spatial alignment.

problem Geo-localization of drone-view images with satellite-view images using pre-annotated GPS tags.
method Orientation-based method to align patterns, new branch to extract aligned partial features, style alignment strategy.
result The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art alternatives in geo-localization accuracy.

The paper explores geometric properties of interception curves on planes and spheres.

problem Geometric properties of interception curves defined by differential equations.
method Parametric representation and spherical curve defined by Gudermannian function.
result Symmetry/asymmetry between spherical and planar cases, connections to lemniscate constants.

This paper explores formal verification for autonomous systems, identifying limitations and proposing improvements.

problem Ensuring safety of autonomous systems like self-driving cars and drones.
method Formal verification techniques based on formal methods, analyzing three assumptions and their limitations.
result Preliminary work to improve the strength of evidence provided by formal verification.

Meta-learning improves drone trajectory design for dynamic wireless networks.

problem Designing optimal trajectories for energy-constrained drones in dynamic network environments.
method Proposes a meta-learning algorithm to adaptively tune a reinforcement learning solution for trajectory design.
result Meta-tuned RL yields faster convergence and improved communication performance compared to baseline algorithms.

Study of pursuit-evasion game on sphere and its relation to planar Apollonius circle.

problem Analyzing pursuit-evasion game on a sphere and its properties.
method Extending classical planar pursuit-evasion game to spherical geometry, studying equilibrium intercept points and their relation to Apollonius domain.
result Condition for intercept point to belong to Apollonius domain on sphere, analogous to planar game.

The paper detects amateur drones using acoustic signals, overcoming interference.

problem Detection of unmonitored UAVs (amateur drones) for security and safety.
method Machine learning approach using Independent Component Analysis (ICA) for acoustic signal detection.
result The RMS values of PSD with KNN outperform other methods in detecting AmDr.

A method for logistic regression inference using both internal and external data.

problem Inability to estimate intercept and marginal case proportion in case-control logistic regression.
method Empirical likelihood approach integrating internal and external data.
result Intercept parameter becomes identifiable with external information, and all parameters are estimable consistently.

CitySim dataset captures vehicle trajectories for safety research.

problem Lack of fine-grain vehicle trajectories for safety-oriented research.
method Five-step procedure: video stabilization, object filtering, stitching, detection, and error filtering.
result CitySim dataset improves safety evaluations and facilitates digital-twin research.

New method learns robust representations by modeling environment variation.

problem Learning invariant representations across varying environments.
method Explicitly modeling variation across environments and marginalizing it out.
result Proposed method outperforms invariant-learning methods in various settings.

PSC classifier improves HDLSS classification on class-imbalanced data.

problem Classification on high-dimension low-sample-size data with class imbalance.
method Population Structure-learned Classifier (PSC) maximizing inter-class and intra-class scatter matrices.
result PSC outperforms state-of-the-art methods on IHDLSS.

Generative ML learns optimal pursuit trajectories in pursuit-evasion games.

problem Optimizing Blue's pursuit trajectory to intercept Red in a game of pursuit-evasion.
method Applying generative machine learning to learn optimal action policies for Blue.
result Generative ML models can learn relevant representations for pursuit-evasion dynamics.

We establish explicit socially optimal rules for an irreversible investment deci- sion with time-to-build and uncertainty. Assuming a price sensitive demand function with a random intercept, we provide comparative statics and economic interpreta- tions for three models of demand (arithmetic Brownian, geometric Brownian…

2014-05-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Modern vision-based reinforcement learning techniques often use convolutional neural networks (CNN) as universal function approximators to choose which action to take for a given visual input. Until recently, CNNs have been treated like black-box functions, but this mindset is especially dangerous when used for control…

2018-09-14abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce a Bayesian defect detector to facilitate the defect detection on the motion blurred images on rough texture surfaces. To enhance the accuracy of Bayesian detection on removing non-defect pixels, we develop a class of reflected non-local prior distributions, which is constructed by using the mode of a distr…

2018-08-30abs ↗pdf ↗

The importance of training robust neural network grows as 3D data is increasingly utilized in deep learning for vision tasks in robotics, drone control, and autonomous driving. One commonly used 3D data type is 3D point clouds, which describe shape information. We examine the problem of creating robust models from the …

2019-08-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved person detection in occluded conditions with AOS images.

problem Inaccurate classification of partially occluded people, animals, or objects.
method Combining multi-perspective images captured by Airborne Optical Sectioning (AOS) to achieve better precision and recall.
result Precision/recall of 96/93% for automated person detection.

The paper optimizes hyperplanes for binary classification in high-dimensional data with latent Gaussian mixtures.

problem Binary classification in high-dimensional data with latent Gaussian mixtures.
method Generalized least squares estimator for estimating the direction of the optimal separating hyperplane. Simple correction for intercept estimation.
result The procedure is minimax optimal in many scenarios and can retain the interpolation property.

We empirically test predictability on asset price by using stock selection rules based on maximum drawdown and its consecutive recovery. In various equity markets, monthly momentum- and weekly contrarian-style portfolios constructed from these alternative selection criteria are superior not only in forecasting directio…

2014-03-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Study protects federated learning models from eavesdropping attacks.

problem Protecting client models in federated learning from eavesdropping adversaries.
method Theoretical analysis and numerical experiments examining various factors.
result Theoretical and experimental results show the effectiveness of protection methods.

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become the method of choice for learning problems involving 2D planar images. However, a number of problems of recent interest have created a demand for models that can analyze spherical images. Examples include omnidirectional vision for drones, robots, and autonomous cars, mo…

2018-01-30abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper is devoted to the important yet unexplored subject of crowding effects on market impact, that we call "co-impact". Our analysis is based on a large database of metaorders by institutional investors in the U.S. equity market. We find that the market chiefly reacts to the net order flow of ongoing metaorders, …

2018-04-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Equity-Directed Bootstrapping improves model performance across groups in imbalanced datasets.

problem Improving model performance across different groups in imbalanced datasets.
method Equity-Directed Bootstrapping to balance training data with respect to both labels and group identity.
result The equity-directed bootstrap brings test set sensitivities and specificities closer to satisfying the equal odds criterion.

Combines neural networks and STL for multi-class time-series classification.

problem Lack of interpretability in neural networks for time-series data.
method Proposes a method that uses neural networks to classify time-series data using STL specifications, introducing margin for multi-class classification and STL-based attributes for interpretability.
result Evaluations show improved interpretability and performance compared to state-of-the-art baselines.

Neural network models are resource hungry. It is difficult to deploy such deep networks on devices with limited resources, like smart wearables, cellphones, drones, and autonomous vehicles. Low bit quantization such as binary and ternary quantization is a common approach to alleviate this resource requirements. Ternary…

2019-09-26abs ↗pdf ↗