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Generalized multicircumcenter trajectories for optimal design under near-independence

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Generalized multicircumcenter trajectories for optimal design under near-independence
This work deals with trajectory optimization for a network of robotic sensors sampling a spatio-temporal random field. We examine the problem of minimizing over the space of network trajectories the maximum predictive variance of the estimator. This is a high-dimensional, multi-modal, nonsmooth optimization problem, known to be NP-hard even for static fields and discrete design spaces. Under an asymptotic regime of near-independence between distinct sample locations, we show that the solutions to a novel generalized disk-covering problem are solutions to the optimal sampling problem. This result transforms the search for the optimal trajectories into a geometric optimization problem. Constrained versions of the latter are also of interest as they can accommodate trajectories that satisfy a maximum velocity restriction on the robots. We characterize the solution for the unconstrained and constrained versions of the problem as generalized multicircumcenter trajectories, and provide distr...
Rishi Graham, Jorge Cortés
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Type Journal
Year 2010
Where CDC
Authors Rishi Graham, Jorge Cortés
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