{"id":46,"date":"2016-08-22T13:57:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T17:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tron\/?p=46"},"modified":"2016-08-22T15:19:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T19:19:01","slug":"distributed-localization-algorithms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tron\/2016\/08\/22\/distributed-localization-algorithms\/","title":{"rendered":"Distributed localization algorithms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a wireless camera network, where each camera has a piece of local information, e.g., the pose of the object from a specific viewpoint or the relative poses with respect to the neighboring cameras.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment39\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment39\" style=\"width: 611px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/tron\/files\/2016\/08\/networkLocalization.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/tron\/files\/2016\/08\/networkLocalization.png\" alt=\"Illustration of a camera network\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39\" height=\"350\" width=\"601\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment39\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration of a camera network<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It is natural to look for distributed algorithms which merge all these local measurements into a single, globally consistent estimate. I derived such algorithms by formulating a global optimization problem over the space of poses, and shown their convergence from a large set of initial conditions using the aforementioned theoretical tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a wireless camera network, where each camera has a piece of local information, e.g., the pose of the object from a specific viewpoint or the relative poses with respect to the neighboring cameras. It is natural to look for distributed algorithms which merge all these local measurements into a single, globally consistent estimate. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11510,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[10,6,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11510"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}