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COMPASS: Computations for Orientation and Motion Perception in Altered Sensorimotor States by Kravets, Victoria G, Dixon, Jordan B, Ahmed, Nisar R, Clark, Torin K

“…Reliable perception of self-motion and orientation requires the central nervous system (CNS) to adapt to changing environments, stimuli, and sensory organ…”
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Exact and Approximate Heterogeneous Bayesian Decentralized Data Fusion by Dagan, Ofer, Ahmed, Nisar R.

“…In Bayesian peer-to-peer decentralized data fusion, the underlying distributions held locally by autonomous agents are frequently assumed to be over the same…”
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Optimal Continuous State POMDP Planning With Semantic Observations: A Variational Approach by Burks, Luke, Loefgren, Ian, Ahmed, Nisar R.

“…This article develops novel strategies for optimal planning with semantic observations using continuous state partially observable Markov decision processes…”
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Competency Assessment for Autonomous Agents using Deep Generative Models by Acharya, Aastha, Russell, Rebecca, Ahmed, Nisar R.

“…For autonomous agents to act as trustworthy partners to human users, they must be able to reliably communicate their competency for the tasks they are asked to…”
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Conservative Filtering for Heterogeneous Decentralized Data Fusion in Dynamic Robotic Systems by Dagan, Ofer, Ahmed, Nisar R.

“…This paper presents a method for Bayesian multi-robot peer-to-peer data fusion where any pair of autonomous robots hold non-identical, but overlapping parts of…”
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Non-Linear Heterogeneous Bayesian Decentralized Data Fusion by Dagan, Ofer, Cinquini, Tycho L., Ahmed, Nisar R.

“…The factor graph decentralized data fusion (FG-DDF) framework was developed for the analysis and exploitation of conditional independence in heterogeneous…”
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Fast Consistent Chernoff Fusion of Gaussian Mixtures for Ad Hoc Sensor Networks by Ahmed, N. R., Campbell, M.

“…This correspondence examines the Chernoff rule for robust decentralized fusion of non-Gaussian pdfs in dynamic ad hoc sensor networks. Although theoretically…”
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Unified Terrain Mapping Model With Markov Random Fields by Tse, Rina, Ahmed, Nisar R., Campbell, Mark

“…A terrain mapping model is proposed using a generalized Markov random field (MRF) representation. Unlike previous work, the proposed MRF can fully represent…”
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Learning to Forecast Aleatoric and Epistemic Uncertainties over Long Horizon Trajectories by Acharya, Aastha, Russell, Rebecca, Ahmed, Nisar R.

“…Giving autonomous agents the ability to forecast their own outcomes and uncertainty will allow them to communicate their competencies and be used more safely…”
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Heterogeneous Decentralized Fusion Using Conditionally Factorized Channel Filters by Dagan, Ofer, Ahmed, Nisar R.

“…This paper studies a family of heterogeneous Bayesian decentralized data fusion problems. Heterogeneous fusion considers the set of problems in which either…”
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Data Fusion-Aware Motion Planning for Ad Hoc Robotic Search Teams by Center, Jack D., Ahmed, Nisar R.

“…This paper develops a novel algorithmic motion planning approach that allows privately-owned volunteer robotic equipment, which might otherwise remain unused,…”
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Bayesian Multicategorical Soft Data Fusion for Human-Robot Collaboration by Ahmed, N. R., Sample, E. M., Campbell, M.

“…This paper considers Bayesian data fusion of conventional robot sensor information with ambiguous human-generated categorical information about continuous…”
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GPS-limited cooperative localization using scalable approximate decentralized data fusion by Dourmashkin, Steven J., Ahmed, Nisar R., Akos, Dennis M., Whitacre, William W.

“…This work addresses the problem of communication-based autonomous vehicle cooperative inertial navigation and localization in GPS-challenged environments…”
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Exact and Approximate Heterogeneous Bayesian Decentralized Data Fusion by Dagan, Ofer, Ahmed, Nisar R

“…IEEE Transactions on Robotics 2023 In Bayesian peer-to-peer decentralized data fusion, the underlying distributions held locally by autonomous agents are…”
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Conservative Filtering for Heterogeneous Decentralized Data Fusion in Dynamic Robotic Systems by Dagan, Ofer, Ahmed, Nisar R

“…2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) This paper presents a method for Bayesian multi-robot peer-to-peer data fusion…”
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Factor Graphs for Heterogeneous Bayesian Decentralized Data Fusion by Dagan, Ofer, Ahmed, Nisar R.

“…This paper explores the use of factor graphs as an inference and analysis tool for Bayesian peer-to-peer decentralized data fusion. We propose a framework by…”
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Dynamic Competency Self-Assessment for Autonomous Agents by Conlon, Nicholas, Ahmed, Nisar R, Szafir, Daniel

“…As autonomous robots are deployed in increasingly complex environments, platform degradation, environmental uncertainties, and deviations from validated…”
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Learning to Forecast Aleatoric and Epistemic Uncertainties over Long Horizon Trajectories by Acharya, Aastha, Russell, Rebecca, Ahmed, Nisar R

“…Giving autonomous agents the ability to forecast their own outcomes and uncertainty will allow them to communicate their competencies and be used more safely…”
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Factor Graphs for Heterogeneous Bayesian Decentralized Data Fusion by Dagan, Ofer, Ahmed, Nisar R

“…021 IEEE 24th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), Sun City, South Africa, 2021 This paper explores the use of factor graphs as an…”
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Decentralized Gaussian Mixture Fusion through Unified Quotient Approximations by Ahmed, Nisar R

“…This work examines the problem of using finite Gaussian mixtures (GM) probability density functions in recursive Bayesian peer-to-peer decentralized data…”
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