Deployment via Iteration and Mobility

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Sampling Design: Determine Where to Take Measurements Sampling Design: Determine Where to Take Measurements Empirical Approaches to Sensor Placement: Mobile Sensors and Empirical Approaches to Sensor Placement: Mobile Sensors and Iterative Deployment Iterative Deployment Deployment via Iteration and Deployment via Iteration and Mobility Mobility Tom Schoellhammer 1 , Sameera Poduri 2 , Amarjeet Singh 3 , Bin Zhang 2 1 CSL – http://lecs.cs.ucla.edu 2 RESL – http://robotics.usc.edu/resl 3 EE http://ee.ucla.edu Sensor Placement with a Limited Sensor Budgets is Difficult Sensor Placement with a Limited Sensor Budgets is Difficult Sensing using Mobile Robots Mobile robots can provide complete coverage for large domains. Traveling and sensing cost demands efficient path planning. Estimation of the phenomenon can be improved by Maximizing information quality: Initial observations are available by using dense sampling Minimizing reconstruction Error: Initial estimation on the environment using observations from static sensors Iterative Placement Deployment of Cameras in an outdoor deployment performance varies depending on obstacles, lighting conditions, background contrast, luminance, etc. except obstacles, other factors are difficult to model. Deploying sensors belowground High installation cost Soils can take weeks to resettle Problem: A sensing environment divided into discrete observation locations () Constraint: Limited budget (B) over the sensing and the traveling cost (C) for each available mobile robot (R i , i 2 N). Objective: Find a set of paths (P i ), one for each robot, such that the total utility: field estimation or collected information (I ([ P i )) over the visited locations is optimized. Formally: min (IMSE(P)) subject to C(P)· B – When optimizing reconstruction accuracy max P i µ I([ P i ) subject to C(P i )· B, 8 i · N – When optimizing information quality Optimizing reconstruction accuracy •Use Local Linear Regression to minimize the integrated mean square error (IMSE) •The IMSE can be estimated by using the sample density and Hessian matrix of the scalar field •Associate with each location in , a reward defined as the decrease of the IMSE if more sensor readings taken at x. •Static sensor nodes are deployed uniformly and the readings is used to estimate the reward for each location. Center for Embedded Networked Sensing Center for Embedded Networked Sensing UCLA – UCR – Caltech – USC – UC Merced UCLA – UCR – Caltech – USC – UC Merced Optimizing collected information •Use mutual information over the set of observed locations as the optimization criterion •Provides approximation guarantee of O(logN) •Provided a simple sequential allocation approach for multiple robots with strong (near optimal) approximation guarantee: •If is the approximation guarantee for single robot path planning then sequential- allocation provides approximation guarantee of (1+) Robot-1 Robot-3 Robot-2 Path for Single Robot A buoy and a robotic boat Path Coverage Problem: Cover a path of arbitrary complexity Constraints: The environment has several obstacles, and the cameras used have limited view Objective: Minimize the number of cameras while ensuring that every point in the path is covered •Map obstacles in the environment •Start with a uniform deployment •Gather detection data and estimate the camera’s detection range at different points (and different directions) along the path. • Solve 1D connected set cover to find optimal camera locations Data-Driven Approach Camera set-up Obstacle map Optimal deployment Auditioning Problem: Accurately predict belowground conditions Constraints: Meteorological measurements are available, soil and leaf litter properties are unavailable Objective: Apply automatic fitting techniques to fit in the presence of unknown paramters Auditioning •Model belowground temperature from aboveground meteorological measurements, leveraging phenomenon specific knowledge •Phenomenon specific models cannot be used directly due to several unknown physical parameters: soil composition, leaf litter thickness, leaf litter composition •Apply multivariate adaptive spline regression to automatically choose inputs We address placement in several sensing scenarios using mobility and iterative deployment

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Robot-3. Robot-1. Robot-2. Center for Embedded Networked Sensing. Deployment via Iteration and Mobility. Tom Schoellhammer 1 , Sameera Poduri 2 , Amarjeet Singh 3 , Bin Zhang 2 1 CSL – http://lecs.cs.ucla.edu 2 RESL – http://robotics.usc.edu/resl 3 EE http://ee.ucla.edu. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Sampling Design: Determine Where to Take MeasurementsSampling Design: Determine Where to Take Measurements

Empirical Approaches to Sensor Placement: Mobile Sensors and Iterative DeploymentEmpirical Approaches to Sensor Placement: Mobile Sensors and Iterative Deployment

Deployment via Iteration and MobilityDeployment via Iteration and MobilityTom Schoellhammer1, Sameera Poduri2, Amarjeet Singh3, Bin Zhang2

1CSL – http://lecs.cs.ucla.edu 2RESL – http://robotics.usc.edu/resl 3EE http://ee.ucla.edu

Sensor Placement with a Limited Sensor Budgets is DifficultSensor Placement with a Limited Sensor Budgets is Difficult

Sensing using Mobile Robots• Mobile robots can provide complete coverage for large domains.• Traveling and sensing cost demands efficient path planning.• Estimation of the phenomenon can be improved by

– Maximizing information quality: Initial observations are available by using dense sampling

– Minimizing reconstruction Error: Initial estimation on the environment using observations from static sensors

Iterative Placement• Deployment of Cameras in an outdoor deployment

– performance varies depending on obstacles, lighting conditions, background contrast, luminance, etc.

– except obstacles, other factors are difficult to model.• Deploying sensors belowground

– High installation cost– Soils can take weeks to resettle

•Problem: A sensing environment divided into discrete observation locations ()•Constraint: Limited budget (B) over the sensing and the traveling cost (C) for each available mobile robot (Ri, i 2 N).

•Objective: Find a set of paths (Pi), one for each robot, such that the total utility: field estimation or collected information (I ([ Pi)) over the visited locations is optimized. Formally:

•min pµ (IMSE(P)) subject to C(P)· B – When optimizing reconstruction accuracy•maxPiµI([ Pi) subject to C(Pi)· B, 8 i · N – When optimizing information

quality

 

Optimizing reconstruction accuracy •Use Local Linear Regression to minimize the integrated mean square error (IMSE)•The IMSE can be estimated by using the sample density and Hessian matrix of the scalar field•Associate with each location in , a reward defined as the decrease of the IMSE if more sensor readings taken at x.•Static sensor nodes are deployed uniformly and the readings is used to estimate the reward for each location.

Center for Embedded Networked SensingCenter for Embedded Networked Sensing

UCLA – UCR – Caltech – USC – UC MercedUCLA – UCR – Caltech – USC – UC Merced

Optimizing collected information •Use mutual information over the set of observed locations as the optimization criterion•Provides approximation guarantee of O(logN)•Provided a simple sequential allocation approach for multiple robots with strong (near optimal) approximation guarantee:

•If is the approximation guarantee for single robot path planning then sequential-allocation provides approximation guarantee of (1+)

Robot-1

Robot-3

Robot-2

Path for Single Robot A buoy and a robotic boat

Path Coverage•Problem: Cover a path of arbitrary complexity•Constraints: The environment has several obstacles, and the cameras used have limited view•Objective: Minimize the number of cameras while ensuring that every point in the path is covered

•Map obstacles in the environment•Start with a uniform deployment•Gather detection data and estimate the camera’s detection range at different points (and different directions) along the path. • Solve 1D connected set cover to find optimal camera locations

Data-Driven Approach

Camera set-up Obstacle map Optimal deployment

AuditioningProblem: Accurately predict belowground conditionsConstraints: Meteorological measurements are available, soil and leaf litter properties are unavailableObjective: Apply automatic fitting techniques to fit in the presence of unknown paramters

Auditioning•Model belowground temperature from aboveground meteorological measurements, leveraging phenomenon specific knowledge•Phenomenon specific models cannot be used directly due to several unknown physical parameters: soil composition, leaf litter thickness, leaf litter composition•Apply multivariate adaptive spline regression to automatically choose inputs

We address placement in several sensing scenarios using mobility and iterative deployment