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This paper presents a safe, efficient, and agile ground vehicle navigation algorithm for 3D off-road terrain environments. Off-road navigation is subject to uncertain vehicle-terrain interactions caused by different terrain conditions on top of 3D terrain topology. The existing works are limited to adopt overly simplified vehicle-terrain models. The proposed algorithm learns the terrain-induced uncertainties from driving data and encodes the learned uncertainty distribution into the traversability cost for path evaluation. The navigation path is then designed to optimize the uncertainty-aware traversability cost, resulting in a safe and agile vehicle maneuver. Assuring real-time execution, the algorithm is further implemented within parallel computation architecture running on Graphics Processing Units (GPU)., Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures, submitted to International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023)

Device to Device (D2D) communication takes advantage of the proximity between the communicating devices in order to achieve efficient resource utilization, improved throughput and energy efficiency, simultaneous serviceability and reduced latency. One of the main characteristics of D2D communication is reuse of the frequency resource in order to improve spectral efficiency of the system. Nevertheless, frequency reuse introduces significantly high interference levels thus necessitating efficient resource allocation algorithms that can enable simultaneous communication sessions through effective channel and/or power allocation. This survey paper presents a comprehensive investigation of the state-of-the-art resource allocation algorithms in D2D communication underlaying cellular networks. The surveyed algorithms are evaluated based on heterogeneous parameters which constitute the elementary features of a resource allocation algorithm in D2D paradigm. Additionally, in order to familiarize the readers with the basic design of the surveyed resource allocation algorithms, brief description of the mode of operation of each algorithm is presented. The surveyed algorithms are divided into four categories based on their technical doctrine i.e., conventional optimization based, Non-Orthogonal-Multiple-Access (NOMA) based, game theory based and machine learning based techniques. Towards the end, several open challenges are remarked as the future research directions in resource allocation for D2D communication., Comment: 29 pages, 5 figures

This paper considers the optimal distributed control problem for a linear stochastic multi-agent system (MAS). Due to the distributed nature of MAS network, the information available to an individual agent is limited to its vicinity. From the entire MAS aspect, this imposes the structural constraint on the control law, making the optimal control law computationally intractable. This paper attempts to relax such a structural constraint by expanding the neighboring information for each agent to the entire MAS, enabled by the distributed estimation algorithm embedded in each agent. By exploiting the estimated information, each agent is not limited to interact with its neighborhood but further establishing the `virtual interactions' with the non-neighboring agents. Then the optimal distributed MAS control problem is cast as a synthesized control-estimation problem. An iterative optimization procedure is developed to find the control-estimation law, minimizing the global objective cost of MAS., Comment: 13 pages, 5 figures, to be published in IEEE/Control Systems Letters (L-CSS)