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Relative Positioning for Aerial Robot Path Planning in GPS Denied Environment

Sanati, Farzad

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

One of the most useful applications of intelligent aerial robots sometimes called Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) in Australia is known to be in bushfire monitoring and prediction operations. A swarm of autonomous drones/UAVs programmed to work in real-time observing the fire parameters using their onboard sensors would be valuable in reducing the life-threatening impact of that fire. However autonomous UAVs face serious challenges in their positioning and navigation in critical bushfire conditions such as remoteness and severe weather conditions where GPS signals could also be unreliable. This paper tackles one of the most important factors in autonomous UAV navigation, namely Initial Positioning sometimes called Localisation. The solution provided by this paper will enable a team of autonomous UAVs to establish a relative position to their base of operation to be able to commence a team search and reconnaissance in a bushfire-affected area and find their way back to their base without the help of GPS signals.


Belgian researchers found a huge privacy hole in six dating apps

Engadget

TechCrunch reported that a group of researchers from the university KU Leuven in Belgium identified six popular dating apps that malicious users can use to pinpoint the near-exact location of other users. Dating apps including Hinge, Happn, Bumble, Grindr, Badoo and Hily all exhibited some form of "trilateration" that could expose users' approximate locations, which prompted some of the apps to take action and tighten their security, according to the published paper. The term "trilateration" refers to a three-point measurement used in GPS to determine the relative distance to a target. The six named apps fell into one of three categories of trilateration" including "exact distance trilateration" in which a target is accurate to "at least a 111m by 111m square (at the equator)," "round distance trilateration" or "oracle trilateration" in which distance filters are used to approximate a rounded area much like a Venn diagram. Grindr is "susceptible to exact distance trilateration" while Happn falls under "rounded distance trilateration."


Indoor Positioning using Wi-Fi and Machine Learning for Industry 5.0

Neupane, Inoj, Alsinglawi, Belal, Rabie, Khaled

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Humans and robots working together in an environment to enhance human performance is the aim of Industry 5.0. Although significant progress in outdoor positioning has been seen, indoor positioning remains a challenge. In this paper, we introduce a new research concept by exploiting the potential of indoor positioning for Industry 5.0. We use Wi-Fi Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) with trilateration using cheap and easily available ESP32 Arduino boards for positioning as well as sending effective route signals to a human and a robot working in a simulated-indoor factory environment in real-time. We utilized machine learning models to detect safe closeness between two co-workers (a human subject and a robot). Experimental data and analysis show an average deviation of less than 1m from the actual distance while the targets are mobile or stationary.


Vulnerability in Bumble dating app reveals any user's exact location

#artificialintelligence

However, next they ask you to submit a selfie of yourself putting your right hand on your head, to prove that your picture really is of you. You don't know how to contact the man in the stock photo and you're not sure that he would send you a selfie. You do your best, but Bumble rejects your effort. There's no option to change your initially submitted profile photo until you've passed this verification so you abandon this account and start again. You don't want to compromise your privacy by submitting real photos of yourself, so you take a profile picture of Jenna the intern and then another picture of her with her right hand on her head. She is confused but she knows who pays her salary, or at least who might one day pay her salary if the next six months go well and a suitable full-time position is available. You take the same set of photos of Wilson in…marketing?


Perturbation Bounds for Procrustes, Classical Scaling, and Trilateration, with Applications to Manifold Learning

Arias-Castro, Ery, Javanmard, Adel, Pelletier, Bruno

arXiv.org Machine Learning

One of the common tasks in unsupervised learning is dimensionality reduction, where the goal is to find meaningful low-dimensional structures hidden in high-dimensional data. Sometimes referred to as manifold learning, this problem is closely related to the problem of localization, which aims at embedding a weighted graph into a low-dimensional Euclidean space. Several methods have been proposed for localization, and also manifold learning. Nonetheless, the robustness property of most of them is little understood. In this paper, we obtain perturbation bounds for classical scaling and trilateration, which are then applied to derive performance bounds for Isomap, Landmark Isomap, and Maximum Variance Unfolding. A new perturbation bound for procrustes analysis plays a key role.