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Resolution Limits of 20 Questions Search Strategies for Moving Targets

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Abstract

We establish fundamental limits of tracking a moving target over the unit cube under the framework of 20 questions with measurement-dependent noise. In this problem, there is an oracle who knows the instantaneous location of a target. Our task is to query the oracle as few times as possible to accurately estimate the trajectory of the moving target, whose initial location and velocity is unknown. We study the case where the oracle's answer to each query is corrupted by random noise with query-dependent discrete distribution. In our formulation, the performance criterion is the resolution, which is defined as the maximal absolute value between the true location and estimated location at each discrete time during the searching process. We are interested in the minimal resolution of any nonadaptive searching procedure with a finite number of queries and derive approximations to this optimal resolution via the second-order asymptotic analysis.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2021 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages5210-5214
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781728176055
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Event2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2021 - Virtual, Toronto, Canada
Duration: 6 Jun 202111 Jun 2021

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume2021-June
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2021
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVirtual, Toronto
Period6/06/2111/06/21

Keywords

  • Estimation
  • Measurement-dependent noise
  • Non-adaptive
  • Resolution
  • Second-order asymptotics

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