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Autores principales: Dhillon, Harmeet, Katyal, Pranay, Long, Brendan, Walia, Rohan, Cleaveland, Matthew, Leahy, Kevin
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Publicado: 2026
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19477
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author Dhillon, Harmeet
Katyal, Pranay
Long, Brendan
Walia, Rohan
Cleaveland, Matthew
Leahy, Kevin
author_facet Dhillon, Harmeet
Katyal, Pranay
Long, Brendan
Walia, Rohan
Cleaveland, Matthew
Leahy, Kevin
contents In multi-robot systems, traditional radio frequency (RF) communication struggles with contention and jamming. Optical communication offers a strong alternative. However, conventional frame-based cameras suffer from limited frame rates, motion blur, and reduced robustness under high dynamic range lighting. Event cameras support microsecond temporal resolution and high dynamic range, making them extremely sensitive to scene changes under fast relative motion with an optical transmitter. Leveraging these strengths, we develop a complete optical communication system capable of tracking moving transmitters and decoding messages in real time. Our system achieves over $95\%$ decoding accuracy for text transmission during motion by implementing a Geometry-Aware Unscented Kalman Filter (GA-UKF), achieving 7x faster processing speed compared to the previous state-of-the-art method, while maintaining equivalent tracking accuracy at transmitting frequencies $\geq$ 1 kHz.
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spellingShingle Real-Time Optical Communication Using Event-Based Vision with Moving Transmitters
Dhillon, Harmeet
Katyal, Pranay
Long, Brendan
Walia, Rohan
Cleaveland, Matthew
Leahy, Kevin
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In multi-robot systems, traditional radio frequency (RF) communication struggles with contention and jamming. Optical communication offers a strong alternative. However, conventional frame-based cameras suffer from limited frame rates, motion blur, and reduced robustness under high dynamic range lighting. Event cameras support microsecond temporal resolution and high dynamic range, making them extremely sensitive to scene changes under fast relative motion with an optical transmitter. Leveraging these strengths, we develop a complete optical communication system capable of tracking moving transmitters and decoding messages in real time. Our system achieves over $95\%$ decoding accuracy for text transmission during motion by implementing a Geometry-Aware Unscented Kalman Filter (GA-UKF), achieving 7x faster processing speed compared to the previous state-of-the-art method, while maintaining equivalent tracking accuracy at transmitting frequencies $\geq$ 1 kHz.
title Real-Time Optical Communication Using Event-Based Vision with Moving Transmitters
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19477