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The Multi-conjugate Adaptive Optics RelaY (MAORY) is one of the key Adaptive Optics (AO) systems on the European Southern Observatory's Extremely Large Telescope. MAORY aims to achieve a good wavefront correction over a large field of view,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-25 Bernadett Stadler , Ronny Ramlau

The next generation ground-based telescopes rely heavily on adaptive optics for overcoming the limitation of atmospheric turbulence. In the future adaptive optics modalities, like multi-conjugate adaptive optics (MCAO), atmospheric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Tapio Helin , Mykhaylo Yudytskiy

Advanced adaptive optics (AO) instruments on ground-based telescopes require accurate knowledge of the atmospheric turbulence strength as a function of altitude. This information assists point spread function reconstruction, AO temporal…

Extreme adaptive optics systems are now in operation across the globe. These systems, capable of high order wavefront correction, deliver Strehl ratios of 90% in the near-infrared. Originally intended for the direct imaging of exoplanets,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Nemanja Jovanovic , Christian Schwab , Nick Cvetojevic , Olivier Guyon , Frantz Martinache

Future wireless communication systems must simultaneously address multiple challenges to ensure accurate data detection, deliver high Quality of Service (QoS), adding enable a high data transmission with low system design. Additionally,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Amina Darghouthi , Abdelhakim Khlifi , Belgacem Chibani

The increasing integration of renewable energy, particularly offshore wind, introduces significant uncertainty into hybrid AC-HVDC systems due to forecast errors and power fluctuations. Conventional control strategies typically rely on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Hongjin Du , Rahul Rane , Weijie Xia , Pedro P. Vergara , Aleksandra Lekić

Free-space optical communications with moving targets, such as satellite terminals, demand ultrafast wavefront sensing and correction. This is typically addressed using a Shack-Hartmann sensor, which pairs a high-speed camera with a lenslet…

Fragments of deep-ocean tidal records up to 3 days long belong to the same functional sub-space, regardless of the record's origin. The tidal sub-space basis can be derived via Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) analysis of a tidal record…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 Elena Tolkova

Exoplanet detection and characterization through extreme adaptive optics (ExAO) is a key science goal of future extremely large telescopes. This achievement, however, will be limited in sensitivity by both quasi-static wavefront errors and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Benjamin L. Gerard , Christian Marois , Raphaël Galicher , Jean-Pierre Véran

In this paper, we address the inverse problem of fast, stable, and high-quality wavefront reconstruction from pyramid wavefront sensor data for Adaptive Optics systems on Extremely Large Telescopes. For solving the indicated problem we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 Victoria Hutterer , Ronny Ramlau , Iuliia Shatokhina

Directly imaging Earth-like exoplanets (``exoEarths'') with a coronagraph instrument on a space telescope requires a stable wavefront with optical path differences limited to tens of picometers RMS during exposure times of a few hours.…

The Earth's atmosphere is comprised of turbulent layers that result in speckled and blurry images from ground-based visible and infrared observations. Adaptive Optics (AO) systems are employed to measure the perturbed wavefront with a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-03 Zhenxi Du , Saavidra Perera , Daniel Levinstein , Quinn Konopacky , Alex Madurowicz , Bruce Macintosh , Lisa Poyneer , Richard Wilson , Ollie Farley

Accurate estimation of the dynamic states of a synchronous machine (e.g., rotor s angle and speed) is essential in monitoring and controlling transient stability of a power system. It is well known that the covariance matrixes of process…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-02-06 Shahrokh Akhlaghi , Ning Zhou , Zhenyu Huang

Scene flow estimation is a crucial component in the development of autonomous driving and 3D robotics, providing valuable information for environment perception and navigation. Despite the advantages of learning-based scene flow estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Rahul Ahuja , Chris Baker , Wilko Schwarting

The technique requires the epipolar geometry to be pre-estimated between each image pair. It exploits the constraints which the camera movement implies, in order to apply a closed-form correction to the parameters of the input affinities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Ivan Eichhardt , Daniel Barath

Oversampled adaptive sensing (OAS) is a Bayesian framework recently proposed for effective sensing of structured signals in a time-limited setting. In contrast to the conventional blind oversampling, OAS uses the prior information on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Ali Bereyhi , Saba Asaad , Ralf R. Müller

This study presents an innovative hybrid Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) method for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) that is resilient to environmental challenges and capable of dynamically assessing sensor reliability. Built upon a loosely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Ufuk Asil , Efendi Nasibov

Event cameras deliver visual information characterized by a high dynamic range and high temporal resolution, offering significant advantages in estimating optical flow for complex lighting conditions and fast-moving objects. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Gangwei Xu , Haotong Lin , Zhaoxing Zhang , Hongcheng Luo , Haiyang Sun , Xin Yang

We address the problem of estimating the inputs of a dynamical system from measurements of the system's outputs. To this end, we introduce a novel estimation algorithm that explicitly trades off bias and variance to optimally reduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Sebastian Curi , Kfir Y. Levy , Andreas Krause

Differential wavefront sensing is an essential technique for optimising the performance of many precision interferometric experiments. Perhaps the most extensive application of this is for alignment sensing using radio-frequency beats…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-05-26 Daniel D. Brown , Huy Tuong Cao , Alexei Ciobanu , Peter Veitch , David Ottaway