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The introduction of automated flight control and management systems have made possible aircraft designs that sacrifice arodynamic stability in order to incorporate stealth technology intro their shape, operate more efficiently, and are…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Sayed Pouria Talebi

Algorithms for state estimation of humanoid robots usually assume that the feet remain flat and in a constant position while in contact with the ground. However, this hypothesis is easily violated while walking, especially for human-like…

Due to climate-induced changes, many habitats are experiencing range shifts away from their traditional geographic locations (Piguet, 2011). We propose a solution to accurately model whether bird species are present in a specific habitat…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Emir Durakovic , Min-Hong Shih

Many dynamical systems are subjected to stochastic influences, such as random excitations, noise, and unmodeled behavior. Tracking the system's state and parameters based on a physical model is a common task for which filtering algorithms,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-03 Jan Grashorn , Matteo Broggi , Ludovic Chamoin , Michael Beer

This paper presents a novel real-time tracking system capable of improving body pose estimation algorithms in distributed camera networks. The first stage of our approach introduces a linear Kalman filter operating at the body joints level,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Alessandro Malaguti , Marco Carraro , Mattia Guidolin , Luca Tagliapietra , Emanuele Menegatti , Stefano Ghidoni

Accurate relative positioning is crucial for swarm aerial robotics, enabling coordinated flight and collision avoidance. Although vision-based tracking has been extensively studied, 3D LiDAR-based methods remain underutilized despite their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Nivand Khosravi , Meysam Basiri , Rodrigo Ventura

In this paper we address the problem of estimating the posterior distribution of the static parameters of a continuous time state space model with discrete time observations by an algorithm that combines the Kalman filter and a particle…

Computation · Statistics 2019-05-22 Jian He , Asma Khedher , Peter Spreij

In this work, a novel data-based stochastic global identification framework is introduced for air vehicles operating under varying flight states and uncertainty. In this context, the term global refers to the identification of a model that…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Fotis Kopsaftopoulos , Raphael Nardari , Yu-Hung Li , Fu-Kuo Chang

We present here the results of an analysis carried out by biologists and roboticists with the aim of modeling bird locomotion kinematics for robotics purposes. The aim was to develop a bio-inspired kinematic model of the bird leg from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2008-09-21 Vincent Hugel , Remi Hackert , Anick Abourachid

Flying animals resort to fast, large-degree-of-freedom motion of flapping wings, a key feature that distinguishes them from rotary or fixed-winged robotic fliers with limited motion of aerodynamic surfaces. However, flapping-wing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-11 Yagiz E. Bayiz , Bo Cheng

The controllability of advection-diffusion systems, subject to uncertain initial values and emission rates, is estimated, given sparse and error affected observations of prognostic state variables. In predictive geophysical model systems,…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-03-24 Xueran Wu , Hendrik Elbern , Birgit Jacob

This paper presents a novel adaptive fading cubature Kalman filter (AFCKF) based on double transitive factors. The developed adaptive algorithm is explained in two stages; stage (i) a single transitive factor is used to update the predicted…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-26 Mundla Narasimhappa

Active sensing refers to the process of choosing or tuning a set of sensors in order to track an underlying system in an efficient and accurate way. In a wireless environment, among the several kinds of features extracted by traditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Alessandro Biason , Urbashi Mitra , Michele Zorzi

In the field of sensor fusion and state estimation for object detection and localization, ensuring accurate tracking in dynamic environments poses significant challenges. Traditional methods like the Kalman Filter (KF) often fail when…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Khaled Gabr , Mohamed Abdelkader , Imen Jarraya , Abdullah AlMusalami , Anis Koubaa

Multi-object state estimation is a fundamental problem for robotic applications where a robot must interact with other moving objects. Typically, other objects' relevant state features are not directly observable, and must instead be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Angad Singh , Omar Makhlouf , Maximilian Igl , Joao Messias , Arnaud Doucet , Shimon Whiteson

The extent of vibrations experienced by a vehicle driving over natural terrain defines its ride quality. Generally, surface irregularities, ranging from single discontinuities to random variations of the elevation profile, act as a major…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-16 Giulio Reina , Antonio Leanza , Arcangelo Messina

We study the problem of devising a closed-loop strategy to control the position of a robot that is tracking a possibly moving target. The robot is capable of obtaining noisy measurements of the target's position. The key idea in active…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-09 Zhonghshun Zhang , Pratap Tokekar

We estimate the teleported and the gained parameters by means of Fisher information in a non-inertial frame. The sender and the receiver share an accelerated maximum or partial entangled state. The estimation degree of these parameters…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-27 N. Metwally

The goal of this work is the development of a motion model for sequentially timed movement actions in robotic systems under specific consideration of temporal stabilization, that is maintaining an approximately constant overall movement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Sebastian Doliwa , Muhammad Ayaz Hussain , Tim Sziburis , Ioannis Iossifidis

A Kalman filter can be used to determine material parameters using uncertain experimental data. However, starting with inappropriate initial values for material parameters might include false local attractors or even divergence. Also,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-13 Abdallah Shokry , Per Ståhle