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Visible Light Communication (VLC) is a promising solution to address the growing demand for wireless data, leveraging the widespread use of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) as transmitters. However, its deployment is challenged by link…

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Nonline of sight (NLOS) ultraviolet (UV) scattering communication can serve as a good candidate for outdoor optical wireless communication (OWC) in the cases of non-perfect transmitter-receiver alignment and radio silence. We design and…

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Real-time control (RTC) is pivotal for any Adaptive Optics (AO) system, including high-contrast imaging of exoplanets and circumstellar environments. It is the brain of the AO system, and what wavefront sensing and control (WFS\&C)…

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background survey experiment that consists of three 0.5 m small-aperture telescopes and one 6 m large-aperture telescope, sited at an elevation of 5200 m in the Atacama Desert…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Lauren J. Saunders , Matthew Hasselfield , Brian J. Koopman , Laura Newburgh

LA-RCS (LLM-agent-based robot control system) is a sophisticated robot control system designed to autonomously plan, work, and analyze the external environment based on user requirements by utilizing LLM-Agent. Utilizing a dual-agent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-05 TaekHyun Park , YoungJun Choi , SeungHoon Shin , Kwangil Lee

Layered control is essential for managing complexity in large-scale systems, employing progressively coarser models at higher layers. While significant advances have been made for fully observable systems, the theoretical foundations of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Charis Stamouli , Anastasios Tsiamis , George J. Pappas

Recently, the emergence of the large-scale vision-language model (VLM), such as CLIP, has opened the way towards open-world object perception. Many works have explored the utilization of pre-trained VLM for the challenging open-vocabulary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Youwei Pang , Xiaoqi Zhao , Jiaming Zuo , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

Decentralized state estimation is one of the most fundamental components of autonomous aerial swarm systems in GPS-denied areas yet it still remains a highly challenging research topic. Omni-swarm, a decentralized omnidirectional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Hao Xu , Yichen Zhang , Boyu Zhou , Luqi Wang , Xinjie Yao , Guotao Meng , Shaojie Shen

The Large Sky Area Multi--object Fibre Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) is the largest (aperture 4 m) wide field of view (FOV) telescope and is equipped with the largest amount (4000) of optical fibres in the world. For the LAMOST North and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Ding-qiang Su , Peng Jia , Genrong Liu

The MCAO Assisted Visible Imager and Spectrograph (MAVIS) is a new visible instrument for ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT). Its Adaptive Optics Module (AOM) must provide extreme adaptive optics correction level at low galactic latitude and…

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Context. Towards the multimessenger era, the scientific demand for simultaneous observations with different facilities is continuously increasing. The main challenges of coordinating observations is the determination of common visibility…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-29 J. -U. Ness , C. Sánchez Fernández , A. Ibarra , R. Saxton , J. Salgado , E. Kuulkers , P. Kretschmar , M. Ehle , E. Salazar , C. Gabriel , M. Perdikeas

For a class of uncertain systems with large-error sensing, the low-order stable signal corrector and observer are presented for signal correction and uncertainty estimation according to completely decoupling estimation. The signal corrector…

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We have created a new autonomous laser-guide-star adaptive-optics (AO) instrument on the 60-inch (1.5-m) telescope at Palomar Observatory called Robo-AO. The instrument enables diffraction-limited resolution observing in the visible and…

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Object Tracking is essential for many computer vision applications, such as autonomous navigation, surveillance, and robotics. Unlike Passive Object Tracking (POT), which relies on static camera viewpoints to detect and track objects across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Hy Nguyen , Bao Pham , Hung Du , Srikanth Thudumu , Rajesh Vasa , Kon Mouzakis

The WALOPControl software is designed to facilitate comprehensive control and operation of the WALOP (Wide Area Linear Optical Polarimeter) polarimeters, ensuring safe and concurrent management of various instrument components and…

We propose ORBSLAM-Atlas, a system able to handle an unlimited number of disconnected sub-maps, that includes a robust map merging algorithm able to detect sub-maps with common regions and seamlessly fuse them. The outstanding robustness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Richard Elvira , Juan D. Tardós , J. M. M. Montiel

The internet has brought about great change in the astronomical community, but this interconnectivity is just starting to be exploited for use in instrumentation. Utilizing the internet for communicating between distributed astronomical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. R. White , J. Wren , H. Davis , M. Galassi , D. Starr , W. T. Vestrand , P. Wozniak

The VST (VLT Survey Telescope) is a 2.6 m class Alt-Az telescope to be installed at Mount Paranal in the Atacama desert, Chile, in the European Southern Observatory (ESO) site. The VST is a wide-field imaging facility planned to supply…

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The Ultra-Fast Flash Observatory (UFFO) Pathfinder is a payload on the Russian Lomonosov satellite, scheduled to be launched in November 2011. The Observatory is designed to detect early UV/Optical photons from Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs).…