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This paper introduces an advanced Quaternion-based Unscented Kalman Filter (QUKF) for real-time, robust estimation of system states and external wrenches in assistive aerial payload transportation systems that engage in direct physical…
The Kalman(-Bucy) filter is the natural choice for the state reconstruction of disturbed, linear dynamical systems based on flawed and incomplete measurements. Taking a deterministic viewpoint this work investigates possible extensions of…
This thesis is concerned with the rejection of time-varying disturbances in linear model predictive control of discrete-time systems. In the literature, disturbances are widely rejected by using velocity models, disturbance model with…
The unscented Kalman filter is an algorithm capable of handling nonlinear scenarios. Uncertainty in process noise covariance may decrease the filter estimation performance or even lead to its divergence. Therefore, it is important to adjust…
This article proposes an approach for collision avoidance, path following, and anti-grounding of autonomous surface vessels under consideration of environmental forces based on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC). Artificial Potential…
Climate change poses significant challenges for accurate climate modeling due to the complexity and variability of non-Gaussian climate systems. To address the complexities of non-Gaussian systems in climate modeling, this thesis proposes a…
Dynamical models are often corrupted by model uncertainties, external disturbances, and measurement noise. These factors affect the performance of model-based observers and as a result, affect the closed-loop performance. Therefore, it is…
This paper deals with the simultaneous estimation of the attitude, position and linear velocity for vision-aided inertial navigation systems. We propose a nonlinear observer on $SO(3)\times \mathbb{R}^{15}$ relying on body-frame…
Operating in the near-vicinity of marine energy devices poses significant challenges to the control of underwater vehicles, predominantly due to the presence of large magnitude wave disturbances causing hazardous state perturbations.…
Accurate and robust relative pose estimation is crucial for enabling challenging Active Debris Removal (ADR) missions targeting tumbling derelict satellites such as ESA's ENVISAT. This work presents a complete pipeline integrating advanced…
The fusion between an inertial navigation system and global navigation satellite systems is regularly used in many platforms such as drones, land vehicles, and marine vessels. The fusion is commonly carried out in a model-based extended…
Many day-to-day activities require the dexterous manipulation of a redundant humanoid arm in complex 3D environments. However, position regulation of such robot arm systems becomes very difficult in presence of non-linear uncertainties in…
Ill-posed inverse problems are ubiquitous in applications. Under- standing of algorithms for their solution has been greatly enhanced by a deep understanding of the linear inverse problem. In the applied communities ensemble-based filtering…
An observer is an estimator of the state of a dynamical system from noisy sensor measurements. The need for observers is ubiquitous, with applications in fields ranging from engineering to biology to economics. The most widely used observer…
Visual perception is an important component for autonomous navigation of unmanned surface vessels (USV), particularly for the tasks related to autonomous inspection and tracking. These tasks involve vision-based navigation techniques to…
This paper is concerned with fault/disturbance compensation control for fully actuated systems. In particular, we explore observer-based control, incorporating an active compensation mechanism. First, we propose a novel observer with…
Choosing a nonlinear state estimator for an application often involves a trade-off between local optimality (such as provided by an extended Kalman filter) and (almost-/semi-) global asymptotic stability (such as provided by a constructive…
The minimum error entropy (MEE) has been extensively used in unscented Kalman filter (UKF) to handle impulsive noises or abnormal measurement data in non-Gaussian systems. However, the MEE-UKF has poor numerical stability due to the inverse…
This work deals with the problem of designing disturbance decupled observers for the estimation of a function of the states in nonlinear systems. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of lower order disturbance decoupled…
This letter presents a nonlinear disturbance observer-parameterized control barrier function (DOp-CBF) designed for a robust safety control system under external disturbances. This framework emphasizes that the safety bounds are relevant to…