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Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) is an established technology used for geodesy, fundamental science and precise orbit determination. This paper reports on the first successful SLR measurement from the German Aerospace Center research…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Daniel Hampf , Fabian Sproll , Paul Wagner , Leif Humbert , Thomas Hasenohr , Wolfgang Riede

Bin-picking of metal objects using low-cost RGB-D cameras often suffers from sparse depth information and reflective surface textures, leading to errors and the need for manual labeling. To reduce human intervention, we propose a two-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Peiyuan Ni , Chee Meng Chew , Marcelo H. Ang , Gregory S. Chirikjian

The positioning accuracy of the mobile laser scanning (MLS) system can reach the level of centimeter under the conditions where GPS works normally. However, in GPS-denied environments this accuracy can be reduced to the decimeter or even…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-04 WI. Liu , Zhixiong Li , Shuaishuai Sun , Reza Malekian , Zhenjun Ma , Weihua Li

Recently, reference-based image super-resolution (RefSR) has shown excellent performance in image super-resolution (SR) tasks. The main idea of RefSR is to utilize additional information from the reference (Ref) image to recover the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Jeongho Min , Yejun Lee , Dongyoung Kim , Jaejun Yoo

In this paper, we introduce a system based on transfer learning for detecting segment misalignment in multimirror satellites, such as future CubeSat designs and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), using image-based methods. When a mirror…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 C. Tanner Fredieu , Jonathan Tesch , Andrew Kee , David Redding

Using radio-frequency (RF) sensing techniques for human posture recognition has attracted growing interest due to its advantages of pervasiveness, contact-free observation, and privacy protection. Conventional RF sensing techniques are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-24 Jingzhi Hu , Hongliang Zhang , Boya Di , Lianlin Li , Lingyang Song , Yonghui Li , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, the design of robust linear precoders for the massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) downlink with imperfect channel state information (CSI) is investigated. The imperfect CSI for each UE obtained at the BS is modeled as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-23 An-An Lu , Xiqi Gao , Wen Zhong , Chengshan Xiao , Xin Meng

In this paper, colocated MIMO radar waveform design is considered by minimizing the integrated side-lobe level to obtain beam patterns with lower side-lobe levels than competing methods. First, a quadratic programming problem is formulated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Haisheng Xu , Rick S. Blum , Jian Wang , Jian Yuan

Low earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations are becoming a cornerstone of next-generation satellite networks, enabling worldwide high-precision navigation and high-quality remote sensing. This paper proposes a novel dual-function LEO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Qi Wang , Xiaoming Chen , Qiao Qi , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu

Next-generation cellular networks will witness the creation of smart radio environments (SREs), where walls and objects can be coated with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) to strengthen the communication and localization coverage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Ahmed Elzanaty , Anna Guerra , Francesco Guidi , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a novel burgeoning concept, which possesses advantages in enhancing wireless communication and user localization, while maintaining low hardware cost and energy consumption. Herein, we establish an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Rui Wang , Zhe Xing , Erwu Liu

Lunar laser ranging (LLR) has made major contributions to our understanding of the Moon's internal structure and the dynamics of the Earth-Moon system. Because of the recent improvements of the ground-based laser ranging facilities, the…

This paper proposes a multistatic radar (MSR) system utilizing a distributed wireless synchronization protocol. The wireless synchronization protocol uses a two-tone waveform exchange for frequency synchronization and a bi-directional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Kumar Sai Bondada , Daniel J. Jakubisin , R. Michael Buehrer

Downlink beamforming is an essential technology for wireless cellular networks; however, the design of beamforming vectors that maximize the weighted sum rate (WSR) is an NP-hard problem and iterative algorithms are typically applied to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Jingyuan Xia , Gunduz Deniz

A free-space laser communication system has been designed and partially developed as an alternative to standard RF links from UAV to ground stations. This project belongs to the SINTONIA program (acronym in Spanish for low…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-01 Alberto Carrasco-Casado , Ricardo Vergaz , Jose M. Sanchez-Pena

The downlink of a wireless network where multi-antenna base stations (BSs) communicate with single-antenna mobile stations (MSs) using maximal ratio transmission (MRT) is considered here. The locations of BSs are modeled by a homogeneous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-28 George C. Alexandropoulos , Marios Kountouris

In this paper, we investigate the problem of estimating the position and the angle of rotation of a mobile station (MS) in a millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system aided by a reconfigurable intelligent surface…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Sheng Hong , Minghui Li , Cunhua Pan , Marco Di Renzo , Wei Zhang , Lajos Hanzo

The paper addresses the problem of determining the unknown position of a mobile station for a mmWave MISO system. This setup is motivated by the fact that massive arrays will be initially implemented only on 5G base stations, likely leaving…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-29 Alessio Fascista , Angelo Coluccia , Henk Wymeersch , Gonzalo Seco-Granados

In this paper, we propose a state-of-the-art downlink communication transceiver design for transmissive reconfigurable metasurface (RMS)-enabled simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) networks. Specifically, a feed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-13 Zhendong Li , Wen Chen , Ziheng Zhang , Qingqing Wu , Huanqing Cao , Jun Li

High-precision corner-cube retroreflectors (CCRs) are critical for advanced lunar laser ranging (LLR) because they enable sub-millimeter-scale measurements of the Earth-Moon distance -- a level of precision essential for rigorous tests of…

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