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Location information of sensor nodes has become an essential part of many applications in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). The importance of location estimation and object tracking has made them the target of many security attacks. Various…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-04-17 Ali P. Fard , Mahdy Nabaee

The extraction of weak signals plays a crucial role in quantum precision measurement, where the estimation results are often limited by low signal-to-noise ratios. Here, we demonstrate a parameter-estimation framework based on the adaptive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Yihan Wang , Xiaofeng Jin , Yuchuan Ming , Jianxiang Miao , Xiao-Ming Lu , M. W. Mitchell , Jia Kong

Trajectory estimation of maneuvering objects is applied in numerous tasks like navigation, path planning and visual tracking. Many previous works get impressive results in the strictly controlled condition with accurate prior statistics and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Weipeng Li , Xiaogang Yang , Ruitao Lu , Jiwei Fan , Tao Zhang , Chuan He

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

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

Facial landmark tracking plays a vital role in applications such as facial recognition, expression analysis, and medical diagnostics. In this paper, we consider the performance of the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) and Unscented Kalman Filter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Thoa Thieu , Roderick Melnik

We propose a probabilistic filtering method which fuses joint measurements with depth images to yield a precise, real-time estimate of the end-effector pose in the camera frame. This avoids the need for frame transformations when using it…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Cristina Garcia Cifuentes , Jan Issac , Manuel Wüthrich , Stefan Schaal , Jeannette Bohg

Building upon the theory of Kalman Filtering on Lie Groups, this paper describes an Extended Kalman Filter and Smoother for Loosely Coupled Integration of GNSS/INS tailored for post-processing applications. The approach employs a dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Marcos R. Fernandes , Giorgio M. Magalhães , Yusef Cáceres , João B. R. do Val

Nowadays, infrared target tracking has been a critical technology in the field of computer vision and has many applications, such as motion analysis, pedestrian surveillance, intelligent detection, and so forth. Unfortunately, due to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Wei-Jie Yan , Yun-Kai Xu , Qian Chen , Xiao-Fang Kong , Guo-Hua Gu , A-Jun Shao , Min-Jie Wan

When robots operate in unknown environments small errors in postions can lead to large variations in the contact forces, especially with typical high-impedance designs. This can potentially damage the surroundings and/or the robot. Series…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Nathan Banka , W. Tony Piaskowy , Joseph Garbini , Santosh Devasia

This paper proposes an integrated framework for coordinating multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a distributed manner to persistently enclose and track a moving target without relying on external localization systems. The proposed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Xueming Liu , Dengyu Zhang , Qingrui Zhang , Tianjiang Hu

Visual-based target tracking is easily influenced by multiple factors, such as background clutter, targets fast-moving, illumination variation, object shape change, occlusion, etc. These factors influence the tracking accuracy of a target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Yanyan Liu , Changcheng Pan , Minglin Bie , Jin Li

Kalman filters are widely used for object tracking, where process and measurement noise are usually considered accurately known and constant. However, the exact known and constant assumptions do not always hold in practice. For example,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Chao Jiang , Zhiling Wang , Shuhang Tan , Huawei Liang

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) are used for a wide variety of missions related to exploration and scientific research. Successful navigation by these systems requires a good localization system.…

This paper presents a generic motion model to capture mobile robots' dynamic behaviors (translation and rotation). The model is based on statistical models driven by white random processes and is formulated into a full state estimation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Wei Xu , Dongjiao He , Yixi Cai , Fu Zhang

This work presents a novel target-free extrinsic calibration algorithm for a 3D Lidar and an IMU pair using an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) which exploits the \textit{motion based calibration constraint} for state update. The steps include,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Subodh Mishra , Gaurav Pandey , Srikanth Saripalli

We present a real-time gaze-based interaction simulation methodology using an offline dataset to evaluate the eye-tracking signal quality. This study employs three fundamental eye-movement classification algorithms to identify physiological…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Mehedi Hasan Raju , Samantha Aziz , Michael J. Proulx , Oleg V. Komogortsev

ICESEE (ICE Sheet statE and parameter Estimator) is a Python-based, open-source data assimilation framework designed for seamless integration with ice sheet and Earth system models. It implements a parallel Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF)…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Brian Kyanjo , Talea L. Mayo , Alexander A. Robel

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deployed in mission-critical applications such as target tracking, where they must simultaneously sense dynamic environments, ensure reliable communication, and achieve precise control. A key…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Zhiyu Chen , Ming-Min Zhao , Songfu Cai , Ming Lei , Min-Jian Zhao

We propose a nonlinear observer to estimate the state (orientation and in-plane velocity vector) of the quadrotor, based on a drag-force-enhanced model. It is an alternative to recent works using a similar model together with an Extended…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-13 Philippe Martin , Ioannis Sarras