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Online extrinsic calibration is crucial for building "power-on-and-go" moving platforms, like robots and AR devices. However, blindly performing online calibration for unobservable parameter may lead to unpredictable results. In the…

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Nonlocal electrodynamics is a formalism developed to include nonlocal effects in the measurement process caused by the non-inertial state of the observers. This theory modifies Maxwell's electrodynamics by eliminating the hypothesis of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-11 G. N. Bremm , F. T. Falciano

Inertial sensors can track object kinematics, however, unbounded drift from integrating noisy signals makes them impractical for MRI motion correction at millimeter resolution and minute-long scans. We introduce MR-Compass, which exploits…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Musa Tunc Arslan , Fatih Calakli , Joshua Auger , Hongli Fan , Alan J Macy , Simon K Warfield

We show that a detector acquires a Berry phase due to its motion in spacetime. The phase is different in the inertial and accelerated case as a direct consequence of the Unruh effect. We exploit this fact to design a novel method to measure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-20 E. Martin-Martinez , I. Fuentes , R. B. Mann

We propose a new type of the Unruh-DeWitt detector which measures the decoherence of the reduced density matrix of the detector interacting with the massless quantum scalar field. We find that the decoherence decay rates are different in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-18 Alexander I Nesterov , Gennady P Berman , Manuel A Rodríguez Fernández , Xidi Wang

The role of the Onsager reaction term (ORT) is not yet well understood in frustrated coupled oscillator systems, since the Thouless-Anderson-Palmer (TAP) and replica methods cannot be directly applied to these non-equilibrium systems. In…

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In this work, we investigate the velocity effects on information degradation due to the Unruh effect in accelerated quantum systems (with finite interaction time). We consider a detector moving along a spatial trajectory within a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 P. H. M. Barros , Shu-Min Wu , C. A. S. Almeida , H. A. S. Costa

This paper proposes a novel unit-quaternion observer-based controller for attitude tracking (attitude and angular velocity) with guaranteed transient and steady-state performance. The proposed approach is computationally cheap and can…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Hashim A. Hashim

This paper proposes two novel nonlinear attitude filters evolved directly on the Special Orthogonal Group SO(3) able to ensure prescribed measures of transient and steady-state performance. The tracking performance of the normalized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-24 Hashim A. Hashim , Lyndon J. Brown , Kenneth McIsaac

Two nonlinear stochastic complimentary filters are developed on SO(3). They guarantee that errors in the Rodriguez vector and estimates are semi-globally uniformly ultimately bounded in mean square, and they converge to a small neighborhood…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Hashim A. Hashim , Lyndon J. Brown , Kenneth McIsaac

We consider two-level detectors, coupled to a quantum scalar field, moving inside cavities. We highlight some pathological resonant effects due to abrupt boundaries, and decide to describe the cavity by switching smoothly the interaction by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Nathaniel Obadia

In this paper we focus on the tracking performance of incremental adaptive LMS algorithm in an adaptive network. For this reason we consider the unknown weight vector to be a time varying sequence. First we analyze the performance of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-23 Ehsan Mostafapour , C. Ghobadi , Javad Nourinia , M. Chehel Amirani

Inertial Odometry (IO) has gained attention in quadrotor applications due to its sole reliance on inertial measurement units (IMUs), attributed to its lightweight design, low cost, and robust performance across diverse environments.…

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For natural guide start adaptive optics (AO) systems, pyramid wavefront sensors (PWFSs) can provide significant increase in sensitivity over the traditional Shack-Hartmann, but at the cost of a reduced linear range. When using a linear…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-05 Finn Archinuk , Rehan Hafeez , Sébastien Fabbro , Hossen Teimoorinia , Jean-Pierre Véran

Successful control of a rigid-body rotating in three dimensional space requires accurate estimation of its attitude. The attitude dynamics are highly nonlinear and are posed on the Special Orthogonal Group $SO(3)$. In addition, measurements…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-10 Hashim A. Hashim , Mohammed Abouheaf , Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis

Inertial localisation is an important technique as it enables ego-motion estimation in conditions where external observers are unavailable. However, low-cost inertial sensors are inherently corrupted by bias and noise, which lead to unbound…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-06 James Brotchie , Wenchao Li , Andrew D. Greentree , Allison Kealy

Inertial motion analysis is having a growing interest during the last decades due to its advantages over classical optical systems. The technological solution based on inertial measurement units allows the measurement of movements in daily…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-24 Sara García-de-Villa , David Casillas-Pérez , Ana Jiménez-Martín , Juan Jesús García-Domínguez

It is common to use Galilean rotational transformation to investigate the Unruh effect for uniformly rotating observers. However, the rotating observer in this subject is an eccentric observer while Galilean rotational transformation is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-28 H. Ramezani-Aval

In many statistical signal processing applications, the estimation of nuisance parameters and parameters of interest is strongly linked to the resulting performance. Generally, these applications deal with complex data. This paper focuses…

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