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The Inner Tracking System (ITS) is the detector of the ALICE central barrel located closest to the beam axis and it is therefore a key detector for tracking and vertexing performance. Here, the main results from the ITS commissioning with…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Francesco Prino

The Mini-SiTian project, which is the pathfinder for the SiTian project, utilizes three 30 cm telescopes equipped with commercial CMOS cameras (ZWO ASI6200MM Pro) to simulate large-area time-domain survey. Due to the avoidance of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Yu Zhang , Lin Du , Yi Hu , Yang Huang , Ying Wu , Min He , Hongrui Gu , Haiyang Mu , Xunhao Chen , Hong Wu

We propose an approach to assess the synchronization of rigidly mounted sensors based on their rotational motion. Using function similarity measures combined with a sliding window approach, our approach is capable of estimating time-varying…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Thomas Wodtko , Alexander Scheible , Michael Buchholz

We describe the design and operation of the RASNIK optical relative alignment system designed for and installed on the CDF inner tracking detectors. The system provides low-cost minute-by-minute alignment monitoring with submicron…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 David Goldstein , David Saltzberg

The Orbiting Astronomical Satellite for Investigating Stellar Systems (OASIS) is a proposed space telescope with a 14 m inflatable primary reflector that will perform high spectral resolution observations at terahertz frequencies with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Siddhartha Sirsi , Yuzuru Takashima , Arthur Palisoc , Heejoo Choi , Jonathan W. Arenberg , Daewook Kim , Chistopher Walker

Accurate parameter estimation such as angle of arrival (AOA) is essential to enhance the performance of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) in mmWave multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. This work presents a sensing-aided…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Ngoc-Son Duong , Khac-Hoang Ngo , Thai-Mai Dinh , Van-Linh Nguyen

To measure the muon decay parameters with high accuracy, we require an array of precision drift detector layers whose relative position is known with very high accuracy. This article describes the design, construction and performance of…

The ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is currently waiting to record the first collision data in spring 2009. Its muon spectrometer is designed to achieve a momentum resolution of 10% pT(mu) = 1 TeV/c. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Alberto Belloni

This paper looks into the problem of pedestrian tracking using a monocular, potentially moving, uncalibrated camera. The pedestrians are located in each frame using a standard human detector, which are then tracked in subsequent frames.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Sourav Garg , Swagat Kumar , Rajesh Ratnakaram , Prithwijit Guha

A misalignment of LiDAR as low as a few degrees could cause a significant error in obstacle detection and mapping that could cause safety and quality issues. In this paper, an accurate inspection system is proposed for estimating a LiDAR…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-25 Seontake Oh , Ji-Hwan You , Azim Eskandarian , Young-Keun Kim

This paper describes the advantages and challenges of applying microelectromechanical accelerometer systems (MEMS accelerometers) in order to attain precise, accurate and stateless positioning of telescope mounts. This provides a completely…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 László Mészáros , Attila Jaskó , András Pál , Gergely Csépány

In monocular vision systems, lack of knowledge about metric distances caused by the inherent scale ambiguity can be a strong limitation for some applications. We offer a method for fusing inertial measurements with monocular odometry or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Ariane Spaenlehauer , Vincent Fremont , Y. Ahmet Sekercioglu , Isabelle Fantoni

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-01 Guido Agapito , Daniele Vassallo , Cédric Plantet , Jesse Cranney , Hao Zhang , Valentina Viotto , Enrico Pinna , Francois Rigaut

The past decade has witnessed significant progress on detecting objects in aerial images that are often distributed with large scale variations and arbitrary orientations. However most of existing methods rely on heuristically defined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Jiaming Han , Jian Ding , Jie Li , Gui-Song Xia

For the upgrade of the ATLAS muon spectrometer in March 2014 new muon tracking chambers (sMDT) with drift-tubes of 15 mm diameter, half of the value of the standard ATLAS Monitored Drift-Tubes (MDT) chambers, and 10~$\mu$m positioning…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-07-02 Sebastian Nowak , Oliver Korner , Hubert Kroha , Philipp Schwegler , Federico Sforza

Reaching the high angular resolution and contrast level desired for exoplanetary science requires us to equip large telescopes with extreme adaptive optics (XAO) systems to compensate for the effect of the atmospheric turbulence at a very…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-20 A. Striffling , C. -T. Héritier , R. J. -L Fétick , O. Fauvarque , J. -F Sauvage , A. Carlotti , B. Neichel T. Fusco

This paper presents the development of a real time tracking algorithm that runs on a 1.2 GHz PC/104 computer on-board a small UAV. The algorithm uses zero mean normalized cross correlation to detect and locate an object in the image. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-03-13 Ashraf Qadir , Jeremiah Neubert , William Semke

Muons produced in Extensive Air Showers (EAS) generate ring-like images in Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes when travelling near parallel to the optical axis. From geometrical parameters of these images, the absolute amount of light…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 A. M. W. Mitchell , V. Marandon , R. D. Parsons

A semiconductor tracker for muon scattering tomography is presented. The tracker contains silicon strip sensors with an $80\,\mu$m pitch, precision mechanics and integrated cooling. The electronic readout of the sensors is performed by a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-30 F. Keizer , A. Gorbatch , M. A. Parker , C. Steer , S. A. Wotton

This paper derives the optimal Bayesian processing of an out-of-sequence (OOS) set of measurements in continuous-time for multiple target tracking. We consider a multi-target system modelled in continuous time that is discretised at the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-02 Ángel F. García-Fernández , Wei Yi