Optimal Sensor Decision Based on Particle Filter

Introduction Multi-sensor tracking technique has receivedmuch attention in recent years. Many tracking sys-tems involve basically active (radar) and passive(infrared tracking) subsystems. The main disad-vantage of infrared search and tracking is the prob-lem of observability and filtering divergence. Actu-ally, quite a lot of research activities have beendone in this field and some researchers more thanonce simulated the feasibility of the approach[1,2].The main idea of the methods is as foll…     

Hierarchy-Based Adaptive Generalized Predictive Control for Aerial Grasping of a Quadrotor Manipulator

In this paper, an adaptive generalized predictive control(GPC) based on hierarchical control strategy is designed for a quadrotor with a robotic arm. For this nonlinear and coupled system, a two-layer control structure is adopted to achieve more precise trajectory tracking and keep the tracking performance after aerial grasping.The inner-layer controller is a proportional-derivative(PD) controller. The outer-layer subsystem is linearized by input-output linearization first and an adaptive generalized predictive controller is applied. The effectiveness of this approach is verified through the simulation using MATLAB/Simulink. A PD controller with feedforward control input is applied on such a system for a comparative study. Simulation results show that a better tracking performance can be achieved by the proposed strategy.     

Mean shift registration algorithm for dissimilar sensors

The mean shift registration (MSR) algorithm is proposed to accurately estimate the biases for multiple dissimilar sensors. The new algorithm is a batch optimization procedure. The maximum likelihood estimator is used to estimate the target states, and then the mean shift algorithm is implemented to estimate the sensor biases. Monte Carlo simulations show that the MSR algorithm has significant improvement in performance with reducing the standard deviation and mean of sensor biased estimation error compared with the maximum likelihood registration algorithm. The quantitative analysis and the qualitative analysis show that the MSR algorithm has less computation than the maximum likelihood registration method.