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7 December 2024

This paper proposes an adaptive filtering algorithm based on the symmetry Kernel Hyperbolic Tangent Mixed Error Criterion (KHTMC), aimed at addressing the identification of nonlinear systems under non-Gaussian noise environments. The algorithm optimi...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,859 Views
24 Pages

21 October 2024

Autonomous driving technology for agricultural machinery can maximise crop yield, reduce labour costs, and alleviate labour intensity. In response to the current low degree of automation and low tracking accuracy of driving paths in agricultural equi...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,115 Views
25 Pages

Evaluation of Low-Complexity Adaptive Full Direct-State Kalman Filter for Robust GNSS Tracking

  • Iñigo Cortés,
  • Johannes Rossouw van der Merwe,
  • Elena Simona Lohan,
  • Jari Nurmi and
  • Wolfgang Felber

31 March 2023

This paper evaluates the implementation of a low-complexity adaptive full direct-state Kalman filter (DSKF) for robust tracking of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals. The full DSKF includes frequency locked loop (FLL), delay locked loo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from 12th International Conference on Localization and GNSS 2022 (ICL-GNSS 2022))
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,568 Views
13 Pages

To realize real time object tracking in complex environments, a kernel based MIL (KMIL) algorithm is proposed. The KMIL employs the Gaussian kernel function to deal with the inner product used in the weighted MIL (WMIL) algorithm. The method avoids c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning and Embedded Computing in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS))
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,103 Views
34 Pages

Quaternion-Based Fast SMC–PD Cross-Domain Tracking Control for Coaxial Hybrid Aerial–Underwater Vehicle Under Oceanic Disturbances

  • Mingqing Lu,
  • Wei Yang,
  • Fei Liao,
  • Shichong Wu and ,
  • Yumin Su and
  • Wenhua Wu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 January 2025

In this study, nonsingular modeling and cross-domain trajectory tracking control problems for a special class of coaxial hybrid aerial–underwater vehicles (HAUVs) are investigated. Coaxial HAUVs need to effectively overcome the influence of hyd...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling, Guidance and Control of Marine Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,182 Views
31 Pages

An adaptive nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode control scheme with extended state observer (ESO) is proposed for the trajectory tracking of an underwater vehicle-manipulator system (UVMS), where the system is subjected to the lumped disturbances...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,438 Views
20 Pages

18 November 2025

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a critical task in computer vision, with widespread applications in intelligent surveillance, behavior analysis, autonomous navigation, and marine ecological monitoring. In particular, accurate tracking of underwater fi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Technology for Fish and Fishery Monitoring)
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  • Open Access
951 Views
23 Pages

6 November 2025

A collaborative control strategy combining the hyperbolic sine-cosine optimization (SCHO) algorithm with fuzzy adaptive linear active disturbance rejection control is proposed to address the nonlinearity and uncertainties in the hydraulic position se...

(This article belongs to the Section Automation and Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
5,077 Views
27 Pages

A Dragonfly Optimization Algorithm for Extracting Maximum Power of Grid-Interfaced PV Systems

  • Ehtisham Lodhi,
  • Fei-Yue Wang,
  • Gang Xiong,
  • Ghulam Ali Mallah and ,
  • Muhammad Yaqoob Javed,
  • Tariku Sinshaw Tamir and
  • David Wenzhong Gao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

28 September 2021

Currently, grid-connected Photovoltaic (PV) systems are widely encouraged to meet increasing energy demands. However, there are many urgent issues to tackle that are associated with PV systems. Among them, partial shading is the most severe issue as...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Grid Analytics for Sustainability and Urbanization in Big Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,241 Views
28 Pages

22 May 2024

In today’s customer-centric economy, the demand for personalized products has compelled corporations to develop manufacturing processes that are more flexible, efficient, and cost-effective. Flexible job shops offer organizations the agility an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Computing Algorithms and Applications)
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  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,482 Views
23 Pages

29 January 2020

The estimation of the Instantaneous Angular Speed (IAS) has in recent years attracted a growing interest in the diagnostics of rotating machines. Measurement of the IAS can be used as a source of information of the machine condition per se, or for pe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algorithms for Fault Detection and Diagnosis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
573 Views
27 Pages

12 May 2026

Shadows falling on photovoltaic (PV) modules result in partial shading conditions (PSCs). These conditions affect the power generation of a PV system because of their varying nature. As a result of PSCs, multiple peaks are created; therefore, it is i...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,821 Views
21 Pages

6 June 2019

Video surveillance-based intrusion detection has been widely used in modern railway systems. Objects inside the alarm region, or the track area, can be detected by image processing algorithms. With the increasing number of surveillance cameras, manua...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Transportation Related Complex Systems and Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
118 Views
21 Pages

6 November 2026

The Poisson multi-Bernoulli mixture (PMBM) filter performs well in active sonar tracking, but its standard form assumes a single, globally preset clutter intensity, which matches poorly the range-dependent reverberation of the underwater channel. Thi...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
365 Views
29 Pages

21 September 2026

During continuous operation on the human back, the actual contact force exerted by a massage robotic arm may deviate from the desired value because of soft-tissue viscoelasticity, body-surface curvature changes, respiratory motion, and random disturb...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Automation and Disturbance Rejection for Robotic Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,829 Views
16 Pages

27 January 2019

Owing to the good trade-off between implementation and performance, fixed-step direct maximum power point tracking techniques (e.g., perturb and observe and incremental conductance algorithms) have gained popularity over the years. In order to optimi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Electronics in Renewable Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,323 Views
17 Pages

In the realm of underwater acoustic signal processing, challenges such as random missing measurements due to low signal-to-noise ratios, merging–splitting contacts in the measurement space, and prolonged trajectory losses due to target interfer...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,832 Views
18 Pages

Unmanned underground articulated dump trucks (UADTs) are an important direction for the coal mining industry to vigorously promote automation and intelligence. Among these, tracking and controlling the motion trajectory is the key weak link. This pap...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Motion Planning and Control of Autonomous Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,169 Views
16 Pages

Gaze tracking of high-speed moving targets is a novel application mode for low Earth orbit microsatellites. In this mode, small satellites are equipped with high-resolution, narrow-field-of-view video cameras for stable gaze-tracking imaging of high-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,403 Views
19 Pages

8 April 2022

In this paper, a novel flow tracking control scheme for particleboard glue system with complex disturbance and unmeasurable system state is investigated. The method is based on hyperbolic tangent extended state observer and adaptive fuzzy fractional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,295 Views
20 Pages

A Robust Adaptive Trajectory Tracking Algorithm Using SMC and Machine Learning for FFSGRs with Actuator Dead Zones

  • Lin Jia,
  • Yaonan Wang,
  • Changfan Zhang,
  • Kaihui Zhao and ,
  • Li Liu and
  • Xuan Quynh Nguyen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 September 2019

The actuator dead zone of free-form surface grinding robots (FFSGRs) is very common in the grinding process and has a great impact on the grinding quality of a workpiece. In this paper, an improved trajectory tracking algorithm for an FFSGR with an a...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Industrial Technologies)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
905 Views
13 Pages

We propose a fast eye-tracking method that takes the depth image and the gray-scale infrared (IR) image using a traditional image processing algorithm. As an IR image contains one face and the corresponding depth image, the method locates the real co...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 2024 IEEE 6th Eurasia Conference on IoT, Communication and Engineering)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,473 Views
22 Pages

18 October 2023

The increasing complexity of mathematical models developed as part of the recent advancements in autonomous mobility platforms has led to an escalation in uncertainty. Despite the intricate nature of such models, the detection, decision, and control...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear and Adaptive Control of Intelligent Machines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,131 Views
24 Pages

19 November 2021

Correlation filter (CF) based trackers have gained significant attention in the field of visual single-object tracking, owing to their favorable performance and high efficiency; however, existing trackers still suffer from model drift caused by bound...

(This article belongs to the Topic Information Sensing Technology for Intelligent/Driverless Vehicle)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,931 Views
20 Pages

15 September 2024

High-speed dual-motor electric drive tracked vehicles (DDTVs) have emerged as a research hotspot in the field of tracked vehicles in recent years due to their advantages in fuel economy and the scalability of electrical equipment. The emergency braki...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advanced Electric Vehicle Technology, 2nd Volume)
  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
5,174 Views
19 Pages

Research on 2D Laser Automatic Navigation Control for Standardized Orchard

  • Shuo Zhang,
  • Chengyang Guo,
  • Zening Gao,
  • Adilet Sugirbay and ,
  • Jun Chen and
  • Yu Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 April 2020

With the increase of labor cost and the development of agricultural mechanization, standardized orchards suitable for autonomous operations of agricultural machinery will be a future development trend of the fruit-planting industry. For field-plantin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Agri-Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,193 Views
24 Pages

16 April 2023

This work proposes a new multi-objective optimization technique for concurrent diminution of torque ripple with the regulation of the speed of a 75 Kilowatt, 8/6, 4-phase SRM based on a double close loop, modified whale algorithm optimized fractional...

(This article belongs to the Section AI-Enabled Process Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,591 Views
15 Pages

Aiming at the problem that the tracking accuracy of unmanned vehicle path tracking preview control is greatly affected by the preview time, a BP neural network adaptive preview control method is proposed. Considering that the prediction effect of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,212 Views
21 Pages

Research on a Method of Robot Grinding Force Tracking and Compensation Based on Deep Genetic Algorithm

  • Minghui Meng,
  • Chuande Zhou,
  • Zhongliang Lv,
  • Lingbo Zheng and ,
  • Wei Feng,
  • Ting Wu and
  • Xuewei Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

8 December 2023

In the grinding process of complex-shaped cast workpieces, discrepancies between the workpiece’s contours and their corresponding three-dimensional models frequently lead to deviations in the machining trajectory, resulting in instances of unde...

(This article belongs to the Topic Robotic Intelligent Machining System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,368 Views
14 Pages

18 July 2024

The utilization of the Delta parallel robot in high-speed and high-precision applications has been extensive, with motion stability being a critical performance measure. To address the inherent inaccuracies of the model and minimize the impact of ext...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,600 Views
25 Pages

4 July 2024

Predicting the tamping cycles of railway track sections based on track geometry deterioration rules is necessary to reasonably allocate the limited tamping maintenance resources. Existing research on track geometry deterioration modeling for tamping...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Railway Infrastructure Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
794 Views
26 Pages

TD3-Based Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive PID-like Control of Uncertain Dynamical Systems

  • Ufuk Demircioğlu,
  • Halit Bakır,
  • Badar Almarri and
  • A. H. Abdul Hafez

19 May 2026

This paper presents a TD3-based reinforcement learning framework for adaptive PID-like control of uncertain dynamical systems. Although proportional–integral–derivative (PID) control remains widely used because of its simplicity, interpre...

(This article belongs to the Topic Modeling, Stability, and Control of Dynamic Systems and Their Applications)
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  • Open Access
1,080 Views
23 Pages

Path-Tracking Control for Intelligent Vehicles Based on SAC

  • Zhongli Li,
  • Jianhua Zhao,
  • Xianghai Yan,
  • Yu Tian and
  • Haole Zhang

In response to the deterioration of path-tracking accuracy and driving stability encountered by intelligent vehicles under dynamically varying operating conditions, a multi-objective optimization strategy integrating soft actor-critic (SAC) reinforce...

(This article belongs to the Section Automated and Connected Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
569 Views
18 Pages

16 March 2026

To address the limitations of the Kernelized Correlation Filter (KCF) in handling scale variation and occlusion during visual tracking, this paper proposes a scale-adaptive and occlusion-robust KCF-based tracking method. The proposed approach integra...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,713 Views
22 Pages

30 April 2025

Monocular visual–inertial odometry based on the MSCKF algorithm has demonstrated computational efficiency even with limited resources. Moreover, the MSCKF-VIO is primarily designed for localization tasks, where environmental features such as po...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
12,051 Views
17 Pages

19 September 2019

The basic and adaptive maximum power point tracking algorithms have been studied for distributed photovoltaic systems to maximize the energy production of a photovoltaic (PV) module. However, the basic maximum power point tracking algorithms using a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Methods, Algorithms and Circuits for Photovoltaic Systems Diagnosis and Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,261 Views
15 Pages

Small Target Recognition and Tracking Based on UAV Platform

  • Xiangrui Tian,
  • Yinjun Jia,
  • Xin Luo and
  • Jie Yin

31 August 2022

Target recognition and tracking based on multi-rotor UAVs have the advantages of low cost and high flexibility. It can monitor low-altitude targets with high intensity. It has great application prospects in national defense, military, and civil field...

(This article belongs to the Section Navigation and Positioning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,713 Views
18 Pages

UAV Complex-Scene Single-Target Tracking Based on Improved Re-Detection Staple Algorithm

  • Yiqing Huang,
  • He Huang,
  • Mingbo Niu,
  • Md Sipon Miah and ,
  • Huifeng Wang and
  • Tao Gao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 May 2024

With the advancement of remote sensing technology, the demand for the accurate monitoring and tracking of various targets utilizing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is increasing. However, challenges such as object deformation, motion blur, and object...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Processing and Application of UAV Remote Sensing Image Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
427 Views
23 Pages

In maneuvering target tracking, traditional model-driven tracking algorithms require a predefined target motion model. The estimation accuracy degrades significantly when the actual target maneuver does not match the model assumption. Data-driven tra...

(This article belongs to the Topic Radar Signal and Data Processing with Applications, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,055 Views
20 Pages

27 February 2022

Aiming at the problems of target model drift or loss of target tracking caused by serious deformation, occlusion, fast motion, and out of view of the target in long-term moving target tracking in complex scenes, this paper presents a robust multi-fea...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,580 Views
25 Pages

The track-to-track association (T2TA) problem is a fundamental and critical challenge in information fusion, situational awareness, and target tracking. Existing algorithms based on statistical mathematics, fuzzy mathematics, gray theory, and artific...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,236 Views
17 Pages

17 March 2025

The tracking accuracy of the traditional Strong Tracking Unscented Kalman Filter algorithm (ST-UKF) decreases when the motion state of the traffic target changes significantly. A multidimensional adaptive factor-based strong tracking UKF (MAST-UKF) a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,351 Views
22 Pages

2 October 2025

We propose a speed-adaptive robot accurate path-tracking framework based on the soft actor–critic (SAC) and Stanley methods (STANLY_ASAC). First, the Lidar–Inertial Odometry Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (LIO-SLAM) method is used...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,926 Views
21 Pages

2 November 2024

The object tracking algorithm TransT, based on Transformer, achieves significant improvements in accuracy and success rate by fusing the extracted features of convolutional neural networks with the structure of Transformer. However, when dealing with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,625 Views
16 Pages

Context-Aware and Occlusion Handling Mechanism for Online Visual Object Tracking

  • Khizer Mehmood,
  • Abdul Jalil,
  • Ahmad Ali,
  • Baber Khan and ,
  • Maria Murad,
  • Wasim Ullah Khan and
  • Yigang He
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Object tracking is still an intriguing task as the target undergoes significant appearance changes due to illumination, fast motion, occlusion and shape deformation. Background clutter and numerous other environmental factors are other major constrai...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,876 Views
13 Pages

Adaptive Variable-Damping Impedance Control for Unknown Interaction Environment

  • Dawei Gong,
  • Yaru Song,
  • Minglei Zhu,
  • Yunlong Teng and ,
  • Jinmao Jiang and
  • Shiliang Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 December 2023

Aiming at the force-tracking error phenomenon of impedance control in an unknown surface environment, an adaptive variable-damping impedance control algorithm is proposed, and the stability and convergence of the algorithm are deduced. An adaptive-la...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modeling for Parallel and Distributed Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,967 Views
14 Pages

Research on Tracking Control Technology Based on Fuzzy PID in Underwater Optical Communication

  • Dongliang Guan,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Jingyi Fu,
  • Yunjie Teng and ,
  • Yang Qian,
  • Gongtan Wang,
  • Sen Gu,
  • Tongyu Liu and
  • Wang Xi
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

12 October 2024

In order to realize effective laser communication on underwater mobile platforms, the active tracking and alignment technology of underwater laser communication (UWLC) is studied. Firstly, the servo control principle of the UWLC system is analyzed. S...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Communication and Network)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,252 Views
20 Pages

Moving-Target Tracking in Airport Airside Operations Using AIMM-STUKF

  • Jianshu Gao,
  • Yinuo Dang,
  • Yuxuan Zhu and
  • Wenqing Xue

26 December 2025

In this paper, we propose a mobile target tracking method for airport movement areas based on an adaptive interacting multiple model framework combined with a strong tracking unscented Kalman filter, referred to as the AIMM-STUKF algorithm. The objec...

(This article belongs to the Section Navigation and Positioning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,069 Views
14 Pages

Positioning of Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Based on Autonomous Tracking Buoy

  • Yuhan Li,
  • Ruizhi Ruan,
  • Zupeng Zhou,
  • Anqing Sun and
  • Xiaonan Luo

29 April 2023

This paper presents a novel method for the dynamic positioning of an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) with unknown trajectories based on an autonomous tracking buoy (PUVV-ATB) that indirectly positions the UUV using ultra-short baseline measurements...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors for Path Planning and Navigation in Robotics and Autonomous Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,255 Views
17 Pages

16 April 2025

Video satellites provide high-temporal-resolution remote sensing images that enable continuous monitoring of the ground for applications such as target tracking and airport traffic detection. In this paper, we address the problems of object occlusion...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Image Processing with Symmetry/Asymmetry)

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