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29 December 2025

With the growing demand for safe obstacle avoidance and precise trajectory tracking in the autonomous navigation of unmanned surface vessels (USVs), this paper investigates an adaptive differential evolution approach for integrated path planning and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Control System of Autonomous Surface Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,221 Views
16 Pages

2 July 2019

Active noise control (ANC) technology can be able to reduce the low frequency noise effectively, and has been widely applied in limited enclosed equipment, such as cars, aircraft cockpits, and headphones, etc. Compared with the traditional noise redu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Active and Passive Noise Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,284 Views
22 Pages

20 September 2022

Wi-Fi fingerprinting is the most popular indoor positioning method today, representing received signal strength (RSS) values as vector-type fingerprints. Passive fingerprinting, unlike the active fingerprinting method, has the advantage of being able...

(This article belongs to the Section Navigation and Positioning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,515 Views
20 Pages

With the growing global demand for clean energy, fuel cells have been adopted as key components in renewable energy systems. Their high efficiency and environmentally friendly operation make them attractive. However, during maximum power point tracki...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,060 Views
24 Pages

Adaptive Multi-Radar Anti-Bias Track Association Algorithm Based on Reference Topology Features

  • Shaoming Wei,
  • Xuan Zhou,
  • Jun Wang,
  • Rui Pang and ,
  • Xueqing Li and
  • Qiang Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 May 2025

Accurate track association is essential for multi-radar fusion, since incorrect associations may result in significant errors in integrated information. To address the track association problem in multi-radar systems, particularly the challenges pose...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,060 Views
19 Pages

24 April 2014

Traditional object tracking technology usually regards the target as a point source object. However, this approximation is no longer appropriate for tracking extended objects such as large targets and closely spaced group objects. Bayesian extended o...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,983 Views
15 Pages

To boost the robustness of the traditional particle-filter-based tracking algorithm under complex scenes and to tackle the drift problem that is caused by the fast moving target, an improved particle-filter-based tracking algorithm is proposed. First...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
683 Views
27 Pages

10 March 2026

Single-object tracking in complex scenes faces challenges such as drastic target scale variation and strong background interference. To address these issues, an object tracking algorithm based on multi-scale attention and adaptive fusion is proposed....

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,766 Views
23 Pages

15 March 2024

A pulse-Doppler (PD) radar has the advantage of strong anti-interference ability, and it is often used as a solution for maneuvering target tracking. In the application of target monitoring and tracking in PD radars, the interacting multiple model al...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Monitoring and Detection of Geohazards in Urban Areas Using Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,380 Views
16 Pages

To deal with the uncertainty and disturbance that exist in the tracking system of an aerospace vehicle, an adaptive trajectory-tracking method based on a novel tracking model predictive static programming (T-MPSP) is proposed. Firstly, to make the pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Guidance and Control of Flight Vehicle: Theory and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,226 Views
16 Pages

Kalman filtering is a common filtering method for millimeter-wave traffic radars. The proposal is for an Adaptive Strong Tracking Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) algorithm that aims to address the issues of classic EKF’s low accuracy and lengthy c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,019 Views
14 Pages

22 May 2024

In this study, to solve the low accuracy of multi-space-based sensor joint tracking in the presence of unknown noise characteristics, an adaptive multi-sensor joint tracking algorithm (AMSJTA) is proposed. First, the coordinate transformation from th...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,130 Views
13 Pages

4 March 2022

Target tracking has always been an important research direction in the field of computer vision. The target tracking method based on correlation filtering has become a research hotspot in the field of target tracking due to its efficiency and robustn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,615 Views
15 Pages

SAFS: Object Tracking Algorithm Based on Self-Adaptive Feature Selection

  • Wenhua Guo,
  • Jiabao Gao,
  • Yanbin Tian,
  • Fan Yu and
  • Zuren Feng

11 June 2021

Object tracking is one of the most challenging problems in the field of computer vision. In challenging object tracking scenarios such as illumination variation, occlusion, motion blur and fast motion, existing algorithms can present decreased perfor...

(This article belongs to the Collection Multi-Sensor Information Fusion)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,282 Views
29 Pages

Hunting Search Algorithm-Based Adaptive Fuzzy Tracking Controller for an Aero-Pendulum

  • Ricardo Rojas-Galván,
  • José R. García-Martínez,
  • Edson E. Cruz-Miguel,
  • Omar A. Barra-Vázquez and ,
  • Luis F. Olmedo-García and
  • Juvenal Rodríguez-Reséndiz
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The aero-pendulum is a non-linear system used broadly to develop and test new controller strategies. This paper presents a new methodology for an adaptive PID fuzzy-based tracking controller using a Hunting Search (HuS) algorithm. The HuS algorithm c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Systems (SmaSys2023))
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,031 Views
16 Pages

6 November 2018

To deal with the problem of multitarget tracking with measurement origin uncertainty, the paper presents a multitarget tracking algorithm based on Adaptive Network Graph Segmentation (ANGS). The multitarget tracking is firstly formulated as an Intege...

(This article belongs to the Collection Multi-Sensor Information Fusion)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,904 Views
17 Pages

26 November 2021

This paper newly proposes an interactive multiple model (IMM) algorithm to adaptively track distorted AC voltage with the grid frequency fluctuation. The usual tracking methods are Kalman filter (KF) algorithm with a fixed frequency and KF algorithm...

(This article belongs to the Topic Application of Innovative Power Electronic Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,170 Views
17 Pages

A Novel Algorithm for Adaptive Detection and Tracking of Extended Targets Using Millimeter-Wave Imaging Radar

  • Ge Zhang,
  • Weimin Shi,
  • Xiaofeng Shen,
  • Qilong Miao and ,
  • Chenfei Xie and
  • Lu Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

11 May 2025

A high-resolution imaging radar is exceptionally well-suited for the detection and perception of extended targets (ETs), as it provides a comprehensive representation of the spatial distribution of target scattering characteristics. In this work, we...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision Recognition and Communication Sensing System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,112 Views
26 Pages

28 September 2017

Aimed at solving the problem of decreased filtering precision while maneuvering target tracking caused by non-Gaussian distribution and sensor faults, we developed an efficient interacting multiple model-unscented Kalman filter (IMM-UKF) algorithm. B...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,471 Views
23 Pages

Adaptive Interacting Multiple Model Algorithm Based on Information-Weighted Consensus for Maneuvering Target Tracking

  • Ziran Ding,
  • Yu Liu,
  • Jun Liu,
  • Kaimin Yu and ,
  • Yuanyang You,
  • Peiliang Jing and
  • You He
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

22 June 2018

Networked multiple sensors are used to solve the problem of maneuvering target tracking. To avoid the linearization of nonlinear dynamic functions, and to obtain more accurate estimates for maneuvering targets, a novel adaptive information-weighted c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data and Information Fusion for Wireless Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,876 Views
31 Pages

We propose a tracking-by-detection algorithm to track the movements of meeting participants from an overhead camera. An advantage of using overhead cameras is that all objects can typically be seen clearly, with little occlusion; however, detecting p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,958 Views
16 Pages

5 June 2019

Aiming at the shortcomings of low precision, hysteresis, and poor robustness of the general interactive multimodel algorithm in the “snake-like” maneuver tracking of anti-ship missiles, an interactive multimodel adaptive five-degree cubat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,755 Views
11 Pages

The Kalman Filtering Blind Adaptive Multi-user Detector Based on Tracking Algorithm of Signal Subspace

  • Liqing Zhou,
  • Henry Leung,
  • Peng Xu,
  • Guobao Ru and ,
  • Quansheng Zhao and
  • Da Xu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 January 2015

Multi-user detection is an effective method to reduce multiple access interference in code division multiple access (CDMA) systems. This paper discusses a signal subspace based blind adaptive multiuser detector and a Kalman filtering blind adaptive m...

(This article belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,625 Views
29 Pages

30 August 2024

Neighbor discovery and tracking with directional antennas in flying ad hoc networks (FANETs) is a challenging issue because of dispersed node distribution and irregular maneuvers in three-dimensional (3D) space. In this paper, we propose an adaptive...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue UAV Secure Communication for IoT Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,040 Views
18 Pages

30 December 2021

An angle estimation algorithm for tracking indoor moving targets with WiFi is proposed. First, phase calibration and static path elimination are proposed and performed on the collected channel state information signals from different antennas. Then,...

(This article belongs to the Section Navigation and Positioning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,804 Views
27 Pages

6 March 2025

In this study, the authors present an event-triggered control scheme for uncertain robot manipulators combined with an adaptive super-twisting algorithm to handle uncertain robot manipulator systems with unknown external uncertainties and disturbance...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamics and Control System Design for Robot Manipulation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,742 Views
22 Pages

15 May 2020

An adaptive target tracking method based on extended Kalman filter (TT-EKF) is proposed to simultaneously estimate the state of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) and an mobile recovery system (MRS) with unknown non-Gaussian process noise in homi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mobile Robots Navigation Ⅱ)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,722 Views
20 Pages

30 December 2022

This paper presents a sliding mode control (SMC)-based path-tracking algorithm for autonomous vehicles by considering model-free adaptive feedback actions. In autonomous vehicles, safe path tracking requires adaptive and robust control algorithms bec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Sensing and Safety Control for Connected and Automated Vehicles: Volume Ⅱ)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,641 Views
19 Pages

3 January 2025

A pseudo-spectral control algorithm based on adaptive Gauss collocation point reconstruction is proposed to efficiently solve the optimal dynamics control problem of industrial robots. A mathematical model for the kinematic relationship and dynamic o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hybrid Intelligent Algorithms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,300 Views
20 Pages

11 February 2021

In order to solve the problems of complex dynamic modeling and parameters identification of quadrotor formation cooperative trajectory tracking control, this paper proposes a data-driven model-free adaptive control method for quadrotor formation base...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,627 Views
16 Pages

9 October 2021

Compared with a scalar tracking receiver, the Beidou vector tracking receiver has the advantages of smaller tracking errors, fast loss-of-lock reacquisition, and high stability. However, in extremely challenging conditions, such as highly dynamic and...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,670 Views
20 Pages

This paper introduces an adaptive path-tracking control algorithm for autonomous mobility based on recursive least squares (RLS) with external conditions and covariance self-tuning. The advancement and commercialization of autonomous driving necessit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue EVS37—International Electric Vehicle Symposium and Exhibition (Seoul, Republic of Korea))
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
10,321 Views
17 Pages

13 May 2015

We present an adaptive algorithm for a system integrated with micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) gyroscopes and a compass to eliminate the influence from the environment, compensate the temperature drift precisely, and improve the accuracy of t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling, Testing and Reliability Issues in MEMS Engineering)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,119 Views
24 Pages

22 January 2025

The rapid advancement of quadrotor systems has introduced significant challenges across multiple disciplines. Among these, fault tolerance and trajectory tracking in complex environments have long been recognized as critical challenges in quadrotor c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Autonomous Flight of Drone: Control, Trajectory Optimization and Mission Planning: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
5,529 Views
21 Pages

With the development of agricultural mechanization and information technology, automatic navigation tractors are becoming a more common piece of farm equipment. The accuracy of automatic navigation tractor path tracking has become critical for maximi...

(This article belongs to the Topic Unmanned Ground and Aerial Vehicles (UGVs-UAVs) for Digital Farming)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,092 Views
17 Pages

17 June 2024

In situations where photovoltaic (PV) systems are exposed to varying light intensities, the conventional maximum power point tracking (MPPT) control algorithm may become trapped in a local optimal state. In order to address this issue, a two-step MPP...

(This article belongs to the Section A2: Solar Energy and Photovoltaic Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,591 Views
39 Pages

Evaluation of Adaptive Loop-Bandwidth Tracking Techniques in GNSS Receivers

  • Iñigo Cortés,
  • Johannes Rossouw van der Merwe,
  • Jari Nurmi,
  • Alexander Rügamer and
  • Wolfgang Felber

12 January 2021

Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers use tracking loops to lock onto GNSS signals. Fixed loop settings limit the tracking performance against noise, receiver dynamics, and the current scenario. Adaptive tracking loops adjust these sett...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from 10th International Conference on Localization and GNSS 2020 (ICL-GNSS 2020))
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,448 Views
15 Pages

8 March 2020

In the case of partial shading conditions, there will be more than one maximum power point (MPP) in photovoltaic (PV) array. The traditional maximum power point tracking (MPPT) methods are easy to get in the local maximum power point (LMPP) and fail....

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,350 Views
16 Pages

14 December 2021

Maximum power point tracking (MPPT) is an essential and primary objective in photovoltaic (PV) systems implementation. Thus, in this article, the predictive fixed switching MPPT technique is proposed for a two-stage PV system, where the system under...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling and Control of Power Electronic Converters in Renewable Energy and Smart Grid Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,532 Views
20 Pages

9 September 2020

Autonomous vehicles are expected to completely change the development model of the transportation industry and bring great convenience to our lives. Autonomous vehicles need to constantly obtain the motion status information with on-board sensors in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,266 Views
22 Pages

12 September 2024

Single-object tracking algorithms based on Siamese full convolutional networks have attracted much attention from researchers owing to their improvement in precision and speed. Since this tracking model only learns a similarity model offline, it is n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,279 Views
18 Pages

Achieving Adaptive Visual Multi-Object Tracking with Unscented Kalman Filter

  • Guowei Zhang,
  • Jiyao Yin,
  • Peng Deng,
  • Yanlong Sun and ,
  • Lin Zhou and
  • Kuiyuan Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 November 2022

As an essential part of intelligent monitoring, behavior recognition, automatic driving, and others, the challenge of multi-object tracking is still to ensure tracking accuracy and robustness, especially in complex occlusion environments. Aiming at t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human-Centric Sensing Technology and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
354 Views
45 Pages

Energy Valley Optimization-Based Adaptive Fuzzy Logic Control for Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Systems: Simulation and Experimental Validation

  • Basem E. Elnaghi,
  • Abdelaziz Mohamed,
  • Eyad S. Oda,
  • Hala Samy Sayed Abdelhafez and ,
  • Mohamed M. Ismail and
  • Ahmed M. Ismaiel
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

1 October 2026

This paper presents a novel energy valley optimization algorithm (EVOA) to achieve maximum power point tracking (MPPT) and dynamic regulation of grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) systems under varying irradiance conditions. The proposed approach optim...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Operation and Control for Sustainable Power and Energy Systems)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,618 Views
14 Pages

An Improved Hybrid Beamforming Algorithm for Fast Target Tracking in Satellite and V2X Communication

  • Aral Ertug Zorkun,
  • Miguel A. Salas-Natera and
  • Ramón Martínez Rodríguez-Osorio

19 December 2023

Autonomous remote sensing systems establish communication links between nodes. Ensuring coverage and seamless communication in highly dense environments is not a trivial task as localization, separation, and tracking of targets, as well as interferen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing Advances in Urban Traffic Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
483 Views
19 Pages

This paper addresses the urgent scientific and applied problem of automatic tracking of highly maneuverable Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) using systems based on platforms with limited computing power (Edge Computing). The paper analyzes the shortco...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Flight Testing and Flight Data Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,518 Views
24 Pages

Performance Evaluation of Adaptive Tracking Techniques with Direct-State Kalman Filter

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

6 January 2022

This paper evaluates the performance of robust adaptive tracking techniques with the direct-state Kalman filter (DSKF) used in modern digital global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers. Under the assumption of a well-known Gaussian distribut...

(This article belongs to the Section Navigation and Positioning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,942 Views
22 Pages

This paper addresses the issue of external unknown environmental interference affecting the trajectory tracking performance and driving stability of autonomous vehicles. This seriously impacts the performance and stability of the vehicle while drivin...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,562 Views
26 Pages

26 September 2019

A part-based strategy has been applied to visual tracking with demonstrated success in recent years. Different from most existing part-based methods that only employ one type of tracking representation model, in this paper, we propose an effective co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Sensors and Devices in Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
4,295 Views
19 Pages

Adaptive Least Mean Square Controller for Power Quality Enhancement in Solar Photovoltaic System

  • Nalini Karchi,
  • Deepak Kulkarni,
  • Rocío Pérez de Prado,
  • Parameshachari Bidare Divakarachari and ,
  • Sujata N. Patil and
  • Veena Desai
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

25 November 2022

The objective of the proposed work is to develop a Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) controller and inverter controller by applying the adaptive least mean square (LMS) algorithm to control the total harmonics distortion of a solar photovoltaic sys...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
3,687 Views
35 Pages

A Particle Swarm Optimization–Adaptive Weighted Delay Velocity-Based Fast-Converging Maximum Power Point Tracking Algorithm for Solar PV Generation System

  • Md Adil Azad,
  • Mohd Tariq,
  • Adil Sarwar,
  • Injila Sajid and ,
  • Shafiq Ahmad,
  • Farhad Ilahi Bakhsh and
  • Abdelaty Edrees Sayed
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

26 October 2023

Photovoltaic (PV) arrays have a considerably lower output when exposed to partial shadowing (PS). Whilst adding bypass diodes to the output reduces PS’s impact, this adjustment causes many output power peaks. Because of their tendency to conver...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Technologies and Developments for Future Energy Systems)

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