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3 May 2016

The Global Navigation Satellite System can provide all-day three-dimensional position and speed information. Currently, only using the single navigation system cannot satisfy the requirements of the system’s reliability and integrity. In order to imp...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,938 Views
16 Pages

A 3D Range-Only SLAM Algorithm Based on Improved Derivative UKF

  • Chao Tang,
  • Dajian Zhou,
  • Lihua Dou and
  • Chaoyang Jiang

In this study, we constructed a 3D range-only (RO) localization algorithm based on improved unscented Kalman filtering (UKF). The algorithm can determine the location of unknown UWB nodes in a 3D environment through a moving node with low computation...

(This article belongs to the Collection Advance Technologies of Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,107 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
55 Citations
8,021 Views
19 Pages

18 June 2017

In this paper, we propose a cost-effective localization solution for land vehicles, which can simultaneously adapt to the uncertain noise of inertial sensors and bridge Global Positioning System (GPS) outages. First, three Unscented Kalman filters (U...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Inertial Sensors for Positioning and Navigation)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,537 Views
25 Pages

8 September 2024

The forecasting of charging demand for electric vehicles (EVs) plays a vital role in maintaining grid stability and optimizing energy distribution. Therefore, an innovative method for the prediction of EV charging load demand is proposed in this stud...

(This article belongs to the Section G: Energy and Buildings)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,585 Views
18 Pages

18 August 2022

Accurate State of Charge (SOC) estimation for lithium-ion batteries has great significance with respect to the correct decision-making and safety control. In this research, an improved second-order-polarization equivalent circuit (SO-PEC) modelling m...

(This article belongs to the Section Computation and Simulation on Metals)
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  • Open Access
2,931 Views
17 Pages

7 February 2022

In this paper, an adaptation method for adjusting the scaling parameters of an unscented Kalman filter (UKF) is proposed to improve the estimation performance of the filter in dynamic conditions. The proposed adaptation method is based on a sequentia...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,076 Views
23 Pages

A Hybrid ASW-UKF-TRF Algorithm for Efficient Data Classification and Compression in Lithium-Ion Battery Management Systems

  • Bowen Huang,
  • Xueyuan Xie,
  • Jiangteng Yi,
  • Qian Yu and ,
  • Yong Xu and
  • Kai Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 September 2025

Electrochemical energy storage technology, primarily lithium-ion batteries, has been widely applied in large-scale energy storage systems. However, differences in assembly structures, manufacturing processes, and operating environments introduce para...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue IoT Applications for Renewable Energy Management and Control, 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
39 Citations
4,338 Views
22 Pages

2 December 2020

An accurate vehicle driving state observer is a necessary condition for a safe automotive electronic control system. Vehicle driving state observer is challenged by unknown measurement noise and transient disturbances caused by complex working condit...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,967 Views
14 Pages

Inaccurate mass estimates have been recognized as an important source of uncertainty in structural identification, especially for large-scale structures with old ages. Over the past decades, some identification algorithms for structural states and un...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Structural Identification and Damage Evaluation by Integrating Physics-Based Models with Data)
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  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,720 Views
23 Pages

Altimeter + INS/Giant LEO Constellation Dual-Satellite Integrated Navigation and Positioning Algorithm Based on Similar Ellipsoid Model and UKF

  • Lvyang Ye,
  • Yikang Yang,
  • Xiaolun Jing,
  • Hengnian Li and ,
  • Haifeng Yang and
  • Yunxia Xia
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 October 2021

To solve the problem of location service interruption that is easily caused by incomplete visual satellite environments such as occlusion, urban blocks and mountains, we propose an altimeter + inertial navigation system (INS) + giant low earth orbit...

(This article belongs to the Section Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,019 Views
21 Pages

27 May 2018

Inspired by the problem that the current spatial registration methods are unsuitable for three-dimensional (3-D) sensor on high-dynamic platform, this paper focuses on the estimation for the registration errors of cooperative missiles and motion stat...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
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  • Open Access
113 Citations
13,968 Views
13 Pages

Comparison Study on the Battery SoC Estimation with EKF and UKF Algorithms

  • Hongwen He,
  • Hongzhou Qin,
  • Xiaokun Sun and
  • Yuanpeng Shui

30 September 2013

The battery state of charge (SoC), whose estimation is one of the basic functions of battery management system (BMS), is a vital input parameter in the energy management and power distribution control of electric vehicles (EVs). In this paper, two me...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Li-ion Batteries and Energy Storage Devices)
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  • Open Access
1,044 Views
23 Pages

In real-world operation, battery electric buses often encounter conditions with significant and rapid load variations. To improve regenerative braking energy recovery efficiency under such dynamic load conditions, this paper proposes a braking contro...

(This article belongs to the Topic Dynamics, Control and Simulation of Electric Vehicles)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,284 Views
15 Pages

An OOSEM-Based Design Pattern for the Development of AUV Controllers

  • Cao Duc Sang,
  • Ngo Van He,
  • Ngo Van Hien and
  • Nguyen Trong Khuyen

This article introduces a new design pattern that provides an optimal solution for the systematic development of AUV controllers. In this study, a hybrid control model is designed on the basis of the OOSEM (Object-Oriented Systems Engineering Method)...

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

To address the insufficient parameter estimation accuracy and poor filtering convergence caused by noise in radar trajectory measurement data, this paper proposes a joint framework combining SW-STPSO adaptive wavelet denoising and an improved Unscent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
3,570 Views
16 Pages

10 November 2022

With the proposal of China’s green energy strategy, the research and development technologies of green energy such as wind energy and hydrogen energy are becoming more and more mature. However, the phenomenon of wind abandonment and anti-peak s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Solutions in Applied Mechanics and Engineering)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,423 Views
10 Pages

31 January 2021

Kalman filtering is a linear quadratic estimation (LQE) algorithm that uses a time series of observed data to produce estimations of unknown variables. The Kalman filter (KF) concept is widely used in applied mathematics and signal processing. In thi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Nonlinear Functional Analysis and Optimization Theory)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,584 Views
15 Pages

Improving Cell Detection and Tracking in Microscopy Images Using YOLO and an Enhanced DeepSORT Algorithm

  • Mokhaled N. A. Al-Hamadani,
  • Richard Poroszlay,
  • Gabor Szeman-Nagy,
  • Andras Hajdu and ,
  • Stathis Hadjidemetriou,
  • Luca Ferrarini and
  • Balazs Harangi
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

12 July 2025

Accurate and automated detection and tracking of cells in microscopy images is a persistent challenge in biotechnology and biomedical research. Effective detection and tracking are crucial for understanding biological processes and extracting meaning...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,229 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...

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  • Open Access
57 Citations
10,300 Views
19 Pages

Adaptive Unscented Kalman Filter for Target Tracking with Unknown Time-Varying Noise Covariance

  • Baoshuang Ge,
  • Hai Zhang,
  • Liuyang Jiang,
  • Zheng Li and
  • Maaz Mohammed Butt

19 March 2019

The unscented Kalman filter (UKF) is widely used to address the nonlinear problems in target tracking. However, this standard UKF shows unstable performance whenever the noise covariance mismatches. Furthermore, in consideration of the deficiencies o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multiple Object Tracking: Making Sense of the Sensors)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,176 Views
14 Pages

Research on Longitudinal Control of Electric Vehicle Platoons Based on Robust UKF–MPC

  • Jiading Bao,
  • Zishan Lin,
  • Hui Jing,
  • Huanqin Feng and ,
  • Xiaoyuan Zhang and
  • Ziqiang Luo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 October 2024

In a V2V communication environment, the control of electric vehicle platoons faces issues such as random communication delays, packet loss, and external disturbances, which affect sustainable transportation systems. In order to solve these problems a...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
2,675 Views
16 Pages

24 February 2025

The state of charge (SOC) of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is a pivotal metric within the battery management system (BMS) of electric vehicles (EVs). An accurate SOC is crucial to ensuring both the safety and the operational efficiency of a battery. T...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Energy Storage Technologies and Applications (AESAs), 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,633 Views
16 Pages

Speed Estimation Strategy for Closed-Loop Control of PMSM Based on PSO Optimized KF Series Algorithms

  • Tunzhen Xie,
  • Xianglian Xu,
  • Fang Yuan,
  • Yuanqing Song and ,
  • Wenyang Lei,
  • Ruiqing Zhao,
  • Yating Chang,
  • Xinrui Wu,
  • Ziqi Gan and
  • Fangqing Zhang
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

11 October 2023

In this paper, solving the problem of the noise covariance matrix parameters tuning of the extended Kalman filter (EKF) and unscented Kalman filter algorithms (UKF) is difficult. A speed estimation strategy for a permanent magnet synchronous motor (P...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Control for Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM))
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
868 Views
17 Pages

An Intelligent Optimization-Based Secure Filter Design for State Estimation of Power Systems with Multiple Disturbances

  • Yudong Xu,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Yong Liu,
  • Xiaokai Meng and ,
  • Yutong Chen and
  • Zhixiang Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

To address multiple disturbance threats such as system anomalies and cyberattacks faced by power systems, an intelligent optimized secure filter method is developed in this paper for state estimation of power systems with the aid of the improved spar...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,927 Views
20 Pages

27 June 2017

In order to improve filtering precision and restrain divergence caused by sensor faults or model mismatches for target tracking, a new adaptive unscented Kalman filter (N-AUKF) algorithm is proposed. First of all, the unscented Kalman filter (UKF) pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,056 Views
15 Pages

12 November 2024

The precise estimation of the state of charge (SOC) in lithium batteries is crucial for enhancing their operational lifespan. To address the issue of reduced accuracy in SOC estimation caused by the random missing values of lithium battery current me...

(This article belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,328 Views
15 Pages

8 October 2024

To address the issue of reduced positioning accuracy caused by satellite signal interruptions when trains pass through long tunnels, a novel train positioning method based on an innovative adaptive unscented Kalman filter (UKF) under kinematic constr...

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  • Open Access
54 Citations
6,238 Views
22 Pages

2 September 2020

The state of charge (SOC) estimation of the battery is one of the important functions of the battery management system of the electric vehicle, and the accurate SOC estimation is of great significance to the safe operation of the electric vehicle and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Battery Technologies: New Applications and Management Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,281 Views
19 Pages

Filtering-Based Three-Axis Attitude Determination Package for Spinning Spacecraft: Preliminary Results with Arase

  • Halil Ersin Soken,
  • Shin-ichiro Sakai,
  • Kazushi Asamura,
  • Yosuke Nakamura and ,
  • Takeshi Takashima and
  • Iku Shinohara
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

JAXA’s ERG (Exploration of Energization and Radiation in Geospace) Spacecraft, which is nicknamed Arase, was launched on 20 December 2016. Arase is a spin-stabilized and Sun-oriented spacecraft. Its mission is to explore how relativistic electr...

(This article belongs to the Section Astronautics & Space Science)
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  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,127 Views
15 Pages

The premise of vehicle intelligent decision making is to obtain vehicle motion state parameters accurately and in real-time. Several state parameters cannot be measured directly by vehicle sensors, so estimation algorithms based on filtering are effe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,556 Views
16 Pages

12 June 2024

Kinematic calibration plays a pivotal role in enhancing the absolute positioning accuracy of industrial robots, with parameter identification and error compensation constituting its core components. While the conventional parameter identification met...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Error Measurement, Analysis, and Compensation Technology for CNC Machine Tools)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,463 Views
13 Pages

5 November 2010

In this paper, the problem of estimating the attitude of a micro-nano satellite, obtaining geomagnetic field measurements via a three-axis magnetometer and obtaining angle rate via gyro, is considered. For this application, a QMRPF-UKF master-slave f...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemical Sensors)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,927 Views
19 Pages

1 May 2022

Vehicle tracking in the field of intelligent transportation has received extensive attention in recent years. Multi-sensor-based vehicle tracking system is widely used in some critical environments. However, in the actual scenes, the observation erro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Radar Signal Processing for Target Tracking)
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  • Open Access
56 Citations
5,449 Views
16 Pages

20 December 2019

Autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) acoustic navigation is challenged by unknown system noise and gross errors in the acoustic observations caused by the complex marine environment. Since the classical unscented Kalman filter (UKF) algorithm cannot c...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,379 Views
21 Pages

6 December 2025

To improve recognition accuracy, convergence speed, and numerical stability in estimating the road adhesion coefficient for distributed-drive electric vehicles, a nonlinear seven-degree-of-freedom vehicle dynamics model was developed based on a modif...

(This article belongs to the Topic Dynamics, Control and Simulation of Electric Vehicles)
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  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,438 Views
19 Pages

Online Parameter Identification of Lithium-Ion Batteries Using a Novel Multiple Forgetting Factor Recursive Least Square Algorithm

  • Bizhong Xia,
  • Rui Huang,
  • Zizhou Lao,
  • Ruifeng Zhang and ,
  • Yongzhi Lai,
  • Weiwei Zheng,
  • Huawen Wang,
  • Wei Wang and
  • Mingwang Wang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

16 November 2018

The model parameters of the lithium-ion battery are of great importance to model-based battery state estimation methods. The fact that parameters change in different rates with operation temperature, state of charge (SOC), state of health (SOH) and o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,906 Views
18 Pages

19 February 2022

Accurate estimation of the state of charge (SOC) of zinc–nickel single-flow batteries (ZNBs) is an important problem in battery management systems (BMSs). A nonideal electromagnetic environment will usually cause the measured signal to contain...

(This article belongs to the Topic Energy Storage and Conversion Systems)
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  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,077 Views
20 Pages

State-of-Charge Estimation of Lithium-Ion Batteries Based on Fractional-Order Square-Root Unscented Kalman Filter

  • Liping Chen,
  • Xiaobo Wu,
  • José A. Tenreiro Machado,
  • António M. Lopes and ,
  • Penghua Li and
  • Xueping Dong
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The accuracy of the state-of-charge (SOC) estimation of lithium batteries affects the battery life, driving performance, and the safety of electric vehicles. This paper presents a SOC estimation method based on the fractional-order square-root unscen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamical Systems and Their Applications (DSTA) — in Memory of Prof. Dr. José A. Tenreiro Machado)
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  • Open Access
56 Citations
5,134 Views
20 Pages

Co-Estimation of State-of-Charge and State-of-Health for Lithium-Ion Batteries Considering Temperature and Ageing

  • Xin Lai,
  • Ming Yuan,
  • Xiaopeng Tang,
  • Yi Yao and ,
  • Jiahui Weng,
  • Furong Gao,
  • Weiguo Ma and
  • Yuejiu Zheng
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

9 October 2022

State-of-charge (SOC) estimation of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is the basis of other state estimations. However, its accuracy can be affected by many factors, such as temperature and ageing. To handle this bottleneck issue, we here propose a joint...

(This article belongs to the Topic Battery Design and Management)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,693 Views
29 Pages

An Improved Unscented Kalman Filter Applied to Positioning and Navigation of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

  • Jinchao Zhao,
  • Ya Zhang,
  • Shizhong Li,
  • Jiaxuan Wang and ,
  • Lingling Fang,
  • Luoyin Ning,
  • Jinghao Feng and
  • Jianwu Zhang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

18 January 2025

To enhance the positioning accuracy of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), a new adaptive filtering algorithm (RHAUKF) is proposed. The most widely used filtering algorithm is the traditional Unscented Kalman Filter or the Adaptive Robust UKF (ARU...

(This article belongs to the Section Navigation and Positioning)
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  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,688 Views
19 Pages

2 April 2019

Tracking maneuvering targets is a challenging problem for sensors because of the unpredictability of the target’s motion. Unlike classical statistical modeling of target maneuvers, a simultaneous optimization and feedback learning algorithm for...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
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  • Open Access
126 Citations
9,985 Views
16 Pages

Maximum Correntropy Unscented Kalman Filter for Spacecraft Relative State Estimation

  • Xi Liu,
  • Hua Qu,
  • Jihong Zhao,
  • Pengcheng Yue and
  • Meng Wang

20 September 2016

A new algorithm called maximum correntropy unscented Kalman filter (MCUKF) is proposed and applied to relative state estimation in space communication networks. As is well known, the unscented Kalman filter (UKF) provides an efficient tool to solve t...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,176 Views
19 Pages

3 April 2020

A novel state estimation algorithm based on the parameters of a self-learning unscented Kalman filter (UKF) with a model parameter identification method based on a collaborative optimization mechanism is proposed in this paper. This algorithm can rea...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Battery Management for Electric Vehicles)
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  • Open Access
87 Citations
6,530 Views
15 Pages

14 August 2019

In order to improve the convergence time and stabilization accuracy of the real-time state estimation of the power batteries for electric vehicles, a fuzzy unscented Kalman filtering algorithm (F-UKF) of a new type is proposed in this paper, with an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Storage Systems for Electric Vehicles)
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  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,194 Views
24 Pages

A High-Precision, Real-Time, and Robust Indoor Visible Light Positioning Method Based on Mean Shift Algorithm and Unscented Kalman Filter

  • Zekun Xie,
  • Weipeng Guan,
  • Jieheng Zheng,
  • Xinjie Zhang and ,
  • Shihuan Chen and
  • Bangdong Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 March 2019

Visible light positioning (VLP) is a promising technology for indoor navigation. However, most studies of VLP systems nowadays only focus on positioning accuracy, whereas robustness and real-time ability are often overlooked, which are all indispensa...

(This article belongs to the Collection Positioning and Navigation)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,969 Views
26 Pages

22 January 2025

This study addresses the motion and inertia parameter estimation problem of a torque-free, tumbling, non-cooperative space object (target) under long-term occlusions. To solve this problem, we employ a data-driven Gaussian process (GP) to simulate se...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,437 Views
17 Pages

Passive Radar Tracking in Clutter Using Range and Range-Rate Measurements

  • Asma Asif,
  • Sithamparanathan Kandeepan and
  • Robin J. Evans

8 June 2023

Passive bistatic radar research is essential for accurate 3D target tracking, especially in the presence of missing or low-quality bearing information. Traditional extended Kalman filter (EKF) methods often introduce bias in such scenarios. To overco...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Radar Sensors for Target Tracking and Localization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,391 Views
24 Pages

A Triple-Filter NLOS Localization Algorithm Based on Fuzzy C-means for Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Long Cheng,
  • Yifan Li,
  • Yan Wang,
  • Yangyang Bi and ,
  • Liang Feng and
  • Mingkun Xue
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 March 2019

With the rapid development of communication technology in recent years, Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) has become a promising research project. WSN is widely applied in a number of fields such as military, environmental monitoring, space exploration a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Systems in Sensor Networks and Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,121 Views
22 Pages

To combat the impacts of uncertain noise on the estimation of vehicle state parameters and the high cost of sensors, a state-observer design with an adaptive unscented Kalman filter (AUKF) is developed. The design equation of the state observer is de...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Energy Special Vehicle, Tractor and Agricultural Machinery)

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