The autonomous landing of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on moving platforms has potential applications across various domains. However, robust landing remains challenging because the detection reliability of UAVs decreases when the UAV is close to...
In this paper, we address the challenge of detecting small moving targets in dynamic environments characterized by the concurrent movement of both platform and sensor. In such cases, simple image-based frame registration and optical flow analysis can...
Spatial registration is the primary challenge affecting target tracking accuracy, especially for the aerial moving platform and sea target tracking. In this environment, it is important to account for both the errors in sensor observations and the va...
Landing on a moving platform is an essential requirement to achieve high-performance autonomous flight with various vehicles, including quadrotors. We propose an efficient and reliable autonomous landing system, based on model predictive control, whi...
Background and objectives: Patient-handling activities predispose women to chronic low back pain (CLBP), but sufficient evidence is not available on whether a 3D moving platform, made for core stability exercise, affects pain, trunk flexibility, and...
This paper proposes a new optimized parameter model that enhances the pointing accuracy of moving-platform electro-optical telescopes (MPEOTs). The study begins by comprehensively analyzing the error sources, including the telescope and the platform...
In recent years, the rapid development of moving platforms, especially unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), has promoted their widespread applications in various fields such as precision agriculture and formation fligh...
Speed detection of a moving object using an optical camera has always been an important subject to study in computer vision. This is one of the key components to address in many application areas, such as transportation systems, military and naval ap...
Research in passive radar has moved its focus towards passive radar on moving platforms in recent years with the purpose of moving target indication and ground imaging via synthetic aperture radar. This is also fostered by the progress in hardware mi...
The two-way laser time transfer technology, based on single-photon detection, is among the techniques requiring the least weight and power consumption for ultra-long-distance clock synchronization. It holds promise as the most viable technology for h...
In 3D pedestrian indoor navigation applications, position estimation based on inertial measurement units (IMUss) fails when moving platforms (MPs), such as escalators and elevators, are not properly implemented. In this work, we integrate the MPs in...
Autonomous quadrotor landing on moving ground platforms is essential for cooperative air–ground operations in confined warehouse environments. However, existing trajectory planners often compromise corridor clearance in narrow aisles or fail to...
With the development of intelligent transportation, radar and communication on moving platforms are competing for the spectrum. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate a new algorithmic framework for radar-communication spectral coexistence system...
To overcome the bearing capacity deficiencies of traditional serial hip joint simulators, complex trajectory simulation, among others, as well as a parallel manipulator with two pairs of artificial hip joints and two moving platforms are proposed. Th...
In this article, a method for microparts parallel manipulation with electrostatic forces, applied by conductive electrodes embedded on a Programmable “Smart Platform”, is introduced. The design of the platform and the layout of the electr...
Robot cooperation is key in Search and Rescue (SaR) tasks. Frequently, these tasks take place in complex scenarios affected by different types of disasters, so an aerial viewpoint is useful for autonomous navigation or human tele-operation. In such c...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) autonomous landing plays a key role in cooperative work with other heterogeneous agents. A neglected aspect of UAV autonomous landing on a moving platform is addressed in this study. The landing process is divided into...
The increasing number of landslide hazards worldwide has placed greater demands on the production and updating of landslide inventory maps. As an important data source for landslide detection, interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) data pro...
The rapid development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in recent years has promoted their application in various fields, such as precise agriculture, formation flight, etc. In these applications, the accurate and reliable real-time position and att...
A feedforward control was proposed based on the decoupling of target movement and disturbance from gyro signals to improve the stabilization precision of line-of-sight (LOS) for an electro-optical tracking system (EOTS) on a moving platform. Signals...
The ground moving-target indication (GMTI) technique can detect civil and military moving targets, which means that this technique has received much attention. Strong clutter background suppression is one of the critical problems in this application....
“Experiments were conducted at DIMEG, University of Calabria, located in the main campus in Arcavacata di Rende, Italy.” This article focuses on the study of the geometry, direct and inverse kinematics, workspace, and singularity of a nov...
Background/Objectives: Supporting everyday self-management is a central component of person-centered neurological nursing for young adults living with epilepsy. However, little is known about how young adults experience and negotiate everyday life wi...
The high demand for SARS-CoV-2 tests but limited supply to South African laboratories early in the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a heterogenous diagnostic footprint of open and closed molecular testing platforms being implemented. Ongoing monitoring...
Various jurisdictions are currently in the process of reforming their cadastral systems to achieve a smart and multidimensional system that provides a range of land administration services to the wider community. The state of Victoria in Australia ha...
Developing methods for autonomous landing of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on a mobile platform has been an active area of research over the past decade, as it offers an attractive solution for cases where rapid deployment and recovery of a fleet...
Landing a multi-rotor uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) on a moving target in the presence of partial observability, due to factors such as sensor failure or noise, represents an outstanding challenge that requires integrative techniques in robotics and...
A series of experiments were carried out to investigate the performance of a WEC rotor with platform motion. To achieve platform motion, a forced motion device with a rotor was installed in the Ocean Engineering Basin. In this study, the rotor’...
Interest in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has increased due to their versatility and variety of applications, however their battery life limits their applications. Heterogeneous multi-robot systems can offer a solution to this limitation, by allowi...
High-precision landing is a key technical problem that Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) will encounter in all application fields, especially for the landing of moving targets. This paper focuses on developing a landing system designed to achieve real-...
A joint space-time array for communication signals is constructed in this paper to settle the contradiction between the performance of angle estimation and the array aperture. It introduces Doppler information caused by platform motion into the signa...
This article presents a precise landing system that allows rotary-wing UAVs to approach and land safely on moving platforms, without using GNSS at any stage of the landing maneuver, and with a centimeter level accuracy and high level of robustness. T...
In order to develop equipment adapted to the aircraft pulse final assembly line, a vision-based aircraft transport platform system is developed. This article explores a guiding method between assembly stations which is low-cost and easy to change rou...
Underwater mobile acoustic source target localization encounters several challenges, including the unknown propagation speed of the source signal, uncertainty in the observation platform’s position and velocity (i.e., platform systematic errors...
Distributed coherent synthesis on dynamic platforms suffers from phase misalignment and significantly reduced synthesis efficiency due to navigation errors and communication delays. To address this challenge and dramatically enhance the synthesis eff...
Advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) are primarily known for their positive impact in improving the safety of drivers. Previous studies primarily analyzed the positive effects of ADAS with short-term experiments and accident data without conside...
Acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCP) are quasi-remote sensing instruments widely used in oceanography to measure velocity profiles continuously. One of the applications is the quantification of land–ocean exchange, which plays a key role i...
In this paper, by analyzing the characteristics of infrared moving targets, a Symmetric Frame Differencing Target Detection algorithm based on local clustering segmentation is proposed. In consideration of the high real-time performance and accuracy...
Falls and fall-related injuries are significant public health problems in older adults. While balance-controlling strategies have been extensively researched, there is still a lack of understanding regarding how fast the lower-limb muscles contract a...
This paper focuses on multi-target parameter estimation of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar with widely separated antennas on moving platforms. Aiming at the superimposed signals caused by multi-targets, the well-known expectation maximiza...
Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) radar enjoys the advantages of a high degree of freedom and relatively large virtual aperture, so it has various forms of applications in several aspects such as remote sensing, autonomous driving and radar imagi...
This paper studies the stiffness of the parallel cable-driven upper limb rehabilitation robot (PCUR). Firstly, it was derived that the static stiffness expression of the PCUR was composed of platform pose stiffness KT and cable pose stiffness KS. It...
Cable-driven parallel manipulators (CDPM) have parallel structures that consist of moving platforms connected to the fixed platform through many flexible cables. The moving platform is driven by many winches, and because of the unidirectional propert...
A current goal for microactuators is to extend their usually small working ranges, which typically result from mechanical connections and restoring forces imposed by cantilevers. In order to overcome this, we present a bistable levitation setup to re...
This paper deals with the reconfiguration analysis of a 3-DOF (degrees-of-freedom) parallel manipulator (PM) which belongs to the cylindrical parallel mechanisms family. The PM is composed of a base and a moving platform shaped as equilateral triangl...
This paper is aimed to address the issue of decreased accuracy in the ship block docking caused by the structural errors of posture adjustment mechanism. First, inverse kinematic analysis is performed to investigate the sources of static errors in th...
This paper aims to perform imaging and detect moving targets in a 3D scene for space-borne air moving target indication (AMTI). Specifically, we propose a feasible framework for distributed LEO space-borne SAR air moving target 3D imaging via spectra...
Modern industrial enterprises require high accuracy and precision feedback systems to fulfil cutting edge requirements of technological processes. As demand for a highly accurate system grows, a thin gap between throughput and quality exists. The con...
This paper introduces the mechanical design and control system of a mobile robot for logistics transportation in manufacturing workshops. The robot is divided into a moving part and a grasping part. The moving part adopts the mecanum wheel four-wheel...
Many aerial robotic applications require the ability to land on moving platforms, such as delivery trucks and marine research boats. We present a method to autonomously land an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle on a moving vehicle. A visual servoing controller...
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