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26 September 2023

Modeling of key variable data needs to consider the complex characteristics of systems in the catalytic cracking unit (CCU) of petroleum refining process, such as slow time-varying behavior, complex dynamic properties, distributed traits, and unknown...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,283 Views
16 Pages

7 January 2023

For the state estimation problem of a multi-source localization nonlinear system with unknown and bounded noise, a distributed sequential ellipsoidal intersection fusion estimation algorithm based on the dual set-membership filtering method is propos...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,793 Views
15 Pages

26 December 2021

ℓ1-regularization methodologies have appeared recently in many pattern recognition and image processing tasks frequently connected to ℓ1-optimization in the control theory. We consider the problem of optimal stabilizing controller synthes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,117 Views
19 Pages

Robust Estimation of Vehicle Motion States Utilizing an Extended Set-Membership Filter

  • Jianfeng Chen,
  • Congcong Guo,
  • Shulin Hu,
  • Jiantian Sun,
  • Reza Langari and
  • Chuanye Tang

16 February 2020

Reliable vehicle motion states are critical for the precise control performed by vehicle active safety systems. This paper investigates a robust estimation strategy for vehicle motion states by feat of the application of the extended set-membership f...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,167 Views
16 Pages

Estimation of Actuator and System Faults Via an Unknown Input Interval Observer for Takagi–Sugeno Systems

  • Citlaly Martínez-García,
  • Vicenç Puig,
  • Carlos-M. Astorga-Zaragoza,
  • Guadalupe Madrigal-Espinosa and
  • Juan Reyes-Reyes

2 January 2020

This paper presents a simultaneous state variables and system and actuator fault estimation, based on an unknown input interval observer design for a discrete-time parametric uncertain Takagi–Sugeno system under actuator fault, with disturbance...

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  • Open Access
1,417 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...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,621 Views
23 Pages

30 June 2020

A novel robust particle filtering algorithm is proposed for updating both the waveform and noise parameter for tracking accuracy simultaneously and adaptively. The approach is a significant step for cognitive radar towards more robust tracking in ran...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,826 Views
20 Pages

17 December 2019

We considered the problem of the estimation of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) with a real deterministic sinusoid with unknown frequency, phase and amplitude in additive Gaussian noise of unknown variance. A blind SNR estimator that does not require the...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,880 Views
25 Pages

16 September 2021

In this work, a new adaptive controller is designed for substrate control of a fed-batch bioreactor in the presence of input saturation and unknown varying control gain with unknown upper and lower bounds. The output measurement noise and the unknown...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,452 Views
25 Pages

24 April 2024

In practical radar systems, changes in the target aspect toward the radar will result in glint noise disturbances in the measurement data. The glint noise has heavy-tailed characteristics and cannot be perfectly modeled by the Gaussian distribution w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
8,249 Views
22 Pages

Frequentist and Bayesian Quantum Phase Estimation

  • Yan Li,
  • Luca Pezzè,
  • Manuel Gessner,
  • Zhihong Ren,
  • Weidong Li and
  • Augusto Smerzi

23 August 2018

Frequentist and Bayesian phase estimation strategies lead to conceptually different results on the state of knowledge about the true value of an unknown parameter. We compare the two frameworks and their sensitivity bounds to the estimation of an int...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,325 Views
21 Pages

3 December 2024

We investigate the peak-power limited (PPL) Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channels in which the signal is band-limited, and its instantaneous power cannot exceed the power P. This model is relevant to many communication systems; however, its c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,207 Views
15 Pages

5 July 2021

This note is devoted to a robust stability analysis, as well as to the problem of the robust stabilization of a class of continuous-time Markovian jump linear systems subject to block-diagonal stochastic parameter perturbations. The considered parame...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,565 Views
20 Pages

Nonparametric Estimation of the Density Function of the Distribution of the Noise in CHARN Models

  • Joseph Ngatchou-Wandji,
  • Marwa Ltaifa,
  • Didier Alain Njamen Njomen and
  • Jia Shen

17 February 2022

This work is concerned with multivariate conditional heteroscedastic autoregressive nonlinear (CHARN) models with an unknown conditional mean function, conditional variance matrix function and density function of the distribution of noise. We study t...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,810 Views
18 Pages

29 April 2019

A performance bound—Cramér-Rao lower bound (CRLB) for target estimation and detection in sparse stepped frequency radars is presented. The vector formulation of this CRLB is used to obtain a lower bound on the estimation error. The estim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,993 Views
18 Pages

8 December 2018

In the single-beacon underwater tracking system, vehicles rely on slant range measurements from an acoustic beacon to bound errors accumulated by dead reckoning. Ranges are usually obtained based on a presumed known effective sound velocity (ESV). Si...

  • Article
  • Open Access
752 Views
25 Pages

12 September 2025

This paper investigates the near-field source localization of multiple narrowband signals in the presence of unknown nonuniform noise with an arbitrary diagonal covariance matrix. From a covariance-fitting perspective, we reformulate the near-field l...

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  • Open Access
1,995 Views
17 Pages

21 January 2025

In contextual multi-armed bandits, the relationship between contextual information and rewards is typically unknown, complicating the trade-off between exploration and exploitation. A common approach to address this challenge is the Upper Confidence...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
654 Views
16 Pages

A Maximum Likelihood Estimation Method for Underwater Radiated Noise Power

  • Guoqing Jiang,
  • Mingyang Li,
  • Zhuoran Liu,
  • Linchuan Sun and
  • Qingcui Wang

14 June 2025

Underwater radiated noise power estimation is crucial for the quantitative assessment of noise levels emitted by ships and underwater vehicles. This paper therefore proposes a maximum likelihood estimation method for determining the power of underwat...

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  • Open Access
2,298 Views
17 Pages

13 December 2021

The paper deals with Cauchy problems for first-order systems of linear ordinary differential equations with unknown data. It is assumed that the right-hand sides of equations belong to certain bounded sets in the space of square-integrable vector-fun...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,161 Views
17 Pages

13 August 2021

In this paper, we propose an adaptive data-driven control approach for linear time varying systems, affected by bounded measurement noise. The plant to be controlled is assumed to be unknown, and no information in regard to its time varying behaviour...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,911 Views
15 Pages

28 December 2022

In this paper, we derive the Cramér–Rao lower bounds (CRLB) for direction of arrival (DoA) estimation by using sparse Bayesian learning (SBL) and the Laplace prior. CRLB is a lower bound on the variance of the estimator, the change of CR...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,691 Views
13 Pages

A Model-Free Online Learning Control for Attitude Tracking of Quadrotors

  • Lining Tan,
  • Guodong Jin,
  • Shuhua Zhou and
  • Lianfeng Wang

23 January 2024

This paper investigates the problem of attitude tracking in quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) using a model-free online learning control (MFOLC) scheme. The attitude system, which is represented by unit quaternions, is considered in the prese...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,815 Views
27 Pages

24 February 2022

Integrated motor-transmission (IMT) powertrain systems are widely used in future electric vehicles due to the advantages of their simple structure configuration and high controllability. In electric vehicles, precise speed tracking control is critica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,488 Views
26 Pages

21 March 2019

In this paper, a novel direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation for unknown (anonymous) emitter signal (ES) based on time reversal (TR) and coprime array (CA) is proposed. The resolution and accuracy of DOA estimation are enhanced from two aspects: one...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,157 Views
17 Pages

24 March 2025

Accurate and reliable localization is crucial for various wireless communication applications. A multitude of studies have presented accurate localization methods using hybrid received signal strength (RSS) and angle of arrival (AOA) measurements. Ho...

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  • Open Access
740 Views
30 Pages

27 March 2025

As the number of devices using wireless communications increases, the amount of usable radio frequency spectrum becomes increasingly congested. As a result, the need for robust, adaptive communications to improve spectral efficiency and ensure reliab...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,537 Views
46 Pages

14 September 2021

This paper conducts a rigorous analysis for the problem of robust tensor completion, which aims at recovering an unknown three-way tensor from incomplete observations corrupted by gross sparse outliers and small dense noises simultaneously due to var...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,518 Views
20 Pages

Underwater acoustic localization (UWAL) is extremely challenging due to the multipath nature of extreme underwater environments, the sensor position uncertainty caused by unpredictable ocean currents, and the lack of underwater observation data due t...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,668 Views
25 Pages

11 July 2024

Joint localization and synchronization (JLAS) is a technology that simultaneously determines the spatial locations of user nodes and synchronizes the clocks between user nodes (UNs) and anchor nodes (ANs). This technology is crucial for various appli...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,204 Views
24 Pages

18 February 2025

Conventional adaptive beamformers usually suffer from serious performance degradation when the receive array is imperfect and unknown sporadic interferences appear. To enhance robustness against array imperfections and simultaneously suppress sporadi...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,690 Views
21 Pages

Based on an adaptive neural control scheme, this paper investigates the consensus problem of random Markov jump multi-agent systems with full state constraints. Each agent is described by the fractional-order random nonlinear uncertain system driven...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,797 Views
23 Pages

Dual-UAV Collaborative High-Precision Passive Localization Method Based on Optoelectronic Platform

  • Xu Kang,
  • Yu Shao,
  • Guanbing Bai,
  • He Sun,
  • Tao Zhang and
  • Dejiang Wang

25 October 2023

Utilizing the optical characteristics of the target for detection and localization does not require actively emitting signals and has the advantage of strong concealment. Once the optoelectronic platform mounted on the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) d...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,993 Views
19 Pages

14 February 2022

To meet the demand of ship control, a new heading control tactic is explored using switching theory. Different from the previous results, the stochastic noise and switched control are considered in the Norrbin nonlinear mathematical model concurrentl...

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  • Open Access
1,585 Views
10 Pages

10 October 2024

This paper addresses the problem of mitigating unknown partial path overlaps in communication systems. This study demonstrates that by utilizing the front-end insight of communication systems along with the sum–product algorithm applied to fact...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,758 Views
21 Pages

Localization Based on MAP and PSO for Drifting-Restricted Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks

  • Keyong Hu,
  • Xianglin Song,
  • Zhongwei Sun,
  • Hanjiang Luo and
  • Zhongwen Guo

25 December 2018

Localization is a critical issue for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (UASNs). Existing localization algorithms mainly focus on localizing unknown nodes (location-unaware) by measuring their distances to beacon nodes (location-aware), whereas igno...

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  • Open Access
1,379 Views
27 Pages

4 October 2024

This paper is concerned with the state estimation problem based on non-fragile set-membership filtering for a class of measurement-saturated memristive neural networks (MNNs) with unknown but bounded (UBB) noises, mixed time delays and missing measur...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,357 Views
23 Pages

24 October 2024

This paper investigates the motion state estimation problem of the unmanned surface vehicle (USV) steering system in wireless sensor networks based on the binary coding scheme (BCS). In response to the presence of bandwidth constraints and mixed cybe...

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  • Open Access
898 Views
30 Pages

Distributed Sensor Network Calibration Under Sensor Nonlinearities with Applications in Aerodynamic Pressure Sensing

  • Srdjan S. Stanković,
  • Miloš S. Stanković,
  • Mladen Veinović,
  • Ivana Jokić and
  • Miloš Frantlović

16 April 2025

The theoretical part of this paper is devoted to a class of distributed blind calibration algorithms for large sensor networks based on consensus. The basic blind calibration method starts from affine sensor models and calibration functions, aiming t...

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1,920 Views
21 Pages

In this paper, we focus on investigating the well-posedness of backward stochastic differential equations with jumps (BSDEJs) driven by irregular coefficients. We establish new results regarding the existence and uniqueness of solutions for a specifi...

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  • Open Access
1,272 Views
16 Pages

23 September 2024

The present study investigates non-fragile H∞ state estimation based on a dynamic event-triggered mechanism for a class of discrete time-varying nonlinear systems subject to dynamical bias and fading measurements. The dynamic deviation caused b...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,890 Views
23 Pages

18 April 2023

Considering the problem of GNSS service interruption caused by the insufficient number of available satellites in complex environments, Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites can supplement GNSS effectively. To eliminate the unknown satellite clock error a...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,037 Views
14 Pages

9 March 2021

Measurements leading to the collapse of states and the non-local quantum correlations are the key to all applications of quantum mechanics as well as in the studies of quantum foundation. The former is crucial for quantum parameter estimation, which...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,503 Views
20 Pages

31 July 2019

Transmitter and receiver position errors have been known to significantly deteriorate target localization accuracy in a multi-static passive radar (MPR) system. This paper explores the use of calibration targets, whose positions are known to the MPR...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,769 Views
19 Pages

15 July 2021

Accurate 3D passive tracking of an underwater uncooperative target is of great significance to make use of the sea resources as well as to ensure the safety of our maritime areas. In this paper, a 3D passive underwater uncooperative target tracking p...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
2,919 Views
23 Pages

Optimal Array Design and Directive Sensors for Guided Waves DoA Estimation

  • Marco Dibiase,
  • Masoud Mohammadgholiha and
  • Luca De Marchi

20 January 2022

The estimation of Direction of Arrival (DoA) of guided ultrasonic waves is an important task in many Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) applications. The aim is to locate sources of elastic waves which can be generated by impacts or defects in the in...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,151 Views
21 Pages

3 May 2024

Localizing a moving source by Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) and Frequency Difference of Arrival (FDOA) commonly requires at least N+1 sensors in N-dimensional space to obtain more than N pairs of TDOAs and FDOAs, thereby establishing more than 2N...

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877 Views
24 Pages

25 June 2025

In complex urban electromagnetic environments, wireless positioning signals are subject to various types of interference, including narrowband, chirp, and pulse jamming. Traditional generic suppression methods struggle to achieve global optimization...