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  • Open Access
7 Citations
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A Novel Virtual Power Plant Uncertainty Modeling Framework Using Unscented Transform

  • Lucas Feksa Ramos,
  • Luciane Neves Canha,
  • Josue Campos do Prado and
  • Leonardo Rodrigues Araujo Xavier de Menezes

19 May 2022

This paper proposes a new strategy for modeling predictability uncertainty in a stochastic context for decision making within a Virtual Power Plant (VPP). Modeling variable renewable energy generation is an essential step for effective VPP planning a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Systems Flexibility, Reliability, and Resilience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,638 Views
22 Pages

3 March 2019

The problem of multi-robot collaborative self-localization and distributed target tracking in practical scenarios is studied in this work. The major challenge in solving the problem in a distributed fashion is properly dealing with inter-robot and ro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Robot Systems: Challenges, Trends and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,310 Views
22 Pages

13 July 2023

In this study, the local unscented transform Kalman filter (LUTKF) proposed in the previous study estimates the state of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model through local analysis. Real observations are assimilated to investigate the ana...

(This article belongs to the Section Climatology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,188 Views
27 Pages

1 September 2025

This study addresses the nonlinear estimation problem in the strapdown inertial navigation system (SINS) and Doppler velocity log (DVL) integrated navigation by proposing an improved filtering algorithm based on SE2(3) Lie group state representation....

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,876 Views
13 Pages

Reliability Analysis of Transmission Tower Based on Unscented Transformation Under Ice and Wind Loads

  • Jianghong Chen,
  • Xiaohan Zhao,
  • Kanghao Shi,
  • Zhiqiang Ao and
  • Xinchao Zheng

9 November 2024

Due to the complexity of the transmission tower structure and the correlation between wind and ice loads in the actual project, it is difficult to analyze the reliability of transmission towers with traditional methods. To solve this problem, the uns...

(This article belongs to the Section F6: High Voltage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,930 Views
30 Pages

20 November 2024

The increased integration of renewable energy sources (RESs), such as photovoltaic and wind turbine systems, in microgrids poses significant challenges due to fluctuating weather conditions and load demands. To address these challenges, this study in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Control and Optimization Technologies in Renewable Energy and Integrated Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
901 Views
22 Pages

7 January 2026

To address active power fluctuations in power grids induced by high renewable energy penetration and overcome the limitations of existing probabilistic power flow (PPF) methods that ignore generator frequency regulation constraints, this paper propos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,753 Views
23 Pages

24 August 2023

In this paper, a stochastic multi-objective intelligent framework (MOIF) is performed for distribution network reconfiguration to minimize power losses, the number of voltage sags, the system’s average RMS fluctuation, the average system interr...

(This article belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,569 Views
15 Pages

DOA Tracking Based on Unscented Transform Multi-Bernoulli Filter in Impulse Noise Environment

  • Sun-yong Wu,
  • Jun Zhao,
  • Xu-dong Dong,
  • Qiu-tiao Xue and
  • Ru-hua Cai

18 September 2019

Aiming at the problem of multiple-source direction of arrival (DOA) tracking in impulse noise, this paper models the impulse noise by using the symmetric α stable (SαS) distribution, and proposes a DOA tracking algorithm based on the Unsc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Target Tracking Techniques for Modern Radar and Sonar Systems)
  • Article
  • 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
10 Citations
3,330 Views
13 Pages

4 December 2020

The increasingly serious environmental pollution and the shortage of social energy have promoted the rapid development of fuel cell vehicles. The major factor which limits the commercialization of fuel cell vehicles is durability. Accurately estimati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the SDEWES 2020 Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water, and Environment Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,112 Views
22 Pages

5 September 2024

This paper constructs a nonlinear iterative filtering framework based on a neural network prediction model. It uses recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to achieve accurate regression of complex maneuvering target dynamic models and integrates them into...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Technical Developments in Radar—Processing and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,610 Views
14 Pages

22 August 2022

An adaptive weighted strong tracking unscented Kalman filter is proposed in this paper for long-range relative navigation alongside non-cooperative maneuvering targets. First, an equation for obtaining the relative motion of two bodies is derived, it...

(This article belongs to the Section Astronautics & Space Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,927 Views
22 Pages

Multi-Objective Optimisation under Uncertainty with Unscented Temporal Finite Elements

  • Lorenzo A. Ricciardi,
  • Christie Alisa Maddock and
  • Massimiliano Vasile

24 November 2021

This paper presents a novel method for multi-objective optimisation under uncertainty developed to study a range of mission trade-offs, and the impact of uncertainties on the evaluation of launch system mission designs. A memetic multi-objective opti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evolutionary Algorithms in Engineering Design Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,901 Views
22 Pages

Online SoC Estimation of Lithium-Ion Batteries Using a New Sigma Points Kalman Filter

  • Dongdong Ge,
  • Zhendong Zhang,
  • Xiangdong Kong and
  • Zhiping Wan

12 December 2021

The accurate state of charge (SoC) online estimation for lithium-ion batteries is a primary concern for predicting the remaining range in electric vehicles. The Sigma points Kalman Filter is an emerging SoC filtering technology. Firstly, the charge a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Renewable Energy System: A Focus on Hydrogen Fuel Cells and Battery Storage with AI)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,508 Views
18 Pages

12 May 2021

For engineering products with uncertain input variables and distribution parameters, a sampling-based sensitivity analysis methodology was investigated to efficiently determine the influences of these uncertainties. In the calculation of the sensitiv...

(This article belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,553 Views
22 Pages

SOC Estimation of a Lithium-Ion Battery at Low Temperatures Based on a CNN-Transformer and SRUKF

  • Xun Gong,
  • Tianzhu Jiang,
  • Bosong Zou,
  • Huijie Wang and ,
  • Kaiyi Yang,
  • Xinhua Liu,
  • Bin Ma and
  • Jiamei Lin
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

1 December 2024

As environmental regulations become stricter, the advantages of pure electric vehicles over fuel vehicles are becoming more and more significant. Due to the uncertainty of the actual operating conditions of the vehicle, accurate estimation of the sta...

(This article belongs to the Section Battery Modelling, Simulation, Management and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
766 Views
20 Pages

A Distributed Fusion Method for Underwater Multi-Sensor Passive Tracking Based on Extended Measurement Space

  • Wen Zhang,
  • Tianlin Yang,
  • Xuanzhi Zhao,
  • Jingmin Tang and ,
  • Zengli Liu and
  • Kang Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Underwater multi-sensor passive tracking faces two critical challenges: the strong nonlinearity of Doppler–bearing measurements and underwater acoustic propagation delays. To address these issues, this paper proposes a distributed fusion filter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,764 Views
15 Pages

Strong nonlinearity between Doppler measurement and target motion in Doppler radar target tracking leads to the inadequate utilization of measurement information and limited tracking accuracy. We solved this problem by combining converted state Kalma...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,262 Views
22 Pages

Effect of Battery Degradation on the Probabilistic Optimal Operation of Renewable-Based Microgrids

  • Mahshid Javidsharifi,
  • Hamoun Pourroshanfekr Arabani,
  • Tamas Kerekes,
  • Dezso Sera and ,
  • Sergiu Spataru and
  • Josep M. Guerrero
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 February 2022

In order to maximize the use of renewable-based distributed generators (DGs), in addition to dealing with the effects of the inherent power management uncertainties of microgrids (MGs), applying storage devices is essential in the electrical system....

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,323 Views
22 Pages

Stochastic Optimal Strategy for Power Management in Interconnected Multi-Microgrid Systems

  • Mahshid Javidsharifi,
  • Hamoun Pourroshanfekr Arabani,
  • Tamas Kerekes,
  • Dezso Sera and
  • Josep M. Guerrero

A novel stochastic strategy for solving the problem of optimal power management of multi-microgrid (MMG) systems is suggested in this paper. The considered objectives are minimizing the total cost and emission of the system. The suggested algorithm i...

(This article belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,542 Views
36 Pages

Robust Multi-Stage Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Using Sigma Points

  • Sakthi Thangavel,
  • Radoslav Paulen and
  • Sebastian Engell

16 July 2020

We address the question of how to reduce the inevitable loss of performance that is incurred by robust multi-stage NMPC due to the lack of knowledge compared to the case where the exact plant model (no uncertainty) is available. Multi-stage NMPC in t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimization-Driven Methods for Optimal Operation and Control Strategies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,499 Views
26 Pages

30 June 2025

Orbit determination for non-cooperative low Earth orbit (LEO) objects undergoing continuous low-thrust maneuvers remains a significant challenge, particularly for large satellite constellations like Starlink. This paper presents a method that integra...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
6,057 Views
29 Pages

A Multi-Layer Security Scheme for Mitigating Smart Grid Vulnerability against Faults and Cyber-Attacks

  • Jian Chen,
  • Mohamed A. Mohamed,
  • Udaya Dampage,
  • Mostafa Rezaei and ,
  • Saleh H. Salmen,
  • Sami Al Obaid and
  • Andres Annuk
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

25 October 2021

To comply with electric power grid automation strategies, new cyber-security protocols and protection are required. What we now experience is a new type of protection against new disturbances namely cyber-attacks. In the same vein, the impact of dist...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances and Trends in Smart Grids and Microgrids: Operation, Control, Protection, and Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,840 Views
19 Pages

The Identification of ECG Signals Using WT-UKF and IPSO-SVM

  • Ning Li,
  • Longhui Zhu,
  • Wentao Ma,
  • Yelin Wang and ,
  • Fuxing He,
  • Aixiang Zheng and
  • Xiaoping Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

2 March 2022

The biometric identification method is a current research hotspot in the pattern recognition field. Due to the advantages of electrocardiogram (ECG) signals, which are difficult to replicate and easy to obtain, ECG-based identity identification has b...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,966 Views
19 Pages

The velocity and acceleration of geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) satellites change dramatically and periodically, and the operating area extends from hundreds of kilometers to 36,000 km above the Earth’s surface. This leads to the limitation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,344 Views
30 Pages

Stochastic Multi-Objective Scheduling of a Hybrid System in a Distribution Network Using a Mathematical Optimization Algorithm Considering Generation and Demand Uncertainties

  • Ali Hadi Abdulwahid,
  • Muna Al-Razgan,
  • Hassan Falah Fakhruldeen,
  • Meryelem Tania Churampi Arellano and ,
  • Vedran Mrzljak,
  • Saber Arabi Nowdeh and
  • Mohammad Jafar Hadidian Moghaddam
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

18 September 2023

In this paper, stochastic scheduling of a hybrid system (HS) composed of a photovoltaic (PV) array and wind turbines incorporated with a battery storage (HPV/WT/Batt) system in the distribution network was proposed to minimize energy losses, the volt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,564 Views
23 Pages

ILRS Reference Point Determination Using Close Range Photogrammetry

  • Michael Lösler,
  • Cornelia Eschelbach,
  • Thomas Klügel and
  • Stefan Riepl

20 March 2021

A global geodetic reference system (GGRS) is realized by physical points on the Earth’s surface and is referred to as a global geodetic reference frame (GGRF). The GGRF is derived by combining several space geodetic techniques, and the reference poin...

(This article belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,312 Views
20 Pages

An Effective Hybrid-Energy Framework for Grid Vulnerability Alleviation under Cyber-Stealthy Intrusions

  • Abdulaziz Almalaq,
  • Saleh Albadran,
  • Amer Alghadhban,
  • Tao Jin and
  • Mohamed A. Mohamed

19 July 2022

In recent years, the occurrence of cascading failures and blackouts arising from cyber intrusions in the underlying configuration of power systems has increasingly highlighted the need for effective power management that is able to handle this issue...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Reliability Modeling, Optimization and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
4,139 Views
24 Pages

A Cost-Efficient-Based Cooperative Allocation of Mining Devices and Renewable Resources Enhancing Blockchain Architecture

  • Mohamed A. Mohamed,
  • Seyedali Mirjalili,
  • Udaya Dampage,
  • Saleh H. Salmen and ,
  • Sami Al Obaid and
  • Andres Annuk
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 September 2021

The impressive furtherance of communication technologies has exhorted industrial companies to link-up these developments with their own abilities with the target of efficiency enhancement through smart supervision and control. With this in mind, the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Smart Grids and Microgrids: Operation, Control, Protection and Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,182 Views
15 Pages

24 April 2021

In this work, we present a novel scheme for nonlinear hyperspherical estimation using the von Mises–Fisher distribution. Deterministic sample sets with an isotropic layout are exploited for the efficient and informative representation of the underlyi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multisensor Fusion and Integration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,831 Views
17 Pages

24 July 2018

In most practical applications, the tracking process needs to update the data constantly. However, outliers may occur frequently in the process of sensors’ data collection and sending, which affects the performance of the system state estimate....

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,929 Views
24 Pages

22 May 2024

Interactions between mobile robots and human operators in common areas require a high level of safety, especially in terms of trajectory planning, obstacle avoidance and mutual cooperation. In this connection, the crossings of planned trajectories an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mobile Robots: Navigation, Control and Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
6,421 Views
25 Pages

27 May 2018

Strap-down inertial navigation system/celestial navigation system (SINS/CNS) integrated navigation is a high precision navigation technique for ballistic missiles. The traditional navigation method has a divergence in the position error. A deeply int...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor Fusion and Novel Technologies in Positioning and Navigation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,396 Views
11 Pages

Vehicle state, including location and motion information, plays an essential role on the Internet of Vehicles (IoV). Accurately obtaining the system state information is the premise of realizing precise control. However, the statistics of system proc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Communication, Computing and Control Technologies for Internet of Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,669 Views
20 Pages

An Improved Unscented Particle Filter Approach for Multi-Sensor Fusion Target Tracking

  • Junhai Luo,
  • Zhiyan Wang,
  • Yanping Chen,
  • Man Wu and
  • Yang Yang

30 November 2020

In this paper, a new approach of multi-sensor fusion algorithm based on the improved unscented particle filter (IUPF) and a new multi-sensor distributed fusion model are proposed. Additionally, we employ a novel multi-target tracking algorithm that c...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
102 Citations
8,967 Views
22 Pages

Multi-Sensor Optimal Data Fusion Based on the Adaptive Fading Unscented Kalman Filter

  • Bingbing Gao,
  • Gaoge Hu,
  • Shesheng Gao,
  • Yongmin Zhong and
  • Chengfan Gu

6 February 2018

This paper presents a new optimal data fusion methodology based on the adaptive fading unscented Kalman filter for multi-sensor nonlinear stochastic systems. This methodology has a two-level fusion structure: at the bottom level, an adaptive fading u...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Integrated Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
2,736 Views
15 Pages

12 December 2022

Aiming at the problem of measurement-information abnormal-error and nonlinear filtering in UWB navigation and positioning, an ultra wideband position algorithm based on a maximum cross-correlation entropy unscented Kalman filter is proposed. The algo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Navigation Control and Signal Processing Methods for Multiple Autonomous Unmanned Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,397 Views
27 Pages

19 May 2025

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is an effective method for estimating and correcting the pose of the mobile robot. However, a large amount of external noise and observed outliers in complex unknown environments often lead to a decrease i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,667 Views
18 Pages

29 September 2024

In recent years, the simplified computation of position and velocity changes in nonlinear systems using Lie groups and Lie algebra has been widely used in the study of robot localization systems. The unscented Kalman filter (UKF) can effectively deal...

(This article belongs to the Topic Multi-Sensor Integrated Navigation Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,785 Views
17 Pages

30 April 2022

An echelon-use lithium-ion battery (EULB) refers to a powered lithium-ion battery used in electric vehicles when the battery capacity is attenuated to less than 80% and greater than 20%. Aiming at the degradation of the performance of the EULB and th...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Engineering and Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,657 Views
17 Pages

In view of the fact that indoor positioning systems are usually affected by non-Gaussian noise in complex indoor environments, this paper tests the data in the actual scene and analyzes the distribution characteristics of noise, and proposes a new in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,809 Views
22 Pages

17 May 2024

Current orbit uncertainty propagation (OUP) and orbit determination (OD) methods suffer from drawbacks related to high computational burden, limiting their applications in deep space missions. To this end, this paper proposes a multivariate attention...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Spacecraft Attitude and Orbital Dynamics, Control, Trajectory Planning and Navigation)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,711 Views
25 Pages

Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle 3D-Model-Based Tracking for Autonomous Landing

  • Nuno Pessanha Santos,
  • Victor Lobo and
  • Alexandre Bernardino

30 March 2023

The vast increase in the available computational capability has allowed the application of Particle-Filter (PF)-based approaches for monocular 3D-model-based tracking. These filters depend on the computation of a likelihood function that is usually u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,693 Views
21 Pages

Near-Field Beamforming Algorithms for UAVs

  • Yinan Zhang,
  • Guangxue Wang,
  • Shirui Peng,
  • Yi Leng and ,
  • Guowen Yu and
  • Bingqie Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 July 2023

This study presents three distributed beamforming algorithms to address the challenges of positioning and signal phase errors in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) arrays that hinder effective beamforming. Firstly, the array’s received signal phase...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances in Array Signal Processing with Errors: Models, Algorithms and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,291 Views
29 Pages

25 November 2024

An Energy Hub (EH) is able to manage several types of energy at the same time by aggregating resources, storage devices, and responsive loads. Therefore, it is expected that energy efficiency is high. Hence, the optimal operation for smart EHs in ene...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,804 Views
17 Pages

16 April 2022

It is difficult to accurately extract the health index of non-stationary signals of rolling bearings under variable rotational speed, which also leads to greater prediction error for bearing degradation models with fixed parameters. For this reason,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning in Vibration and Acoustics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,479 Views
17 Pages

26 October 2021

To solve the problem that the ship’s strapdown inertial navigation system (SINS) alignment accuracy decreases with the increase of the nonlinear filtering state dimension under mooring conditions, a method based on Kalman filter (KF) and Adaptive sca...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)
  • Article
  • 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
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)

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