In April 2006, a terrain-relative navigation experiment successfully flew on a sounding rocket mission at White Sands Missile Range. The mission was designated by NASA/Wallops Flight Facility as 41.068 NT/Seybold (&qu...
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In April 2006, a terrain-relative navigation experiment successfully flew on a sounding rocket mission at White Sands Missile Range. The mission was designated by NASA/Wallops Flight Facility as 41.068 NT/Seybold ("41.068") and was flown as part of the New Millennium Program ST9 Terrain-Relative Guidance System (TRGS) Project's competitive Phase A effort. The TRN experiment had two objectives: 1) To demonstrate the viability of a navigation filter for precision landing that uses on-board IMU and descent image data to achieve position knowledge errors of less than 100m, validated with GPS data recorded during flight;and 2) To establish that commercial off-the-shelf cameras can be packaged sufficiently well to survive the sounding rocket launch environment. Both objectives were met. The 13 min flight provided a data set that was processed post-flight through the prototype algorithms to bring the ST9 TRGS Project to a technology readiness level of 4 in TRN. This paper describes the flight system development and operations of the TRN experiment on 41.068.
An efficient numerical technique for modeling biological tissues using the radiative transfer equation is presented. Time dependence of the transient radiative transfer equation is approximated using Laguerre expansio...
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An efficient numerical technique for modeling biological tissues using the radiative transfer equation is presented. Time dependence of the transient radiative transfer equation is approximated using Laguerre expansion. Azimuthal angle is discretized using the discrete ordinates method and the resulting set of ordinary differential equations is solved using the Runge-Kutta-Felhberg method.
Differential optical flow methods are widely used within the computer vision community. They are classified as being either local, as in the Lucas-Kanade method, or global, as in the Horn-Schunck technique. As the phy...
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Differential optical flow methods are widely used within the computer vision community. They are classified as being either local, as in the Lucas-Kanade method, or global, as in the Horn-Schunck technique. As the physical dynamics of an object is inherently coupled into the behavior of its image in the video stream, in this paper, we use such dynamic parameter information in calculating optical flow when tracking a moving object using a video stream. Indeed, we use a modified error function in the minimization that contains physical parameter information. Further, the refined estimates of optical flow is used for better estimation of the physical parameters of the object in the simultaneous estimation of optical flow and object state(SEOS).
There are many situations in which GPS is either unable to provide the desired level of accuracy or is unavailable, particular in urban or indoor environments. One alternative to GPS is to navigate using signals of op...
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There are many situations in which GPS is either unable to provide the desired level of accuracy or is unavailable, particular in urban or indoor environments. One alternative to GPS is to navigate using signals of opportunity (SoOP)-signals that are intended for purposes other than navigation. This paper describes the benefits and drawbacks of navigation using SoOP and identifies typical SoOP system configurations. Three different types of SoOP measurements are described, including ranging through signal strength, angle of arrival, and time-difference of arrival (TDOA) measurements. Positioning algorithms, ambiguity resolution issues, and measurement quality and geometry are also addressed.
In this paper we propose a method that identifies users at H.264 streaming using watermarking with fingerprints. The watermark can efficiently reduce the potential danger of forgery or alteration. Especially a biometr...
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In this paper we propose a method that identifies users at H.264 streaming using watermarking with fingerprints. The watermark can efficiently reduce the potential danger of forgery or alteration. Especially a biometric watermark has various advantages. Among entire biometric characteristics, the fingerprint is the most convenient and economical. In this paper we propose a novel fingerprint-based watermarking technique that can survive under very low bit-rate compression. The proposed algorithm consists of enhancement of a fingerprint image, watermark insertion using discrete wavelet transform. In this paper we also analyze H.264 compression pattern and its effects on watermarking. After restoring the damaged watermark sequence using various filters, the algorithm extracts the embedded watermark. The proposed algorithm can achieve robust watermark extraction against H.264 compressed videos.
A novel optical add-drop multiplexer using arrayed waveguide grating is proposed for optical transport networks. By use of circulators in the coupled fold-back paths between demultiplexed channels, we improve the loss...
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A novel optical add-drop multiplexer using arrayed waveguide grating is proposed for optical transport networks. By use of circulators in the coupled fold-back paths between demultiplexed channels, we improve the loss margin and crosstalk performances.
We describe the fabrication and characterization of photoconductors in which an ensemble of indium phosphide nanoneedles was utilized. DC electrical transport properties of the fabricated photoconductors were characte...
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A platform of the Internet-based teleoperation system with an omni-directional mobile robot which has a five DOFs robot arm is constructed. Remote control of the robot through the Internet is implemented. The system i...
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A platform of the Internet-based teleoperation system with an omni-directional mobile robot which has a five DOFs robot arm is constructed. Remote control of the robot through the Internet is implemented. The system is featured as low-cost and user interface friendly: remote users can control the robot through the Internet just by a client program in a general computer. The client computer can receive the live video and environment information measured by sensors. With the help of the remote video and the local simulation, users can easily communicate with the robot. Different modules are proposed and the implementation method of the system is presented. Related experiments are conducted to test the validity of the proposed system.
A working nonvolatile resistance memory cell with an oxide p-n diode is fabricated from p-type NiOx and n-type TiOx films grown at low temperatures. A p-n diode si a fundamental circuit element for thin-film electroni...
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A working nonvolatile resistance memory cell with an oxide p-n diode is fabricated from p-type NiOx and n-type TiOx films grown at low temperatures. A p-n diode si a fundamental circuit element for thin-film electronics, which is fabricated by epitaxial silicon. Oxide based p-n diodes are good candidates to provide solutions to the issues associated with Si-based diodes. The resistance of a Pt/NiO/Pt resistor structure changes with the oxygen content in an argon-oxygen gas mixture, in which the oxygen content is varied from 1 to 30% during deposition of the NiO layer by a reactive sputtering method. This diode structure provides a high rectifying ratio of 105 at ±3 V, useful for various applications including high-density nonvolatile memories with 3D stackable cross-point structures.
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