This work addresses the problem of trajectory planning and control for a team of drones, so that a vehicle that is following a target as part of a multi-vehicle formation flight can be safely replaced with minimum imp...
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This work addresses the problem of trajectory planning and control for a team of drones, so that a vehicle that is following a target as part of a multi-vehicle formation flight can be safely replaced with minimum impact on the formation objectives. An optimal trajectory generation method is presented, which relies on formulating a nonlinear optimization problem with constraints imposed by the physical limitations of the vehicle, the formation, and the surrounding environment, including nonlinear constraints to enforce inter-vehicle collision avoidance and clear visibility of the target. An online planning and control strategy is also implemented through a Nonlinear Model Predictive Control problem, based on the dynamic model of the system, a quadratic objective function, and a set of constraints, that again include collision avoidance and clear visibility. The proposed algorithms are validated in software-in-the-loop simulations that include the autopilot software.
The detection of retinal vessel is of great importance in the diagnosis and treatment of many ocular diseases. Many methods have been proposed for vessel detection. However, most of the algorithms neglect the connecti...
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RF chain circuits play a major role in digital receiver architectures, allowing passband communication signals to be processed in baseband. When operating at high frequencies, these circuits tend to be costly. This in...
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This article describes a Kernel Principal Component Regressor (KPCR) to identify Auto Regressive eXogenous (ARX) Linear Parmeter Varying (LPV) models. The new method differs from the Least Squares Support Vector Machi...
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This article describes a Kernel Principal Component Regressor (KPCR) to identify Auto Regressive eXogenous (ARX) Linear Parmeter Varying (LPV) models. The new method differs from the Least Squares Support Vector Machines (LS-SVM) algorithm in the regularisa-tion of the Least Squares (LS) problem, since the KPCR only keeps the principal components of the Gram matrix while LS-SVM performs the inversion of the same matrix after adding a regularisation factor. Also, in this new approach, the LS problem is formulated in the primal space but it ends up being solved in the dual space overcoming the fact that the regressors are unknown. The method is assessed and compared to the LS-SVM approach through 2 Monte Carlo (MC) experiments. Every experiment consists of 100 runs of a simulated example, and a different noise level is used in each experiment, with Signal to Noise Ratios of 20db and 10db, respectively. The obtained results are twofold, first the performance of the new method is comparable to the LS-SVM, for both noise levels, although the required calculations are much faster for the KPCR. Second, this new method reduces the dimension of the primal space and may convey a way of knowing the number of basis functions required in the Kernel. Furthermore, having a structure very similar to LS-SVM makes it possible to use this method in other types of models, e.g. the LPV state-space model identification.
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Dutt, NikilRegazzoni, Carlo S.Rinner, BernhardYao, XinNikil Dutt (Fellow
IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Champaign IL USA in 1989.""He is currently a Distinguished Professor of computer science (CS) cognitive sciences and electrical engineering and computer sciences (EECS) with the University of California at Irvine Irvine CA USA. He is a coauthor of seven books. His research interests include embedded systems electronic design automation (EDA) computer architecture distributed systems healthcare Internet of Things (IoT) and brain-inspired architectures and computing.""Dr. Dutt is a Fellow of ACM. He was a recipient of the IFIP Silver Core Award. He has received numerous best paper awards. He serves as the Steering Committee Chair of the IEEE/ACM Embedded Systems Week (ESWEEK). He is also on the steering organizing and program committees of several premier EDA and embedded system design conferences and workshops. He has served on the Editorial Boards for the IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems and the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems and also previously served as the Editor-in-Chief (EiC) for the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems. He served on the Advisory Boards of the IEEE Embedded Systems Letters the ACM Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems the ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automationt and the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems. Carlo S. Regazzoni (Senior Member
IEEE) received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic and telecommunications engineering from the University of Genoa Genoa Italy in 1987 and 1992 respectively.""He is currently a Full Professor of cognitive telecommunications systems with the Department of Electrical Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering and Naval Architecture (DITEN) University of Genoa and a Co-Ordinator of the Joint Doctorate on Interactive and Cognitive Environments (JDICE) international Ph.D. course started initially as EU Erasmus Mundus Project and
Autonomous systems are able to make decisions and potentially take actions without direct human intervention, which requires some knowledge about the system and its environment as well as goal-oriented reasoning. In c...
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Autonomous systems are able to make decisions and potentially take actions without direct human intervention, which requires some knowledge about the system and its environment as well as goal-oriented reasoning. In computersystems, one can derive such behavior from the concept of a rational agent with autonomy (“control over its own actions”), reactivity (“react to events from the environment”), proactivity (“act on its own initiative”), and sociality (“interact with other agents”) as fundamental properties \n[1]\n. Autonomous systems will undoubtedly pervade into our everyday lives, and we will find them in a variety of domains and applications including robotics, transportation, health care, communications, and entertainment to name a few. \nThe articles in this month’s special issue cover concepts and fundamentals, architectures and techniques, and applications and case studies in the exciting area of self-awareness in autonomous systems.
While the importance of automatic image analysis is continuously increasing, recent meta-research revealed major flaws with respect to algorithm validation. Performance metrics are particularly key for meaningful, obj...
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We present a detailed set of performance comparisons of two state-of-the-art solvers for the application of designing time-delay compensators, an important problem in the field of robust control. Formulating such robu...
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This chapter presents an overview of algorithms deeply rooted in a sensor-based approach to the SLAM problem that provide global convergence guarantees and allow for the use of partially observable landmarks. The pres...
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Prior to the deep learning era, shape was commonly used to describe the objects. Nowadays, state-of-the-art (SOTA) algorithms in medical imaging are predominantly diverging from computer vision, where voxel grids, mes...
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