Apparent reflectivity factors measured by a radar operating at an attenuating wavelength can be adequately predicted by using the reflectivity factors at horizontal and vertical polarizations measured at a non-attenua...
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Apparent reflectivity factors measured by a radar operating at an attenuating wavelength can be adequately predicted by using the reflectivity factors at horizontal and vertical polarizations measured at a non-attenuating wavelength. This capability is important for understanding effects of rainfall on both microwave communication systems and the operation of weather radars operating at attenuating wavelengths. This paper examines and tests this capability by using S-band dual polarization radar measurements to predict C-band radar reflectivity measurements of the same storm but from a different location. The predictions of C-band observations were obtained from disdrometer-derived relationships between S-band reflectivity factor Z/sub H/(10 cm) and differential reflectivity Z/sub DR/ measurements and C-band reflectivity factor Z/sub H/(5 cm) and specific attenuation A/sub H/. Apparent reflectivity factor measurements at C-band, derived from S-band measurements, compared very well with actual measurements in the same storm. The results support the use of the dual polarization radar technique for predicting scattering and attenuation effects of narrow beam microwave signals propagating through rain-filled media along paths other than that traversed by the radar.< >
We consider a worse case control oriented identification problem recently studied by several authors. This problem is one of the H∞ identification in the continuous time setting. We give a less conservative formulati...
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We consider a worse case control oriented identification problem recently studied by several authors. This problem is one of the H∞ identification in the continuous time setting. We give a less conservative formulation of this problem. The available apriori information consists of a lower bound on the relative stability of the plant, a frequency dependent upper bound on a certain gain associated with the plant, and an upper bound on the noise level. The available experimental information consists of a finite number of noisy plant point frequency response samples. The objective is to identify from the given apriori and experimental information an uncertain model that includes a stable nominal plant model and a bound on the modeling error measured in H∞ norm. Our main contributions include both a new identification algorithm and several new explicit lower and upper bounds on the identification error. The algorithm proposed belongs to the class of interpolatory algorithms which are known to possess a desirable optimality property under a certain criterion. The error bounds presented improve upon the previously available ones in both the aspects of providing a more accurate estimate of the identification error as well as establishing a faster convergence rate for the proposed algorithm.
The problem of distributed detection with consulting sensors in the presence of communication cost associated with any exchange of information (consultation) between sensors is considered. We consider a system of two ...
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The problem of distributed detection with consulting sensors in the presence of communication cost associated with any exchange of information (consultation) between sensors is considered. We consider a system of two sensors, S1 and S2, in which S1 is the primary sensor responsible for the final decision u0, while S2 is a consulting sensor capable of relaying its decision u2 to S1 when requested by S1. In the scenario that is considered, the final decision u0 is based either on the raw data available to S1 only, or it may, under certain request conditions, also take into account the decision u2 of sensor S2. Random and nonrandom request schemes are analyzed and numerical results are presented and compared for Gaussian and slow-fading Rayleigh channels. For each decision making scheme, an associated optimization problem is formulated whose solution is shown to satisfy certain a priori set design criteria that we consider essential for sensor fusion.
Knowledge of the distance between a robot and its surrounding environment is vital for any robotic system. The robot must obtain this information rapidly in order to plan and react in real-time. Our technique first su...
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We propose a new interprocessor communication network, named the Segmented Bus, for multiprocessor message passing computer architectures executing groups of processes with localized communication patterns and time va...
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An effective method for visual pattern recognition using morphological techniques is presented. It is shown that it can be successfully used for the recognition of deformed letters. The method extracts morphological i...
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The effectiveness of the ellipsoid representation for geometrical reasoning is demonstrated in the context of robotics. Specifically, a robot collision-detection problem that consists of computing a quantity that refl...
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The effectiveness of the ellipsoid representation for geometrical reasoning is demonstrated in the context of robotics. Specifically, a robot collision-detection problem that consists of computing a quantity that reflects, as a function of the geometrical data, the amount of clearance between the robot and its environment is discussed. The method consists of two algorithms. The first computes the optimal ellipsoid surrounding a convex polyhedron. The second computes an analytic formula for the free margin about one ellipsoid with respect to another, as a standard eigenvalue problem. An efficient incremental version of the latter algorithm is proposed. This system has been implemented, and preliminary simulation results are provided.< >
The design of binary hypothesis tests in the absence of any statistical information, based only on a set of available observations is studied. A Structured Adaptive Network (SAN) configuration for the design of such t...
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The design of binary hypothesis tests in the absence of any statistical information, based only on a set of available observations is studied. A Structured Adaptive Network (SAN) configuration for the design of such tests based on several criteria of optimality, is presented and certain key asymptotic properties of these criteria are established.
A method for model reference adaptive control (MRAC) with improved transient performance is introduced. It is shown that with this method the zero-state output error can be made arbitrarily small. For the linear syste...
A method for model reference adaptive control (MRAC) with improved transient performance is introduced. It is shown that with this method the zero-state output error can be made arbitrarily small. For the linear system case, the value of the high frequency gain, k/sub p/, of the plant does not have to be known a priori, i.e., some uncertainty on k/sub p/ is allowed. The structure of the proposed controller allows for existing convergence results such as exponential convergence of output and parameter errors in the presence of sufficiently rich reference inputs to remain valid. It is also shown that the proposed controller demonstrates improved robustness in the presence of bounded disturbances and/or modeled dynamics, as well as in the case in which adaptation is switched off.< >
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