Novel priori‐knowledge‐free manoeuvring target‐tracking method

Manoeuvring highly redundant manipulators

A task based approach to the issue of redundant robots starts from the premise that there are obstacles that cannot be removed from the working area and which therefore must be avoided . This statement produces the requirement for a device with a certain degree of mobility , and stresses the need to ensure that the aim is twofold : reach the goal and avoid obstacles . But avoiding obstacles is ...

Coordinated UAV Manoeuvring Flight Formation

A methodology is presented for real-time control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in the absence of apriori knowledge of location of sites in an inhospitable flight territory. Our proposed hostile control methodology generates a sequence of waypoints to be pursued on the way to the target. Waypoints are continually computed with new information about the nature of changing threat. The Dijkstra...

On Finding Ranked Assignments With Application to Multi - TargetTracking

Within the target tracking community there is strong interest in computing a ranked set of assignments of measurements to targets. These k-best assignments are then used to determine good approximations to the data association problem. Much earlier work described algorithms which either had exponential worst case time or were not guaranteed to return the k-best assignments. Most recently, Danch...

Manoeuvring Assessment in Concept Ship Design

Aerial Manoeuvring Reflexes in Flightless Grasshoppers

Aerial locomotion of many insects involves jumping or dropping from elevated positions. Flight and aerobatic manoeuvring often follow locust jumps, while jumps from elevated positions can carry flightless grasshoppers several metres through the air. Leg postures and orientation movements associated with aerial locomotion have been studied in the flightless grasshopper, Barytettixpsolus (Cohn & ...