Three-dimensional (3-D) speckle tracking echocardiography allows us to track a change in regional endocardial surface area. The change of regional area during a cardiac cycle should be useful for assessing left ventricular regional work. We investigated the feasibility of assessing regional work, calculated as the area within the wall tension-regional area (T-A) loop using 3-D echocardiography....

In this paper, we aimed to achieve the indoor tracking control of a two-wheeled inverted pendulum (TWIP) vehicle. The attitude data are acquired from a low cost micro inertial measurement unit (IMU), and the ultra-wideband (UWB) technology is utilized to obtain an accurate estimation of the TWIP's position. We propose a dual-loop control method to realize the simultaneous balance and trajectory...

The challenging control problem of the cable driven redundant manipulators is due to the complexity of its dynamic and the required stringent performance for the its promising applications. This paper presents an approach to the control of the KNTU CDRPM using an adaptive cascade control scheme. The goal in this approach is achieving accurate trajectory tracking while assuring positive tension ...

Design considerations for a heterodyne spatial tracking system utilizing pupil plane processing techniques and its advantages over traditional focal plane processing are described. Noise performance bounds, optimal and suboptimal local oscillator distributions, pull-in performance, and applications other than spatial tracking are discussed. Experimental verification of a one-axis closed-loop tr...

The GPS modernization program deploys new generations of satellites designated Block IIR-M, Block IIF and Block III-A, equipped to transmit multiple civil signals. The coexistence of multiple civilian signals in a GPS receiver has been a focus in recent research activities. In the literature to date, correlator outputs of individual channels are combined in ways either to increase the power ava...

The integrated GPS/INS/PL system, with complementary characteristics to overcome the shortcomings of each individual part, can be achieved at different levels, namely loosely, tightly or ultra-tightly coupled. The next generation of integrated GPS/INS/PL navigation systems will be based on the ultra-tight coupled method. Ultratight coupled system offers numerous advantages, such as improved hig...