This paper provides a solution to the composite adaptive output feedback tracking control problem for robotic manipulators. The proposed controller utilizes an update law that is a composite of a gradient update law driven by the link position tracking error and a least squares update law driven by the prediction error. In order to remove the controller's dependence on link velocity measurement...

The existing third-order tracker known as α-β-γ filter has been used for target tracking and predicting for years. The filter can track the targets position and velocity, but not the acceleration. To extend its capability, a new fourth-order target tracker called α-β-γ-δ filter is proposed. The main objective of this study was to find the optimal set of filter parameters that leads to minimum p...

This paper compares traditional location management, which focuses on tracking mobile subscribers in the topology of a cellular network, with position management, which we define to be a set of functions for tracking mobile targets in terms of geographic positions as needed for LBSs. As the air interface is the most limited resource in a mobile network, location management has been optimized wi...

This paper presents a solution to the problem of global, output feedback, tracking control of uncertain robot manipulators. Specifically, a desired compensation adaptation law plus a nonlinear feedback term coupled to a dynamic nonlinear filter is designed to produce global asymptotic link position tracking while compensating for parametric uncertainty and requiring only link position measureme...

A pursuit-tracking task (PTT) and multielectrode recordings were used to investigate the spatiotemporal encoding of hand position and velocity in primate primary motor cortex (MI). Continuous tracking of a randomly moving visual stimulus provided a broad sample of velocity and position space, reduced statistical dependencies between kinematic variables, and minimized the nonstationarities that ...

Accurate lung tumor tracking in real time is a keystone to image-guided radiotherapy of lung cancers. Existing lung tumor tracking approaches can be roughly grouped into three categories: (1) deriving tumor position from external surrogates; (2) tracking implanted fiducial markers fluoroscopically or electromagnetically; (3) fluoroscopically tracking lung tumor without implanted fiducial marker...

In traditional GNSS receiver architectures, the receiver normally acquires the visible satellite signals and keeps tracking them throughout their availability. Although this approach is perfectly viable for reliable and accurate positioning in most applications, tracking all satellites in view throughout the receiver power-on duration results in a significant penalty on power consumption in bat...

Face expression recognition is useful for designing new interactive devices offering the possibility of new ways for human to interact with computer systems. In this paper we develop a facial expressions analysis and synthesis system. The analysis part of the system is based on the facial features extracted from facial feature points (FFP) in frontal image sequences. Selected facial feature poi...