The effects of odor exposure during the last 2 days of incubation and immediately after hatching on subsequent responses by chicks to that same scent were assessed. When tested with an orange-treated and an unscented container, chicks that had been previously exposed to orange odor more rapidly approached both containers than did control chicks and spent more time near them. In both conditions,...

In this paper, we propose techniques which make SLAM accurate and practical in dynamic outdoor environment. In order to achieve the objective, stable feature detection by a laser range finder and efficient data management are introduced. The stable feature detection is used to select static and characteristic landmarks, it is possible to estimate every position of landmark accurately in the dyn...

Many systems in the natural world exhibit chaos or non-linear behavior, the complexity of which is so great that they appear to be random. Identification of chaos in experimental data is essential for characterizing the system and for analyzing the predictability of the data under analysis. The Lyapunov exponents provide a quantitative measure of the sensitivity to initial conditions and are th...

The paper discusses an adaptive multiuser receiver for CDMA systems in which the scaled unscented filter (SUF) and the square root unscented filter (SURF) are used for joint estimation and tracking of the code delays and multipath coefficients of the received CDMA signals. The proposed channel estimators are more near-far resistant than the conventional extended Kalman filter (EKF) and present ...

One of the most important problems when designing controller is how to deal with all kinds of uncertainties, which, along with the high nonlinearities of most real systems, makes it difficult to guarantee the desired closed loop performance. Recently, nonlinear Kalman-class filter has been extensively researched and several well-known algorithms, including Extended Kalman Filter (EKF), Unscente...

In this paper, after defining pure proportional navigation guidance in the 3-dimensional state from a new point of view, range estimation for passive homing missiles isexplained. Modeling has been performed by using line of sight coordinates with a particulardefinition. To obtain convergent estimates of those state variables involved particularly inrange channel and unavailable from IR trackers...