Global Positioning System (GPS) signal tracking algorithms have been developed using the concepts of Kalman filtering and smoothing. The goal is to improve phase estimation accuracy for non-real-time applications. A bit-grabber/software-receiver has been developed for the GPS L1 coarse/acquisition signal. The bit grabber down-converts, digitizes, and stores the raw RF signal. The software recei...

This paper presents a thorough study of the adaptive sliding mode technique with application to single-phase shunt active power filter APF . Based on the basic principle of single-phase shunt APF, the approximate dynamic model is derived. Amodel reference adaptive sliding mode control algorithm is proposed to implement the harmonic compensation for the single-phase shunt APF. Thismethodwill use...

Fast tracking and security are important factor for data transmission in wireless communication. Retrodirective antenna(RDA) is possible for the high-speed beam tracking without any priori location information. Therefore, RDA system is appropriate technology in wireless mobile communication. Also, it is possible to improve security by making direction toward the source. In this paper, we propos...

This paper presents the design and evaluation approach of a video camera-based system for tracking and evaluating acrobatic movements. The context of this study is human gesture recognition in trampoline competition performance. Our work builds a model of trampoline movement and conducts efficient real time tracking of the trampolinist in order to recognize and evaluate a competition routine. W...

In this paper, we derive tracking control laws for nonminimum phase nonlinear systems with both fast and slow, possibly unstable, zero dynamics. The fast zero dynamics arise from a perturbation of a nominal system. These fast zeros can be problematic in that they may be in the right half plane and may cause large magnitude tracking control inputs. In this paper, we combine the ideas from recent...

Recently, several researchers have studied a vector tracking loop, such as a vector delay lock loop (VDLL) and a vector frequency lock loop (VFLL), to obtain an improved tracking performance in GPS receiver [1~6]. The vector based tracking loop technique uses the correlation of each satellite signal and user dynamics. The receiver with the vector tracking loop can get enough total signal power ...

The practical implementation of the infinite-dimensional optimal estimation results presented in Part I of this series is considered. Several techniques are described in detail. Included among these is the so-called “assumed density” approximation technique. Finite-dimensional suboptimal filtering equations based on this method are derived for several of the phase-tracking/demodulation problems...

Performance of several carrier tracking loops are evaluated by the wideband data that mimic the real ionospheric scintillation. To accommodate the deficiency of the receiver’s oscillator, six-state dynamic model driven by Gaussian-distributed random samples is used to simulate the phase noise inherited by the imperfect crystal unit. Ionospheric scintillation is associated with the deep power fa...

A new ESPRIT-based algorithm is proposed to estimate the direction-of-arrival of an arbitrary degree polynomialphase signal with a single acoustic vector sensor. The proposed approach requires neither a priori knowledge of the polynomial-phase signal’s coefficients nor a priori knowledge of the polynomial-phase signal’s frequency-spectrum. A preprocessing technique is also proposed to incorpora...

Single or multi target tracking is one of the extensively studied areas in the field of computer vision. Object detection between successive frames a key step in tracking algorithm. This paper proposes a method which uses image correlation between two images for target detection in the consecutive frames. This Image tracking method focuses on a frequency domain based approach using two dimensio...