Abstract: This paper presents an application of nonlinear filtering techniques for the tracking control design of tracked mobile robot under slip condition. The slip is represented only by the longitudinal wheels slip that is described by just an unknown parameter. The extended Kalman filter (EKF), the unscented Kalman filter (UKF) and the particle filter (PF) are used to estimate the states of...

This paper is motivated by the goal of a visual perception system for the RoboCup 2050 challenge to win against the human worldcup champion. Its contribution is to answer two questions on the subproblem of predicting the motion of a flying ball. First, if we could detect the ball in images, is that enough information to predict its motion precise enough? And second, how much do we lose by using...

In order to overcome the limitation of the traditional adaptive Unscented Kalman Filtering (UKF) algorithm in noise covariance estimation for statement and measurement, we propose a hybrid adaptive UKF algorithm based on combining Maximum a posteriori (MAP) criterion and Maximum likelihood (ML) criterion, in this paper. First, to prevent the actual noise covariance deviating from the true value...

Multi-sensor sonar tracking has many advantages, such as the potential to reduce the overall measurement uncertainty and the possibility to hide the receiver. However, the use of multi-target multi-sensor sonar tracking is challenging because of the complexity of the underwater environment, especially the low target detection probability and extremely large number of false alarms caused by reve...

STUKF (Strong tracking UKF) algorithm uses the time-varying fading factor to fade the past data and reduce the impact on current filter value, thus achieves the goal of adjusting the filter gain matrix in real time. But STUKF algorithm needs three UT for each filtering, and compared with the UKF filter, calculating amount of three UT increases seriously, and it is not conducive to application o...

An improved state estimation technique for bioprocess control applications is proposed where a hybrid version of the Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) is employed. The underlying dynamic system model is formulated as a conventional system of ordinary differential equations based on the mass balances of the state variables biomass, substrate, and product, while the observation model, describing the ...

A novel adaptive unscented Kalman filter (AUKF) based estimation algorithm is proposed for a 3U Cubsat. This small satellite employs a three axis magnetometer and three MEMS gyroscopes as well as three magnetic torque rods and one reaction wheel on the pitch axis. Unlike the existing UKF, in this paper, an n+1 sigma set is used to estimate the nanosatellite attitude instead of 2n + 1 sigma poin...

This brief technical note elaborates three well-known state estimators, which are used extensively in practice. These are the rather old-fashioned extended Kalman filter (EKF) and the recently-designed cubature Kalman filtering (CKF) and un-scented Kalman filtering (UKF) algorithms. Nowadays, it is commonly accepted that the contemporary techniques outperform always the traditional EKF in the a...

This paper presents a novel and cost effective method to be used in the optimization of the Gaussian Frequency Shift Keying (GFSK) at the receiver of the Bluetooth communication system. The proposed method enhances the performance of the noncoherent demodulation schemes by improving the Bit Error Rate (BER) and Frame Error Rate (FER) outcomes. Linear, Extended, and Unscented Kalman Filters are ...

We introduce a generalization of monotonicity. An n-vertex polygon P is rotationally monotone with respect to a point r if there exists a partitioning of the boundary of P into exactly two polygonal chains, such that one chain can be rotated clockwise around r and the other chain can be rotated counterclockwise around r with neither chain intersecting the interior of the polygon. We present the...