There are a variety of grand challenges for text extraction in scene videos by robots and users, e.g., heterogeneous background, varied text, nonuniform illumination, arbitrary motion and poor contrast. Most previous video text detection methods are investigated with local information, i.e., within individual frames, with limited performance. In this paper, we propose a unified tracking based t...

Aiming at the problem that the traditional control methods can’t satisfactorily complete the trajectory tracking task, so a multi point preview control method based on automobile driving is designed for the motion control of four-wheel drive omni-directional mobile robot. Lateral position error and curvature of each preview point are calculated based on the robot’s lateral position error model....

The connection of the tractor to the inactive trailer or motor vehicle causes a motion control problem when turning in the screw, forward or backward movements and high speeds. This is due to the inactive trailer being controlled by the tracking using a physical link that is not affected by the movement. Trailers usually take tracks under these conditions. This phenomenon is called Jack Knife. ...

This paper presents a trajectory tracking control method for nonholonomic mobile robot which is based only on kinematic model. A mobile robot trajectory tracking control method, based on terminal sliding mode control, with asymptotic stability is presented. Based on kinematic model of mobile robot, a terminal sliding mode control law for the angular velocity is proposed to reduce the tracking e...

This paper proposes a technique for planar trajectory following for an autonomous aerial robot. A trajectory is modeled as a planar spline. A behavior-based control system which stabilizes the robot and enforces trajectory following, has been implemented and tested on an autonomous helicopter. Results from two flight experiments are presented. The trajectory tracking error is on the order of th...

Fuzzy adaptive; Microgravity; Robustness; Space robot; Trajectory tracking control Abstract Space robot is assembled and tested in gravity environment, and completes on-orbit service (OOS) in microgravity environment. The kinematic and dynamic characteristic of the robot will change with the variations of gravity in different working condition. Fully considering the change of kinematic and dyna...

This paper proposes an adaptive control method for an underactuated overhead crane system. To improve the transferring efficiency and enhance the security of the crane system, the trolley is required to reach the desired position as fast as possible, while the swing of payload needs to be within an acceptable domain. To achieve these objectives, a novel twostep design strategy consisting of a t...

This paper provides a Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) on range, cross range, speed and heading tracking accuracy for a class of maneuvering target trajectories using nonlinear noisy range and bearing measurements when both the target and the sensor platform are moving. It is assumed that there are no missing or false measurements. This analysis is valid only for single target two-dimensional trac...

This paper develops a control methodology for morphing, which combines Machine Learning and Adaptive Dynamic Inversion Control. The morphing control function, which uses Reinforcement Learning, is integrated with the trajectory tracking function, which uses Structured Adaptive Model Inversion Control. Optimality is addressed by cost functions representing optimal shapes corresponding to specifi...

In recent years, underactuated nonlinear dynamic systems trajectory tracking, such as space robots and manipulators with structural flexibility, has become a major field of interest due to the complexity and high computational load of these systems. Hierarchical sliding mode control has been investigated recently for these systems; however, the instability phenomena will possibly occur, especia...