In a visual driver-assistance system, road sign detection and tracking is one of the major tasks. This study describes an approach to detecting and tracking road signs appearing in complex traffic scenes. In the detecting phase, two neural networks are developed to extract color and shape features of traffic signs, respectively, from the input scene images. Traffic signs are then located in the...

the aim is to build a controller such that y ( t ) tracks any prescribed reference trajectory y,(t). To avoid ambiguities in the sequel, we call (1) the input-state (IS) system (i.e. without a defined output), (2) the tracking output, and (1)(2) the input-output (Io) system. When the IO system is minimum phase, the tracking problem is easily solved (at least locally) by IO linearization (see e....

We recorded human auditory cortical activity during the perception of long, changing acoustic signals and analyzed information provided by dynamic neural population measures over a large range of time intervals (approximately 24 ms-5 s). Participants listened to musical scales that were amplitude modulated at a rate of 41.5 Hz, generating an ongoing, stimulus-related oscillatory brain signal, t...

In the most application of nozzle with gas-liquid two-phase flow, the quality of mixture in exhaust of nozzle is the most important parameter as well as the flow velocity. On the other hand, in some industrial application, such as water injection in forced induction (turbocharged or supercharged) internal combustion engine the spray quality is the main goal of designing. In this case and for im...

Fringe tracking in interferometers is typically analyzed with the implicit assumption that there is a single phase associated with each telescope in the array. If the telescopes have apertures significantly larger than r0 and only partial adaptive optics correction, then the phase measured by a fringe sensor may differ significantly from the “piston” component of the aperture phase. In some cas...

This paper studies optimal tracking performance issues pertaining to finite-dimensional, linear, time-invariant feedback control systems. The problem under consideration amounts to determining the minimal tracking error between the output slid reference signals of a feedback system, attainable by all possible stabilizing compensators. An integral square error criterion is used as a measure for ...

This paper proposes a novel architecture for ultra-tight integration of a High Sensitivity Global Positioning System (HSGPS) receiver with an Inertial Navigation System (INS), to address the issue of GPS tracking and positioning in degraded signal environments. By enhancing signal tracking loops in receivers through the use of optimal controllers/estimators and aiding from external source such ...

A novel robust control law with finite time convergence for rigid robotic manipulators is proposed in this paper. The whole control process is divided into two phases, i.e., the error correction phase and the steady tracking phase. Firstly, a novel time-varying sliding mode control (TVSMC) method is developed in the first phase to ensure the tracking error converge to zero at the desired time. ...