微小型无人直升机建模与姿态控制

建立了微小型无人直升机数学模型,并采用误差预报法进行参数辨识,获得了较高精度的数学模型。应用H_∞回路成形鲁棒控制方法设计了微小型无人直升机姿态控制器,并进行了频域分析,开环控制系统的成型效果良好。在模型浮动20%条件下进行仿真,结果表明控制系统具有较强的鲁棒性。飞行试验获得了良好的控制效果,验证了建模与控制器设计方法的可行性和有效性。     

基于偏最小二乘分析的双模粒子滤波目标跟踪

针对在复杂背景下,基于主成分分析(PCA)的目标跟踪方法准确率较低的问题,使用偏最小二乘分析,提出一种双模粒子滤波的跟踪算法.首先采用偏最小二乘分析对目标区域建模,作为观测模型;然后利用仿射变换描述目标的形变过程,分别在李群及其切向量空间上建立双模的动态模型;最后结合特征空间更新策略,使用粒子滤波实现目标跟踪.实验表明,所提出的算法能够有效滤除背景噪声,跟踪结果稳定且准确.     

自适应门限GM-CPHD多目标跟踪算法

带有势估计的高斯混合概率假设密度滤波（GM-CPHD）作为一种杂 波环境下目标数可变的检测前跟踪方法,将复杂的多目标状态空间的运算转换为单目标状态 空间内的运算,有效避免了多目标跟踪中复杂的数据关联问题,但该方法的计算复杂度与观 测数的3次方成正比,在密集杂波情况下计算量十分巨大。针对该方法计算复杂度高的问题 ,提出利用一种最大似然自适应门限的快速算法,该算法首先利用自适应门限对观测进 行处理,然后仅利用处于门限内的有效观测进行GM-CPHD算法的更新步计算,大大降低了算 法的计算复杂度。实验结果证明,本文方法在有效降低计算复杂度的同时,在多目标跟踪效 果 方面与GM CPHD相当,优于GM-PHD滤波算法。     

小型尾坐式飞行器自适应SRUKF姿态算法

针对小型尾坐式飞行器姿态估计问题,设计了由陀螺、加速度计、磁强计组成的姿态测量系统。为了抑制MEMS陀螺漂移导致的姿态误差,以四元数为状态变量,以加速度计和磁强计的输出作为观测变量,建立了滤波模型。采用平方根无迹卡尔曼滤波(SRUKF)对传感器信息进行融合,保证了滤波算法的数值稳定性。由于小型尾坐式飞行器抗干扰能力弱,引入自适应算法,解决了量测信息受到干扰时滤波精度下降的问题,提高了系统的鲁棒性和可靠性。仿真结果表明,存在外界磁场干扰时,姿态误差小于1°。通过实际飞行实验,验证了算法的可行性。     

Dynamic output feedback control of a flexible air-breathing hypersonic vehicle via T–S fuzzy approach

By utilising Takagi–Sugeno (T–S) fuzzy set approach, this paper addresses the robust H_∞ dynamic output feedback control for the non-linear longitudinal model of flexible air-breathing hypersonic vehicles (FAHVs). The flight control of FAHVs is highly challenging due to the unique dynamic characteristics, and the intricate couplings between the engine and fight dynamics and external disturbance. Because of the dynamics’ enormous complexity, currently, only the longitudinal dynamics models of FAHVs have been used for controller design. In this work, T–S fuzzy modelling technique is utilised to approach the non-linear dynamics of FAHVs, then a fuzzy model is developed for the output tracking problem of FAHVs. The fuzzy model contains parameter uncertainties and disturbance, which can approach the non-linear dynamics of FAHVs more exactly. The flexible models of FAHVs are difficult to measure because of the complex dynamics and the strong couplings, thus a full-order dynamic output feedback controller is designed for the fuzzy model. A robust H_∞ controller is designed for the obtained closed-loop system. By utilising the Lyapunov functional approach, sufficient solvability conditions for such controllers are established in terms of linear matrix inequalities. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed T–S fuzzy dynamic output feedback control method is demonstrated by numerical simulations.     

3D soft-tissue tracking using spatial-color joint probability distribution and thin-plate spline model

Visual tracking techniques based on stereo endoscope are developed to measure tissue motion in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery. However, accurate 3D tracking of tissue surfaces remains challenging due to complicated deformation, poor imaging conditions, specular reflections and other dynamic effects during surgery. This study employs a robust and efficient 3D tracking scheme with two independent recursive processes, namely kernel-based inter-frame motion estimation and model-based intra-frame 3D matching. In the first process, target region is represented in joint spatial-color space for robust estimation. By defining a probabilistic similarity measure, a mean-shift-based iterative algorithm is derived for location of the target region in a new image. In the second process, the thin-plate spline model is used to fit the 3D shape of tissue surfaces around the target region. An iterative algorithm based on an efficient second-order minimization technique is derived to compute optimal model parameters. The two processes can be computed in parallel. Their outputs are combined to recover 3D information about the target region. The performance of the proposed method is validated using phantom heart videos and in vivo videos acquired by the daVinci^®${\mathrm{daVinci}}^{\circledR }$ surgical robotic platform and a synthesized data set with known ground truth.     

Discriminative multi-task objects tracking with active feature selection and drift correction

In this paper, we propose a discriminative multi-task objects tracking method with active feature selection and drift correction. The developed method formulates object tracking in a particle filter framework as multi-Task discriminative tracking. As opposed to generative methods that handle particles separately, the proposed method learns the representation of all the particles jointly and the corresponding coefficients are similar. The tracking algorithm starts from the active feature selection scheme, which adaptively chooses suitable number of discriminative features from the tracked target and background in the dynamic environment. Based on the selected feature space, the discriminative dictionary is constructed and updated dynamically. Only a few of them are used to represent all the particles at each frame. In other words, all the particles share the same dictionary templates and their representations are obtained jointly by discriminative multi-task learning. The particle that has the highest similarity with the dictionary templates is selected as the next tracked target state. This jointly sparsity and discriminative learning can exploit the relationship between particles and improve tracking performance. To alleviate the visual drift problem encountered in object tracking, a two-stage particle filtering algorithm is proposed to complete drift correction and exploit both the ground truth information of the first frame and observations obtained online from the current frame. Experimental evaluations on challenging sequences demonstrate the effectiveness, accuracy and robustness of the proposed tracker in comparison with state-of-the-art algorithms.     

Gravity optimised particle filter for hand tracking

This paper presents a gravity optimised particle filter (GOPF) where the magnitude of the gravitational force for every particle is proportional to its weight. GOPF attracts nearby particles and replicates new particles as if moving the particles towards the peak of the likelihood distribution, improving the sampling efficiency. GOPF is incorporated into a technique for hand features tracking. A fast approach to hand features detection and labelling using convexity defects is also presented. Experimental results show that GOPF outperforms the standard particle filter and its variants, as well as state-of-the-art CamShift guided particle filter using a significantly reduced number of particles.     

Decreasing the Sampling Time Interval in Radioactive Particle Tracking

The study of the movement of solids in multiphase reactors using radioactive particle tracking is currently limited to fairly modest particle velocities because of count‐rate limitations of the detection system. In this work, this restriction was overcome by increasing the activity of the radioactive tracer, by decreasing the sampling time interval and by modifying the particle tracking software to recognize which detectors were saturated and to use only the data from the remaining unsaturated detectors. Higher tracer activity resulted in lower standard deviation of the calculated tracer coordinates.     

Real-time facial animation on mobile devices

We present a performance-based facial animation system capable of running on mobile devices at real-time frame rates. A key component of our system is a novel regression algorithm that accurately infers the facial motion parameters from 2D video frames of an ordinary web camera. Compared with the state-of-the-art facial shape regression algorithm [1], which takes a two-step procedure to track facial animations (i.e., first regressing the 3D positions of facial landmarks, and then computing the head poses and expression coefficients), we directly regress the head poses and expression coefficients. This one-step approach greatly reduces the dimension of the regression target and significantly improves the tracking performance while preserving the tracking accuracy. We further propose to collect the training images of the user under different lighting environments, and make use of the data to learn a user-specific regressor, which can robustly handle lighting changes that frequently occur when using mobile devices.