Conditions for stability of the extended Kalman filter and their application to the frequency tracking problem

The error dynamics of the extended Kalman filter (EKF), employed as an observer for a general nonlinear, stochastic discrete time system, are analyzed. Sufficient conditions for the boundedness of the errors of the EKF are determined. An expression for the bound on the errors is given in terms of the size of the nonlinearities of the system and the error covariance matrices used in the design of the EKF. The results are applied to the design of a stable EKF frequency tracker for a signal with time-varying frequency.This research was supported by the Co-operative Research Centre for Robust and Adaptive Systems ((CR)² ASys). The authors wish to acknowledge the funding of the activities of (CR)² ASys by the Australian Commonwealth Government under the Co-operative Research Centre Program.     

套管开窗侧钻技术在吐哈老井改造中的应用

从侧钻井层、开窗工艺、井身剖面的优选和井眼轨迹控制、固井措施优化等方面，详细总结了套管开窗定向侧钻技术在吐哈油田老井改造中应用的经验，系统地描述了该技术应用的地质条件和工程要素，提出了吐哈侧钻井层优选的量化指标和固井质量的优化措施。近两年，该技术在老井治理、开采难动用储量、提高采收率、降低开发钻井成本等方面展现出广阔的前景。     

基于边缘吸引力场正则化的短程线主动轮廓模型

短程线主动轮廓模型是近几年提出的一种有效的多目标轮廓提取算法 .本文在详细分析其动力学过程的基础上 ,针对该模型中存在的局限性和不足 ,提出对边缘吸引力场进行正则化的方法 ,并采用多尺度模型 ,有效的改善了该模型不能对存在断裂轮廓的目标进行正确提取和凹边缘搜索能力弱的缺点 ,增强了抗噪声和虚假边缘干扰的能力 ,使该算法具有更好的鲁棒性和实用性 .     

公差-成本稳健性分析研究

 根据稳健设计的思想，提出了一种成本稳健性分析方法，以此来获得影响成本值及其稳健性的关键因素．首先研究了公差设计中成本模型的误差因素(不同的模型和模型参数的误差)，然后应用试验设计方法分析了这两类因素对成本最小值及其稳健性的影响，最后通过实例验证了本方法．     

Learning-based dynamic coupling of discrete and continuous trackers

We present a data-driven dynamic coupling between discrete and continuous methods for tracking objects of high dofs, which overcomes the limitations of previous techniques. In our approach, two trackers work in parallel, and the coupling between them is based on the tracking error. We use a model-based continuous method to achieve accurate results and, in cases of failure, we re-initialize the model using our discrete tracker. This method maintains the accuracy of a more tightly coupled system, while increasing its efficiency. At any given frame, our discrete tracker uses the current and several previous frames to search into a database for the best matching solution. For improved robustness, object configuration sequences, rather than single configurations, are stored in the database. We apply our framework to the problem of 3D hand tracking from image sequences and the discrimination between fingerspelling and continuous signs in American Sign Language.     

一种基于稳健匹配准则的视频文本跟踪方法

本文首先根据文本中各个字符的颜色相似的特性,确定已知文本块的文本的颜色,利用文本的颜色信息二值化文本图像以得到文本块中的字符数、字符的尺寸和间距;其次,根据视频图像的大小和视频的播放速度确定搜索窗口的大小,并利用文本的运动信息来预测搜索窗口的位置;第三,根据在相邻两帧中具有相同内容文本的颜色相似的特性,提出了一个可以解决脉冲噪声和部分缺损或遮挡问题的稳健匹配准则来跟踪文本块;最后,确定跟踪输出的文本的颜色、尺寸和运动方式。本文方法可以很好地跟踪平移、缩小或放大、旋转、淡入淡出和部分被遮挡的水平或倾斜排列的文本,并且可以记录文本平移、旋转和缩放的速度。     

Investigations of surface characterization of silicone rubber due to tracking phenomena under a.c. and d.c. voltages

In the present work, tracking phenomena has been studied with silicone rubber material under the a.c. and d.c. voltages following IEC-587 standards. The surface condition of the tracked zone was analysed using wide angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD) and thermogravimetric differential thermal analysis (TG-DTA) studies. The tracking time was different for a.c. and d.c. voltages.     

空间机器人姿态与末端抓手协调运动的鲁棒自适应控制

本文讨论了载体姿态受控、位置不受控制的漂浮基空间机器人协调运动的控制问题。借助于虚拟扩展系统的输入与输出,得到了一组关于惯性参数呈线性函数关系的系统控制方程。以此为基础,针对空间机器人系统中不确定参数与未知参数并存的复杂情况,设计了载体姿态与末端抓手惯性空间轨迹协调运动的鲁棒自适应控制方案。利用两杆空间机器人系统进行了系统仿真运算,仿真结果证实了上述控制方案的有效性。由于对系统待估计参数作了分类,并充分利用系统信息对系统不确定参数采用保持鲁棒性而不是在线估计的方法,提到的控制方案具有计算量小的优点,有助于缓解机载计算机运算能力有限的矛盾。     

Stable redesign of predictive control

The paper deals with I/O versions of receding horizon controllers based on the minimization of multistep quadratic costs with the constraint that the terminal state goes to zero. The resulting control law yields stable closed-loop systems under sharp conditions. Simulation results are presented to both verify the theoretical analysis and relate the new control law with GPC     

Minimum switching control for adaptive tracking

The switching adaptive control method has been used for quite a few years to solve the adaptive stabilization and model reference adaptive control problems. However, a serious problem with the switching control method is that the number of ‘candidate’ controllers can potentially be very large, especially for multi‐input–multi‐output systems. In this paper, we consider a class of minimum‐phase multi‐input–multi‐output plants with some mild compactness assumptions. Given any polynomial reference input, we provide a switching control law which guarantees exponentially stability of the closed‐loop system with exponential tracking performance. The main contribution of the paper is that we give the minimum number of candidate controllers required for switching. In particular, the number is equal to 2 for single‐input–single‐output plants (one for each sign of the high‐frequency gain), and is equal to 2^m for m‐input–m‐output plants. That is, the number is independent of the degree and the relative degree of the plant. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.