未知输入和可测噪声重构之线性矩阵不等式非线性系统观测器设计

针对一类同时具有未知输入和输出可测噪声的Lipschitz非线性系统,讨论了状态估计、未知输入与可测噪声重构的问题.首先,基于广义系统和线性矩阵不等式的方法设计滑模未知输入观测器,不仅对原系统状态进行渐近估计,而且实现了对系统输出可测噪声的重构;其次,考虑一种鲁棒滑模微分器,实现了广义系统输出向量微分的精确估计,并在此基础上,提出了一种未知信息重构方法,该方法具有避免直接使用系统输出微分信息的优点.最后,对火车牵引拖动系统模型仿真,结果表明该方法不但能够实现对系统状态的估计,而且可以有效重构未知信息.     

不同重力环境的空间机械臂自抗扰轨迹跟踪控制

针对空间机械臂在地面装调与空间应用时,由于重力环境变化导致机械臂模型发生变化的问题,提出了一种自抗扰控制算法,用于完成空间机械臂轨迹跟踪控制的任务.该算法通过将系统模型及未知外扰作为系统的总和扰动,并利用扩张状态观测器对该扰动进行观测且给予补偿,从而提高了系统抗扰的性能.当机械臂模型随重力环境变化而发生变化时,使用同一个自抗扰控制器对其末端轨迹进行控制,均能取得较好的控制效果.通过对系统的稳定性进行分析,证明了所设计控制器的有效性.将仿真结果与PD控制及自适应鲁棒控制做比较,结果表明该控制算法不仅能适应机械臂模型的变化而且还能有效抵抗系统的扰动,从而使系统具有较强的鲁棒性.     

一种基于FPGA的实时视频跟踪系统硬件平台设计

提出一种基于FPGA的视频跟踪系统硬件平台的设计方法,包括主控芯片、CMOS图像采集、多端口SDRAM控制器、图像VGA显示、SOPC系统和云台控制驱动等电路的设计。通过该平台,可以实现实时图像采集、缓存、显示和云台驱动;在SOPC系统中加入代码,可以实现运动目标的检测、跟踪、定位,改变云台转动方向,实现自主跟踪。     

基于Hamiltonian马氏链蒙特卡罗方法的突变运动跟踪

在计算机视觉领域,由镜头切换、目标动力学突变、低帧率视频等引起的突变运动存在极大的不确定性,使得突变运动跟踪成为该领域的挑战性课题.以贝叶斯滤波框架为基础,提出一种基于有序超松弛Hamiltonian马氏链蒙特卡罗方法的突变运动跟踪算法.该算法将Hamiltonian动力学融入MCMC（Markov chain Monte Carlo）算法,目标状态被扩张为原始目标状态变量与一个动量项的组合.在提议阶段,为抑制由Gibbs采样带来的随机游动行为,提出采用有序超松弛迭代方法来抽取目标动量项.同时,提出自适应步长的Hamiltonian动力学实现方法,在跟踪过程中自适应地调整步长,以减少模拟误差.提出的跟踪算法可以避免传统的基于随机游动的MCMC跟踪算法所存在的局部最优问题,提高了跟踪的准确性而不需要额外的计算时间.实验结果表明,该算法在处理多种类型的突变运动时表现出出色的处理能力.     

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。     

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.