Dear Editor,This letter deals with the autonomous underwater vehicle(AUV)three dimensional(3D)trajectory tracking control chronically suffering from poor accuracy and efficiency in complex hydrodynamics.A state-of-the...Dear Editor,This letter deals with the autonomous underwater vehicle(AUV)three dimensional(3D)trajectory tracking control chronically suffering from poor accuracy and efficiency in complex hydrodynamics.A state-of-the-art predictive adaptive controller(PAC)is proposed with a distinct dual closed-loop structure.展开更多
Multiple Object Tracking(MOT)is essential for applications such as autonomous driving,surveillance,and analytics;However,challenges such as occlusion,low-resolution imaging,and identity switches remain persistent.We p...Multiple Object Tracking(MOT)is essential for applications such as autonomous driving,surveillance,and analytics;However,challenges such as occlusion,low-resolution imaging,and identity switches remain persistent.We propose HAMOT,a hierarchical adaptive multi-object tracker that solves these challenges with a novel,unified framework.Unlike previous methods that rely on isolated components,HAMOT incorporates a Swin Transformer-based Adaptive Enhancement(STAE)module—comprising Scene-Adaptive Transformer Enhancement and Confidence-Adaptive Feature Refinement—to improve detection under low-visibility conditions.The hierarchical DynamicGraphNeuralNetworkwith TemporalAttention(DGNN-TA)models both short-and long-termassociations,and the Adaptive Unscented Kalman Filter with Gated Recurrent Unit(AUKF-GRU)ensures accurate motion prediction.The novel Graph-Based Density-Aware Clustering(GDAC)improves occlusion recovery by adapting to scene density,preserving identity integrity.This integrated approach enables adaptive responses to complex visual scenarios,Achieving exceptional performance across all evaluation metrics,including aHigher Order TrackingAccuracy(HOTA)of 67.05%,a Multiple Object Tracking Accuracy(MOTA)of 82.4%,an ID F1 Score(IDF1)of 83.1%,and a total of 1052 Identity Switches(IDSW)on theMOT17;66.61%HOTA,78.3%MOTA,82.1%IDF1,and a total of 748 IDSWonMOT20;and 66.4%HOTA,92.32%MOTA,and 68.96%IDF1 on DanceTrack.With fixed thresholds,the full HAMOT model(all six components)achieves real-time functionality at 24 FPS on MOT17 using RTX3090,ensuring robustness and scalability for real-world MOT applications.展开更多
The publisher regrets that the Appendix A.Supplementary data was not updated as per author and editor’s request.The publisher would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.
The accurate assessment of cardiac motion is crucial for diagnosing and monitoring cardiovascular diseases.In this context,digital volume correlation(DVC)has emerged as a promising technique for tracking cardiac motio...The accurate assessment of cardiac motion is crucial for diagnosing and monitoring cardiovascular diseases.In this context,digital volume correlation(DVC)has emerged as a promising technique for tracking cardiac motion from cardiac computed tomography angiographic(CTA)images.This paper presents a comprehensive performance evaluation of the DVC method,specifically focusing on tracking the motion of the left atrium using cardiac CTA data.The study employed a comparative experimental approach while simultaneously optimizing the existing DVC algorithm.Multiple sets of controlled experiments were designed to conduct quantitative analyses on the parameters“radius”and“step”.The results revealed that the optimized DVC algorithm enhanced tracking accuracy within a reasonable computational time.These findings contributed to the understanding of the efficacy and limitations of the DVC algorithm in analyzing heart deformation.展开更多
The migratory nature of avian species is well known not only to researchers but also to the general public,becoming engrained in cultural traditions and even children's fairy tales.However,our understanding of the...The migratory nature of avian species is well known not only to researchers but also to the general public,becoming engrained in cultural traditions and even children's fairy tales.However,our understanding of these charismatic behaviors made great strides in the 1990s with the advent of small,light-weighted satellite transmitters capable of longterm tracking(Argos,2016).The emergence of this new technology made it possible to track a broader range of species at higher resolution than ever before.In turn,this data enabled detailed understanding of individual avian behavior and habitats,including transboundary migration routes.展开更多
This article investigates the robust current tracking control problem of three-phase grid-connected inverters with LCL filter under external disturbance by a dynamic state feedback control method.First,this paper cons...This article investigates the robust current tracking control problem of three-phase grid-connected inverters with LCL filter under external disturbance by a dynamic state feedback control method.First,this paper constructs an internal model to learn the information of the states and input of the grid-connected inverter under steady state.Second,by utilizing the internal model principle,the paper turns the tracking control problem into the robust stabilization control problem based on some appropriate coordinate transformations.Then,The paper designs a dynamics state feedback control law to deal with this robust stabilization problem,and thus the solution of the robust current tracking control problem of three-phase grid-connected inverters can be obtained.This control method can ensure the asymptotic stability of the closedloop system.Finally,the paper illustrates the effectiveness of the proposed control approach through several groups of simulations,and compares it with the feedforward control method to verify the robustness of the proposed control method to uncertain parameters.展开更多
To improve small object detection and trajectory estimation from an aerial moving perspective,we propose the Aerial View Attention-PRB(AVA-PRB)model.AVA-PRB integrates two attention mechanisms—Coordinate Attention(CA...To improve small object detection and trajectory estimation from an aerial moving perspective,we propose the Aerial View Attention-PRB(AVA-PRB)model.AVA-PRB integrates two attention mechanisms—Coordinate Attention(CA)and the Convolutional Block Attention Module(CBAM)—to enhance detection accuracy.Additionally,Shape-IoU is employed as the loss function to refine localization precision.Our model further incorporates an adaptive feature fusion mechanism,which optimizes multi-scale object representation,ensuring robust tracking in complex aerial environments.We evaluate the performance of AVA-PRB on two benchmark datasets:Aerial Person Detection and VisDrone2019-Det.The model achieves 60.9%mAP@0.5 on the Aerial Person Detection dataset,and 51.2%mAP@0.5 on VisDrone2019-Det,demonstrating its effectiveness in aerial object detection.Beyond detection,we propose a novel trajectory estimation method that improves movement path prediction under aerial motion.Experimental results indicate that our approach reduces path deviation by up to 64%,effectively mitigating errors caused by rapid camera movements and background variations.By optimizing feature extraction and enhancing spatialtemporal coherence,our method significantly improves object tracking under aerial moving perspectives.This research addresses the limitations of fixed-camera tracking,enhancing flexibility and accuracy in aerial tracking applications.The proposed approach has broad potential for real-world applications,including surveillance,traffic monitoring,and environmental observation.展开更多
Understanding fish movement trajectories in aquaculture is essential for practical applications,such as disease warning,feeding optimization,and breeding management.These trajectories reveal key information about the ...Understanding fish movement trajectories in aquaculture is essential for practical applications,such as disease warning,feeding optimization,and breeding management.These trajectories reveal key information about the fish’s behavior,health,and environmental adaptability.However,when multi-object tracking(MOT)algorithms are applied to the high-density aquaculture environment,occlusion and overlapping among fish may result in missed detections,false detections,and identity switching problems,which limit the tracking accuracy.To address these issues,this paper proposes FishTracker,a MOT algorithm,by utilizing a Tracking-by-Detection framework.First,the neck part of the YOLOv8 model is enhanced by introducing a Multi-Scale Dilated Attention(MSDA)module to improve object localization and classification confidence.Second,an Adaptive Kalman Filter(AKF)is employed in the tracking phase to dynamically adjust motion prediction parameters,thereby overcoming target adhesion and nonlinear motion in complex scenarios.Experimental results show that FishTracker achieves a multi-object tracking accuracy(MOTA)of 93.22% and 87.24% in bright and dark illumination conditions,respectively.Further validation in a real aquaculture scenario reveal that FishTracker achieves aMOTA of 76.70%,which is 5.34% higher than the baselinemodel.The higher order tracking accuracy(HOTA)reaches 50.5%,which is 3.4% higher than the benchmark.In conclusion,FishTracker can provide reliable technical support for accurate tracking and behavioral analysis of high-density fish populations.展开更多
The focus of this paper is on distributed average tracking(DAT)in the context of external disturbances,utilizing an event-triggered control mechanism.First,an event-triggered anti-disturbance DAT(ETAD-DAT)algorithm is...The focus of this paper is on distributed average tracking(DAT)in the context of external disturbances,utilizing an event-triggered control mechanism.First,an event-triggered anti-disturbance DAT(ETAD-DAT)algorithm is proposed to reduce communication load in networked control systems by redesigning existing anti-disturbance DAT algorithms and disturbance observers.Furthermore,a fully distributed event-triggering condition is employed to schedule event times for each agent.Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed ETAD-DAT algorithm is able to achieve accurate average tracking of multiple time-varying reference signals despite the presence of external disturbances,while the communication efficiency can be improved obviously.展开更多
Soft-tissue motion introduces significant challenges in robotic teleoperation,especially in medical scenarios where precise target tracking is critical.Latency across sensing,computation,and actuation chains leads to ...Soft-tissue motion introduces significant challenges in robotic teleoperation,especially in medical scenarios where precise target tracking is critical.Latency across sensing,computation,and actuation chains leads to degraded tracking performance,particularly around high-acceleration segments and trajectory inflection points.This study investigates machine learning-based predictive compensation for latency mitigation in soft-tissue tracking.Three models—autoregressive(AR),long short-term memory(LSTM),and temporal convolutional network(TCN)—were implemented and evaluated on both synthetic and real datasets.By aligning the prediction horizon with the end-to-end system delay,we demonstrate that prediction-based compensation significantly reduces tracking errors.Among the models,TCN achieved superior robustness and accuracy on complex motion patterns,particularly in multi-step prediction tasks,and exhibited better latency–horizon compatibility.The results suggest that TCN is a promising candidate for real-time latency compensation in teleoperated robotic systems involving dynamic soft-tissue interaction.展开更多
To address the issues of frequent identity switches(IDs)and degraded identification accuracy in multi object tracking(MOT)under complex occlusion scenarios,this study proposes an occlusion-robust tracking framework ba...To address the issues of frequent identity switches(IDs)and degraded identification accuracy in multi object tracking(MOT)under complex occlusion scenarios,this study proposes an occlusion-robust tracking framework based on face-pedestrian joint feature modeling.By constructing a joint tracking model centered on“intra-class independent tracking+cross-category dynamic binding”,designing a multi-modal matching metric with spatio-temporal and appearance constraints,and innovatively introducing a cross-category feature mutual verification mechanism and a dual matching strategy,this work effectively resolves performance degradation in traditional single-category tracking methods caused by short-term occlusion,cross-camera tracking,and crowded environments.Experiments on the Chokepoint_Face_Pedestrian_Track test set demonstrate that in complex scenes,the proposed method improves Face-Pedestrian Matching F1 area under the curve(F1 AUC)by approximately 4 to 43 percentage points compared to several traditional methods.The joint tracking model achieves overall performance metrics of IDF1:85.1825%and MOTA:86.5956%,representing improvements of 0.91 and 0.06 percentage points,respectively,over the baseline model.Ablation studies confirm the effectiveness of key modules such as the Intersection over Area(IoA)/Intersection over Union(IoU)joint metric and dynamic threshold adjustment,validating the significant role of the cross-category identity matching mechanism in enhancing tracking stability.Our_model shows a 16.7%frame per second(FPS)drop vs.fairness of detection and re-identification in multiple object tracking(FairMOT),with its cross-category binding module adding aboute 10%overhead,yet maintains near-real-time performance for essential face-pedestrian tracking at small resolutions.展开更多
Great Snipe(Gallinago media) is a shore bird which has a Near Threatened status on the global scale.However,little is known about its migration strategy from the breeding range in Russia.This study is the first one ai...Great Snipe(Gallinago media) is a shore bird which has a Near Threatened status on the global scale.However,little is known about its migration strategy from the breeding range in Russia.This study is the first one aiming to reveal migration routes,stopovers and wintering grounds of adult Great Snipes from their breeding range in Russia using GPS devices.We also analyzed connectivity of Great Snipes from different breeding populations of this species during non-breeding season.In 2021,we equipped seven males and three females with satellite transmitters,ICARUS Basic Tags,in the breeding range in central European Russia(56°75′N,37°65 E).One female appeared later in tundra of north-eastern Europe.In the second half of July to early September,birds migrated to Africa in a fairly wide front and made stopovers in Europe before crossing seas and the Sahara.Our data allowed to suppose high mortality of birds on migration,especially during the trans-Saharan flight.Only four Great Snipes reached Africa alive during southward migration.These birds spread over across wide area from Eritrea to Ghana after the trans-Saharan flight,after which they moved in a general westward direction and made final prolonged stopovers in Ghana or to the south of Chad Lake.In October/December birds relocated to wintering grounds in Sub-Equatorial Afrotropics as far as the south of Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia;with intermediate winter sites in low and middle reaches of the Congo Basin.Together with other published results,our data showed wide overlap of African non-breeding grounds of birds coming from lowland Eastern European and mountain Scandinavian breeding populations.The results also indicated insufficient conservation status of migration stopovers and wintering sites,used by Great Snipes,and demonstrated high importance of West Africa for conservation of this species.展开更多
Accurately estimating depth from underwater monocular images is essential for the target tracking task of unmanned underwater vehicles.This work proposes a method based on the Lpg-Lap Unet architecture.First,the Unet ...Accurately estimating depth from underwater monocular images is essential for the target tracking task of unmanned underwater vehicles.This work proposes a method based on the Lpg-Lap Unet architecture.First,the Unet architecture integrates Laplacian pyramid depth residuals and Sobel operators to improve the boundary details in depth images,which may suffer from the feature loss caused by upsampling and the blurriness of underwater images.Multiscale local planar guidance layers then fully exploit the intermediate depth features,and a comprehensive loss function ensures robustness and accuracy.Experimental results on benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of Lpg-Lap Unet and its superior performance over state-of-the-art models.An underwater target tracking system is then designed to further validate its real-time capabilities in the AirSim simulation platform.展开更多
This paper is concerned with adaptive consensus tracking control of nonlinear multi-agent systems with actuator faults and unknown nonidentical control directions under double semi-Markovian switching topologies.Consi...This paper is concerned with adaptive consensus tracking control of nonlinear multi-agent systems with actuator faults and unknown nonidentical control directions under double semi-Markovian switching topologies.Considering the complex working environment and the stability differences in communication links between leaders and followers,a double semi-Markov process is first introduced to describe the random switching of communication topologies in the leader-follower structure.In order to address challenges from the unknown nonidentical control directions and partial loss of effectiveness actuator faults,a completely independent parameter is introduced into the Nussbaum function to overcome the inherent obstacle of mutual cancellation and avoid the rapid growth rate.Considering only the state information of agents is transmitted among the agents,an adaptive distributed fault-tolerant consensus tracking control is proposed based on the double semi-Markovian switching topologies using the designed Nussbaum function.Furthermore,the stability of the closed-loop nonlinear multi-agent systems is analyzed using contradiction argument and Lyapunov theorem,from which the asymptotic consensus tracking in mean square sense can be obtained.A numerical simulation example is provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.展开更多
Mobile service robots(MSRs)in hospital environments require precise and robust trajectory tracking to ensure reliable operation under dynamic conditions,including model uncertainties and external disturbances.This stu...Mobile service robots(MSRs)in hospital environments require precise and robust trajectory tracking to ensure reliable operation under dynamic conditions,including model uncertainties and external disturbances.This study presents a cognitive control strategy that integrates a Numerical Feedforward Inverse Dynamic Controller(NFIDC)with a Feedback Radial Basis Function Neural Network(FRBFNN).The robot’s mechanical structure was designed in SolidWorks 2022 SP2.0 and validated under operational loads using finite element analysis in ANSYS 2022 R1.The NFIDC-FRBFNN framework merges proactive inverse dynamic compensation with adaptive neural learning to achieve smooth torque responses and accurate motion control.A two-stage simulation evaluation was conducted.In the first stage,the controller was tested in a simulated hospital environment under both ideal and non-ideal conditions.In the second,it was benchmarked against four established controllers-Neural Network Model Reference Adaptive(NNMRA),Z-number Fuzzy Logic(Z-FL),Adaptive Dynamic Controller(ADC),and Fuzzy Logic-PID(FL-PID)—using circular and lemniscate trajectories.Across ten runs,the proposed controller achieved the lowest tracking errors under all conditions.Under ideal conditions,it achieved average improvements of 55.24%,75.75%,and 55.20%in integral absolute error(IAE),integral squared error(ISE),and mean absolute error(MAE),respectively,with coefficient of variation(CV)reductions above 55%.Under non-ideal conditions,average improvements exceeded 64%in IAE,77%in ISE,and 66%in MAE,while maintaining CV reductions above 57%.These results confirm that the NFIDC-FRBFNN controller offers superior accuracy,robustness,and consistency for real-time path tracking in healthcare robotics.展开更多
以轻量化为目标,提出一种可用于多目标跟踪(Multi-Object Tracking,MOT)模型的高效卷积QuarkModule,该卷积算子可从宽度和深度两个方面对深度神经网络模型进行轻量化。基于QuarkModule,对经典JDE(Joint Detection and Embedding)算法进...以轻量化为目标,提出一种可用于多目标跟踪(Multi-Object Tracking,MOT)模型的高效卷积QuarkModule,该卷积算子可从宽度和深度两个方面对深度神经网络模型进行轻量化。基于QuarkModule,对经典JDE(Joint Detection and Embedding)算法进行改进,提出一种轻量化的MOT模型QuarkJDE,为进一步验证QuarkModule的泛化能力,构建轻量化分类模型QuarkNet。基于公开数据集,对两个轻量化模型展开多维实验,实验结果充分验证QuarkModule的效率和特征学习能力。展开更多
A robust adaptive control approach is presented to improve the performance of the control scheme proposed in the authors＇ previous work, aiming at producing a low ripple hybrid stepping motor servo drive for precisio...A robust adaptive control approach is presented to improve the performance of the control scheme proposed in the authors＇ previous work, aiming at producing a low ripple hybrid stepping motor servo drive for precision profile tracking at a low speed. In order to construct a completely integrated control design philosophy to reduce torque ripple and at the same time to enhance tracking performance, the properties of nonlinear uncertainties in the system dynamics are uncovered, and then incorporated into the design of the controller. The system uncertainties concerned with ripple dynamics and other external disturbances are composed of two categories. The first category of uncertainties with linear parameterization arising from the detention effect is dealt with by the wellknown adaptive control method. A robust adaptive method is used to deal with the second category of uncertainties resulting from the non-sinusoidal flux distribution. The μ-modification scheme is used to cease parameter adaptation by the robust adaptive control law, thus ensuring that the trajectory tracking error asymptotically converges to a pre-specified boundary. Experiments are performed with a typical hybrid stepping motor to test its profile tracking accuracy. Results confirm the proposed control scheme.展开更多
An improved estimation of motion vectors of feature points is proposed for tracking moving objects of dynamic image sequence. Feature points are firstly extracted by the improved minimum intensity change （MIC） algor...An improved estimation of motion vectors of feature points is proposed for tracking moving objects of dynamic image sequence. Feature points are firstly extracted by the improved minimum intensity change （MIC） algorithm. The matching points of these feature points are then determined by adaptive rood pattern searching. Based on the random sample consensus （RANSAC） method, the background motion is finally compensated by the parameters of an affine transform of the background motion. With reasonable morphological filtering, the moving objects are completely extracted from the background, and then tracked accurately. Experimental results show that the improved method is successful on the motion background compensation and offers great promise in tracking moving objects of the dynamic image sequence.展开更多
Aim Aiming at the position tracking control for valve controlled motor electrohydraulic proportional servo systems mainly driving the static load torque, the tracking performance was studied in the presence of the v...Aim Aiming at the position tracking control for valve controlled motor electrohydraulic proportional servo systems mainly driving the static load torque, the tracking performance was studied in the presence of the variable gain and deadzone. Methods On the basis of conventional composite control with the deadzone compensation method, a comprehensive control approach with the deadzone and self adjusting feedforward compensation was proposed. Results Experimental results showed that the good tracking performance was achieved for the sinusoidal and constant velocity position tracking under a wide variations of load torque. Conclusion The position tracking accuracy for valve controlled motor electrohydraulic proportional servo systems has been solved by using the comprehensive control approach with the deadzone and self adjusting feedforward compensation.展开更多
There are many kinds of swimming mode in the fish world, and we investigated two of them, used by cyprinids and bulltrout. In this paper we track the locomotion locus by marks in different flow velocity from 0.2 m...There are many kinds of swimming mode in the fish world, and we investigated two of them, used by cyprinids and bulltrout. In this paper we track the locomotion locus by marks in different flow velocity from 0.2 m·s^-1 to 0.8 m·s^-1. By fit the data above we could find out the locomotion mechanism of the two kinds of fish and generate a mathematical model of fish kine- matics. The cyprinid fish has a greater oscillation period and amplitude compared with the bulltrout, and the bulltrout changes velocity mainly by controlling frequency of oscillation.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(U24B20183)the Pioneer Leading Goose+X Science and Technology Program of Zhejiang Province(2025C02018)。
文摘Dear Editor,This letter deals with the autonomous underwater vehicle(AUV)three dimensional(3D)trajectory tracking control chronically suffering from poor accuracy and efficiency in complex hydrodynamics.A state-of-the-art predictive adaptive controller(PAC)is proposed with a distinct dual closed-loop structure.
基金supported in part by Multimedia University under the Research Fellow Grant MMUI/250008in part by Telekom Research&Development Sdn Bhd under Grants RDTC/241149 and RDTC/231095+1 种基金Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University Researchers Supporting Project number(PNURSP2025R140)Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia.
文摘Multiple Object Tracking(MOT)is essential for applications such as autonomous driving,surveillance,and analytics;However,challenges such as occlusion,low-resolution imaging,and identity switches remain persistent.We propose HAMOT,a hierarchical adaptive multi-object tracker that solves these challenges with a novel,unified framework.Unlike previous methods that rely on isolated components,HAMOT incorporates a Swin Transformer-based Adaptive Enhancement(STAE)module—comprising Scene-Adaptive Transformer Enhancement and Confidence-Adaptive Feature Refinement—to improve detection under low-visibility conditions.The hierarchical DynamicGraphNeuralNetworkwith TemporalAttention(DGNN-TA)models both short-and long-termassociations,and the Adaptive Unscented Kalman Filter with Gated Recurrent Unit(AUKF-GRU)ensures accurate motion prediction.The novel Graph-Based Density-Aware Clustering(GDAC)improves occlusion recovery by adapting to scene density,preserving identity integrity.This integrated approach enables adaptive responses to complex visual scenarios,Achieving exceptional performance across all evaluation metrics,including aHigher Order TrackingAccuracy(HOTA)of 67.05%,a Multiple Object Tracking Accuracy(MOTA)of 82.4%,an ID F1 Score(IDF1)of 83.1%,and a total of 1052 Identity Switches(IDSW)on theMOT17;66.61%HOTA,78.3%MOTA,82.1%IDF1,and a total of 748 IDSWonMOT20;and 66.4%HOTA,92.32%MOTA,and 68.96%IDF1 on DanceTrack.With fixed thresholds,the full HAMOT model(all six components)achieves real-time functionality at 24 FPS on MOT17 using RTX3090,ensuring robustness and scalability for real-world MOT applications.
文摘The publisher regrets that the Appendix A.Supplementary data was not updated as per author and editor’s request.The publisher would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.
基金supported by the Australian Research Council(ARC)(Grant No.DP200103492)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.12172089,12372307,and 61821002)+2 种基金Medical Research Future Fund(Grant Nos.2016165 and 2023977)the CBT Early Career Researcher Grant funded and the Roland Bishop Biomedical Engineering Research Award by Queensland University of Technologythe Springboard Funding and the Global Collaboration Funding by London South Bank University.Computational resources and services used in this work were provided by the High-Performance Computing and Research Support Group,Queensland University of Technology,Brisbane,Australia.
文摘The accurate assessment of cardiac motion is crucial for diagnosing and monitoring cardiovascular diseases.In this context,digital volume correlation(DVC)has emerged as a promising technique for tracking cardiac motion from cardiac computed tomography angiographic(CTA)images.This paper presents a comprehensive performance evaluation of the DVC method,specifically focusing on tracking the motion of the left atrium using cardiac CTA data.The study employed a comparative experimental approach while simultaneously optimizing the existing DVC algorithm.Multiple sets of controlled experiments were designed to conduct quantitative analyses on the parameters“radius”and“step”.The results revealed that the optimized DVC algorithm enhanced tracking accuracy within a reasonable computational time.These findings contributed to the understanding of the efficacy and limitations of the DVC algorithm in analyzing heart deformation.
文摘The migratory nature of avian species is well known not only to researchers but also to the general public,becoming engrained in cultural traditions and even children's fairy tales.However,our understanding of these charismatic behaviors made great strides in the 1990s with the advent of small,light-weighted satellite transmitters capable of longterm tracking(Argos,2016).The emergence of this new technology made it possible to track a broader range of species at higher resolution than ever before.In turn,this data enabled detailed understanding of individual avian behavior and habitats,including transboundary migration routes.
基金Supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2024ZYGXZR047)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62373156)the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation(2024A1515011736)。
文摘This article investigates the robust current tracking control problem of three-phase grid-connected inverters with LCL filter under external disturbance by a dynamic state feedback control method.First,this paper constructs an internal model to learn the information of the states and input of the grid-connected inverter under steady state.Second,by utilizing the internal model principle,the paper turns the tracking control problem into the robust stabilization control problem based on some appropriate coordinate transformations.Then,The paper designs a dynamics state feedback control law to deal with this robust stabilization problem,and thus the solution of the robust current tracking control problem of three-phase grid-connected inverters can be obtained.This control method can ensure the asymptotic stability of the closedloop system.Finally,the paper illustrates the effectiveness of the proposed control approach through several groups of simulations,and compares it with the feedforward control method to verify the robustness of the proposed control method to uncertain parameters.
基金funded by theNational Science and TechnologyCouncil(NSTC),Taiwan,under grant numbers NSTC 113-2634-F-A49-007 and NSTC 112-2634-F-A49-007.
文摘To improve small object detection and trajectory estimation from an aerial moving perspective,we propose the Aerial View Attention-PRB(AVA-PRB)model.AVA-PRB integrates two attention mechanisms—Coordinate Attention(CA)and the Convolutional Block Attention Module(CBAM)—to enhance detection accuracy.Additionally,Shape-IoU is employed as the loss function to refine localization precision.Our model further incorporates an adaptive feature fusion mechanism,which optimizes multi-scale object representation,ensuring robust tracking in complex aerial environments.We evaluate the performance of AVA-PRB on two benchmark datasets:Aerial Person Detection and VisDrone2019-Det.The model achieves 60.9%mAP@0.5 on the Aerial Person Detection dataset,and 51.2%mAP@0.5 on VisDrone2019-Det,demonstrating its effectiveness in aerial object detection.Beyond detection,we propose a novel trajectory estimation method that improves movement path prediction under aerial motion.Experimental results indicate that our approach reduces path deviation by up to 64%,effectively mitigating errors caused by rapid camera movements and background variations.By optimizing feature extraction and enhancing spatialtemporal coherence,our method significantly improves object tracking under aerial moving perspectives.This research addresses the limitations of fixed-camera tracking,enhancing flexibility and accuracy in aerial tracking applications.The proposed approach has broad potential for real-world applications,including surveillance,traffic monitoring,and environmental observation.
基金funded by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.106-YDZX2025022)the Startup Foundation of New Professor at Nanjing Agricultural University(Grant No.106-804005)the“Qing Lan Project”of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions.
文摘Understanding fish movement trajectories in aquaculture is essential for practical applications,such as disease warning,feeding optimization,and breeding management.These trajectories reveal key information about the fish’s behavior,health,and environmental adaptability.However,when multi-object tracking(MOT)algorithms are applied to the high-density aquaculture environment,occlusion and overlapping among fish may result in missed detections,false detections,and identity switching problems,which limit the tracking accuracy.To address these issues,this paper proposes FishTracker,a MOT algorithm,by utilizing a Tracking-by-Detection framework.First,the neck part of the YOLOv8 model is enhanced by introducing a Multi-Scale Dilated Attention(MSDA)module to improve object localization and classification confidence.Second,an Adaptive Kalman Filter(AKF)is employed in the tracking phase to dynamically adjust motion prediction parameters,thereby overcoming target adhesion and nonlinear motion in complex scenarios.Experimental results show that FishTracker achieves a multi-object tracking accuracy(MOTA)of 93.22% and 87.24% in bright and dark illumination conditions,respectively.Further validation in a real aquaculture scenario reveal that FishTracker achieves aMOTA of 76.70%,which is 5.34% higher than the baselinemodel.The higher order tracking accuracy(HOTA)reaches 50.5%,which is 3.4% higher than the benchmark.In conclusion,FishTracker can provide reliable technical support for accurate tracking and behavioral analysis of high-density fish populations.
基金part supported by the National Natural Science Foundation(62203034,62273126,62203035)the Ling-Yan Research and Development Project of Zhejiang Province of China(2023C03185)。
文摘The focus of this paper is on distributed average tracking(DAT)in the context of external disturbances,utilizing an event-triggered control mechanism.First,an event-triggered anti-disturbance DAT(ETAD-DAT)algorithm is proposed to reduce communication load in networked control systems by redesigning existing anti-disturbance DAT algorithms and disturbance observers.Furthermore,a fully distributed event-triggering condition is employed to schedule event times for each agent.Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed ETAD-DAT algorithm is able to achieve accurate average tracking of multiple time-varying reference signals despite the presence of external disturbances,while the communication efficiency can be improved obviously.
基金Support by Sichuan Science and Technology Program[2023YFSY0026,2023YFH0004]Guangzhou Huashang University[2024HSZD01,HS2023JYSZH01].
文摘Soft-tissue motion introduces significant challenges in robotic teleoperation,especially in medical scenarios where precise target tracking is critical.Latency across sensing,computation,and actuation chains leads to degraded tracking performance,particularly around high-acceleration segments and trajectory inflection points.This study investigates machine learning-based predictive compensation for latency mitigation in soft-tissue tracking.Three models—autoregressive(AR),long short-term memory(LSTM),and temporal convolutional network(TCN)—were implemented and evaluated on both synthetic and real datasets.By aligning the prediction horizon with the end-to-end system delay,we demonstrate that prediction-based compensation significantly reduces tracking errors.Among the models,TCN achieved superior robustness and accuracy on complex motion patterns,particularly in multi-step prediction tasks,and exhibited better latency–horizon compatibility.The results suggest that TCN is a promising candidate for real-time latency compensation in teleoperated robotic systems involving dynamic soft-tissue interaction.
基金supported by the confidential research grant No.a8317。
文摘To address the issues of frequent identity switches(IDs)and degraded identification accuracy in multi object tracking(MOT)under complex occlusion scenarios,this study proposes an occlusion-robust tracking framework based on face-pedestrian joint feature modeling.By constructing a joint tracking model centered on“intra-class independent tracking+cross-category dynamic binding”,designing a multi-modal matching metric with spatio-temporal and appearance constraints,and innovatively introducing a cross-category feature mutual verification mechanism and a dual matching strategy,this work effectively resolves performance degradation in traditional single-category tracking methods caused by short-term occlusion,cross-camera tracking,and crowded environments.Experiments on the Chokepoint_Face_Pedestrian_Track test set demonstrate that in complex scenes,the proposed method improves Face-Pedestrian Matching F1 area under the curve(F1 AUC)by approximately 4 to 43 percentage points compared to several traditional methods.The joint tracking model achieves overall performance metrics of IDF1:85.1825%and MOTA:86.5956%,representing improvements of 0.91 and 0.06 percentage points,respectively,over the baseline model.Ablation studies confirm the effectiveness of key modules such as the Intersection over Area(IoA)/Intersection over Union(IoU)joint metric and dynamic threshold adjustment,validating the significant role of the cross-category identity matching mechanism in enhancing tracking stability.Our_model shows a 16.7%frame per second(FPS)drop vs.fairness of detection and re-identification in multiple object tracking(FairMOT),with its cross-category binding module adding aboute 10%overhead,yet maintains near-real-time performance for essential face-pedestrian tracking at small resolutions.
基金A support for different activities in the framework of this research was provided by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior,the Russian space agency (Roskosmos),German Aerospace Center and Institute for Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences via International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space as well as by NABU–The Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union2021 was carried out as a joint project of Birds Russia and Manfred-Hermsen Stiftung+2 种基金funded under state assignments of the Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Science (No. 0089-2021-0004, FFER-2024-0013No. 0089-2021-0010, FFER-2024-0022No. 1022040700480-0-1.6.15)。
文摘Great Snipe(Gallinago media) is a shore bird which has a Near Threatened status on the global scale.However,little is known about its migration strategy from the breeding range in Russia.This study is the first one aiming to reveal migration routes,stopovers and wintering grounds of adult Great Snipes from their breeding range in Russia using GPS devices.We also analyzed connectivity of Great Snipes from different breeding populations of this species during non-breeding season.In 2021,we equipped seven males and three females with satellite transmitters,ICARUS Basic Tags,in the breeding range in central European Russia(56°75′N,37°65 E).One female appeared later in tundra of north-eastern Europe.In the second half of July to early September,birds migrated to Africa in a fairly wide front and made stopovers in Europe before crossing seas and the Sahara.Our data allowed to suppose high mortality of birds on migration,especially during the trans-Saharan flight.Only four Great Snipes reached Africa alive during southward migration.These birds spread over across wide area from Eritrea to Ghana after the trans-Saharan flight,after which they moved in a general westward direction and made final prolonged stopovers in Ghana or to the south of Chad Lake.In October/December birds relocated to wintering grounds in Sub-Equatorial Afrotropics as far as the south of Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia;with intermediate winter sites in low and middle reaches of the Congo Basin.Together with other published results,our data showed wide overlap of African non-breeding grounds of birds coming from lowland Eastern European and mountain Scandinavian breeding populations.The results also indicated insufficient conservation status of migration stopovers and wintering sites,used by Great Snipes,and demonstrated high importance of West Africa for conservation of this species.
基金partially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province,China(No.ZR2023ME009)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51909252)。
文摘Accurately estimating depth from underwater monocular images is essential for the target tracking task of unmanned underwater vehicles.This work proposes a method based on the Lpg-Lap Unet architecture.First,the Unet architecture integrates Laplacian pyramid depth residuals and Sobel operators to improve the boundary details in depth images,which may suffer from the feature loss caused by upsampling and the blurriness of underwater images.Multiscale local planar guidance layers then fully exploit the intermediate depth features,and a comprehensive loss function ensures robustness and accuracy.Experimental results on benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of Lpg-Lap Unet and its superior performance over state-of-the-art models.An underwater target tracking system is then designed to further validate its real-time capabilities in the AirSim simulation platform.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62333011,62020106003)the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China(BK20222012)+1 种基金the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(NE2024005)the Postgraduate Research&Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province(KYCX24_0594)。
文摘This paper is concerned with adaptive consensus tracking control of nonlinear multi-agent systems with actuator faults and unknown nonidentical control directions under double semi-Markovian switching topologies.Considering the complex working environment and the stability differences in communication links between leaders and followers,a double semi-Markov process is first introduced to describe the random switching of communication topologies in the leader-follower structure.In order to address challenges from the unknown nonidentical control directions and partial loss of effectiveness actuator faults,a completely independent parameter is introduced into the Nussbaum function to overcome the inherent obstacle of mutual cancellation and avoid the rapid growth rate.Considering only the state information of agents is transmitted among the agents,an adaptive distributed fault-tolerant consensus tracking control is proposed based on the double semi-Markovian switching topologies using the designed Nussbaum function.Furthermore,the stability of the closed-loop nonlinear multi-agent systems is analyzed using contradiction argument and Lyapunov theorem,from which the asymptotic consensus tracking in mean square sense can be obtained.A numerical simulation example is provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.
基金supported by the Malaysia Ministry of Higher Education under Fundamental Research Grant Scheme with Project Code:FRGS/1/2024/TK07/USM/02/3.
文摘Mobile service robots(MSRs)in hospital environments require precise and robust trajectory tracking to ensure reliable operation under dynamic conditions,including model uncertainties and external disturbances.This study presents a cognitive control strategy that integrates a Numerical Feedforward Inverse Dynamic Controller(NFIDC)with a Feedback Radial Basis Function Neural Network(FRBFNN).The robot’s mechanical structure was designed in SolidWorks 2022 SP2.0 and validated under operational loads using finite element analysis in ANSYS 2022 R1.The NFIDC-FRBFNN framework merges proactive inverse dynamic compensation with adaptive neural learning to achieve smooth torque responses and accurate motion control.A two-stage simulation evaluation was conducted.In the first stage,the controller was tested in a simulated hospital environment under both ideal and non-ideal conditions.In the second,it was benchmarked against four established controllers-Neural Network Model Reference Adaptive(NNMRA),Z-number Fuzzy Logic(Z-FL),Adaptive Dynamic Controller(ADC),and Fuzzy Logic-PID(FL-PID)—using circular and lemniscate trajectories.Across ten runs,the proposed controller achieved the lowest tracking errors under all conditions.Under ideal conditions,it achieved average improvements of 55.24%,75.75%,and 55.20%in integral absolute error(IAE),integral squared error(ISE),and mean absolute error(MAE),respectively,with coefficient of variation(CV)reductions above 55%.Under non-ideal conditions,average improvements exceeded 64%in IAE,77%in ISE,and 66%in MAE,while maintaining CV reductions above 57%.These results confirm that the NFIDC-FRBFNN controller offers superior accuracy,robustness,and consistency for real-time path tracking in healthcare robotics.
文摘以轻量化为目标,提出一种可用于多目标跟踪(Multi-Object Tracking,MOT)模型的高效卷积QuarkModule,该卷积算子可从宽度和深度两个方面对深度神经网络模型进行轻量化。基于QuarkModule,对经典JDE(Joint Detection and Embedding)算法进行改进,提出一种轻量化的MOT模型QuarkJDE,为进一步验证QuarkModule的泛化能力,构建轻量化分类模型QuarkNet。基于公开数据集,对两个轻量化模型展开多维实验,实验结果充分验证QuarkModule的效率和特征学习能力。
文摘A robust adaptive control approach is presented to improve the performance of the control scheme proposed in the authors＇ previous work, aiming at producing a low ripple hybrid stepping motor servo drive for precision profile tracking at a low speed. In order to construct a completely integrated control design philosophy to reduce torque ripple and at the same time to enhance tracking performance, the properties of nonlinear uncertainties in the system dynamics are uncovered, and then incorporated into the design of the controller. The system uncertainties concerned with ripple dynamics and other external disturbances are composed of two categories. The first category of uncertainties with linear parameterization arising from the detention effect is dealt with by the wellknown adaptive control method. A robust adaptive method is used to deal with the second category of uncertainties resulting from the non-sinusoidal flux distribution. The μ-modification scheme is used to cease parameter adaptation by the robust adaptive control law, thus ensuring that the trajectory tracking error asymptotically converges to a pre-specified boundary. Experiments are performed with a typical hybrid stepping motor to test its profile tracking accuracy. Results confirm the proposed control scheme.
文摘An improved estimation of motion vectors of feature points is proposed for tracking moving objects of dynamic image sequence. Feature points are firstly extracted by the improved minimum intensity change （MIC） algorithm. The matching points of these feature points are then determined by adaptive rood pattern searching. Based on the random sample consensus （RANSAC） method, the background motion is finally compensated by the parameters of an affine transform of the background motion. With reasonable morphological filtering, the moving objects are completely extracted from the background, and then tracked accurately. Experimental results show that the improved method is successful on the motion background compensation and offers great promise in tracking moving objects of the dynamic image sequence.
文摘Aim Aiming at the position tracking control for valve controlled motor electrohydraulic proportional servo systems mainly driving the static load torque, the tracking performance was studied in the presence of the variable gain and deadzone. Methods On the basis of conventional composite control with the deadzone compensation method, a comprehensive control approach with the deadzone and self adjusting feedforward compensation was proposed. Results Experimental results showed that the good tracking performance was achieved for the sinusoidal and constant velocity position tracking under a wide variations of load torque. Conclusion The position tracking accuracy for valve controlled motor electrohydraulic proportional servo systems has been solved by using the comprehensive control approach with the deadzone and self adjusting feedforward compensation.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 50579007)
文摘There are many kinds of swimming mode in the fish world, and we investigated two of them, used by cyprinids and bulltrout. In this paper we track the locomotion locus by marks in different flow velocity from 0.2 m·s^-1 to 0.8 m·s^-1. By fit the data above we could find out the locomotion mechanism of the two kinds of fish and generate a mathematical model of fish kine- matics. The cyprinid fish has a greater oscillation period and amplitude compared with the bulltrout, and the bulltrout changes velocity mainly by controlling frequency of oscillation.
