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Chapter
Simple Electroaerodynamic Aircraft Testing with Multistage Staggered Arrangement of the Electrodes
Electroaerodynamic (EAD) devices use corona-induced ionic winds for in-atmosphere propulsion, from which EAD aircraft are derived with the advantages of low mechanical fatigue, low noise and zero carbon emissi...
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Chapter
Rapid Trajectory Optimization of Continuous-Low-Thrust Spacecraft Based on Bezier Shape Function and Inverse Dynamics
Deep space exploration missions are a great fit for continuous-thrust spacecraft because of their benefits of high specific impulse and extended operating period. However, when it comes to tackling the traject...
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Article
Open AccessSpacecraft Pose Estimation Based on Different Camera Models
Spacecraft pose estimation is an important technology to maintain or change the spacecraft orientation in space. For spacecraft pose estimation, when two spacecraft are relatively distant, the depth informatio...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Safety Control of Quadrotor by Control Barrier Function Based-on Data-Driven Hamilton Dynamics Model
The accurate trajectory tracking and obstacle avoidance task of quadrotor is a difficult problem, because its dynamics is difficult to accurately establish, resulting in complex controller design. In order to ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Linear Gaussian Processes for Data-Efficient Robot Dynamics Learning
This paper proposes a linear Gaussian Process learning framework which can be used in the both of semi-parametric and non-parametric models. Inspired by the linear relationship in Euler–Lagrange equation, this...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Pose Estimation Algorithm for Helicopter Landing Based on YOLO and PNP
Pose estimation measured by the camera is increasingly used in helicopter landing. We present a pose estimation algorithm for autonomous landing. You Only Look Once (YOLO) algorithm is extended to estimate the...
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Article
Effect of Oil Viscosity on Hydraulic Cavitation Luminescence
The collapse of cavitation bubbles in a hydraulic system generates localized zones of high temperature and pressure and, under certain conditions, luminescence. In this study, we studied the influence of the h...
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Article
Coupled attitude-vibration analysis of an E-sail using absolute nodal coordinate formulation
In this study, the effects of solar wind on an electric sail (E-sail) are modeled and analyzed using an absolute nodal coordinate formulation (ANCF). First, the thrust of the charged metal tether that makes up...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Density Based Cluster Extension and Dominant Sets Clustering
With the pairwise data similarity matrix as input, dominant sets clustering has been shown to be a promising clustering approach with some nice properties. However, its clustering results are found to be influ...
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Article
Capture condition for endo-atmospheric interceptors steered by ALCS and ARCS
This contribution deals with capture condition for interceptor missiles steered by aero-lift control system (ALCS) and attitude reaction-jet control system (ARCS). With the guidance law derived from bounded di...
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Article
Effects of Divert-Thrusters on Homing Performance of Endo-atmospheric Interceptors
A new guidance law is proposed for interceptor missiles by using a differential game formulation with bounded controls. The interceptor is steered by the aerodynamic-lift control system and the divert-thruster...
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Article
Neural integrated control for a free-floating space robot with suddenly changing parameters
Because the state of a free-floating space robot model is uncertain and sudden changes in the model parameters might undermine the stability of the system, this paper proposes a control strategy based on a var...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On Vocabulary Size in Bag-of-Visual-Words Representation
Bag-of-visual-words is a popular image representation that produces high matching accuracy and efficiency. While vocabulary size impacts on matching accuracy, existing research usually selects the vocabulary s...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Image Matching Based on Representative Local Descriptors
While straightforward image matching with keypoint based local descriptors produces a high matching accuracy, it is usually accompanied by enormous computation load. In this paper we present a representative l...
