We consider connected navigation of autonomous mobile robots with transitions in the group formation. The robots navigate using simple local steering rules without requiring explicit communication among themselves. The formations are achieved by designing proper cost functions and formation transitions are succeeded by switching among these cost functions. The resulting system is proven to be deadlock-free under certain conditions. © 2013 IEEE.

An indirect adaptive controller is designed for submersibles. The design is developed using a linearized MIMO model of a submarine. Standard recursive least squares estimation method is used to estimate the parameters. Depth and pitch angle of the submarine is controlled by means of the well-known indirect self-tuning method. In case of a system fault estimated parameters of the submarine model have been used to update the controller coefficients.

In this paper a controller design method for linear MIMO systems is presented which a sliding mode controller is reconfigured in case of system faults. Faults are detected with the residual vector generated from a standard linear observer. Once a fault has been detected the fault distribution matrix can be obtained and used to update the corrective or equivalent control parts of the sliding mode controller. As a result fault tolerant adaptive controllers keep the system performance within acceptable ...

In this paper, the performance of a multi-sensor fusion technique, namely Federated Kalman Filter (FKF) is studied in the context of indoor positioning problem. Kalman filters having centralized and decentralized structures are widely used in outdoor positioning and navigation applications. Global Positioning System (GPS) is the most commonly used system for outdoor positionin/navigation, which cannot be used indoors due to the signal loss. In this study, a decentralized structure for FKF is applied ...

The navigation of autonomous mobile robots as a group is considered in this paper. Definitions adopted from the graph theory are given to characterize the robot group. A local steering strategy is proposed such that when each robot in the group applies this steering scheme the overall result is that the whole group is displaced without losing its connectivity. This is achieved using only limited-range position sensors and without any communication between the robots.

In this work detection of abrupt changes in continuous-time linear stochastic systems and selection of the sampling interval to improve the detection performance are considered. Cost functions are proposed to optimize both uniform and nonuniform sampling intervals for the well-known cumulative sum algorithm. Some iterative techniques are presented to make online optimization computationally feasible. It is shown that considerable improvement in the detection performance can be obtained by using ...

The effects of auxiliary input signals on detecting changes in ARMAX processes via statistical tests are discussed. Two extensions to the Cumulative Sum Test are considered. The first is applicable when the direction of the change in the parameter space is known but its magnitude is unknown. The second is applicable when neither is known. The performance criteria for the design of stationary stochastic inputs are based on the asymptotic properties of the tests. It is shown that power-constrained ...

Minimum shift keying (MSK) modulation has features such as constant envelope compact spectrum and good error performance which are all desirable in many digital applications including mobile radio. Numerous receiver structures to demodulate MSK have been suggested such as correlation receivers differential detectors and frequency discriminators MSK is a form of biphase keying and can be detected by a zero-crossing based phase demodulator which gives near optimum performance. In this paper the bit ...