Measurement-driven Gauss-Hermite particle filter with soft spatiotemporal constraints for multi-optical theodolites target tracking

Multi-Optical Theodolite Tracking systems (MOTTs) can stealthily extract the target’s status information from bearings only through non-contact measurement. The constrained MOTTs are partially compatible, yet many existing research works and results are based on the known model, ignoring its discrimination with the target maneuvering behavior pattern. To compensate for these mismatches, this paper develops a Measurement-driven Gauss-Hermite Particle Filter (MGHPF), which elegantly fuses the spatiotemporal constraints and its soft form to perform MOTT missions. Specifically, the target dynamic model and tracking algorithm are based on the target behavior pattern with the adaptive turn rate, fully exploiting the spatial epipolar geometry characteristics for each intersection measurement by a minimax strategy. Then, the center of the feasible area is approximated via the analytic coordinate transformation, and the latent samples are updated via the deterministic Gauss-Hermite integral method with the target’s predictive turn rate. Simultaneously, the effects of truncation correction and compensation feedback from the current measurement and historical estimation data are adaptively incorporated into the PF’s importance distribution to cover the mixture likelihood. Besides, an effective causality-invariant updating rule is provided to estimate the parameters of these soft spatiotemporal constrained MOTTs with convergence guarantees. Simulated and measured results show good agreement; compared with the state-of-the-art Multi-Model Rao-Blackwell Particle Filter (MMRBPF), the proposed MGHPF improves the filtering accuracy by 7.4%-34.7% and significantly reduces the computational load.     

机器视觉在军事领域的应用现状及发展趋势

机器视觉技术凭借其非接触测量、实时性好、可持续工作等优点，在军事领域中有着广阔的应用前景。在对机器视觉光学照明系统、成像系统、视觉信息处理系统等关键技术进行概述的基础上，详细分析了机器视觉技术在军事领域进行典型目标物识别、人员识别、装备缺陷检测等典型场景以及典型军事装备上的应用现状。在此基础上，指出了机器视觉在军事领域的应用，仍然存在视觉传感器硬件系统难以适应极端环境、复杂的军事目标适应性不足、目标识别的实时性难以保证、多传感器融合获取军事目标信息能力缺乏等问题。同时，对机器视觉技术在军事领域应用的未来发展趋势进行了展望，研究分析结果可为机器视觉在军事领域的进一步实用化提供参考。     

Target localization based on cross-view matching between UAV and satellite

Matching remote sensing images taken by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with satellite remote sensing images with geolocation information. Thus, the specific geographic location of the target object captured by the UAV is determined. Its main challenge is the considerable differences in the visual content of remote sensing images acquired by satellites and UAVs, such as dramatic changes in viewpoint, unknown orientations, etc. Much of the previous work has focused on image matching of homologous data. To overcome the difficulties caused by the difference between these two data modes and maintain robustness in visual positioning, a quality-aware template matching method based on scale-adaptive deep convolutional features is proposed by deeply mining their common features. The template size feature map and the reference image feature map are first obtained. The two feature maps obtained are used to measure the similarity. Finally, a heat map representing the probability of matching is generated to determine the best match in the reference image. The method is applied to the latest UAV-based geolocation dataset (University-1652 dataset) and the real-scene campus data we collected with UAVs. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the method.     

Optimization of multi-element airfoil settings considering ice accretion effect

Almost half of all flight accidents caused by inflight icing occur at the approach and landing phases when high-lift devices are deployed. The present study focuses on the optimization of an ice-tolerant multi-element airfoil. Dual-objective optimization is carried out with critical horn-shaped ice accumulated during the holding phase. The optimization results show that the present optimization method significantly enhances the iced-state and clean-state performance. The optimal multi-element airfoil has a larger deflection angle and wider gap at the slat and the flap compared with the baseline configuration. The sensitivity of each design parameter is analyzed, which verifies the robustness of the design. The design is further assessed when ice is accreted during the approach and landing phases, which also shows performance improvement.     

基于柔顺机构的新型可变形机翼设计方法研究

机翼翼型变体技术可以根据任务和环境自适应地改变机翼形状、厚度、弯度等重要参数,使飞机在不同飞行状态下都能取得较理想的气动特性。柔顺机构是实现机翼蒙皮光滑变形的驱动装置,相比传统液压机构具备质量特性好的优势。采用鱼骨型柔性钢架与四连杆机构实现了机翼前缘上下蒙皮向内收缩、前缘形状由钝变尖的弹性变形过程。通过设计“撞块”机构实现驱动行程的有效分解,解决了前缘尖端开口处蒙皮回收与机翼变形控制所需的驱动行程不一致的内在矛盾。变形后翼型与目标翼型误差最大位置不超过4 mm,变形过程中结构最大应力小于材料许用应力值。相比传统采用纯液压机构驱动的变形机翼设计方案,该基于柔顺机构的变体机翼结构减质14.1%。     

A robust Poisson multi-Bernoulli filter for multi-target tracking based on arithmetic average fusion

The coalescence and missed detection are two key challenges in Multi-Target Tracking (MTT). To balance the tracking accuracy and real-time performance, the existing Random Finite Set (RFS) based filters are generally difficult to handle the above problems simultaneously, such as the Track-Oriented marginal Multi-Bernoulli/Poisson (TOMB/P) and Measurement-Oriented marginal Multi-Bernoulli/Poisson (MOMB/P) filters. Based on the Arithmetic Average (AA) fusion rule, this paper proposes a novel fusion framework for the Poisson Multi-Bernoulli (PMB) filter, which integrates both the advantages of the TOMB/P filter in dealing with missed detection and the advantages of the MOMB/P filter in dealing with coalescence. In order to fuse the different PMB distributions, the Bernoulli components in different Multi-Bernoulli (MB) distributions are associated with each other by Kullback-Leibler Divergence (KLD) minimization. Moreover, an adaptive AA fusion rule is designed on the basis of the exponential fusion weights, which utilizes the TOMB/P and MOMB/P updates to solve these difficulties in MTT. Finally, by comparing with the TOMB/P and MOMB/P filters, the performance of the proposed filter in terms of accuracy and efficiency is demonstrated in three challenging scenarios.     

Pressure distribution feature-oriented sampling for statistical analysis of supercritical airfoil aerodynamics

In the field of supercritical wing design, various principles and rules have been summarized through theoretical and experimental analyses. Compared with black-box relationships between geometry parameters and performances, quantitative physical laws about pressure distributions and performances are clearer and more beneficial to designers. With the advancement of computational fluid dynamics and computational intelligence, discovering new rules through statistical analysis on computers has beco...     

Adaptive cubature Kalman filter with the estimation of correlation between multiplicative noise and additive measurement noise

Mobile robots are often subject to multiplicative noise in the target tracking tasks, where the multiplicative measurement noise is correlated with additive measurement noise. In this paper,first, a correlation multiplicative measurement noise model is established. It is able to more accurately represent the measurement error caused by the distance sensor dependence state. Then, the estimated performance mismatch problem of Cubature Kalman Filter(CKF) under multiplicative noise is analyzed. An i...