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Image-to-patient registration process is required to use actively pre-operative images such as CT and MRI during operation for surgical navigation system. One method to utilize scanning data of patients and 3D data from MRI or CT images is dealt with in this paper. After 3D surface measurement device measures the surface of patient's surgical site, this 3D data is registered to CT or MRI data using...
Within the context of road estimation, the present paper addresses the problem of the fusion of several sources with different reliabilities. Thereby, reliability represents a higher-level uncertainty. This problem arises in automated driving and ADAS due to changing environmental conditions, e.g., road type or visibility of lane markings. Thus, we present an online sensor reliability assessment and...
Improving trust in the state of Cyber-Physical Systems becomes increasingly important as more Cyber-Physical Systems tasks become autonomous. Research into the sound of Cyber-Physical Systems has shown that audio side-channel information from a single microphone can be used to accurately model traditional primary state sensor measurements such as speed and gear position. Furthermore, data integration...
RGB-D view registration has been widely studied by the robotics and computer vision community. The well known Iterative Closest Points (ICP) method and its variants prevail for estimating the relative pose between sensors. However, the optimization is performed locally and by consequence it can get trapped in local minima. Global registration methods have been introduced as an approach to solve the...
The Ellipsoidal Intersection algorithm aims at fusing two state estimates under a partial knowledge of the cross-correlation of the estimation errors. However, it has been observed that it does not provide an upper bound of all admissible fused mean square error matrices. This paper provides a mathematical tool for an analysis of the fusion under the considered partial knowledge of correlations. The...
We consider the problem of inferring the operational status of a reactor facility using measurements from a radiation sensor network deployed around the facility's ventilation off-gas stack. The intensity of stack emissions decays with distance, and the sensor counts or measurements are inherently random with parameters determined by the intensity at the sensor's location. We utilize the measurements...
The automatic detection of anomalies in Active and Assisted Living (AAL) environments is important for monitoring the wellbeing and safety of the elderly at home. The integration of smart domotic sensors (e.g. presence detectors) and those ones equipping modern mobile robots (e.g. RGB-D cameras) provides new opportunities for addressing this challenge. In this paper, we propose a novel solution to...
The group of rotations in three dimensions SO(3) plays a crucial role in applications ranging from robotics and aeronautics to computer graphics. Rotations have three degrees of freedom, but representing rotations is a nontrivial matter and different methods, such as Euler angles, quaternions, rotation matrices, and Rodrigues vectors are commonly used. Unfortunately, none of these representations...
Due both to the speed and quality of their sensors and restrictive on-board computational capabilities, current state-of-the-art (SOA) size, weight, and power (SWaP) constrained autonomous robotic systems are limited in their abilities to sample, fuse, and analyze sensory data for state estimation. Aimed at improving SWaP-constrained robotic state estimation, we present Multi-Hypothesis DeepEfference...
Calibration between Lidar sensor and RGB cameras can be applied to various fields such as object recognition and tracking, 2D-3D mapping, and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Different methods for calibrating Lidar sensor and RGB cameras have been proposed using special 3D markers or calibration patterns. However, most of these methods have disadvantages of longer processing time, and...
Human-autonomy teaming using physiological sensors poses a novel sensor fusion problem due to the dynamic nature of the sensor models and the difficulty of modeling their temporal and inter-subject variability. Developing analytical models therefore requires defining objective criteria for selection and weighting of sensors under an appropriate fusion paradigm. We investigate a selection methodology...
Many ships today rely on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), for their navigation, where GPS (Global Positioning System) is the most well-known. Unfortunately, the GNSS systems make the ships dependent on external systems, which can be malfunctioning, be jammed or be spoofed. There are today some proposed techniques where, e.g., bottom depth measurements are compared with known maps using...
We consider tracking of a target with elliptical nonlinear constraints on its motion dynamics. The state estimates are generated by sensors and sent over long-haul links to a remote fusion center for fusion. We show that the constraints can be projected onto the known ellipse and hence incorporated into the estimation and fusion process. In particular, two methods based on (i) direct connection to...
A fundamental issue in sensor fusion is to detect and remove outliers as sensors often produce inconsistent measurements that are difficult to predict and model. The detection and removal of spurious data is paramount to the quality of sensor fusion by avoiding their inclusion in the fusion pool. In this paper, a general framework of data fusion is presented for distributed sensor networks of arbitrary...
Harvesting energy from mechanical vibrations to provide power in remote areas where there is no lines of electricity has attracted a great research interest. Linear vibration energy harvesters (VEH) are not able to scavenge energy over broadband of frequencies. The performance of the linear harvesters can be improved using the concept of nonlinearity using magnets which has been extensively studied...
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