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The ability to recognize physical activity, such as sedentary, driving, riding, daily activities and effective training, is useful for health conscious users to catalogue their daily activities and to develop good exercise routines. Conventional activity recognition algorithms require complex calculations, which are not suitable for wearable devices developed on low-cost, low-power hardware platforms...
In this paper, we report on a body state and ground profile estimator for a snake-like robot executing a rolling gait to travel from flat ground to a slope. With the help of the estimator, the snake-like robot can adaptively adjust the body shape and locomotion speed by changing the gait parameters for the purpose of tackling a steep slope. Specifically, we propose a repeating sequence of continuous...
Cold atom interferometer is a promising technology to obtain a highly sensitive and accurate absolute gravimeter. With the help of an anomalies gravity map, local measurements of gravity allow a terrain-based navigation. We describe the model of the absolute gravity measurement. We develop a Laplace-based particle filter adapted to this context. This non-linear filter is able to estimate the positions...
This paper is the companion-paper of another paper presented in FUSION'17 concerning bearings-only target motion analysis (BOTMA). In this one, bearing data are replaced by range data: we study observability in range-only target motion analysis (ROTMA). When the observer is in constant turn motion, the target's trajectory is observable, as in BOTMA. If the observer is in constant acceleration motion,...
In this paper we present a method for the tracking of interacting targets disregarding whether or not the targets are close to each other. The method relies on parametric modeling of assumptions about targets interactive motion. Our filtering solution incorporates the parameters of the model in the state vector to perform on-line parameter estimation and exploitation. The proposed method is applied...
Observability in bearings-only target analysis (BOTMA) is studied when the target is in constant-velocity motion and the observer maneuvers gently (a constant turn motion or a constant acceleration motion). During our study, we proved that the rendezvous routes of the observer and the target play a key role in this analysis. We establish necessary and sufficient conditions of observability and we...
In this paper we study the problem of estimating the position of a joint that is connecting two rigid links in a biomechanical model. By equipping the two links with inertial sensors, which measure linear acceleration and angular velocity, it is possible to estimate the joint position. Estimation methods for this problem have been proposed before, but experimental evaluation and comparison between...
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