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Mohammadkarimi, M. (author), Leus, G.J.T. (author), Rajan, R.T. (author)A new method for joint ranging and Phase Offset (PO) estimation of multiple drones/aircrafts is proposed in this paper. The proposed method employs the superimposed uncoordinated Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) packets broadcasted by drones/aircrafts for joint range and PO estimation. It jointly estimates range and PO prior...journal article 2024
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El Hajj, Marcel M. (author), Steele-Dunne, S.C. (author), Almashharawi, Samer K. (author), Tian, X. (author), Johansen, Kasper (author), Camargo, Omar A.Lopez (author), Amezaga-Sarries, Adria (author), Mas-Vinolas, Andreu (author), McCabe, Matthew F. (author)Soil moisture (SM) is an important state variable in land surface models. Here, we investigate the potential of a ground-based global navigation satellite system receiver with two linearly polarized antennas that measure the interference power (IP) of direct and reflected signals in horizontal polarization (H-pol) and vertical polarization (V...journal article 2024
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Castro, Candida (author), Pablo Doncel, P. (author), Ledesma, Rubén D. (author), Montes, Silvana A. (author), Oviedo-Trespalacios, O. (author), Daniela Barragan, D. (author), Bianchi, Alessandra (author), Kauer, Natalia (author), Qu, Weina (author), Padilla, Jose Luis (author)The Attention-Related Driving Errors Scale (ARDES) is a self-report measure of individual differences in driving inattention. ARDES was originally developed in Spanish (Argentina), and later adapted to other countries and languages. Evidence supporting the reliability and validity of ARDES scores has been obtained in various different...journal article 2024
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Psychas, D.V. (author), Khodabandeh, A. (author), Teunissen, P.J.G. (author)PPP-RTK corrections, aiding GNSS users to achieve single-receiver integer ambiguity-resolved parameter solutions, are often estimated in a recursive manner by a provider. Such recursive, multi-epoch, estimation of the corrections relies on a set of S-basis parameters that are chosen by the provider so as to make the underlying measurement...journal article 2024
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Segovia Castillo, P. (author), Puig, Vicenc (author), Duviella, Eric (author)This article presents the design of a control strategy for the Calais canal, a navigation canal located in a lowland area in northern France that is affected by tides. Moreover, the available actuators are discrete-valued and the hierarchy of operational objectives is time-varying. All these circumstances render water level regulation of the...journal article 2024
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Khodabandeh, A. (author), Teunissen, P.J.G. (author)To accommodate the presence of bounded biases in mixed-integer models, Khodabandeh (2022) extended integer estimation theory by introducing a new admissible integer estimator. The estimator follows the principle of integer least squares estimation and is computed via the integer search method of BEAT. In this contribution, we present the...journal article 2024
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Benmahdjoub, Mohamed (author), Thabit, Abdullah (author), Van Veelen, Marie Lise C. (author), Niessen, W.J. (author), Wolvius, Eppo B. (author), Van Walsum, Theo (author)Augmented reality (AR) has shown potential in computer-aided surgery. It allows for the visualization of hidden anatomical structures as well as assists in navigating and locating surgical instruments at the surgical site. Various modalities (devices and/or visualizations) have been used in the literature, but few studies investigated the...journal article 2023
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Adams, S.J.L. (author), Jarne Ornia, D. (author), Mazo, M. (author)We present a biologically inspired design for swarm foraging based on ant’s pheromone deployment, where the swarm is assumed to have very restricted capabilities. The robots do not require global or relative position measurements and the swarm is fully decentralized and needs no infrastructure in place. Additionally, the system only requires...journal article 2023
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Khodabandeh, A. (author), Teunissen, P.J.G. (author)Carrier phase signals are considered among the key observations in global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) and several other high-precision interferometric measurement systems. However, these ultra-precise measurements are not fully exploited when the integerness of their inherent ambiguities is discarded during the estimation process....journal article 2023
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Pore, Ameya (author), Li, Z. (author), Dall'Alba, Diego (author), Hernansanz, Albert (author), De Momi, Elena (author), Menciassi, Arianna (author), Casals Gelpi, Alicia (author), Dankelman, J. (author), Fiorini, Paolo (author), Poorten, Emmanuel Vander (author)Increased demand for less invasive procedures has accelerated the adoption of Intraluminal Procedures (IP) and Endovascular Interventions (EI) performed through body lumens and vessels. As navigation through lumens and vessels is quite complex, interest grows to establish autonomous navigation techniques for IP and EI for reaching the target...journal article 2023
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Gholinejad, M. (author), Edwin, Bjørn (author), Elle, Ole Jakob (author), Dankelman, J. (author), Loeve, A.J. (author)Background: Surgical process model (SPM) analysis is a great means to predict the surgical steps in a procedure as well as to predict the potential impact of new technologies. Especially in complicated and high-volume treatments, such as parenchyma sparing laparoscopic liver resection (LLR), profound process knowledge is essential for...journal article 2023
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Casini, S. (author), Cervone, A. (author), Monna, G.L.E. (author), Gill, E.K.A. (author)Line-of-Sight (LoS) navigation is an optical navigation technique that exploits the direction to visible celestial bodies, obtained from an onboard imaging system, to estimate the position and velocity of a spacecraft. The directions are fed to an estimation filter, where they are matched with the actual position of the observed bodies,...journal article 2023
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Gillies, Natasha (author), Martín López, Lucía Martina (author), den Ouden, O.F.C. (author), Assink, Jelle D. (author), Basille, Mathieu (author), Clay, Thomas A. (author), Clusella-Trullas, Susana (author), Joo, Rocío (author), Weimerskirch, Henri (author)The ways in which seabirds navigate over very large spatial scales remain poorly understood. While olfactory and visual information can provide guidance over short distances, their range is often limited to 100s km, far below the navigational capacity of wide-ranging animals such as albatrosses. Infrasound is a form of low-frequency sound...journal article 2023
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Zhou, Chunhui (author), Xiang, Jiale (author), Huang, Hongxun (author), Yan, Yi (author), Huang, L. (author), Wen, Yuanqiao (author), Xiao, Changshi (author)The construction of maritime route networks holds significant importance for autonomous navigation of vessels. In this study, a two-layer maritime route network modeling method based on huge amounts of ship trajectory data was proposed. Firstly, we introduce a novel method for extracting nodes of the marine route network, which identifies...journal article 2023
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Piaggio, Benedetto (author), Garofano, V. (author), Donnarumma, Silvia (author), Alessandri, Angelo (author), Negenborn, R.R. (author), Martelli, Michele (author)A novel follow-the-leader approach for azimuth-driven vessels is devised and experimentally tested in a model-scale outdoor scenario. The vessels are equipped with global navigation satellite and inertial navigation systems. A line-of-sight algorithm ensures the yaw-check ability of the follower vessel along the leader's path, while a speed...journal article 2023
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Hou, P. (author), Zha, Jiuping (author), Liu, Teng (author), Zhang, Baocheng (author)Precise point positioning-real-time kinematic (PPP-RTK), otherwise known as integer ambiguity resolution-enabled precise pointing positioning, has attracted much attention in recent years and has become state-of-the-art in the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) high-precision positioning community. This work reviews several PPP-RTK...journal article 2023
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Khodabandeh, A. (author), Teunissen, P.J.G. (author), Psychas, D. (author)To obtain single-receiver Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) parameter solutions, the PPP-RTK user-filter combines measurements with time-correlated corrections that are separately computed by the filter of an external provider. The consequence of exercising such double-filtering is that the Kalman filter’s standard assumption of...journal article 2023
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Chiasson, David (author), Lin, Yuan (author), Kok, M. (author), Shull, Peter (author)Hyperbolic localization measures the time difference of arrivals (TDOAs) of signals to determine the location of a wireless source or receiver. Traditional methods depend on precise clock synchronization between nodes so that time measurements from independent devices can be meaningfully compared. Imperfect synchronization is often the dominant...journal article 2023
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Seres, Peter (author), Liu, C. (author), van Kampen, E. (author)Recent aerospace systems increasingly demand model-free controller synthesis, and autonomous operations require adaptability to uncertainties in partially observable environments. This paper applies distributional reinforcement learning to synthesize risk-sensitive, robust model-free policies for aerospace control. We investigate the use of...journal article 2023
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Tran, Hoang Anh (author), Johansen, Tor Arne (author), Negenborn, R.R. (author)Collision avoidance is one of the most challenging problems in developing a Maritime Autonomous Surface Ship. This paper proposes a pro-active collision avoidance algorithm for inland waterway ships. The algorithm addresses the problem of avoiding collisions with dynamic obstacles by applying a situation-based intention prediction for...journal article 2023