Absorptivity measurements with a laser-heating approach, referred to as the laser-driven thermal reactor (LDTR), were carried out in the infrared and applied at ambient (laboratory) non-reacting conditions to particle-laden filters from a three-wavelength (visible) particle/soot absorption photometer (PSAP). The particles were obtained during the Biomass Burning Observation Project (BBOP) field...

FastSLAM is a framework which solves the problem of simultaneous localization and mapping using a Rao-Blackwellized particle filter. Conventional FastSLAM is known to degenerate over time in terms of accuracy due to the particle depletion in resampling phase. To solve this problem, a FastSLAM method based on particle swarm optimization and unscented particle filter is proposed. The number of pa...

Particle filters are an alternative to approximate the Kalman filter for nonlinear problems. This paper intends to assess the potential of Particle Filter (PF) and its variants in the context of the state estimation problem of a three phase induction motor. The conventional Particle Filter (SIR-PF), and particle filters that employ importance sampling through proposal distributions such as Part...

FastSLAM is a framework for simultaneous localization using a Rao-Blackwellized particle filter. In FastSLAM, particle filter is used for the mobile robot pose (position and orientation) estimation, and an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) is used for the feature location’s estimation. However, FastSLAM degenerates over time. This degeneracy is due to the fact that a particle set estimating the pose...

We present a particle filter construction for a system that exhibits time-scale separation. The separation of time-scales allows two simplifications that we exploit: i) The use of the averaging principle for the dimensional reduction of the system needed to solve for each particle and ii) the factorization of the transition probability which allows the Rao-Blackwellization of the filtering step...

Although particle filter and its variants like KPF and UPF achieve great success in many visual tracking applications, they depend on local proposal distributions and hence always fall flat in cases of global object shift and large-scale object movement. To address this issue, we present the concept of global proposal distribution for particle filter with the inspiration from biological vision ...

The penetration result obtained on a filter test stand depends on several factors. Two of these are challenge aerosol size distribution and the particle detector used to measure the particle size and concentration. Some filter testers employ a monodisperse aerosol challenge while others use a polydisperse challenge. Some particle detectors are based on particle counting while others are based o...

Optical sensors based vehicle tracking can be widely implemented in traffic surveillance and flow control. The vast development of video surveillance infrastructure in recent years has drawn the current research focus towards vehicle tracking using high-end and low cost optical sensors. However, tracking vehicles via such sensors could be challenging due to the high probability of changing vehi...