A method of vehicle control is described. Visual feedback from a microsaccadic tracker is used to provide a docking competence. The vehicle is thereby capable of arriving at goal position with a specified heading angle. The vehicle uses a beacon to estimate it's trajectory and position in the ground plane. This information is used to control the vehicle to move to a "via-point". Complex traject...

In this work, the QFT technique was used to control a system with three degrees of freedom of coupled movement. The example is the coupling between the vertical and the horizontal dynamics of a high-speed craft. Since the angle between the heading and the seaway is different from 180 degrees, the action of the actuators for controlling each dynamic produces a coupling in the other dynamic. Firs...

We review the history of reactor neutrino detection, from the pioneer experiments to the modern concept of multi-layered detectors dedicated to the measurement of the last undetermined mixing angle θ 13. Experiments heading toward full operations in the next couple of years are presented. Prospects of giant (100's kton) detector as well as growing activity in applied neutrino physics using mini...

This work presents a solution for self-positioning (i.e. heading angle and offset) a vision system with respect to a line and the calibration of the single vision system. The tools Hough transform and camera model are used to obtain the position of the camera. The calibration procedure proposed calculates several parameters, which are used in the positioned process of the vision system. Experim...

A sensor-based software control architecture is proposed for autonomous navigation of the Real World Interface (currently iRobot) ATRV-mini skid steering vehicle. The architecture is superimposed over the existing ATRV-mini mobility software that navigates the robot. A two-layer fuzzy logic controller has been implemented: Inputs are the collision possibilities in front, back, left and right di...

The NUADU (NeUtral Atom Detector Unit) experiment aboard TC-2 recorded, with high temporal and spatial resolution, 4π solid angle images of electrons (∼50– 125 keV) spiraling around geomagnetic field lines at high northern magnetic latitudes (L>10), during its in-orbit commissioning phase (September 2004). The ambient magnetic field, as well as electrons in other energy ranges, were simultaneou...

Humans perceive heading accurately when they rotate their eyes. This is remarkable, because (1) the pursuit eye movement makes the retinal flow more complicated; and (2) the eye rotation causes a continuous change of the heading direction on the retina. The first problem prevents a simple association of the centre of flow on the retina with the heading direction. To solve it, the brain needs to...