Visual feedback and non-visual information play different roles in tracking of an external target. This study explored the respective roles of the visual and non-visual information in eleven healthy volunteers who coupled the manual cursor to a rhythmically moving target of 0.5 Hz under three sensorimotor conditions: eye-alone tracking (EA), eye-hand tracking with visual feedback of manual outp...

To feasibly achieve economical and satisfactory robust velocity tracking of an induction machine (IM), we propose an Arduino-implemented intelligent speed controller. Because a voltage/frequency controlled IM framework is simple and well suited for being controlled by the proposed speed controller, it is adopted herein. Taking into account easy implementation and good performance, we design the...

The wind energy conversion system can deliver the maximum power when the load impedance matches with the source impedance under a given wind speed. Since the load and wind speed are varying dynamically, the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) becomes more complex. A wind-generator (WG) maximum-power-point tracking (MPPT) system is presented in the present work, consisting of a high efficiency b...

This paper describes a new vision chip architecture for high-speed target tracking. The processing speed and the number of pixels are improved by hardware implementation of a special algorithm which utilizes a property of high-speed vision and introduction of bit-serial and cumulative summation circuits. As a result, 18 objects in a 128 128 image can be tracked in 1 ms. Based on the architectur...

In order to solve speed and accuracy problems of maneuvering target tracking in wireless sensor networks, a Rough Set and neural network Adaptive Interacting Multiple Model (RSAIMM) tracking algorithm was proposed. Based on the establishment of target movement model and rough set neural integration adaptive model, a decision making method which combined rough set theory and neural network was u...

In this paper, we present a system for high-speed robust monocular tracking (HSRM-Tracking) of active markers. The proposed algorithm robustly and accurately tracks multiple markers at full framerate of current high-speed cameras. For this, we have developed a novel, nearly co-planar marker pattern that can be identified without initialization or incremental tracking. The pattern also encodes a...

In this study, we develop a semi-automatic system for tracking bubbles in image sequences. The vapor bubbles are generated on the surface of a heated tube in a boiling liquid. The images are taken with a speed of one thousand images per second via a high speed digital video camera. Due to some physical properties such as the testing liquid, the surface structure of the heated tube, temperature,...

This paper describes the visual control of a parallel robot called “RoboTenis”. The system has been designed and built in order to carry out tasks in three dimensions and dynamical environments; the system is capable to interact with objects which move up to 1m/s. The control strategy is composed by two intertwined control loops: The internal loop is faster and considers the information from th...