In this paper, we consider a privacy preserving scenario where users in the network want to perform distributed target source estimation with a wireless acoustic sensor network (WASN), without revealing the actual source of interest to other entities in the network. This implies that users do not share the steering vector of the beamformer with any other party. For distributed multi-channel noi...

A posteriori error estimation and related adaptive mesh-refining algorithms have themselves proven to be powerful tools in nowadays scientific computing. Contrary to adaptive finite element methods, convergence of adaptive boundary element schemes is, however, widely open. We propose a relaxed notion of convergence of adaptive boundary element schemes. Instead of asking for convergence of the e...

The dynamic behaviour of a vehicle (e.g. the dynamic tire forces, the suspension deflection, and the vertical acceleration of the sprung mass) can be improved significantly if the passive suspension is replaced by an active suspension with preview. Preview means that a priori information of the road surface is used in the control of the suspension. In this report, the rear wheels of the tractor...

Many vehicle control systems were designed and implemented in the last years to enhance performances and stability acting on front and/or rear steering actuators [1,2,3] and/or individual wheel braking [8]; the development of electroactuated differentials allows to transfer torque between wheels from the faster to the slower one in semiactive differentials [11,12,13,14] and in both directions i...

Fractional sample delay (FD) filters are useful and necessary in many applications, such as the accurate steering of acoustic arrays [1], [2], delay lines for physical models of musical instruments [3] [4], and time delay estimation[5]. This paper addresses the design of finite impulse response (FIR) FD filters. The problem will be posed as a convex optimization problem in which the maximum mod...

Directional drilling has evolved over the last few decades to become standard operational practice in the oil and gas exploration industry. One method of steering utilizes a technique known as magnetic Measurement While Drilling (MWD). Vector measurements of geomagnetic fields along a well-bore are used to determine it orientation. This method is advantageous in that it is inexpensive and effic...

Driving a motor vehicle is an inherently complex task that requires robust control to avoid catastrophic accidents. Drivers must maintain their vehicle in the middle of the travel lane to avoid high speed collisions with other traffic. Interestingly, while a vehicle's lane deviation (LD) is critical, studies have demonstrated that heading error (HE) is one of the primary variables drivers use t...

Since car manufacturers pursue in the development of environmental -friendly vehicle, the demand for extensive research on stability, controllability, and reliability of electric vehicles (EVs) increases. Electric powered and by-wire control technology allow manufacturers to build independent four -wheel steering of an allwheel drive in-wheel EV. In past research, we investigated the advantages...

This paper exploits the Angle of Arrival (AoA) information for improving Bit Error Rate (BER) performance of fixed wireless communications, which is more predominant in wireless sensor networks. In the proposed approach, the steering vector corresponding to the AoA is used as the signature vector and the signals arriving at other directions are considered as interference for single user environ...

This paper deals with adaptive array beamforming in the presence of errors due to steering vector mismatch and finite sample effect. Diagonal loading (DL) is one of the widely used techniques for dealing with these errors. However, the main drawback of DL techniques is that there is not an easy and reliable manner to determine the required loading factor. Recently, serval DL approaches proposed...