abstract: Head movement is known to have the benefit of improving the accuracy of sound localization for humans and animals. Marmoset is a small bodied New World monkey species and it has become an emerging model for studying the auditory functions. This thesis aims to detect the horizontal and vertical rotation of head movement in marmoset monkeys. Experiments were conducted in a sound-attenuated acoustic chamber. Head movement of marmoset monkey was studied under various auditory and visual stimulation conditions. With increasing complexity, these conditions are (1) idle, (2) sound-alone, (3) sound and visual signals, and (4) alert signal by opening and closing of the chamber door. All of these conditions were tested with either house light on or off. Infra-red camera with a frame rate of 90 Hz was used to capture of the head movement of monkeys. To assist the signal detection, two circular markers were attached to the top of monkey head. The data analysis used an image-based marker detection scheme. Images were processed using the Computation Vision Toolbox in Matlab. The markers and their positions were detected using blob detection techniques. Based on the frame-by-frame information of marker positions, the angular position, velocity and acceleration were extracted in horizontal and vertical planes. Adaptive Otsu Thresholding, Kalman filtering and bound setting for marker properties were used to overcome a number of challenges encountered during this analysis, such as finding image segmentation threshold, continuously tracking markers during large head movement, and false alarm detection. The results show that the blob detection method together with Kalman filtering yielded better performances than other image based techniques like optical flow and SURF features .The median of the maximal head turn in the horizontal plane was in the range of 20 to 70 degrees and the median of the maximal velocity in horizontal plane was in the range of a few hundreds of degrees per second. In comparison, the natural alert signal - door opening and closing - evoked the faster head turns than other stimulus conditions. These results suggest that behaviorally relevant stimulus such as alert signals evoke faster head-turn responses in marmoset monkeys. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Electrical Engineering 2014

Este trabalho dedica-se ao projeto e desenvolvimento de um veículo aéreo não tripulado. Tais veículos podem ser utilizados em diversas aplicações como monitoramento, vigilância, transporte, resgate, entre outros. Dentre os diversos tipos de veículos aéreos, este trabalho irá focar no modelo do quadrirotor, composto por quatro hélices contra-rotoras que estabilizam e movimentam o veículo. Para alcançar o objetivo de controlar este tipo de veículo, várias propostas e metodologias podem ser aplicadas, todas buscando contemplar o controle de todas ou parte das variáveis de estado presentes nesta planta. Neste texto serão descritas: as equações cinemáticas e dinâmicas que regem este sistema; o projeto e composição mecânica da aeronave; definição de sensores e atuadores juntamente com seus métodos de utilização; implementação de controlador linear por alocação direta de polos e Regulador Linear Quadrático juntamente com observador de estados de ordem plena e filtro de Kalman, para recuperação de estados não mensurados e filtragem de ruídos. Serão apresentados resultados em simulações para cada método de controle selecionado visando optar pelo melhor controlador para a aplicação da aeronave. O método selecionado será implementado para controlar a aeronave com os sensores e atuadores selecionados. Esta implementação será realizada a partir da técnica HIL Hardware in The Loop juntamente com o software MATLAB/Simulink visando validar o controlador em conjunto com a planta real, bem como o modelo dinâmico construído. / This work is dedicated to the project and development of an unmanned aerial vehicle. Such vehicles can be employed in various applications such as monitoring, surveillance, transportation, rescue and others. Among the types of aerial vehicles, this work is focused on the quadrotor, composed by four counter-rotating propellers which stabilize and displace the vehicle. In order to fulfill the objective of controlling this vehicle, many methodologies and propositions can be applied, seeking the control of all or a snippet of the state variables present in the system. There will be described in this work: the cinematic and dynamic equations that govern this system; the mechanical project and construction of the aircraft; sensors and actuators definition, along with its usage methods; linear control implementation of the pole placement and Linear Quadratic Regulator techniques along full order state observer and Kalman filtering in order to recover and filter non-measured states. Performance results in simulations will be presented on each control implementation to validate the best controller for the application and this implementation will be applied on the projected aircraft using the sensors and actuators selected. This implementation will be given through the HIL - Hardware in the Loop method using MATLAB/Simulink software to validate the control technique applied and the constructed dynamic model.

Orientador: Clésio Luis Tozzi / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T06:32:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Freitas_GreiceMartinsde_M.pdf: 16453422 bytes, checksum: fa0ae64561fd346237c57310fb0d0073 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: A crescente utilização de câmeras de vídeo para o monitoramento de ambientes, auxiliando no controle de entrada, saída e trânsito de indivíduos ou veículos tem aumentado a busca por sistemas visando a automatização do processo de monitoramento por vídeos. Como requisitos para estes sistemas identificam-se o tratamento da entrada e saída de objetos na cena, variações na forma e movimentação dos alvos seguidos, interações entre os alvos como encontros e separações, variações na iluminação da cena e o tratamento de ruídos presentes no vídeo. O presente trabalho analisa e avalia as principais etapas de um sistema de rastreamento de múltiplos objetos através de uma câmera de vídeo fixa e propõe um sistema de rastreamento baseado em sistemas encontrados na literatura. O sistema proposto é composto de três fases: identificação do foreground através de técnicas de subtração de fundo; associação de objetos quadro a quadro através de métricas de cor, área e posição do centróide - com o auxílio da aplicação do filtro de Kalman - e, finalmente, classificação dos objetos a cada quadro segundo um sistema de gerenciamento de objetos. Com o objetivo de verificar a eficiência do sistema de rastreamento proposto, testes foram realizados utilizando vídeos das bases de dados PETS e CAVIAR. A etapa de subtração de fundo foi avaliada através da comparação do modelo Eigenbackground, utilizado no presente sistema, com o modelo Mistura de Gaussianas, modelo de subtração de fundo mais utilizado em sistemas de rastreamento. O sistema de gerenciamento de objeto foi avaliado por meio da classificação e contagem manual dos objetos a cada quadro do vídeo. Estes resultados foram comparados à saída do sistema de gerenciamento de objetos. Os resultados obtidos mostraram que o sistema de rastreamento proposto foi capaz de reconhecer e rastrear objetos em movimento em sequências de vídeos, lidando com oclusões e separações, mostrando adequabilidade para aplicação em sistemas de segurança em tempo real / Abstract: There are immediate needs for the use of video cameras in environment monitoring, which can be verified by the task of assisting the entrance, exit and transit registering of people or vehicles in a area. In this context, automated surveillance systems based on video images are increasingly gaining interest. As requisites for these systems, it can be identified the treatment of entrances and exits of objects on a scene, shape variation and movement of followed targets, interactions between targets (such as meetings and splits), lighting variations and video noises. This work analyses and evaluates the main steps of a multiple target tracking system through a fixed video camera and proposes a tracking system based on approaches found in the literature. The proposed system is composed of three steps: foreground identification through background subtraction techniques; object association through color, area and centroid position matching, by using the Kalman filter to estimate the object's position in the next frame, and, lastly, object classification according an object management system. In order to assess the efficiency of the proposed tracking system, tests were performed by using videos from PETS and CAVIAR datasets. The background subtraction step was evaluated by means of a comparison between the Eigenbackground model, used in the proposed tracking system, and the Mixture of Gaussians model, one of the most used background subtraction models. The object management system was evaluated through manual classification and counting of objects on each video frame. These results were compared with the output of the object management system. The obtained results showed that the proposed tracking system was able to recognize and track objects in movement on videos, as well as dealing with occlusions and separations, and, at the same time, encouraging future studies in order for its application on real time security systems / Mestrado / Engenharia de Computação / Mestre em Engenharia Elétrica

Orientadores: Paulo Augusto Valente Ferreira, Alessandro Correa Victorino, Samuel Siqueira Bueno / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Eletrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-08T18:02:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Castro_CesarDantasde_M.pdf: 3031758 bytes, checksum: 02179aa87aa18297b9b19bef7fb5b647 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: Este trabalho disserta sobre o desenvolvimento e a implementação de um sistema de localização e mapeamento simultâneos (SLAM) para um veículo robótico aéreo. Utilizando tal sistema, um robô que sobrevoe determinada área, até então desconhecida, deve ser capaz de conhecer sua postura no ambiente e mapeá-lo, sem o auxílio de mapas ou outras informações externas. Para alcançar este objetivo, o sistema recebe informações de uma unidade de medição inercial e de uma câmera, que observa características do ambiente e, indiretamente, a posição e a atitude do robô. Para fundir as informações dos dois conjuntos sensoriais embarcados, é utilizada uma arquitetura baseada no filtro de Kalman estendido, que atua como um estimador tanto da localização do dirigível quanto do mapa. Este sistema representa um primeiro passo em direção a uma solução de SLAM em seis graus de liberdade para o Projeto AURORA, que visa o desenvolvimento de tecnologia em robótica aérea. Desta forma, a abordagem proposta é validada em um ambiente de simulação composto de sensores virtuais e do simulador dinâmico do projeto AURORA. Os resultados apresentados mostram a eficácia da metodologia / Abstract: This work addresses the development and implementation of a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system for aerial robotic vehicles. Through this system, a robot flying over an unknown region must be capable of detecting its position accurately and, at the same time, constructing a map of the environment without the help of maps or any other external information. To reach that goal, the system receives input data from an inertial measurement unit and a single camera, which observes features in the environment and, indirectly, the robot¿s position and attitude. The data from both onboard sensors are then fused using an architecture based on an extended Kalman filter, which acts as an estimator of the robot pose and the map. This system represents a first step towards a six degrees of freedom SLAM solution for Project AURORA, whose goal is the development of technology on aerial robotics. As such, the proposed methodology is validated in a simulation environment composed of virtual sensors and the aerial platform simulator of the AURORA project based on a realistic dynamic model. The reported results show the efficiency of the approach / Mestrado / Automação / Mestre em Engenharia Elétrica

Orientador: José Antenor Pomilio / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-25T18:11:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Guerreiro_JoelFilipe_M.pdf: 10178060 bytes, checksum: 342fb378bb2d1fd88084a0360e541d24 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Filtros Ativos de Potência Aeronáuticos (FAPA) são geralmente utilizados para melhoria da Qualidade da Energia em Sistemas Elétricos de Potência Aeronáuticos (SEPA). Os FAPA compensam os harmônicos de corrente, aumentam o fator de potência e minimizam os efeitos de cargas desbalanceadas. Este trabalho apresenta o desenvolvimento, simulação e implementação de um FAPA pra um SEPA avançado de velocidade e frequência variável. O SEPA é muito diferente dos sistemas elétricos residenciais e industriais, nesses sistemas a frequência pode variar de 360 Hz a 800 Hz, além do mais a carga se reconfigura repetidamente. Deste modo, uma estratégia avançada de filtragem ativa é necessária para SEPAs, O FAPA proposto neste trabalho é composto por um inversor multinível do tipo cascata assimétrica, o algoritmo de controle é implementado utilizando a teoria da potência conservativa e a sincronia do FAPA com o SIPA é realizada por meio de um algoritmo PLL com filtro de Kalman. Um protótipo trifásico é implementado para validar ambos o FAPA e as simulações / Abstract: Aircraft Active Power Filters (AAPFs) are most commonly used to improve energy quality in Aircraft Electrical Power Systems (AEPS by means of mitigating current harmonics, improving the source power factor and minimizing the effects of unbalanced loads. This work presents the design, simulation and implementation of a Multilevel AAPF for a Variable Speed Variable Frequency (VSVF) advanced aircraft electric power system. The AEPS is very different than the residential and industrial power systems, in these systems, the frequency may vary between 360 Hz and 800 Hz, and the load dynamics is often modified. For aircraft purposes an enhanced filtering technique is required. The proposed AAPF topology is composed by an Asymmetrical Multilevel Inverter (AMI), controlled by the Conservative Power Theory (CPT) and synchronized by a Kalman Filter Phase-Locked Loop (KF-PLL). A three phase AAPF prototype was implemented in order to investigate the proper system operation and accurateness to the simulations / Mestrado / Energia Eletrica / Mestre em Engenharia Elétrica

A face tracker is exactly what it sounds like. It tracks a face in a video sequence. Depending on the complexity of the tracker, it could track the face as a rigid object or as a complete deformable face model with face expressions. This report is based on the work of a real time feature based face tracker. Feature based means that you track certain features in the face, like points with special characteristics. It might be a mouth or eye corner, but theoretically it could be any point. For this tracker, the latter is of interest. Its task is to extract global parameters, i.e. rotation and translation, as well as dynamic facial parameters (expressions) for each frame. It tracks feature points using motion between frames and a textured face model (Candide). It then uses an extended Kalman filter to estimate the parameters from the tracked feature points.

Digital Holography Microscopy (DHM) is a new 3D measurement technique that exists since Charge Coupled Devices (or CCD cameras) allow to record numerically high resolution images. That opens a new door to the theory of holography discovered in 1949 by Gabor: the door that masked the world of digital hologram processing. A hologram is a usual image but that contains the complex amplitude of the light coded into intensities recorded by the camera. The complex amplitude of the light can be seen as the combination of the energy information (squared amplitude modulus) with the information of the propagation angle of the light (phase of the amplitude) for each point of the image. When the hologram is digital, this dual information associated with a diffractive model of the light propagation permits to numerically investigate back and front planes to the recorded plane of the imaging system. We understand that 3D information can be recorded by a CCD camera and the acquisition rate of this volume information is only limited by the acquisition rate of the unique camera. For each digital hologram, the numerical investigation of front and back regions to the recorded plane is a tool to numerically refocus objects appearing unfocused in the original plane acquired by the CCD.<p>This thesis aims to develop general and robust algorithms that are devoted to automate the analysis process in the 3D space and in time of objects present in a volume studied by a specific imaging system that permits to record holograms. Indeed, the manual processing of a huge amount of holograms is not realistic and has to be automated by software implementing precise algorithms. In this thesis, the imaging system that records holograms is a Mach-Zehnder interferometer working in transmission and studied objects are either of biological nature (crystals, vesicles, cancer cells) or latex particles. We propose and test focus criteria, based on an identical focus metric, for both amplitude and phase objects. These criteria allow the determination of the best focus plane of an object when the numerical investigation is performed. The precision of the best focus plane is lower than the depth of field of the microscope. From this refocus theory, we develop object detection algorithms that build a synthetic image where objects are bright on a dark background. This detection map of objects is the first step to a fully automatic analysis of objects present in one hologram. The combination of the detection algorithm and the focus criteria allow the precise measurement of the 3D position of the objects, and of other relevant characteristics like the object surface in its focus plane, or its convexity or whatever. These extra relevant measures are carried out with a segmentation algorithm adapted to the studied objects of this thesis (opaque objects, and transparent objects in a uniform refractive index environment). The last algorithm investigated in this research work is the data association in time of objects from hologram to hologram in order to extract 3D trajectories by using the predictive Kalman filtering theory. <p>These algorithms are the abstract bricks of two software: DHM Object Detection and Analysis software, and Kalman Tracking software. The first software is designed for both opaque and transparent objects. The term object is not defined by one other characteristic in this work, and as a consequence, the developed algorithms are very general and can be applied on various objects studied in transmission by DHM. The tracking software is adapted to the dynamic applications of the thesis, which are flows of objects. Performance and results are exposed in a specific chapter. <p> / Doctorat en sciences appliquées / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

abstract: For the last 50 years, oscillator modeling in ranging systems has received considerable attention. Many components in a navigation system, such as the master oscillator driving the receiver system, as well the master oscillator in the transmitting system contribute significantly to timing errors. Algorithms in the navigation processor must be able to predict and compensate such errors to achieve a specified accuracy. While much work has been done on the fundamentals of these problems, the thinking on said problems has not progressed. On the hardware end, the designers of local oscillators focus on synthesized frequency and loop noise bandwidth. This does nothing to mitigate, or reduce frequency stability degradation in band. Similarly, there are not systematic methods to accommodate phase and frequency anomalies such as clock jumps. Phase locked loops are fundamentally control systems, and while control theory has had significant advancement over the last 30 years, the design of timekeeping sources has not advanced beyond classical control. On the software end, single or two state oscillator models are typically embedded in a Kalman Filter to alleviate time errors between the transmitter and receiver clock. Such models are appropriate for short term time accuracy, but insufficient for long term time accuracy. Additionally, flicker frequency noise may be present in oscillators, and it presents mathematical modeling complications. This work proposes novel H∞ control methods to address the shortcomings in the standard design of time-keeping phase locked loops. Such methods allow the designer to address frequency stability degradation as well as high phase/frequency dynamics. Additionally, finite-dimensional approximants of flicker frequency noise that are more representative of the truth system than the tradition Gauss Markov approach are derived. Last, to maintain timing accuracy in a wide variety of operating environments, novel Banks of Adaptive Extended Kalman Filters are used to address both stochastic and dynamic uncertainty. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Electrical Engineering 2020

Context. A large portion of all the transportation in the world consists of voyages over the sea. Systems such as Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) have been developed to aid in the surveillance of the maritime traffic, in order to help keeping the amount accidents and illegal activities down. In recent years a lot of time and effort has gone into automated surveillance of maritime traffic, with the purpose of finding and reporting behaviour deviating from what is considered normal. An issue with many of the present approaches is inaccuracy and the amount of false positives that follow from it. Objectives. This study continues the work presented by Woxberg and Grahn in 2015. In their work they used quadtrees to improve upon the existing tool STRAND, created by Osekowska et al. STRAND utilizes potential fields to build a model of normal behaviour from received AIS data, which can then be used to detect anomalies in the traffic. The goal of this study is to further improve the system by adding statistical analysis to reduce the number of false positives detected by Grahn and Woxberg's implementation. Method. The method for reducing false positives proposed in this thesis uses the charge in overlapping potential fields to approximate a normal distribution of the charge in the area. If a charge is too similar to that of the overlapping potential fields the detection is dismissed as a false positive. A series of experiments were ran to find out which of the methods proposed by the thesis are most suited for this application.   Results. The tested methods for estimating the normal distribution of a cell in the potential field, i.e. the unbiased formula for estimating the standard deviation and a version using Kalman filtering, both find as many of the confirmed anomalies as the base implementation, i.e. 9/12. Furthermore, both suggested methods reduce the amount of false positives by 11.5% in comparison to the base implementation, bringing the amount of false positives down to 17.7%. However, there are indications that the unbiased method has more promise. Conclusion. The two proposed methods both work as intended and both proposed methods perform equally. There are however indications that the unbiased method may be better despite the test results, but a new extended set of training data is needed to confirm or deny this. The two methods can only work if the examined overlapping potential fields are independent from each other, which means that the methods can not be applied to anomalies of the positional variety. Constructing a filter for these anomalies is left for future study.

City busses are operated on roads where the GPS signal is weak, because of the tall buildings surrounding these roads. The localization of city busses, needs to therefore rely on alternate technique in order to improve the accuracy. Recent standardization of inter vehicular communication has made this a readily available tool which can be used for localization. This thesis presents an approach towards localization of a city bus by means of vehicular ad hoc network. The two main components of localization by this approach is the initialization of location estimate component, and the real time location estimation component. In particular, the thesis develops the use of minimum mean square estimation for initialization and an extended Kalman filtering approach for real time location estimation. The localization method is mathematically described, considering the operating scenarios of a city bus. The accuracy of the proposed method is mathematically evaluated. The developed localization method is implemented in a simulation tool kit for inter vehicular communication. Simulation experiments were performed for operating scenarios of city bus. The result of initialization by minimum mean square error is compared to that of initialization by GPS, in-terms of localization accuracy. Different setups of road side units are compared in-terms of accuracy and update interval. The results show that the proposed method is feasible for localization of a city bus. This thesis was carried out in association with Scania AB, Södertälje. / Stadsbussar åker på vägar som är omgivna av byggnader, vilket försämrar stadsbussarnas GPSmottagning. Lokaliseringen av stadsbussar måste därför förlita sig på alternativ teknik för att förbättra noggrannheten. Nyligen standardiserad kommunikation mellan fordon har blivit till ett lättillgängligt verktyg som kan användas för lokalisering. Den här uppsatsen presenterar en strategi för lokalisering av en stadsbuss med hjälp av fordonets ad hoc-nätverk. Huvudkomponenterna för lokalisering är en initialiseringskomponent och realtidslägesuppskattningskomponent. Speciellt utvecklar arbetet användningen av minsta medelkvadratberäkning för initialisering och en utvidgad kalmanfiltreringsmetod för realtidslägesuppskattning. Lokaliseringsmetoden beskrivs matematiskt med tanke på driftsscenarierna för en stadsbuss. Noggrannheten hos den föreslagna metoden utvärderas matematiskt. Den utvecklade lokaliseringsmetoden implementeras i ett simuleringsverktyg för kommunikation mellan fordon. Simuleringsexperiment utfördes för driftsscenarier för stadsbussar. Resultatet av initialisering med minsta medelkvadratberäkning jämförs med initialiseringen med GPS, i termer av lokaliseringsnoggrannhet. Olika inställningar av vägrensenheter jämförs med avseende på noggrannhet och uppdateringsintervall. Resultaten visar att den föreslagna metoden är möjlig för lokalisering av en stadsbuss. Denna arbetet genomfördes i samarbete med Scania AB, Södertälje.