...Behzad Taheri; Edmond Richer Purpose Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) play a crucial role in marine biology research and oceanic natural resources exploration. Since most AUVs are underactuated they require sophisticated trajectory planning and tracking algorithms. The purpose of this paper...

...Mohamad Boukattaya; Tarak Damak; Mohamed Jallouli Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address the trajectory tracking control in task space of a non‐holonomic wheeled mobile manipulator with parameter uncertainties and disturbances. The proposed algorithm is robust adaptive control strategy...

...Hadi Sadoghi Yazdi; Seyyed Ebrahim Hosseini Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present research in the area of the signal processing and application into pedestrian tracking in the video scene. Design/methodology/approach The paper describes the design of a new extended Kalman filter (EKF...

... a closed form set of analytical solutions for the motion of the spacecraft. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Spacecraft navigation Optimization techniques Flight operations Tracking The existence of asteroids and comets are nothing new to science. As the planets formed...

...Daniel Lockery; James F. Peters Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report upon research into developing a biologically inspired target‐tracking system (TTS) capable of acquiring quality images of a known target type for a robotic inspection application. Design/methodology/approach...