The lack of autonomous aerial refueling capabilities is one of the greatest limitations of unmanned aerial vehicles. This paper discusses the vision-based estimation of the relative pose of a tanker and unmanned aeria...The lack of autonomous aerial refueling capabilities is one of the greatest limitations of unmanned aerial vehicles. This paper discusses the vision-based estimation of the relative pose of a tanker and unmanned aerial vehicle, which is a key issue in autonomous aerial refueling. The main task of this paper is to study the relative pose estimation for a tanker and unmanned aerial vehicle in the phase of commencing refueling and during refueling. The employed algorithm includes the initialization of the orientation parameters and an orthogonal iteration algorithm to estimate the optimal solution of rotation matrix and translation vector. In simulation experiments, because of the small variation in the rotation angle in aerial refueling, the method in which the initial rotation matrix is the identity matrix is found to be the most stable and accurate among methods. Finally, the paper discusses the effects of the number and configuration of feature points on the accuracy of the estimation results when using this method.展开更多
Optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OOFDM) has been proposed as a highly spectrum-efficient modulation technique, which can provide flexible spectrum assignment with fine granularity. In OOFDM-based fl...Optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OOFDM) has been proposed as a highly spectrum-efficient modulation technique, which can provide flexible spectrum assignment with fine granularity. In OOFDM-based flexible optical networks, Routing and Spectrum Assignment (RSA) has become a key problem. However, widely used dynamic RSA schemes, such as Fixed Routing (FR) and K-shortest Paths (KSP) routing schemes, are not able to realize route computation based on the link state information, thus leading to poor blocking performance and inefficient resource utilization. To solve this problem, Adaptive Routing (AR) schemes, e.g., the Entire Path Searching (EPS) scheme, have been proposed recently. These schemes have low blocking probability; however, since their computational complexities are factorial, they are not suitable for use in real networks. In this paper, we propose a novel Spectrum-Scan Routing (SSR) scheme in dynamic flexible optical networks. To the best of our knowledge, SSR is the first polynomial-time AR scheme that can realize adaptive shortest-route computation. Simulation results show that our proposed SSR scheme has lower blocking probability and higher resource utilization compared with FR and EPS. Moreover, the worst-case computational complexity of SSR increases linearly with the network scale of the torus topologies, making it applicable to real networks.展开更多
In this paper,we study the advantages of cooperation in broadcasting systems from a geosynchronous earth orbit(GEO)satellite to mobile terminals(MTs),achieved through a terrestrial complementary ground station(CGS) wi...In this paper,we study the advantages of cooperation in broadcasting systems from a geosynchronous earth orbit(GEO)satellite to mobile terminals(MTs),achieved through a terrestrial complementary ground station(CGS) with fixed installment,which acts as a relay.Moreover and in the context of the digital video broadcasting-satellite-to-handheld(DVB-SH) standard,the performance improvements offered by the rotated constellations method are investigated,where prior transmission,a phase rotation of the transmitted symbols by a fixed angle is applied followed by a random component interleaver.Turbo codes with soft decision decoding and appropriate random channel interleavers are also considered.We present analytical expressions for the bit log-likelihood ratios(LLRs)that are needed for soft decision decoding at the MT turbo decoder,while the code combining technique is adapted to improve the end-to-end(E2E) performance.Then,we obtain through extensive computer simulations the average bit error probability(ABEP) of quadrature phase-shift keying(QPSK) signals received over pure land-mobile satellite(LMS)and pure CGS links for coding rates 1/3 and6/7.Moreover,the optimal rotation angles are obtained for both links.E2 E ABEP results are then presented assuming cooperation between GEO and CGS,while the power allocation issue is investigated under fixed total transmission power.Our performance evaluation results show that by using the constellation rotation technique,a performance gain can be achieved for high coding rates.展开更多
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China （51075207） Startup Foundation for Introduced Talents of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics （1007-YAH10047）
文摘The lack of autonomous aerial refueling capabilities is one of the greatest limitations of unmanned aerial vehicles. This paper discusses the vision-based estimation of the relative pose of a tanker and unmanned aerial vehicle, which is a key issue in autonomous aerial refueling. The main task of this paper is to study the relative pose estimation for a tanker and unmanned aerial vehicle in the phase of commencing refueling and during refueling. The employed algorithm includes the initialization of the orientation parameters and an orthogonal iteration algorithm to estimate the optimal solution of rotation matrix and translation vector. In simulation experiments, because of the small variation in the rotation angle in aerial refueling, the method in which the initial rotation matrix is the identity matrix is found to be the most stable and accurate among methods. Finally, the paper discusses the effects of the number and configuration of feature points on the accuracy of the estimation results when using this method.
基金supported in part by projects of National 863 Program under Grant No.2012AA011301National 973 Program under Grants No. 2010CB328203, No. 2010CB328205National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61201188
文摘Optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OOFDM) has been proposed as a highly spectrum-efficient modulation technique, which can provide flexible spectrum assignment with fine granularity. In OOFDM-based flexible optical networks, Routing and Spectrum Assignment (RSA) has become a key problem. However, widely used dynamic RSA schemes, such as Fixed Routing (FR) and K-shortest Paths (KSP) routing schemes, are not able to realize route computation based on the link state information, thus leading to poor blocking performance and inefficient resource utilization. To solve this problem, Adaptive Routing (AR) schemes, e.g., the Entire Path Searching (EPS) scheme, have been proposed recently. These schemes have low blocking probability; however, since their computational complexities are factorial, they are not suitable for use in real networks. In this paper, we propose a novel Spectrum-Scan Routing (SSR) scheme in dynamic flexible optical networks. To the best of our knowledge, SSR is the first polynomial-time AR scheme that can realize adaptive shortest-route computation. Simulation results show that our proposed SSR scheme has lower blocking probability and higher resource utilization compared with FR and EPS. Moreover, the worst-case computational complexity of SSR increases linearly with the network scale of the torus topologies, making it applicable to real networks.
基金Support to the SatNEx-Ⅲ Network of Experts (SatNEx-Ⅲ) CoO2,2011-2012
文摘In this paper,we study the advantages of cooperation in broadcasting systems from a geosynchronous earth orbit(GEO)satellite to mobile terminals(MTs),achieved through a terrestrial complementary ground station(CGS) with fixed installment,which acts as a relay.Moreover and in the context of the digital video broadcasting-satellite-to-handheld(DVB-SH) standard,the performance improvements offered by the rotated constellations method are investigated,where prior transmission,a phase rotation of the transmitted symbols by a fixed angle is applied followed by a random component interleaver.Turbo codes with soft decision decoding and appropriate random channel interleavers are also considered.We present analytical expressions for the bit log-likelihood ratios(LLRs)that are needed for soft decision decoding at the MT turbo decoder,while the code combining technique is adapted to improve the end-to-end(E2E) performance.Then,we obtain through extensive computer simulations the average bit error probability(ABEP) of quadrature phase-shift keying(QPSK) signals received over pure land-mobile satellite(LMS)and pure CGS links for coding rates 1/3 and6/7.Moreover,the optimal rotation angles are obtained for both links.E2 E ABEP results are then presented assuming cooperation between GEO and CGS,while the power allocation issue is investigated under fixed total transmission power.Our performance evaluation results show that by using the constellation rotation technique,a performance gain can be achieved for high coding rates.
