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On-orbit servicing robots were developed to complete the missions in the uncertain and hazards outer space. The operator controls the remote robot via teleoperation systems, which allows the operator to manipulate the robot at a distance. But, as the existing of communication time-delay affects the whole system stability, transparency and other performance index. Consequently, a proper teleoperation system could help the operator to perform missions more accurate. This paper presents the general scheme of the teleoperation system, compares the four typical control modes and estimates methods of time-delay. At last provides an outlook to future research directions.

The wave of voice signal is narrow and unstable. Besides, it has a non-continuity in time domain and an inconsistent decline of the radio channel, especially the short wave channel, which makes estimating the time delay of the radio’s voice signal very difficult. To solve such problems, the authors creatively combine the voice activity detection with the short-segment processing technology. Meanwhile, by using Weighted Least Squares Phase Fitting method to work out the time delay, we conduct a research in the time delay estimation of radio’s voice signal. The laboratory finding finally shows that this method is far better than the typical Generalized Correlation Method for estimation of time delay.

For the requirement of accurate tracking control and the safety of physical human-robot interaction, torque control is basically desirable for humanoid robots. Because of the complexity of humanoid robot dynamics, the TDC (time-delay control) is practical because it does not require a dynamic model. However, there occurs a considerable error due to discontinuous non-linearities. To solve this problem, the TDC-FLC (fuzzy logic compensator) is applied to humanoid robots. The applied controller contains three factors: a TDE (time-delay estimation) factor, a desired error dynamic factor, and FLC to suppress the TDE error. The TDC-FLC is easy to execute because it does not require complicated humanoid dynamic calculations and the heuristic fuzzy control rules are intuitive. TDC-FLC is implemented on the whole body of a humanoid, not on biped legs even though it is performed by a virtual humanoid robot. The simulation results show the validity of the TDC-FLC for humanoid robots.

A highly accurate model-free controller is proposed for trajectory tracking control of robot manipulators. The proposed controller incorporates time-delay estimation (TDE) to estimate and cancel continuous nonlinearities of robot dynamics, and exploits fuzzy logic systems to suppress the effect of the TDE error, which is due to discontinuous nonlinearities such as friction. To this end, integral sliding mode is defined using desired error dynamics, and a Mamdani-type fuzzy inference system is constructed. As a result, the proposed controller achieves the desired error dynamics well. Implementation of the proposed controller is easy because the design of the controller is intuitive and straightforward, and calculations of the complex robot dynamics are not required. The tracking performance of the proposed controller is verified experimentally using a 3-degree of freedom PUMA-type robot manipulator.

The problem of sound source localization is to determine the position of sound sources using the measurement of the acoustic signals received by microphones. To develop a good sound source localization system which is applicable to a mobile platform such as robots, a time delay estimator with low computational complexity and robustness to background noise or reverberations is necessary. In this paper, an explicit adaptive time delay estimation method for a sound source localization system is proposed. Proposed explicit adaptive time estimation algorithm employs direct adaptation of the delay parameter using a transform-based optimization technique, rather than...

The problem of robust $H_{\infty}$ estimation for the polytopic uncertain linear system with state delay is considered. Firstly, by introducing two auxiliary matrices a new LMI representation of $H_{\infty}$ performance is presented for the linear systems with a single time-varying state delay. The proposed criterion exhibits a kind of separation between the system matrices and the positive definite Lyapunov matrices. So the vertex-dependent Lyapunov functions can be adopted, and thus a less conservative result is expected to be obtained.

Robust fault estimation and observer-based active fault-tolerant control are studied for linear systems with time-varying delay in the presence of actuator faults. In practical applications, time delay and faults are often unavoidable, and the closed-loop performance can be degraded if these effects are not properly addressed. In this work, a unified augmented model is introduced so that state and actuator fault estimation are treated in a single framework. The estimation error dynamics and the actuator fault estimator dynamics are combined, and an augmented time-delay system is obtained. For the augmented system, a delay-dependent sufficient condition is derived in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). The condition is established by constructing a Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional and by applying inequality techniques to bound integral terms caused by the time-varying delay. Based on the feasibility of the resulting LMIs, the observer gain and estimator gain are obtained simultaneously. Active compensation against actuator faults is then achieved using the estimated fault signals, and asymptotic stability of the closed-loop augmented system is ensured. A numerical simulation example is provided to demonstrate that actuator faults are accurately estimated and that stable closed-loop behavior is maintained under time-varying delay and actuator fault conditions.

This paper considers the problem of fault estimation and accommodation for a class of switched systems with time-varying delay. An adaptive fault estimation algorithm is proposed to estimate the fault, moreover, constant or time-varying fault can be estimated. Meanwhile, a delay-dependent criteria is obtained with the purpose of reducing the conservatism of the fault estimation algorithm design. On the basis of fault estimation, an observer-based fault tolerant controller is designed to guarantee the stability of the closed-loop system. Additionally, simulation results are presented to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed results.

두 개 수신기에 들어오는 신호 간의 시간 지연 추정 기술은 수중 음향 뿐만 아니라 실내 음향 및 로보틱스에 이르기까지 다양한 분야에서 응용되고 있는 기술이다. 시간 지연 추정 기술에는 수신기 사이 상호 상관으로부터 시간 지연량을 추정하는 방법이 한 기술 부류이고, 수신기 사이의 시간 지연을 파라메트릭 모델링을 하여 그 파라미터를 시스템 인식의 방법으로 추정하는 기술 부류가 있다. 두 부류 중 후자의 경우 시스템의 파라미터 중에서 지연과 직접 관련 있는 파라미터는 전체 중 극히 일부라는 특성이 있다. 이 특성을 이용하여 Lasso 정규화 같은 방법으로 추정 정확도를 높이기도 한다. 그러나 Lasso 정규화의 경우 필요한 정보가 소실되는 경우가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 이를 보완하기 위해서 Lasso 정규화에 Ridge 정규화를 덧붙인 Elastic Net을 사용한 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법을 기존의 일반 상호 상관(Generalized Cross Correlation, GCC) 방법 및 Lasso 정규화를 사용한 방법과 비교하여, 백색 가우시안 신호원 및 유색 신호원에서도 추정 오차가 매우 적음을 보인다.

Time-delay estimation between two receivers is a technique that has been applied in a variety of fields, from underwater acoustics to room acoustics and robotics. There are two types of time delay estimation techniques: one that estimates the amount of time delay from the correlation between receivers, and the other that parametrically models the time delay between receivers and estimates the parameters by system recognition. The latter has the characteristic that only a small fraction of the system's parameters are directly related to the delay. This characteristic can be exploited to improve the accuracy of the estimation by methods such as Lasso regularization. However, in the case of Lasso regularization, the necessary information is lost. In this paper, we propose a method using Elastic Net that adds Ridge regularization to Lasso regularization to compensate for this. Comparing the proposed method with the conventional Generalized Cross Correlation (GCC) method and the method using Lasso regularization, we show that the estimation variance is very small even for white Gaussian signal sources and colored signal sources.

능동 소나에서 시간 지연 추정은 목표와 소나 사이의 거리를 알아내기 위해서 사용하고 있다. 능동 소나에서 시간 지연을 추정할 때 주파수 영역에서 계산하면 시간 지연 추정이 주파수 추정으로 바꾸어 생각할 수 있어서 비교적 쉽게 사용할 수 있다. 그러나 이 방법은 잡음에 의해 오류가 급증할 요소가 포함되어 있다. 본 논문에서는 이런 오류 급증 현상을 줄일 수 있는 가중 딕션너리를 사용하는 희소성 기반 추정 방법을 새롭게 제안한다. 또 이 방법을 두 개의 수신기로 확대 적용하여 두 수신기 간 시간 지연을 추정하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 그리고 백색 잡음 환경에서 제안한 방법을 적용한 것과 일반 상호 상관 알고리즘(Generalized Cross Correlation-Phase transform, GCC-PHAT) 및 일반 주파수 영역 방법을 포함한 제안한 방법을 적용하지 않은 방법들을 서로 비교한다. 그리고 새로 제안한 방법이 다른 비교 대상 알고리즘들보다 약 15 dB에서 약 60 dB의 성능 이득이 있음을 보인다.

In active sonar, time delay estimation is used to find the distance between the target and the sonar. Among the time delay estimation methods for active sonar, estimation in the frequency domain is widely used. When estimating in the frequency domain, the time delay can be thought of as a frequency estimator, so it can be used relatively easily. However, this method is prone to rapid increase in error due to noise. In this paper, we propose a new method which applies weighted dictionary and sparsity in order to reduce this error increase and we extend it to two receivers to propose an algorithm for estimating the time delay between two receivers. And the case of applying the proposed method and the case of not applying the proposed method including the conventional frequency domain algorithm and Generalized Cross Correlation-Phase transform (GCC-PHAT) in a white noise environment were compared with one another. And we show that the newly proposed method has a performance gain of about 15 dB to about 60 dB compared to other algorithms.

서로 떨어져 설치된 두 개의 음향 수신기에 도달하는 신호의 상호 지연 시간을 추정하는 것은 실내 음향과 소나 등에서 목표물 위치 추정 문제나 추적 등 여러 방면에서 쓰이고 있다. 시간 지연을 구하는 방법에서는 두 수신 신호 사이의 상호 상관을 이용한 방법으로 대표되는 비 파라메트릭 방법과 시스템 인식을 기반으로 하는 파라메트릭 방법이 있다. 본 논문에서는 파라메트릭 방법에 기반을 둔 시간 지연 추정 방법을 제안한다. 특히 음향 수신기에 잡음이 부과되는 것을 고려한 방법을 제안한다. 그리고 백색 잡음 및 잔향 환경에서 기존의 일반 상호 상관법과 적응 고유치 분석법과 비교를 통해서 새로 제안한 알고리즘이 더 우수함을 확인한다.

Estimating the mutual time delay between two acoustic sensors is used in various fields such as tracking and estimating the location of a target in room acoustics and sonar. In the time delay estimation methods, there are a non-parametric method, such as Generalized Cross Correlation (GCC), and a parametric method based on system identification. In this paper, we propose a time delay estimation method based on the parametric method. In particular, we propose a method that considers the noise in each receiving acoustic sensor. Simulation confirms that the proposed algorithm is superior to the existing generalized cross-correlation and adaptive eigenvalue analysis methods in white noise and reverberation environments.

두 개 수신기에 들어오는 신호 간의 시간 지연 값을 추정하기 위한 방법들이 연구되고 있다. 그중에서 채널 추정 기법을 기반으로 한 방법의 경우는 두 수신기의 입력 신호간의 상대적인 지연을 채널의 임펄스 응답처럼 추정하는 방법이다. 이 경우에는 해당 채널의 특성이 희소 채널의 특성을 가지고 있다. 기존의 방법들은 채널의 희소성을 이용하지 못하고 있는 방법이 대부분이다. 본 논문에서는 채널의 희소성을 이용하기 위하여 희소 신호 최적화 방법의 하나인 BPD(Basis Pursuit Denoising) 최적화 기법을 사용한 시간 지연 추정 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법을 기존의 일반 상호 상관(Generalized Cross Correlation, GCC) 방법과 적응 소유치 분해법 및 희소 신호 추정법의 일종인 RZA-LMS(Reweighted Zero-Attracting Least Mean Square)들과 비교하여, 백색 가우시안 신호원과 유색 신호원 및 해양 포유류 신호원에 대해서 비교 실험을 하였다. 그 결과 갑자기 추정성능이 열화되는 문턱 현상이 늦게 나타나거나 훨씬 줄어드는 것을 보였다.

Many methods have been studied to estimate the time delay between incoming signals to two receivers. In the case of the method based on the channel estimation technique, the relative delay between the input signals of the two receivers is estimated as an impulse response of the channel between the two signals. In this case, the characteristic of the channel has sparsity. Most of the existing methods do not take advantage of the channel sparseness. In this paper, we propose a time delay estimation method using BPD (Basis Pursuit Denoising) optimization technique, which is one of the sparse signal optimization methods, in order to utilize the channel sparseness. Compared with the existing GCC (Generalized Cross Correlation) method, adaptive eigen decomposition method and RZA-LMS (Reweighted Zero-Attracting Least Mean Square), the proposed method shows that it can mitigate the threshold phenomenon even under a white Gaussian source, a colored signal source and oceanic mammal sound source.

Leak noise is a good source to identify the exact location of a leak point of underground water pipelines. Water leak generates broadband noise from a leak location and can be propagated to both directions of water pipes. This sound propagation due to leak in water pipelines is not a non-dispersive wave any more because of the surrounding pipes and soil. However, the necessity of long-range detection of this leak location makes to identify low-frequency acoustic waves rather than high frequency ones. Acoustic wave propagation coupled with surrounding boundaries including cast iron pipes is theoretically analyzed and the wave velocity was confirmed with experiment. The leak locations were identified both by the acoustic emission (AE) method and the cross-correlation method. In a short-range distance, both the AE method and cross-correlation method are effective to detect leak position. However, the detection for a long-range distance required a lower frequency range accelerometers only because higher frequency waves were attenuated very quickly with the increase of propagation paths. Two algorithms for the cross-correlation function were suggested, and a long-range detection has been achieved at real underground water pipelines longer than loom.

본 연구는 폐쇄된 임의의 공간상에서 2개의 마이크로폰 어레이를 이용하여 마이크로폰에 수신된 신호들의 도착 시간차를 추정하는 새로운 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리즘은 입력 음성신호를 Discrete wavelet transform을 이용하여 인간의 청각 특성과 가장 유사한 주파수 해상도를 갖도록 대역 분할한 후 각 주파수 대역에서 신호 대 잡음비를 구하여 신호 대 잡음비가 가장 높은 대역만 선택적으로 취하고 해당 대역에서만 최종적인 시간 지연 값을 추정하게 된다. 최종 시간 지연 측정에 사용된 알고리즘은 기존의 CPSP에 해당 대역의 주파수 SNR을 가중치로 주어 구하게된다. 이러한 대역 분할 가중방식은 다양한 형태의 동적인 잡음 환경 하에서 안정적인 성능을 가질 수 있다. 제안된 알고리즘은 저주파와 고주파 각각의 모의 잡음환경 하에서 컴퓨터 실험을 통해 성능을 입증하도록 한다.

본 논문에서는 multipath 환경에서 효과적으로 시지연을 추정하기 위한 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안된 알고리즘은 전처리 과정으로 웨이블릿 변환을 적용하였으며, 적응 알고리즘으로는 RLS를 계층적인 구조로 나타낸 HRLS(Hierarchical RLS)를 사용하였다. 시지연은 신호 분해과정 이후 각각의 부밴드에서 primary 신호와 reference 신호 사이의 MSE(Mean of Squared Error)를 최소화 시키는 적응 메카니즘을 사용하여 추정하였다. 아울러 모의실험을 통하여 제안된 알고리즘의 성능을 검증하였다.

In this paper, we address a new time delay estimation method using third-order statistics and subband adaptive filtering to improve the accuracy of target detection for acoustic backscattered signals in a noise interference environment. Each reference and primary signals are decorrelated using the multiresolution analysis framework through a M-band discrete wavelet transform(M-DWT). Then noise effect can be reduced. Here, time delays are estimated iteratively in each subband using two different adaptation mechanisms that minimize the mean squared error (MSE) between the references and primary signal. More specifically, third-order cumulants and projection cross-correlation(PCC) criterion are utilized to achieve an effective SNR improvement for the time delay estimation.

A fast estimation method using wavelet transform for a time delay system is proposed. Main point of this method is to get the wavelet transform of the correlation between the input signal and delayed signal using transformed signals. But wavelet transform using Haar wavelet functions has basis with different phases and can offers a bisection method to estimate a time delay of a signal. Selective computation of the transform of correlation is performed and the computational complexity is reduced. Computational order of this method is O(N log N) and it is much love. than a simple correlation esimation when the length of signal is long.

The objective of this paper is to propose a new efficient technique for the estimation of time-delay parameters using wavelet theory and third-order cumulants, yielding good performance even in the case of low SNR. In particular, band-limited non-Gaussian signals with non-zero skewness and spatially correlated Gaussian noises are considered here. The approach is based on the fact that the effects of spatially correlated Gaussian noises on time-delay estimation can be reduced by using the projection sequences (based on the redundant wavelet decomposition) of given measurements in the higher-order cumulant domain. Finally, the performance of the proposed approach is demonstrated using simulations.

A measurement of conduction veloctiy of the action potentials along the muscle fibres has been applied to various diagnosis. When we measure muscle fiber conduction velocity, it occurs that not only change of conduction velocity but alos inclusion of mipulse component by physiological and experimental reason. So, robuster time delay estimation algorithm than general methods[1] is needed to find correct time delay form these signals. In this paper we, propose new time delay estimation algorithms, robust in impulsive noise, by using characteristic of .alpha.-stable distribution whcih defines impulsive noise well. Then we apply proposed algorthms to measure muscle fiber conduction velocity and compare them with other studies.

서로 떨어져 설치된 두 개의 음향 센서에 도달하는 신호의 상호 지연 시간을 추정하는 것은 실내 음향과 소나 등에서 목표물 위치 추정 문제나 추적 및 동기화에 이르기까지 다방면에서 쓰이고 있다. 시간 지연을 구하는 방법에서는 두 수신 신호 사이의 상호 상관을 이용한 방법이 대표적이다. 그러나 이 방법은 수신 음향 센서에 잡음이 부과 되는 것에 충분한 고려가 없었다. 본 논문은 수신 음향 센서에 모두 잡음이 부과된 경우를 고려한 새로운 시간 지연 추정 방법을 제안한다. 기존의 일반 상호 상관법과 적응 고유치 분석법과 비교를 통해서 새로 제안한 알고리즘이 유색 신호에 부가된 가우시안 잡음환경에서 우수성이 있음을 확인한다.

Time delay estimation between two acoustic sensors is widely used in room acoustics and sonar for target position estimation, tracking and synchronization. A cross-correlation based method is representative for the time delay estimation. However, this method does not have enough consideration for the noise added to the receiving acoustic sensors. This paper proposes a new time delay estimation method considering the added noise on the receiver acoustic sensors. From comparing with the existing GCC (Generalized Cross Correlation) method, and adaptive eigen decomposition method, we show that the proposed method outperforms other methods for a colored signal source in the white Gaussian noise condition.