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Stellar wind-magnetosphere interaction at exoplanets: computations of auroral radio powers
We present calculations of the auroral radio powers expected from exoplanets
with magnetospheres driven by an Earth-like magnetospheric interaction with the
solar wind. Specifically, we compute the twin cell-vortical ionospheric flows,
currents, and resulting radio powers resulting from a Dungey cycle process
driven by dayside and nightside magnetic reconnection, as a function of
planetary orbital distance and magnetic field strength. We include saturation
of the magnetospheric convection, as observed at the terrestrial magnetosphere,
and we present power law approximations for the convection potentials, radio
powers and spectral flux densities. We specifically consider a solar-age system
and a young (1 Gyr) system. We show that the radio power increases with
magnetic field strength for magnetospheres with saturated convection potential,
and broadly decreases with increasing orbital distance. We show that the
magnetospheric convection at hot Jupiters will be saturated, and thus unable to
dissipate the full available incident Poynting flux, such that the magnetic
Radiometric Bode's Law (RBL) presents a substantial overestimation of the radio
powers for hot Jupiters. Our radio powers for hot Jupiters are 5-1300 TW
for hot Jupiters with field strengths of 0.1-10 orbiting a Sun-like star,
while we find that competing effects yield essentially identical powers for hot
Jupiters orbiting a young Sun-like star. However, in particular for planets
with weaker magnetic fields our powers are higher at larger orbital distances
than given by the RBL, and there are many configurations of planet that are
expected to be detectable using SKA.Comment: Accepted for publication in Mon. Not. R. Astron. So
A route identification algorithm for assisted living applications fusing WLAN, GPS and image matching data
This paper addresses the automatic identification of often traversedroutes for assisted living applications using WLAN
technology in addition to other modalities. This problem is
complicated by a number of factors, including the changing
and noisy nature of the WLAN channel, the need to track
users seamlessly in both indoor and outdoor environments,
the need for robustness to slight deviations in the precise path taken, and speed, along a route. In this work commonly traversed routes are identified by clustering based on sensed data, two of which take the form of wireless signals: GPS and WLAN. The latter is particularly important as it can be used both indoors and outdoors. In addition an efficient image matching algorithm is implemented to process data from images automatically taken along the route. In this work a finite number of routes were identified within the DCU campus.
Each route was traversed many times over a period of
6 weeks and data sequences collected automatically on each
occasion. Each such traversal of a route is referred to as a trip in what follows. Section (2) outlines the use of Multidimensional Time Warping in order to automatically cluster trips corresponding to specific routes based on wireless and image data sensed on each trip. Section (3) outlines the manner in which data was sensed and presents clustering results for each modality individually as well as results based on a fusion of the data
Indoor localisation based on fusing WLAN and image data
In this paper we address the automatic identification of indoor locations using a combination of WLAN and image sensing. We demonstrate the effectiveness of combining the strengths of these two complementary modalities for very chal- lenging data. We describe a fusion approach that allows localising to a specific office within a building to a high degree of precision or to a location within that office with reasonable precision. As it can be orientated towards the needs and capabilities of a user based on context the method becomes useful for ambient assisted living applications
User tracking using a wearable camera
AbstractāThis paper addresses automatic indoor user tracking
based on fusion of WLAN and image sensing. Our motivation is
the increasing prevalence of wearable cameras, some of which can also capture WLAN data. We propose a novel tracking method that can be employed when using image-based, WLAN-based and fusion-based approach only. The effectiveness of combining the strengths of these two complementary modalities is demonstrated
for a very challenging data
Dual-sensor fusion for indoor user localisation
In this paper we address the automatic identification of in- door locations using a combination of WLAN and image sensing. Our motivation is the increasing prevalence of wear- able cameras, some of which can also capture WLAN data. We propose to use image-based and WLAN-based localisa- tion individually and then fuse the results to obtain better performance overall. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our fusion algorithm for localisation to within a 8.9m2 room on very challenging data both for WLAN and image-based algorithms. We envisage the potential usefulness of our ap- proach in a range of ambient assisted living applications
Using SenseCam images in a multimodal fusion framework for route detection and localisation
Problem of structuring location data is solved by proposing a framework for classifying the data into often-traversed routes. It does not rely on any one source of location information, but can fuse data from multimodal localisation sources: SenseCam images, GPS data and WLAN signal strengths
A hybrid method for indoor user localisation
In this work we describe an approach to indoor user localisation by combining image-based and RF-based methods and compare this new approach to prior work. This paper details a new algorithm for indoor user localisation, demonstrating more effective user localisation than prior approaches and therefore presents the next step in combining
two different technologies for localisation in indoor type environments
Dayside and nightside contributions to the cross polar cap potential: placing an upper limit on a viscous-like interaction
Observations of changes in size of the ionospheric polar cap allow the dayside and nightside reconnection rates to be quantified. From these it is straightforward to estimate the rate of antisunward transport of magnetic flux across the polar regions, quantified by the cross polar cap potential &Phi;<sub>PC</sub>. When correlated with upstream measurements of the north-south component of the IMF, &Phi;<sub>PC</sub> is found to increase for more negative <i>B<sub>z</sub></i>, as expected. However, we also find that &Phi;<sub>PC</sub> does not, on average, decrease to zero, even for strongly northward IMF. In the past this has been interpreted as evidence for a viscous interaction between the magnetosheath flow and the outer boundaries of the magnetosphere. In contrast, we show that this is the consequence of flows excited by tail reconnection, which is inherently uncorrelated with IMF <i>B<sub>z</sub></i>
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