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Title: Motion tomography via occupation kernels

Journal Article · · Journal of Computational Dynamics
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  1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  2. Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK (United States)
  3. Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR (United States)
  4. Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL (United States)

The goal of motion tomography is to recover a description of a vector flow field using measurements along the trajectory of a sensing unit. In this paper, we develop a predictor corrector algorithm designed to recover vector flow fields from trajectory data with the use of occupation kernels developed by Rosenfeld et al. [9,10]. Specifically, we use the occupation kernels as an adaptive basis; that is, the trajectories defining our occupation kernels are iteratively updated to improve the estimation in the next stage. Initial estimates are established, then under mild assumptions, such as relatively straight trajectories, convergence is proven using the Contraction Mapping Theorem. We then compare the developed method with the established method by Chang et al. [5] by defining a set of error metrics. Here, we found that for simulated data, where a ground truth is available, our method offers a marked improvement over [5]. For a real-world example, where ground truth is not available, our results are similar results to the established method.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725
OSTI ID:
1842593
Journal Information:
Journal of Computational Dynamics, Journal Name: Journal of Computational Dynamics Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 9; ISSN 2158-2491
Publisher:
American Institute of Mathematical SciencesCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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