@Article{cmc.2020.010124,
AUTHOR = {Lihua Zhu, Zhiqiang Wu, Lei Wang, Yu Wang},
TITLE = {The Identification of the Wind Parameters Based on the  Interactive Multi-Models},
JOURNAL = {Computers, Materials \& Continua},
VOLUME = {65},
YEAR = {2020},
NUMBER = {1},
PAGES = {405--418},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/cmc/v65n1/39573},
ISSN = {1546-2226},
ABSTRACT = {The wind as a natural phenomenon would cause the derivation of the pesticide 
drops during the operation of agricultural unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). In particular, 
the changeable wind makes it difficult for the precision agriculture. For accurate spraying
of pesticide, it is necessary to estimate the real-time wind parameters to provide the
correction reference for the UAV path. Most estimation algorithms are model based, and as 
such, serious errors can arise when the models fail to properly fit the physical wind motions. 
To address this problem, a robust estimation model is proposed in this paper. Considering 
the diversity of the wind, three elemental time-related Markov models with carefully 
designed parameter α are adopted in the interacting multiple model (IMM) algorithm, to 
accomplish the estimation of the wind parameters. Furthermore, the estimation accuracy is 
dependent as well on the filtering technique. In that regard, the sparse grid quadrature 
Kalman filter (SGQKF) is employed to comprise the computation load and high filtering
accuracy. Finally, the proposed algorithm is ran using simulation tests which results 
demonstrate its effectiveness and superiority in tracking the wind change.},
DOI = {10.32604/cmc.2020.010124}
}