A reply from Earth?

An approach is proposed to developing a message from Humankind to extraterrestrial intelligence if we detect it.     

采用一类积分型滑模的导弹控制系统设计

针对不确定导弹过载控制系统,考虑攻角难于测量的特性,引入一类简单积分型滑模面,设计变结构控制律.由于采用简单滑模面,使得设计十分简洁,有效避免了反演设计的微分爆炸.同时通过构造Lyapunov函数分析其稳定性,进行仿真研究举例,仿真结果表明了该方法的有效性.     

Readaptation of the vestibuloocular reflex to 1g-condition in immature lower vertebrates (Xenopus laevis) after micro- or hypergravity exposure

The effects of altered gravitational conditions (AGC) on the development of the static vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) and readaptation to 1g were investigated in the amphibian Xenopus laevis. Tadpoles were exposed to microgravity (μg) during the German Space Mission D-2 for 10 days, using the STATEX closed survival system, or to 3g for 9 days during earth-bound experiments. At the beginning of AGC, the tadpoles had not yet developed the static VOR.

The main results were: (i) Tadpoles with ug- or 3g-experience had a lower gain of the static VOR than the 1g-controls during the 2nd and 5th post-AGC days, (ii) Readaptation to response levels of 1g-reared controls usually occurred during the following weeks, except in slowly developing tadpoles with 3g-experience. Readaptation was less pronounced if, during the acute VOR test, tadpoles were rolled from the inclined to the normal posture than in the opposite test situation.

It is postulated that (i) gravity is necessarily involved in the development of the static VOR, but only during a period including the time before onset of the first behavioural response; and (ii) readaptation which is superimposed by the processes of VOR development depends on many factors including the velocity of development, the actual excitation level of the vestibular systems and the neuroplastic properties of its specific pathways.     

Pharmacological approaches

The use of drugs as countermeasures in the United States and Russian space programs is examined. Pharmacological tools for short and extended space flights are reviewed. Medications flown on the Shuttle are listed. Considerations for the use of pharmacological countermeasures include pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, drug interactions, therapeutic interventions, space motion sickness, the musculoskeletal system, radiation protection, space flight anemia, and cardiovascular disorders.     

数字磁记录器用的高性能误差修正系统

本文叙述并行高密度数字记录器用消去型误差修正系统。该系统能修正任何长度的单磁道或同时发生的二个磁道的突发性错误。文中比较了它的理论特性和实测特性,并比较了几种典型系统的质量因数。     

A new application of LBNP to measure orthostatic tolerance before and after 0-g simulation (water immersion)

Lower body negative pressure (LBNP) remains an important device for the generation of orthostatic stress in the space flight environment as well as a tool to measure inflight and postflight changes in orthostatic response.

These applied levels of LBNP have typically not exceeded 50–60 mm Hg negative pressure. Information is incomplete as to the levels of absolute LBNP orthostatic tolerance, and the factors responsible for their variance. A better definition of the tolerance limits for males and females could be expected to aid the evaluation of lower levels of LBNP.

An LBNP device was built to study absolute orthostatic tolerance; additionally, another LBNP device was constructed to permit orthostatic tolerance testing directly after a controlled water immersion period.

Absolute LBNP orthostatic tolerance patterns are analyzed for a group of males and females (series I). A preliminary statement on the variations of LBNP orthostatic tolerance after limited periods of water immersion and bed rest is also provided (series II).     

海上舰船目标的机载高分辨率ISAR成像

本文提出了机载高分辨率二维逆合成孔径雷达(ISAR)对舰船目标的侧视成像问题。通过采用舰船运动的简单模型，避免了采用高级的联合-时间频率(JTF)变换。研究了包括运动估计与校正、最佳处理时间与持续时间估计以及目标形状提取的鲁棒处理方案。强调了这样一个事实，即该处理的鲁棒性造就了单个ISAR成像分析而不必由一组雷达图像进行数据融合。     

复杂曲面五轴数控加工中刀具位置优化

针对复杂曲面五轴数控加工的刀具位置优化进行了研究并提出了一种基于五轴数控加工中非线性误差的分析和补偿的刀具位置优化方法。首先,简述了曲面加工中所用的平底圆角铣刀刀具位置的计算方法;然后,对刀具位置进行非线性误差分析并建立非线性误差模型,并基于这个模型得出插补段的最大非线性误差;接着通过对非线性误差模型中的非线性误差进行检测计算和补偿,最终得到满足加工精度要求的刀具位置。最后对该方法进行了模拟仿真。模拟的结果显示非线性误差的补偿对复杂曲面数控切削成形的几何精度有很重要的影响。     

Analysis of the pre-flight and post-flight calibration procedures performed on the Liulin space radiation dosimeter

Liulin, a dosimetry-radiometry system, was developed to satisfy the requirements for active flux and dose rate measurements for the flight of the second Bulgarian cosmonaut in 1988. The system consists of a compact battery-operated silicon solid state detector unit and a read/write microcomputer and telemetry unit. We describe the pre-flight calibrations with charged particles, using radioactive sources and accelerated 170 MeV/nucleon proton and alpha particles at the Dubna, Russia cyclotron. We discuss comparisons with data obtained on Mir with the French-built tissue equivalent LET spectrometer NAUSICAA. Lastly, we describe post-flight calibrations performed with 1 GeV/nucleon 56Fe ions at the Brookhaven National Laboratory AGS accelerator, where the instrument was mounted in tandem with several thin position-sensitive silicon detectors behind a stopping target. The silicon detectors provided an energy spectrum for the surviving charged nuclear fragments for which the flux and absorbed dose were recorded by Liulin.