Machine vision monitoring of plant health.

Techniques and algorithms to detect and diagnose disorders in plants grown in a controlled environment have been developed. A video camera senses features of plants which are indicative of disorders. Images are calibrated for size and color variations by using calibration templates. Different image segmentation techniques for separating object from background, have been implemented. Plant size and color properties have been investigated, temporal, spectral and spatial variation of leaves were extracted from the segmented images. Neural network and statistical classifiers were used to determine plant condition.     

HORACE: A compact cold atom clock for Galileo

HORACE (HOrloge à Refroidissement d’Atomes en Cellule = clock based on atoms cooled from vapour cell) is a compact cold caesium atom clock developed in SYRTE at Paris Observatory. This clock can operate both on ground and in microgravity environment. Design of HORACE is based on isotropic light cooling, allowing performing the whole clock sequence (cooling, atomic preparation, Ramsey interrogation and detection) at the same place. Compared to more conventional cold atom clocks such as atomic fountains, the use of isotropic light cooling simplifies both the optical part of the setup and the detection sequence, and leads to a drastic size reduction of the physics package. Very good short-term performances have been demonstrated at SYRTE since relative frequency instability of 2.2 × 10⁻¹³ τ^−1/2 has been obtained. Optimization of the long term stability is still under progress and current results show relative frequency instability around 3 × 10⁻¹⁵ in 10⁴ s of integration. With these performances, HORACE appears as a good candidate both for Galileo’s ground segment clock and for onboard Galileo clock.     

雅江峡谷里飘出的悠远牧歌

如黛的森林包围着绒毯一般的草地,散落其中的牛羊,随处可见的玛尼堆和褪色的五彩经幡……初看雅江,似乎与川西高原的任一处别无二致。然而细细深入,在雅砻江以东的祝桑乡地区,小木窗上绘着美丽图案的石头民居,温软动听的语言,以及悠扬雅致的锅庄……一切都体现出古老神秘的木雅文化所特有的母性亲近感;而以西160多公里的西俄洛乡却处处牧歌豪放,一派典型的康巴画卷。只要你探身而入,雅江的自然与人文之美自会让你沉醉。     

Passive sonar fusion for submarine C2 systems

The most important sensors for gathering target information onboard a submarine are passive sonars. Problems concerning fusion of these passive sonars are discussed. Three typical passive sonars-passive noise sonar, passive ranging sonar and acoustic pulse surveillance sonar-constitute a passive sonar system for data fusion. This paper is concerned mainly with problems of significance in system development, such as tactical application background, special fusion techniques and own-ship maneuver considerations     

基于压电阻抗技术和BP网络的结构健康监测

以装有多个螺栓和多片压电元件(PZT)的铝梁为实验对象,研究激励频率对PZT导纳值的影响以及PZT传感器感知较近螺栓松动与较远螺栓松动的灵敏性.构建BP网络,以各个螺栓分别松动时所测得的所有压电元件的导纳值作为网络的模式样本,输入到神经网络进行训练.实验结果表明:PZT传感器的导纳谱能灵敏地反映结构状态的微小变化;且离松动螺栓近的PZT导纳谱的变化远大于离松动螺栓远的PZT的导纳谱的变化;对于同一PZT传感器,激励频率不同,其阻抗变化量不同;选取PZT阻抗值变化明显的频率点来构成神经网络输入向量,训练后的BP神经网络能够快速并精确地判断出松动的螺栓位置.     

对一起空管责任事故征候的REAEON模型分析

2006年全国民航空管工作会议期间，某空管站发生了一起空管责任事故征候，这是对全体空管人员的一次警示，它从一个侧面映证了基层运行单位的安全管理更应着手于重要却看似不紧急的基础性安全管理建设，而不能仅仅靠阶段性的目标与行政督促来实现“本质安全”，安全管理不能迷恋于那些看似紧急也重要的“安全灭火”或者紧急却不重要的安全会议。这一事件还说明了一个单位或部门的安全管理是有客观评判标准的，当安全管理的水准没入深水区时，掩饰不了的不安全事件就会一次次更响亮地为我们敲响警示钟，该空管站一年内的两起空管责任事故征候和两起工作差错密集发生也从事后提醒我们，更轻微的、标志性的不安全事件也许在几年前就没有被关键的管理层识别和重视。依照系统观的安全管理理念，直接的当事人就如同高层管理牵动的提线木偶，管理的低水准直接影响行为人的操作态度，而等到安全滑坡后，苦果却由单位和部门的一长串人员共同“分享”，每次都是当事和不当事的管制员分得大头。希望新年的第一起空管责任事故征候能成为叫醒的闹铃，短暂的不快之后让我们空管从业人员有一个清醒和积极的2006年。     

目标姿态对空间目标辐射特性影响及探测技术

空间目标特性的研究是开展空间目标探测的重要基础。研究了目标姿态对空间目标辐射特性的影响,建立了相关的物理模型。在工程应用方面,对这种影响作为目标探测依据的可行性进行了分析,并提出了一套针对目标灰度变化的探测算法,为物理仿真系统的建立和探测载荷的研制奠定了基础。