Surveillance through walls and other opaque materials

The Department of Defense (DoD) has funded a dazzling array of “high tech” solutions for many of the problems facing our military forces. Many of these “solutions” have been effective for long range mass destruction but have not been applicable for the close-in hand-to-hand combat that is on our streets. Our goal at the Hughes AET Center has been to convert “high tech” DoD capabilities into cost effective tools to help law enforcement agencies do their jobs better. Surveillance systems presently used by law enforcement officers make extensive use of television, infrared and other Line-of-Sight (LOS) surveillance systems. However, these systems cannot tell what is happening on the other side of a wall, behind bushes, around the corner, in the dark or through a dense fog. A new sensor has been developed that uses technology developed by the DoD for missile warhead fuzing. This small, light weight, low power “Radar” is based upon the fact that radio waves can penetrate nonmetallic materials. This new surveillance capability can help provide information about what is in a wall, ceiling or floor or on the other side of a door or concrete wall. Real field scenarios are used in this paper to show how this radar works and how field users can tell if someone is moving inside a building, even from remote locations     

Active damping control of vibrational systems

The problem of vibration suppression in large flexible space structure (LFSS) is investigated. Based on the structure property of LFSS, an active damping strategy is proposed to effectively attenuate the critical vibrations of the structure subject to modeling uncertainty and external disturbance. Control algorithms are derived with the aim of suppressing both the vibrating magnitude and vibrating rate to an acceptable level. It is shown that the strategy exhibits robust and adaptive properties and is truly model-independent. The novelty of the proposed approach lies in the fact that it is fairly easy to set up the strategy and the overall computation involved is much less than any other strategies available to date. A two-bay truss is used to verify the validity of the proposed approach     

Radar target classification of commercial aircraft

With the increased availability of coherent wideband radars there has been a renewed interest in radar target recognition. A large bandwidth gives high resolution in range which means target discrimination may be possible. Coherence makes cross-range resolution and radar images possible. Some of the problems of classifying high resolution range profiles (HRRPs) are examined and simple preprocessing techniques which may aid subsequent target classification are investigated. These techniques are applied to HRRP data acquired at a local airport using the Microwave Radar Division (MRD) mobile radar facility It is found that Boeing 727 and Boeing 737 aircraft can be reliably distinguished over a range of aspect angles. This augers well for future target classification studies using HRRPs     

On adaptive multiband signal detection with the SMI algorithm

In a nonstationary and/or nonhomogeneous interference environment, an adaptive system for target detection may suffer a severe performance degradation due to the lack of a sufficient amount of data from which the system can learn (estimate) the statistics of the environment. The detection performance of an adaptive system, which employs a frequency diversity (multiband) signaling waveform and a multiband sample matrix inversion algorithm (SMI), is analyzed. By comparison with the corresponding single-band system under the chosen system constraint, it is shown that the multiband system can significantly outperform the single band when the amount of data available from a single frequency band is severely limited by the environment     

飞机导管标志研究与改进

分析了飞机各管路系统中导管标带识别、涂色识别和印章识别传统方法的不足，提出了采用激光刻制导管图号标记的新方法，阐明其基本原理和方法，并与传统方法作了比较分析。激光刻制方法使设计人员不用再在图样上注明导管的标志和辅助标志，减轻了设计的工作量，提高了工作效率，缩短了导管制造周期；同时减轻了飞机的重量，改善飞机性能；标记清晰、美观易认，有利于飞机的检查和维修。     

现场动平衡技术在生产中的应用

利用美国恩泰克公司提供的DP1500数据采集仪及现场动平衡软件,以实例说明了现场动平衡技术在锅炉引风机、排粉风机、电动机、机泵等转动设备不平衡故障排除中的应用,介绍了不平衡故障的识别方法,揭示出该技术在生产中的实用性、先进性和经济性.     

ERG理论在房地产营销中的应用

在房地产营销中，我们根据ERG多层次需求理论，从S．T．P战略出发，将房地产市场进行细分（Segmentation）后，分析目标客户群（Targeting）并实施产品定位（Positioning）。通过进行4P营销组合，即满意的产品（Product）、适当的价格（Price）、有效的分销渠道（Place）和促销手段（Promotion）最终达到顾客满意。     

各拉丹东聆听长江源头的声音

6621米，也许很多人渴望去征服它、挑战它，当人们登临山之巅，心中一定会是非常的平静，他们感受到的是来自长江初源的寒冷的温暖。但更多的人，会站在远处默默地凝视着这6621米的山峰——有着敬畏、有着崇拜——它是那么的美丽：率领大小山峰像一列洁白的长城横亘在远处，高贵而大方，神圣而不可侵犯。[编者按]     

Ground Radiation Pattern Generated by High-Altitude Reflectors

A method is given to calculate the shape a high-altitude reflector must have to produce any intensity distribution inside the illuminated ground area. The method consists of setting up and solving a differential equation appropriate to the required ground intensity distribution. Cylindrical and spherical mirrors are discussed in detail, and mirror shapes for producing a particular type of uniform ground illumination are derived. These shapes approach paraboloids in the limit when the mirror altitude is much greater than the diameter of the illuminated area.