Toward understanding the active SETI debate: Insights from risk communication and perception

Insights from the robust field of risk communication and perception have to date been almost totally absent from the policy debate regarding the relative risks and merits of Active SETI or Messaging to Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI). For many years, the practice (or proposed practice) of Active SETI has generated a vigorous and sometimes heated policy debate within the scientific community. There have also been some negative reactions in the media toward the activities of those engaged in Active SETI. Risk communication is a scientific approach to communication regarding situations involving potentially sensitive or controversial situations in which there may be high public concern and low public trust. The discipline has found wide acceptance and utility in fields such as public health, industrial regulation and environmental protection. Insights from the scientific field of risk communication (such as omission bias, loss aversion, the availability heuristic, probability neglect, and the general human preference for voluntary over involuntary risks) may help those who have participated in either side of the debate over Active SETI to better understand why the debate has taken on this posture. Principles of risk communication and risk perception may also help those engaged in Active SETI to communicate more effectively with other scientists, the public, with the media, and with policy makers regarding their activities and to better understand and respond to concerns expressed regarding the activity.     

超燃冲压发动机燃烧室主动冷却设计研究

超燃冲压发动机燃烧室主动冷却模型制造和热考核试验的费用高昂、周期长,为了降低试验风险,采用三维计算和经济的验证试验相结合的方法开展了超燃冲压发动机燃烧室主动冷却设计。冷却结构基本参数设计和侧壁冷却流动设计是确定设计方案的两大基础,前者采用三维传热计算结合冷却面板传热验证试验完成,后者采用超临界燃料流动三维并行计算结合水流动验证试验完成。在此基础上,经过多轮的结构设计与三维传热及强度计算评估迭代,确定了最终的燃烧室主动冷却结构。设计的主动冷却燃烧室在来流马赫数2.5,总温1700K条件下成功通过200s热考核试验,表明所采用的设计方法、验证试验和计算工具是有效和可信的。     

On small active region filaments,fibrils and surges

High resolution Hα images and magnetograms (0.2 arc s) of an active region were obtained in alternating time series at 42 s cadences using the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope on 2004 August 21. The Hα filtergrams reveal an active region filament and surges consisting of thread-like structures which have widths similar to the widths of chromospheric fibrils, both recorded down to the resolution limit in the best images. All observed structures in the active region appear highly dynamic. Fibrils show counterstreaming strongly resembling the counterstreaming threads in filaments.     

Investigation of natural and artificial stimulation of the ionospheric Alfvén resonator at high latitude

A brief review is provided of recent progress in understanding the ionospheric Alfvén resonator (IAR) at high latitude. Firstly, naturally occurring resonances of the IAR as detected by pulsation magnetometers in the auroral zone at Sodankylä and in the polar cap at Barentsburg are considered. The characteristics of the IAR in the two regions are broadly similar, although the effects of solar illumination are less clear at the higher latitudes. Secondly we review recent attempts to stimulate the IAR through high-power radio frequency experiments both in the auroral zone at Tromsø with the European Incoherent SCATter (EISCAT) heater, and within the polar cap at Longyearbyen with the Space Plasma Exploration by Active Radar (SPEAR) facility. In the auroral zone at, Tromsø the stimulated IAR has been observed by ground-based magnetometers, and through electron acceleration observed on the FAST spacecraft. At SPEAR in the polar cap, the stimulated IAR has been investigated, with ground magnetometers, with the first results indicative of a positive detection.     

基座与臂杆全弹性空间机器人的有限时间控制

探讨了基座、臂杆全弹性影响下,基于有限时间的漂浮基空间机器人系统轨迹跟踪以及柔性抑振问题.由于弹性基座与两柔性杆之间存在多重动力学耦合关系,此系统为高度非线性系统.将弹性基座与臂杆间的连接视为线性弹簧,利用拉格朗日第二类方程并结合假设模态法,推导出该系统的动力学模型;应用奇异摄动理论的两种时间尺度假设,将系统分解为表示刚性运动的慢变子系统和表示基座弹性、双柔杆振动的快变子系统.针对慢变子系统,设计了一种基于名义模型的有限时间控制器,保证完成刚性期望轨迹跟踪.设计的积分式滑模面具有有限时间收敛特性,比传统渐近收敛控制方法具有更快的收敛速度和更强的鲁棒性;对于快变子系统,采用线性二次型最优控制同时抑制弹性基座与两柔性杆的振动.Lyapunov理论证明了所提控制算法能使跟踪误差在有限时间内收敛到原点.仿真验证了控制方法的有效性.     

Neural adaptive control for a ground experiment of the space proximity operation in a six-degree-of-freedom micro-gravity simulation system

In this study, a neural adaptive controller is developed for a ground experiment with a spacecraft proximity operation. As the water resistance in the experiment is highly nonlinear and can significantly affect the fidelity of the ground experiment, the water resistance must be estimated accurately and compensated using an active force online. For this problem, a novel control algorithm combined with Chebyshev Neural Networks(CNN) and an Active Disturbance Rejection Control(ADRC) is proposed. Sp...     

Application of improved active disturbance rejection control algorithm in tilt quad rotor

The Tilt Quad Rotor(TQR) has complex dynamics characteristics, especially in conversion mode. It is difficult to build the dynamic model of the TQR and the environmental factors have a great influence on it. To solve the problem of control in conversion mode of TQR, this paper carries out the design of the controller based on improved Active Disturbance Rejection Control(ADRC). According to the characteristics of flight in conversion mode, Tracking Differentiator(TD) with explicit model is used ...     

Active and passive compliant force control of ultrasonic surface rolling process on a curved surface

Ultrasonic surface rolling process(USRP) is one of the effective mechanical surface enhancement techniques. During the USRP, unstable static force will easily do harm to the surface quality. In order to achieve a higher surface quality on the part with a curved surface, an active and passive compliant USRP system has been developed. The compliant USRP tool can produce the natural obedience deformation along the part surface. Force control based on the fuzzy Proportional-integral-derivative(PID) ...     

小型化S波段瓦式有源相控阵天线系统的设计研究

基于运载火箭天基遥测传输的需求和箭载平台对重量、空间及能量消耗的严格限制,本文设计了一种小型轻量化、高集成、低能耗的S波段瓦式有源相控阵天线系统。该系统包括天线阵列模块、发射组件阵列模块、功分网络模块、波束控制器及电源单元模块。本文阐述了该系统的工作原理、组成架构,并根据要求设计了天线阵列、发射组件、高可靠电源单元以及波束控制器等几种关键电路。经暗室实测,本系统中所研制的天线系统样机其波束宽度、轴比、方位面俯仰面±60°波束扫描范围内的ERIP等指标达到设计要求,与目前市场上同频段功能相似的砖式相控阵天线系统相比,其体积减小45%,重量缩减25%,能耗降低15%,更贴合箭载相控阵天线从体积、重量、经济上的应用需求,同时也为相关领域的相控阵天线系统研制提供了指导。     

Status of the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope Project

The Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT) is China's first astronomical satellite. It will perform a broad band (1-250keV) scan survey and do pointed observations of X-ray sources to study their spectra and multi-wavelength temporal properties. The pre-flight models of the satellites have been finished, and the flight models are in production. The expected launch date of HXMT is in late 2015.