Research activities at the PALS research infrastructure

The Prague Asterix Laser System (PALS) Research Infrastructure (RI) in Prague, one of only four kJ-class laser facilities in EU, has been offering its beam time to European researchers for already 14 years, since 2004 in the framework of the LASERLAB-Europe consortium. Till June 2014, the PALS RI has provided 4313 experimental days for a total of 41 projects with 303 international users from 42 different research institutions. Its principal experimental facility is a terawatt sub-ns iodine laser (1315?nm) with an optional plasma-based zinc XUV laser (21.2?nm), and an auxiliary Ti:Sapphire fs laser (1?J, 70?fs) exploited for femtosecond plasma probing and experiments with synchronised femtosecond and sub-nanosecond laser pulses at mean laser intensities of up to 30?PW/cm². The lasers are equipped with several target facilities and rich sets of instruments for both active and passive plasma diagnostics. The PALS main research areas include development and applications of secondary laser sources of high-energy ions and both coherent and non-coherent high-intensity XUV radiation, laboratory astrophysical and inertial fusion-relevant studies. In this paper, the main results having been achieved at PALS in the framework of LASERLAB-EUROPE international access activities during the last four years are highlighted.     

天文/卫星组合点校捷联惯性导航系统算法研究

捷联式惯性导航系统通常采用卫星导航系统的位置、速度信息对惯导解算误差进行校正,但对于水下载体惯性导航系统而言,由于只能获得点位置信息,对惯导的校正精度以及校正参量有限。针对上述问题,提出了基于天文/卫星组合校正捷联式惯导技术,通过卫星精确定位信息和天文快速观测信息,全面修正惯导系统误差、提高导航精度。仿真结果表明,基于天文/卫星组合校正算法对惯导进行校正,相对于传统校正算法精度可提高约50%。     

多组分烟用香精定量分析方法的研究进展

综述了近年来烟用香精、香料各组分化合物的定量分析方法的研究进展。面积归一化法、内标法、外标法和标准加入法等常用色谱定量分析方法主要用于烟用香精、香料中目标化合物或单个组分的测定;多标定量法、特征峰-内标定量法和多元校正法能深入剖析烟用香精复杂体系中各组分含量(引用文献48篇)。     

Theoretical modeling of the chemical synthesis and detonation performance of polynitrocubane derivatives

Theoretical work was performed based on experimental methods described in the literature to simulate and explore feasible routes for the synthesis of energetic octanitrocubane (ONC) and polynitrocubane derivatives. In respective gaseous and liquidous environments, using cubane as the raw material, ONC was successfully synthesized through carboxylation, amination, oxidation and nitration stages, and the related reaction energy barriers were simultaneously acquired. In particular, the polyparametric calibrated gaseous molecular formation enthalpy and the group additivity approach-estimated molecular density were incorporated using the Kamlet-Jacobs equation to evaluate the detonation performance of polynitrocubane derivatives. Some high-energy-density derivatives were found to have superior characteristics as compared with traditional hexagon (RDX) and octagon (HMX) explosives.     

Preliminary study on aerosol particle addition calibration method for on-line quantitative analysis of airborne radioactive particles with ICP-MS

An ambient aerosol concentration enrichment system coupled with ICP-MS for real-time monitoring of airborne radioactive particles is now under development. ICP-MS is very sensitive to sample introduction conditions, so it is necessary to develop an easy-use calibration method for on-line quantitative analysis in field application. In this paper, a calibration method using standard solution instead of monodisperse particles was established and validated preliminarily. First of all, four parameters for the method were determined experimentally, including: uptake flow rate and nebulisation efficiency of the Microconcentric nebuliser, nebulisation/transport efficiency of Aridus Desolvating Sample Introduction System, and Relative Sensitivity Factor between ¹⁵⁹?Tb and ¹⁷⁴?Yb. Then, monodisperse terbium nitrate particles were generated by a commercial Vibrating Orifice Aerosol Generator. Continuous aerosols of ytterbium nitrate droplets were nebulised from standard solution. They were mixed together, desolvated through the membrane dryer and introduced into ICP-MS for on-line analysis of terbium nitrate particles. The air sampled from nuclear environment was also introduced into ICP-MS to investigate the effect of flow rate on instrument responses. Finally, atom numbers of ¹⁵⁹?Tb in discrete terbium nitrate particles were determined using the calibration method and compared to the calculated value. Results show that when air flow rate increase from 10?mL?min^?1 to 100?mL?min^?1, the ratio of ¹⁵⁹?Tb ion count to ¹⁷⁴?Yb ion intensity keeps constant although instrument sensitivity decreases by a factor of 25. The relative standard deviation of ¹⁵⁹?Tb atom number measured is better than 18%. The discrepancy with the calculated value could be attributed to the over-estimation of atom number in the particles generated by VOAG because there was some liquid leakage in the VOAG.     

基于两平行线及其线上三点的摄像机标定方法

在大视场交通监控摄像机的标定中,由于不便于放置大尺寸标定靶标,常采用交通标线构成的特定几何图形替代标定靶标,但许多交通场景仅有一组平行的车道分界交通标线,难以获得传统标定方法所需的标定约束条件。针对此类交通场景,选取两平行交通标线和其中一条线上的三点作为标定参考物,依靠其中一条线上三点在单幅图像中的像素坐标、三点间的两个距离值及平行线间距作为约束条件来完成摄像机的标定。建立了图像坐标系与世界坐标系之间新的换算关系,推导出了摄像机内外参数的求解公式,探讨了旋转角对测量误差的影响。实验结果表明,在约束条件不足的情况下能够获得较好的摄像机参数近似解,沿道路方向上的测距精度优于对比文献的结果,具有标定参考物选取容易、操作简便、几何约束条件少等优点,适用于交通监控系统中大视场摄像机的快速标定场合。     

Rationelle Kalibrierung von Neutronensonden bei der radiometrischen Wassergehaltsbestimmung Anwendung unter Meßnetz- und Feldversuchshedingungen

Determinations of soil moisture witli the aid of neutron moisture meters require calibrations under real conditions. Some efficient methods for calibrating such moisture gauges are described and working examples are presented.     

A microscopic pedestrian-simulation model and its application to intersecting flows

We develop a microscopic pedestrian-simulation model in which pedestrian positions are updated at discrete time steps. At each time step, each pedestrian probabilistically selects a direction of movement from a predetermined set according to a logit-type function that considers the dynamics of other pedestrians around, and then selects a step size that satisfies a certain distribution. We perform a number of field experiments on real intersecting pedestrian flows with four different angles. We then validate and calibrate the model using sample data on the deviation angles, step velocities, and velocity–density relations obtained from the experiments.     

基于机器视觉的三维灰度重构技术

基于双目立体视觉三维重构原理，采用主动扫描实现特征匹配的三维灰度重构技术，通过特征结构光扫描物体表面，由经过预标定的两套成像传感器拍摄其图像，经过图像处理程序提取出特征点，完成特征匹配，再计算出物体表面三维轮廓，同时将成像传感器中的灰度信息映射到相应的特征点，从而实现特征点的三维信息和颜色信息的重构和匹配。该技术为三维彩色逼真场景的重构奠定了基础。