我国科学仪器研发进入了新阶段

本文简要地论述了发展科学仪器的重要性,并简略点评了本期专辑中收录的部分文章.     

检测/校准实验室仪器设备及标准物质期间核查实施方法

对检测/校准实验室仪器设备及标准物质期间核查的具体实施进行了讨论,重点介绍编写期间核查作业指导书需明确的内容,包括明确核查对象、确定核查项目、选择核查方法、规定核查间隔、获取核查判据及如何判定对核查不合格的处置.指出既能利用期间核查确保仪器设备及标准物质的可靠性,又不浪费人力物力的措施.     

红宝石脉冲激光动态光力学方法研究与进展

本文提出了瞬态图像采集技术和电磁脉冲加载装置。应用红宝石脉冲激光光源,介绍了动态全息光弹性、动态散斑干涉、动态云纹干涉、水下爆炸全息干涉、动态电子散斑干涉和动态数字散斑相关等多种方法的测试原理和测试技术。为动态位移场、应变场和应力场的定量分析提供了广泛的应用前景。     

紧耦合INS/视觉相对位姿测量方法

研究了一种紧耦合INS/视觉相对位姿测量方法在无人机自主空中加油中的应用。该方法直接将特征点的图像坐标作为滤波器输入,避免了求解复杂的非线性位姿方程,尤其是特征点提取不全时,该方法具有较强的鲁棒性。引入相对惯导误差建立了增广状态模型,根据杆臂效应详细推导了紧、松两种耦合模式的量测方程。采用扩展卡尔曼滤波算法估计误差状态,并校正惯导输出获取精确的相对位姿信息。仿真结果表明,与松耦合模式相比,紧耦合在提高系统实时性的同时可获得更高的测量精度,位置误差小于0.1 m,姿态角误差小于3'。     

基于热图像的种蛋气室变化监测算法

种蛋气室的大小是监测种蛋孵化过程的重要指标之一。根据种蛋的热力学结构,种蛋在孵化过程中,包裹气室部分蛋壳会与其他部分蛋壳产生温差,从而可通过热红外图像进行观察。针对在种蛋孵化过程中,人工照蛋检测气室效率低的问题,探索设计了一种基于热图像的种蛋气室变化俯视监测算法。监测种蛋气室热图像的算法主要包括种蛋目标检测,种蛋图像分割和种蛋气室面积计算3个部分,其中种蛋的目标检测采用Faster-RCNN算法实现;种蛋图像分割采用BP神经网络算法实现;种蛋气室面积是在种蛋图像分割的基础上进行计算。使用孵化5天及以上的种蛋作为研究对象,并拍取种蛋的热图像进行试验。试验结果表明：种蛋热图像的目标检测的平均精度（mAP）为99.85%,拥有较好的检测效果。使用BP网络对种蛋进行图像分割。BP神经网络经过调参后,其网络最佳的结构为三层隐藏层,每个隐藏层拥有1 000个神经元,最优初始学习率为0.000 1,最优最大迭代次数为500。以F1-measure作为分割效果的评价指标,BP神经网络的图像分割总体结果为87.02%,Otsu算法的总体结果为65.25%。其中只有一个蛋的情况下,BP神经网络的分割结果为87.17%,Otsu算法的结果为68.86%。存在其他种蛋的干扰条件下,BP神经网络的分割结果为86.94%,Otsu算法的结果为61.64%,BP神经网络的分割效果优于Otsu分割算法,BP神经网络拥有更强的抗干扰能力。最后提取了孵化5～19 d种蛋的气室变化,通过观察种蛋气室大小曲线来监测种蛋的孵化情况,可看出随着天数的增加,气室有着明显变大的趋势。人工测量法与热红外测量法比较结果说明两者相关性为0.934 3,拥有较好的相关性。基于热图像的种蛋气室变化监测算法可在实际生产中实现种蛋的识别与气室大小的快速监测,为实现监测种蛋孵化的自动化提供了技术参考。     

Thermoelectric power generation

Although the polarisation of the light was discovered at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Vikings could have used the polarised light around the tenth century in their navigation to America, using a ‘sunstone’ evoked in the Icelandic Sagas. Indeed, the birefringence of the Iceland spar (calcite), a common crystal in Scandinavia, permits a simple observation of the axis of polarisation of the skylight at the zenith. From this, it is possible to guess the azimuth of a hidden Sun below the horizon, for instance. The high sensitivity of the differential method provided by the ordinary and extraordinary beams of calcite at its so-called isotropy point is about two orders higher than that of the best dichroic polariser and permits to reach an accuracy of ±1° for the Sun azimuth (at sunrise and sunset). Unfortunately, due to the relative fragility of calcite, only the so-called Alderney crystal was discovered on board a 16th ancient ship. Curiously, beyond its use as a sunstone by the Vikings, during these last millennia calcite has led to the discovery of the polarisation of the light itself by Malus and is currently being used to detect the atmospheres of exoplanets. Moreover, the differential method for the light polarisation detection is widely used in the animal world.     

A novel method of camera pose estimation by parabolic motion

Camera pose estimation is a basic and crucial problem in computer vision, accordingly a novel method is proposed for pose estimation based on parabolic motion in our paper. Firstly, the intersection of lines which are the image plane projection of free-falling trajectories in different locations is computed. According to the properties of vanishing point, the intersection is defined as the vanishing point in gravity direction. Secondly, the image plane projected curve of parabolic trajectory is obtained by Sampson Approximation. Finally, the camera pose is estimated by employing the projective geometry properties of vanishing point and vanishing line implicated in the projected parabola, provided that the intrinsic parameters of camera are specified. The absolute Euclidean distance of translation is obtained innovatively with the known frame frequency. Numerical simulation as well as practical experiment in this paper demonstrates the correctness and feasibility of our method, with the known frame frequency, as the experiment show that compared with the traditional checkerboard method the mean errors of rotation axis, rotation angle and translation are respectively 0.017 rad, 0.007 rad and 11.650 mm by our method. It can generally satisfy the accuracy requirements of camera.     

机器视觉在激光干涉测量d31中的应用

提出一种应用机器视觉技术的激光干涉法, 可以研究压电材料的逆压电系数. 在传统干涉测量法中引入机器视觉实现干涉图像灰度最佳估计, 使用数字图像处理技术, 一方面应用降噪算法有效去除激光干涉图样中的噪声, 从而确定激光干涉场的光强分布, 另一方面将干涉图样的明暗变化进一步转化为可量度的灰度变化以提高测量分辨力. 通过合理设计算法, 该方法中对位移的理论测量分辨力可以提高达一个数量级, 为干涉光波长的1/1024, 因此在逆压电系数d₃₁ 的实验测量中可以有效提高分辨力. 关键词： 机器视觉 逆压电系数 双光束干涉 数字图像处理     

三维面形测量技术的新进展

三维面形测量是获取物质形态特征的一种重要手段，也是记录，比较，复制物体形态特征 的基础，三维面形测量技术在机器视觉，自动加工，工业检测，产品质量控制，实物仿形，生物和医学等领域具有重要意义和广阔的应用前景。     

Calibrating camera radial distortion with cross-ratio invariability

The calibration of camera distortion plays an important role in the field of industrial machine vision application. In this paper, a novel approach for calibrating camera radial distortion is presented based on cross-ratio invariability for perspective projection. Assumed to be with one-order radial distortion, the image coordinates and the cross-ratio of only four collinear points in space are needed in this approach. The cross-ratio, easily known from a calibration target, is identical with that of the four corresponding image points. This is called the cross-ratio invariability for perspective projection. A monadic two-order equation is built based on the cross-ratio invariability, which gives an accurate solution to radial distortion coefficients. A digital simulation and a practical image correction prove this approach to be simple, accurate, efficient and time saving.