Preface: Current research progress on mechanics of high speed rail

The construction and operation of high-speed rail（HSR）grid within the past two decades in China,in terms of the scale,may be possibly comparable to any national-wide construction in the history of China,even the Great Wall.By counting railways with commercial train service at the speed of200 km/h,China has the world’s longest HSR network with over 19 369.8 km of track in service today and this number     

Calibration error analysis of electro-optical detection systems

We present detailed analysis of calibration process error for electro-optical detection systems, which can be simplified as the plane rotation around a non-orthogonal axis. By means of octonions it firstly proves that the plane rotation around a non-orthogonal axis can be decomposed into rotations around two perpendicular axes. The rotation is further divided into three steps, and the calibration error is hence discussed and obtained. The simulation and test results indicate that there are large calibration errors in calibration process. The pointing error can be effectively improved after separating error components, which provides a more accurate set data for further comDensation.