scholarly journals Estimation on the Underwater Explosion Equivalent Based on the Threshold Monitoring Technique

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Yan Wang ◽  
Xiaoming Wang ◽  
Zhehan Liu ◽  
Wei Tang ◽  
Jian Li ◽  
...  

Underwater nuclear explosions can be monitored in near real-time by the hydroacoustic network of the International Monitoring System (IMS) established by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), which could also be used to monitor underground and atmospheric nuclear explosions. The equivalent is an important parameter for the nuclear explosions’ monitoring. The traditional equivalent estimation method is to calculate the bubble pulsation period, which is difficult to obtain satisfactory results under the current conditions. In this paper, based on the passive sonar equation and the conversion process of acoustic energy parameters in the hydroacoustic station, the threshold monitoring technique used for underwater explosion equivalent estimation was studied, which was not limited to the measurement conditions and calculation results of the bubble pulsation period. Through the analysis of practical monitoring data, estimation on the underwater explosion equivalent based on the threshold monitoring technique was verified to be able to reach the accuracy upper boundary of current methods and expand the measurement range to further ocean space, along with the real-time monitoring capability of IMS hydroacoustic stations which could be estimated by this method.

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Qiusheng Wang ◽  
Shicong Liu ◽  
Haoran Lou

The centrifugal underwater explosion tests and corresponding numerical simulations were carried out to study the laws of shock wave and bubble pulsation. A semiempirical method to determine JWL state equation parameters was given. The influence on numerical results caused by factors such as state equation of water, boundary condition, and mesh size was analyzed by comparing with the centrifugal underwater explosion test results. The results show that the similarity criterion is also suitable in numerical simulation; the shock wave peak pressure calculated by polynomial state equation is smaller than that of shock state equation. However, the maximum bubble radius and the pulsation period calculated by the two equations are almost the same. The maximum bubble radius is mainly affected by the boundary simulating the test model box, and the pulsation period is mainly affected by the artificial cutoff boundary. With the increase of standoff distance of measuring point, the mesh size required for the numerical calculation decreases; the size of the two-dimensional model is recommended to take 1/30 ∼ 1/10 explosion radius. In three-dimensional models, when mesh size is 2 times larger than explosion radius, the bubble motion change in the second pulsation period is not obvious. When mesh size is smaller than 1 time explosive radius, the full period of bubble pulsation can be well simulated, but calculation errors increase slowly and computation time greatly increases, so the three-dimensional mesh size is suggested to take the charge radius. Shock wave peak pressure is basically unaffected by gravity. As the gravity increases, the bubble maximum radius and the first pulsation period both decrease.


2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-140
Author(s):  
Petrisor Zamora Iordache ◽  
Nicoleta Petrea ◽  
Vasile Somoghi ◽  
Mihaela Muresan ◽  
Gabriel Epure ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (04) ◽  
pp. 587-603 ◽  
Author(s):  
YUSUKE ASAI ◽  
HIROSHI NISHIURA

The effective reproduction number [Formula: see text], the average number of secondary cases that are generated by a single primary case at calendar time [Formula: see text], plays a critical role in interpreting the temporal transmission dynamics of an infectious disease epidemic, while the case fatality risk (CFR) is an indispensable measure of the severity of disease. In many instances, [Formula: see text] is estimated using the reported number of cases (i.e., the incidence data), but such report often does not arrive on time, and moreover, the rate of diagnosis could change as a function of time, especially if we handle diseases that involve substantial number of asymptomatic and mild infections and large outbreaks that go beyond the local capacity of reporting. In addition, CFR is well known to be prone to ascertainment bias, often erroneously overestimated. In this paper, we propose a joint estimation method of [Formula: see text] and CFR of Ebola virus disease (EVD), analyzing the early epidemic data of EVD from March to October 2014 and addressing the ascertainment bias in real time. To assess the reliability of the proposed method, coverage probabilities were computed. When ascertainment effort plays a role in interpreting the epidemiological dynamics, it is useful to analyze not only reported (confirmed or suspected) cases, but also the temporal distribution of deceased individuals to avoid any strong impact of time dependent changes in diagnosis and reporting.


IEEE Access ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Zonglun Che ◽  
Jun Wang ◽  
Jing Zhu ◽  
Bingbing Zhang ◽  
Yang Zhang ◽  
...  

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 657
Author(s):  
Aoki Takanose ◽  
Yoshiki Atsumi ◽  
Kanamu Takikawa ◽  
Junichi Meguro

Autonomous driving support systems and self-driving cars require the determination of reliable vehicle positions with high accuracy. The real time kinematic (RTK) algorithm with global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is generally employed to obtain highly accurate position information. Because RTK can estimate the fix solution, which is a centimeter-level positioning solution, it is also used as an indicator of the position reliability. However, in urban areas, the degradation of the GNSS signal environment poses a challenge. Multipath noise caused by surrounding tall buildings degrades the positioning accuracy. This leads to large errors in the fix solution, which is used as a measure of reliability. We propose a novel position reliability estimation method by considering two factors; one is that GNSS errors are more likely to occur in the height than in the plane direction; the other is that the height variation of the actual vehicle travel path is small compared to the amount of movement in the horizontal directions. Based on these considerations, we proposed a method to detect a reliable fix solution by estimating the height variation during driving. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, an evaluation test was conducted in an urban area of Tokyo. According to the evaluation test, a reliability judgment rate of 99% was achieved in an urban environment, and a plane accuracy of less than 0.3 m in RMS was achieved. The results indicate that the accuracy of the proposed method is higher than that of the conventional fix solution, demonstratingits effectiveness.


Author(s):  
Tingting Yin ◽  
Zhong Yang ◽  
Youlong Wu ◽  
Fangxiu Jia

The high-precision roll attitude estimation of the decoupled canards relative to the projectile body based on the bipolar hall-effect sensors is proposed. Firstly, the basis engineering positioning method based on the edge detection is introduced. Secondly, the simplified dynamic relative roll model is established where the feature parameters are identified by fuzzy algorithms, while the high-precision real-time relative roll attitude estimation algorithm is proposed. Finally, the trajectory simulations and grounded experiments have been conducted to evaluate the advantages of the proposed method. The positioning error is compared with the engineering solution method, and it is proved that the proposed estimation method has the advantages of the high accuracy and good real-time performance.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 823
Author(s):  
Lin Zhao ◽  
Jiachang Jiang ◽  
Liang Li ◽  
Chun Jia ◽  
Jianhua Cheng

Since the traditional real-time kinematic positioning method is limited by the reduced satellite visibility from the deprived navigational environments, we, therefore, propose an improved RTK method with multiple rover receivers sharing a common clock. The proposed method can enhance observational redundancy by blending the observations from each rover receiver together so that the model strength will be improved. Integer ambiguity resolution of the proposed method is challenged in the presence of several inter-receiver biases (IRB). The IRB including inter-receiver code bias (IRCB) and inter-receiver phase bias (IRPB) is calibrated by the pre-estimation method because of their temporal stability. Multiple BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) dual-frequency datasets are collected to test the proposed method. The experimental results have shown that the IRCB and IRPB under the common clock mode are sufficiently stable for the ambiguity resolution. Compared with the traditional method, the ambiguity resolution success rate and positioning accuracy of the proposed method can be improved by 19.5% and 46.4% in the restricted satellite visibility environments.


2014 ◽  
Vol 530-531 ◽  
pp. 768-772
Author(s):  
Guo Ping Tan ◽  
Lin Feng Tan ◽  
Lei Cao ◽  
Mei Yan Ju

For the study of the applications of partial network coding based real-time multicast protocol (PNCRM) in Mobile Ad hoc networks, the researches should be developed in the probability distribution of delay. In this paper, NS2 is used to obtain the delay of data packets through simulations. Because the delay does not obey the strict normal distribution, the maximum likelihood estimate method based on the lognormal distribution is used to process the data. Using MATLAB to obtain the actual distribution of the natural logarithm of delay, then drawing the delay distribution with the maximum likelihood estimation method based on the lognormal distribution, the conclusion that the distributions obtained by the above mentioned methods are basically consistent can be obtained. So the delay distribution of PNCRM meets the lognormal distribution and the characteristic of delay probability distribution can be estimated.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 6701
Author(s):  
Yuta Sueki ◽  
Yoshiyuki Noda

This paper discusses a real-time flow-rate estimation method for a tilting-ladle-type automatic pouring machine used in the casting industry. In most pouring machines, molten metal is poured into a mold by tilting the ladle. Precise pouring is required to improve productivity and ensure a safe pouring process. To achieve precise pouring, it is important to control the flow rate of the liquid outflow from the ladle. However, due to the high temperature of molten metal, directly measuring the flow rate to devise flow-rate feedback control is difficult. To solve this problem, specific flow-rate estimation methods have been developed. In the previous study by present authors, a simplified flow-rate estimation method was proposed, in which Kalman filters were decentralized to motor systems and the pouring process for implementing into the industrial controller of an automatic pouring machine used a complicatedly shaped ladle. The effectiveness of this flow rate estimation was verified in the experiment with the ideal condition. In the present study, the appropriateness of the real-time flow-rate estimation by decentralization of Kalman filters is verified by comparing it with two other types of existing real-time flow-rate estimations, i.e., time derivatives of the weight of the outflow liquid measured by the load cell and the liquid volume in the ladle measured by a visible camera. We especially confirmed the estimation errors of the candidate real-time flow-rate estimations in the experiments with the uncertainty of the model parameters. These flow-rate estimation methods were applied to a laboratory-type automatic pouring machine to verify their performance.


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