A 340-GHz thin film polarisation converter

This paper introduces a 340-GHz polarisation converter. The polarisation converter consists of a bilayer metamaterial, which is processed by the flexible thin film lithography method. Two-dimensional metamaterial offer such advantages over traditional quarter-wave-plates as compactness, low profile and simple fabrication process, but the insertion loss is comparably high. In order to lower the insertion loss, the 10-μm ultrathin polyimide substrate and a bilayer structure separated by a quarter wavelength air impedance match layer are adopted. After the horn antenna’s far-field test by vector network analyser and the Gaussian beam test based on Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS), the results show that in the band of 325–350 GHz, the transmission loss is less than 2 dB, and the axial ratio is less than 3 dB; besides, simulation and test insertion loss performance difference is less than 1 dB, which indicates that the method we adopt is effective. In addition, based on transmission line theory, we analyse its working principle and the influence from the fabrication error.     

Fast pixel-matching for video object segmentation

Video object segmentation, aiming to segment the foreground objects given the annotation of the first frame, has been attracting increasing attentions. Many state-of-the-art approaches have achieved great performance by relying on online model updating or mask-propagation techniques. However, most online models require high computational cost due to model fine-tuning during inference. Most mask-propagation based models are faster but with relatively low performance due to failure to adapt to object appearance variation. In this paper, we are aiming to design a new model to make a good balance between speed and performance. We propose a model, called NPMCA-net, which directly localizes foreground objects based on mask-propagation and non-local technique by matching pixels in reference and target frames. Since we bring in information of both first and previous frames, our network is robust to large object appearance variation, and can better adapt to occlusions. Extensive experiments show that our approach can achieve a new state-of-the-art performance with a fast speed at the same time (86.5% IoU on DAVIS-2016 and 72.2% IoU on DAVIS-2017, with speed of 0.11s per frame) under the same level comparison. Source code is available at https://github.com/siyueyu/NPMCA-net.     

Quality assessment for color correction-based stitched images via bi-directional matching

With the deepening of social information, the panoramic image has drawn a significant interest of viewers and researchers as it can provide a very wide field of view (FoV). Since panoramic images are usually obtained by capturing images with the overlapping regions and then stitching them together, image stitching plays an important role in generating panoramic images. In order to effectively evaluate the quality of stitched images, a novel quality assessment method based on bi-directional matching is proposed for stitched images. Specifically, dense correspondences between the testing and benchmark stitched images are first established by bi-directional SIFT-flow matching. Then, color-aware, geometric-aware and structure-aware features are respectively extracted and fused via support vector regression (SVR) to obtain the final quality score. Experiments on our newly constructed database and ISIQA database demonstrate that the proposed method can achieve comparable performance compared with the conventional blind quality metrics and the quality metrics specially designed for stitched images.     

配电线路绝缘包裹机器人研制

在介绍国内外输电线路现有机器人研究基础上，针对配电线路绝缘修复领域短板，开发了一套能够在线修复配电线路绝缘皮损伤的包裹机器人。首先，对绝缘包裹机器人的机械结构进行了设计研究，包括行走装置、升降装置和柔性输送与包裹装置；然后，开发了相应的控制系统，包括无线通讯、视觉系统等，并对其进行了抗干扰试验和耐压试验，试验结果合格；最后，通过现场绝缘包裹测试完成了机器人的功能性与可靠性验证。本项目所研发的机器人突破了在线修复、柔性包裹等技术瓶颈，解决了人工修复带来的一系列问题。样机通过现场带电包裹试验，绝缘包裹效果符合行业标准要求，达到了预期效果。     

链条套筒与销轴铰链副冲击载荷-往复运动的弹流润滑数值模拟

数值模拟链传动中销轴与套筒之间的定载荷和变载荷弹流润滑接触问题,套筒相对于销轴做纯滑动往复运动。定载荷是假定往复运动过程中载荷恒定不变;变载荷是假定链节在啮入和啮出链轮过程中存在的冲击载荷按正弦函数规律变化。比较在定载荷和变载荷加载条件下线接触往复运动工况的弹性润滑油膜变化情况,分析在动载荷加载条件下不同行程长度对弹性流体动力润滑特性的影响。研究发现,动载荷对油膜的压力、膜厚影响较大:随着动载荷的增加,油膜中压力急剧增大,膜厚减小;但加载方式对摩擦因数的影响不大;在相同的加载方式下,随着行程长度的增加,油膜压力减小,中心膜厚和最小膜厚显著增加。     

500 kV输电线路耐张线夹钢锚断裂分析

采用宏观检查、化学成分分析、力学性能测试、显微组织观察等方法分析了某500 kV线路耐张线夹钢锚断裂的原因。结果表明, 钢锚断裂的原因主要是压接工艺控制不当, 在第一模部位产生了应力集中;钢锚压接后加工硬化效应明显, 相较压接前钢锚硬度提高了72%, 达到了210HB, 室温冲击韧性降低了58%, 为31 J, 致使钢锚抵御冲击载荷能力降低, 最终在应力集中部位断裂。     

半轴套管多工位挤压自动化生产线中冲连皮缺陷产生机理及参数优化

针对半轴套管多工位热挤压自动化生产线工艺调试过程中,正挤压工序冲连皮时,管端易出现连皮粘连缺陷的问题,探讨了有可能造成连皮粘连的原因。通过对工艺流程和现场情况进行综合分析,提出了圆柱形坯料周向温度加热不均是关键的影响因素。采用Deform有限元分析软件,模拟了不同加热温差条件下,反挤压和冲连皮时材料变形及材料剪断过程。通过对模拟结果的分析,揭示了连皮粘连机理,并可知,当坯料周向加热温差小于30℃时,连皮可顺利冲下。根据模拟得出的合理温差,进行现场试验,实际情况与模拟结果具有较高的一致性,生产出的产品锻件切口平齐、连皮撕裂带分布均匀,有效地解决了连皮粘连的问题。     

云制造平台资源需求的高效匹配策略研究

为快速、精确地从云制造平台资源池中搜索到满足用户需求的资源,实现资源与需求的高效匹配,提出了一种资源需求高效匹配策略。首先,建立了资源与需求的形式化描述模型,在此基础上,采用改进的K-means聚类算法按基本信息进行聚类,对云服务池中的资源进行预处理,形成多个资源簇;其次,计算用户需求与各资源簇聚类中心基本信息的相似度,确立备选资源簇;最后,再分别从资源的状态信息、功能信息和服务信息3个方面对备选资源簇中的备选资源进行筛选匹配。实例分析和研究结果表明:与已有的匹配方法相比,该方法在保持较高匹配精度的同时具有更高的匹配效率。     

模糊时间窗约束下的装配线物料配送方案优化

为解决装配线物料无法及时准确配送的问题,提出了一种动态的联合配送策略,在此基础上以最小化单个产品配送成本、最大化工位满意度为目标,建立模糊时间窗约束下的物料配送数学模型。利用NSGA-Ⅱ算法求解出最佳的工位组划分、小车出发时间和配送路径,并对配送小车容量及配送时间窗进行优化。利用Plant Simulation软件搭建某生产线仿真模型进行模拟,验证了配送方案的可行性。与一般配送策略进行对比,结果表明,在保证配送工位满意度的前提下,优化时间窗能进一步降低单个产品的配送成本。