International Working Group for Sabotage Concerns of Transport and Storage Casks

Abstract

The International Working Group for Sabotage Concerns of Transport and Storage Casks (IWGSTSC), gathers multiple organisations from different countries (for US party Department of Energy, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and Sandia National Laboratories; for German party Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit and Fraunhofer Institut; for the French party Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire). The goal of the IWGSTSC is to continue cooperation to improve the analytic capabilities, through information sharing and collaborative research and development plus modelling, to understand the potential adverse public health effects and environmental impacts of radiological sabotage directed at or associated with the transport and storage of civilian nuclear material or other civilian radioactive materials. The Parties may also undertake collaborative research and development in other areas of the physical protection of civilian nuclear materials or other radioactive materials. Since 2000, the IWGSTSC has conducted an extensive test programme for the assessment of the aerosol source term produced in the case of spent fuel transport sabotage by a high energy density device, after having examined several scenarios. The major goal of this programme is to produce an accurate estimate of the so called spent fuel ratio in the domain of respirable, aerosol particles produced. All the reports prepared by Sandia National Laboratories have precisely emphasised the important efforts they have made from the beginning and the amount of work already accomplished. In parallel, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), assisted by technical experts from different countries, has provided a draft document promised to become guidance for the security of radioactive or nuclear materials during transport. The IAEA document contains general guidance addressed to anyone who intends to implement or improve the security of material transports, but the text is, as of today, limited to rather general recommendations. Based on all the knowledge accumulated from past experiments and also based on the work carried out in Vienna at the IAEA, the IWGSTSC members have decided to work on the development of a method for the evaluation of the vulnerability and the source term. So for doing that, joint projects for the research, development, testing and evaluation of the consequences of the malevolent actions during transport are being pursued and are described in this paper.     

The meaning of action: a review on action recognition and mapping

In this paper, we analyze the different approaches taken to date within the computer vision, robotics and artificial intelligence communities for the representation, recognition, synthesis and understanding of action. We deal with action at different levels of complexity and provide the reader with the necessary related literature references. We put the literature references further into context and outline a possible interpretation of action by taking into account the different aspects of action recognition, action synthesis and task-level planning.     

Action recognition and understanding through motor primitives

In robotics, recognition of human activity has been used extensively for robot task learning through imitation and demonstration. However, there has not been much work performed on modeling and recognition of activities that involve object manipulation and grasping. In this work, we deal with single arm/hand actions which are very similar to each other in terms of arm/hand motions. The approach is based on the hypothesis that actions can be represented as sequences of motion primitives. Given this, a set of five different manipulation actions of different levels of complexity are investigated. To model the process, we use a combination of discriminative support vector machines and generative hidden Markov models. The experimental evaluation, performed with 10 people, investigates both the definition and structure of primitive motions, as well as the validity of the modeling approach taken.     

油团聚动力学的研究

本文对细粒钛铁矿油团聚动力学进行了研究,考查了系统动力学因素对细粒钛铁矿油团聚行为的影响,揭示了油团聚过程动力学的规律。实验结果表明:油团聚过程是一个动态过程,系统动力学因素对细粒钛铁矿油团聚有显著影响:聚团生长速率符合一级反应速率方程:聚团粒度分布具有自持性,符合作者导出的粒度特性方程—OASD方程。     

抗击冰雪谁在行动

无论是天灾还是人祸,灾难降临,服装行业和企业不仅要及时反应、迅速行动,更要想得高明、做得漂亮!     

Flash在基于Web的远程实时监控系统中的应用研究

探讨了如何在基于Web的远程实时监控系统中结合Flash技术实现动态实时监控曲线的几种方法.通过利用XML强大的结构化数据交换能力,以及ActionScript的网络通信能力实现客户端与服务器的通信,从而充分利用Flash丰富的表现及人机交互能力.实现基于Web的动态实时监控曲线.     

Construction and Central Pattern Generator-Based Control of a Flipper-Actuated Turtle-Like Underwater Robot

This paper deals with the construction and control of a turtle-like underwater robot with four mechanical flippers. Each flipper consists of two joints generating a rowing motion by a combination of lead-lag and feathering motions. With cooperative movements of four flippers, the robot can propel and maneuver in any direction without rotation of its main body and execute complicated three-dimensional movements, including ascending, submerging, rolling and hovering. The control architecture is constructed based on a central pattern generator (CPG). A model for a system of coupled nonlinear oscillators is established to construct a CPG and has been successfully applied to the eight-joint turtle-like robot. The CPGs are modeled as nonlinear oscillators for joints and inter-joint coordination is achieved by altering the connection weights between joints. Rowing action can be produced by modulating the control parameters in the CPG model. The CPG-based method performs elegant and smooth transitions between swimming gaits, and enhanced adaptation to the transient perturbations due to nonlinear characteristics. The effectiveness of the proposed method is confirmed via simulations and experimental results.     

KEY TECHNIQUES IN R&D OF OUT-SIZE EXTRUSION PRESS WITH OIL-DRIVEN DOUBLE ACTION

A modern design method, in which traditional design formulas are conjoined with numerical simulation and optimization, is successfully used to design the out-size extrusion frame precisely so that the press cost can be saved. A new technology used for decompressing by a multi-steps dynamical mode is put forward, which makes it possible to decompress the large flow-volume high-pressure oil in the main cylinders. In addition, a method for realizing the fixed mandrel process by hydraulic support is proposed and its control equation is established. Pre-tightening frame tests are carried out by over-operating pressure on 100 MN aluminium extrusion press with oil-driven double action, which is developed based on the above key techniques and is the largest press so far in the world, and the results show that the frame structure designed is reasonable and reliable, and the modem design method used is an useful tool for designing large and out-size heavy plastic forming machinery. The results of decompressing curve in main cylinder and noise inspection indicate that multi-steps dynamical mode for decompressing the large flow-volume high pressure oil is valid and reliable. Meanwhile, the fixed mandrel process is well realized based on the control equation. These key techniques have been used in the development of 125 MN aluminium extrusion press with oil-driven double action.     

Development of a Hybrid Wheel-Legged Mobile Robot WR-3 Designed for the Behavior Analysis of Rats

This paper presents the design and development of a bio-inspired mobile robot called WR-3 (Waseda Rat no. 3). The purpose of the robot is to work as an experimental tool to study social interaction between rats and robots. According to the results of the analysis of the motion of rats, their behavior can be divided into two phases: movement and interaction. Therefore, a novel hybrid mechanism that uses wheels during the movement phase and legs while interacting has been designed to actuate WR-3. Consequently, the robot can move at a high speed using its wheels, and reproduce the rat's interaction behavior using its legs and other parts. Based on body structure of a mature rat, WR-3 has been designed with similar dimensions and shape as a mature rat, and the quality of the shape imitation has been verified by the experiments of a rat's interestingness to the robot and stuffed rat. Evaluation experiments show that WR-3 is capable of reproducing a rat's actions such as chasing, rearing, grooming, mounting, etc., similar to a real rat. Furthermore, preliminary social interaction tests with living rats reveal that WR-3 is to some extent able to evoke natural reactions form a real rat and is therefore able to perform a certain level of realistic interaction.