Microstrip transmission lines connecting to the millimeter wave radar chip and antenna significantly affect the radiation efficiency and bandwidth of the antenna.Here,a wideband non-uniform wavy microstrip line for co...Microstrip transmission lines connecting to the millimeter wave radar chip and antenna significantly affect the radiation efficiency and bandwidth of the antenna.Here,a wideband non-uniform wavy microstrip line for complex impedance in automotive radar frequency range is proposed.Unlike the gradient transmission line,the wavy structure is composed of periodically semi-circular segments.By adjusting the radius of the semi-circular,the surface current is varied and concentrated on the semi-circular segments,allowing a wider tunability range of the resonant frequency.The results reveal that the bandwidth of the loaded wavy transmission line antenna improves to 9.37 GHz,which is 5.81 GHz wider than that of the loaded gradient line.The gain and the half power beam width of the loaded antenna are about 14.69 dB and 9.58°,respectively.The proposed non-uniform microstrip line scheme may open up a route for realizing wideband millimeter-wave automotive radar applications.展开更多
Background Transgenic research in crops involves using genetic engineering techniques to introduce specific genes of interest from other organisms,or even entirely new genes into plant genomes to create crops with des...Background Transgenic research in crops involves using genetic engineering techniques to introduce specific genes of interest from other organisms,or even entirely new genes into plant genomes to create crops with desirable traits that wouldn’t be possible through conventional breeding methods.Transgenic crops have been developed for various traits globally.Whitefly,Bemisia tabaci(Gennadius)is one of the major sucking pests of cotton that cause significant damage to the cotton production.To combat whitefly infestations,researchers have developed four transgenic cotton lines expressing the fern protein.And those transgenic lines need to be evaluated for their performance against the target pest—whitefly.The evaluation was designed as controlled trials in polyhouse or muslin cloth cages under open-choice and no-choice conditions by comparing four transgenic cotton lines(A,B,C,and D)with three control groups,including untransformed cotton plants with a same genetic background of the transgenic line,conventionally bred whitefly-resistant cotton,and whitefly-susceptible cotton.In order to study the generational effect,the evaluation also involved studies on whitefly development in laboratory,muslin cloth cage,and polyhouse conditions.Results Both open-choice and no-choice experiments had shown that all the four transgenic cotton lines(A,B,C,and D)expressing the fern protein reduced adult whitefly numbers significantly compared with the control lines,except for the no-choice conditions in 2021,where the transgenic line C was non-significant different from the resistant control line.Notably,the nymphal population on the resistant control line was relatively low and nonsignificant different from the transgenic line C in 2021;and the transgenic lines A and C in 2022 under open-choice conditions.Under no-choice condition,the nymphal counts in the resistant control line was non-significant different from transgenic lines C and D in 2021;and transgenic line D in 2022.All transgenic lines showed significant decrease in egg hatching in 2021 and nymphal development in 2022,except for the transgenic line C which had no significant different in the nymphal development comparing with non-transgenic control lines in 2022.Adult emergence rates in both years of evaluation showed significant decrease in transgenic lines A and B comparing with the control lines.Additionally,the results showed a significant reduction in cotton leaf curl disease and sooty mold development in all the four transgenic lines compared with susceptible control under open-choice conditions,indicating potential benefits of transgenic lines beyond direct effect on whitefly control.Furthermore,the research explored the generational effects of the fern protein on whitefly which revealed the lowest fecundity in the transgenic line C across F0,F1 and F3 generations,lower egg hatching in F1 and F2 generations in transgenic lines A and B,shorter nymphal duration in F1 and F2 generations in transgenic line B,and the least total adult emergence in the transgenic line C in F0 and F3 generations.Conclusions These findings suggest that the transgenic cotton lines expressing fern protein disrupts whitefly populations and the life cycle to a certain extent.However,results are not consistent over generations and years of study,indicating these transgenic lines were not superior over control lines and need to be improved in future breeding.展开更多
Forest fire accidents caused by distribution line faults occur frequently,resulting in heavy impacts on people’s safety and social and economic development.Currently,there are few risk assessments for forest fires in...Forest fire accidents caused by distribution line faults occur frequently,resulting in heavy impacts on people’s safety and social and economic development.Currently,there are few risk assessments for forest fires induced by over-head distribution lines,and existing assessment methods may have difficulties in data acquisition.On this basis,a novel as-sessment framework based on an analytic hierarchy process,a Bayesian network and a Fussel-Vesely importance metric is proposed in this paper.The framework combines field research and historical operation and maintenance data to assess the regional-scale risk of forest fires induced by overhead distribution lines to derive the probability of forest fires and to identify high-risk lines and key hazard events in the assessment region.Finally,taking the southern Anhui region as an ex-ample,the annual fire probability of forest fires induced by overhead distribution lines in the southern Anhui region is 5.88%,and rectification measures are proposed.This study provides management with a complete assessment framework that optimizes the difficulty of data collection and allows for additional targeted corrective measures to be proposed for the entire region and route on the basis of the assessment results.展开更多
【目的】煤矿井下普遍存在低照度、弱纹理和结构化的特征退化场景,导致视觉SLAM(visual simultaneous localization and mapping)系统面临有效特征不足或误匹配率高的问题,严重制约了其定位的准确性和鲁棒性。【方法】提出一种基于边缘...【目的】煤矿井下普遍存在低照度、弱纹理和结构化的特征退化场景,导致视觉SLAM(visual simultaneous localization and mapping)系统面临有效特征不足或误匹配率高的问题,严重制约了其定位的准确性和鲁棒性。【方法】提出一种基于边缘感知增强的视觉SLAM方法。首先,构建了边缘感知约束的低光图像增强模块。通过自适应尺度的梯度域引导滤波器优化Retinex算法,以获得纹理清晰光照均匀的图像,从而显著提升了在低光照和不均匀光照条件下特征提取性能。其次,在视觉里程计中构建了边缘感知增强的特征提取和匹配模块,通过点线特征融合策略有效增强了弱纹理和结构化场景中特征的可检测性和匹配准确性。具体使用边缘绘制线特征提取算法(edge drawing lines,EDLines)提取线特征,定向FAST和旋转BRIEF点特征提取算法(oriented fast and rotated brief,ORB)提取点特征,并利用基于网格运动统计(grid-based motion statistics,GMS)和比值测试匹配算法进行精确匹配。最后,将该方法与ORB-SLAM2、ORB-SLAM3在TUM数据集和煤矿井下实景数据集上进行了全面实验验证,涵盖图像增强、特征匹配和定位等多个环节。【结果和结论】结果表明:(1)在TUM数据集上的测试结果显示,所提方法与ORB-SLAM2相比,绝对轨迹误差、相对轨迹误差的均方根误差分别降低了4%~38.46%、8.62%~50%;与ORB-SLAM3相比,绝对轨迹误差、相对轨迹误差的均方根误差分别降低了0~61.68%、3.63%~47.05%。(2)在煤矿井下实景实验中,所提方法的定位轨迹更接近于相机运动参考轨迹。(3)有效提高了视觉SLAM在煤矿井下特征退化场景中的准确性和鲁棒性,为视觉SLAM技术在煤矿井下的应用提供了技术解决方案。研究面向井下特征退化场景的视觉SLAM方法,对于推动煤矿井下移动式装备机器人化具有重要意义。展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China( 61974104)。
文摘Microstrip transmission lines connecting to the millimeter wave radar chip and antenna significantly affect the radiation efficiency and bandwidth of the antenna.Here,a wideband non-uniform wavy microstrip line for complex impedance in automotive radar frequency range is proposed.Unlike the gradient transmission line,the wavy structure is composed of periodically semi-circular segments.By adjusting the radius of the semi-circular,the surface current is varied and concentrated on the semi-circular segments,allowing a wider tunability range of the resonant frequency.The results reveal that the bandwidth of the loaded wavy transmission line antenna improves to 9.37 GHz,which is 5.81 GHz wider than that of the loaded gradient line.The gain and the half power beam width of the loaded antenna are about 14.69 dB and 9.58°,respectively.The proposed non-uniform microstrip line scheme may open up a route for realizing wideband millimeter-wave automotive radar applications.
文摘Background Transgenic research in crops involves using genetic engineering techniques to introduce specific genes of interest from other organisms,or even entirely new genes into plant genomes to create crops with desirable traits that wouldn’t be possible through conventional breeding methods.Transgenic crops have been developed for various traits globally.Whitefly,Bemisia tabaci(Gennadius)is one of the major sucking pests of cotton that cause significant damage to the cotton production.To combat whitefly infestations,researchers have developed four transgenic cotton lines expressing the fern protein.And those transgenic lines need to be evaluated for their performance against the target pest—whitefly.The evaluation was designed as controlled trials in polyhouse or muslin cloth cages under open-choice and no-choice conditions by comparing four transgenic cotton lines(A,B,C,and D)with three control groups,including untransformed cotton plants with a same genetic background of the transgenic line,conventionally bred whitefly-resistant cotton,and whitefly-susceptible cotton.In order to study the generational effect,the evaluation also involved studies on whitefly development in laboratory,muslin cloth cage,and polyhouse conditions.Results Both open-choice and no-choice experiments had shown that all the four transgenic cotton lines(A,B,C,and D)expressing the fern protein reduced adult whitefly numbers significantly compared with the control lines,except for the no-choice conditions in 2021,where the transgenic line C was non-significant different from the resistant control line.Notably,the nymphal population on the resistant control line was relatively low and nonsignificant different from the transgenic line C in 2021;and the transgenic lines A and C in 2022 under open-choice conditions.Under no-choice condition,the nymphal counts in the resistant control line was non-significant different from transgenic lines C and D in 2021;and transgenic line D in 2022.All transgenic lines showed significant decrease in egg hatching in 2021 and nymphal development in 2022,except for the transgenic line C which had no significant different in the nymphal development comparing with non-transgenic control lines in 2022.Adult emergence rates in both years of evaluation showed significant decrease in transgenic lines A and B comparing with the control lines.Additionally,the results showed a significant reduction in cotton leaf curl disease and sooty mold development in all the four transgenic lines compared with susceptible control under open-choice conditions,indicating potential benefits of transgenic lines beyond direct effect on whitefly control.Furthermore,the research explored the generational effects of the fern protein on whitefly which revealed the lowest fecundity in the transgenic line C across F0,F1 and F3 generations,lower egg hatching in F1 and F2 generations in transgenic lines A and B,shorter nymphal duration in F1 and F2 generations in transgenic line B,and the least total adult emergence in the transgenic line C in F0 and F3 generations.Conclusions These findings suggest that the transgenic cotton lines expressing fern protein disrupts whitefly populations and the life cycle to a certain extent.However,results are not consistent over generations and years of study,indicating these transgenic lines were not superior over control lines and need to be improved in future breeding.
基金This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2022YFC3003101)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(WK2320000050)the Science and Technology Program of State Grid Anhui Electric Power Co.,Ltd.(521205220001).
文摘Forest fire accidents caused by distribution line faults occur frequently,resulting in heavy impacts on people’s safety and social and economic development.Currently,there are few risk assessments for forest fires induced by over-head distribution lines,and existing assessment methods may have difficulties in data acquisition.On this basis,a novel as-sessment framework based on an analytic hierarchy process,a Bayesian network and a Fussel-Vesely importance metric is proposed in this paper.The framework combines field research and historical operation and maintenance data to assess the regional-scale risk of forest fires induced by overhead distribution lines to derive the probability of forest fires and to identify high-risk lines and key hazard events in the assessment region.Finally,taking the southern Anhui region as an ex-ample,the annual fire probability of forest fires induced by overhead distribution lines in the southern Anhui region is 5.88%,and rectification measures are proposed.This study provides management with a complete assessment framework that optimizes the difficulty of data collection and allows for additional targeted corrective measures to be proposed for the entire region and route on the basis of the assessment results.
文摘【目的】煤矿井下普遍存在低照度、弱纹理和结构化的特征退化场景,导致视觉SLAM(visual simultaneous localization and mapping)系统面临有效特征不足或误匹配率高的问题,严重制约了其定位的准确性和鲁棒性。【方法】提出一种基于边缘感知增强的视觉SLAM方法。首先,构建了边缘感知约束的低光图像增强模块。通过自适应尺度的梯度域引导滤波器优化Retinex算法,以获得纹理清晰光照均匀的图像,从而显著提升了在低光照和不均匀光照条件下特征提取性能。其次,在视觉里程计中构建了边缘感知增强的特征提取和匹配模块,通过点线特征融合策略有效增强了弱纹理和结构化场景中特征的可检测性和匹配准确性。具体使用边缘绘制线特征提取算法(edge drawing lines,EDLines)提取线特征,定向FAST和旋转BRIEF点特征提取算法(oriented fast and rotated brief,ORB)提取点特征,并利用基于网格运动统计(grid-based motion statistics,GMS)和比值测试匹配算法进行精确匹配。最后,将该方法与ORB-SLAM2、ORB-SLAM3在TUM数据集和煤矿井下实景数据集上进行了全面实验验证,涵盖图像增强、特征匹配和定位等多个环节。【结果和结论】结果表明:(1)在TUM数据集上的测试结果显示,所提方法与ORB-SLAM2相比,绝对轨迹误差、相对轨迹误差的均方根误差分别降低了4%~38.46%、8.62%~50%;与ORB-SLAM3相比,绝对轨迹误差、相对轨迹误差的均方根误差分别降低了0~61.68%、3.63%~47.05%。(2)在煤矿井下实景实验中,所提方法的定位轨迹更接近于相机运动参考轨迹。(3)有效提高了视觉SLAM在煤矿井下特征退化场景中的准确性和鲁棒性,为视觉SLAM技术在煤矿井下的应用提供了技术解决方案。研究面向井下特征退化场景的视觉SLAM方法,对于推动煤矿井下移动式装备机器人化具有重要意义。
