Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has a flight-only mode with a motor only rotating propellers and not rotating on-board wheels to configure the UAV to fly away from a surface of a structure, and a crawling-only mode in which the UAV is configured to crawl on the surface due to the motor only rotating the wheels while not rotating the propellers. In the flight-only mode, a clutch disengages a motor from the wheels so that the motor only engages the propellers to fly to lift from the surface. In the crawling-only mode, the clutch disengages the motor from the propellers so that the motor only engages the wheels to move the UAV on the surface.

Abstract: An optical microstructure is configured to work with an optical fiber or a different substrate and the optical microstructure includes a beam converter including a tapered optical guide configured to transform a gaussian optical beam into a first annular optical beam; an inverted cone having first and second reflection surfaces, each configured to reflect the first annular optical beam, having a radius R1, so that a resulting second annular optical beam has a radius R2 larger than the radius R1; and a prism having a reflection surface configured to reflect the second annular optical beam to form a third converging annular optical beam. The third converging annular optical beam includes plural single optical beams that intersect at a given crossing point, outside the optical microstructure. The plural single optical beams form an optical trap.

Abstract: A method for estimating a status of a system includes performing independent measurements on the system, associating a value P(?) with a Monte Carlo calculated probability measure P(?), which depends on (1) a preset threshold Nu of unfavorable events, and (2) a total number Ñtot(?) of the independent measurements for collecting the preset threshold Nu, setting a threshold level ? requiring that a critical value ?c of a power related metric ? makes a value P(?c) of the probability measure P to be substantially equal to the threshold level ?, comparing the total number Ñtot(?) to a ratio of (1) a product of a control parameter ? the preset threshold Nu, and (2) the threshold level ?, and interrupting the independent measurements if Ñtot(?) is larger than the ratio, or increasing an output of the system if Ñtot(?) is smaller than or equal to the ratio.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a semi-automatic scanner for ultrasonic inspection of a branch pipe weld that has a small size and is able to perform an inspection while moving in a state of being attached to a test object by a magnetic force, thereby being applied to fittings having various shapes, such as a branch pipe and an elbow.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a hydraulic support with a quick response function for coal wall spalling, which includes a base, an upright post, a top beam, an extensible canopy, a face guard, and a vibration meter. The vibration meter is mounted on a hydraulic support, and detects a vibration signal of a coal wall in a non-contact mode. The face guard includes a primary face guard, a secondary face guard, and a tertiary face guard connected in sequence. One side, close to a coal wall, of the primary face guard is connected to a quick response device. The quick response device is in signal communication with the vibration meter. After receiving the vibration signal of the coal wall, the quick response device is abutted against the coal wall before the secondary face guard and the tertiary face guard fit the coal wall.

Abstract: The disclosure discloses a method for producing ?-calcium sulfate hemihydrate whiskers by using fermentation broth for producing lactic acid with a calcium salt method as a raw material and synchronously recovering a lactic acid monomer. The method comprises the following steps: 1) after fermentation of lactic acid is ended, heating fermentation broth; 2) stirring, and adding sulfuric acid for reaction; 3) after the reaction is ended, filtering and collecting a solid part, namely ?-calcium sulfite hemihydrate whiskers, and collecting a liquid part, namely a free lactic acid solution containing the lactic acid monomer; and 4) washing and drying the obtained ?-calcium sulfate hemihydrate whiskers to obtain a ?-calcium sulfate hemihydrate whisker finished product, filtering and concentrating the obtained free lactic acid solution to obtain a lactic acid crude product, and refining the lactic acid crude product to obtain a high-purity lactic acid monomer.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a W18O49/COO/CoWO4/NF self-supporting electrocatalytic material and a preparation method thereof, the W18O49/CoO/CoWO4/NF self-supporting electrocatalytic material comprising: a foamed nickel substrate and a W18O49/CoO/CoWO4 composite material formed in-situ on a foamed nickel substrate. Preferably, the W18O49/CoO/CoWO4 composite material is CoO/CoWO4 composite nanosheets and W18O49 nanowires distributed among the CoO/CoWO4 composite nanosheets.

Abstract: A flat-plate water-heating photovoltaic/thermal module and a production process thereof are disclosed. The flat-plate water-heating photovoltaic/thermal module includes a frame. The lower surface of the frame is provided with a heat preservation back plate. The upper surface of the frame is sequentially laminated with a glass cover plate, a first photovoltaic cell laminating adhesive, a photovoltaic cell slice, a second photovoltaic cell laminating adhesive, a transparent back plate, a third photovoltaic cell laminating adhesive and a heat absorbing component from top to bottom. A heat preservation cavity is formed between the heat preservation back plate and the heat absorption part.

Abstract: An opposed, free-piston engine includes a pair of adjacent cylinders, each extending from a first cylinder end to a second cylinder end along an elongate axis and having a first cylinder housing a first pair of opposed, free pistons including a first piston housed towards the first cylinder end and a second piston housed towards the second cylinder end; a second cylinder housing a second pair of opposed, free pistons having a third piston and a fourth piston; and a pair of link rods including a first link rod and a second link rod. The first link rod has a first link rod end and a second link rod end, the second link rod having a third link rod end and a fourth link rod end.

Abstract: Disclosed are a compound impact-resistant device and an application thereof. The compound impact-resistant device includes an inner cylinder, a first pressure sensor and an outer cylinder; an inner cavity of the inner cylinder is connected to a magnetorheological damper, a spiral valve element, a floating piston and a spring from bottom to top; and the outer cylinder is connected to a piston rod, a bottom end of the piston rod penetrates a top of the inner cylinder, the spring and the floating piston to be connected to the spiral valve element, and a portion below the spiral valve element is filled with hydraulic oil. The compound impact-resistant device can provide specific initial support force and achieve active self-adaptation to dynamic impact, thus solving the problems that traditional hydraulic buffers cannot provide initial support force and traditional mechanical crushing members have difficulty in providing large support force.

Abstract: Techniques for using ferroelectric liquid crystals Dammann grating (FLCDG) for light detection and ranging devices are disclosed. In LiDAR devices, accuracy, response time, and cost performance can be limited by some factors, such as laser pulse width, time resolution of a time-to-digital conversion chip, detector bandwidth, shot noise, and time error generated by electronic circuits. A FLCDG-based architecture can improve a LiDAR device, and provide for one-shot capturing due to the high switching speed at very low driving voltage provided by ferroelectric liquid crystals and the equal diffracting ability of Dammann grating.

Abstract: A high-speed stereo 3D multimodal imaging system including a beam splitter, a pair of mirrors, a tight focus lens, a microscope stage, an imaging lens, a large area array detector, and a true 3D imaging module is provided. The beam splitter is configured to generate near-infrared ultrafast pulsed laser sub-beams with different angles. The mirrors respectively reflect the beams. The tight focus lens tightly focuses the beams onto a 3D micro-nanoscale sample, which can be carried and three-dimensionally displaced by the microscope stage. The imaging lens collects signals generated due to scattering of the tightly focused beams that are irradiated onto the sample so as to obtain two 2D images. The large area array detector simultaneously detects the two 2D images so that the true 3D imaging module can perform a true 3D imaging according to the detected 2D images. A high-speed stereo 3D multimodal imaging method is also provided.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a self-supporting electrocatalytic material and a preparation method thereof, the self-supporting electrocatalytic material is a Cu2O/WO3/CF self-supporting electrocatalytic material. The Cu2O/WO3/CF self-supporting electrocatalytic material comprises: a foamed copper substrate, and Cu2O and WO3 grown in situ on the foamed copper substrate.

Abstract: Novel factors which are involved in the mechanism of the onset of IgA nephropathy are explored, and diagnostic, preventive or therapeutic agents for this disease are provided. A method for measuring autoantibodies related to IgA nephropathy, the method comprising measuring the amount of anti-spectrin ? IgA antibodies in a sample derived from a living organism.

Abstract: An action detection method based on a human skeleton feature and a storage medium belong to the field of computer vision, and the method includes: for each person, extracting a series of body keypoints in every frame of the video as the human skeleton feature; calculating a body structure center point and approximating rigid motion area by using the human skeleton feature as a calculated value from the skeleton feature state, and predicting an estimated value in the next frame; performing target matching according to the estimated and calculated value, correlating the human skeleton feature belonging to the same target to obtain a skeleton feature sequence, and then correlating features of each keypoint in the temporal domain to obtain a spatial-temporal domain skeleton feature; inputting the skeleton feature into an action detection model to obtain an action category. In the disclosure, the accuracy of action detection is improved.

Abstract: The invention discloses a three-dimensional (3D) measurement method based on end-to-end deep learning for speckle projection. First, the speckle pattern was projected by the projector and collected simultaneously by the stereo camera. The speckle images after stereo rectification are fed into the stereo matching network. A feature extraction sub-network based on shared weights processes the speckle images to obtain a series of low-resolution 3D feature tensors, The feature tensor is fed into the saliency object detection sub-network to detect foreground information in the speckle images, producing a full-resolution valid mask map. A 4D matching cost volume is generated using the feature tensor of both views based on the candidate disparity range, filtered by a series of 3D convolutional layers to achieve cost aggregation, so that the initial disparity map is obtained by disparity regression.

Abstract: A snapshot spatial dimension spectral polarization integrated imaging system and a design method thereof are provided. An objective lens generate an image of a target on a DMD; the DMD is disposed on a focal plane of the objective lens and connected to the computer; the computer controls an encoding matrix loaded on the DMD to encode information; the light is reflected to the primary mirror after being encoded, and then is reflected by the primary mirror to the convex grating for dispersion; the light is then reflected to the third mirror; an encoded image is produced on the micro polarizer array detector; polarization channel coding is completed; the micro polarizer array detector is connected to the computer; and the computer resolves compressive spectral polarization image based on spectral polarization coding data cube obtained on a target surface of the micro polarizer array detector.

Abstract: A photoreactive composition including a base-reactive compound, a photobase generator that is represented by the following Formula (1) and that generates a base when irradiated with light, and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a polycyclic aromatic compound having a fused ring structure having two or more rings and a polycyclic aromatic compound having three or more aromatic rings and having a conjugated structure including any two or more of the three or more aromatic rings, in which the base-reactive compound is a compound having two or more groups that will have their polarity converted by the action of a base and that exhibit reactivity, in one molecule, or a compound having two or more groups that will react under the action of a base, in one molecule.

Abstract: Light olefins may be produced from hydrocarbons by a method including passing a hydrocarbon feed stream into one or more feed inlets of a reactor, using catalyst formulations or mixtures. Catalyst formulations may include multi-zeolite composite particles, or a mixture that is a physically mixed combination of separate particles of at least first composite particles of a first type of zeolite and second composite particles of a second type of zeolite. The reactor may include an upper reactor portion defining an upper reaction zone and a lower reactor portion defining a lower reaction zone. The catalyst may move in a generally downward direction through the upper reactor portion and the lower reactor portion, and the hydrocarbon feed stream may move in a generally upward direction through the lower reactor portion and upper reactor portion such that the hydrocarbon feed stream and the catalyst move with a counter-current orientation.

Abstract: A photobase generator includes a compound including a first skeleton represented by the following formula (a), and a second skeleton including a nitrogen atom bonding to a bonding position of the first skeleton to form an amide group, wherein the compound generates a base, in which a hydrogen atom is bonding with the nitrogen atom of the second skeleton, by light irradiation, and the pKa of a conjugate acid of the base in water is 12 or more. In formula (a), G is a divalent aromatic group, and * represents the bonding position with the nitrogen atom.