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and tip-tilt natural guide star (NGS), and we have closed many loops (LGS, tip-tilt NGS and various oflloads) for hours at a time. Derived from text Adaptive Optics; Wave Fronts; Astrophysics 20060001252 International Islamic Univ., Malaysia Design and Development of Automated 3D Visual Tracking System Mir-Nasiri, Nazim; bintiHamzaid, Nur Azah; binShahulHameed, Abdul Basid; Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers; Vol. 28, No. 6; October 2005, pp. 907-914; In English; See also 20060001246; Copyright; Avail.: Other Sources Camera-based systems are frequently used to track moving objects which are in the field of their view. This paper describes design and development of a camera-based visual system that can constantly track a moving object without the necessity of calibrating the camera in real world coordinates. This reduces the complexity of the system and processing time due to unnecessary conversions and calibrations. The system consists of a two-motor pan-tilt camera driving mechanism, PCI image acquisition board, and PWM-based DC-motor driver board. It uses image processing techniques to identify and locate the object in the 3D scene and motion control algorithms to direct the camera towards the object. Thus the objective of the project is to develop a vision system and control algorithms which can be locked on a moving object within the field of its view. The developed software and related interface hardware monitor and control the motors in such a way that the moving object should always be located right at the center of the camera image plane. The system, in general, simulates the 3D motion of the human eye which always tends to focus on a moving object within the range of its view. It actually imitates the tracking ability of human eye. Author Automatic Control; Image Processing; Optical Tracking; Computer Vision; Cameras 20060001257 National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China Deformation Monitoring by Using Optical Fiber Grating Sensor Chow-Shing, Shin; Chia-Chin, Chiang; Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers; Vol. 28, No. 6; October 2005, pp. 985-992; In English; See also 20060001246 Contract(s)/Grant(s): NSC90-2212-E002-175; NSC9 1-2212-E-002-056; Copyright; Avail.: Other Sources Fiber grating sensors have found increasing use in structural applications as deformation monitoring sensors. In the current work, a simple, low cost and fast responding interrogation system that makes use of a hybrid fiber Bragg grating-long period fiber grating arrangement to achieve intensity modulation has been developed. The system has been used to interrogate short period fiber Bragg gratings (FBG) for dynamic strain monitoring. It has been shown that the current system is capable of resolving strain down to 1.5 mu epsilon and has successfully monitored high frequency strain variation up to 150 kHz in a PZT actuator. It has also been employed successfully to monitor premature fatigue crack closure. Author Bragg Gratings; Deformation; Optical Fibers; Sensors 20060002098 National Inst. of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, Japan Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy and its Illumination Optics Nishizaka, Takayuki; Journal of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology. Special Issue on Information Security, Volume 52, Nos. 1/2; March/June 2005, pp. 301-302; In English; See also 20060002073; Copyright; Avail.: Other Sources A total internal reflection fluorescence microscope is a microscope with which the user observes a sample by exciting a fluorescent dye that produces light of a wavelength longer than that of the illumination light. The produced light is irradiated onto a sample plane to generate total internal reflection; the user then observes the corresponding fluorescence. The conventional total internal reflection microscope generates an evanescent field by irradiating laser light onto the sample plane from one direction. However, if the dye features an oscillation moment in a given direction, it may be impossible with this unidirectional method to excite the dye and cause it to fluoresce, and to observe the sample, depending on the orientation of the sample. This invention enables the user to observe the sample and check for the presence of a target protein or the like regardless of the direction of the target that contains the fluorescent dye; the observer is thus able to count the number of molecules of the fluorescent dye in a given location. Moreover, unlike NMR and X-ray analysis after crystallization, this invention enables analysis of changes in three-dimensional biomolecular structures, such as the behavior of activated protein in water solution, in addition to DNA and RNA observation. With this invention, light from a laser light source is diverged 212
and formed into a conical shape by passing through a diffractive diffuser; the resultant light is then converged by a series of lenses. Since this configuration produces light containing polarization components in all directions, the dye is excited uniformly, as discussed above. Derived from text Fluorescence; Microscopy; Optics; Illumination 20060002428 Jefferson (Thomas) Lab. Computer Center, Newport News, VA, USA Concepts for the JLAB Ampere-Class CW Cryomodule Rimmer, R.; Daly, E. F.; Hicks, W. R.; Preble, J.; Stirbet, M.; January 2005; 8 pp.; In English Report No.(s): DE2005-840062; No Copyright; Avail.: National Technical Information Service (NTIS) We describe the concepts and developments underway at JLab as part of the program to develop a new CW cryomodule capable of transporting ampere-level beam currents in a compact FEL. Requirements include real-estate gradient of at least 10 MV/m and very strong HOM damping to push BBU thresholds up by two or more orders of magnitude compared to existing designs. Cavity shape, HOM damping, power couplers, tuners etc. are being designed and optimized for this application. Cavity considerations include a large iris for beam halo, low-RF losses, HOM frequencies and Q’s, low peak surface fields, field flatness and microphonics. Module considerations include high packing factor, low static heat leak, image current heating of beam-line components, cost and maintainability. This module is being developed for the next generation ERL based high power FELs but may be useful for other applications such as electron cooling, electron-ion colliders, industrial processing etc. NTIS Continuous Radiation; Particle Accelerators 75 PLASMA PHYSICS Includes magnetohydrodynamics and plasma fusion. For ionospheric plasmas see 46 Geophysics. For space plasmas see 90 Astrophysics. 20060002432 Princeton Univ., NJ USA Testing Gyrokinetics on C-Mod and NSTX Redi, M. H.; Dorland, W.; Flore, C. L.; Stutman, D.; Baumgaertel, J. A.; Jun. 2005; 12 pp.; In English Report No.(s): DE2005-841196; PPPL-4083; No Copyright; Avail.: National Technical Information Service (NTIS) Quantitative benchmarks of computational physics codes against experiment are essential for the credible application of such codes. Fluctuation measurements can provide necessary critical tests of nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations, but such require extraordinary computational resources. Linear micro-stability calculations with the GS2 (1) gyrokinetic code have been carried out for tokamak and ST experiments which exhibit internal transport barriers (ITB) and good plasma confinement. Qualitative correlation is found for improved confinement before and during ITB plasmas on Alcator C-Mod (2) and NSTX (3) with weaker long wavelength microinstabilities in the plasma core regions. Mixing length transport models are discussed. The NSTX L-mode is found to be near marginal stability for kinetic ballooning modes. NTIS Plasma Control; Tokamak Devices; Toruses 20060002433 Princeton Univ., NJ USA Scaling of Kinetic Instability Induced Fast Ion Losses in NSTX Fredrickson, E. D.; Darrow, D.; Medley, S.; Menard, J.; Park, H.; Jun. 2005; 12 pp.; In English Report No.(s): DE2005-841197; PPPL-4084; No Copyright; Avail.: National Technical Information Service (NTIS) During neutral beam injection (NBI) in the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX), a wide variety of fast ion driven instabilities is excited by the large ratio of fast ion velocity to Alfven velocity, together with the relatively high fast ion beta, beta(sub)f. The fast ion instabilities have frequencies ranging from a few kilohertz to the ion cyclotron frequency. The modes can be divided roughly into three categories, starting with Energetic Particle Modes (EPM) in the lowest frequency range (0 to 120 kHz), the Toroidal Alfven Eigenmodes (TAE) in the intermediate frequency range (50 to 200 kHz) and the Compressional and Global Alfven Eigenmodes (CAE and GAE, respectively) from approximately equal to 300 kHz up to the ion cyclotron frequency. Each of these categories of modes exhibits a wide range of behavior, including quasi-continuous 213
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