Abstract:
This invention relates to an illumination standard calculation method for a tunnel middle section based on safe visual recognition: (a) Setting the light environment of the tunnel middle section; (b) Placing a target object in the tunnel middle section; (c) Making a driver drive a motor vehicle at different speeds toward the target object, and measuring the visual recognition distances D required by the driver to visually discover the target object at different speeds; (d) Resetting the average brightness L of the tunnel middle section and repeating the steps (b) and (c) to obtain a plurality of different sets of visual recognition distances D and corresponding brightness values L; (e) Using the S model to fit the data of the plurality of sets of visual recognition distances D and brightness values L to obtain the formula of the relational model of D and L to be L=0.683/(5.575-In(D)); (f) Substituting a safe stopping sight distance D 0 corresponding to a maximum speed limit of the tunnel into the model formula to obtain the dynamic minimum brightness value L 0 required for the tunnel middle section under this tunnel light environment. The method improves the accuracy of safety evaluation of the tunnel middle section brightness, and the method is simple and convenient, and provides a reference basis for the road traffic safety research. The invention also provides a system for implementing this method.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for photon, ion or particle counting described that provides seven orders of magnitude of linear dynamic range (LDR) for a single detector. By explicitly considering the log-normal probability distribution in voltage transients as a function of the number of photons, ions or particles present, the binomial distribution of observed counts for a given threshold, the mean number of photons, ions or particles can be determined well beyond the conventional limit.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for photon, ion or particle counting described that provides seven orders of magnitude of linear dynamic range (LDR) for a single detector. By explicitly considering the log-normal probability distribution in voltage transients as a function of the number of photons, ions or particles present, the binomial distribution of observed counts for a given threshold, the mean number of photons, ions or particles can be determined well beyond the conventional limit.