In this work we have investigated the structure of individual single-walled and multi-walled carbon nanotubes by high-resolution electron microscopy and electron diffraction. To grow carbon nanotubes we used a catalytic chemical vapor deposition method. It was shown, that this synthesis protocol gave in general single-walled and double-walled carbon nanotubes with a high level of crystallinity. The diameters of the nanotubes were in the range 1.5 - 7 nm. We also observed that there was a certain level of amorphous carbon deposited on the nanotube surface during the growth. In this work we also present the structure analysis of the double-walled carbon nanotube by means of electron diffraction. We show that the structural date derived from electron microscopy and electron diffraction agree within the experimental error.

Keywords: Carbon nanotubes, electron diffraction, electron microscopy

The atricle considers the problem of finding the best carrier. It describes by the expert method of solving the problem, as well as an algorithm for selecting a carrier. Describes a software module implemented with the involvement of technology ActiveX, which greatly simplifies the process and reduces the development time of projects. The proposed application allows you to define a list of the best carriers, ranked by rating according to the user's request.

Keywords: Carrier selection, expert method, weighting coefficient, rank, user application

Identification of railway vehicles is relevant for the conversion from automatic control systems with manual data input to automatic modeling environment of train and vehicle. The most effective and economic inventory number recognition is optical recognition. But there is question about veracity in such technology. This paper represent the qualitatively new approach for optical recognition based on building integral robust constructive features of vehicles and allowed to significantly increase level of recognition veracity. Proposed technique investigated in introduction subject of automatic vehicle number recognition system (ARNV).  Computational experiments demonstrated relevance of proposed technique for using in optical recognition of vehicle numbers.

Keywords: Automatic systems, number identification, vehicle, optical recognition, ARNV, robust features

To evaluate the effectiveness of remediation of soils contaminated with petroleum or petroleum products, it is advisable to use the method for determining the integral indicator of biological condition (IPBS) of the soil, calculated on the most informative biological indicators. If, before reclaiming the difference between the IPBS contaminated and uncontaminated (background) soil is less than 10%, it is advisable not to carry out remediation. If the value of IPBS re-cultivated soil and uncontaminated soil IPBS value differ by less than 10%, then reclamation carried out efficiently.

Keywords: pollution, soil, oil, oil products, remediation soil biological properties of the soil, the effectiveness of remediation

The research devoted to the kinematic mechanism for turning rope of ladle excavator, in the article considered the part of the trajectory of the work process: this process make the turning of the grip relatively to the arrow with the same time turning ladle relatively to the grip. The ladle turning is made because of additional kinematic connection between the ladle and grip and / jr the arrow and implementing internal forces due to the mutual position of the corresponding arrow and grip.

Keywords: the rope excavator, the ladle turning, kinematics, the analitical investigation

The dynamic problem  of an anisotropic poroelastic plane under an influence of point source in the steady-state oscillation mode is studied. An analytical solution of the problem as a single integrals over a finite interval is given. Numerical experiments on the construction of solutions are made and the results are compared with the known classical solutions.

Keywords: poroelasticity, vibrations, anisotropy

In the article the approach to modelling and the analysis of functioning of difficult systems based on indistinct cognitive maps is described. The theoretical part of the article is devoted description of modern family cognitive maps, the short characteristic and the analysis of following groups is given: Cognitive Maps, Fuzzy Cognitive Maps, Fuzzy Cognitive Maps by Silov, Rules Based Fuzzy Cognitive Maps, Generalized Rules Based Fuzzy Cognitive Maps, Relational Fuzzy Cognitive Maps, Neutrosophic Relational Maps, Dynamic cognitive networks. The concept of fuzzy way is entered for the development of mathematical toolkit and the model of fuzzy pulse process is offered. The practical component of the article is directed on the description of examples of the decision of separate problems of cognitive modelling with application of the device fuzzy directed graph of the 1st kind. The offered approach will allow to develop forecast scenarios of development of difficult system taking into account its reaction on external influences.

Keywords: difficult system, fuzzy model, fuzzy cognitive map, fuzzy way

Agent based model was developed. This model is showing processes of conflict, which is happening on the area of village Tarskoe. Conflict, which is called Osetino-Ingushskiy started in October 1992, and was not stabilized till today.

Keywords: agent base modeling, agent-based model, NetLogo

Modern ultra-tight integration structure of strapdown inertial systems and global positioning system, based on the linearization of the navigation measurements and linearization of measurement errors models, are not not applicable for motor vehicles navigation. The adequate standard stochastic model of the vehicle perturbed motion has been synthesized. The model can be used for the integration Kalman filter. Such correlations can result in poor real-time estimation accuracy of navigation parameters of motor vehicle.

Keywords: motor vehicle, stochastic model, integration structure of strapdown inertial systems and global positioning system

The existing approaches to the integration of relatively cheap strapdown inertial navigation system (SINS) based on MEMS-based technology and satellite navigation systems (SNS) are ineffective in relation to motor vehicles. We consider the iterative algorithm for the loosely coupled mode of integration of heterogeneous navigation systems do not intend to use the optimal estimation. The solution is obtained on the basis of the fully nonlinear model of the navigation system of the vehicle and the, therefore, is valid for arbitrary and unknown in advance nature of his movements, and, in the most general assumptions about the level of disturbances acting upon him.

Keywords: vehicle, integrated inertial navigation satellite system, loosely coupled iterative algorithm

The paper presents a method of detecting distortions in the archival photo documents by texture analysis based on local binary patternss. The proposed approach consists of the following stages: pre-treatment and detection of scratches. Pre-treatment is used to reduce the effects of noise and small defects in the image. To recognize the class of defects using a support vector machine. The effectiveness of the new approach on several examples in the detection of defects.

Keywords: digital image processing, detection of defects, archival photographs, local binary patterns

The technique of space-time processing of acoustic signals with the use a convolution algorithm the purpose of application of which is the spatial positioning of the virtual soun sourse (auralization) is com=nsidered in this article. Also the reverberation chatacteristics of a modeled acoustic environment are take into consideration.

Keywords: auralization, HRTF, artificial reverb, room simulation, convolution algorithm, impulse response convolution, impulse response synthesis, dynamic convolution, complex filtering

The model of the ideal video camera is described, the form of the intrinsic and extrinsic camera parameters is showed. The relations between coordinates of a point in the world coordinate system with coordinates of this point on the image plane are given. The problem of finding extrinsic camera parameters from corresponded world and image points is posed. The error of found extrinsic parameters is estimated by simulation for several configurations of calibration objects consisting of a variable number of points on different distances from the camera and with different angles between them. On the basis of simulation results recommendations are given for the choice of the calibration object in order to improve the accuracy of the extrinsic camera parameters. The best results may be obtained with a configuration consisting of points that have a large angular distance between them and are posed on different distance from camera.

Keywords: camera calibration, extrinsic camera parameters, position and orientation estimation, calibration object

The article is dedicated to development of a mathematical model for evaluation of production assets in smart power grids state for decision support system. The results of equipment state evaluation can be used for prognosis of reliability of the asset and each of its components functioning for the time interval, for which various versions of technical solutions are considered.  

Keywords: decision support system, state assessment, Smart Grid

The simulation of two-dimensional spherical crystals consisting of a large number of particles is carried out. These shells were analyzed based on their geometric structure and energy distribution. Various types of defects formed in a state of equilibrium  is considered. Being shown the ambiguity of the existing method of their interpretation. A new way of describing such defects in the close-packed two-dimensional crystals with different topology is suggested.  

Keywords: topological defects, two-dimensional materials, spherical crystals, topological charge