基于Lagrange方法的失重人体建模与仿真

阐述了利用多刚体系统动力学进行航天员舱外活动仿真EVA(Extra Vehicular Activity)的必要性.给出了应用计算多刚体系统动力学建立的通用失重人体4关节反向运动学与反向动力学模型.选取典型的实例,在对其进行适当简化的基础上,运用通用模型对其进行仿真计算,计算时为考虑失重对人体质量、惯量与力量等参数的影响,对通用模型进行了修正.利用能量比较法对结果进行分析,得出当手部的运动轨迹半径与角速度减小、时间延长,髋关节做前驱运动时航天员工作最为节省能量.通过能量比较法计算得到了人体运动时各关节作功最为节省能量的范围.计算方法对航天员舱内外活动仿真及工效分析有一定的参考价值.      

航天员失重环境下运动策略与效能分析

航天员在空间执行任务过程中由于受到空间微重力环境的影响,其运动的协调性以及平衡性均会与地面环境下的表现有所差异.以研究失重环境下航天员运动特点为目标,对航天员姿态调整策略进行动力学分析,并对运动过程人体效能进行评价.具体而言,在无外力/力矩驱动下,人体必须依靠四肢按一定的协调运动策略才能实现对躯干姿态的主动控制.而运动...     

惯性解耦的多体系统动力学方程

对一类含自由－自由弹性梁的多体系统动力学方程进行了研究，利用多体系统的结构特性和运动特性对其动力学方程进行了简化，使惯性质量矩阵为对角形，得到了惯性解耦的多体系统动力学方程，在方程的数值求解时，可提高计算速度和精度，为多体系统动力学的实时仿真提供方便。     

烧蚀材料的热分解动力学研究

用热重分析技术研究了３种烧蚀材料的热失重信息，分别用直接法和差减微分法确定了其分解动力学参数，并以ＣａＣＯ３火已动力学参数的标准物对这２种方法作了标定。     

航天简讯

欧俄进行新的空间合作俄罗斯和欧空局的航天员于１９９５年８月１７日，将再次在和平号空间站上联合进行科学考察，考察的重点是失重状态下人体的生理变化。在联合科学考察中，俄罗斯提供和平号空间站的空间设施，而欧空局成员国提供资金和科研设备等，双方派航天员和科学家共同进行空间科学考察。欧俄首次空间合作是在１９９４年１０月３日。第２次合作定于１９９５年８月１７日，届时一名瑞士人和一名德国人将在和平号空间站上分别逗留３０天和１３０天。这次科研活动中有２／３的项目系生物医学。科学家们将考察人体在太空工作时的承受能…     

弹道-升力式返回器伞舱盖弹射地面模拟试验准则

根据动力学原理导出了飞行条件和地面试验台、火箭撬试验状态下,伞舱盖在弹射过程中相对于弹道－升力式返回器主体的运动方程.由此,得到伞舱盖地面弹射模拟试验应遵循的准则和应增设的附加力.      

双臂协调机械手动力学建模的新方法

由于某种既定任务而产生的约束关系的存在,使得双臂协调机械手的动力学特性表现出高度的非线性和耦合性。因此,利用传统的拉格朗日方程建立其动力学模型显得困难重重。针对平面双臂协调搬运机械手的动力学建模问题,基于传统的拉格朗日方程给出并证明了平面多杆机械手动力学方程的一般表达式。然后利用上述表达式,并基于分析力学界著名的Udwadia-Kalaba方程的建模思想,获得双臂协调机械手在预定轨迹下各杆所需附加力矩的解析表达式及系统的动力学方程,克服了传统拉格朗日方程需借助拉格朗日乘子获得动力学方程的缺点。双臂协调机械手的关节角变化规律和被搬运物体轨迹的数值仿真结果证明所建立的动力学方程符合实际情况。      

纵列式直升机配平计算及稳定性、操纵性分析

为了进行纵列式直升机定直平飞状态的配平计算,建立了两种非线性飞行动力学模型(涡流理论模型和动量理论模型).提出了基于线性小扰动理论和五点中心差分算法的稳定性、操纵性导数计算方法;采用状态空间表达式形式的动力学方程,计算了纵列式直升机非耦合运动状态下的稳定根;以动量理论模型为基础,以MATLAB软件为计算平台,进行了纵列式直升机稳定性与操纵性的分析.最终计算结果与参考数据吻合较好,为纵列式直升机飞行品质研究奠定了基础.     

共轴式直升机半差动航向操纵的动态响应分析

根据经典的垂直飞行涡流理论及共轴式直升机半差动航向操纵的结构特征,推导了共轴双旋翼直升机垂直飞行的航向动力学方程.运用有关共轴双旋翼在悬停及垂直飞行状态时气动特性的理论和实验数据,得出了共轴双旋翼直升机垂直飞行航向动力学方程的解析式.分析结果与该型直升机飞行特性一致.     

基于等效动力学原理的垂向失重运动实现方法

针对航天器高精度地面微重力仿真试验实现难题,提出了一种基于等效动力学原理的垂向失重运动实现方法。通过对该实现方法的原理分析,指出了该方法实现高精度垂向失重运动模拟的等效动力学条件及其适用条件,并分析了基于该实现方法的模拟器构型要求。对模拟误差精度进行仿真分析,结果显示其失重运动模拟精度可达99%,满足高精度微重力仿真试验的要求。     

Learning in an immersive digital theater

The Houston Museum of Natural Science, in collaboration with Rice University has an outreach program taking portable digital theaters to schools and community sites for over five years and has conducted research on student learning in this immersive environment. By using an external independent evaluator, the effectiveness of NASA-funded Education and Public Outreach (EPO) projects can be assessed. This paper documents interactive techniques and learning strategies in full-dome digital theaters. The presentation is divided into Evaluation Strategies and Results and Interactivity Strategies and Results. All learners from grades 3–12 showed statistically significant short-term increase in knowledge of basic Earth science concepts after a single 22-min show. Improvements were more significant on items that were taught using more than one modality of instruction: hearing, seeing, discussion, and immersion. Thus immersive theater can be an effective as well as engaging teaching method for Earth and Space science concepts, particularly those that are intrinsically three-dimensional and thus most effectively taught in an immersive environment. The portable system allows taking the educational experience to rural and tribal sites where the underserved students could not afford the time or expense to travel to museums.     

Scaling analysis and model estimation of solar corona index

A monthly average solar green coronal index time series for the period from January 1939 to December 2008 collected from NOAA (The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) has been analysed in this paper in perspective of scaling analysis and modelling. Smoothed and de-noising have been done using suitable mother wavelet as a pre-requisite. The Finite Variance Scaling Method (FVSM), Higuchi method, rescaled range (R/S) and a generalized method have been applied to calculate the scaling exponents and fractal dimensions of the time series. Autocorrelation function (ACF) is used to find autoregressive (AR) process and Partial autocorrelation function (PACF) has been used to get the order of AR model. Finally a best fit model has been proposed using Yule-Walker Method with supporting results of goodness of fit and wavelet spectrum. The results reveal an anti-persistent, Short Range Dependent (SRD), self-similar property with signatures of non-causality, non-stationarity and nonlinearity in the data series. The model shows the best fit to the data under observation.     

Stochastic particle acceleration by the forced interaction of relativistic current sheets

We address the problem of interacting relativistic current sheets in self-consistent kinetic plasma simulations within the framework of the Particle-In-Cell model. The interaction is enforced in head-on collisions of up to 10 current sheets at relativistic bulk speeds. The simulations are motivated by the general problem of Poynting flux dissipation in ‘striped wind’ configurations presumably governing the relativistic outflows pervasive in pulsar winds and gamma-ray bursts. We identify the generation of non-thermal particles and formation of a stable power-law shape in the particle energy distributions f(γ) dγ ∝ γ^−s dγ. In 1D, a spectral index s ∼ 2 is observed and attributed to a stochastic Fermi-type acceleration mechanism. In 2D, the generic index of s ∼ 3–4 is retained as in previous simulations of individual current sheets. Whereas in 2D the high energy cut-off is constrained by the limited dissipation of magnetic energy, in 1D the process converts the bulk motion of current sheets towards directed particle momentum of an exclusive class of non-thermal particles.     

Development of a gas chromatography compatible Sample Processing System (SPS) for the in-situ analysis of refractory organic matter in martian soil: preliminary results

In the frame of the 2009 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission a new sample preparation system (SPS) compatible with gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) has been developed for the in situ analysis of complex organic molecules in the Martian soil. The goal is to detect, if they exist, some of the key compounds that play an important role in life on Earth including carboxylic acids, amino acids and nucleobases.     

基于LuGre模型的电液加载系统摩擦补偿

为了提高电液加载系统控制精度,针对摩擦问题提出了基于LuGre摩擦模型的前馈补偿方法.建立了用于摩擦仿真分析和补偿器设计的电液加载系统数学模型;通过实验获取并分析了相关的摩擦数据;基于实验数据进行LuGre模型参数辨识,把LuGre模型和辨识结果引入电液加载系统数学模型,并进行仿真结果与实际摩擦数据的对照,证明了LuGre摩擦模型的准确性.设计前馈补偿器,进行了实验对比,实验结果表明前馈补偿器可将摩擦产生的控制误差有效地降至未补偿时的30%左右.      

Concept options for the aerial survey of Titan

Various aerial platforms intended for long endurance survey of the Titan surface are presented. A few novel concepts are introduced, including a heated methane balloon and a balloon with a tethered wind turbine. All the concept options are predicted to have lower scientific payload fractions than the Huygens probe. It is concluded that the selection of the best aerial platform option depends on more accurate mass estimates and a clear decision on whether, or not, in situ surface composition measurements are required in conjunction with aerial remote sensing.     

Heterogeneous solid/gas chemistry of organic compounds related to comets,meteorites, Titan,and Mars: Laboratory and in lower Earth orbit experiments

To understand the evolution of organic molecules involved in extraterrestrial environments and with exobiological implications, many experimental programs in the laboratory are devoted to photochemical studies in the gaseous phase as well as in the solid state. The validity of such studies and their applications to extraterrestrial environments can be questioned as long as experiments conducted in space conditions, with the full solar spectrum, especially in the short wavelength domain, have not been implemented. The experiments that are described here will be carried out on a FOTON capsule, using the BIOPAN facility, and on the International Space Station, using the EXPOSE facility. Vented and sealed exposition cells will be used, which will allow us to study the chemical evolution in the gaseous phase as well as heterogeneous processes, such as the degradation of solid compounds and the release of gaseous fragments.     

CoRoT and Kepler results: Solar-like oscillators

The space-borne observatories CoRoT (Convection Rotation and planetary Transits) and Kepler have provided photometric time series data of unprecedented precision for large numbers of stars. These data have revolutionized the fields of transiting exoplanets and asteroseismology. In this review some important asteroseismic results obtained using data from the CoRoT and Kepler space missions concerning stars that show solar-like oscillations are discussed. These results comprise, among others, measurements of the location of the base of the convection zone and helium second-ionization zone in main-sequence stars, the presence (or not) of core-helium burning in red-giant stars, as well as differential rotation in these stars.     

Return to Europa: Overview of the Jupiter Europa orbiter mission

Missions to explore Europa have been imagined ever since the Voyager mission first suggested that Europa was geologically very young. Subsequently, the Galileo spacecraft supplied fascinating new insights into this satellite of Jupiter. Now, an international team is proposing a return to the Jupiter system and Europa with the Europa Jupiter System Mission (EJSM). Currently, NASA and ESA are designing two orbiters that would explore the Jovian system and then each would settle into orbit around one of Jupiter’s icy satellites, Europa and Ganymede. In addition, the Japanese Aerospace eXploration Agency (JAXA) is considering a Jupiter magnetospheric orbiter and the Russian Space Agency is investigating a Europa lander.     

HELIO: The Heliophysics Integrated Observatory

Heliophysics is a new research field that explores the Sun–Solar System Connection; it requires the joint exploitation of solar, heliospheric, magnetospheric and ionospheric observations.