Ensuring GPS navigation integrity using receiver autonomousintegrity monitoring

The many advantages of Global Positioning System (GPS) based navigation have created a tremendous amount of interest in using GPS as the primary navigation aid onboard commercial and civil aircraft. Even in the presence of Selective Availability, the accuracy of GPS is sufficient to guide aircraft point-to-point between airports without requiring other navigation aids such as VOR or DME. Unfortunately, there is a finite probability that a GPS satellite will fail, causing the transmission of potentially misleading navigation information. Thus, before GPS can be widely adopted as a navigation aid, techniques must be devised to detect any possible failures and notify the user prior to the degradation of navigation accuracy. This paper discusses the problem of detecting possible GPS satellite failures using a technique called Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (RAIM)     

时钟模型辅助的惯性/卫星紧组合导航算法研究

针对卫星信号受到遮挡或者干扰、卫星接收机收星数不足的问题,提出了一种时钟模型辅助的惯性/卫星紧组合导航算法。通过正常紧组合状态下的钟差、钟漂估计值建立钟差和钟漂的数学模型,在可见卫星少于4颗时,用时钟模型计算得到的钟差和钟漂作为系统钟差、钟漂的真实值引入观测信息中,并省去状态变量中的钟差和钟漂项,增加了系统的可观测性。最后,通过采集跑车试验数据进行了离线数据仿真试验。试验结果表明,提出的时钟模型辅助的惯性/卫星紧组合导航算法在可见卫星不足的情况下取得了良好的效果。     

时钟模型辅助的惯性/卫星紧组合导航算法研究

针对卫星信号受到遮挡或者干扰、卫星接收机收星数不足的问题,提出了一种时钟模型辅助的惯性/卫星紧组合导航算法。通过正常紧组合状态下的钟差、钟漂估计值建立钟差和钟漂的数学模型,在可见卫星少于4颗时,用时钟模型计算得到的钟差和钟漂作为系统钟差、钟漂的真实值引入观测信息中,并省去状态变量中的钟差和钟漂项,增加了系统的可观测性。最后,通过采集跑车试验数据进行了离线数据仿真试验。试验结果表明,提出的时钟模型辅助的惯性/卫星紧组合导航算法在可见卫星不足的情况下取得了良好的效果。     

一种实时飞行轨迹重构方法

提出一种有效的实时纵向飞行轨迹重构的新方法。为了得到状态估计的快速算法,本文把非线性飞行轨迹重构转化为线性、离散、时变状态和参数估计问题。将数值稳定性好、计算量也小的序列U-D分解滤波算法用于状态方程为线性、观测方程为线性或非线性的滤波问题中。由于测量值中常常含有系统偏差,本文把这些偏差作为增广状态加入增广状态模型中,并利用模型的一些特点,提出偏差分离的U-D分解算法,使计算量大大减少。仿真和实际试飞数据计算表明、本文的方法可得到比平方根协方差滤波更有效的实时飞行轨迹重构结果。     

基于QoS的卫星网络端-端通信可靠性分析

针对卫星网络动态环境下的高速信息传输、业务类型差异大等特点，提出一种综合考虑各业务QoS（Quality of Service）指标的可靠性分析方法。在卫星通信网络实际运行周期内，通信系统往往处于逐渐劣化过程中，导致卫星的节点和链路除正常工作和完全失效外，还存在部分失效的工作状态。本文在链路多状态基础上基于最小路集算法（Minimum Path Set Algorithms，MPSA）在不同业务的QoS指标（时延、带宽和丢包率）约束下，得出满足该业务QoS约束的所有可靠路径集，对路径集中路径进行不交化处理得到网络端-端可靠性。研究结果表明，不同业务由于QoS需求的差异导致网络端-端可靠性不同，所提算法与传统算法相比更加符合实际。由于实际卫星网络环境中会采用端-端并行多路径传输（Multi-Path Transmission，MTP），本文在上述研究的基础上，进一步对多路径的端-端可靠性进行了研究，结果表明多路径数据传输可靠性高。     

甚高频空地数据链信道访问模型及性能分析

在建立甚高频空地数据链信道访问状态模型的基础上,利用连续时间的马尔可夫链模型和ＣＳＭＡ矩阵分析方法,分析了空地数据包试图发送率、信道传输检测时间对数据链性能的影响,对不同用户访问规律、不同的数据包发送用户数下的信道吞吐量和报文数据延时等性能指标进行数值模拟,结果表明,用户数目、重传率及信道检测时间对数据链性能有显著影响。     

自主机动条件下的实时定轨方法

中继卫星在跟踪自主机动用户目标时,由于机动轨道未知,需要利用中继卫星下传的星载GNSS(Global Navigations Satellite System,全球导航卫星系统)数据进行实时轨道确定与预报,为中继卫星跟踪提供实时的引导信息,以方便中继卫星快速捕获目标和连续稳定跟踪。针对该类用户目标的任务需求,讨论了基于星载GNSS数据自主机动条件下的实时定轨方法,建立了连续推力机动力学模型。以某一型号卫星的实测数据进行分析验证,并对轨道机动进行辨识,计算的机动加速度和机动时间与试验单位提供的结果一致。针对卫星不同机动情况,5min的观测数据定轨预报10min的弧段,最大位置误差小于8km,可以为中继卫星快速捕获提供高精度的引导信息。     

Terrestrial Magnetism: Historical Perspectives and Future Prospects

This collection of reviews marks the state of the art of geomagnetic data collection, modelling, and interpretation at a time of unprecedented advances in all 3 facets of the subject. For the first time we have excellent satellite data with the prospect of more to come, vast improvements in laboratory techniques, and opportunities to use large scale computing to model the data. In the past, research has been conducted by the separate disciplines largely in isolation; we can hope the subject has now matured enough for progress to be made by genuine collaboration between theoreticians and experimentalists. The purpose of this chapter is to set the historical setting, and I have chosen a starting date of 1980, when vector satellite data first became available and stimulated many new advances in the subject. We can hope for a similar or better stimulus in the next decade.     

Zenith Pass Problem of Inter-satellite Linkage Antenna Based on Program Guidance Method

While adopting an elevation-over-azimuth architecture by an inter-satellite linkage antenna of a user satellite, a zenith pass problem always occurs when the antenna is tracing the tracking and data relay satellite （TDRS）. This paper deals with this problem by way of, firstly, introducing movement laws of the inter-satellite linkage to predict the movement of the user satellite antenna followed by analyzing the potential pass moment and the actual one of the zenith pass in detail. A number of specific orbit altitudes for the user satellite that can remove the blindness zone are obtained. Finally, on the base of the predicted results from the movement laws of the inter-satellite linkage, the zenith pass tracing strategies for the user satellite antenna are designed under the program guidance using a trajectory preprocessor. Simulations have confirmed the reasonability and feasibility of the strategies in dealing with the zenith pass problem.     

面向并行模拟机的path-CSA MOS开关模型及评价算法

提出一种新型MOS开关模型,它基于MOS CSA模型,又具有path MOS模型特性。新模型采用了逻辑门一级的Time-mapping事件驱动算法,有利于采用并行模拟机硬件实现。新算法利用了path MOS模型路径法特性,因而克服了CSA方法中的LOOP问题。新算法中首次提出最大、最小信号强度传送及评价操作,克服了MOS电路逻辑模拟中存在的不定值X问题。     

低轨卫星可控式冗余分包遥测技术

随着卫星功能日趋复杂,遥测参数越来越多,处理要求越来越快,遥测设计面临越来越大的压力,必须拓展新的设计思路.本文讨论了一种低轨卫星可控式冗余分包遥测技术,更好地缓解遥测信道“瓶颈”,满足用户多样化的遥测需求,提高卫星遥测能力.该设计采用PCM（Pulse Code Modulation,脉冲编码调制）遥测和分包遥测相结合的方案,在信道资源有限,遥测参数庞大、用户需求多样的约束条件下,通过星载软件模式控制的方法实现了动态可编程遥测处理和遥测数传通道的冗余处理,提高了遥测信道的资源利用率、遥测设计的灵活性和系统的可靠性,该技术已成功应用于某在轨卫星,并被多颗在研卫星所采用.     

Electrical power on a 30 kW space-based radar satellite

An electrical power system for a space-based radar satellite is described. When the radar is on, its transmitter needs an average DC power of 30 kW. The problem of distributing the power efficiently in pulses to many transmit/receive modules is addressed. System requirements include a high-voltage battery and transmission line, load-sharing between the solar array, and the battery during sunlit periods, and a 25-kW solar array. A scaled-down version of the power system for a proof-of-concept demonstration is described     

一种基于偏好MOEA的卫星地面站资源多目标优化算法

随着中国航天事业的发展,卫星地面站资源匮乏问题日益突出,需要对其进行统筹优化使用。因此,卫星地面站资源规划问题得到了广泛关注。在分析问题特点的基础上,对用户规划结果的偏好信息进行建模表达,建立了涵盖用户偏好的多目标数学规划模型,提出了基于偏好多目标进化算法的卫星地面站资源规划算法。为了进一步提升算法性能,设计了基于领域知识的启发式策略,包括：任务扩充策略、冲突消解策略以及任务缩减策略等。实验结果表明,与现有算法相比,用户偏好信息的引入能有效提升问题求解针对性,在IGD-CF （Inverted Generational Distance based on Composite Front）指标上取得了更好的效果。     

Analytic study of Doppler-based handover management in LEO satellite systems

The problem of dynamic handover management in low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite systems is addressed. Particularly, an analytical study of a newly proposed method for handover management, called dynamic Doppler-based handover prioritization scheme (DDBHP), is presented. DDBHP utilizes Doppler shift monitoring of each communicating user terminal onboard the satellite and geometric characteristics to accurately predict the handover load. As a result, handover requests are more effectively managed, resulting in an improved performance in terms of blocking and forced termination probabilities. Moreover, by supporting guaranteed handovers, DDBHP can be used to provide QoS to users of future broadband satellite networks. An extensive mathematical model that justifies Doppler shift monitoring is presented along with a detailed queueing model used not only to evaluate DDBHP performance but also to provide a methodology for associating DDBHP operational parameters with desired performance. Comparison of analytical and simulation results validate the proposed model.     

Distributive Demand-Assigned Packet Switching with Trailer Transmissions

In a packet satellite system using ALOHA type random access techniques, channels and on-board processing may be effectively used to provide significant gains in throughput, delay, and bandwidth efficiency. Motivated by this conjecture, a distributive demand-assigned packet broadcast system through a processing satellite with multiple request channels and user buffers is first presented. This scheme is shown to be able to achieve the above goals except, as any other demand type scheme, it also exhibits relatively poor delay performance at low traffic when compared with pure random access schemes. An extended scheme using trailer transmission to improve delay performance at low traffic is then introduced. Two techniques for handling trailer transmissions are studied and compared. Both are shown to provide lower packet delay at light trafric. lay at light traffic.     

UMR: A utility-maximizing routing algorithm for delay-sensitive service in LEO satellite networks

This paper develops a routing algorithm for delay-sensitive packet transmission in a low earth orbit multi-hop satellite network consists of micro-satellites. The micro-satellite low earth orbit(MS-LEO) network endures unstable link connection and frequent link congestion due to the uneven user distribution and the link capacity variations. The proposed routing algorithm,referred to as the utility maximizing routing(UMR) algorithm, improve the network utility of the MS-LEO network for carrying flows with strict end-to-end delay bound requirement. In UMR, first, a link state parameter is defined to capture the link reliability on continuing to keep the end-to-end delay into constraint; then, on the basis of this parameter, a routing metric is formulated and a routing scheme is designed for balancing the reliability in delay bound guarantee among paths and building a path maximizing the network utility expectation. While the UMR algorithm has many advantages, it may result in a higher blocking rate of new calls. This phenomenon is discussed and a weight factor is introduced into UMR to provide a flexible performance option for network operator. A set of simulations are conducted to verify the good performance of UMR, in terms of balancing the traffic distribution on inter-satellite links, reducing the flow interruption rate,and improving the network utility.     

Satellite inclination effects on UHF Satcom operation

The cause, magnitude, and time variance of satellite inclination are examined in light of the effects on military UHF SATCOM operation. The effects on required demodulator acquisition range, earth coverage footprint, and user terminal antenna pointing accuracy are considered. It is shown that the allowable satellite inclination to maximize on-orbit lifetime is not based on earth-terminal antenna pointing accuracy, but on allowable loss of high-latitude satellite coverage area. Worst-case Doppler shift for a UHF military satellite is 85-Hz uplink and 67-Hz downlink for a 5° SATCOM user elevation angle and 10° of satellite inclination. This amount of inclination is a reasonable allowance for station-keeping, to minimize thruster fuel and thus maximize satellite life. It is also shown that uplink Doppler frequency shift due to satellite inclination may be corrected based on satellite ephemeris data and rough user terminal location data     

对地观测卫星成像调度的多目标约束修正方法

 约束修正是对地观测卫星成像调度的重要组成部分,负责处理成像调度方案的约束满足与优化,是一类复杂的组合优化问题。为得到优化可行的成像调度方案,提出一种新的约束修正方法。针对约束修正问题构建时间序有向图模型,并将约束修正问题归结为点带约束成本的优化路径搜索问题;在此基础上,提出一种基于标记更新的多目标约束修正算法。实际问题的实验与分析表明：该方法能够在规定的时间内求得问题所有的多目标优化解,有效地解决了卫星成像调度的约束满足与优化问题。     

用户星中继终端在轨应用策略

在介绍在轨用户星中继终端的分类、功能和使用现状的基础上,重点对用户星中继终端多约束条件进行了梳理分析。为缓解常态化应急测控带来的资源紧张矛盾,提出了用户星中继终端在轨应用策略,即Ka/S模式下影随测控,小S模式下定时捕获。针对Ka+小S模式下实现影随测控的可行性问题,利用STK(Satellite Tool Kit,卫星开发工具包)软件进行了仿真计算分析,结果表明:为实现影随测控,满足测控快速响应需要,要求星载S频段中继测控天线对中继卫星的覆盖范围,应大于星载中继数传天线对中继卫星的覆盖范围。