WSO-UV project

During last three decades, astronomers have enjoyed continuous access to the 100–300 nm ultraviolet (UV) spectral range where the resonance transitions of the most abundant atoms and ions (at temperatures between 3000 and 300 000 K) reside. This UV range is not accessible from ground-based facilities. The successful International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) observatory, the Russian ASTRON mission and successor instruments such as the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) mission or the COS and STIS spectrographs on-board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) prove the major impact of observations in the UV wavelength range in modern astronomy. Future access to space-based observatories is expected to be very limited. For the next decade, the post-HST era, the World Space Observatory – Ultraviolet (WSO–UV) will be the only 2-m class UV telescope with capabilities similar to the HST. WSO–UV will be equipped with instruments for imaging and spectroscopy and it will be a facility dedicated, full-time, to UV astronomy. In this article, we briefly outline the current status of the WSO–UV mission and the science management plan.     

无人机发动机空中停车故障机理研究

针对某型现役无人机活塞发动机飞行中出现的空中意外停车故障,从发动机停车控制原理出发分析其故障机理,构建发动机空中意外停车故障树,并用实例予以验证,为无人机发动机故障的空中应急处置和事后维修提供可行性建议。     

无人机高速DS/FH混合扩频通信系统关键模块设计

针对UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle,无人机)测控链路高抗干扰需求,给出了实现跳频速率20 000次/s的扩跳混合无人机测控数据链系统实现方案.系统采用跳频频率并行捕获模式.跳频源设计采用直接频率合成、DDS(Direct Digital Synthesis,直接数字频率合成)和PLL (Phase-Locked Loop,锁相环)相结合的混合频率合成技术.利用相位响应滤波器,通过正交调制技术完成MSK(Minimum Shift Keying,最小频移键控)、GMSK (GaussianMinimum Shift Keying,高斯最小频移键控)调制.通过推导得出2 bit差分解调输出与载波频率选择有关,且为四分之数据率的整数倍关系.然后通过实例分析给出了跳频频率间隔选取方法,即跳频间隔应当将临近跳频的主瓣分开,同时跳频载波频率应当设在其他跳频频谱的零点处.最后总结了高速扩跳频系统参数设计一般步骤.     

高速无人机着陆滑跑纠偏联合仿真研究

针对高空高速无人机着陆地面滑跑过程中的侧向偏移问题,建立了差动刹车和方向舵联合纠偏控制系统。使用动力学软件LMS Virtual. Lab Motion建立了包含阻力伞、气动舵面和起落架等设计因素的全机动力学模型,并与Matlab/Simulink控制模型进行全无人机着陆滑跑联合仿真分析,验证了在侧风情况下无人机着陆滑跑纠偏性能。仿真结果表明,所设计控制系统满足性能指标要求,在无人机的整个滑跑阶段均有良好的抗风纠偏效果。     

倾转三旋翼无人机过渡模式纵向姿态控制

对倾转三旋翼无人机过渡模式下定高转换的纵向姿态控制进行了研究,为提高纵向操纵效能、解决操纵冗余问题,设计了模态转换中的操纵控制方案;采用牛顿-欧拉法对飞机进行动力学建模分析,建立了纵向动力学模型并给出了过渡转换路径;通过操纵效能分析对两种操纵机制进行分配,给出了操纵分配的权重和控制律.仿真和实验样机飞行试验地面站数据分析结果表明,按照所设计的操纵分配方案和控制律对飞机过渡模式进行纵向控制,能够使飞机保持平稳过渡.     

Flight safety measurements of UAVs in congested airspace

Describing spatial safety status is crucial for high-density air traffic involving multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a complex environment. A probabilistic approach is proposed to measure safety situation in congested airspace. The occupancy distribution of the airspace is represented with conflict probability between spatial positions and UAV. The concept of a safety envelope related to flight performance and response time is presented first instead of the conventional fixed-size protected zones around aircraft. Consequently, the conflict probability is performance-dependent, and effects of various UAVs on safety can be distinguished. The uncer-tainty of a UAV future position is explicitly accounted for as Brownian motion. An analytic approximate algorithm for the conflict probability is developed to decrease the computational consumption. The relationship between safety and flight performance are discussed for different response times and prediction intervals. To illustrate the applications of the approach, an experi-ment of three UAVs in formation flight is performed. In addition, an example of trajectory planning is simulated for one UAV flying over airspace where five UAVs exist. The validation of the approach shows its potential in guaranteeing flight safety in highly dynamic environment.     

具有全向推力矢量的六旋翼无人机设计与建模

针对常规旋翼飞行器飞行速度小和加速飞行时不能保持机体水平姿态等问题,提出了一种具有全向推力矢量的六旋翼无人机设计方案;分析了推力矢量六旋翼在可倾转旋翼结构倾转不同角度时的飞行模式;建立了推力矢量六旋翼的动力学模型,并针对动力学模型设计了PID控制器;最后对动力学模型进行数值仿真验证.结果表明,所设计的推力矢量六旋翼能够悬停,且可以在定速飞行中保持飞行器的水平姿态.     

小型固定翼无人机集群综述和未来发展综述

围绕小型固定翼无人机集群这一难度高、发展快、应用前景广阔、多学科交叉的新方向,从集群系统内涵、现有典型项目、关键技术3个角度综述了国内外小型固定翼无人机集群的研究现状。在系统梳理集群系统内涵和应用优势的基础上,从集群协同模式探索、分布指挥体系构建、核心关键技术突破和集群验证等4个视角总结现有典型项目,从体系架构、通信组网、决策与规划、飞机平台、集群飞行、集群安全与集群指控等7个核心点综述了技术研究现状。最后,综合小型固定翼无人机集群中亟需解决的关键技术,展望了这一领域未来的发展趋势。     

Coactive design of explainable agent-based task planning and deep reinforcement learning for human-UAVs teamwork

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are useful in dangerous and dynamic tasks such as search-and-rescue, forest surveillance, and anti-terrorist operations. These tasks can be solved better through the collaboration of multiple UAVs under human supervision. However, it is still difficult for human to monitor, understand, predict and control the behaviors of the UAVs due to the task complexity as well as the black-box machine learning and planning algorithms being used. In this paper, the coactive design method is adopted to analyze the cognitive capabilities required for the tasks and design the interdependencies among the heterogeneous teammates of UAVs or human for coherent collaboration. Then, an agent-based task planner is proposed to automatically decompose a complex task into a sequence of explainable subtasks under constrains of resources, execution time, social rules and costs. Besides, a deep reinforcement learning approach is designed for the UAVs to learn optimal policies of a flocking behavior and a path planner that are easy for the human operator to understand and control. Finally, a mixed-initiative action selection mechanism is used to evaluate the learned policies as well as the human’s decisions. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods.     

无人机系统的安全性与危险源分析

无人机系统的战术性能及优势将使其在未来高技术战争和民用航空中发挥越来越重要的作用。然 而,由于有人机与无人机飞行事故的特点不同,使得有人机的安全性分析与管理措施不完全适用于无人机系 统。首先,对无人机系统的飞行事故进行统计分析,得出无人机系统事故的特点;然后,合理借鉴有人机的安全 性分析,定义无人机系统的安全性,提出无人机系统事故的严酷度等级划分及相应的危险可接受度;最后,从设 计、机组训练及使用操作三方面进行危险源分析。本文提出的无人机系统不安全事件发生可能性等级划分和 危险源定性分析,可为后续无人机安全管理框架的构建奠定基础。