An Overview of the Instrument Suite for the Deep Impact Mission

A suite of three optical instruments has been developed to observe Comet 9P/Tempel 1, the impact of a dedicated impactor spacecraft, and the resulting crater formation for the Deep Impact mission. The high-resolution instrument (HRI) consists of an f/35 telescope with 10.5 m focal length, and a combined filtered CCD camera and IR spectrometer. The medium-resolution instrument (MRI) consists of an f/17.5 telescope with a 2.1 m focal length feeding a filtered CCD camera. The HRI and MRI are mounted on an instrument platform on the flyby spacecraft, along with the spacecraft star trackers and inertial reference unit. The third instrument is a simple unfiltered CCD camera with the same telescope as MRI, mounted within the impactor spacecraft. All three instruments use a Fairchild split-frame-transfer CCD with 1,024× 1,024 active pixels. The IR spectrometer is a two-prism (CaF₂ and ZnSe) imaging spectrometer imaged on a Rockwell HAWAII-1R HgCdTe MWIR array. The CCDs and IR FPA are read out and digitized to 14 bits by a set of dedicated instrument electronics, one set per instrument. Each electronics box is controlled by a radiation-hard TSC695F microprocessor. Software running on the microprocessor executes imaging commands from a sequence engine on the spacecraft. Commands and telemetry are transmitted via a MIL-STD-1553 interface, while image data are transmitted to the spacecraft via a low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS) interface standard. The instruments are used as the science instruments and are used for the optical navigation of both spacecraft. This paper presents an overview of the instrument suite designs, functionality, calibration and operational considerations.     

Optimal deployment schedule of an active twist rotor for performance enhancement and vibration reduction in high-speed flights

The best active twist schedules exploiting various waveform types are sought taking advantage of the global search algorithm for the reduction of hub vibration and/or power required of a rotor in high-speed conditions.The active twist schedules include two non-harmonic inputs formed based on segmented step functions as well as the simple harmonic waveform input.An advanced Particle Swarm assisted Genetic Algorithm (PSGA) is employed for the optimizer.A rotorcraft Computational Structural Dynamics (CSD) code CAMRAD Ⅱ is used to perform the rotor aeromechanics analysis.A Computation Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code is coupled with CSD for verification and some physical insights.The PSGA optimization results are verified against the parameter sweep study performed using the harmonic actuation.The optimum twist schedules according to the performance and/or vibration reduction strategy are obtained and their optimization gains are compared between the actuation cases.A two-phase non-harmonic actuation schedule demonstrates the best outcome in decreasing the power required while a four-phase non-harmonic schedule results in the best vibration reduction as well as the simultaneous reductions in the power required and vibration.The mechanism of reduction to the performance gains is identified illustrating the section airloads,angle-of-attack distribution,and elastic twist deformation predicted by the present approaches.     

高速飞行器非视距短波通信的可行性验证飞行试验

当高速飞行器处于失稳失控等紧急情况时，现有航天器测控方法可能面临地面站天线无法及时跟踪和对准飞行器的问题，这将导致测控通信链路的中断，无法传输紧急的安控遥控指令。为了在飞行器失稳失控、非视距通信时与地面站维持通信，提出将短波通信应用于高速飞行器测控通信系统的应急通信，并进行非视距短波通信的飞行试验以验证方法的可行性。在试验中，地面站发射7 MHz的短波信号，高速飞行器内部安装的交流磁场计用于接收短波信号，获得了短波的磁场强度与飞行环境的本底噪声。试验结果表明，随着飞行器海拔的增加，磁场强度减小，高速飞行器始终能在非视距和天线不对准的情况下接收到短波信号，证实了短波应用于高速飞行器应急通信的可行性。试验是进一步验证高速飞行器在远距离、超视距以及拒止环境下应急通信的技术基础，同时，也为高速飞行器短波通信系统的研制提供重要的数据支撑。     

Specific features of the high-speed plasma stream cycles

The high-speed plasma streams in the solar wind are investigated during the solar cycles nos. 20–22 (1964–1996), separately on the two types of streams according to their solar origin: the HSPS produced by coronal holes (co-rotating) and the flare-generated, in keeping with the classification made in different catalogues. The analysis is performed taking into account the following high-speed stream parameters: the durations (in days), the maximum velocities, the velocity gradients and, the importance of the streams. The time variation of these parameters and the high-speed plasma streams occurrence rate show an 11-year periodicity with some differences between the solar cycles considered. A detailed analysis of the high-speed stream 11-year cycles is made by comparison with the “standard” cycles of the sunspot relative number (Wolf number). The different behaviour of the high-speed stream parameters between even and odd solar cycles could be due to the 22-year solar magnetic cycle. The increased activity of the high-speed plasma streams on the descendant phases of the cycles, regardless of their solar sources, proves the existence of some special local conditions of the solar plasma and the magnetic field on a large scale that allow the ejection of the high energy plasma streams. This fact has led us to the analysis the stream parameters during the different phases of the solar cycles (minimum, ascendant, maximum and, descendant) as well as during the polar magnetic field reversal intervals. The differences between the phases considered are pointed out. The solar cycles 20 and 22 reveal very similar dynamics of the flare-generated and also co-rotating stream parameters during the maximum, descendant and reversal intervals. This fact could be due to their position in a Hale Cycle (the first component of the 22-year solar magnetic cycle). The 21st solar cycle dominance of all co-rotating stream parameters against the 20th and 22nd solar cycle ones, during almost all phases, could be due to the same structure of a Hale Cycle – solar cycle 21 is the second component in a 22-year SC. During the reversal intervals, all high-speed stream parameters have comparable values with the ones of the maximum phases of the cycles even if this interval contains a small part of the descendant branch (solar cycles 20 and 22).     

Concurrent image-based visual servoing with adaptive zooming for non-cooperative rendezvous maneuvers

An image-based servo controller for the guidance of a spacecraft during non-cooperative rendezvous is presented in this paper. The controller directly utilizes the visual features from image frames of a target spacecraft for computing both attitude and orbital maneuvers concurrently. The utilization of adaptive optics, such as zooming cameras, is also addressed through developing an invariant-image servo controller. The controller allows for performing rendezvous maneuvers independently from the adjustments of the camera focal length, improving the performance and versatility of maneuvers. The stability of the proposed control scheme is proven analytically in the invariant space, and its viability is explored through numerical simulations.     

Nondestructive acquisition of the micro-mechanical properties of high-speed-dry milled micro-thin walled structures based on surface traits

Requirements for the service performance of aeronautic microelectronic components are increasingly strict. However, sever issues, that the acquisition of the service performance such as micro-mechanical properties is destructive, limit the subsequent application of the tested components. Addressing this issue, this paper proposes a nondestructive acquisition method of the micro-mechanical properties of the accelerometer micro-components, based on analyzing surface traits. To select qualified components without damage, we firstly developed a quasi-static micro-tensile tester and then established a combination prediction model of mechanical properties based on micro-milled surface traits. The model works due to the thin-walled structure, which makes the machined surface traits have significant influences on the mechanical properties such as Young’s modulus, yield strength, tensile strength, and elongation at break. Surface roughness, surface structure, and surface anisotropy are extracted to comprehensively present surface traits from different aspects. For improving the practicability of the model, the principal component analysis (PCA) is adopted to reduce high-dimensional traits explanatory variable space into two dimensions, and regression analysis models are comparative established in predicting the mechanical properties. Residuals analysis and error analysis are carried out to show the prediction accuracy. The maximum prediction error is about 10.62%, but the significance levels in the t-test of the predicted Young’s modulus and yield strength are not ideal. Therefore, kernel support vector regression (SVR) is imported to improve the prediction ability of the combination prediction model. The residuals analysis result shows that SVR is effective in enhancing the prediction ability of this model.     

超声速气流中凹槽结构煤油喷射和掺混研究

针对凹槽超声速气流中的喷射掺混现象开展了实验和数值计算研究。实验中采用了高速阴影法和PLIF(Plane laser induced fluorescence)方法详细地记录了实验现象。结合高速阴影得到的喷射和掺混随时间的流动变化过程,分析了其流动结构和机理。针对在凹槽内喷射的方案研究了喷射压力(1.0 MPa,3.0 MPa,4.0 MPa)、喷射角度(45°,90°)、来流总压和马赫数对掺混的影响。结果表明:在高速气流中,煤油破碎雾化机理依赖于大速度差、强剪切气流作用。煤油雾化区和来流空气混合边界存在涡结构。对小孔(d=0.4 mm)喷射,即使在高压(4.0 MPa)垂直喷射条件下,煤油射流产生的弓形激波强度也较弱。由于剪切层的存在导致上述参数变化对煤油穿透深度的影响较小。     

高速铣削TC21 钛合金的表面粗糙度

通过对TC21钛合金进行高速铣削加工试验,测量不同切削参数下的表面粗糙度.采用正交方法来安排试验和极差分析法对实验数据处理,分析了不同切削参数对粗糙度的影响.其中对TC21钛合金表面粗糙度影响最为显著的因素是每齿进给量,其次为切削深度和切削速率,最后为切削宽度.通过对粗糙度影响机理分析在加工中宜采用较小的进给量和切削深度、较大的切削速率和切削宽度.     

基于1553B总线的星载相机地面检测程序通用化设计

1553B总线是一种时分制指令/响应式多路传输数据总线,广泛应用于飞机、舰船和卫星的通信中。目前已有部分星载相机采用1553B总线进行通信,但其命令多样,数据的传输类型也不尽相同,因此,卫星在地面检测时要根据对应的协议进行测试,必要时须对程序进行重新设计、修改,工作量较大。为了解决协议频繁更改带来的测试可靠性问题,文章基于VC编程技术,借鉴程序通用化的设计思想,实现了星载相机1553B总线通信检测程序接口的通用化设计,使地面测试程序得到统一化、通用化,提高了产品的开发效率和可靠性。