Hopper concepts for small body landers

The investigation of small bodies, comets and asteroids, can contribute substantially to our understanding of the formation and history of the Solar System. In situ observations by landers play an important role in this field.     

A fault diagnosis model based on weighted extension neural network for turbo-generator sets on small samples with noise

In data-driven fault diagnosis for turbo-generator sets, the fault samples are usually expensive to obtain, and inevitably with noise, which will both lead to an unsatisfying identification performance of diagnosis models. To address these issues, this paper proposes a fault diagnosis model for turbo-generator sets based on Weighted Extension Neural Network (W-ENN). W-ENN is a novel neural network which has three types of connection weights and an improved correlation function. The performance of the proposed model is validated against Extension Neural Network (ENN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Relevance Vector Machine (RVM) and Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) based models. The results indicate that, on noisy small sample sets, the proposed model is superior to the other models in terms of higher identification accuracy with fewer samples and strong noise-tolerant ability. The findings of this study may serve as a powerful fault diagnosis model for turbo-generator sets on noisy small sample sets.     

一种小天体探测器绕飞轨道主动抗扰控制方法

针对小天体绕飞探测过程中,探测器受到的非球形引力摄动及太阳光压等多源扰动问题,结合绕飞探测的周期性特点,提出一种小天体探测器绕飞轨道主动抗扰控制方法。首先,通过迭代学习控制对小天体探测器受多源扰动影响产生的误差进行抑制,然后设计扰动观测器估计系统总扰动,构造自适应律实时估计扰动上界,进而设计控制律对总扰动进行主动补偿。最后以243Ida作为目标天体进行绕飞探测仿真分析,结果表明该控制方法能更加有效地提高小天体探测器的轨道跟踪控制精度。     

小天体柔性附着状态协同估计方法

针对小天体附着过程易发生倾覆、反弹导致任务失败问题,提出“柔性附着”概念,替代传统小天体探测的刚性附着模式,为提高小天体附着任务可靠性提供新的解决思路和技术途径。在此基础上,针对柔性着陆器的状态估计问题展开研究。首先建立了柔性着陆器近似模型,提出了柔性着陆器“等效面”概念及柔性着陆器姿态的近似表征方式,进而提出了柔性附着状态协同估计方法,并通过数值仿真检验了柔性着陆器状态协同估计的可行性。     

离心式喷嘴在小尺度受限空间雾化特性的实验研究

为了了解小尺度受限空间中离心式喷嘴的雾化特性,设计了四旋流槽离心式喷嘴和小尺度模拟燃烧室,采用相位多普勒粒子动态分析仪(PDA),观测了喷射压力对模拟燃烧室内雾化性能的影响.引入离散系数cv对喷雾场雾化参数的周向分布规律进行了着重分析.结果表明:模拟燃烧室内,喷射压力越大,液滴索特尔平均直径D32的值越小;在z∈[41.5,94.2]的轴向距离范围内,喷射压力对Vz的影响不明显.由于壁面作用,液滴D32的周向分布均匀性随着径向距离的增加变差;距离喷嘴出口越远处,液滴D32的周向分布均匀性越好.在喷射压力相同条件下,同一喷嘴在模拟燃烧室内雾化参数的周向分布均匀性比在大气环境中波动更大.     

Robotic Instrument for Grinding Rocks Into Thin Sections (GRITS)

We have developed a rock grinding and polishing mechanism for in situ planetary exploration based on abrasive disks, called Grinding Rocks Into Thin Sections (GRITS). Performance characteristics and design considerations of GRITS are presented. GRITS was developed as part of a broader effort to develop an in situ automated rock thin section (ISARTS) instrument. The objective of IS-ARTS was to develop an instrument capable of producing petrographic rock thin sections on a planetary science spacecraft. GRITS may also be useful to other planetary science missions with in situ instruments in which rock surface preparation are necessary.     

Small satellite survey mission to the second Earth moon

This paper presents an innovative space mission devoted to the survey of the small Earth companion asteroid by means of nano platforms. Also known as the second Earth moon, Cruithne, is the target identified for the mission. Both the trajectory to reach the target and a preliminary spacecraft budget are here detailed. The idea is to exploit high efficient ion thrusters to reduce the propellant mass fraction in such a high total impulse mission (of the order of 1e6 Ns). This approach allows for a 100 kg class spacecraft with a very small Earth escape energy (5 km²/s²) to reach the destination in about 320 days. The 31% propellant mass fraction allows for a payload mass fraction of the order of 8% and this is sufficient to embark on such a small spacecraft a couple of nano-satellites deployed once at the target to carry out a complete survey of the asteroid. Two 2U Cubesats are here considered as representative payload, but also other scientific payloads or different platforms might be considered according with the specific mission needs. The small spacecraft used to transfer these to the target guarantees the manoeuvre capabilities during the interplanetary journey, the protection against radiations along the path and the telecommunication relay functions for the data transmission with Earth stations. The approach outlined in the paper offers reliable solutions to the main issues associated with a deep space nano-satellite mission thus allowing the exploitation of distant targets by means of these tiny spacecraft. The study presents an innovative general strategy for the NEO observation and Cruithne is chosen as test bench. This target, however, mainly for its relevant inclination, requires a relatively large propellant mass fraction that can be reduced if low inclination asteroids are of interest. This might increase the payload mass fraction (e.g. additional Cubesats and/or additional scientific payloads on the main bus) for the same 100 kg class mission.     

一种小阻值电阻测量装置的研究与设计

介绍了一种小阻值电阻测量装置,概述了总体方案设计及关键技术,进行了重要功能设计的介绍和原理上的分析,说明了软件的设计思路和上位机软件功能,最后给出了试验验证及结果。通过测试验证,可以看出这种小阻值电阻测量装置完全满足测试要求,且具有很好的便携性,很好地弥补了现有设备的不足。     

应用快速多分类SVM的航空发动机故障诊断方法

提出了一种新的快速多分类SVM算法,用于解决大样本情况下航空发动机的多类故障诊断问题。首先,选用层次支持向量机(H-SVM)来实现多类分类,用各类数据中心代表该类数据,通过自组织特征映射神经网络(SOFM)进行聚类,把类中心之间距离较近的数据归为同一个子类进行训练,得到H-SVM层次结构。其次,在训练H-SVM中的二元分类器时,应用相对边界向量(RBV)代替全部训练样本,在保持分类精度几乎不变的条件下大幅度减少了训练样本数,使训练时间明显缩短;同时,由于支持向量的数量减小,分类时间也相应缩短。在分类数据混迭较为严重的情况下,新算法先剔除混迭的异类数据,再计算RBV,并且把与计算的RBV距离小于一定数值的样本都选择来训练SVM,保证了RBV的合理性,防止了关键数据的丢失,有效提高了分类精度。针对一个航空涡喷发动机5类复合故障的分类进行了实例仿真,总的故障分类正确率达到91.2%,二元SVM的训练时间最多只有原来的16.20%;当训练样本总数达到7500的大规模情况下,根据本算法,约减后的样本数量只有原来的3.05%。仿真结果表明,提出的算法有效、可靠,容易实现。     

横向连续推力小偏心率人工冻结轨道设计

非临界倾角自然冻结轨道要求近地点幅角为90°, 偏心率在1× 10-3量级, 并且偏心率与轨道倾角和半长轴有特定的对应关系, 苛刻的要求极大地限制了轨道根数选择的多样性. 研究表明, 施加常幅值、方向半轨道周期切换的横向连续小推力可以形成任意轨道根数的小偏心率人工冻结轨道, 放宽自然冻结轨道对轨道根数的严苛限制. 维持小偏心率人工冻结轨道的横向连续推力a_T与半长轴的平方根成正比, 与偏心率大小成反比; 在临界倾角i_c附近, 推力a_T与倾角偏置量Δi近似呈正比, 且长期维持的燃料消耗较小. 此外, 在进行仿真计算时还需考虑拟平均轨道根数与瞬时轨道根数的转换.