Area-oriented coordinated trajectory planning of dual-arm space robot for capturing a tumbling target

The growing amount of space debris poses a threat to operational spacecraft and the long-term sustainability of activities in outer space. According to the orbital mechanics, an uncontrolled space object will be tumbling, bringing great challenge to capture and remove it. In this paper, a dual-arm coordinated ‘‘Area-Oriented Capture"(AOC) method is proposed to capture a non-cooperative tumbling target. Firstly, the motion equation of the tumbling target is established, based on which, the dynamic properties are analyzed. Then, the ‘‘Area-Oriented Capture"concept is presented to deal with the problem of large pose(position and attitude) deviation and tumbling motion. An area rather than fixed points/devices is taken as the object to be tracked and captured. As long as the manipulators' end-effectors move to a specified range of the objective areas(not fixed points on the target, but areas), the target satellite will be hugged by the two arms.At last, the proposed method and the traditional method(i.e. fixed-point oriented capture method)are compared and analyzed through simulation. The results show that the proposed method has larger pose tolerance and takes shorter time for capturing a tumbling target.     

星用介质材料表面充放电效应试验研究

航天器表面介质材料易遭受表面充放电危害。利用30keV单能电子对几种不同的航天介质材料进行了表面充放电模拟试验,测量了不同电子通量辐照下的表面充电电位以及放电脉冲。试验结果表明,聚酰亚胺薄膜在接地处理不当时表面可充至千伏以上,易发生表面放电,且辐照强度越大,放电频率越高。表面镀铝的聚酰亚胺薄膜在不接地时,铝膜成为悬浮导体更加剧了放电的危害。而通过渗碳处理的聚酰亚胺薄膜,其良好的导电性能可有效抵御nA/cm~2量级电子的表面充电。聚四氟乙烯天线罩表面未进行防静电处理时,表面充电电位可达万伏量级,极易发生放电。     

基于多特征融合的航天器锂电池健康评估技术

传统的航天器蓄电池可靠性试验按照最大放电深度进行定额充放电，所构建的失效模型用于支撑航天器总体可靠性设计，不能用于在轨锂离子蓄电池健康评估任务；航天器在蓄电池遥测的采样率、精度、样本量方面无法与民用领域相比，基于高采样、大样本的民用蓄电池健康估计方法也不适用于在轨锂离子蓄电池健康评估。针对该问题，从在轨航天器蓄电池数据特性出发，挖掘在轨状态下所能提取的退化特征，并采用多特征综合评价方法，设计了一种基于多特征融合的在轨锂离子蓄电池健康评估方法，实现了在轨蓄电池放电内阻、同放电深度下的终端电压、恒压充电时间3项退化特征融合的健康量化评估，应用于某型号卫星的在轨监测与健康评估，具有良好的工程实用性，可作为国内航天器健康评估技术的参考。     

Investigation of Hypervelocity Impacts on Retrieved Surfaces by Direct Simulation Monte Carlo

Hypervelocity impacts on the retrieved Hubble Space Telescope (HST) solar array was investigated by our extended Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) model and the result matches well with the measured data in most of the particle mass range. The revelation of the altitude dependence of particles flux onto the retrieved surfaces provides some insight in understanding the observed higher flux onto Mir space station relative to that onto Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF). Our analysis suggests that a slightly higher primary flux onto Mir space station would be possible even without taking into account the secondary impacts, as a result of the existence of the highly eccentric orbits of small-sized debris. It is, furthermore, predicted that 43% of the measured impact flux onto Mir station in PIE experiment may be from secondary impacts, and a corresponding 7% for the detectors in Echantillions experiment.     

空间碎片的形成,危害及防护

对空间碎片的形成，危害及航天防护等问题进行了讨论，简述了领域内的研究成果，包括基本概念、理论模型和设计方案，并对今后空间碎片研究的重要性和研究的内容进行了分析。     

磨粒监测与分析系统在航空发动机状态监控中的应用(英文)

磨损颗粒是研究机器磨损状态时最直接、最重要的信息元 ,通过对滑油中的磨粒进行监测与分析以判断机械设备的磨损状况 ,可以监测并预防机械设备的磨损故障。本文介绍的磨粒监测与分析系统 ( DMAS)具有制谱简单、自动化程度高、能及时准确预报及诊断机器的各种磨损类故障等特点 ,可以有效地保障机器安全可靠地运行。本文详细地阐述了这套系统的基本原理、软硬件组成 ,以及在航空发动机磨损状态监测中的应用     

复杂背景下磨粒显微图像分割

针对DMAS系统中复杂背景下磨粒图像的自动分割问题，根据磨粒图像的相关特征，充分利用领域知识，基于图像分割和边界跟踪的思想，选取了适合磨粒图像分割的最大类间方差阈值法，并结合腐蚀、膨胀等图像处理技术，实现了复杂背景下磨粒图像的有效分割和目标提取。最后算例表明了本方法的简洁有效性。本文研究将对进一步展开磨粒识别和机械设备故障诊断研究工作提供前提和依据。     

航天器表面充电效应及其工程计算

文章较全面地介绍了航天器与空间等离子体发生的表面充电效应。从航天器表面充电的发现到充放电带来的危害,阐述了航天器表面充电研究对航天器安全飞行的重要性,最后对如何消减表面充电效应带来的危害提出了建议,分析了用充电软件进行工程模拟计算的可行性.     

Will space run out of space? The orbital debris problem and its mitigation

An appraisal of current and future risks from space debris is presented with the aid of calculations carried out by the MASTER model. The efficacy of various technical options -- such as fuel venting, de-orbiting and use of a graveyard orbit -- for counteracting the problem is discussed. The article then focuses on governmental and international cooperative measures and looks at the recent work done by subcommittees of the UN COPUOS.     

空间碎片减缓策略效果仿真

根据机构间空间碎片协调委员会(IADC)和欧空局(ESA)的空间碎片减缓要求,在建立航天发射、爆炸和碰撞模型,以及碎片演化机制的基础上,对常规发射(BAU)、禁止在轨爆炸(NO-EX)和全面减缓(MIT)三种空间碎片减缓策略条件下,对2000~2100年空间碎片环境进行了仿真计算。结果表明,禁止航天器在轨爆炸、对失效的卫星和火箭上面级实施离轨操作,以及在航天器的发射和运行中不产生或抛弃分离物等减缓措施是限制空间碎片数量增长的有效方法。