X-ray pulsar navigation method for spacecraft with pulsar direction error

In order to reduce the impact of the pulsar direction error on the navigation system performance, a novel X-ray pulsar navigation technique is proposed. Through analyzing the system bias caused by the pulsar direction error, it can be seen that the system bias is slowly time-varying. Based on the analysis result, the augmented state unscented Kalman filter (ASUKF), in which the system bias is treated as the augmented state, is designed here to deal with the system bias and estimate spacecraft’s positions and velocities. The simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed navigation method. The ASUKF-based navigation method for spacecraft is more accurate than the method based on unscented Kalman filter (UKF) in the presence of the pulsar direction error.     

Onboard orbit determination using GPS observations based on the unscented Kalman filter

Spaceborne GPS receivers are used for real-time navigation by most low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. In general, the position and velocity accuracy of GPS navigation solutions without a dynamic filter are 25 m (1σ) and 0.5 m/s (1σ), respectively. However, GPS navigation solutions, which consist of position, velocity, and GPS receiver clock bias, have many abnormal excursions from the normal error range for space operation. These excursions lessen the accuracy of attitude control and onboard time synchronization. In this research, a new onboard orbit determination algorithm designed with the unscented Kalman filter (UKF) was developed to improve the performance. Because the UKF is able to obtain the posterior mean and covariance accurately by using the second-order Taylor series expansion through the sampled sigma points that are propagated by using the true nonlinear system, its performance can be better than that of the extended Kalman filter (EKF), which uses the linearized state transition matrix to predict the covariance. The dynamic models for orbit propagation applied perturbations due to the 40 × 40 geo-potential, the gravity of the Sun and Moon, solar radiation pressure, and atmospheric drag. The 7(8)th-order Runge–Kutta numerical integration was applied for orbit propagation. Two types of observations, navigation solutions and C/A code pseudorange, can be used at the user’s discretion. The performances of the onboard orbit determination were verified using real GPS data of the CHAMP and KOMPSAT-2 satellites. The results of the orbit determination were compared with the precision orbit ephemeris (POE) of the CHAMP and KOMPSAT-2 satellites.     

基于Hadamard方差的导航星座自主时间同步算法研究

文章在总结国内外研究成果基础上,针对GPS铷钟虽然短期稳定性较好,但采用Allan方差描述铷钟频率稳定性时,其钟差状态方程仅为两参数,在较长平滑时间里存在时钟漂移和甚低频噪声的影响,使噪声特性淹没或估值不收敛的缺陷,引入Hadamard方差建立了三参数系统状态误差模型,通过三次采样方差从模型上解决了线形漂移和甚低频噪声的影响问题。在时钟系统状态模型和星间双向测量方程建模基础上,给出了工程实用的标准Kalman基本滤波方程。数值分析仿真表明,采用Hadamard方差描述时钟频率稳定性显著提高星载时钟自主同步精度,从而克服了Allan方差描述产生的频率漂移影响较大和甚低频噪声不收敛的问题。     

基于直升机/发动机非线性综合仿真模型的ALQR控制器设计

构建了UH-60A直升机六自由度非定常、非线性气动力模型以及完整的直升机/涡轴发动机非线性综合仿真模型。使用增广LQR方法设计了直升机飞行控制器,包线内大量仿真结果及与 控制器效果的对比表明该控制器解耦性能、指令跟踪性能优越,鲁棒性强。此外,该控制器设计过程简单和调参方便。借助上述综合仿真模型研究了发动机闭环系统与直升机的功率匹配关系,数字仿真表明,发动机能够满足直升机机常规飞行任务下的功率需求,功率涡轮转速下垂量满足直升机飞行操纵品质规范（ADS-33E）的要求。     

吸气式高超声速技术研究进展

总结了中国空气动力研究与发展中心(CARDC)在吸气式高超声速技术在试验设备、超燃冲压发动机、数值模拟以及机体/推进一体化飞行器等方面的研究进展。介绍了三种类型的高焓设备:脉冲式燃烧加热风洞、连续式燃烧加热风洞和电弧风洞。通过多种尺度的超燃冲压发动机的直连式和自由射流式试验,获得了发动机的基本性能及其随油气比、喷孔位置等的变化规律。对比连续式和脉冲式风洞试验结果,得知工作时间大于100 ms的脉冲式燃烧设备是开展发动机基本性能研究的经济、高效试验手段。成功研制了三维大规模并行数值模拟软件平台AHL3D并广泛应用于发动机研究。在0.6 m风洞中,完成了1.5 m带动力飞行器试验,获得了发动机工作和不工作状态下的飞行器推阻及升力特性。     

在轨服务航天器导航系统仿真研究

在轨服务航天器（On\|orbit Servicing Spacecraft—OSS）具有重要的军事和民用价值。 分析了OSS的导航任务,给出了导航系统总体方案并设计了导航工作模式。构建了OSS导航仿 真系统的总体框架,分析了OSS导航仿真系统组成及仿真支撑环境,基于MATLAB／RTW仿真平 台开发了OSS导航数字仿真软件。对数据时间同步技术、导航模式切换技术、推力分配算法 等关键技术进行了分析。
     

Performability analysis of avionics system with multilayer HM/FM using stochastic Petri nets

The integrated modular avionics (IMA) architecture is an open standard in avionics industry, in which the number of functionalities implemented by software is greater than ever before. In the IMA architecture, the reliability of the avionics system is highly affected by the software applications. In order to enhance the fault tolerance feature with regard to software application failures, many industrial standards propose a layered health monitoring/fault management (HM/FM) scheme to periodically check the health status of software application processes and recover the malfunctioning software process whenever an error is located. In this paper, we make an analytical study of the HM/FM system for avionics application software. We use the stochastic Petri nets (SPN) to build a formal model of each component and present a method to combine the components together to form a complete system model with respect to three interlayer query strategies. We further investigate the effectiveness of these strategies in an illustrative system.     

喷水预冷却发动机与导弹一体化设计

以一种高声速导弹作为应用对象,计算了喷水预冷却发动机的安装特性,建立了导弹/喷水预冷却发动机一体化设计的约束分析和任务分析模型,给出了高超声速导弹的升阻特性的确定方法,结合任务剖面、导弹的重量组成以及发动机模型,取爬升率为100m/s,80m/s和50m/s对导弹的爬升和加速任务段进行约束分析,选择巡航马赫数为4.0,5.0和6.0三种情况进行了导弹任务分析。计算结果表明,建立的导弹/发动机一体化约束分析与任务分析模型合理,当巡航马赫数小于5.0时,虽然装备喷水预冷却发动机与亚燃冲压发动机的导弹相比爬升率和加速度较低,但是导弹射程却有较大幅度的提高,因而在高声速导弹的应用是可行的。     

Optimization of communication network topology for navigation sharing among distributed satellites

Navigation sharing among distributed satellites is quite important for coordinated motion and collision avoidance. This paper proposes optimization methods of the communication network topology to achieve navigation sharing. The whole communication network constructing by inter-satellite links are considered as a topology graph. The aim of this paper is to find the communication network topology with minimum communication connections’ number (MCCN) in different conditions. It has found that the communication capacity and the number of channels are two key parameters affecting the results. The model of MCCN topology for navigation sharing is established and corresponding method is designed. Two main scenarios, viz., homogeneous case and heterogeneous case, are considered. For the homogeneous case where each member has the same communication capacity, it designs a construction method (Algorithm 1) to find the MCCN topology. For the heterogeneous case, it introduces a modified genetic algorithm (Algorithm 2) to find the MCCN topology. When considering the fact that the number of channels is limited, the Algorithm 2 is further modified by adding a penalized term in the fitness function. The effectiveness of these algorithms is all proved in theoretical. Three examples are further tested to illustrate the methods developed in this paper.     

直接敏感地平的空天飞行器惯性/天文组合方法

传统的惯性/天文位置组合导航系统中,由于天文定位观测输出耦合了水平观测平台基准误差,往往存在系统噪声与量测噪声不完全独立的问题.针对此问题,分析了利用天文观测量修正惯性系下陀螺漂移的原理,提出了一种直接敏感地平进行天文解析定位及组合滤波的空天飞行器自主导航定位方案,并建立了相应的组合滤波模型.所提出的方法采用星敏感器和陀螺仪构造惯性基准,并在此基础上进行基于红外地平仪的天文定位解算,最后进行惯性/天文组合定位.该方案充分利用了星光敏感器在惯性系下姿态测量精度高的优点,并使惯性/天文组合定位滤波中状态噪声和观测噪声完全独立,仿真结果验证了该定位方法的有效性.