Model predictive control for close-proximity maneuvering of spacecraft with adaptive convexification of collision avoidance constraints

This study investigated model predictive control (MPC) for close-proximity maneuvering of spacecraft. It is essential for a designed MPC to effectively handle collision avoidance between the servicer spacecraft and the client spacecraft, especially while the client is rotating. The rotating motion of the client leads to dynamic changes in the collision avoidance constraints, which increases the difficulty of optimizing the control input in the MPC framework. Therefore, this study presents a method to improve the performance and computational efficiency of MPC for rendezvous and docking with a nonrotating or rotating client. An ellipsoid is adopted to model the client’s keep-out zone (KOZ). Given the spherical KOZ of the servicer, an expanded ellipsoid is introduced to describe the KOZ for the center of mass of the servicer and modeled as a nonlinear constraint. The linearization method for reference points located at the expanded ellipsoid is adopted to convexify the nonlinear constraints. The reference points are adaptively determined according to the positions of the servicer, client, and expanded ellipsoidal KOZ. The resulting hyperplanes are then used to describe the collision avoidance constraints. By utilizing the aforementioned strategies, combined with the calculated reference points, an adaptive convex programming algorithm suitable for real-time implementation of MPC is derived. The performance of the proposed method is demonstrated through numerical simulations.     

Smooth free-cycle dynamic soaring in unspecified shear wind via quadratic programming

Harvesting wind energy is promising for extending long-endurance flights, which can be greatly facilitated by a flight technique called dynamic soaring. The presented study is concerned with generating model-based trajectories with smooth control histories for dynamic soaring maneuvers exploiting wind gradients. The desired smoothness is achieved by introducing a trigonometric series parameterization for the controls, which are formulated with respect to the normalized time.Specifically, the per...     

风洞试验数据管理平台设计与研究

针对国内民用飞机风洞试验数据体量大、种类多、高时效、更新快等特点，引入了矩阵存储模式替代了原有的分层存储模式对现有风洞试验数据进行了重新划分与归类，优化了数据文件存储结构。仔细分析该平台在存储规模、管理规范及使用功能等方面的需求后，拟选择IBMx366型或同等级别的工作站及配套设备作为硬件基础，同时明确了该平台的面向对象、使用规范及管理办法。该平台所含写入/查询/更新等常规功能采用Labview8.6软件开发平台及SQL语句脚本实现。该数据管理平台已具备了一定实际功能，基本满足对风洞试验数据管理的需求。     

基于dSPACE的性能寻优控制工程应用研究

发动机性能寻优是提高飞机效能的方法之一,其先进控制模态能够综合飞机和发动机的信息,在安全运行的前提下,实现发动机某项或综合性能指标的最优。为提高飞机效能,本文在对飞行/推进系统性能寻优控制理论及现有成果的学习基础上,通过最小二乘法求取线性模型,获得较为精确的全包线推进系统矩阵,从而确定线性小区间内性能指标和约束条件的线性表达式,进而将发动机性能寻优问题表述成线性规划问题,通过单纯形法获取寻优模式下的各项性能指标。从验证性能寻优控制算法工程可行性的角度出发,将性能寻优程序模块嵌入到数控系统中;在dSPACE设备上搭建快速控制原型仿真平台,进行了实时仿真验证,仿真结果能够获得预期的指标优化结果。研究表明:性能寻优算法在工程应用上具有可行性及有效性。