A novel architecture of electro-hydrostatic actuator with digital distribution

To address the flow imbalance rapidly of the asymmetric Electro-Hydrostatic Actuator (EHA), this paper presents a novel architecture of asymmetric EHA with the Digital Distribution (EHA-DD). It also improves the flow nonlinearity and control accuracy of the pump, especially in the low-speed condition. The digital distribution with two High-Speed on–off Valves (HSVs) not only balances flow instead of the check valves, but also replaces the pump at the low-speed to control output flow by adjusting the PWM signal. The pump and HSVs are the crucial components to control flow output. Firstly, the flow calculation models of the pump and the duty ratio inversed model of the HSV are obtained through experimental tests and the identification method. To get the control input signal for the required flow, the pump speed and PWM duty ratio for the HSVs are inversed to compensate for flow output. Further, a multimode digital flow distribution control method based on pump speed, mainly including the pump-controlled mode for large flow demand and valve-controlled mode for little flow demand, is proposed to control the accurate flow output actively. The step extension experiments based on the flow calculation models are conducted on the EHA-DD prototype under elastic, opposite varying load. The results demonstrate that the EHA-DD realizes little position error by accurate flow control, and it is also beneficial to improve the service life of the pump.     

A simple control law for reducing the effective characteristic acceleration of a solar sail

The direction and magnitude of a solar sail acceleration are strongly related. For this reason, once the characteristic acceleration has been fixed, it is not possible to modulate the acceleration in a particular direction. In this work, a semi-analytical switching control law is derived, enabling a solar sail to emulate a smaller effective characteristic acceleration (without changes in geometry or optical properties); by periodically changing the pitch (cone) angle of the sail, in average over time, the acceleration produced by the sail matches exactly (in both direction and magnitude) that of a “smaller” sail. The range in which this is possible is determined, and the limitations on this range due to the size difference is computed. The method is validated on optimal Earth-Mars trajectories.     

连续式风洞二喉道调节马赫数控制策略

为了降低连续式跨超声速风洞压力波动,提高马赫数稳定性,需要对二喉道调节马赫数控制方式进行研究,针对现有文献鲜少对该控制策略描述等问题,以0.6m连续式跨声速风洞为例,对二喉道控制马赫数的原理进行分析,基于运动控制器加伺服驱动器双PID(proportion-integral-derivative)控制模式实现二喉道位置精确控制,提出了二喉道和压缩机转速的组合控制流程,并采用分段变参数模糊PID加串级控制的算法实现马赫数精确控制,最后进行了试验验证。结果表明马赫数控制精度优于0.001,且每个马赫数极曲线(9个攻角阶梯)的时间可控制在4min以内,证明所提出的控制策略是有效的,可为连续式跨超声速风洞的设计调试提供参考。      

偏心撞击对撞击式喷嘴雾化特性的影响

为研究偏心撞击对撞击式喷嘴雾化特性的影响,建立了求解自燃推进剂冷态射流撞击雾化过程的数值模拟方案,计算了不同偏心度条件下的射流撞击雾化过程。采用树形自适应加密算法直接求解不可压Navier-Stokes方程组,由分段线性的流体体积(VOF)方法对流体界面进行捕捉。结果表明偏心撞击会导致雾场发生偏转,当无量纲偏心度E为1/8时,雾场偏转角度约为9.2°,应控制加工偏差小于该值。随着偏心度的增大,液膜的偏转角度增大,理论推导得到的液膜偏转角度要小于数值计算得到的液膜偏转角度。正心撞击时燃料与氧化剂流强峰值接近,雾场的流强分布呈单峰分布。当发生偏心撞击时,由于燃料与氧化剂部分射流未参与撞击导致流强峰值出现交错,雾场的流强分布呈双峰分布,混合比的空间分布发生较大改变。正心撞击时撞击点下游液滴的速度分布近似呈轴对称分布,而偏心撞击之后的速度分布则呈中心对称分布。偏心撞击导致的射流动量损失使得雾化性能变差,当无量纲偏心度E为1/8时,一甲基肼(MMH)的Sauter平均直径增大约4.8%,四氧化二氮(NTO)的Sauter平均直径增大约5.8%。      

叶片式预旋喷嘴出口流场实验研究

叶片式预旋喷嘴具有尺寸小,落后角大的特点。为了详细研究小尺寸预旋喷嘴的预旋性能,采用五孔探针对叶片式预旋喷嘴的出口流场进行了实验研究。测量了Ma=0.2,0.3时喷嘴出口的压力分布、速度分布和出口气流角度分布,实验获得了喷嘴的落后角和预旋效率,并进行了与实验工况相同的数值计算。通过实验获得的总压云图以及速度云图,可以发现叶片式预旋喷嘴的端壁二次流损失、尾迹损失严重,有明显的边界层分离现象。Ma=0.2时,喷嘴Re数为5.76×104,落后角2.84°,实验测得的预旋效率为0.73;Ma=0.3时,喷嘴Re数为1.06×105,预旋效率提高至0.77。实验模型端壁的影响使预旋效率实验结果偏低6.5%左右。数值结果与实验测得各参数符合较好:数值结果与测得的喷嘴出口截面平均总压、静压偏差在1%以内;出气速度、周向速度以及出气角度与实验结果偏差在4%以内。数值计算表明,叶片式预旋喷嘴的预旋效率基本不受压比影响,随Re数增大先增大后基本不变,最后基本稳定在0.85。     

Availability modeling for periodically inspection system with different lifetime and repair-time distribution

Availability is a main feature of design and operation of all engineering system. Recently,availability evaluation of periodical inspection systems with different structures is at the center of attention due to the wide application in engineering. In this paper, an analytical and probabilistic availability model for periodical inspection system is proposed by a new recursively algorithm,which can achieve limiting average availability and instantaneous availability of periodical inspection system under arbitrary lifetime and repair-time distributions. Then three application examples are presented, the systems lifetime and repair-time are respectively fellow exponential/exponential,Weibull/normal and Weibull/lognormal distribution. Finally, a Weibull/lognormal system is studied to analyze the dynamic relationship between inspection period and availability. The results indicate that the proposed approach can provide the technology support for improving system availability and determining reasonable inspection period.     

基于自适应容积粒子滤波的车辆状态估计

针对车辆状态估计中由模型的强非线性、噪声的非高斯分布等相关因素导致估计精度下降甚至发散的问题,本文提出了基于自适应容积粒子滤波(Adaptive cubature particle filter,ACPF)的车辆状态估计器。首先基于非稳态动态轮胎模型,构建高维度非线性八自由度车辆模型。其次利用自适应容积卡尔曼滤波(Adaptive cubature Kalman filter,ACKF)算法更新基本粒子滤波(Particle filter,PF)算法的重要性密度函数,以完成自适应容积粒子滤波算法设计。利用车载传感器信息,运用ACPF算法实现对车辆的侧倾角、质心侧偏角等关键状态变量高精度在线观测。搭建Simulink-Carsim联合仿真平台进行了算法的验证,结果表明该算法状态估计精度高于传统无迹粒子滤波(Unscented particle filter,UPF)算法,且算法运算效率高于UPF算法,而传统PF估计值发散。研究结果为实现车辆动力学精准控制提供了理论支持。     

低轨天基信息定向分发区域分割编码控制方法

为提高低轨指向性信息分发链路的频谱利用效率，从天基分发平台与地面用户的相对位置关系入手，建立了分发指向、编码增益与信道传输容量的量化关系。在此基础上，提出一种低轨天基信息定向分发区域分割编码控制方法，该方法针对不同信息分发区域，采用最小均方误差(MMSE)作为区域分割准则选择编码方式，既提升了信道传输效率也便于工程实现。最后，本文通过仿真分析了方法的效能和性能影响因素，并与现有自适应编码方法进行了对比，验证了本方法的有效性和可靠性。     

大型客机低速构型高雷诺数风洞腹撑支架干扰数值模拟

风洞到飞行相关性修正是获取现代大型客机低速气动特性的重要手段，通常采用增压提高风洞试验雷诺数，而支架干扰修正是该修正体系的一个关键环节。采用数值模拟研究了增压风洞腹撑的支架干扰，并分析了腹撑对飞机各部件的干扰及其对风洞流场的影响。通过数值模拟与风洞试验对比，表明升力系数相差0.006，阻力系数最大相差0.001 2，俯仰力矩系数最大相差0.01，验证了CFD数值模拟方法的可靠性。CFD计算结果表明：腹撑使得全机升力增加、阻力减小，俯仰力矩增加；腹撑对升力影响的主要部件是机翼，腹撑使得风洞中心以上动压增加，提升上翼面流速，从而增加了机翼的升力；与传统认识不同的是腹撑对阻力影响为负，且主要影响部件为缝翼，原因为缝翼下偏使得法矢分量向前从而减小了阻力；腹撑对俯仰力矩影响的主要部件是机身及平尾。研究结果揭示了腹撑对飞机气动特性影响的量级、主要影响部件及其流场变化，可为支架干扰数据修正及支架优化设计提供参考。所得结论可更好用于支架干扰试验的开展及风洞到飞行数据的修正，具有一定的工程实用性。     

涡轮导向叶片综合冷却效率实验研究

为了研究流动参数对涡轮导向叶片综合冷却效率的影响,采用红外热像仪对叶片表面的温度分布进行了测量,得到了叶片的综合冷却效率随流量比、温比、主流进口雷诺数和湍流度的变化规律。实验过程中,次流与主流的流量比分别为0.15,0.18,0.20,0.22和0.24;主次流温比分别为1.4,1.7,1.93和2.2;主流进口雷诺数分别为1.0×10~5,1.1×10~5,1.2×10~5,1.3×10~5和1.4×10~5;主流进口湍流度分别为0.506%,8.156%,14.92%。结果表明,综合冷却效率在前缘处最低,沿流向逐渐升高;增大流量比会显著提高叶片的综合冷却效率,在温比为1.93时,流量比由0.15增大至0.24,综合冷却效率平均增加29.3%;温比和主流进口湍流度的增大均不利于综合冷却效率的提升,流量比为0.20时,温比由1.4增大至2.2,综合冷却效率平均下降46.5%,湍流度由0.506%增大至14.92%,综合冷却效率平均降低15.5%;主流进口雷诺数对叶片综合冷却效率的影响很小。