Large-Signal Transient Responses of a Switching Regulator

Analytical and experimental considerations of the large-signal transient responses of the buck-type switching regulator are described. The dynamic behavior under the large-signal condition is different from the small-signal operation because of the saturation characteristics of the pulsewidth modulator feedback controller. The effect of this nonlinearity is analyzed by dividing its operation into three modes. As a result the peak values of the inrush current and output voltage are obtained analytically both for the start-up and for the step change of the load condition.     

基于指令力矩螺旋式搜索的SGCMG 奇异规避方法

针对航天器的控制力矩陀螺群框架构型奇异以及传统奇异规避方法在规避时存在的框架“锁死”问题,本文提出一种基于指令力矩进行螺旋式搜索的控制力矩陀螺奇异规避方法.该方法在鲁棒奇异逆操纵律和零运动操纵律的基础上,引入随奇异度量值自主调节的旋转角和随时间连续变化的旋转轴,让期望力矩通过搜索寻找出逃离奇异状态的方向,来实现奇异规避.仿真结果表明该方法具有良好的奇异规避特性,并能够克服常规奇异规避方法存在的框架“锁死”情况.     

Mercury Ion Analyzer (MIA) onboard Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter: MMO

The Mercury Magnetopsheric Orbiter (MMO) is one of the spacecraft of the BepiColombo mission; the mission is scheduled for launch in 2014 and plans to revisit Mercury with modern instrumentation. MMO is to elucidate the detailed plasma structure and dynamics around Mercury, one of the least-explored planets in our solar system. The Mercury Plasma Particle Experiment (MPPE) on board MMO is a comprehensive instrument package for plasma, high-energy particle, and energetic neutral particle atom measurements. The Mercury Ion Analyzer (MIA) is one of the plasma instruments of MPPE, and measures the three dimensional velocity distribution of low-energy ions (from 5 eV to 30 keV) by using a top-hat electrostatic analyzer for half a spin period (2 s). By combining both the mechanical and electrical sensitivity controls, MIA has a wide dynamic range of count rates for the proton flux expected around Mercury, which ranges from 10⁶ to 10¹² cm⁻² s⁻¹ str⁻¹ keV⁻¹, in the solar wind between 0.3 and 0.47 AU from the sun, and in both the hot and cold plasma sheet of Mercury’s magnetosphere. The geometrical factor of MIA is variable, ranging from 1.0 × 10⁻⁷ cm² str keV/keV for large fluxes of solar wind ions to 4.7 × 10⁻⁴ cm² str keV/keV for small fluxes of magnetospheric ions. The entrance grid used for the mechanical sensitivity control of incident ions also work to significantly reduce the contamination of solar UV radiation, whose intensity is about 10 times larger than that around Earth’s orbit.     

一种基于频移补偿的apFFT相位估计改进方法及应用

全相位快速傅里叶变换（all phase Fast Fourier Transform,apFFT)相位一致性特点使正弦信号相位估计不受频率估计影响,但由于频谱泄露和栅栏效应,apFFT相位估计性能受信号频率位置影响。针对该问题,提出了一种基于高精度频率估计和补偿的apFFT相位估计方法。首先,对信号进行高精度频率估计,并以此对信号进行频移补偿,然后对补偿信号进行apFFT,最后求解信号相位。蒙特卡洛仿真结果表明：所提算法的相位估计性能不受信号频率位置影响,相位估计误差性能与理论值一致,受两参数克拉美罗界（CRLB₂）约束,约为1.158 2倍的CRLB₂;相位估计性能和抗噪声能力明显优于经典apFFT算法和其他对比算法。更进一步,利用我国首次火星探测器TW-1（天问一号）近火捕获段干涉测量数据进行算法验证,结果表明：相位估计精度约4 mrad,干涉测量时延估计精度约50 ps。     

Development and Application of Laser Peening in Japan

Recent advances in laser technology have yielded amultitude of innovative processes and applications invarious industries. Laser peening without protectivecoating (LPPC) is a typical example and blazes a trail inthe field of preventive maintenance of operating nuclearfacilities, taking full advantage of inertia-less processover mechanical treatment[1]. LPPC introduces a compres-sive residual stress on metal surface by simply irradiat-ing laser pulses under water environment[2] . A remotepro…     

Common-Mode Noise Generation in a DC-to-DC Converter

Analytical and experimental considerations of the common-mode noise in a dc-to-dc connverterare discussed. Analyzing the mechanism of the common-mode noise generation by means of a high-frequency equivalent circuit, we estimate the output noise voltage generated during the transistor's turn-on time. This commonmode noise consists mainly of two frequency components distributed in several megahertz. The effects of parasitic parameters on the noise voltage and frequencies are clarified. In addition, the effect of a common-mode choke on the noise suppression is discussed experimentally.     

Optimum Design of RC Snubbers for Switching Regulators

The optimum design of an RC snubber to suppress the surge voltage across the transistor in a switching regulator with a two-winding reactor is presented. Analyzing the surge voltage by means of high-frequency equivalent circuits, we obtain the third-order characteristic equation. This third-order equation is first analyzed by the aid of the root locus method. As a result, the region where the surge voltage can be suppressed is described in the R-C plane. Then considering the snubber loss, the optimum resistance and capacitance can be obtained. Second, the precise design procedure of RC snubbers is discussed by normalization and numerical calculations. This procedure is summarized in easy-to-use nomographs.     

Pulse Synchronizing DC-to-DC Converter

The new dc-to-dc converter driven by the external pulse is presented. The principle is based on the synchronizing phenomenon in the transistor core multivibrator. There are the voltage feed- back in the OFF interval and the current feedback in the ON interval. The flux of the saturable core is changed along the minor hysteresis loop. The operations are explained by the aid of the averaged method of the state space technique. The efficiency of this converter is high and the construction is very simple.     

基于非线性有限元降阶方法的网格加筋筒壳结构屈曲承载特性研究

非线性有限元数值计算方法是结构屈曲性能评估的主要手段,然而该方法需要基于精细网格迭代求解,降低结构非线性计算规模是其关键技术之一。采用一种结构非线性有限元降阶方法,对均匀轴向压载荷作用下的网格加筋筒壳结构进行了细致的承载稳定性特性分析。该方法将Koiter初始后屈曲理论与Newton弧长法相结合,通过多次使用Koiter摄动展开来跟踪结构非线性平衡路径。计算比较了特征值屈曲载荷和计及几何非线性效应的非线性屈曲载荷值;采用侧向小扰动载荷模拟结构初始几何形状缺陷,分析了缺陷幅度对临界屈曲载荷的影响规律,在验证了非线性有限元降阶方法分析精度的同时,细致考核了该方法在结构非线性屈曲分析以及缺陷敏感性分析中的计算效率优势。     

Automatic detection of typical dust devils from Mars landscape images

This paper presents an improved algorithm for automatic detection of Martian dust devils that successfully extracts tiny bright dust devils and obscured large dust devils from two subtracted landscape images. These dust devils are frequently observed using visible cameras onboard landers or rovers. Nevertheless, previous research on automated detection of dust devils has not focused on these common types of dust devils, but on dust devils that appear on images to be irregularly bright and large. In this study, we detect these common dust devils automatically using two kinds of parameter sets for thresholding when binarizing subtracted images. We automatically extract dust devils from 266 images taken by the Spirit rover to evaluate our algorithm. Taking dust devils detected by visual inspection to be ground truth, the precision, recall and F-measure values are 0.77, 0.86, and 0.81, respectively.