Explicit formulas for two state Kalman, H/sub 2/ and H/sub /spl infin// target tracking filters

The continuous time, two state, target tracking problem is considered from the Kalman, H/sub 2/, and H/sub /spl infin// filter viewpoint. While previous treatments were numerical in nature, analytic transient responses and infinite horizon solutions with analytic performance expressions are presented here. Tracking indices, involving the maneuver and measurement uncertainties, are shown to have a role for both the steady state and transient responses. In addition, the H/sub /spl infin// tracker has a sensor index involving the performance bound and measurement uncertainty, which, along with the tracking index, plays a significant role in the H/sub /spl infin// tracker expressions. Analytical expressions for the probability of target escape, the probability that the target position will be outside the radar beamwidth (BW), are developed not only to compare the performance of various trackers, but also as a design tool to meet tracking specifications. Examples illustrate the performance of the target trackers as a function of the error gain upper bound.     

Reduced-order H/sub /spl infin// and L/sub 2/-L/sub /spl infin// filtering via linear matrix inequalities

Necessary and sufficient conditions are derived for the existence of a solution to the continuous-time and discrete-time reduced-order H/sub /spl infin// and L/sub 2/-L/sub /spl infin// filtering problems. These conditions are expressed in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) and a coupling nonconvex matrix rank constraint. Convex LMI problems are obtained for the full-order and the zeroth-order filtering. An explicit parametrization of all reduced-order filters that correspond to a feasible solution is derived in terms of a contractive matrix, and iterative algorithms are proposed to solve the reduced-order filtering problems using alternating projections.     

Mixed H/sub 2//H/sub /spl infin// filtering for uncertain systems with regional pole assignment

The mixed H/sub 2//H/sub /spl infin// filtering problem for uncertain linear continuous-time systems with regional pole assignment is considered. The purpose of the problem is to design an uncertainty-independent filter such that, for all admissible parameter uncertainties, the following filtering requirements are simultaneously satisfied: 1) the filtering process is asymptotically stable; 2) the poles of the filtering matrix are located inside a prescribed region that compasses the vertical strips, horizontal strips, disks, or conic sectors; 3) both the H/sub 2/ norm and the H/sub /spl infin// norm on the respective transfer functions are not more than the specified upper bound constraints. We establish a general framework to solve the addressed multiobjective filtering problem completely. In particular, we derive necessary and sufficient conditions for the solvability of the problem in terms of a set of feasible linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). An illustrative example is given to illustrate the design procedures and performances of the proposed method.     

Robust H/sub /spl infin// filtering of fuzzy dynamic systems

Robust H/sub /spl infin// filtering of complex nonlinear systems which can be represented by a fuzzy dynamic model is presented. Based on a nominal model, a common positive definite matrix P, and a piecewise continuous Lyapunov function respectively, three kinds of new filtering design methods are proposed using quadratic stability theory and linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). It is shown that the filtering system is quadratically stable with disturbance attenuation if there exists a positive definite matrix solution to a LMI or a set of LMIs. An example is also given to demonstrate the performance of the proposed filtering design methods.     

Nonlinear robust observer design for strapdown INS in-flight alignment

A nonlinear observer is proposed for a strapdown inertial navigation system (SDINS) in-flight alignment problem using an H/sub /spl infin// filter Riccati equation and a freedom parameter. The proposed observer improves the filtering stability, convergence, and performance. The characteristics of the observer are analyzed using a Lyapunov function. Simulation results demonstrate a significant reduction in alignment errors by employing the proposed nonlinear observer. The observer is developed in general such that it can be applied to estimating nonlinear systems other than the SDINS in-flight alignment.     

应用于飞行器风洞试验的绳牵引并联机构技术综述

首先概述了法国航空局SACSO项目关于绳牵引并联机构应用于飞行器风洞试验的研究工作,然后从六自由度绳牵引并联机构的结构设计、运动学及性能分析、工作空间的分析与综合、静刚度分析、运动控制和力控制等六方面,详细分析了六自由度绳牵引并联机构应用于飞行器风洞试验中的关键技术。分析结果表明:六自由度绳牵引并联机构必须根据飞行器的类型,以工作空间大小为依据进行构型设计;其运动控制方案可借用PID控制或自适应控制,其优点是便于动力学模型的线性化和解耦;其力控制方案可借用经典的阻抗控制和力/位置混合控制,但适用于飞行器风洞试验的六自由度绳牵引并联机构的更完善的力控制策略还有待进一步的研究。     

Problem of precision missile guidance: LQR and H/sup /spl infin// control frameworks

Addressed here is the precision missile guidance problem where the successful intercept criterion has been defined in terms of both minimizing the miss distance and controlling the missile body attitude with respect to the target at the terminal point. We show that the H/sup /spl infin// control theory, when suitably modified, provides an effective framework for the precision missile guidance problem. The existence of feedback controllers (guidance laws) is investigated for the case of finite horizon and non-zero initial conditions. Both state feedback and output feedback implementations are explored.     

Sigma-mean monitoring for the local area augmentation of GPS

The local area augmentation system (LAAS) is a ground-based differential GPS system being developed to support aircraft precision approach and landing navigation with guaranteed integrity. To quantitatively appraise navigation integrity, an aircraft computes vertical and lateral protection levels using the standard deviation of pseudo-range correction errors, /spl sigma//sub pr/spl I.bar/gnd/, broadcast by the LAAS ground facility (LGF). Thus, one significant integrity risk is that the true standard deviation (sigma) of the pseudo-range correction error distribution may grow to exceed the broadcast correction error sigma or that the true mean of the correction error distribution becomes excessive during LAAS operation. This event may occur due to unexpected anomalies of GPS measurements. To insure that the true error distribution is bounded by a zero-mean Gaussian distribution with the broadcast sigma value, real-time sigma and mean monitoring is necessary. Both direct estimation and cumulative sum (CUSUM) methods are useful to detect violations with acceptable residual integrity risk. For sigma monitoring, the estimation method more rapidly detects small violations of /spl sigma//sub pr/spl I.bar/gnd/ but the fast initial response (FIR) CUSUM variant more promptly detects significant violations that would pose a larger threat to user integrity. For the purposes of mean monitoring, the FIR CUSUM variant is superior to the estimation method in detecting any mean violations. The results demonstrate that real-time protection is achievable against all sizes of sigma/mean failures that can threaten navigation integrity.     

利用遗传算法和LMI设计固定结构H2/H∞飞行控制律

 在设计飞翼式无人机(UAV)的横航向飞行控制系统时,为了使无人机具有较好的动态特性和阵风抑制能力,同时又便于工程实现,提出了固定结构的H₂/H_∞控制律设计方法。对于由此遇到的双线性矩阵不等式(BMI)问题,先用线性矩阵不等式(LMI)方法得到控制律参数和H₂/H_∞性能指标的映射关系,再用此映射关系作为适应度函数,用改进的遗传算法求解使H₂/H_∞性能最优的控制律参数。仿真结果表明,使用固定结构的H₂/H_∞控制方法的无人机动态响应迅速平滑,在侧风干扰下的滚转角振荡幅值仅是原经典控制方法的一半。     

PCM/FM aeronautical telemetry in frequency selective multipath interference

The performance of PCM/FM using a delay-line detector in multipath interference is analyzed. In aeronautical telemetry applications, the multipath interference causes a in the signal spectrum which is web modeled by a channel composed of a line-of-sight signal and a strong specular reflection with magnitude /spl Gamma/ and excess delay less than a bit time. Analysis shows that the bit error probability is strongly dependent on the location of the within the spectrum. The bit error probability averaged over the location is also analyzed. For the case of no predetection filtering, the average bit error probability is dependent on the depth of the but not on the width. The loss in performance (relative to the AWGN environment) is bounded by (1-/spl Gamma/)/sup -2/ which is the depth of the . For the case of predetection filtering, the average bit error probability is dependent on both the width and depth of the . The performance loss is bounded by (1-/spl Gamma/)/sup -2/spl Gamma// which is less than that for the case of no predetection filtering.     

Discrete-time min-max tracking

The problem of optimal state estimation of linear discrete-time systems with measured outputs that are corrupted by additive white noise is addressed. Such estimation is often encountered in problems of target tracking where the target dynamics is driven by finite energy signals, whereas the measurement noise is approximated by white noise. The relevant cost function for such tracking problems is the expected value of the standard H/sub /spl infin// performance index, with respect to the measurement noise statistics. The estimator, serving as a tracking filter, tries to minimize the mean-square estimation error, and the exogenous disturbance, which may represent the target maneuvers, tries to maximize this error while being penalized for its energy. The solution, which is obtained by completing the cost function to squares, is shown to satisfy also the matrix version of the maximum principle. The solution is derived in terms of two coupled Riccati difference equations from which the filter gains are derived. In the case where an infinite penalty is imposed on the energy of the exogenous disturbance, the celebrated discrete-time Kalman filter is recovered. A local iterations scheme which is based on linear matrix inequalities is proposed to solve these equations. An illustrative example is given where the velocity of a maneuvering target has to be estimated utilizing noisy measurements of the target position.     

Wind detection in a microcosm: Ship/aircraft environment sensors

One of the most demanding aspects of a Navy helicopter pilot's job is landing his aircraft on the flight deck of a pitching, rolling, heaving and yawing ship. The complex airwake velocity field associated with the ship and aircraft interface directly affects the pilot's ability to control the aircraft during takeoff, approach, hover, landing, and deck operations. Dynamic Interface (DI) testing is performed to define safe aircraft operational envelopes; however, not all conditions can be realized within the limited test period and asset/condition availability. In addition, exact wind conditions that affect the aircraft cannot be measured with existing wind sensors. These sensors measure wind in the ship's mast area which does not represent the wind flow field encountered by the aircraft. A means of non-intrusively measuring the appropriate wind data is required. This paper presents an overview of the unique aspects of the ship/aircraft interface, the overall naval DI environment and the sensor requirements for measuring this complex environment     

Interval Kalman filtering

The classical Kalman filtering technique is extended to interval linear systems with the same statistical assumptions on noise, for which the classical technique is no longer applicable. Necessary interval analysis, particularly the notion of interval expectation, is reviewed and introduced. The interval Kalman filter (IKF) is then derived, which has the same structure as the classical algorithm, using no additional analysis or computation from such as H/sup /spl infin//-mathematics. A suboptimal IKF is suggested next, for the purpose of real-time implementation. Finally, computer simulations are shown to compare the new interval Kalman filtering algorithm with the classical Kalman filtering scheme and some other existing robust Kalman filtering methods.     

Modified Costas signal

A modification to the Costas signal is suggested. It involves an increase of the frequency separation /spl Delta/f beyond the inverse of the subpulse duration t/sub b/ combined with adding linear FM (LFM) with bandwidth B, in each subpulse. Specific relationships between /spl Delta/f and B will prevent autocorrelation grating lobes, that would normally appear when t/sub b//spl Delta/f>1.     

基于神经网络响应面的机翼气动稳健性优化设计

针对不确定性因素引起飞机性能波动的现象,探讨了机翼气动优化设计过程的稳健性问题;建立了面向速度和扭转角两个不确定性因素的气动性能稳健性约束模型;在利用MATLAB构造基于均匀设计法的BP(Back Propagation)神经网络响应面基础上,应用遗传算法对机翼分别进行考虑稳健性约束和不考虑稳健性约束的气动优化设计,得到两种不同的优化方案。计算结果表明:两种优化方案的最大升阻比都比初始方案的大;在巡航马赫数下,与不考虑稳健性约束的优化方案相比,考虑稳健性约束的优化方案的最大升阻比小0.027 9,但在马赫数、扭转角对应范围内其最大升阻比的变化量分别小0.034 0和0.001 6,其他气动性能参数也更加稳定,波动更小,气动性能具有更好的稳健性,从而证明本文方法进行机翼气动稳健性优化设计是可行、有效的。     

Theorem for the combination of bistatic radar measurements using least squares

In order to improve position finding performance, least squares method is often used to combine the measurement sets of bistatic radar system. However, which measurement sets can be combined by least squares method and which cannot have received little attention until now. We address this issue based on 2 measurements of bistatic radar system, for example (/spl rho/, /spl theta//sub T/), and present a new theorem, with proof, which shows that the least squares estimator can be obtained by combining any two measurement sets if these measurement pairs are disjoint. We provide an example that satisfies this condition, which shows that the least square combination of measurement sets yield improved performance especially in the vicinity of the transmitter and the receiver.     

Performance characteristics of lithium ion cells at low temperatures

The low temperature charge and discharge characteristics of experimental MCMB-Li/sub x/Ni/sub y/Co/sub 1-y/O/sub 2/ cells containing different electrolytes were investigated. The use of low ethylene carbonate (EC)-content electrolyte formulations has resulted in good discharge performance to temperatures as low as -40/spl deg/C. The effect of charge voltage and charge current upon the individual electrode potentials at low temperature was investigated using the three electrode cells (containing lithium reference electrodes). In some cases, lithium plating was observed to occur upon low temperature charge, and found to be facilitated by high charge voltages, high charge currents, and poor anode kinetics. Electrochemical characterization of the cells has helped to establish the conditions under which lithium plating can occur by providing information regarding the polarization effects present at each electrode.     

模型大迎角高速动态特性与数据精度分析

为满足新一代高机动飞机气动性能评估、控制系统精确设计与高机动作战指标实现的需求,模型高速风洞大迎角俯仰动态特性探索及其试验数据精度的确定势在必行,且具有十分重要的工程意义。选取70°三角翼模型、SDM和Su-27飞机模型,在FL-24风洞的大振幅俯仰动态试验技术平台上对动态气动特性与试验数据精度进行了研究,获取了70°三角翼模型、SDM和Su-27飞机模型动态气动特性与重复性试验结果。研究结果表明：试验条件下,3种模型的动态数据精度较高,基本达到了高速风洞大迎角常规测力试验数据的精度水平。     

Design of safety monitor schemes for a fault tolerant flight control system

For a research aircraft, "conventional" control laws (CLs) are implemented on a "baseline" flight computer (FC) while research CLs are typically housed on a dedicated research computer. Therefore, for an experimental aircraft used to test specific fault tolerant flight control systems, a safety logic scheme is needed to ensure a safe transition from conventional to research CLs (while at nominal conditions) as well as from research CLs at nominal conditions to conditions with "simulated" failures on specific control surfaces. This paper describes the design of such a safety scheme for the NASA Intelligent Flight Control System (IFCS) F-15 Program. The goals of the IFCS F-15 program are to investigate the performance of a set of fault tolerant CLs based on the use of dynamic inversion with neural augmentation. The different transitions are monitored using information relative to flight conditions and controller-related performance criteria. The testing of the scheme is performed with a Simulink-based flight simulation code and interface developed at West Virginia University for the NASA IFCS F-15 aircraft.     

民用飞机高原风场进近驾驶行为变化对失控趋势的影响

高原机场运行安全性是颇具中国特色的飞行安全研究领域。在高原机场终端区,飞机的飞行性能下降,如果遭遇大风等不利天气条件,不安全事件的发生概率增加,其中飞行失控(LoC)是重要的潜在威胁类型。为了分析风场飞行的失控机理并研究高原环境中驾驶员生理变化对LoC趋势的影响,对高原机场终端区驾驶员的操纵行为进行参数化表征,模拟了高原环境对于驾驶行为的可能影响,并结合高原特征风场模型,通过数值仿真分析穿越风场飞行时失控风险的变化趋势。仿真结果表明:危险的山谷风和突风是导致LoC的重要诱因,高原环境中驾驶员生理心理的恶化也会增加LoC的危险,不合适的增益、过大的延迟和滞后都会导致飞机的失控。如果能够对驾驶员进行有针对性的训练,降低应对风扰动出现时的操纵增益波动,并保持适当紧张状态以尽量降低操纵延迟,将有利于应对风扰动,并保持完成飞行任务的能力。