Airfoil Aeroelastic Flutter Analysis Based on Modified Leishman-Beddoes Model at Low Mach Number

Based on modified Leishman-Beddoes (L-B) state space model at low Mach number (lower than 0.3), the airfoil aeroelastic system is presented in this paper. The main modifications for L-B model include a new dynamic stall criterion and revisions of normal force and pitching moment coefficient. The bifurcation diagrams, the limit cycle oscillation (LCO) phase plane plots and the time domain response figures are applied to investigating the stall flutter bifurcation behavior of airfoil aeroelastic systems with symmetry or asymmetry. It is shown that the symmetric periodical oscillation happens after subcritical bifurcation caused by dynamic stall, and the asymmetric periodical oscillation, which is caused by the interaction of dynamic stall and static divergence, only happens in the airfoil aeroelastic system with asymmetry. Validations of the modified L-B model and the airfoil aeroelastic system are presented with the experimental airload data of NACA0012 and OA207 and experimental stall flutter data of NACA0012 respectively. Results demonstrate that the airfoil aeroelastic system presented in this paper is effective and accurate, which can be applied to the investigation of airfoil stall flutter at low Mach number.     

Multi-parameter decoupling and slope tracking control strategy of a large-scale high altitude environment simulation test cabin

A large-scale high altitude environment simulation test cabin was developed to accurately control temperatures and pressures encountered at high altitudes. The system was developed to provide slope-tracking dynamic control of the temperature–pressure two-parameter and overcome the control difficulties inherent to a large inertia lag link with a complex control system which is composed of turbine refrigeration device, vacuum device and liquid nitrogen cooling device. The system includes multi-parameter decoupling of the cabin itself to avoid equipment damage of air refrigeration turbine caused by improper operation. Based on analysis of the dynamic characteristics and modeling for variations in temperature, pressure and rotation speed, an intelligent controller was implemented that includes decoupling and fuzzy arithmetic combined with an expert PID controller to control test parameters by decoupling and slope tracking control strategy. The control system employed centralized management in an open industrial ethernet architecture with an industrial computer at the core. The simulation and field debugging and running results show that this method can solve the problems of a poor anti-interference performance typical for a conventional PID and overshooting that can readily damage equipment. The steady-state characteristics meet the system requirements.     

Numerical simulation of multi-dimensional inviscid compressible flows by using TV-HLL scheme

This paper deals with the numerical solution of inviscid compressible flows. The threedimensional Euler equations describing the mentioned problem are presented and solved numerically with the finite volume method. The evaluation of the numerical flux at the interfaces is performed by using the Toro Vazquez-Harten Lax Leer(TV-HLL) scheme. An essential feature of the proposed scheme is to associate two systems of differential equations, called the advection system and the pressure system. It can be implemented with a very simple manner in the standard finite volume Euler and Navier–Stokes codes as extremely simple task. The scheme is applied to some test problems covering a wide spectrum of Mach numbers, including hypersonic, low speed flow and three-dimensional aerodynamics applications.     

A Hazard Analysis-based Approach to Improve the Landing Safety of a BWB Remotely Piloted Vehicle

The BUAA-BWB remotely piloted vehicle (RPV) designed by our research team encountered an unexpected landing safety problem in flight tests. It has obviously affected further research project for blended-wing-body (BWB) aircraft configuration characteristics. Searching for a safety improvement is an urgent requirement in the development work of the RPV. In view of the vehicle characteristics, a new systemic method called system-theoretic process analysis (STPA) has been tentatively applied to the hazardous factor analysis of the RPV flight test. An uncontrolled system behavior "path sagging phenomenon" is identified by implementing a three degrees of freedom simulation based on wind tunnel test data and establishing landing safety system dynamics archetype. To obtain higher safety design effectiveness and considering safety design precedence, a longitudinal "belly-flap" control surface is innovatively introduced and designed to eliminate hazards in landing. Finally, flight tests show that the unsafe factor has been correctly identified and the landing safety has been efficiently improved.     

Mahalanobis distance-based fading cubature Kalman filter with augmented mechanism for hypersonic vehicle INS/CNS autonomous integration

Inertial Navigation System/Celestial Navigation System(INS/CNS) integration, especially for the tightly-coupled mode, provides a promising autonomous tactics for Hypersonic Vehicle(HV) in military demands. However, INS/CNS integration is a challenging research task due to its special characteristics such as strong nonlinearity, non-additive noise and dynamic complexity.This paper presents a novel nonlinear filtering method for INS/CNS integration by adopting the emerging Cubature Kalman Filter(C...     

Safety estimation of structural systems via interval analysis

Considering that the uncertain information has serious influences on the safety of structural systems and is always limited, it is reasonable that the uncertainties are generally described as interval sets. Based on the non-probabilistic set-theoretic theory, which is applied to measuring the safety of structural components and further combined with the branch-and-bound method for the probabilistic reliability analysis of structural systems, the non-probabilistic branch-and-bound method for determining the dominant failure modes of an uncertain structural system is given. Meanwhile, a new system safety measuring index obtained by the non-probabilistic set-theoretic model is investigated. Moreover, the compatibility between the classical probabilistic model as well as the proposed interval-set model will be discussed to verify the physical meaning of the safety measure in this paper. Some numerical examples are utilized to illustrate the validity and feasibility of the developed method.     

Model reference adaptive control with smooth switching scheme for piecewise linear systems and its application in turbofan engine control

A model reference adaptive control (MRAC) with smooth switching scheme was proposed for piecewise linear systems, and the method was utilized in turbofan engine control to avoid the discontinuity of control input. In this scheme, each sub-region of the operating envelope had its own MRAC controller, and smooth indicator function based smooth switching scheme was introduced to switch multiple controllers smoothly at the boundary of adjacent sub-regions. The Lyapunov stability analysis indicated that the proposed smooth switching scheme can guarantee the convergence of the closed-loop system during the controllers switching. The tracking error system was converted into a switched system to analyze the global stability of the closed-loop system. The advantage of the method was that the chattering of system output and instability caused by asynchronous switching can be eliminated. The simulation illustrates the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme in comparison with the existing MRAC controller with gain scheduling for turbofan engine.      

Reliability and safety analysis of redundant vehicle management computer system

Redundant techniques are widely adopted in vehicle management computer （VMC） to ensure that VMC has high reliability and safety. At the same time, it makes VMC have special characteristics, e.g., failure correlation, event simultaneity, and failure self-recovery. Accordingly, the reliability and safety analysis to redundant VMC system （RVMCS） becomes more difficult. Aimed at the difficulties in RVMCS reliability modeling, this paper adopts generalized stochastic Petri nets to establish the reliability and safety models of RVMCS. Then this paper analyzes RVMCS oper- ating states and potential threats to flight control system. It is verified by simulation that the reli- ability of VMC is not the product of hardware reliability and software reliability, and the interactions between hardware and software faults can reduce the real reliability of VMC obviously. Furthermore, the failure undetected states and false alarming states inevitably exist in RVMCS due to the influences of limited fault monitoring coverage and false alarming probability of fault mon- itoring devices （FMD）. RVMCS operating in some failure undetected states will produce fatal threats to the safety of flight control system. RVMCS operating in some false alarming states will reduce utility of RVMCS obviously. The results abstracted in this paper can guide reliable VMC and efficient FMD designs. The methods adopted in this paper can also be used to analyze other intelligent systems＇ reliability.     

An Overview of Performance Characteristics, Experiences and Trends of Aerospace Engine Bearings Technologies

In this paper, the operating conditions, technical requirements, performance characteristics, design ideas, application experiences and development trends of aerospace engine bearings, including material technology, integration design and reliability, are reviewed. The development history of aerospace engine bearing is recalled briefly at first. Then today＇s material technologies and the high bearing performances of the bearings obtained through the new materials are introduced, which play important roils in the aeroengine bearing developments. The integration design ideas and practices are explained to indicate its significant advantages and importance to the aerospace engine bearings. And the reliability of the shaft-bearing system is pointed out and treated as the key requirement with goals for both engine and bearing. Finally, as it is believed that the correct design comes from practice, the pre-qualification rig testing conducted by FAG Aerospace GmbH ＆ Co. KG is briefly illustrated as an example. All these lead to the development trends of aerospace engine bearings from different aspects.     

Simulation of 3D parachute fluid–structure interaction based on nonlinear finite element method and preconditioning finite volume method

A fluid–structure interaction method combining a nonlinear finite element algorithm with a preconditioning finite volume method is proposed in this paper to simulate parachute transient dynamics. This method uses a three-dimensional membrane–cable fabric model to represent a parachute system at a highly folded configuration. The large shape change during parachute inflation is computed by the nonlinear Newton–Raphson iteration and the linear system equation is solved by the generalized minimal residual(GMRES) method. A membrane wrinkling algorithm is also utilized to evaluate the special uniaxial tension state of membrane elements on the parachute canopy. In order to avoid large time expenses during structural nonlinear iteration, the implicit Hilber–Hughes–Taylor(HHT) time integration method is employed. For the fluid dynamic simulations, the Roe and HLLC(Harten–Lax–van Leer contact) scheme has been modified and extended to compute flow problems at all speeds. The lower–upper symmetric Gauss–Seidel(LUSGS) approximate factorization is applied to accelerate the numerical convergence speed. Finally,the test model of a highly folded C-9 parachute is simulated at a prescribed speed and the results show similar characteristics compared with experimental results and previous literature.     

单一飞行员驾驶模式技术

飞机驾驶机组由20世纪50年代的5乘员驾驶模式减少到了目前的双乘员，然而为了降低航空公司运营成本以及减少双乘员认知不同、操作不一致所带来的安全性隐患，开展了单一飞行员驾驶（SPO）模式研究，SPO是新一代商用飞机发展方向核心技术之一。单一飞行员驾驶模式是描述面向商用飞机单一驾驶员、驾驶舱智能自动系统以及地面航空公司操作员协同实现的飞行驾驶模式。本文首先对单一飞行员驾驶模式系统组成及其系统架构进行了描述，并对比分析了单一飞行员驾驶模式下飞行员、空管系统、航空公司三方协同过程与现有模式的差异点；然后，针对商用飞机主要飞行过程，建立了单一飞行员驾驶模式下各飞行过程组织架构；最后，搭建了面向SPO的远程操控演示验证系统，经过飞行员操作评价，基本可以获取到机上操作所具备的驾驶感受，同时对于飞行计划更改、紧急情况处理等方面更为便利。通过上述内容研究，为中国商用飞机开展单一飞行员驾驶发展奠定了一定的技术基础。     

Optimization and verification of single pilot operations model for commercial aircraft based on biclustering method

Commercial aircraft crews have experienced a trend from five-person crew to dual-pilot crew. Arised from both technological and market demands, Single Pilot Operations (SPO) is considered an important development direction in modern aviation technology. In this paper, starting from Dual-Pilot Operations (DPO), the piloting process, decision-making process and decision-making mode of DPO for commercial aircraft are studied to obtain the operational requirements of SPO. Then, based on above analysis, the operational mechanism of SPO is studied and the core technology of SPO mode is proposed. Next, a new closed frequent bicluster mining algorithm named FsCluster is proposed for the optimization of the SPO model, and the other efficient bicluster mining algorithm named TsCluster is proposed for the analysis and verification of the SPO model. Finally, a typical flight phase scenario is modelled by Magic System of System, and combined with the proposed algorithms for analysis and verification to determine whether the SPO mode can meet the DPO requirements.     

Evaluation Model of Design for Operation and Architecture of Hierarchical Virtual Simulation for Flight Vehicle Design

In order to take requirements for commercial operations or military missions into better consideration in new flight vehicle design, a tri-hierarchical task classification model of "design for operation" is proposed, which takes basic man-object interaction task, complex collaborative operation and large-scale joint operation into account. The corresponding general architecture of evaluation criteria is also depicted. Then a virtual simulation-based approach to implement the evaluations at three hierarchy levels is mainly analyzed with a detailed example, which validates the feasibility and effectiveness of evaluation architecture. Finally, extending the virtual simulation architecture from design to operation training is discussed.     

基于零空间方法的四旋翼无人机避障与协同编队控制

针对四旋翼无人机在编队飞行执行任务时可能遭遇障碍物问题,考虑多无人机避障及机间避撞的需求,提出 1种基于零空间方法的四旋翼无人机避障与协同编队控制算法。首先,建立四旋翼无人机动力学模型,并建立虚拟控制量简化控制模型;其次,基于零空间方法进行避障与协同编队控制算法研究,将无人机任务执行分解为目标趋向任务、避障避撞任务和协同编队任务,并根据优先级进行任务融合得到期望速度;再次,基于 PID方法设计控制律;最后,通过仿真验证所提控制算法的有效性。所提方法可保证四旋翼无人机在编队飞行中遭遇障碍物时的飞行安全。     

基于空中交通密度的进场航班动态协同排序方法

为适应协同决策（CDM）需要，考虑空管、航空公司和机场的诉求，对进场航班动态协同排序问题进行了系统的研究。设计了一种进场航班动态排序方法，提出了一种时隙交换方法，建立了基于空中交通密度的进场航班协同排序模型，设计了精英保留的遗传算法和带精英策略的快速非支配排序遗传算法以求解所建模型，寻求进场航班动态协同排序的最优解。仿真结果表明，较基于滚动时域控制（RHC）方法，动态协同方法所得结果与排序开始时间无关，所需排序次数平均减少26.4%，且排序效率更高。较先到先服务（FCFS）方法，动态协同方法在高密度条件下各排序阶段最后一个进场航班的落地时间平均提前199.8 s；中密度条件下各排序阶段航班延误总时间平均减少29.9%，航班延误均衡性平均提高34.4%；低密度条件在航班正常率及航班延误公平性得到保证的前提下，满足时隙交换规则的排序阶段均增加了1种进场航班排序模式。所提方法可对进场航班进行优化排序，显著提高跑道容量，有效提升航班延误均衡性和航班延误公平性，契合协同决策理念，可实现三方协同排序。     

航空电子系统功能综合的收益分析研究

综合化航空电子系统是根据应用的需求,基于已有的能力,采用综合技术,实现面向应用的任务合成,提升应用效能;面向能力的功能综合,提升能力品质;面向物理的操作模式综合,提升资源效率。功能综合的过程本质上是一个系统设计的过程,是依据物理架构,在不同功能组合中进行收益分析比较,选择收益较大的一种功能架构,本文基于分布式模块化航空电子物理架构(DIMA),提出基于系统工程的功能综合设计方法,并提出了相应的功能综合收益评价指标,以综合探测为例对提出的方法进行了验证。     

飞行器体系优化设计问题

针对传统的飞行器设计与体系（SOS）设计相互独立造成的飞行器实际作战效能不足的问题,对同时考虑飞行器与体系耦合设计的飞行器体系优化设计问题展开研究。首先,根据体系工程（SOSE）原理给出了耦合飞行器设计与体系结构设计的飞行器体系优化设计问题的基本概念与通用数学定义;其次,基于多层体系架构,构建了飞行器体系设计优化模型,提出了包含问题定义、体系架构建模、学科建模、优化求解4个步骤的通用建模求解流程;最后,以巡飞/精确打击武器协同作战为例,构建了面向任务成本最低、时间最短的协同作战体系最优化问题并对其进行优化求解。与先设计飞行器后设计体系结构的解耦设计结果对比表明,解耦优化设计忽略了体系结构与飞行器的强耦合特征,无法最优化体系效能;耦合优化设计能够获得体系效能最大化的飞行器设计方案。     

基于W77E58单片机的无人机飞行安控器设计

介绍了无人机飞行安控器的工作原理。利用W77E58单片机高性能特点,设计了一种简洁高效的硬件电路;应用科学的安控算法,保证了软件执行的安全。实际应用表明,无人机飞行安控器的设计有效、可靠。     

IPv6技术在空地通信系统中的应用

当前的空地通信方式已无法适应航空业的迅速发展。针对这一问题,本文提出建立基于甚高频数据链模式二(VDLM2)的IPv6通信系统,以将IPv6技术应用到空地通信系统中；并给出了IPv6/VDLM2通信系统的体系结构。然后,利用VDLM2的OPNET仿真模型,分析了IPv6/VDLM2通信系统的容量。分析结果表明,在给定条件下,IPv6/VDLM2通信系统可允许大约100架飞机同时与单个地面站进行通信。     

多跑道协同运行模式优化方法

繁忙机场飞行区运行能力低下导致空中交通拥堵及航班延误现象频发,机场系统亟需扩容增效与排堵保畅。为有效平衡机场容流供需,研究了多跑道协同运行模式优化方法。综合考虑机场布局、交通流特性、气象条件等因素,提出了多跑道协同运行模式分类方法;基于跑道容量包络线理论,通过引入容量损失系数客观反映模式切换特点,建立了多跑道协同运行模式优化模型;结合多目标优化及遗传算法基本理论,设计了带精英策略的非支配排序遗传算法（NSGA）,对模型进行了准确求解。仿真实验表明,模型可对多跑道协同运行模式进行优化配置,有效实现机场容量与流量之间的均衡。与单一固定模式相比,多元组合模式优化效果显著,其中航班延误成本减少了38.1%,航班调整数量减少了46.4%,所提方法可显著提升多跑道协同运行能力,有效提高航班正常性。