中性浮力微重力环境模拟技术

我国载人试验飞船发射成功后,对载人航天用的大型中性浮力模拟器的需求越来越迫切。文章通过对国外中性浮力模拟试验和设备情况的介绍,归纳出该类设备主要的5类应用,并提出对我国大型中性浮力模拟器设备的总体设想。     

影响大型环模设备液氮系统启动的关键因素及在设计中采取的对策

大型空间环境模拟试验设备的液氮系统能否顺利启动是决定液氮系统设计成败的一个关键的问题.文章提出了影响单相密闭循环液氮系统启动的两个关键因素,以及如何在液氮系统设计中加以解决.通过初步调试证明,液氮系统能够很好地解决大型空间环境模拟设备液氮系统启动困难的问题.     

GNSS地基集成测试与开发环境

GNSS地基集成测试与开发环境可测试和监测GPS,GLONASS,GALI-LEO等多种导航星座的空间信号,更重要的是测试和认证各种新型接收机和应用产品的性能和指标。同时为新的GNSS系统投入运行前进行必要的信号结构试验、接收机试验等。本文从集成测试与开发环境建立动机和目标入手,重点阐述了其运行模式、系统结构、测试区域选择标准,并进行了逼真度分析以及系统规划。以期对我国自主研发GNSS集成测试与开发环境做些探索性工作。     

卫星遥感农业监测系统中权重优化的实例修改算法

针对播种机设计过程需求获取的复杂性和可用性低等问题，采用遥感等技术动态监测土壤、农作物生长过程中的一些参数，以优化设计需求特征，并以此为基础，提出改进的混合权重实例修改算法。该算法以相似实例检索为前提，以相似实例集中的特征相似度、问题-解特征间的关联度、问题特征间的自相关度为因子，通过矩阵乘法来构造解特征混合权重矩阵，进行实例修改。将其应用到铲式播种机的数字化设计系统中，以实现智能设计。研究结果表明新算法能有效提高机械设计结果的可用性和准确度。     

装备复杂电磁环境适应性试验问题探讨

从环境适应性概念入手,提出装备复杂电磁环境适应能力总体需求及适应性试验的基本构成,指出装备复杂电磁环境适应性试验应该具体涵盖雷电类、静电类、电磁兼容类、电子对抗类、强电磁脉冲类等五类试验内容。同时阐述了国内外在适应性试验研究方面的发展现状和遇到的挑战,为后续研究提供重要参考。     

一种高超声速飞行器再入轨迹优化方法

针对高超声速飞行器的再入轨迹优化问题,提出了一种基于动态自适应樽海鞘群算法和高斯伪谱法的混合优化方案。首先,为了使樽海鞘群算法探索和利用之间的平衡更加合理,提出了一种新颖的动态自适应樽海鞘群算法。然后,针对传统高斯伪谱法在轨迹优化过程中对初始猜测值敏感的不足,借助动态自适应樽海鞘群算法强大的全局搜索能力,先利用该算法对控制量进行全局寻优,将求得的近似全局最优解作为高斯伪谱法优化的初始猜测值,接着再利用高斯伪谱法对控制量进行全局寻优。仿真结果表明所提出的动态自适应樽海鞘群算法和混合优化方案的有效性和可行性。     

Human productivity in space and systems costs

Human productivity during assembly operations in-orbit is dependent on limits set by fatigue, metabolic rates, learning, and assembly techniques. In order to quantify these effects, tests were conducted in the NASA MSFC Neutral Buoyancy Simulator, in the NASA KC-135 in parabolic flight, and in space with the EASE program during the Shuttle Atlantis mission 61-B. A separate program attempted to relate productivity to system costs. Because of the surprisingly high productivity which had been demonstrated in orbit, it was shown that assembly operations would have only a small effect on system costs at the present level of launch costs. The results of these continuing studies have been reported in a recent paper(1). They will be briefly summarized here and the results updated to include additional cost elements and to examine the effects of reductions in transportation costs, resulting from advances in technology and from increased demand, on system costs. It is shown that, as launch costs are reduced, the assembly costs could become an increasingly important component of the total system costs.     

天基信息网络弹性评估方法研究

考虑到天基信息网络独具的网络拓扑周期性动态变化、星载网络设备难以按需替换、空间环境安全威胁复杂多样等特点,为了对网络故障、环境挑战或敌对行动时天基信息网络的弹性能力进行有效评估,提出了一种改进的天基信息网络弹性评估方法。首先,简述了一种包含时间、概率、系统能力的三维弹性分析模型;考虑到各种不利事件以及各种能力适变方法及其具体措施对天基网络弹性能力的影响,分别提出了在采用单能力适变方法、多能力适变方法时的天基信息网络弹性计算方法,并进一步给出了确定场景下的天基信息网络弹性计算方法。实例分析表明,所提方法可以定量的方式对天基信息网络弹性能力进行有效评估,为天基信息网络各种能力适变方法及其具体措施的选择提供有益参考。     

Possible adaptation to strong magnetic fields

Animal adaptation to a strong magnetic field was investigated. Mice were exposed to 30-day total-body continuous effects of a constant magnetic field (CMF) of 1.6T, and their physiological responses were assessed. Analysis of the data obtained showed that different parameters varied in a dissimilar manner. Red blood changes returned to normal in the course of the experiment. Leucocytosis and increased content of catecholamines and corticosterone of blood and adrenals persisted throughout the exposure. Changes in the spermatogenic epithelium were most distinct after the exposure. The recovery of certain parameters during the CMF exposure is indicative of adaptation of some physiological systems. The adaptation is, however, incomplete as suggested by the long persisting stress manifestation. Reticulocytopenia and spermatogenetic abnormalities found after exposure are of particular importance.     

ELITE-S2: the multifactorial movement analysis facility for the International Space Station

Experimental observations of adaptation processes of the motor control system to altered gravity conditions can provide useful elements to the investigations on the mechanisms underlying motor control of human subject. The microgravity environment obtained on orbital flights represents a unique experimental condition for the monitoring of motor adaptation. The research in motor control exploits the changes caused by microgravity on the overall sensorimotor process, due to the impairment of the sensory systems whose function depends upon the presence of the gravity vector. Motor control in microgravity has been investigated during parabolic flights and short-term space missions, in particular for analysis of movement-posture co-ordination when equilibrium is no longer a constraint. Analysis of long-term adaptation would also be very interesting, calling for long-term body motion observations during the process of complete motor adaptation to the weightlessness environment. ELITE-S2 is an innovative facility for quantitative human movement analysis in weightless conditions onboard the International Space Station (ISS). ELITE-S2 is being developed by the Italian Space Agency, ASI is to be delivering the flight models to NASA to be included in an expressed rack in US Lab Module in February 2004. First mission is currently planned for summer 2004 (increment 10 ULF 2 ISS).     

Psychological adaptation and salutogenesis in space: Lessons from a series of studies

Individuals who adapt positively to an inhospitable or extreme environment can derive benefit from their experiences. This positive effect may include an initial improvement in mental health as someone adjusts to the environment (adaptation) as well as more sustained personal growth during the mission (salutogenesis). We review relevant findings from our prior work, including two post-mission surveys of astronauts and cosmonauts, and three studies of crewmembers during missions in a space station simulator, the Mir space station, and the International Space Station (ISS). We also present new analyses showing evidence for adaptation to ISS missions. This finding replicates our previous results from the simulation study, but this effect was not found on the Mir. A better understanding of psychological adaptation and salutogenesis during space flight should help us develop strategies to enhance crewmembers’ in-flight stress tolerance and post-flight adjustment.     

Pre-adaptation to shiftwork in space

Astronauts are often required to work in shift schedules. To test pre-mission adaptation strategies and effects on the circadian system, a study was performed using microgravity simulation by head-down bedrest. Eight male subjects were studied over 4 control days, and 7 days each for pre-mission adaptation, bedrest, and readjustment. The circadian system was assessed by monitoring ECG and temperature, and by collecting urine for determination of hormones and electrolytes. Rhythms did not achieve complete adjustment within the adaptation period when the sleep-wake cycle was shortened by 1 h/day, but resynchronization continued during bedrest. After the bedrest period when the time shift was reversed by a 7-h delay within 2 days, resynchronization was achieved satisfactorily only within 7 days. From the results it is concluded that a sleep-wake cycle advance as used in this study is insufficient to keep the circadian system in pace. Under operational conditions the circadian system of astronauts may become longer and more destabilized than under controlled laboratory conditions.     

Adaptive sparse grid quadrature filter for spacecraft relative navigation

This paper explores a novel adaptive sparse grid quadrature filter. The sparse grid quadrature approach has been recently developed for nonlinear estimation problems to alleviate the curse-of-dimensionality issue of the Gauss–Hermite quadrature filter. Accuracy level of the sparse grid quadrature filter is an important tuning factor that affects desired performance. The proposed filter autonomously adjusts the accuracy level of the sparse grid quadrature rule in both prediction and update steps by increasing the level gradually until an adaptation criterion is satisfied. The adaptation criterion is derived based on a quadrature error estimator. The nestedness property of sparse grid quadrature rule enables efficient computation in adaptation by reusing quadrature points of the previous level sparse grid quadrature. An application to spacecraft relative navigation has been made to demonstrate the adaptive spare grid quadrature filter outperforming the extended Kalman filter and the unscented Kalman filter.     

Skylab task and work performance (experiment M-151--time and motion study)

The primary objective of Experiment M151 was to study by means of time and motion analytic techniques the inflight adaptation of Skylab crewmen to a variety of task situations involving different types of activity. A parallel objective was to examine astronaut inflight performance for any behavioral stress effects associated with the working and living conditions of the Skylab environment. Training data provided the basis for comparison of preflight and inflight performance. Efficiency was evaluated through the adaptation function, namely, the relation of performance time over task trials. The results indicate that the initial changeover from preflight to inflight (or, from 1-G to zero-G) was accompanied by a substantial increase in performance time for most work and task activities. Equally important was the finding that crewmen adjusted rapidly to the weightless environment and became proficient in developing techniques with which to optimize task performance. By the end of the second inflight trial, most of the activities were performed almost as efficiently as on the last preflight trial. In addition, the analysis demonstrated the sensitivity of the adaptation function to differences in task and hardware configuration. The function was found to be more regular and less variable inflight than preflight. Translation and control of masses (large or small) were accomplished easily and efficiently through the rapid development of the arms and legs (and the entire body) as subtle guidance and restraint systems. Finally, the adaptation function provided no evidence of behavioral stress effects attributable to the Skylab environment.     

Early cardiovascular adaptation to zero gravity simulated by head-down tilt

The early cardiovascular adaptation to zero gravity, simulated by head-down tilt at 5 degrees, was studied in a series of 10 normal young men. The validity of the model was confirmed by comparing the results with data from Apollo and Skylab flights. Tilt produced a significant central fluid shift with a transient increase in central venous pressure, later followed by an increase in left ventricular size without changes in cardiac output, arterial pressure, or contractile state. The hemodynamic changes were transient with a nearly complete return to the control state within 6 hr. The adaptation included a diuresis and a decrease in blood volume, associated with ADH, renin and aldosterone inhibition.     

Introduction

The introduction to a special issue on weightlessness countermeasures provides a brief overview of weightlessness countermeasures and examines the physiology of spaceflight, which includes short- and long-term effects of weightlessness and physiological adaptation.     

MIMO系统功率比特自适应算法研究

发射功率受限的自适应调制系统,由于调制方式有限,实际使用的发射功率通常小于受限的发射功率,对这一部分剩余功率进行再分配和利用,能够提高频谱效率。文章对M IMO系统中功率和比特自适应算法进行了研究,提出对剩余功率在空域进行再分配的自适应算法。仿真结果表明,在空域采用等功率分配,再进行空域剩余功率再分配,能够提高频谱效率,并且复杂度低,易于实现。     

Initial moments of adaptation to microgravity of human orientation behavior, in parabolic flight conditions

The first ethological studies of astronauts' adaptation to microgravity dealt with the behavioral strategies observed during short-term space missions. No attempts had however been made to consider the initial moments of adaptation dynamics, when the subject is first submitted to conditions allowing body orientations in the full three dimensions of space. The present experimental approach was both longitudinal and transversal. It consisted of analysing, during a goal-directed orientation task in parabolic flight, the orientation behavior of 12 subjects with a past experience of 0, 30 or more than 300 parabolas. During each microgravity phase, the subjects were asked to orientate their bodies and touch, with the dominant hand, four coloured targets arranged inside the aircraft.

Results showed that for inexperienced subjects, the time between two target contacts was longer than experienced subjects. They often failed to reach all targets in the series during the first parabolas. They showed right-left confusion and a preference for the “up-down” vertical body orientation. Their performance, described by the efficiency of orientation in all three dimensions, improved over time and according to the level of experience. The results are discussed for the spontaneous, preliminary and integrative stages of adaptation, emphasizing new relationships between the body references and those of the surroundings. Such experiences lead the subject to develop a new mental representation of space.     

Relationship of psychological and physiological parameters during an Arctic ski expedition.

Considerable data (primarily physiological) have been collected during expeditions in extreme environments over the last century. Physiological measurements have only recently been examined in association with the emotional or behavioral state of the subject. Establishing this psychophysiological relationship is essential to understanding fully the adaptation of humans to the stresses of extreme environments. This pilot study investigated the simultaneous collection of physiological, psychological and behavioral data from a two-man Greenland expedition in order to model how specific relationships between physiological and psychological adaptation to a polar environment may be identified. The data collected describes changes in adrenal and other hormonal activity and psychological functioning. Levels of cortisol and testosterone were calculated. Factors influencing the plasma profiles of the aforementioned included 24-hour sunlight, high calorific intake of more than 28 000 kJ/day and extreme physical exercise. There was a difference between individual psychological profiles as well as self-report stress and physiological stress.     

Communication constraints,indexical countermeasures,and crew configuration effects in simulated space-dwelling groups

Previous research with groups of individually isolated crews communicating and problem-solving in a distributed interactive simulation environment has shown that the functional interchangeability of available communication channels can serve as an effective countermeasure to communication constraints. The present report extends these findings by investigating crew performance effects and psychosocial adaptation following: (1) the loss of all communication channels, and (2) changes in crew configuration. Three-person crews participated in a simulated planetary exploration mission that required identification, collection, and analysis of geologic samples. Results showed that crews developed and employed discrete navigation system operations that served as functionally effective communication signals (i.e., “indexical” or “deictic” cues) in generating appropriate crewmember responses and maintaining performance effectiveness in the absence of normal communication channels. Additionally, changes in crew configuration impacted both performance effectiveness and psychosocial adaptation.