A ground and obstacle collision avoidance technique (GOCAT)

The need to provide aircrew with a timely warning of a dangerously close approach to the terrain is discussed, along with the benefits this capability is expected to provide and specific requirements that it must fulfil. The ground proximity warning techniques that are available are reviewed, and their benefits and limitations are assessed. The GEC Avionics Ground and Obstacle Collision Avoidance Technique (GOCAT) is described. The particular advantages of the GOCAT approach are identified. Because GOCAT uses a database of the terrain and obstacles around the aircraft it has a very low nuisance alarm rate but will always generate a warning when the aircraft is in a dangerous situation. Issues of parameter selection, search area definition and system limitations are examined. The results of a GOCAT simulation are presented. The system performance parameters are discussed, and database requirements are reviewed. The characteristics of a practical implementation for both civil and military applications are briefly stated     

Fast Algorithms for Time Domain Broadband Adaptive Array Processing

Recursive algorithms are presented for time domain, broadband, adaptive beamforming. The algorithms are rapidly converging and can be computationally efficient for a certain range of array processor parameters. The algorithms are presented for two forms of array processor. One form is a Frost-type structure in which explicit constraints are required for defining the array-look direction and also to control the sensitivity of the array processor to implementation errors. The other form is a partitioned array processor in which constraints are built into the processor and the adaptive weight control algorithm is therefore unconstrained. The two processors presented are both element-space processors but the algorithms can be applied also to beam-space processors.     

Nonlinear aeroelastic analysis of airfoils: bifurcation and chaos

Different types of structural and aerodynamic nonlinearities commonly encountered in aeronautical engineering are discussed. The equations of motion of a two-dimensional airfoil oscillating in pitch and plunge are derived for a structural nonlinearity using subsonic aerodynamics theory. Three classical nonlinearities, namely, cubic, freeplay and hysteresis are investigated in some detail. The governing equations are reduced to a set of ordinary differential equations suitable for numerical simulations and analytical investigation of the system stability. The onset of Hopf-bifurcation, and amplitudes and frequencies of limit cycle oscillations are investigated, with examples given for a cubic hardening spring. For various geometries of the freeplay, bifurcations and chaos are discussed via the phase plane, Poincaré maps, and Lyapunov spectrum. The route to chaos is investigated from bifurcation diagrams, and for the freeplay nonlinearity it is shown that frequency doubling is the most commonly observed route. Examples of aerodynamic nonlinearities arising from transonic flow and dynamic stall are discussed, and special attention is paid to numerical simulation results for dynamic stall using a time-synthesized method for the unsteady aerodynamics. The assumption of uniform flow is usually not met in practice since perturbations in velocities are encountered in flight. Longitudinal atmospheric turbulence is introduced to show its effect on both the flutter boundary and the onset of Hopf-bifurcation for a cubic restoring force.     

跨、超声速吸附式压气机平面叶栅试验

对跨、超声速吸附式压气机平面叶栅进行了试验研究,试验针对若干抽气位置、抽气量和流动条件不同的叶栅工作状态进行,结果表明:一般在通道激波后、附面层分离前抽气对控制叶片附面层在逆压力梯度区的发展、抑制分离、降低叶栅损失、升叶栅气动性能有较明显的效果;在跨声速叶栅中,抽气量大于某个时抽气才能起到减小损失、改善性能的作用.      

Solar cosmic ray phenomena

This review attempts to present an integrated view of the several types of solar cosmic ray phenomena. The relevant large and small scale properties of the interplanetary medium are first surveyed, and their use in the development of a quantitative understanding of the cosmic ray propagation processes summarised. Solar cosmic ray events, in general, are classified into two phenomenological categories: (a) prompt events, and (b) delayed events. The properties of both classes of events are summarised. The properties considered are the frequency of occurrence, dependence on parent flare position, the time profile, energy spectra, anisotropies, particle species, velocity dispersions, etc. A single model is presented to explain the various species of delayed event. Thus the halo and core events, energetic storm particle events, EDP events and proton recurrent regions are suggested to be essentially of common origin. The association of flare particle events with electromagnetic phenomena, including optical, X-ray and microwave emissions is summarised. The conditions in a sunspot group, and solar flare that are considered to be conducive to cosmic ray acceleration processes are discussed. Considerable discussion is devoted to physical processes occurring near the Sun. Near Sun particle storage, and diffusion, and secondary injection processes that are triggered by a far distant solar flare are reviewed. In order to explain the considerable differences between aspects of the prompt and delayed events, we propose selective diffusion processes that only occur at early times in a solar flare. The type IV radio emissions at metric wave-lengths are suggested to yield direct evidence for the storage processes that are necessary to explain the properties of the delayed events, and also as yielding direct evidence of secondary injection processes. We conclude by briefly summarising the ionospheric effects of the solar cosmic radiation.     

Model-based vision for automatic alarm interpretation

The further development of a previously reported knowledge-based vision recognition system for automating the interpretation of alarm events resulting from a perimeter intrusion detection system (PIDS) is reported. Measurements extracted over a sequence of digitized images are analyzed to identify the cause of the alarm. Models are maintained for alarm causes, and the scene and the measurements are matched with the models to derive an appropriate classification of the event. An overview of the initial classification system is provided, and modifications to the system are described. The results of applying the system to a range of real alarm events are presented, and further improvements are discussed     

Multiplexing Asynchronous Signals Using Bit Stuffing and Retiming Techniques

This paper discusses the problem of multiplexing asynchronous signals which are clocked from independent sources. Two solutions are offered to this problem: one provides a continuous transmission over a fixed period of time proportional to the bit rate integrity duration, and the other utilizes a bit stuffing technique. The former approach is used when the asynchronous signals are clocked from highly stable clocks, and also when the bit rate integrity period is on the order of a few hours. The latter approach is employed when the signal clocks are relatively less stable or the bit rate integrity period is very long. The reliability of these techniques is analyzed, and their efficiencies are evaluated and found to be most satisfactory. Synchronization procedures and probabilities of false lock and failure to lock are also described. In addition, a multiplex system illustrating these techniques is presented. The system multiplexes four input channels at a one megabit rate for each.     

Detection in correlated Gaussian plus impulsive noise

A detector which is designed to operate in a correlated Gaussian-plus-impulsive-noise environment is presented. The detector whitens the data robustly and then uses a two-sided threshold test to determine the presence of impulsive samples. The impulsive samples are discarded, and the remaining samples are used to detect the presence or absence of a signal using a matched filter. An approximate analysis is presented, and simulations are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach     

飞机快卸锁锁紧螺母重复使用特性

用于固定飞机表面快卸口盖的锁紧螺母在重复使用过程中容易发生松弛,使其拧出力矩减小,锁紧功能失效。首先从材料应变硬化、低周疲劳、接触面摩擦系数等方面对锁紧螺母最大拧出力矩的变化规律进行了定性分析。材料确定后,收口值的大小成为影响锁紧螺母重复使用特性的主要因素。试验研究中选定了3种不同收口值的锁紧螺母进行拧入拧出的重复使用试验,测量它们的最大拧出力矩。试验结果表明,随着重复使用次数的增加,螺母最大拧出力矩最初有一定波动,经历一段（N<200）恢复上升后,在重复使用次数200相似文献   

用杂交应力元及等参元计算应力强度因子

 本文介绍一种用奇异性杂交应力元及等参元计算平面裂纹的应力强度因子和J积分的方法。实际计算表明,此种方法的优点是精度高,计算时间短,便于实际应用。文中给出三个算例。各例分别采用216～256个自由度。计算结果同解析解及其他奇异元的解进行了比较。各例算得的应力强度因子值,均同解析解相差仅1～2％。每例中由4～6条路径求得的J积分值,其分散度均在±O.7％以内。 计算在TQ-16机上进行,程序编译约6～7分钟,每例的计算时间约6～8分钟。     

A systems perspective on current ATC trends

The air traffic control system is about to undergo a profound transformation from a ground-based, centralized, loosely integrated system to a space-based, decentralized, tightly integrated system-of-systems. This article examines this transformation from a systems perspective. The trade-offs between centralized and decentralized architectures are identified, the enabling technologies are discussed in detail, and the political challenges of building such a system are examined. The article concludes with some strategies for coping with the political challenges of building a complex system-of-systems.     

Missing radar pulse clutter processing

The degradation of conventional clutter processing filters due to missing pulses resulting from RF interference blanking, ambiguous range returns when no filter pulses are used, or eclipsing is described. The effects of a missing pulse on uncompensated and optimum clutter filters are investigated. The maximum improvement factor method and other methods are compared to the optimum filtering. New methods and results using a minimax log energy search method are described and are shown to provide performance and/or implementation complexity advantages     

Two novel automatic frequency tracking loops

Two automatic-frequency-control loops are introduced and analyzed in detail. The algorithms are generalizations of the well-known cross-product automatic-frequency-control loop with improved performance. The first estimator uses running overlapping discrete Fourier transforms (DFTs) to create a discriminator curve proportional to the frequency estimation error, whereas the second one preprocesses the received data and then uses an extended Kalman filter to estimate the input frequency. The algorithms are tested by computer simulations in a low carrier-to-noise-ratio (CNR) and highly dynamic environment. The algorithms are suboptimum tracking schemes with a larger frequency error variance compared to an optimum strategy, but they offer simplicity of mechanization and a CNR with a very low operating threshold     

燃气轮机模型燃烧室的大涡模拟

燃烧室内的燃油雾化、蒸发以及和空气进行混合过程对燃烧过程有重要影响。提出1种基于大涡模拟的数学模型来模拟燃烧室内燃料喷射、蒸发和混合过程。被空间滤波掉的亚网格尺度涡对大尺度涡的影响由求单方程SGS湍流模型进行模拟。采用拉格朗日法和蒙特卡洛技术对流场中的喷雾粒子进行采样跟踪,采样喷雾粒子在流场中作为点源项与气相进行质量、动量和能量的双向耦合。提出1个基于SGS湍流动能的双向耦合模型来模拟SGS脉动速度对喷雾粒子运动的影响以及喷雾相对SGS湍流动能的影响。通过对1个同轴模型燃烧室中的喷雾蒸发及混合过程的大涡模拟,将预测结果和试验值进行了比较,预测值和试验值吻合良好,验证了模型的可靠性。     

Neural network directed Bayes decision rule for moving targetclassification

In this paper, a new neural network directed Bayes decision rule is developed for target classification exploiting the dynamic behavior of the target. The system consists of a feature extractor, a neural network directed conditional probability generator and a novel sequential Bayes classifier. The velocity and curvature sequences extracted from each track are used as the primary features. Similar to hidden Markov model scheme, several hidden states are used to train the neural network, the output of which is the conditional probability of occurring the hidden states given the observations. These conditional probabilities are then used as the inputs to the sequential Bayes classifier to make the classification. The classification results are updated recursively whenever a new scan of data is received. Simulation results on multiscan images containing heavy clutter are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods     

An interactive system for global ship monitoring

The US Navy has more than 300 ships equipped with over 500 PHALANX weapon systems. Ordalts (ordnance alterations) and casreps (casualty reports) are received frequently by Naval Ordnance. Ordalts are done when parts need replacing or a design is exchanged for an old. Casreps are an urgent request for parts or service. Information pertaining to ordalts and casreps is put into several databases, which are continually updated and used in reports among the PHALANX community. Ship locations are used for sending parts and/or assistance to the ship. The ordalt and casrep requests have been combined with the ship locations report to produce a more efficient manner in which to monitor ordalt requests, casrep requests and ship locations, using a sample database containing ordalt and casrep data and ship locations. The database is interfaced to a computer graphics program that monitors ship movement throughout the world and supplies information from the database whenever requested. The hardware and software used to implement the project are described     

飞机电子防滑刹车系统模拟仿真

提出用飞机三自由度模型进行防滑系统的仿真研究,给出某型飞机的刹车曲线。     

Energy Detection of a Random Process in Colored Gaussian Noise

A likelihood receiver for a Gaussian random signal process in colored Gaussian noise is realized with a quadratic form of a finite-duration sample of the input process. Such a receiver may be called a "filtered energy detector." The output statistic is compared with a threshold and if the threshold is exceeded, a signal is said to be present. False alarm and detection probabilities may be estimated if tabulated distributions can be fitted to the actual distributions of the test statistic which are unknown. Gamma distributions were fitted to the conditional probability densities of the output statistic by equating means and variances, formulas for which are derived assuming a large observation interval. A numerical example is given for the case in which the noise and signal processes have spectral densities of the same shape or are flat. The optimum filter turns out to be a band-limited noise whitener. The factors governing false alarm and detection probabilities are the filter bandwidth, the sample duration, and the signal level compared to the noise. Two sets of receiver operating characteristic curves are presented to complete the example.     

计算气动声学中的紧致滤波格式

从理论上分析了数值伪波产生的原因,要消除数值伪波可用滤波方法。为了使滤波器具有理想的截断特性,引入了修正的高斯函数。通过让滤波器的频响函数与修正的高斯函数逼近,利用序列二次规划(SQP)方法优化了五对角紧致滤波格式。优化的滤波格式提高了计算精度和效率,增强了数值稳定性,更易于实施。一维和二维算例体现了优化滤波格式的性能改进。