Analysis of the ionosphere/plasmasphere electron content variability during strong geomagnetic storm

The ionosphere/plasmasphere electron content (PEC) variations during strong geomagnetic storms in November 2004 were estimated by combining of mid-latitude Kharkov incoherent scatter radar observations and GPS TEC data derived from global TEC maps. The comparison between two independent measurements was performed by analysis of the height-temporal distribution for specific location corresponding to the mid-latitudes of Europe. The percentage contribution of PEC to GPS TEC indicated the clear dependence from the time with maximal values (more than 70%) during night-time. During day-time the lesser values (30–45%) were observed for quiet geomagnetic conditions and rather high values of the PEC contribution to GPS TEC (up to 90%) were observed during strong negative storm. These changes can be explained by the competing effects of electric fields and winds, which tend to raise the layer to the region with lower loss rate and movement of the ionospheric plasma to the plasmasphere.     

Simple adaptive control for aircraft control surface failures

This work extends the so-called simple adaptive control approach to direct model reference adaptive control of multi-input multi-output systems to include loss of control effectiveness failures. It is proven that all signals are bounded for loss of control effectiveness failures during a bounded input disturbance. A state space approach is introduced for computing the feedforward compensator that is required by the stability result. The adaptive algorithm is applied to a three input model of the linearized lateral dynamics of the F/A-18 aircraft. Simulation results are obtained with single, double, and triple control effectiveness failures of 88% during the occurrence of a lateral gust. These results show that the adaptive controller exhibits improved model following as compared with a fixed gain eigenstructure assignment controller.     

多功能水冷壁排管爬壁机器人的研制

介绍了一种新研制开发的永磁吸附式双履带结构爬壁机器人,主要应用于火力发电站的大型排管锅炉中的水冷壁排管壁面的清扫和检测,并能够在检测到壁面厚度小于预置的极限值处发出报警信号、打标记,具有较高的推广应用价值。文中阐述了该机器人的结构、磁路的优化设计、自动测厚、打标系统和控制系统的研制。目前,该机器人已经经过多次现场试验。各项指标均已达到设计要求。     

大型客机后缘襟翼滑轨整流罩气动外形设计方法

大型客机后缘襟翼机构伸出机翼下表面会带来气动损失,必须设计相应整流罩。整流罩的外形尺寸对气动力影响较大,会直接影响飞机的气动特性。设计整流罩时应该遵循整流罩外形设计要求,使其引起的高速巡航阻力尽可能小。在查阅相关文献、对比研究大量整流罩图片、分析研究计算机辅助设计(CAD)中NURBS曲面曲线描述方法的基础上,建立了一套详细的大型客机后缘襟翼滑轨整流罩外形设计方法,该方法在满足整流罩包裹住机构、减小气动损失等基本要求的同时,缩短了整流罩设计周期。     

基于微纳米金刚石过渡层的cBN刀具涂层制备

立方氮化硼(Cubic Boron Nitride,cBN)是仅次于金刚石的超硬材料,比金刚石具有更高的化学稳定性,可以胜任铁系金属的加工。本文在YG6硬质合金上基于微纳米金刚石过渡层开展cBN涂层的制备研究。本文在热丝化学气相沉积系统中制备微纳米金刚石过渡层(Micro/nanocrystalline diamond,M/NCD),在射频磁控溅射系统中制备cBN涂层,并对M/NCD与cBN涂层进行了成分、微观形貌与结合性能的研究。研究结果发现,在硬质合金基体上,M/NCD过渡层的结合性能明显优于NCD过渡层。磁控溅射制备cBN涂层过程中,存在适合cBN沉积的衬底偏压阈值,过高或过低的衬底偏压均不利于cBN含量的提高。     

基于投影约束的C臂外参数优化方法

C臂外参数计算是手术导航系统实现图像空间与手术空间映射的关键环节.标记点提取误差将使外参数偏离真值.采用投影方法系统分析选点误差对外参数计算的影响,发现相机光轴方向平移参数收敛性弱、易受误差干扰.利用不同平面上投影距离之比作为约束对线性方法所得外参数进行修正.借鉴二/三维图像配准方法,采用修正后的估计外参数与已标定内参数进行重投影,根据几何方法直接求出外参数修正量,避免反复迭代优化.仿真结果表明,该标定方法对误差具有一定免疫性,能够提高外参数精度.      

Kalman滤波技术在磁航向和捷联惯性组合系统初始对准中的应用

研究了磁航向和捷形惯性组合系统初始对准的设计方法。该方法能在初始对准过程中用卡尔曼滤波器估计出陀螺仪的随机常值漂移，从而提高了系统的对准精度。文中给出了系统的状态方程和测量方程，建立了完全闭环控制的卡尔曼滤波器，最后给出了二组不同条件下的模拟结果。     

高密度喷气燃料与常规喷气燃料浓度场试验研究

本文利用ＣＯ２红外气体分析仪和取样管对高密度喷燃料和常规喷气燃料在直流喷嘴下游的浓度场分布进行了测量，就气流速度，油压降和下游距离对浓度场分布的影响进行了对比研究。试验结果表明，在相同工况下，常规喷气燃料的最大浓度值比高密度喷气燃料的大；气流速度和油压变化对高密度喷气燃料最大浓度点穿透深度的影响大于对常规喷气燃料的影响。     

UWB radar detection of targets in foliage using alpha-stableclutter models

We address the problem of detection of targets obscured by a forest canopy using an ultrawideband (UWB) radar. The forest clutter observed in the radar imagery is a highly impulsive random process that is more accurately modeled with the recently proposed class of alpha-stable processes as compared with Gaussian, Weibull, and K-distribution models. With this more accurate model, segmentation is performed on the imagery into forest and clear regions. Further, a region-adaptive symmetric alpha stable (SαS) constant false-alarm rate (CFAR) detector is introduced and its performance is compared with the Weibull and Gaussian CFAR detectors. The results on real data show that the SαS CFAR performs better than the Weibull and Gaussian CFAR detectors in detecting obscured targets     

Detection of Molecular Scattering Field from a Polarization Analysis of the Sky Background during Transitive Twilight and Temperature Measurements near the Stratopause

The simplest version of the method of detecting the single molecular scattering field based on the polarization measurements of the twilight sky background by all-sky cameras has been considered. The method can be used during transitive twilight (with solar zenith angles of 94°–98°), when effective single scattering occurs in the upper stratosphere and lower mesosphere. The long-term measurements conducted using this method in the Moscow region and Apatity make it possible to determine the temperature of these atmospheric layers and estimate the contribution and properties of multiple scattering during the transitive twilight.