A multiple-CubeSat constellation for integrated earth observation and marine/air traffic monitoring

CubeSats has evolved from purely educational tools, to useful platforms for technology demonstration and many practical applications. This paper reviews a CubeSat constellation mission involving 3 CubeSats launched into orbit on Sep. 25th 2015, aiming to demonstrate the integrated application of low-cost CubeSat technologies with distributed payloads using a group of satellites, as well as to demonstrate several new technologies. The mission scenario, the satellite system design, the innovative technologies and instruments or devices used on the CubeSats and the in-orbit experimental results and the payload data analysis, as well as some experiences and lessons learned, are presented and summaried.     

Comprehensive outage compensation of real-time orbit and clock corrections with broadcast ephemeris for ambiguity-fixed precise point positioning

The main challenge in real-time precise point positioning (PPP) is that the data outages or large time lags in receiving precise orbit and clock corrections greatly degrade the continuity and real-time performance of PPP positioning. To solve this problem, instead of directly predicting orbit and clock corrections in previous researches, this paper presents an alternative approach of generating combined corrections including orbit error, satellite clock and receiver-related error with broadcast ephemeris. Using ambiguities and satellite fractional-cycle biases (FCBs) of previous epoch and the short-term predicted tropospheric delay through linear extrapolation model (LEM), combined corrections at current epoch are retrieved and weighted with multiple reference stations, and further broadcast to user for continuous enhanced positioning during outages of orbit and clock corrections. To validate the proposed method, two reference station network with different inter-station distance from National Geodetic Survey (NGS) network are used for experiments with six different time lags (i.e., 5 s, 10 s, 15 s, 30 s, 45 s and 60 s), and one set of data collected by unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is also used. The performance of LEM is investigated, and the troposphere prediction accuracy of low elevation (e.g., 10–20degrees) satellites has been improved by 44.1% to 79.0%. The average accuracy of combined corrections before and after LEM is used is improved by 12.5% to 77.3%. Without LEM, an accuracy of 2–3 cm can be maintained only in case of small time lags, while the accuracies with LEM are all better than 2 cm in case of different time lags. The performance of simulated kinematic PPP at user end is assessed in terms of positioning accuracy and epoch fix rate. In case of different time lags, after LEM is used, the average accuracy in horizontal direction is better than 3 cm, and the accuracy in up direction is better than 5 cm. At the same time, the epoch fix rate has also increased to varying degrees. The results of the UAV data show that in real kinematic environment, the proposed method can still maintain a positioning accuracy of several centimeters in case of 20 s time lag.     

升力体高超声速飞行器非定常滚转力矩建模研究

为了深入研究升力体高超声速飞行器相对薄弱的横侧向稳定性问题,对滚转自由振荡风洞试验数据进行了谱分析,建立了多个气动频率余弦和形式的非定常滚转力矩模型。由于升力体高超声速飞行器的滚转自由振荡曲线呈现非定常、非线性和一定的周期性特征,且对试验结果的谱分析发现,在多种气动状态下,都存在除机械振动频率外的三个振动频率,将滚转力矩表达为此三个频率余弦和的形式。该滚转非定常气动力矩数学模型捕捉了试验的基本趋势涵盖了其主要的量值范围,反映了升力体高超声速飞行器横向流场扰流的多尺度和周期性特征。     

Experimental investigation of laser peening on TiAl alloy microstructure and properties

In order to study the effect of laser peening on microstructures and properties of Ti Al alloy, Ti Al alloy samples were treated by Nd:YAG laser system with the wavelength of 1064 nm,pulse-width of 18 ns, and pulse-energy of 0–10 J. Surface micro-hardness, roughness, and microstructural characteristics were tested with micro-hardness tester, roughness tester and scanning electron microscope. Residual stress and pole figures were tested with X-ray diffraction and its high-temperature stability was analyzed. The experimental results show that surface micro-hardness increases by up to 30%, roughness increases to 0.37 lm, compressive residual stress increases to 337 MPa, and local texture and typical lamellar microstructure are generated. Residual stress, micro-hardness, and(002) pole figures tests are conducted, compressive residual stress value drops from 337 MPa to 260 MPa, hardness value drops from 377 HV_(0.2) to 343 HV_(0.2), and the(002)poles shift back to the center slightly. Laser peening improves microstructure and properties of Ti Al alloy significantly.     

孔壁通透率对平面附壁射流的影响

本文研究了不同壁面通透率对平面附壁射流动态特性的影响。实验结果表明孔壁减弱、甚至消除了流场中的低频摆动现象。随着孔壁通透率的增加,射流时均附壁点向下游逐渐移动,射流和壁面之间的回流区长度逐渐增大,而射流内侧剪切层内的涡旋与壁面之间的相互作用减小,壁面压强脉动强度变小,附壁射流的动态特性逐渐向自由射流转化。当孔壁通透率为40％左右时,射流与二维平面自由射流类似。距离射流出口不同位置上的壁面脉动压强之间的互谱表明,当孔壁通透率增大以后,射流内侧剪切层中的旋涡向下游传播距离变得更长,传播速度加快,这说明低孔壁通透率情况下的附壁射流中存在的低频摆动现象阻碍了剪切层高频旋涡向下游的发展。     

某型飞机蓄压器O型橡胶密封圈失效分析

某型飞机蓄压器在例行耐久循环试验过程中,因进气口端的O型密封圈失效而发生了漏气故障。通过对失效橡胶密封圈形态的宏观观察、断口微观分析及工作过程分析,找出了该橡胶密封圈失效原因,并提出了建议。