Antideuteron based dark matter search with GAPS: Current progress and future prospects

The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is a new approach to the indirect detection of dark matter. It relies on searching for primary antideuterons produced in the annihilation of dark matter in the galactic halo. Low energy antideuterons produced through Standard Model processes, such as collisions of cosmic-rays with interstellar baryons, are greatly suppressed compared to primary antideuterons. Thus a low energy antideuteron search provides a clean signature of dark matter. In GAPS antiparticles are slowed down and captured in target atoms. The resultant exotic atom deexcites with the emission of X-rays and annihilation pions, protons and other particles. A tracking geometry allows for the detection of the X-rays and particles, providing a unique signature to identify the mass of the antiparticle. A prototype detector was successfully tested at the KEK accelerator in 2005, and a prototype GAPS balloon flight is scheduled for 2011. This will be followed by a full scale experiment on a long duration balloon from Antarctica in 2014. We discuss the status and future plans for GAPS.     

Finite element reconstruction approach for on-orbit spacecraft breakup dynamics simulation and fragment analysis

Breakup model is the key area of space debris environment modeling. NASA standard breakup model is currently the most widely used for general-purpose. It is a statistical model found based on space surveillance data and a few ground-based test data. NASA model takes the mass, impact velocity magnitude for input and provides the fragment size, area-to-mass ratio, velocity magnitude distributions for output. A more precise approach for spacecraft disintegration fragment analysis is presented in this paper. This approach is based on hypervelocity impact dynamics and takes the shape, material, internal structure and impact location etc. of spacecraft and impactor, which might greatly affect the fragment distribution, into consideration. The approach is a combination of finite element and particle methods, entitled finite element reconstruction (FER). By reconstructing elements from the particle debris cloud, reliable individual fragments are identified. Fragment distribution is generated with undirected graph conversion and connected component analysis. Ground-based test from literature is introduced for verification. In the simulation satellite targets and impactors are modeled in detail including the shape, material, internal structure and so on. FER output includes the total number of fragments and the mass, size and velocity vector of each fragment. The reported fragment distribution of FER shows good agreement with the test, and has good accuracy for small fragments.     

Optimization of communication network topology for navigation sharing among distributed satellites

Navigation sharing among distributed satellites is quite important for coordinated motion and collision avoidance. This paper proposes optimization methods of the communication network topology to achieve navigation sharing. The whole communication network constructing by inter-satellite links are considered as a topology graph. The aim of this paper is to find the communication network topology with minimum communication connections’ number (MCCN) in different conditions. It has found that the communication capacity and the number of channels are two key parameters affecting the results. The model of MCCN topology for navigation sharing is established and corresponding method is designed. Two main scenarios, viz., homogeneous case and heterogeneous case, are considered. For the homogeneous case where each member has the same communication capacity, it designs a construction method (Algorithm 1) to find the MCCN topology. For the heterogeneous case, it introduces a modified genetic algorithm (Algorithm 2) to find the MCCN topology. When considering the fact that the number of channels is limited, the Algorithm 2 is further modified by adding a penalized term in the fitness function. The effectiveness of these algorithms is all proved in theoretical. Three examples are further tested to illustrate the methods developed in this paper.     

一种数字化DS/BPSK扩频接收机

介绍一种新型数字化DS/BPSK(Direct Spread/Binary Phase Shife Keying)扩频接收机的设计.该接收机采用专用数字相关器为核心的硬件设计,并结合数字处理算法完成扩频信号的解调.技术上采用串并组合的伪码捕获、科斯特环载波跟踪、延迟锁定环伪码跟踪等方式,可通过软件算法灵活实现.该接收机具有综合性能强,及软件接口灵活的特点,可有效地应用于基于码分多址的多目标测控系统中.     

冗余度机器人动力学优化控制研究

稳定性和终态自运动是动力学优化中的难点.为了解决冗余度机器人动力学优化中的这些困难,深入研究了动力学优化和关节速度间的内在联系和矛盾,提出通过优化关节速度提高动力学优化的综合品质的思想,阐述了在线调节关节速度齐次项,同时改善稳定性和终态自运动的方案.仿真证实所提方案的实用性和有效性.     

微硅加速度传感器的动态特性补偿方法研究

提出了一种用以扩展加速度传感器使用频率范围的动态特性补偿方法,其基本原理是根据加速度传感器的输入输出传递函数,构造出一个基于硬件的补偿网络,这个补偿网络的传递函数的零极点分别与加速度传感器的传递函数的极零点相抵消,从而使由加速度传感器输出的信号经过补偿环节后其动态特性得到补偿,扩展了加速度传感器的使用频带,同时并不要求加速度传感器处于临界阻尼状态。     

火箭发动机推力测量的原位自动校准

研究了火箭发动机推力测量系统的原位校准问题。提出并建立了实现原位校准自动化的原理和方法。在建立和分析用于原位校准的加载系统的力学模型基础上,推导出了原位校准加载系统作用力的数学表达式,分析了影响作用力的因素,为原位校准中进行作用力的准确控制奠定了力学和数学基础。据此,运用自动控制理论提出并分析了实现加载系统工作自动化和数据采集自动化的方法,介绍了作者研制的实现原位校准自动化的装置工作的原理及其应用。提出和论述的原位自动校准方法与装置适用于所有喷气动力发动机推力测量的原位校准。     

可伸缩挠性结构的稳定控制

对于挠性梁收缩过程的不稳定性,提出了边界控制方案,并设计了相应的控制律。受控结构的振动能量总是被耗散,系统的阻尼被增强,从而挠性梁的伸展过程、收缩过程和平台保持过程都被稳定化。     

基于增量模型的BTT导弹新型解耦补偿控制

详细分析了倾斜转弯(BTT, Bank-To-Turn)导弹传统动态逆控制的特点及其存在的问题,在此基础上提出了一种基于增量模型的BTT导弹解耦补偿控制方法.该方法通过建立一种描述从当前动态转移至期望动态的BTT导弹增量模型,消除了难以测量或不确定较大的模型部分;在此基础上结合动态逆控制思想设计了BTT导弹的增量式解耦跟踪控制律,与传统动态逆相比,该控制律对模型的依赖程度大幅降低;为进一步提高控制系统对干扰的适应性,提出了一种简单的干扰估计/补偿策略;最后通过数学仿真验证了该方法的有效性.