Accuracy enhancement of the spherical actuator with a two-level geometric calibration method

This paper presents a two-level geometric calibration method for the permanent magnet （PM） spherical actuator to improve its motion control accuracy. The proposed actuator is com- posed of a stator with circumferential coils and a rotor with multiple PM poles. Due to the assembly and fabrication errors, the real geometric parameters of the actuator will deviate from their design values. Hence, the identification of such errors is critical for the motion control tasks. A two-level geometric calibration approach is proposed to identify such errors. In the first level, the calibration model is formulated based on the differential form of the kinematic equation, which is to identify the geometric errors in the spherical joint. In the second level, the calibration model is formulated based on the differential form of torque formula, which is to calibrate the geometric parameters of the magnetization axes of PM poles and coils axes. To demonstrate the robustness and availability of the calibration algorithm, simulations are conducted. The results have shown that the proposed two-level calibration method can effectively compensate the geometric parameter errors and improve the positioning accuracy of the spherical actuator.     

Generalized Kutta–Joukowski theorem for multi-vortex and multi-airfoil flow(a lumped vortex model)

For purpose of easy identification of the role of free vortices on the lift and drag and for purpose of fast or engineering evaluation of forces for each individual body,we will extend in this paper the Kutta–Joukowski(KJ) theorem to the case of inviscid flow with multiple free vortices and multiple airfoils. The major simplification used in this paper is that each airfoil is represented by a lumped vortex,which may hold true when the distances between vortices and bodies are large enough. It is found that the Kutta–Joukowski theorem still holds provided that the local freestream velocity and the circulation of the bound vortex are modified by the induced velocity due to the outside vortices and airfoils. We will demonstrate how to use the present result to identify the role of vortices on the forces according to their position,strength and rotation direction. Moreover,we will apply the present results to a two-cylinder example of Crowdy and the Wagner example to demonstrate how to perform fast force approximation for multi-body and multi-vortex problems. The lumped vortex assumption has the advantage of giving such kinds of approximate results which are very easy to use. The lack of accuracy for such a fast evaluation will be compensated by a rigorous extension,with the lumped vortex assumption removed and with vortex production included,in a forthcoming paper.     

Disturbance observer based model predictive control for accurate atmospheric entry of spacecraft

Facing the complex aerodynamic environment of Mars atmosphere, a composite atmospheric entry trajectory tracking strategy is investigated in this paper. External disturbances, initial states uncertainties and aerodynamic parameters uncertainties are the main problems. The composite strategy is designed to solve these problems and improve the accuracy of Mars atmospheric entry. This strategy includes a model predictive control for optimized trajectory tracking performance, as well as a disturbance observer based feedforward compensation for external disturbances and uncertainties attenuation. 500-run Monte Carlo simulations show that the proposed composite control scheme achieves more precise Mars atmospheric entry (3.8?km parachute deployment point distribution error) than the baseline control scheme (8.4?km) and integral control scheme (5.8?km).     

Time delay estimation with multiple looks in colored Gaussian noise

We present an efficient algorithm for high resolution time delay estimation in colored Gaussian noise with multiple looks. By using a relaxation-based optimization approach and exploiting the Toeplitz property of the noise covariance matrix, the enhanced new algorithm can achieve the corresponding Cramer-Rao bounds (CRBs) with a very small number of independent looks     

A nonlinear background removal method for seismo-ionospheric anomaly analysis under a complex solar activity scenario: A case study of the M9.0 Tohoku earthquake

A precise determination of ionospheric total electron content (TEC) anomaly variations that are likely associated with large earthquakes as observed by global positioning system (GPS) requires the elimination of the ionospheric effect from irregular solar electromagnetic radiation. In particular, revealing the seismo-ionospheric anomalies when earthquakes occurred during periods of high solar activity is of utmost importance. To overcome this constraint, a multiresolution time series processing technique based on wavelet transform applicable to global ionosphere map (GIM) TEC data was used to remove the nonlinear effect from solar radiation for the earthquake that struck Tohoku, Japan, on 11 March, 2011. As a result, it was found that the extracted TEC have a good correlation with the measured solar extreme ultraviolet flux in 26–34 nm (EUV_26–34) and the 10.7 cm solar radio flux (F_10.7). After removing the influence of solar radiation origin in GIM TEC, the analysis results show that the TEC around the forthcoming epicenter and its conjugate were significantly enhanced in the afternoon period of 8 March 2011, 3 days before the earthquake. The spatial distributions of the TEC anomalous and extreme enhancements indicate that the earthquake preparation process had brought with a TEC anomaly area of size approximately 1650 and 5700 km in the latitudinal and longitudinal directions, respectively.     

基于SPM的航空转包生产能力研究

针对国际航空转包对航空制造企业生产能力的要求,分析了航空转包能力的评价构成要素,基于供应商绩效测量标准体系SPM建立了转包能力的模型和转包能力的三维体系结构,并通过三维能力模型的能力分区分层评价对航空企业的转包能力进行分析。该模型及方法能对企业转包能力进行全面评价,发现企业转包生产的能力优势和能力薄弱环节,为企业提高转包能力指明了纠正和完善的方向。     

中俄军演观摩/双雄共舞——谈俄、中军演的进程和意义

最近举行的俄、中“和平使命2005”军事演习引起各国重视，不仅是因为这是俄、中关系发展史的头一遭，更由于此次演习对两国政治、经济关系、地缘政治具有特别重大意义之故，所以其进程和未来发展很值得注意。[编者按]     

武昌地区急始型磁暴期间电离层电子总含量的变化

利用１９８０年４月至１９９０年１２月共１３６次急始型磁暴资料统计研究了武昌地区ＴＥＣ的变化。结果表明，ＴＥＣ的暴时变化出现正相，相对变化值ΔＴＥＣ的暴时变化形态与中高纬地区一些台站所观测到的结果差别较大；如果磁暴急始出现在白天，则急始后３６小时，会出现ΔＴＥＣ的极大值，如果急始出现在夜间，则不会出现极大值，这一现象与太阳黑子数，季节无关。     

挠性空间结构的H∞辨识

重点研究挠性空间结构的Ｈ∞辨识，研究表明：依据系统的输入输出空间，对系统的未知动力学参数估计和对高维数截断的适当操作，将导致适合于控制的低维数学模型。模型维数确定时，系统模型与实际系统的距离在Ｈ∞范数的意义下几乎为最小，模型维数足够大时，系统模型与实际系统的距离可任意小，这是文下间提出了挠性空间结构Ｈ∞辨识的基本思想，为此，以带挠性梁的卫星系统为背景，首先分析了系统的动力学特性，引入了挠性系统Ｈ∞     

SDF方法在目标图像处理中的应用

利用综合函数判断法（ＳＤＦ）对目标图像进行识别，能有效识别真目标的各种畸变图像及受过训练的假目标图像如干扰和背景等，并提出ＳＤＦ实时光学识别图像的可能。