Women''s views of space law and policy: no gender-based agenda

This article is a synthesis of interviews with women working and writing in the areas of space law and policy. One initial focus of the interviews was to explore whether, as a result of the growing numbers of women working in aerospace-related fields, there might be certain women's agendas developing as well. Taken together, the responses of the 10 women interviewed clearly acknowledge the importance of the feminine perspective, while rejecting the appropriateness or necessity of concentration on specific ‘women's issues’ and favouring cooperative efforts to address problems of global concern.     

空战机动动作库设计方式研究

具体阐述了两类常见空战动作库的设计 :典型战术动作库和基本操作动作库 ,详细分析了这两类空战机动动作库的不足 ,最后提出了改进动作库设计的具体意见和建议。     

Covariance Matrix for ?-?-? Filtering

Closed-form expressions are derived for the output noise response of an ?-?-? filter in steady-state operation with constant measurement noise statistics. To the author's knowledge such expressions have been unavailable until now. These formulas are useful for target tracking applications.     

延长热电池寿命的途径探讨

从防空导弹地面电源－－热电池的热设计和工艺角度出发，分析影响电池工作寿命的因素，提出延长电池工作寿命的三条途径：合理控制热电池的内部热量；提高加热片的均匀性；合理选择外保温材料。实践证明，这些途径是可行的。     

Aperture error mitigation via local-state estimation for frequency-based emitter location

This paper considers the problem of locating a stationary coherent emitter via a single moving platform making frequency measurements in the presence of aperture state uncertainty. It is shown that the estimated emitter location is most sensitive to the receiving aperture velocity uncertainty. The required aperture velocity accuracy is determined through a noninfinitesimal perturbation analysis. A solution to location accuracy enhancement with a minimal hardware addition is attempted. It is shown that this can be achieved by mounting a high-resolution tri-axis microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) accelerometer at the aperture to measure its velocity, which can deviate significantly from that estimated by the on-board navigation system. The Doppler shifts of the GPS signal carrier frequency, whenever it can be acquired through the aperture, are also considered as a way to aid the aperture velocity measurement. A decentralized, federated processing method for the aperture velocity estimate referenced at the aperture, integrating all measurement data, is presented. An upper bound for the error of aperture velocity estimate is derived. The potential for significant accuracy enhancement for emitter location is demonstrated.     

数字式射击瞄准计算机设计与实现

某型射击军械系统的射瞄计算机原采用模拟机电式技术实现,存在体积大、功耗大、可靠性及可维护性差等缺点,因此,使用数字式计算机技术对其进行升级改造势在必行.本文首先对原系统的火控原理及火控构型的进行了分析;其次,介绍了射击瞄准计算机的对外接口关系.重点介绍了数字式射击瞄准计算机的采样解算时间的确定、计算方法的选取及接口设计等内容.本文所设计的数字式射击瞄准计算机已通过了系统验证并得到了使用,克服了原有系统所存在的固有缺点.文中的设计思想与所用的工程方法对类似武器系统的升级改造有所借鉴.     

Reconstructed 3-d magnetic field structure and hard X-ray two ribbons for 2000 Bastille-day event

The Bastille-day event in 2000 produced energetic 3B/X5.6 flare with a halo CME, which had great geo-effects consequently. This event has been studied extensively and it is considered that it follows the two-ribbon flare model. The flare/CME event was triggered by an erupting filament and TRACE observations showed formation of giant arcade structures during the flare process. Hard X-ray (HXR) two ribbons revealed for the first time in this flare event (Masuda et al., 2001). The reconstruction of 3-D coronal magnetic fields revealed a magnetic flux rope structure, for the first time, from extrapolation of observed photospheric vector magnetogram data and the flux rope structure was co-spatial with portion of the filament and a UV bright lane (Yan et al., 2001a, 2001b). Here we review some recent work related to the flux rope structure and the HXR two ribbons by comparing their locations and the flux temporal profiles during the flare process so as to understand the energy release and particle accelerations. It is proposed that the rope instability may have triggered the flare event, and reconnection may occur during this process. The drifting pulsation structure in the decimetric frequency range is considered to manifest the rope ejection, or the initial phase of the coronal mass ejection. The HXR two ribbons were distributed along the flux rope and the rope foot points coincide with HXR sources. The energy dissipation from IPS observations occurred within about 100 R _⋅ is consistent with the estimate for the flux rope system. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Advanced lithium ion battery charger

A lithium ion battery charger has been developed for four and eight cell batteries or multiples thereof. This charger has the advantage over those using commercial lithium ion charging chips in that the individual cells are allowed to be taper charged at their upper charging voltage rather than be cutoff when all cells of the string have reached the upper charging voltage limit. Since 30-60% of the capacity of lithium ion cells may be restored during the taper charge, this charger has a distinct benefit of fully charging lithium ion batteries by restoring all of the available capacity to all of its cells     

MMAE-Based Control with Space-Time Point Process Observations

A multiple model adaptive estimator (MMAE) has been formulated to estimate the state of a dynamic system modeled by a linear stochastic differential equation, from which measurements, described as a noise-corrupted space-time point process functionally related to that state, are extracted. Assumed certainty equivalence is used to combine such an estimator with the LQ full-state feedback controller to synthesize a practical, implementable controller. Performance of the estimator and resultant controller characteristics are investigated via simulation as a function of approximation method used to limit the full-scale estimator to finite dimensionality and also as a function of important parameters defining the dynamics and observation processes.