Comparative analysis of architectures for the control loop of launch vehicles during atmospheric flight

Most of architectures used for the control loop of launch vehicles are based on attitude angle, attitude rate and lateral acceleration feedbacks. Related controllers are usually chosen to be stable. The main purpose of this paper is to give a comparison between a few architectures, pointing out the benefits of an unstable attitude angle feedback design for the control of an aerodynamically unstable launch vehicle. Such a design indeed is appropriate to reduce significantly the aerodynamic load during atmospheric flight. This is an issue of practical interest as it has become a design driver for mechanical sizing of modern launchers.The paper recalls the various goals the control loop is trying to reach all along the atmospheric flight (stability, set point tracking, aerodynamic load minimization …). For each phase of the flight, priorities are discussed. The paper then focuses on two critical phases of the atmospheric flight, i.e. high dynamic pressure period and atmospheric stages separation.     

Provocative radio transients and base rate bias: A Bayesian argument for conservatism

Most searches for alien radio transmissions have focused on finding omni-directional or purposefully earth-directed beams of enduring duration. However, most of the interesting signals so far detected have been transient and non-repeatable in nature. These signals could very well be the first data points in an ever-growing data base of such signals used to construct a probabilistic argument for the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence. This paper looks at the effect base rate bias could have on deciding which signals to include in such an archive based upon the likely assumption that our ability to discern natural from artificial signals will be less than perfect.     

Lunar geophysical parameters inversion based on gravity/topography admittance and particle swarm optimization

This paper presents a FORTRAN computer program. The program as code will be used for lunar parameter inversions based on gravity/topography admittance. This will be done by assuming that the lunar lithosphere is modeled as a thin elastic spherical shell. The parameters discussed here include; load ratio, crustal thickness, subsurface load depth, crustal density and elastic lithosphere thickness. The admittance of the best-fitting model can be found through automatically adjusting misfits between one theoretical admittance and an observed one. The results in this paper indicate that this research’s theoretical model is reasonable for exploring the best-fitting parameters. In addition, this code is not only able to automatically and simultaneously calculate the global optimum solution of the parameters studied, but also performs well in computational speed. The code can be easily modified to include more parameter inversions; such as the inversion for subsurface density anomaly and the case of considering infilling material in some lunar mare basins.     

An aggregate flow based scheduler in multi-task cooperated UAVs network

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) cooperative multi-task system has become the research focus in recent years. However, the existing network frameworks of UAVs are not flexible and efficient enough to deal with the complex multi-task scheduling, because they are not able to perceive the different features. In this paper, a novel cooperated UAVs network framework for multi-task scheduling is proposed. It is a three-layer network including a core layer, an aggregation layer and an execution layer, which enhances the efficiency of multi-task distribution, aggregation and transmission. Furthermore, an AggreGate Flow (AGFlow) based scheduler is dedicatedly designed to maximize the task completion rate, whose key point is to aggregate flows belonging to one task during the multi-task transmission of UAVs network and to allocate priority by calculating the urgency-level of each AGFlow. Simulation results demonstrate that, compared with that of state-of-the-art scheduler, the average task completion rate of AGFlow based scheduler is raised by 0.278.     

航空术语的构词分析

以全国科学技术名词审定委员会公布的"航空科学技术名词"为览本,对航空术语的词性和构型进行分析,通过举例作出了某些详述,并推导出对外来术语的吸纳方法和原则。     

Devising an unconventional formal logic for bioinspired spacefaring automata

The field of robotics is increasingly moving from robots confined to factory floors and assembly lines and bound to perform the same tasks over and over in an uncertainty-free, well foreseeable environment, to robots designed for operating in highly dynamic and uncertainty domains, like those of interest in space exploration. According to an idea of a “new system of formal logic less rigid than past and present formal logic” advocated by von Neumann for building a powerful theory of automata, such system should be “closer to another discipline which has been little linked in the past with logic, i.e. thermodynamics, primarily in the form it was received by Boltzmann”. Following that idea, which is particularly interesting now with the emerging computational nano-sciences, it is stressed here that a full set of isomorphisms can be established between the fundamental logical principles and the information flows, Hamiltonian or dissipative, in phase space. This form of logic, dubbed here kinetic logic, takes standard formal logic out of the field of combinatorics and into the field of the Boltzmannian form of thermodynamics, i.e. kinetics.     

一种利用功率反演和线性约束最小方差算法的自适应天线

介绍了一种新的基于功率反演和线性约束最小方差的算法,以高度抑制GPS接收机的干扰信号。这种结构通过提调整天线阵列的权值,实时地接收并改变来自各方向的GPS信号,同时对不同方向的干扰信号有高的抑制比。对固定和移动的干扰都做了仿真,仿真表明这种结构有很深的零点,对固定干扰信号的抑制比可达到115dB,对移动干扰信号的抑制比可达到94dB。     

Cooperative formation control of multiple aerial vehicles based on guidance route in a complex task environment

In recent years, formation control of multi-agent has been a significant research subject in the field of cooperative control. However, previous works have mainly concentrated on formation control for simple point-mass model and linear model. In contrast, this paper presents a novel cooperative algorithm for multiple air vehicles formation control, which aims to devise a control strategy based on guidance route to achieve precisely coordinated formation control for a group of fixed-wing aircraft in a complex task environment. The proposed method introduces the leader-follower structure for effective organization of the multi-agent coordination. Moreover, the Partial Integrated Formation and Control (PIFC) is adopted to design the control law for Guidance-Route based Formation Control (GRFC). Additionally, the proposed approach designs two guidance-route generation strategies for two special situations to demonstrate the effectiveness of GRFC in complex task environments. Theoretical analysis reveals that the proposed control protocol for guidance command can ensure the overall stability and tracking accuracy of the system. Numerical simulations are performed to illustrate the theoretical results, and verify that the proposed approach can achieve coordinated formation control precisely in a complex task environment.     

Hybrid partition- and network-level scheduling design for distributed integrated modular avionics systems

Distributed Integrated Modular Avionics (DIMA) develops from Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) and realizes distributed integration of multiple sub-function areas. Time-triggered network provides effective support for time synchronization and information coordination in DIMA systems. However, inconsistency between processing resources and communication network destroys the time determinism benefiting from partitions and time-triggered mechanism. To ensure such time determinism and achieve guaranteed real-time performance, system design should collectively provide a global communication scheme for messages in network domain and a corresponding execution scheme for partitions in processing domain. This paper firstly establishes a general DIMA model which coordinates partitioned processing and time-triggered communication, and then proposes a hybrid scheduling algorithm using Mixed Integer Programming to produce feasible system schemes. Furthermore, incrementally integrating new functions causes upgrades or reconfigurations of DIMA systems and will generate integration cost. To control such cost, this paper further develops an optimization algorithm based on Maximum Satisfiability Problem and guarantees that the scheduling design for upgraded DIMA systems inherit their original schemes as much as possible. Finally, two typical cases, including a simple fully connected DIMA system case and an industrial DIMA system case, are constructed to illustrate our DIMA model and validate the effectiveness of our hybrid scheduling algorithms.     

基于QoS的卫星网络端-端通信可靠性分析

针对卫星网络动态环境下的高速信息传输、业务类型差异大等特点，提出一种综合考虑各业务QoS（Quality of Service）指标的可靠性分析方法。在卫星通信网络实际运行周期内，通信系统往往处于逐渐劣化过程中，导致卫星的节点和链路除正常工作和完全失效外，还存在部分失效的工作状态。本文在链路多状态基础上基于最小路集算法（Minimum Path Set Algorithms，MPSA）在不同业务的QoS指标（时延、带宽和丢包率）约束下，得出满足该业务QoS约束的所有可靠路径集，对路径集中路径进行不交化处理得到网络端-端可靠性。研究结果表明，不同业务由于QoS需求的差异导致网络端-端可靠性不同，所提算法与传统算法相比更加符合实际。由于实际卫星网络环境中会采用端-端并行多路径传输（Multi-Path Transmission，MTP），本文在上述研究的基础上，进一步对多路径的端-端可靠性进行了研究，结果表明多路径数据传输可靠性高。