Ionospheric disturbances on 8 September, 2010: Was it connected with the incoming moderate Chongqing earthquake?

Earthquake prediction stimulates the searches for a correlation between seismic activity and ionospheric anomalies. Contrary to common focuses on strong earthquakes, we report the ionospheric disturbances, 2 days before a moderate Ms = 4.7 Chongqing earthquake (29.4°N, 105.5°E, depth = 7.0 km, occurred at 21:21 LT, 10 September, 2010) with the data of ground-based ionosondes and IGS receivers. The data covering the period under the quiet geomagnetic conditions and a geomagnetic storm was analyzed with upper and lower bounds. It is found that there were significant enhancements of foF2 and total electron content (TEC) on the afternoon of 8 September, 2010, with a limited area close to the epicentre, which was different from the feature of ionospheric perturbations triggered by the geomagnetic storm on 15 September. Taking into account the heliogeomagnetical condition, we conclude that the observed ionospheric enhancements were very likely associated with the forthcoming moderate Chongqing earthquake, which implies that the relationship between the amplitudes of ionospheric disturbances and earthquakes is very complicated.     

A demonstration of the potential of Cryosat-2 to contribute to mesoscale observation

Cryosat-2 was designed for its primary scientific objectives, i.e. for cryosphere science. As far as oceanography is concerned, various mission design choices make it less accurate than missions designed to comply with ocean surface topography requirements such as Jason-2 or ENVISAT. Cryosat-2-specific errors are equivalent to more than 50% of the sea surface height variability over 40% of the oceans. Cryosat-2’s sampling pattern is also suboptimal for mesoscale observation because the satellite tracks from any consecutive period of 2 to 20 days (e.g. the most recent and most valuable data for near real time mesoscale observation) are aggregated in 500 km wide bands which are interleaved with 500 km wide observation gaps.     

Preliminary characterization of carbon dioxide transfer in a hollow fiber membrane module as a possible solution for gas–liquid transfer in microgravity conditions

In microgravity, one of the major challenge encountered in biological life support systems (BLSS) is the gas–liquid transfer with, for instance, the necessity to provide CO₂ (carbon source, pH control) and to recover the evolved O₂ in photobioreactors used as atmosphere bioregenerative systems.     

旋翼跨音速非定常黏性绕流的高效CFD模拟方法

为提高旋翼跨音速黏性绕流CFD模拟的效率,建立了一套基于隐式LU-SGS算法和OpenMP并行策略的旋翼非定常流场高效数值求解方法。首先,基于二维剖面翼型的Poisson方程求解和网格插值、翻折方法生成绕桨叶的O-C-O型贴体正交网格,并采用高效的"扰动衍射"(Disturbance diffraction method,DDM)挖洞方法、并行化″Inverse map″(IM)的贡献单元搜索方法,构建了旋翼运动嵌套网格系统。在此基础上,以耦合S-A湍流模型的非定常RANS方程为主控方程,对流通量采用高精度的Roe-MUSCL格式进行离散,时间推进采用隐式LU-SGS双时间方法,同时采用OpenMP并行策略加速旋翼流场求解。最后,运用所建立的方法分别对悬停ONERA 7A旋翼、前飞Caradonna-Tung(C-T)旋翼无升力状态及SA349/2旋翼有升力状态的气动特性及涡尾迹特征进行了模拟,通过与试验值对比验证了文中方法在旋翼非定常流场CFD模拟中的有效性和高效性。     

基于MHSS算法的ARAIM完好性和可用性预测

传统的接收机自主完好性监视只能提供非精密进近阶段的完好性监视,无法实现对完好性要求更加严格的飞行阶段的监视,而高级接收机自主完好性监视（AdvancedReceiverAutonomousIntegrityMonitoring,ARAIM）可以在精密进近阶段为飞机提供满足航向信标性能垂直引导（LocalizerPerformancewithVerticalguidance,LPV）的完好性监视服务。文章基于多假设分组解算法,根据目前的星座环境,结合民航不同飞行阶段的应用需求,对ARAIM算法进行仿真研究。针对水平保护级（HorizontalProtectionLevel,HPL）和垂直保护级（VerticalProtectionLevel,VPL）的指标,在不同星座组合环境下,选取南北半球不同经纬度的5个观测机场,分别仿真了HPL和VPL的变化情况,并对全球HPL和VPL平均分布趋势,以及以99%的概率满足LPV-200进近可用性指标时,ARAIM可用性的全球覆盖率进行了仿真预测分析。仿真结果表明,不论是全球定位系统和格洛纳斯双星座还是增加北斗卫星导航系统后的三星座,5个观测机场的HPL和VPL均能满足LPV-200进近对完好性指标的要求;但在全球范围内,双星座条件下,ARAIM并不能完全支持LPV-200进近对完好性监视的要求,而三星座则可大大提高ARAIM的可用性,为民航用户提供满足精密进近的所需导航服务性能。     

LXI仪器的LAN设置及控制

在介绍了LXI仪器类型、Non Auto-MDIX含义、Agilent33220A函数发生器性能和功能的基础上,以33220A函数/任意波形发生器的LAN接口设置为例,描述了其LAN接口DHCP,Auto IP,IP Address,SubnetMask,Default Gateway,Host Name,Domain Name,DNS Server,Password等参数的含义、设置方法,介绍了充分利用其提供的接口功能,达到远程控制其输出的方法。该方法达到了通过GPIB控制函数/任意波形发生器的同样效果,利用其LAN接口组建分布式测试系统,对程序设计者具有较高的参考借鉴价值。     

MPEG2传输流协议分析及其在机载DVR中的应用

机载视频记录仪(DVR)是记录飞机视频信息的专用设备,用于完成对平显、下显、飞行员操作画面等多路视频信息的记录。分析了MPEG2系统层规定的传输流(TS)的码流格式,探讨了其在DVR中的应用的可能性及其优点。     

NASA大型民用倾转旋翼机进展研究

倾转旋翼机是一种结合固定翼飞机和旋翼飞机双重优势的新型飞机,它具有速度快、油耗低、垂直起降等特点。在波音和贝尔公司联合研制的军用倾转旋翼机取得成功后,NASA试图在相关技术的基础上研制出一种90座、航程约为1200nmile、速度约为600km/h的新型先进民用倾转旋翼支线飞机,进而取代现役固定翼支线飞机。通过系统地搜集和科学地分析,明晰了NASA大型民用倾转旋翼机项目的内容、进展、风险和影响并对ARJ21支线项目提出早期预警。     

Onboard orbit determination using GPS observations based on the unscented Kalman filter

Spaceborne GPS receivers are used for real-time navigation by most low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. In general, the position and velocity accuracy of GPS navigation solutions without a dynamic filter are 25 m (1σ) and 0.5 m/s (1σ), respectively. However, GPS navigation solutions, which consist of position, velocity, and GPS receiver clock bias, have many abnormal excursions from the normal error range for space operation. These excursions lessen the accuracy of attitude control and onboard time synchronization. In this research, a new onboard orbit determination algorithm designed with the unscented Kalman filter (UKF) was developed to improve the performance. Because the UKF is able to obtain the posterior mean and covariance accurately by using the second-order Taylor series expansion through the sampled sigma points that are propagated by using the true nonlinear system, its performance can be better than that of the extended Kalman filter (EKF), which uses the linearized state transition matrix to predict the covariance. The dynamic models for orbit propagation applied perturbations due to the 40 × 40 geo-potential, the gravity of the Sun and Moon, solar radiation pressure, and atmospheric drag. The 7(8)th-order Runge–Kutta numerical integration was applied for orbit propagation. Two types of observations, navigation solutions and C/A code pseudorange, can be used at the user’s discretion. The performances of the onboard orbit determination were verified using real GPS data of the CHAMP and KOMPSAT-2 satellites. The results of the orbit determination were compared with the precision orbit ephemeris (POE) of the CHAMP and KOMPSAT-2 satellites.     

基于μC/OS-Ⅱ的串口通信在S3C2410A上的实现

文章在三星公司的嵌入式处理器S3C2410A为核心的硬件平台上,将嵌入式实时操作系统μC/OS-Ⅱ和μC/GUI在ARM9上整合实现,成功地实现了基于μC/OS-Ⅱ在S3C2410A上的双向串口通信功能。