A concept mission for the Stellar Population and Evolution with Cubesats (SPEC)

Binary or multiple stellar systems, constituting almost a third of the content of the Milky Way, represent a high priority astronomical target due to their repercussions on the stellar dynamical and evolutionary parameters. Moreover the spectral study of such class of stars allows to better constrain the evolutionary theories of the Galactic stellar populations. By resolving the members of stellar systems through photometric observations we are able to perform more detailed measurements to infer their mass. In this paper we investigate the feasibility of a cubesat based mission including an optical payload to directly optically discriminate the members of a selected sample of binary systems. The scientific targets, consisting 11?M class dwarf stars binary systems, have been extracted from the already studied Riaz catalogue. These subset has been selected considering the star distance, the members angular separation, and the distance from the Galactic plane (due to limit the background and foreground contamination). The satellite concept is based on a 6 unit Cubesat embedding some commercial off the shelf components and an ad hoc designed optical payload occupying almost 4 units. The optical configuration has been chosen in order to fit the angular resolution requirements, as derived from the target characteristics. Moreover, according to the optical analysis and the computed field of view some requirements on the attitude control system have been inferred and fulfilled by the component selection. The paper is organized as in the following: a brief scientific introduction is made; consequently the project is described with particular attention to the optical design and the standard sub-systems; finally the conclusions are drawn and the future perspectives are investigated.     

基于一致性融合和神经网络的航空发动机气路系统故障诊断方法

以信息融合为基础,运用GRNN神经网络对航空发动机气路系统进行故障诊断,提出了一种基于一致性融合和神经网络相结合的故障诊断方法。试验结果表明,该方法能快速识别航空发动机气路系统故障,并且对其他机械设备的故障诊断具有一定的参考价值。     

深度自编码观测器飞机操纵面快速故障诊断

为了避免扩展多模型自适应估计故障诊断方法中的雅克比矩阵计算,解决飞机精确模型难以获得的问题,降低在线故障诊断的计算量,提出了一种基于深度自编码观测器的飞机操纵面快速故障诊断方法.基于离线训练、在线估计的思想,采用量测的飞行数据训练得到不同故障下的飞机模型,代替扩展多模型自适应估计方法的卡尔曼滤波器进行状态估计;基于基础自编码器的隐层节点数选取经验公式,推导了两种深度自编码器的隐层节点数选取的递推公式.仿真结果表明,该方法无需精确的飞机模型,故障诊断速度快、精度高.     

结合不确定度的发动机模型辨识气路诊断

针对航空发动机气路诊断中测量参数个数小于待诊断参数个数的不适定问题,利用了发动机平衡技术,结合非线性的发动机数学模型,并综合考虑了测量参数的不确定度和理论模型部件性能的不确定度,建立了一种结合不确定度的发动机气路故障诊断辨识算法——变分加权最小二乘法,并将该算法应用于某发动机的诊断分析中.结果表明:运用该方法可分析出测量数据和模型计算数据之间的差别,同时,利用所得的故障参数修正量修正原发动机数学模型,使模型计算推力与试验测量推力最大偏差由8.25%减小到1.66%,耗油率最大偏差由6.25%减小到1.50%.      

Nonlinear dynamic modeling of a helicopter planetary gear train for carrier plate crack fault diagnosis

Planetary gear train plays a significant role in a helicopter operation and its health is of great importance for the flight safety of the helicopter. This paper investigates the effects of a planet carrier plate crack on the dynamic characteristics of a planetary gear train, and thus finds an effec-tive method to diagnose crack fault. A dynamic model is developed to analyze the torsional vibra-tion of a planetary gear train with a cracked planet carrier plate. The model takes into consideration nonlinear factors such as the time-varying meshing stiffness, gear backlash and viscous damping. Investigation of the deformation of the cracked carrier plate under static stress is performed in order to simulate the dynamic effects of the planet carrier crack on the angular displacement of car-rier posts. Validation shows good accuracy of the developed dynamic model in predicting dynamic characteristics of a planetary gear train. Fault features extracted from predictions of the model reveal the correspondence between vibration characteristic and the conditions (length and position) of a planet carrier crack clearly.     

Simultaneous state and actuator fault estimation for satellite attitude control systems

In this paper, a new nonlinear augmented observer is proposed and applied to satellite attitude control systems. The observer can estimate system state and actuator fault simultaneously. It can enhance the performances of rapidly-varying faults estimation. Only original system matrices are adopted in the parameter design. The considered faults can be unbounded, and the proposed augmented observer can estimate a large class of faults. Systems without disturbances and the fault whose finite times derivatives are zero piecewise are initially considered, followed by a discussion of a general situation where the system is subject to disturbances and the finite times derivatives of the faults are not null but bounded. For the considered nonlinear system, convergence conditions of the observer are provided and the stability analysis is performed using Lyapunov direct method. Then a feasible algorithm is explored to compute the observer parameters using linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed approach is illustrated by considering an example of a closed-loop satellite attitude control system. The simulation results show satisfactory perfor-mance in estimating states and actuator faults. It also shows that multiple faults can be estimated successfully.     

基于综合模糊聚类算法的液体火箭发动机故障诊断

基于液体火箭发动机正常及故障状况数据的完备程度和数据质量的不断提高,提出一种基于数据驱动的综合模糊聚类算法用于故障诊断。采用模糊c均值(FCM)算法对已知正常样本数据进行聚类得到最优的聚类中心,将所得到的聚类中心作为先验样本数据用于传递闭包法最优分类结果的选择从而得到故障检测结果,该算法只需要少量的正常先验样本数据就能快速、准确的检测出故障;随后采用FCM算法进行故障分类,可以根据现有的故障数据库进行聚类得到对应的故障类型,并且可以给出故障幅值范围。模型仿真结果表明:该算法对故障的检测率可达968%,故障隔离率达到94%。某型液体火箭发动机实际试车数据结果表明:该故障诊断算法能够准确及时的检测并隔离出故障。     

Advances in critical technologies for hypersonic and high-enthalpy wind tunnel

Hypersonic and high-enthalpy wind tunnels and their measurement techniques are the cornerstone of the hypersonic flight era that is a dream for human beings to fly faster, higher and further. The great progress has been achieved during the recent years and their critical technologies are still in an urgent need for further development. There are at least four kinds of hypersonic and high-enthalpy wind tunnels that are widely applied over the world and can be classified according to their operation modes. These wind tunnels are named as air-directly-heated hypersonic wind tunnel, light-gas-heated shock tunnel, free-piston-driven shock tunnel and detonation-driven shock tunnel, respectively. The critical technologies for developing the wind tunnels are introduced in this paper, and their merits and weakness are discussed based on wind tunnel performance evaluation. Measurement techniques especially developed for high-enthalpy flows are a part of the hypersonic wind tunnel technology because the flow is a chemically reacting gas motion and its diagnosis needs specially designed instruments. Three kinds of the measurement techniques considered to be of primary importance are introduced here, including the heat flux sensor, the aerodynamic balance, and optical diagnosis techniques. The techniques are developed usually for conventional wind tunnels, but further improved for hypersonic and high-enthalpy tunnels. The hypersonic ground test facilities have provided us with most of valuable experimental data on high-enthalpy flows and will play a more important role in hypersonic research area in the future. Therefore, several prospects for developing hypersonic and high-enthalpy wind tunnels are presented from our point of view.     

高速BPSK相干光通信系统对激光器线宽要求

文章概述了激光器相位噪声对零差相干检测光通信系统性能的影响，对特定的基于平衡探测的科斯塔斯（Costas）环路接收系统相位误差进行了详细的理论分析，最后获得了不同传输码速率下的零差相干检测光通信系统对激光器线宽的具体要求。     

发动机故障隔离技术的主特征量模型

本文提出了发动机气路分析故障隔离技术的主特征量模型。主特征量模型的基本原理如下:发动机征兆量和发动机特征量之间存在着特殊的函数关系,即 n 个征兆量小偏差方程可以被少于 n 的 t 个故障量偏差所满足。利用这一特性可以对多于征兆量数目的 m 个特征量进行故障隔离。与目前广泛采用的影响系数矩阵法比较,主特征量模型不仅具有更广泛的实用意义,而且数学模型更加严格,并且能提供较多的故障诊断信息。文中给出了主持征量模型的两种求解方法,即最小征兆量偏差残差模法和最小特征量偏差法。文中还给出了主特征量模型的计算例题,并对计算结果进行了分析。