无人机制造外形气动偏差评估方法

气动外形对无人机起着至关重要的作用,有必要对其制造外形的气动偏差进行评估。利用数字摄影测量系统获得无人机制造外形的点云数据;以机头为参考点,将测量点云数据模型与理论模型的坐标系重合,对比重合度并统计无人机制造外形与理论外形的几何偏差分布;根据点云数据进行逆向建模,获得无人机制造外形的三维模型;对无人机理论外形进行CFD计算,与其风洞试验数据进行对比,通过调整网格及计算方法,得到与试验数据相吻合的CFD计算方法;以此方法计算得到无人机制造外形的气动数据,并与无人机的理论气动力进行对比。结果表明:此评估方法能够定量地评估外形制造偏差对无人机气动特性的影响。     

海上多任务飞机与无人机协同反潜作战研究

海上多任务飞机将成为海军执行海上巡逻侦察和反潜作战的主力航空武器装备,海上多任务飞机与无人机联合编队进行协同反潜作战将是未来航空反潜的发展趋势和重要作战方式之一。介绍P-8A海上多任务飞机主要系统配置和作战能力,分析海上多任务飞机的作战使用以及海上多任务飞机与无人机协同作战的概念和模式,包括协同态势感知和协同攻潜作战,指出了未来海上多任务飞机与无人机协同作战涉及的主要关键技术。     

视觉无人机棚内煤场自主飞行与地图构建

针对目前室内大型煤场煤储量估计方法中,固定位置激光打点方式存在盲区、不灵活、精度差,以及基于多旋翼无人机的方法难以适应无GPS的室内环境等缺点,提出结合视觉定位的无人机室内自主飞行盘煤方法。该方法通过融合5个方向的视觉信息,并结合无人机路径规划及避障算法,对煤堆进行了全覆盖的视觉成像,然后,通过运动推断结构方法进行三维建模,用于估计煤储量。经实验验证,所提方法有较好的室内定位精度,基于三维建模的煤堆储量估计与实际储量较为接近,证明了其有效性和可行性。     

无人飞行器在线航迹规划技术研究

在线航迹规划是针对不确定环境中的航迹规划问题,无人飞行器需要在参考飞行航线的约束下,根据局部地形、地貌、障碍、威胁等信息以及飞机本身机动能力的限制,实时地计算出飞行航迹,并跟随该航迹完成飞行任务。阐述了无人飞行器在线航迹规划的结构框架,分析了无人飞行器动力学约束及威胁场约束,并根据航迹几何建模方法及在线规划算法的国内外研究概况,着重探讨了在线规划算法如A＊算法、Dynapath算法及连续型粒子群优化算法。最后,阐述了无人飞行器在线航迹规划面临的关键问题及发展趋势。     

PDE solution to UAV/UGV trajectory planning problem by spatio-temporal estimation during wildfires

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) have been used in research and development community due to their strong potential in high-risk missions. One of the most important civilian implementations of UAV/UGV cooperative path planning is delivering medical or emergency supplies during disasters such as wildfires, the focus of this paper. However, wildfires themselves pose risk to the UAVs/UGVs and their paths should be planned to avert the risk as well as complete the mission. In this paper, wildfire growth is simulated using a coupled Partial Differential Equation (PDE) model, widely used in literature for modeling wildfires, in a grid environment with added process and measurement noise. Using principles of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD), and with an appropriate choice of decomposition modes, a low-dimensional equivalent fire growth model is obtained for the deployment of the space–time Kalman Filtering (KF) paradigm for estimation of wildfires using simulated data. The KF paradigm is then used to estimate and predict the propagation of wildfire based on local data obtained from a camera mounted on the UAV. This information is then used to obtain a safe path for the UGV that needs to travel from an initial location to the final position while the UAV’s path is planned to gather information on wildfire. Path planning of both UAV and UGV is carried out using a PDE based method that allows incorporation of threats due to wildfire and other obstacles in the form of risk function. The results from numerical simulation are presented to validate the proposed estimation and path planning methods.     

高性能飞机发展对控制理论的挑战

根据笔者30余年来飞行试验研究的实践,从实际飞行的角度简要综述了影响飞行安全的大迎角过失速机动、超低空重载空投、飞行器突发故障和无人机控制方法研究。描述了操纵稳定性飞行试验获取飞机模型的手段和通常飞行控制器设计对模型的近似,给出了8个飞行鲁棒控制的研究问题;对超低空重载空投控制方法进行了描述,并给出了飞行器出现故障时突变模型和容错控制方法;同时,描述了测量对飞行控制特别是对保障无人机飞行安全的重要性,指出了飞行控制方法研究存在的部分问题,并建议有关高校研究单位从稳定性很好的四旋翼转向固定翼或单旋翼战术无人机等高层次研究。     

基于信息一致性的无人机紧密编队集结控制

提出了基于信息一致性的分段式无人机紧密编队集结控制策略,将集结过程分为3步:参考集结点选取和目标集结点分配、形成松散编队以及形成紧密编队。首先,以线切入预定航线的方式计算参考集结点,按照松散编队队形展开生成目标集结点,并利用基于三维距离空间的优化选择算法,将目标集结点快速、准确地分配给每架无人机。然后,使用速度一致性实现向目标集结点定点集结和向松散编队伴航集结,通过非精确的航迹控制快速形成松散编队,提高编队集结的效率。接下来,启动速度、姿态一致性来实现编队最终的精确航迹控制,并逐步压缩编队队形进入紧密编队,避免发生碰撞,完成从松散编队到紧密编队的平稳过渡,同时准确地跟踪预定航线。使用协同修正方法抑制了测量误差、协同误差和通信延迟,提高了紧密编队的稳定性和控制精度。最后,基于MATLAB平台环境对所提三维集结控制策略进行了仿真,验证了其合理性与有效性。     

UAV navigation in high dynamic environments: A deep reinforcement learning approach

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) navigation is aimed at guiding a UAV to the desired destinations along a collision-free and efficient path without human interventions, and it plays a crucial role in autonomous missions in harsh environments. The recently emerging Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) methods have shown promise for addressing the UAV navigation problem, but most of these methods cannot converge due to the massive amounts of interactive data when a UAV is navigating in high dynamic environments, where there are numerous obstacles moving fast. In this work, we propose an improved DRL-based method to tackle these fundamental limitations. To be specific, we develop a distributed DRL framework to decompose the UAV navigation task into two simpler sub-tasks, each of which is solved through the designed Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) based DRL network by using only part of the interactive data. Furthermore, a clipped DRL loss function is proposed to closely stack the two sub-solutions into one integral for the UAV navigation problem. Extensive simulation results are provided to corroborate the superiority of the proposed method in terms of the convergence and effectiveness compared with those of the state-of-the-art DRL methods.     

An intelligent target detection method of UAV swarms based on improved KM algorithm

Complete and efficient detection of unknown targets is the most popular application of UAV swarms. Under most situations, targets have directional characteristics so that they can only be successfully detected within specific angles. In such cases, how to coordinate UAVs and allocate optimal paths for them to efficiently detect all the targets is the primary issue to be solved. In this paper, an intelligent target detection method is proposed for UAV swarms to achieve real-time detection requirements. First, a target-feature-information-based disintegration method is built up to divide the search space into a set of cubes. Theoretically, when the cubes are traversed, all the targets can be detected. Then, a Kuhn-Munkres (KM)-algorithm-based path planning method is proposed for UAVs to traverse the cubes. Finally, to further improve search efficiency, a 3D real-time probability map is established over the search space which estimates the possibility of detecting new targets at each point. This map is adopted to modify the weights in KM algorithm, thereby optimizing the UAVs’ paths during the search process. Simulation results show that with the proposed method, all targets, with detection angle limitations, can be found by UAVs. Moreover, by implementing the 3D probability map, the search efficiency is improved by 23.4%–78.1%.     

Numerical simulation of a UAV impacting engine fan blades

A 3D digital model of a small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is obtained by using the method of scanning reverse modeling and joint mapping. A numerical simulation of a small UAV strikes on rotary engine blades, presented in this paper, was performed with a Transient Nonlinear Finite Element code PAM-CRASH software. A test of motor strike on plate was developed and the dynamic response of the plate were obtained to validate the numerical simulation method of a UAV strike on blades. Based on this, dynamic damage response caused by UAV on the engine blades were studied. It is indicated that the impact process between the UAV and a single blade can be divided into two typical stages: cutting and impact. Cutting mainly leads to the failure of the leading edge material, and impact mainly leads to the plastic deformation of the blade. At the same time, it is compared with the damage impacted by bird with the same mass. For the same mass of bird and UAV, the damage caused by UAV striking fan blade is more serious, and 1.345 kg UAV striking fan blade of typical civil aviation engine is enough to cause damage to flight safety.