Design and application of an Electric Tail Rotor Drive Control (ETRDC) for helicopters with performance tests

With the development of electric helicopters’ motor technology and the widespread use of electric drive rotors, more aircraft use electric rotors to provide thrust and directional control. For a helicopter tail rotor, the wake of the main rotor influences the tail rotor’s inflow and wake. In the procedure of controlling, crosswind will also cause changes to the tail disk load. This paper describes requirements and design principles of an electric motor drive and variable pitch tail rotor system. A particular spoke-type architecture of the motor is designed, and the performance of blades is analyzed by the CFD method. The demand for simplicity of moving parts and strict constraints on the weight of a helicopter makes the design of electrical and mechanical components challenging. Different solutions have been investigated to propose an effective alternative to the mechanical actuation system. A test platform is constructed which can collect the dynamic response of the thrust control. The enhancement of the response speed due to an individual motor speed control and variable-pitch system is validated.     

Twistor-based synchronous sliding mode control of spacecraft attitude and position

A synchronous control of relative attitude and position is required in separated ultra-quiet spacecraft, such as drag-free, disturbance-free, and distributed spacecraft. Thus, a twistor-based synchronous sliding mode control is investigated in this paper to solve the control problem of relative attitude and position among separated spacecraft modules. The twistor-based control design and the stability proof are implemented using the Modified Rodrigues Parameter (MRP). To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed control method, this paper presents a case study of separated spacecraft flying control considering the mass uncertainty and external disturbances. In addition, a simulation study of the Proportional-Derivative (PD) control is also presented for comparison. The results indicate that the twistor-based sliding mode controller can ensure global asymptotic stability. The states converge fast with ultra-precision and ultra-stability in both the attitude and position. Moreover, the proposed twistor-based sliding mode control system is robust to the mass uncertainty and external disturbances.     

临近空间高超声速跳跃滑翔式目标自适应跟踪模型

针对临近空间高超声速跳跃式滑翔目标跟踪问题,在将加速度建模为具有正弦波（SW）自相关随机过程的基础上,提出一种自适应非零均值正弦波相关（ANM-SW）模型。其核心是对正弦波相关模型进行均值补偿构建ANM-SW模型,并推导了模型状态方程;为深入分析均值补偿的作用,分别从时域和频域的角度探讨了自适应非零均值模型的物理本质;此外,为进一步说明模型的适应性问题,结合Kalman滤波推导了SW及ANM-SW模型状态更新的系统动态误差,验证了ANM-SW模型在机动适应方面的优越性;最终仿真表明与SW模型相比,ANM-SW模型在跟踪精度及机动适应能力方面具有一定的优势性。     

平面叶栅尾流板开孔率对跨声速涡轮叶栅流道影响的数值分析

跨声速平面叶栅风洞中通常通过尾流板来改善平面叶栅周期性,针对尾流板的设计需求,利用数值模拟的方法,研究了尾流板在15%、30%、50%开孔率下对实验叶栅的影响。数值分析结果表明:叶栅尾缘激波在自由边界上反射后,返回到叶栅通道中,破坏了叶栅通道的周期性;开槽尾流板减少了反射波对叶栅通道的影响,减弱叶栅尾缘激波的反射波强度,在某特定情况下能使反射波变成膨胀波,从而提高了叶栅通道周期性;尾流板开孔率为15%时能极大地改善平面叶栅通道的周期性,相对于开孔率为50%时叶栅的周期性误差降低约16.43%。      

基于UG、Workbench平台航空发动机多盘转子结构自动优化方法

目前对航空发动机转子优化设计多限于单盘优化,且优化需要借助人工调整再优化。基于航空发动机转子优化设计常用软件平台数据交流方便和减少人工调整的考虑,提出了基于UG、Workbench平台航空发动机多盘转子结构自动优化方法。首先基于UG平台,对多盘转子结构进行参数化几何造型,借助生成的标准化模板,便于减少建模工作量及对同类盘的优化。然后基于Workbench平台,借助脚本语言（APDL、Python）二次开发完成对多盘转子结构状态变量提取,及自动优化流程控制。算例结果表明,在满足几何、强度要求条件下,优化后多盘转子结构质量减少了33%,应力分布更为均匀,且验证该方法具有良好的稳定性及精度。      

当量油气比对内燃波转子燃烧特性的影响

为了研究当量油气比对内燃波转子燃烧特性的影响规律,采用控制变量法,保持内燃波转子转速、混气填充速度不变,通过调节燃料喷射体积流量改变混气的当量油气比。在不同的当量油气比下开展内燃波转子燃烧特性试验。试验结果表明:当量油气比对于内燃波转子燃烧过程影响很大,随着当量油气比的增加,内燃波转子获得的燃烧压力增益增大,在内燃波转子转速为900r/min、混气填充速度为6.741m/s、当量油气比为1.442时,6个工作循环内平均燃烧压力增益达到246.29％,火焰平均传播速度随当量油气比呈类似正态分布,在化学恰当比附近达到最大10.8m/s。当量油气比小于1时,两组工况下火焰锋面呈向下倾斜状传播,当量油气比大于1时,两组工况下火焰锋面呈向上倾斜状传播。      

转子叶栅非同步振荡发声特性研究

轴流压气机转子叶片排振荡疲劳失效是常见的气动弹性失稳问题。当转子叶栅处于非同步振荡状态下时,压气机管道内部将伴随着异常噪声的产生,这类噪声的频率既不是分布在叶片通过频率及其谐波上,也不是分布在转子轴频率及其谐波上,同时也不满足简单多普勒效应。为了解释这种异常噪声现象,以三维升力面理论为基础,讨论叶片对其附近流体施加非定常载荷的发声问题,给出了转子叶栅振荡异常发声问题的物理解释,建立了声场频率及模态特性与转子声源特性的直接关系式,并给出了频率特性不同于叶片通过频率且不符合简单多普勒效应的完整解释。在此基础上,通过机理性实验研究证实了该模型的正确性。实验结果表明,理论预测声场的频率和周向模态特性与实验结果完全一致。     

基于谐振舵面的跨声速抖振抑制探究

跨声速抖振引起的非定常脉动载荷会造成飞行器结构疲劳甚至引发飞行事故,所以跨声速抖振的控制研究逐渐成为航空领域的热点。采用基于Spalart-Allmaras(S-A)湍流模型的非定常雷诺平均方程开展了基于谐振舵面的跨声速抖振抑制研究。首先验证静止NACA0012翼型的抖振边界和频率特性,然后分别从舵偏平衡位置、舵偏幅值、频率以及相角等角度研究了谐振舵面的控制效果。舵偏平衡位置等效于减小了翼型的有效迎角;幅值和频率对抖振抑制效果影响较大,当舵面振荡频率与抖振频率接近时发生共振现象;相角对控制效果有一定影响,在270°相角附近,升力系数幅值减小了60%。在合适的舵偏幅值、频率以及相角组合下,谐振舵面有可能成为跨声速抖振的有效开环控制策略。     

磁悬浮飞轮用新型异极性永磁偏置径向磁轴承

为满足应用于航天器姿控、储能的磁悬浮飞轮采用的扁平构型或高转速转子需求,提出了一种新型异极性永磁偏置径向磁轴承,具有轴向长度短、结构紧凑的优点,有利于扁平转子或高速转子的磁悬浮控制。在新型径向磁轴承磁路分析的基础上,通过应用于50 Nms反作用飞轮的设计实例,经仿真分析,校验了新型径向磁轴承的基本性能;并与传统同极性永磁偏置径向磁轴承进行了比较,验证了新型径向磁轴承的优点。