行星着陆轨迹优化技术研究进展

针对行星大气进入、动力下降过程动力学环境及约束条件等进行了分析,回顾了近年来行星着陆轨迹优化的研究现状.在此基础上,结合行星着陆轨迹优化技术在动力学特征、约束条件、不确定环境方面的特点,从非线性动力学的等价/近似变换技术、复杂约束条件下的最优轨迹快速求解技术、不确定条件下的能控/能达性分析技术三个方面,对行星着陆轨迹优...     

小天体伴飞脉冲控制

文章在同时考虑太阳和小天体引力的基础上,建立探测器相对小天体运动的动力学方程,利用状态转换矩阵描述小行星附近的运动.采用了一种阈值控制方法,当误差超过阈值时,利用脉冲控制使得探测器回到目标位置.研究结果表明,该控制方法能很好地实现探测器的位置保持,且方法实现简单、控制周期长、推进剂消耗少.     

蝴蝶悬停飞行流体力学实验模型的仿生设计

由于蝴蝶形态学上的特点(翼面宽大,展弦比小,翼型复杂)以及其特殊的飞行方式(拍动频率低,翅膀几乎垂直于身体拍动;翅膀没有翻转运动,但在翅膀拍动时身体有明显的俯仰运动和振动),蝴蝶成为探索昆虫飞行高升力机理的特殊研究对象.为了深入研究蝴蝶悬停飞行时的流场和高升力机理,设计制作一套模拟蝴蝶悬停飞行的流体力学实验模型显得尤为重要.介绍一种新设计的电控蝴蝶实验模型,该模型与真实的蝴蝶一样,包含左右翅膀和身体,并且可以实现精确定位和模拟蝴蝶不同的运动模式,包括翅膀的拍动、身体的俯仰运动和振动.研究小组应用此实验模型进行流动显示实验和PIV(Particle Image Velocimetry)实验,对蝴蝶的悬停飞行进行研究.      

基于小行星地形特征库的自主测距与定姿方法

首先建立全景着陆区域地形特征数据库,包括了特征点的经纬度、图像纹理信息、各个特征点之间的位置相关特性等;随后提取探测器下降过程中拍摄得到的地形特征,在图像数据库中进行匹配,解决了因小行星自转周期较短产生的特征点溢出视野问题,提高了光学测量的适用性;最后结合匹配点的位置信息通过计算机视觉测距原理获取探测器和小行星之间的相对位置和相对姿态。数学仿真实验验证了方案的可行性。     

小天体的多种尺寸颗粒样品收集容器流域的数值模拟

采集小天体表面的样品并返回是当前小天体探测的核心目标之一,样品容器流域设计是氮气激励采样技术的关键.为了保证样品容器具备高效的收集性能,要求样品容器的流域设计能够对样品颗粒形成陷阱效应,并对样品颗粒进行有效的分级.旋风式样品收集容器方案利用旋风离心力和引导叶片的共同作用对样品颗粒进行收集和分级.为了验证这种方案在微重力环境下的性能和可行性,本文利用Fluent软件进行了流域的数值模拟.模拟结果表明：在确定容器的结构下,样品容器的最优氮气入口速度为0.6 m·s^-1,容器在该速度下的样品收集效率达到99.7%.样品容器的流域具备很好的颗粒分级功能,对小于2mm的样品颗粒的捕获率超过了90%,其压力损失也在合理的范围之内.本文研究结果可为小天体采样任务提供借鉴.     

Reducing mission operations costs through spacecraft autonomy: the near earth asteroid rendezvous (near) experience

With a maximum time of 12 days out of ground contact and a round-trip light time as high as 56 minutes, The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft requires a moderate degree of onboard autonomy to react to faults and safe the spacecraft. Beyond the basic safing requirements, additional functions are carried out onboard. For example, on-board calculation of the Sun, Earth, asteroid, and spacecraft positions allow the spacecraft to autonomously orient itself for science and downlink operations. On-board autonomous momentum management during cruise relieves Mission Operations from planning, scheduling, and carrying out many manual momentum dumps. During development, additional operations, such as center-of-mass management during propulsive maneuvers and optical navigation were also considered for onboard autonomy on the NEAR spacecraft, but were not selected. The allocation of functions to onboard software or to ground operations involved tradeoffs such as development time for onboard software versus ground software, resource management, life cycle costs, and spacecraft safety.After two years of cruise operations, considerable experience with the NEAR autonomy system has accrued. The utility of some autonomous capabilities is greater than expected, others less so. Software uploads increased spacecraft autonomy in some cases, and the impact on Mission Operations can be assessed. Allocation of functions between spacecraft autonomy and ground operation during development of future missions can be improved by applying the lessons learned from the NEAR experience.     

Preliminary mission profile of Hera’s Milani CubeSat

CubeSats offer a flexible and low-cost option to increase the scientific and technological return of small-body exploration missions. ESA’s Hera mission, the European component of the Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment (AIDA) international collaboration, plans on deploying two CubeSats in the proximity of binary system 65803 Didymos, after arrival in 2027. In this work, we discuss the feasibility and preliminary mission profile of Hera’s Milani CubeSat. The CubeSat mission is designed to achieve both scientific and technological objectives. We identify the design challenges and discuss design criteria to find suitable solutions in terms of mission analysis, operational trajectories, and Guidance, Navigation, & Control (GNC) design. We present initial trajectories and GNC baseline, as a result of trade-off analyses. We assess the feasibility of the Milani CubeSat mission and provide a preliminary solution to cover the operational mission profile of Milani in the close-proximity of Didymos system.     

基于三阶解析解的小行星平衡点附近halo轨道确定方法研究

尽管周期解的存在性已经被证明,但要在给定的动力学系统中寻找到满足一定精度要求的周期解依然是一件极富挑战性的工作.提出如下方法确定小行星平衡点附近精确的周期轨道(halo轨道).首先扩展运动方程:将小行星平衡点附近轨道运动方程的右端项在平衡点处展成三阶幂级数.从而将非线性运动学方程扩展为拟线性微分方程.然后求近似解析解:应用Lindstedt-Poincaré方法求解扩展后的运动方程组,将周期解和其运动频率展开成三阶幂级数,并将二者代人扩展后的拟线性微分方程中.这样就可以得到三个不同阶的线性运动方程,逐次求解三个微分方程并消除解中的永年项即可得到hal.轨道的三阶解析解.最后微分校正:将周期轨道在三阶解析解附近线性化,得到状态转移矩阵,并使用状态转移矩阵和轨道终端状态的偏差修正轨道初值,从而得到满足精度要求的精确引力场中的halo轨道.     

Adaptive double-saturated control for hovering over an asteroid

Hovering over an irregular-shaped asteroid is particularly challenging due to the large gravitational uncertainties and various external disturbances. An adaptive control scheme considering commanded acceleration and its change-rate saturation for hovering is developed in this paper. Taking full advantage of terminal sliding-mode control theory, first, we convert the double-saturated control problem to a new equivalent system by introducing a special bounded function, in which just control input saturation needs to be considered. Then, a continuous finite-time saturated controller is designed for the new system with the assistance of an constructed auxiliary subsystem. Additionally, an adaptive law is devised for the controller to avoid the requirement of the unknown upper bounds of the disturbances, rendering the control scheme especially suitable to asteroid hovering missions. The finite-time stability of the whole closed-loop system is proved via Lyapunov analysis. Numerical simulation studies are carried out, and the results demonstrate the design features and the desired performance.     

A fast Chebyshev polynomial method for calculating asteroid gravitational fields using space partitioning and cosine sampling

This paper presents a computationally fast method for solving gravitational accelerations near irregularly-shaped asteroids. This method is based on analytical three-dimensional Chebyshev polynomial approximation of the polyhedral gravity. For the purpose of improving the approximation accuracy, space partitioning schemes based on practical flight zones is used to avoid interpolation the whole space around the target asteroid. Specifically, a minimum ellipsoid close to the asteroid surface is defined to select the space for surrounding trajectories with safe distance and a cone connected to the surface is defined to select the space for descent trajectories. Moreover, interpolation points are sampled in a cosine sampling fashion according to the Chebyshev-Gauss-Lobatto nodes and a radial adaption technique. The performance of different space partitioning schemes is analyzed. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated through simulations of solving gravitational accelerations at the test points near different shaped asteroids 1996 HW1, 433 Eros, 25143 Itokawa and 101955 Bennu.