A different view of the ionospheric winter anomaly

The Winter Anomaly (WA) is an ionospheric phenomenon, particularly related to the F2-layer, that is classically defined as the situation in which the ionization level during winter is higher than during summer for a certain location. This situation is anomalous because it contradicts what would be naturally expected with summer’s ionization levels higher than winter ones. This phenomenon has been a matter of study since the early decades of the XX century.This contribution tackles the study of the WA based on long time series (up to two solar cycles) of Total Electron Content (TEC) measurements over a globally distributed network of stations. The work done relies on a threefold strategy including: a classical approach based on the comparison of the winter and summer maximum TEC values, that confirmed the results previously documented; an intermediate approach with maximum TEC values modelled as linear functions of the solar radiation level, that allowed to identify stations where the WA is likely to be observed (and at what solar radiation level) and where is not; a final original approach where the maximum TEC values are modelled using Chapman’s function for the seasonal variations, linear regressions for the solar activity dependence and the introduction of site and month dependent equivalent ionization coefficients for the remaining effects. The main conclusions are that the coefficients for winter months seem to depend mainly on geomagnetic latitude, to increase towards high latitudes and to be asymmetric between hemisphere. In accordance to these findings, the occurrences of WA effects would be regulated by proper combinations of these three effects.     

Task allocation strategies for cooperative task planning of multi-autonomous satellite constellation

In recent years, the application of imaging satellites has entered a completely new stage, with the new demands such as rapid response to emergency events, observation of large-scale regional targets and multivariate data fusion, the multi-autonomous satellite constellation has been proposed. This paper first designs the structure of multi-autonomous satellite constellation, and a centralized-distributed structure is proposed. This structure could improve the dynamic response capacity of the whole constellation. Then, this paper adds adapted filtering mechanism to single autonomous satellite online scheduling algorithm to enhance its performance. This article also pays more attention on task allocation strategies of the master satellite in constellation, and ten different task allocation strategies based on five dimensions are analyzed by simulation experiments. At last, this paper extracts several characteristic features of the regular observation targets and designs a selector based on support vector machine (SVM). This selector could select an appropriate strategy according to the features of each experiment scenario.     

Standing window of oblique detonation with pathological behaviour

Standing of an Oblique Detonation Wave (ODW) on a wedge within combustor is the prerequisite of thrust generation for ODW engine which is regarded as a novel and conceptual propulsion device with hypersonic flight Mach number. Usually a standing window of ODW is defined as the wedge angle ranged from the ODW detached angle from wedge (upper limit) to the angle that a Chapman-Jouguet (CJ) detonation occurs (lower limit). For pathological detonation cases, however, the CJ detonation cannot be achieved, and thus the lower limit of the standing window of ODW should be revisited. In present study, two types of reactions in hypersonic incoming flow that include the behavior of pathological detonation, that is, the single-step irreversible reaction with mole variation and the two-step irreversible reactions with exothermic process followed by endothermic process, have been used for studying standing behavior of ODW. The steady detonation polar analysis of ODW is carried out for both reaction systems. The results reveal that the reaction with more mole decrement and the reactions with stronger endothermic process show the pathological detonation feature and therefore modify the lower limit of standing window of ODW. Three equivalent parameters are proposed to quantitatively measure the standing window range of ODW from points of view of thermodynamics, Mach number of incoming flow and heat effect of reactions. It is found that the standing window of ODW is determined by the specific heat ratio, the overdrive degree of detonation and the endothermic level of the hypersonic incoming flow, regardless of whether the detonation is pathological or not.     

“忠诚僚机”式有人/ 无人机协同作战概念 与任务管理技术研究

“忠诚僚机”式作战概念定义了有人机与无人机协同作战的新理念，颠覆了传统作战模式。在有人/ 无人机协同作战过程中，有人机以指挥者的角色，对作战任务进行分解、分配与管理。实现有人/ 无人机编队 之间在时间、空间上的协同与配合，而无人机在有人机的指挥下完成侦察与打击等任务。     

自动化立体仓库货位优先级生成算法设计

简单描述了自动化立体仓库系统构成,货物存取工作流程;结合堆垛机工作特性及货位综合属性,提出了一种在单作业工作方式下确定货位优先级方法;给出了基于货位优先级的立体仓库出入库算法;货位信息存储采用数据库技术;实验结果表明,系统按优先级实现货位分配与随机分配比较,可以提高系统工作效率。     

水工质脉冲等离子体推进器的能量平衡和效率

通过一种同轴水工质脉冲等离子体推进器的LCR放电回路的理论分析和实验来探讨其在运行过程中的能量平衡和能量转换效率。理论分析认为储能电容中的储存能量通过放电转化为加速动能及被传输线和电容的等效电阻消耗掉,并且根据等效电阻的分配情况定义了水工质脉冲等离子体推进器的加速动能和电磁力转换效率。实验研究表明:该水工质脉冲等离子体推进器的存储能量(E0=4.86J)转换成加速动能的能量转换效率是28%,其中11%用于电磁加速及17%用于电热加速,其余72%的存储能量消耗在储能电容和传输线内阻所造成的能量损失上。     

一种基于等效采样的周期信号谐波分析方法

为了突破周期信号谐波分析中采样保持与模数转换时间对分析信号频率范围的限制,将准均匀采样与等效采样相结合,提出了一种新的等效采样周期信号谐波分析方法。首先,给出了在奇数个信号周期内进行2的整数次方次均匀采样的等效采样谐波分析理论;其次,计入定时时钟周期对采样时间的影响,在等效采样中结合准均匀采样以实现同步采样;进一步分析了采样过程中的时间离散与幅值量化所带来的谐波分析误差;最后,给出了新的等效采样谐波分析的具体算法。借助含有小幅谐波分量的实验信号对等效采样谐波分析算法进行了数值仿真。理论分析和数值仿真均表明：新方法有效拓宽了分析信号的频率范围,并且可直接利用FFT进行快速计算。     

短周期运动飞行品质的几种判据

飞机纵向短周期运动是影响其飞行品质的关键因素，根据国外近年来所进行的研究，综合，发纳出六种适用于小迎角飞行的短周期飞行品质标准，基于等效系统的控制期望参数（ＣＡＰ）等准则依然适用，并作了增补；对于不能用低阶系统等效的飞机提出了诸发带宽准则等相应判据，这六种准则各有其侧重点和适用范围，较全面地反映了飞机短周期运动特性，共同完成对飞行品质的评判和预估。     

应用S4000P制订民用飞机区域检查任务方法探究

介绍了S4000P制订和持续改进预防性维修任务国际规范，分析了S4000P的区域分析方法，探究了S4000P在制订民用飞机区域检查任务方面的应用方法，并给出了应用S4000P的区域检查任务的直接维修成本预计策略。     

实时高可用测控集群关键技术研究

针对实时测控信息类型复杂、信息处理和控制方法多样、对实时性和可靠性要求高等特点,构建了一种基于集群计算平台的实时、高可用测控系统,在此基础上提出了一主一备双工热备节点的分布式集群管理控制模式,即在系统运行过程中任务除在一个节点上进行处理外,另一节点同时运行该任务处理(但不输出处理结果),在此基础上设计了任务故障监测的心跳机制、任务故障迁移和恢复的分配方法。通过实验证明,该方法能在一个处理周期内发现任务故障,并实现故障任务的迁移和恢复,不仅减少了系统建设成本,而且缩短了故障任务迁移和恢复时间,提高了测控系统的实时性、可靠性。