Design and testing of a roto-translational shutter mechanism for planetary operation

This work describes the design and testing of a shutter mechanism for a miniaturized infrared spectrometer developed for the ESA ExoMars Pasteur mission. Unlike most usual cover mechanisms, the conceived one provides a roto-translational motion. This feature allows the sealing of the interferometer main entrance window from dust contamination, in addition to the usual function of shuttering the instrument field of view. Although this characteristic is strongly desired because it avoids dust deposition and optics contamination while the instrument is not operating, it makes the mechanism design significantly more complex. Moreover, challenging design constraints were faced: the mass budget allowed for no more than 30 g allocation, the expected working thermal range extended down to −80 °C and high vibration levels with an acceleration peak of 670 m/s² were predicted during Mars landing. To complete the picture, the mechanism cover was required to provide also a calibration target for the 2–25 μm spectral range of the spectrometer. The resulting system is made by a calibrating/shutter cover moved by a purposely designed out of plane cams system which provides the desired motion. A mechanism mockup was assembled and successfully tested in the predicted thermal and mechanical environments.     

气体参数对气囊缓冲特性的影响分析

缓冲气囊具有系统简单、质量轻、贮存体积小等优点,在航天器的返回回收与探测器的着陆缓冲中有较广泛的应用。美国的＂探路者＂、＂机遇号＂和＂勇气号＂火星探测器都采用了缓冲气囊系统作为其着陆缓冲装置。文章通过流体力学和热力学的理论推导,提出了可能会对气囊的着陆缓冲过程产生影响的气体参数,通过MSC Dytran软件仿真计算了不同气体参数下球形火星着陆缓冲气囊的缓冲过程,并分析了各参数对气囊缓冲特性的影响。研究结果可以为后续的气囊设计及试验提供帮助,并为中国下一步开展火星着陆探测任务提供一定的参考。     

隔离信号调理模块自动校准系统设计

针对隔离信号调理模块型号多、参量多、使用量大,采用手动计量校准耗时耗力、容易出错、工作效率低等问题,在VEE Pro软件开发平台上,设计开发出一套隔离信号调理模块自动校准系统。该系统包括仪器信息记录、校准及打印输出三个主模块,测试过程采用实时测试显示,自动进行数据处理并存档。使用结果表明：该系统操作简便,提高了工作效率及准确度,降低了人为出错几率,确保了测试数据准确可靠。     

Novel orbits of Mercury,Venus and Mars enabled using low-thrust propulsion

Exploration of the inner planets of the Solar System is vital to significantly enhance the understanding of the formulation of the Earth and other planets. This paper therefore considers the development of novel orbits of Mars, Mercury and Venus to enhance the opportunities for remote sensing of these planets. Continuous acceleration is used to extend the critical inclination of highly elliptical orbits at each planet and is shown to require modest thrust magnitudes. This paper also presents the extension of existing sun-synchronous orbits around Mars. However, unlike Earth and Mars, natural sun-synchronous orbits do not exist at Mercury or Venus. This research therefore also uses continuous acceleration to enable circular and elliptical sun-synchronous orbits, by ensuring that the orbit's nodal precession rate matches the planets mean orbital rate around the Sun, such that the lighting along the ground-track remains approximately constant over the mission duration. This property is useful both in terms of spacecraft design, due to the constant thermal conditions, and for comparison of images. Considerably high thrust levels are however required to enable these orbits, which are prohibitively high for orbits with inclinations around 90°. These orbits therefore require some development in electric propulsion systems before becoming feasible.     

摄动因素对火星环绕段轨道长期影响研究

针对未来火星探测需要,研究了摄动因素对火星环绕段轨道的长期影响。对各种摄动因子的数量级进行了估计,根据估计结果,对比选取了起主导作用的摄动因子;建立了主要摄动因子的数学模型;通过数值仿真验证,对比分析了火星和地球的相应摄动因素对各自环绕段轨道半长轴和偏心率的影响。仿真结果表明:非球形摄动对火星环绕段轨道的影响具有明显的长周期特征,而相应的地球环绕段短周期效应较明显,这主要是由于质量分布不同造成火星非球形引力位中田谐项的系数基本都比地球的相应值大一个量级,因此在实际轨道设计中应该重点考虑高阶项特别是高阶田谐项对环绕段轨道造成的影响。     

基于改进多模型的火星大气进入自适应估计方法

针对火星进入过程中大气密度等不确定参数对导航系统状态估计精度的影响,提出了一种基于改进混合专家框架的多模型自适应估计方法。该方法对进入过程中不同的测量信息进行规范化处理,以克服传统多模型自适应估计方法稳定性差、数值下溢等固有缺陷,进一步提高状态估计精度。将其应用于火星不同进入探测方式下的导航场景进行仿真分析。仿真结果表明:该方法在动力学系统模型参数存在不确定扰动时能获得精确的状态估计,可以满足未来定点着陆探测对导航系统的精度需求。     

火星盘缝带伞跨声速风洞试验研究

火星着陆器在进入减速着陆过程中降落伞是必需的气动力减速装置,然而火星大气的特殊性使得火星降落伞开伞工作时具有超声速、低密度、低动压的特点,因而火星降落伞的构型、参数选择非常关键。文章在对火星盘缝带伞进行理论分析和国际应用研究的基础上,选取四种典型结构参数的盘缝带伞型,即常规透气量和低透气量的探路者型和海盗型伞型,在中国国内首次进行了亚-跨声速风洞试验,对这四种伞型在亚-跨声速下的阻力特性和稳定性开展研究。风洞试验采用横梁式测力天平测量阻力,同时用影像设备观察伞的摆动角度。研究结果表明,盘缝带伞的跨声速段阻力系数与理论值基本相符,能够满足火星环境下的减速需要;盘缝带伞随阻力系数增加稳定性降低,设计中必须兼顾考虑。     

火星进入段探测器自校准状态估计

由于大气密度、气动参数、突风和沙尘暴等因素的影响,火星探测器在进入段高速飞行的动力学模型中往往带来未知输入,这些未知输入使传统的滤波方法出现较大的偏差。研究采用一种新的自校准扩展Kalman滤波方法,对火星进入段的探测器进行状态估计,可以成功地消除这些未知输入带来的影响。数值仿真结果表明,该方法能有效提高导航精度。     

地球-火星之间的往返轨迹全局一体化优化设计

针对多因素影响的地球-火星之间的星际往返轨迹优化设计问题,基于多体动力学运动模型,采用静态参数+动态优化的组合算法,进行了全局一体化优化设计,得到最优往返飞行方案,包括探测器从地球出发到火星的最优4-D飞行轨迹、从火星返回地球的最优4-D轨迹,分别离开地球与火星的时间、与星体的相对速度差等。最优飞行方案达到了在火星上探测时间足够长,往返飞行时间最短,所耗发动机燃料最少等目的。该研究结果对未来我国星际(如地球-各行星之间)最优往返飞行有一定的参考价值。