Single photon laser altimeter simulator and statistical signal processing

Spaceborne altimeters are common instruments onboard the deep space rendezvous spacecrafts. They provide range and topographic measurements critical in spacecraft navigation. Simultaneously, the receiver part may be utilized for Earth-to-satellite link, one way time transfer, and precise optical radiometry. The main advantage of single photon counting approach is the ability of processing signals with very low signal-to-noise ratio eliminating the need of large telescopes and high power laser source. Extremely small, rugged and compact microchip lasers can be employed. The major limiting factor, on the other hand, is the acquisition time needed to gather sufficient volume of data in repetitive measurements in order to process and evaluate the data appropriately. Statistical signal processing is adopted to detect signals with average strength much lower than one photon per measurement. A comprehensive simulator design and range signal processing algorithm are presented to identify a mission specific altimeter configuration. Typical mission scenarios (celestial body surface landing and topographical mapping) are simulated and evaluated. The high interest and promising single photon altimeter applications are low-orbit (∼10 km) and low-radial velocity (several m/s) topographical mapping (asteroids, Phobos and Deimos) and landing altimetry (∼10 km) where range evaluation repetition rates of ∼100 Hz and 0.1 m precision may be achieved. Moon landing and asteroid Itokawa topographical mapping scenario simulations are discussed in more detail.     

Lunar exosphere influence on lunar-based near-ultraviolet astronomical observations

The potential effect of the lunar exosphere on the near-ultraviolet sky background emission is predicted for Lunar-based Ultraviolet Telescope (LUT: a funded Chinese scientific payload for the Chang’e-III mission). Using the upper limit on the OH concentration inferred from the recent MIP CHACE results, our calculations show that the sky brightness due to the illuminated exosphere is <8.7 photons⁻¹ cm⁻² arcsec⁻² within the wavelength range 245–340 nm. By evaluating the signal-to-noise ratios of observations of an AB = 13 mag point source at a series of sky background levels, our analysis indicates that the detection performance of LUT can be moderately degraded by the lunar exosphere emission in most cases. An AB = 13 mag point source can still be detected by the telescope at a signal-to-noise ratio more than 8 when the OH concentration is less than 2 × 10⁸ molecules cm⁻³. However, the effect on the performance is considerable when the exosphere is as dense as suggested by CHACE.     

Limb Viewing Hyper Spectral Imager (LiVHySI) for airglow measurements onboard YOUTHSAT-1

The Limb Viewing Hyper Spectral Imager (LiVHySI) is one of the Indian payloads onboard YOUTHSAT (inclination 98.73°, apogee 817 km) launched in April, 2011. The Hyper-spectral imager has been operated in Earth’s limb viewing mode to measure airglow emissions in the spectral range 550–900 nm, from terrestrial upper atmosphere (i.e. 80 km altitude and above) with a line-of-sight range of about 3200 km. The altitude coverage is about 500 km with command selectable lowest altitude. This imaging spectrometer employs a Linearly Variable Filter (LVF) to generate the spectrum and an Active Pixel Sensor (APS) area array of 256 × 512 pixels, placed in close proximity of the LVF as detector. The spectral sampling is done at 1.06 nm interval. The optics used is an eight element f/2 telecentric lens system with 80 mm effective focal length. The detector is aligned with respect to the LVF such that its 512 pixel dimension covers the spectral range. The radiometric sensitivity of the imager is about 20 Rayleigh at noise floor through the signal integration for 10 s at wavelength 630 nm. The imager is being operated during the eclipsed portion of satellite orbits. The integration in the time/spatial domain could be chosen depending upon the season, solar and geomagnetic activity and/or specific target area. This paper primarily aims at describing LiVHySI, its in-orbit operations, quality, potential of the data and its first observations. The images reveal the thermospheric airglow at 630 nm to be the most prominent. These first LiVHySI observations carried out on the night of 21st April, 2011 are presented here, while the variability exhibited by the thermospheric nightglow at O(¹D) 630 nm has been described in detail.     

A comprehensive study on middle atmospheric thermal structure over a tropic and sub-tropic stations

The general characteristics of middle atmospheric thermal structure have been studied by making use of the Rayleigh lidar data collected over the period of about four years (1998–2001). Here, the data has been used from two different stations in the Indian sub-continent in tropics (Gadanki; 13.5°N, 79.2°E) and in sub-tropics (Mt. Abu; 24.5°N, 72.7°E). The observed monthly mean temperature profiles are compared with different model atmospheres (CIRA-86 and MSISE-90). We observed, the mean temperature profiles have closer agreement with MSISE-90 than CIRA-86. The temperature profiles measured by lidar and HALOE satellite overpass nearby lidar site are generally in agreement with each other. The systematic and statistical errors in deriving temperature are found to be uniform for both the stations, as 1 K at 50 km, 3 K at 60 km and 10 K at 70 km. The special features of mesospheric temperature inversion (MTI) and double stratopause structure (DBS) are also addressed for both the stations.     

关于带Rayleigh商位移的QL方法

本文讨论带Rayleigh商位移的QL方法的收敛性。给出了带Rayleigh商位移QL方法的收敛条件,并给出了带Rayleigh商位移QL方法不收敛的充分必要条件,证明了带Rayleigh商位移QL方法对任何不可约对称三对角矩阵总是有效的。     

稀薄气体条件下Rayleigh-Benard系统稳定性的DSMC仿真研究

本文利用DSMC（Direct Simulation Monte Carlo）方法研究了稀薄气体条件下Rayleigh-Benard系统的稳定性问题。考察了在经典的Boussinesq假设不再成立时，Rayleigh-Benard系统稳定性问题的特征。研究指出在气体的稀薄条件下，初场密度梯度的方向和Rayleigh数是影响Rayleigh-Benard系统不稳定性的主要因素。     

受限空间预混钝体稳定与抬升火焰激光诊断

在受限空间预混钝体燃烧器中,利用OH-PLIF （平面激光诱导荧光）、PIV （粒子图像测速）和瑞利散射测温技术实验研究了火焰结构、流场和温度场之间的相互影响关系。对比分析了贫燃稳定与富燃抬升状态下甲烷/空气预混火焰的燃烧场特性。实验结果表明：火焰结构、流场和温度场分布之间均存在直接联系。贫燃（当量比为0.8）火焰钝体上方为膨胀的高温低速回流区,利于火焰维持稳定;富燃（当量比为1.2）火焰倾向在受限空间出口与外界空气卷吸后着火,其钝体上方为类似冷态的低速低温回流区,无法点燃混合气,因而形成抬升火焰。分析各场局部分布信息获得火焰场间相互依赖规律：钝体火焰中,高温和低速对应已燃区,低温和高速对应未燃区。     

导航中单位矢量的二次旋转乘法观测模型

视线矢量观测是实现自主导航的重要方式。本文针对单位矢量的加法观测模型中观测矢量非单位化问题和乘法观测模型中测量噪声与实际情况不符的问题,提出二次旋转乘法观测模型。通过真实矢量在正交方向上进行的两次刚体旋转,获得了与现有乘法观测模型形式相同、但旋转角服从瑞利分布的正确观测方程。推导了测量误差的统计特性和双矢量观测的性质,并从空间几何角度给予了解释。数值仿真结果表明,二次旋转乘法观测模型弥补了由加法观测模型线性化所引起的问题,具有更精确的误差形式,由此给出了模型的潜在应用范围。     

Nakagami衰落包络的空时频相关性研究

多天线分集接收系统的性能与各支路信号衰落的相关性密切相关,通过分析Nakagami与瑞利衰落的内在联系,推导给出了不同Nakagami衰落包络之间的空时频相关性解析式,该表达式适用于任意散射条件和不同衰落系数。最后,通过数值仿真分析各参数对Nakagami衰落之间相关性的影响,并给出相干距离(时间、频率)的近似表达式,该结论对多天线系统的性能评估和参数设计非常重要。

     

惯性/视觉/激光雷达SLAM技术综述CSCD

同时定位与建图(SLAM)技术已广泛应用于各类自主移动平台中,其中视觉SLAM和激光雷达SLAM是两种主要的SLAM技术方案。然而,视觉SLAM系统易受视觉环境变化的影响,而激光雷达SLAM系统则在结构单一等环境中会出现精度退化甚至失效的情况。随着智能移动平台应用场景的不断拓展,对SLAM系统的精度和鲁棒性等提出了更高要求,将多种具有互补性的传感器进行融合是提升SLAM系统性能的有效途径。据此,聚焦惯性/视觉/激光雷达多传感器融合SLAM技术,从多传感器标定和多源数据融合两个主要方面进行综述,最后对多传感器融合SLAM技术的发展趋势进行了展望。