A novel autonomous self-assembly distributed swarm flying robot

Swarm intelligence embodied by many species such as ants and bees has inspired scholars in swarm robotic researches. This paper presents a novel autonomous self-assembly distributed swarm flying robot-DSFR, which can drive on the ground, autonomously accomplish self-assembly and then fly in the air coordinately. Mechanical and electrical designs of a DSFR module, as well as the kinematics and dynamics analysis, are specifically investigated. Meanwhile, this paper brings forward a generalized adjacency matrix to describe configurations of DSFR structures. Also, the distributed flight control model is established for vertical taking-off and horizontal hovering, which can be applied to control of DSFR systems with arbitrary configurations. Finally, some experiments are carried out to testify and validate the DSFR design, the autonomous self-assembly strategy and the distributed flight control laws.     

Direct thrust control for multivariable turbofan engine based on affine linear parameter-varying approach

A novel turbofan Direct Thrust Control(DTC) architecture based on Linear ParameterVarying(LPV) approach for a two-spool turbofan engine thrust control is proposed in this paper.Instead of transforming thrust command to shaft speed command and pressure ratio command, the thrust will be directly controlled by an optimal controller with two control variables. LPV model of the engine is established for the designing of thrust estimator and controller. A robust LPV H∞filter is introduced to estimate ...     

Robust leaderless time-varying formation control for unmanned aerial vehicle swarm system with Lipschitz nonlinear dynamics and directed switching topologies

This paper tackles the robust leaderless Time-Varying Formation(TVF) control problem for the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV) swarm system with Lipschitz nonlinear dynamics, external disturbances and directed switching topologies. In comparison with the previous achievements on formation control problems, the UAV swarm system with Lipschitz nonlinear dynamics can accomplish the pre-designed TVF while tracking a pre-given trajectory which is produced by a virtual leader UAV in the presence of externa...     

低成本集群自主协同与控制问题研究

随着集群技术的发展,未来军事任务中精确打击将由单一作战向协同攻击的模式扩展,而集群打击中的低成本实现是一项重要的关键技术。对国外集群协同控制的低成本实现研究进行了调研,结合成熟货架产品开展了低成本集群的体系架构设计,针对集群协同与控制中延迟与精度两项性能参数进行了因子实验与统计,最后分析了未来作战中集群打击的应用模式。     

Neural network prediction of the topside electron content over the Euro-African sector derived from Swarm-A measurements

This study presents the first prediction results of a neural network model for the vertical total electron content of the topside ionosphere based on Swarm-A measurements. The model was trained on 5 years of Swarm-A data over the Euro-African sector spanning the period 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2018. The Swarm-A data was combined with solar and geomagnetic indices to train the NN model. The Swarm-A data of 1 January to 30 September 2019 was used to test the performance of the neural network. The data was divided into two main categories: most quiet and most disturbed days of each month. Each category was subdivided into two sub-categories according to the Swarm-A trajectory i.e. whether it was ascending or descending in order to accommodate the change in local time when the satellite traverses the poles. Four pairs of neural network models were implemented, the first of each pair having one hidden layer, and the second of each pair having two hidden layers, for the following cases: 1) quiet day-ascending, 2) quiet day-descending, 3) disturbed day-ascending, and 4) disturbed day-descending. The topside vertical total electron content predicted by the neural network models compared well with the measurements by Swarm-A. The model that performed best was the one hidden layer model in the case of quiet days for descending trajectories, with RMSE = 1.20 TECU, R = 0.76. The worst performance occurred during the disturbed descending trajectories where the one hidden layer model had the worst RMSE = 2.12 TECU, (R = 0.54), and the two hidden layer model had the worst correlation coefficient R = 0.47 (RMSE = 1.57).In all cases, the neural network models performed better than the IRI2016 model in predicting the topside total electron content. The NN models presented here is the first such attempt at comparing NN models for the topside VTEC based on Swarm-A measurements.     

Adaptive distributed observer design for containment control of heterogeneous discrete-time swarm systems

This paper develops both adaptive distributed dynamic state feedback control law and adaptive distributed measurement output feedback control law for heterogeneous discrete-time swarm systems with multiple leaders. The convex hull formed by the leaders and the system matrix of leaders is estimated via an adaptive distributed containment observer. Such estimations will feed the followers so that every follower can update the system matrix of the corresponding adaptive distributed containment observer and the system state of their neighbors. The followers cooperate with each other to achieve leader–follower consensus and thus solve the containment control problem over the network. Numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness and computational feasibility of the proposed control laws.     

多植保无人机协同路径规划

为实现多植保无人机（UAVs）协同作业,并提高作业效率,提出了一种基于改进粒子群优化（PSO）的多植保无人机协同路径规划算法。根据作业区域的形状面积和植保UAV的作业参数划分各架UAV作业区域,采用栅格法生成各区域全覆盖作业航线。以各架植保UAV各架次植保作业距离为算法寻优变量,在确保各架UAV补给时间满足间隔分布约束条件下,综合考虑补给总次数、返航补给总时间、总耗时和最小补给时间间隔4项因素,并构成目标函数,通过采用改进PSO算法,实现了对各UAV返航顺序和返航点位置的寻优。仿真分析结果表明,相较于最大作业距离规划和最小返航距离规划,本文提出的规划算法表现出了较优的性能和较好的作业区域适应性,证实了其有效性和实用性。     

Distributed coordinated control scheme of UAV swarm based on heterogeneous roles

This paper proposes a new distributed coordinated control scheme based on heterogeneous roles for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV) swarm to achieve formation control. First, the framework of the distributed coordinated control scheme is designed on the basis of Distributed Model Predictive Control(DMPC). Then, the effect of heterogeneous roles including leader, coordinator and follower is discussed, and the role-based cost functions are developed to improve the performance of coordinated control for...     

基于多智能体的捕食者—被捕食者系统研究

以Swarm软件系统为编程平台,利用多智能体仿真思想,模拟研究了捕食者与被捕食者系统。在不改变智能体行为准则的前提下,通过改变智能体的数量和遗传特性,模拟了智能体之间在相互合作、竞争关系下系统的演化过程,体现了竞争与合作在多智能体系统中的作用。仿真结果与数学模型结论相符。     

涡轴发动机部件特性修正及更新方法

针对由航空发动机零部件制造、装配及性能退化引起的发动机模型与实际发动机之间的性能不匹配问题,提出1种基于粒子群优化算法(PSO)的发动机部件特性自动修正及更新方法。根据发动机部件级模型的输出数据和发动机性能分析软件GasTurb计算结果,以发动机关键测量参数所定义的目标函数最小为优化目标,利用PSO获取不同相对换算转速下的部件特性修正因子,并在线完成特性图的自动更新。并以某型涡轴发动机为对象进行仿真验证,结果表明:该方法可有效提高涡轴发动机部件级模型的精度,并直接输出更新后的部件特性。