Trajectory tracking control of a VTOL unmanned aerial vehicle using offset-free tracking MPC

Designing a stable and robust flight control system for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is an arduous task. This paper addresses the trajectory tracking control problem of a Ducted Fan UAV (DFUAV) using offset-free Model Predictive Control (MPC) technique in the presence of various uncertainties and external disturbances. The designed strategy aims to ensure adequate flight robustness and stability while overcoming the effects of time delays, parametric uncertainties, and disturbances. The six degrees of freedom DFUAV model is divided into three flight modes based on its airspeed, namely the hover, transition, and cruise mode. The Dryden wind turbulence is applied to the DFUAV in the linear and angular velocity component. Moreover, different uncertainties such as parametric, time delays in state and input, are introduced in translational and rotational components. From the previous work, the Linear Quadratic Tracker with Integrator (LQTI) is used for comparison to corroborate the performance of the designed controller. Simulations are computed to investigate the control performance for the aforementioned modes and different flight phases including the autonomous flight to validate the performance of the designed strategy. Finally, discussions are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the given methodology.     

时间保持实验平台的设计与实现

中国科学院国家授时中心负责我国标准时间UTC(NTSC)产生、保持和发播。但是,国家授时中心的UTC(NTSC)保持硬件设备都处在实际应用运行中,不具备作为实验平台的条件,阻碍了对UTC(NTSC)保持工作的研究。为了解决这个问题,通过分析时间保持系统的硬件构成和软件部分,建立了自动监控实验平台。该实验平台具备时间保持的功能,可用于国家授时中心时间保持方面的研究工作。     

基于北斗/GNSS精密时频量值传递综述

介绍了北斗/GNSS精密时间频率量值传递技术及其应用研究进展,通过对北斗共视比对技术的研究,设计出利用北斗共视与国家授时中心GNSS CV精密时间服务系统进行比对,从而实现用户与标准时间UTC的溯源完成基于GNSS CV技术的时间频率计量服务系统设计,创新性地提出提高北斗共视比对技术以及研制多模多频GNSS CV量值传递设备的研究方向。     

原子钟长期特性测量系统的设计与实现

通过在对各种时频测量硬件的搭建,建立一套多台被测原子钟同时与本地频率标准钟比对的测量系统。该系统以数据库服务做为最底层的数据支持,能够实时的监控测量数据,显示当前被测原子钟的频率准确度,并能够在获得了足够的数据之后,计算和显示被测原子钟的日稳和漂移数据和曲线,方便时频计量人员操作,提高了送检原子钟的计量检定效率。     

船岸网络时延测量误差原因分析

简单介绍了测量船船岸通信网络组成,重点介绍了NTP（网络时间协议）和PTP（精密时间协议）这2种网络时间同步协议。针对改建后的船岸网络时延测量误差进行分析和研究,提出基于TWSTFT（卫星双向时间频率传输）技术模型的网络时延测量方法,测量结果误差小于3ms,满足测控任务实时性要求,为提高测控网的测控精度提供有益参考。     

时变等离子鞘套相位抖动对GPS导航的影响

飞行器再入过程中产生的时变等离子鞘套会引起信号的时变衰减和相位抖动,其产生的相位抖动对调相体制的GPS导航系统必然产生影响。探讨了时变等离子鞘套引起信号相位抖动的机理,通过传输矩阵法计算了由时变等离子鞘套引起GPS导航信号的相位抖动的统计特性,结合Hilbert方法建立了受到相位抖动影响的GPS信号模型,研究了黑障发生前等离子鞘套的相位抖动对GPS导航的影响。仿真结果表明GPS导航受到影响的程度和相位抖动方差大小密切相关。在NASA数据下相位抖动方差为0.1142时,定位变化大于10m的最大比例超出了1.5%,大于5m的最大比例超出了14%。     

一阶扩展差分方法在测站GPS时间误差修正中的应用

分析了全球定位系统（简称GPS）时间测量原理、时间测定误差和差分误差消除模型,给出了在航天测控站两套GPS授时系统应用一阶差分方法,即站间单差定位方法,减小误差,提高时间准确度的思路方法,并提出了多站站间单差定位的一阶扩展差分模型。该模型可以用来获取测站多套GPS授时系统的精确时间和任意2个系统时钟同步误差比对。     

Monitoring of the space system

We have performed monitoring of the space system that includes the Earth, the Moon, the Sun, and the GPS satellite group. We have discovered semi-diurnal and diurnal periodicities in the number of satellites detected as well as in the altitude, latitude and longitude by a GPS receiver. We have revealed tidal deformations related to changes in the Earth?s orientation with respect to the Moon and the Sun.     

On Lambert’s problem and the elliptic time of flight equation: A simple semi-analytical inversion method

In the two-body model, time of flight between two positions can be expressed as a single-variable function and a variety of formulations exist. Lambert’s problem can be solved by inverting such a function. In this article, a method which inverts Lagrange’s flight time equation and supports the problematic 180°$180°$ transfer is proposed. This method relies on a Householder algorithm of variable order. However, unlike other iterative methods, it is semi-analytical in the sense that flight time functions are derived analytically to second order vs. first order finite differences. The author investigated the profile of Lagrange’s elliptic flight time equation and its derivatives with a special focus on their significance to the behaviour of the proposed method and the stated goal of guaranteed convergence. Possible numerical deficiencies were identified and dealt with. As a test, 28 scenarios of variable difficulty were designed to cover a wide variety of geometries. The context of this research being the orbit determination of artificial satellites and debris, the scenarios are representative of typical such objects in Low-Earth, Geostationary and Geostationary Transfer Orbits. An analysis of the computational impact of the quality of the initial guess vs. that of the order of the method was also done, providing clues for further research and optimisations (e.g. asteroids, long period comets, multi-revolution cases). The results indicate fast to very fast convergence in all test cases, they validate the numerical safeguards and also give a quantitative assessment of the importance of the initial guess.     

航天器测控资源调度模型及算法

航天器测控资源调度问题研究的目的是通过一定的调度方法科学地分配有限的地面测控资源和最大化地完成航天器测控任务。在参考面向任务执行计划的航天器测控资源调度模型研究的基础上,文章提出了面向可见窗口的航天器测控调度模型,并给出了问题的确定性分支定界求解算法及其计算复杂度分析。最后,通过仿真计算验证了算法的有效性和实用性。