Energy requirements of a thermally processed ISRU radiation shield for a lunar habitat

The purpose of this study was to establish, on a first principles basis, the order of magnitude of energy requirements for a thermally processed, lunar regolith radiation shield constructed using an in-situ resource utilisation (ISRU) approach. This was done by developing a reference scenario habitat and using thermodynamic relationships and specific heat capacity expressions to determine the energy required to bring such a regolith volume up to sintering temperatures (c. 1,375 K). Once the energy requirements were developed some power system architectures were outlined conceptually and a nuclear power plant of c. 400 kW was suggested as a means to supply the necessary energy. This is well beyond current space nuclear applications. The study concludes that it is likely that the most efficient near-term solution is chemical processing of regolith, from an energy requirements perspective. The technology is also more mature and likely to be delivered on near term projects as it does not require such scaled-up power system architectures. Alternatively, bringing storm shelters up with the habitat to provide a means of weathering major solar events, and adding additional radiation protection to habitat quarters, possibly through a water blanket or similar mechanism, could provide a non-ISRU solution with current technology. However, in the longer term, the development of MW-scale power system architectures (fission, solar etc.), may permit a very large volume of material to be processed thermally for construction material, making a large, permanent human presence on the Moon more easily realisable.     

Load distribution strategy for multi-lift system with helicopters based on power consumption and robust adaptive game control

It is of great significance to reasonably distribute the slung load to each helicopter while considering difference in power consumption, relative position and interaction comprehensively. Therefore, the load distribution strategy based on power consumption and robust adaptive game control is proposed in this paper. The study is on a “2-lead” multi-lift system of four tandem helicopters carrying a load cooperatively. First, based on the hierarchical control, the load distribution problem is divided into two parts: the calculation of expected cable force and the calculation of the anti-disturbance cable force. Then, aimed at minimizing the maximum equivalent power of helicopter, an optimization problem is set up to calculate the expected cable force. Specially, the agent power model is trained by BP neural network, the safe distance constraint between helicopters is set to 2.5 rotor diameters to reduce aerodynamic interference, and the helicopters with different performance can be considered by introducing the equivalent power factor into the objective function. Next, considering the difference and interaction between helicopters, the robust adaptive differential game control is proposed to calculate the anti-disturbance cable force. Particularly, to solve the coupled Hamiltonian equations, an adaptive solving method for value function is proposed, and its stability is proved in the sense of Lyapunov. The simulation results indicate that the proposed load distribution method based on power consumption is applicable to the entire flight trajectory even there are differences between helicopters. The game control can consider interaction between helicopters, can deal with different objective functions, and has strong robustness and small steady-state error. Based on the entire strategy, the cable force can be reasonably allocated so as to resist disturbance and improve the flight performance of the whole system.     

航空发动机全飞行包线稳态划分方法研究

航空发动机在鲁棒控制器设计过程中存在飞行包线区域难以系统划分的问题,为此,提出基于推力耗油率特性和基于动压耗油率特性的航空发动机飞行包线划分法。根据某型涡扇发动机在全包线范围内稳态工作时的推力、耗油率及动压特性,结合大气条件的客观规律,通过两种划分方法将飞行包线划分为65 个区域,用每个区域对应标称点的参数代替其周围小偏差区域和边界点参数。通过对该发动机全包线内各区域标称点与边界点参数的对比,证明两种方法均对全飞行包线划分有效,可为后续航空发动机控制器设计提供理论基础。     

空间交会中脉冲变轨燃料消耗研究

导出了空间交会中多脉冲变轨的一般算法。在此基础上,重点研究了双脉冲变轨的燃料消耗情况,提出了双脉冲变轨条件下的“不可达点”及其附近的“高耗能区域”,并给出了相应的物理解释。最后对多脉冲变轨与双脉冲变轨进行了比较。     

碳基复合相变装置及在大热耗单机温控中的应用

碳基复合相变装置以高导热碳基复合相变材料为主要储能和导热载体,利用高导热膨胀石墨强化导热,运用相变材料的潜热实现热量的削峰填谷,可有效抑制短时大热耗单机的温升,减少单机非工作时段所需的补偿功耗,节省卫星的重量资源和功耗资源。主要介绍了一种高导热碳基复合相变装置,结合复合相变装置与卫星结构板优化的综合散热系统,用于解决星载短时工作的大热耗单机温度控制问题。通过理论计算与热仿真分析相结合,对复合相变装置进行了优化设计;通过开展专项试验对复合相变装置的热性能和空间环境适应性进行了充分验证;并在整星真空热平衡试验中,验证了复合相变装置对大热耗单机的温度控制效果。     

基于区域平均燃料消耗的推力器配置问题

摘要： 为实现精准的交会对接需要同时进行相对位置与相对姿态的六自由度控制.在控制指令一定的情况下,不同的推力器配置以及不同的控制分配算法会带来不同的推进剂消耗.实际任务中,可以从时间和空间上对控制指令进行划分,即控制指令在一段时间内集中在一定的空间区域内.本文提出发动机配置区域平均燃料消耗的度量指标,针对三维和六维控制任务给出区域平均燃料消耗的计算方法,进而提出对推力器配置阵的优化思路,对于完善控制指令分配和推力器配置设计与优化有重要的意义.     

ARINC 653分区实时系统的可调度分析

ARINC 653规范定义了综合模块化航空电子(IMA)实时操作系统的行为逻辑以及向应用程序提供的接口规范。该规范规定了系统采用分区内调度和分区间调度的两级调度方案,如何分析系统的可调度性以保证实时任务能够在截止时间内完成计算是需要研究的新问题。基于负载请求与平台资源提供能力的供需约束关系导出了系统可调度的判定依据。证明了判据的约束是系统可调度的充分必要条件。实际应用表明,提出的可调度判定定理能够应用于判定ARINC 653分区实时系统的可调度性,辅助提升系统的安全属性。     

交会对接绕飞段临界安全轨迹研究

以Hill方程为基础对圆轨道近距离双脉冲绕飞安全策略进行研究.首先给出双脉冲绕飞的模型,通过仿真遍历得到不会进入球形安全区的绕飞轨迹,然后绘制出这些安全的绕飞轨迹所对应的绕飞时间、燃料消耗、追踪器与目标器的初始距离三个量之间的关系曲面,进而得到临界安全条件下的关系曲线并拟合出关系表达式,最后对拟合误差进行分析发现导致轨迹偏离的程度很小.     

New trade tree for manned mars missions

Recent studies on human missions to Mars suggest revisiting the parameters that have the most important impact on the complexity, the initial mass in low Earth orbit, the risks and the development costs for the first journey to the red planet. In the last NASA reference mission, a trade tree is proposed.     

综合路由的无线传感器网络覆盖调度

利用目前公认为理论上最好的无线传感器网络集中式覆盖控制算法MCLC(Most-Constrained Least-Constraining),结合DD(Directed Diffusion)和LEACH(Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy)路由协议,基于节点最小剩余能量调度覆盖集,观察最小剩余能量不同选取对节点能耗和均衡性以及网络生存期的影响.研究能耗均衡性和网络生存期的关系,提出了一种新的一般性能耗均衡的覆盖集调度的方法.仿真结果表明:所提方法可以有效提高网络生存期,同时为设计覆盖控制算法和覆盖集调度策略提供理论指导.