A two-stage approach for managing actuators redundancy and its application to fault tolerant flight control

In safety-critical systems such as transportation aircraft, redundancy of actuators is introduced to improve fault tolerance. How to make the best use of remaining actuators to allow the system to continue achieving a desired operation in the presence of some actuators failures is the main subject of this paper. Considering that many dynamical systems, including flight dynamics of a transportation aircraft, can be expressed as an input affine nonlinear system, a new state representation is adopted here where the output dynamics are related with virtual inputs associated with the intended operation. This representation, as well as the distribution matrix associated with the effectiveness of the remaining operational actuators, allows us to define different levels of fault tolerant governability with respect to actuators’ failures. Then, a two-stage control approach is developed, leading first to the inversion of the output dynamics to get nominal values for the virtual inputs and then to the solution of a linear quadratic(LQ) problem to compute the solicitation of each operational actuator. The proposed approach is applied to the control of a transportation aircraft which performs a stabilized roll maneuver while a partial failure appears. Two fault scenarios are considered and the resulting performance of the proposed approach is displayed and discussed.     

考虑承载面最大位移约束的结构拓扑优化方法

在实际工程问题中,存在着一类承受分布力载荷作用的工程结构。为了实现此类结构的刚度设计要求,提出限制承载面变形的拓扑优化设计新模型。模型采用KS包络函数对承载面节点位移进行凝聚化处理,并推导了相应的伴随方程和敏度表达式。遵循独立连续映射法建模方式,采用一阶和二阶泰勒展开分别得到约束函数和目标函数的显式表达式。由此将优化问题转换为一系列标准二次规划子问题,采用序列二次规划算法进行高效、稳健求解。通过二维、三维数值算例验证了提出模型的可行性和有效性。结果表明,所提出的列式和相应的优化求解算法能有效控制结构局部区域的最大变形量。     

采用PQLF的不确定模糊系统最优保性能控制

对一类模有界的参数不确定T-S模糊系统的保性能控制问题进行了分析研究。一个二次指标函数表征了闭环系统的性能。采用分段二次Lyapunov函数(Piecewise quadratic Lyapunov function,PQLF)方法,在使闭环系统渐近稳定的前提下以线性矩阵不等式(Linear matrix inequality,LMI)的形式给出了一种鲁棒最优保性能控制律。同时提出了一种新型分段并行补偿(Parallel distributed compensation,PDC)控制策略。该PDC控制器同样反映了模糊系统前提变量的规则结构信息。数值仿真显示,采用该设计方法所得到的闭环保性能值优于传统二次Lyapunov函数(Common quadratic Lyapunov function,CQLF)方法下的闭环保性能值,且系统动态性能良好,鲁棒性强。     

深空机动对运载火箭发射火星探测轨道研究

为解决长征(LM)运载火箭发射火星探测器转移轨道时，因低温入轨级最长允许滑行时间及测控限制，有效发射日期窗口亟需拓展的问题，采用主矢量理论结合序列二次规划算法(SQP)，研究了探测器深空机动(DSM)对优化运载火箭发射火星转移轨道的作用。在发射直接转移火星探测轨道算法基础上，重点研究了包含引力影响球(SOI)内近地及近火飞行段后，采用主矢量获取深空机动最优猜测初值的分析算法，通过直接使用探测器近火点目标轨道参数优化运载火箭发射轨道，研究对比不同优化目标及设计约束下深空机动的分析结果，证实深空机动对降低转移轨道总发射能量需求、拓展发射日期窗口的高效性；该算法已应用于工程设计。     

Multiobjective Target Feedback Loop / Loop Transfer Recovery (TFL/LTR) design with application to aircraft lateral control in high incidence regime

Target Feedback Loop / Loop Transfer Recovery (TFL/LTR) synthesis and multiobjective optimization are combined to design robust and well performing controllers in a most general sense. A TFL/LTR synthesis based on quadratic stabilization is used to efficiently synthesize robustly stabilizing controllers. Multiobjective optimization is used to tune synthesis parameters for which the TFL/LTR controller yields good performance in addition to robust stability. The technique is demonstrated in the design of a lateral controller for a high performance aircraft in high incidence regime.     

基于序列二次规划的PIO易感性时域评估方法

时域Neal-Smith准则是评估PIO易感性比较理想的量化准则,但驾驶员的自适应特性给该准则的使用带来了困难。以某机型为算例,将序列二次规划算法应用于时域Neal-Smith准则,对其PIO易感性进行了评估。评估结果表明,将序列二次规划算法用于时域Neal-Smith准则来评估飞机的PIO易感性是可行的。     

Optimal station-keeping near Earth–Moon collinear libration points using continuous and impulsive maneuvers

In this study the gravitational perturbations of the Sun and other planets are modeled on the dynamics near the Earth–Moon Lagrange points and optimal continuous and discrete station-keeping maneuvers are found to maintain spacecraft about these points. The most critical perturbation effect near the L₁ and L₂ Lagrange points of the Earth–Moon is the ellipticity of the Moon’s orbit and the Sun’s gravity, respectively. These perturbations deviate the spacecraft from its nominal orbit and have been modeled through a restricted five-body problem (R5BP) formulation compatible with circular restricted three-body problem (CR3BP). The continuous control or impulsive maneuvers can compensate the deviation and keep the spacecraft on the closed orbit about the Lagrange point. The continuous control has been computed using linear quadratic regulator (LQR) and is compared with nonlinear programming (NP). The multiple shooting (MS) has been used for the computation of impulsive maneuvers to keep the trajectory closed and subsequently an optimized MS (OMS) method and multiple impulses optimization (MIO) method have been introduced, which minimize the summation of multiple impulses. In these two methods the spacecraft is allowed to deviate from the nominal orbit; however, the spacecraft trajectory should close itself. In this manner, some closed or nearly closed trajectories around the Earth–Moon Lagrange points are found that need almost zero station-keeping maneuver.     

无界域上大规模凹二次规划的一个算法

本文给出了无界域上大规模凹二次规划的一种下逼近算法,并证明了算法的收敛性。     

无界域上大规模不定二次规划存在最优解的充分必要条件

本文讨论了多面凸集的一些性质，给出了无界域上大规模不定二次规划存在最优解的充分必要条件。     

Active flutter suppression of a multiple-actuated-wing wind tunnel model

In this study, a multi-input/multi-output（MIMO） time-delay feedback controller is designed to actively suppress the flutter instability of a multiple-actuated-wing（MAW） wind tunnel model in the low subsonic flow regime. The unsteady aerodynamic forces of the MAW model are computed based on the doublet-lattice method（DLM）. As the first attempt, the conventional linear quadratic-Gaussian（LQG） controller is designed to actively suppress the flutter of the MAW model. However, because of the time delay in the control loop, the wind tunnel tests illustrate that the LQG-controlled MAW model has no guaranteed stability margins. To compensate the time delay, hence, a time-delay filter, approximated via the first-order Pade approximation, is added to the LQG controller. Based on the time-delay feedback controller, a new digital control system is constructed by using a fixed-point and embedded digital signal processor（DSP） of high performance. Then, a number of wind tunnel tests are implemented based on the digital control system.The experimental results show that the present time-delay feedback controller can expand the flutter boundary of the MAW model and suppress the flutter instability of the open-loop aeroelastic system effectively.