Trajectory tracking control for underactuated stratospheric airship

Stratospheric airship is a new kind of aerospace system which has attracted worldwide developing interests for its broad application prospects. Based on the trajectory linearization control (TLC) theory, a novel trajectory tracking control method for an underactuated stratospheric airship is presented in this paper. Firstly, the TLC theory is described sketchily, and the dynamic model of the stratospheric airship is introduced with kinematics and dynamics equations. Then, the trajectory tracking control strategy is deduced in detail. The designed control system possesses a cascaded structure which consists of desired attitude calculation, position control loop and attitude control loop. Two sub-loops are designed for the position and attitude control loops, respectively, including the kinematics control loop and dynamics control loop. Stability analysis shows that the controlled closed-loop system is exponentially stable. Finally, simulation results for the stratospheric airship to track typical trajectories are illustrated to verify effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

载人登月绕月自由返回轨道与窗口精确快速设计

针对载人登月任务背景及工程约束,提出一种轨道与窗口一体化设计方法。通过两次坐标转化,将自由返回轨道设计参数解耦为近月点独立变量。在双二体假设下,通过4段二体轨道拼接完成自由返回轨道初值快速搜索及匹配近地停泊轨道(LEO)面的月窗口,其结果作为下一步采用序列二次规划（SQP）迭代求解高精度动力学模型轨道参数的初值,在该条精确轨道近月点时刻90 min邻域内产生可以匹配LEO地月转移入轨相位的零窗口轨道。算例表明,该流程能够精确快速地完成具有复杂任务背景及苛刻工程要求的载人登月绕月自由返回轨道与窗口设计问题。     

柔性卫星角加速度轨迹规划与振动抑制方法

针对柔性卫星在快速机动过程中会激发柔性附件振动的问题,提出一种通过设计角加速度轨迹来抑制振动的方法。在存在振动频率不确定性的情况下,所规划的角加速度轨迹能够将残余振动幅值抑制在指定的范围内。类比不同幂次余弦函数激发的残余振动表达式,设计一种含有多个待定系数的角加速度曲线,并根据残余振动幅值对待定系数进行约束,从而求解出所有的待定系数。这种设计方法改进了余弦函数抑制低频振动需要增加较大机动时间的问题。相比输入成型方法,所规划的轨迹光滑,增加的机动时间较短,对高频振动有着更好的抑制效果。     

适应于RBCC运载器的轨迹优化建模研究

根据RBCC动力系统工作原理,分析了RBCC运载器上升段轨迹特点和设计矛盾。针对此类飞行器工作模态多、冲压模态约束条件复杂、传统优化模型无法求解其全局最优解的问题,以Radau伪谱法为基础,建立了基于混合积分变量的全程最优轨迹求解模型,并引入连接条件模型。该模型可以有效处理RBCC运载器多段飞行轨迹约束条件,克服了传统建模方法的不足。采用50km、Ma8运载任务算例校验优化模型,优化结果显示,所研究模型符合RBCC运载器工作特点和任务需要,可快速求解此类运载器上升段最优轨迹。     

Optimal two-impulse rendezvous with terminal tangent burn considering the trajectory constraints

The two-impulse orbital rendezvous problem with a terminal tangent burn between coplanar elliptical orbits is studied by considering a lower bound on perigee radius and an upper bound on apogee radius for the transfer orbit. This problem requires that two spacecraft arrive at the rendezvous point with the same arrival flight-path angle after the same flight time. The admissible range of the final true anomaly that meets the perigee and apogee constraints is obtained in closed form. The revolution number of the transfer orbit is expressed as a function of the true anomaly and the revolution numbers of the initial and final orbits. All the feasible solutions are obtained with a bound on the revolution number of the final orbit. Then, the minimum-fuel one is determined by comparing their costs. Finally, two numerical examples are provided to obtain all the feasible solutions for given initial impulse points and the optimal solution with the initial coasting arc. Numerical results show that the minimum-fuel solution for the terminal tangent burn rendezvous is close to that for the cotangent rendezvous when the rendezvous time is long enough; however, the cotangent rendezvous may not exist when the rendezvous time is short.     

无反作用力矩空间机器人轨迹跟踪控制

针对目前关节驱动方式的不足,提出一种采用无反作用力矩驱动方式的空间机器人设计概念。系统平台与各节机械臂上均安装一组金字塔构型的控制力矩陀螺（CMGs）作为力矩执行机构,各臂间由自由球铰连接。采用Rodriguez参数描述平台姿态和机械臂角位移,利用Kane方程建立系统动力学模型。在此基础上,设计了渐近稳定的轨迹跟踪控制律,使得平台姿态和机械臂角位移跟踪期望运动轨迹;并设计了CMGs操纵律,使之准确输出期望控制力矩。此外,研究了机械臂工作空间到关节空间的轨迹规划算法,使得所设计的控制律也可应用于工作空间的轨迹跟踪控制。由三关节系统的仿真结果,验证了无反作用力矩设计概念的可行性和轨迹规划算法的有效性。     

Optimal Earth’s reentry disposal of the Galileo constellation

Nowadays there is international consensus that space activities must be managed to minimize debris generation and risk. The paper presents a method for the end-of-life (EoL) disposal of spacecraft in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO). The problem is formulated as a multiobjective optimisation one, which is solved with an evolutionary algorithm. An impulsive manoeuvre is optimised to reenter the spacecraft in Earth’s atmosphere within 100?years. Pareto optimal solutions are obtained using the manoeuvre $\mathrm{\Delta }v$ and the time-to-reentry as objective functions to be minimised. To explore at the best the search space a semi-analytical orbit propagator, which can propagate an orbit for 100?years in few seconds, is adopted. An in-depth analysis of the results is carried out to understand the conditions leading to a fast reentry with minimum propellant. For this aim a new way of representing the disposal solutions is introduced. With a single 2D plot we are able to fully describe the time evolution of all the relevant orbital parameters as well as identify the conditions that enables the eccentricity build-up. The EoL disposal of the Galileo constellation is used as test case.     

PDE solution to UAV/UGV trajectory planning problem by spatio-temporal estimation during wildfires

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) have been used in research and development community due to their strong potential in high-risk missions. One of the most important civilian implementations of UAV/UGV cooperative path planning is delivering medical or emergency supplies during disasters such as wildfires, the focus of this paper. However, wildfires themselves pose risk to the UAVs/UGVs and their paths should be planned to avert the risk as well as complete the mission. In this paper, wildfire growth is simulated using a coupled Partial Differential Equation (PDE) model, widely used in literature for modeling wildfires, in a grid environment with added process and measurement noise. Using principles of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD), and with an appropriate choice of decomposition modes, a low-dimensional equivalent fire growth model is obtained for the deployment of the space–time Kalman Filtering (KF) paradigm for estimation of wildfires using simulated data. The KF paradigm is then used to estimate and predict the propagation of wildfire based on local data obtained from a camera mounted on the UAV. This information is then used to obtain a safe path for the UGV that needs to travel from an initial location to the final position while the UAV’s path is planned to gather information on wildfire. Path planning of both UAV and UGV is carried out using a PDE based method that allows incorporation of threats due to wildfire and other obstacles in the form of risk function. The results from numerical simulation are presented to validate the proposed estimation and path planning methods.     

Direct dynamic-simulation approach to trajectory optimization

This paper proposes a new direct method for an efficient trajectory optimization using the point that the dynamics of a deterministic system are uniquely determined by initial states and controls imposed over the time horizon of interest. To effectively implement this concept, the Hermite spline is adopted to interpolate the continuous controls and the system dynamics are integrated with corresponding control parameters in prior. As a result, the optimal control problem can be transcribed into a nonlinear programming problem which has no dynamic equality constraints and no intermediate states in its design variables. In addition, the paper proposes an efficient recursive Jacobian estimation technique and introduces a Jacobian transformation matrix to straightforwardly handle the general state constraints. Important properties of the present method are thoroughly investigated through its applications to the trajectory optimization for a soft lunar landing from a parking orbit, including the detailed analyses for the de-orbiting phase. The computed results are compared with those using the pseudo-spectral method to demonstrate an extreme outperformance of the proposed method in the aerospace applications over the traditional direct method.     

地球-火星之间的往返轨迹全局一体化优化设计

针对多因素影响的地球-火星之间的星际往返轨迹优化设计问题,基于多体动力学运动模型,采用静态参数+动态优化的组合算法,进行了全局一体化优化设计,得到最优往返飞行方案,包括探测器从地球出发到火星的最优4-D飞行轨迹、从火星返回地球的最优4-D轨迹,分别离开地球与火星的时间、与星体的相对速度差等。最优飞行方案达到了在火星上探测时间足够长,往返飞行时间最短,所耗发动机燃料最少等目的。该研究结果对未来我国星际(如地球-各行星之间)最优往返飞行有一定的参考价值。