航天器材料应用验证特点及其指标体系设计与优化

“材料应用验证”是为适应复杂工程研制任务而建立的一种材料多参数指标在特定服役需求下应用适用度评估的综合评价方法，也是通过一系列的试验、测试与表征手段获得材料各项性能数据、曲线、图谱，并通过综合分析确定材料应用可行性的分析方法。文章从航天器发展对高性能、多样化材料快速应用转化需求出发，阐释材料应用验证任务具有指标体系的综合性、通用性、短周期、低成本以及闭环式验证特点，进而提出了覆盖性、关重性、精准性、独立性、经济性的指标体系设计原则，以及材料应用验证的三层级五要素即材料批次稳定性、工艺适用性、环境适应性、服役安全性及组件健壮性指标体系设计及优化方法。     

Conditional self-attention generative adversarial network with differential evolution algorithm for imbalanced data classification

Imbalanced data classification is an important research topic in real-world applications, like fault diagnosis in an aircraft manufacturing system. The over-sampling method is often used to solve this problem. It generates samples according to the distance between minority data. However, the traditional over-sampling method may change the original data distribution, which is harmful to the classification performance. In this paper, we propose a new method called Conditional Self-Attention Generative Adversarial Network with Differential Evolution (CSAGAN-DE) for imbalanced data classification. The new method aims at improving the classification performance of minority data by enhancing the quality of the generation of minority data. In CSAGAN-DE, the minority data are fed into the self-attention generative adversarial network to approximate the data distribution and create new data for the minority class. Then, the differential evolution algorithm is employed to automatically determine the number of generated minority data for achieving a satisfactory classification performance. Several experiments are conducted to evaluate the performance of the new CSAGAN-DE method. The results show that the new method can efficiently improve the classification performance compared with other related methods.     

无人机群体视角下的轨迹预测CSCD

利用无人机对观测目标的运动轨迹进行预测是当前无人系统领域的关键任务之一。目前的目标轨迹预测研究通常基于单一无人机所采集的轨迹数据,但由于场景中障碍物以及视角倾斜等因素的影响,单无人机不易稳定监测目标具体位置,容易导致目标丢失。而且,现有利用无人机的目标轨迹预测一般基于鸟瞰视角,没有发挥出无人机的灵活性。随着无人机集群协同技术的发展,无人机群体视角为目标全方位监测提供了新的思路,在解决目标丢失和目标遮挡问题中具有明显的优势。同时,基于多无人机的位姿估计可以估计出目标的准确三维坐标,为无人机的灵活视角观测提供基础。因此,从轨迹预测的相关工作出发,探讨无人机群体视角下轨迹预测中面临的挑战和解决思路,以期对未来的轨迹预测研究以及集群协同技术发展提供一定帮助。     

Optimization of multi-element airfoil settings considering ice accretion effect

Almost half of all flight accidents caused by inflight icing occur at the approach and landing phases when high-lift devices are deployed. The present study focuses on the optimization of an ice-tolerant multi-element airfoil. Dual-objective optimization is carried out with critical horn-shaped ice accumulated during the holding phase. The optimization results show that the present optimization method significantly enhances the iced-state and clean-state performance. The optimal multi-element airfoil has a larger deflection angle and wider gap at the slat and the flap compared with the baseline configuration. The sensitivity of each design parameter is analyzed, which verifies the robustness of the design. The design is further assessed when ice is accreted during the approach and landing phases, which also shows performance improvement.     

A novel visual servo method for space manipulators by planning jerk

A novel trajectory planning method for space manipulators is proposed in this article, which can generate trajectory in Cartesian space with continuous joint jerk. The key idea is that, given the desired position for an individual joint, the corresponding joint trajectory is generated in a way like a controller. The generated jerk acts as the controller’s output driving an ideal third-order system to arrive at the desired position, with no need for discrete points in advance. In real applications, the visual servo task is accomplished hierarchically. Since the desired pose in Cartesian space measured by cameras concerns multi degrees of freedom (DOF), desired positions for individual joints are obtained by inverse-kinematics model. Then, joint trajectories are generated as above. To improve the trajectory’s smoothness, a bridging matrix is implemented to ensure that the desired pose varies continuously. Simulation and experimental results show that the proposed method is effective to track targets with different kinds of motion, i.e. can track the input-bounded signal asymptotically.     

A policy iteration method for improving robot assembly trajectory efficiency

Bolt assembly by robots is a vital and difficult task for replacing astronauts in extra-vehicular activities (EVA), but the trajectory efficiency still needs to be improved during the wrench insertion into hex hole of bolt. In this paper, a policy iteration method based on reinforcement learning (RL) is proposed, by which the problem of trajectory efficiency improvement is constructed as an issue of RL-based objective optimization. Firstly, the projection relation between raw data and state-action space is established, and then a policy iteration initialization method is designed based on the projection to provide the initialization policy for iteration. Policy iteration based on the protective policy is applied to continuously evaluating and optimizing the action-value function of all state-action pairs till the convergence is obtained. To verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method, a noncontact demonstration experiment with human supervision is performed. Experimental results show that the initialization policy and the generated policy can be obtained by the policy iteration method in a limited number of demonstrations. A comparison between the experiments with two different assembly tolerances shows that the convergent generated policy possesses higher trajectory efficiency than the conservative one. In addition, this method can ensure safety during the training process and improve utilization efficiency of demonstration data.     

Surrogate role of machine learning in motor-drive optimization for more-electric aircraft applications

Motor drives form an essential part of the electric compressors, pumps, braking and actuation systems in the More-Electric Aircraft (MEA). In this paper, the application of Machine Learning (ML) in motor-drive design and optimization process is investigated. The general idea of using ML is to train surrogate models for the optimization. This training process is based on sample data collected from detailed simulation or experiment of motor drives. However, the Surrogate Role (SR) of ML may vary for different applications. This paper first introduces the principles of ML and then proposes two SRs (direct mapping approach and correction approach) of the ML in a motor-drive optimization process. Two different cases are given for the method comparison and validation of ML SRs. The first case is using the sample data from experiments to train the ML surrogate models. For the second case, the joint-simulation data is utilized for a multi-objective motor-drive optimization problem. It is found that both surrogate roles of ML can provide a good mapping model for the cases and in the second case, three feasible design schemes of ML are proposed and validated for the two SRs. Regarding the time consumption in optimizaiton, the proposed ML models can give one motor-drive design point up to 0.044 s while it takes more than 1.5 mins for the used simulation-based models.