基于PRA的交会对接任务可靠性评估

为有效评估交会对接任务过程的可靠性指标,提出了基于概率风险评价（PRA）的交会对接任务可靠性评估方法,该方法是通过事件树描述各事件或功能的可靠性与任务可靠性之间的关系,同时通过概率风险模型描述事件或功能的可靠性与设备可靠性之间的关系。根据我国航天领域可靠性工作现状,提出了交会对接过程可靠性评估的工程流程。     

基于梯度分割区间优化算法的双脉冲交会优化

研究非固定时间的航天器双脉冲交会轨迹优化问题,设计了基于梯度分割区间优化算法(GIOA)。该算法结合所研究问题的特点,使用每次只选择有限个区间进行操作的区间选择策略、基于梯度优化结果的区间分割策略、基于单调性的区间紧缩策略以及约束条件测试和基于梯度的目标优化估计值更新策略等。梯度优化算法仅用于区间分割和目标优化估计值更新,不但没有影响GIOA对区间优化算法全局性和收敛性的继承,同时加快了包含优化解的小宽度区间的出现,提高了目标优化估计值的更新速度,并由此提高了运算效率。区间选择策略的使用,控制了决策变量区间数量的增长,降低了算法运行的存储需求。算例仿真中,成功求解非固定时间双脉冲交会问题,并展示出算法的优势。      

人控交会对接摄像机调光算法 设计与验证方法研究

航天器人控交会对接过程中,空间光照环境极为复杂.摄像机作为最主要的相对测量敏感器,需要设计合理的调光算法以适应各种工况.详细分析了航天器的空间光照环境,针对人控交会对接的场景特点,对基于直方图的自动调光算法提出了改进措施,并提出了全面的地面验证测试方法,证明了改进后的直方图自动调光算法的合理性.     

人控交会对接九自由度半物理仿真试验系统设计及验证

以人控交会对接半物理仿真试验需求为背景,提出了可对人控交会对接控制系统单机敏感器性能和控制律设计方案进行仿真验证的人控交会对接九自由度半物理仿真试验系统的设计方法,给出了利用该设计方法对神舟九号飞船人控交会对接控制系统的仿真验证结果.神舟九号飞船与天宫一号目标飞行器首次在轨人控交会对接的工程实践结果表明,人控交会对接九自由度半物理仿真试验系统的设计方法正确.     

航天器自主交会对接的视觉相对导航方法

针对航天器自主交会对接在最终逼近阶段的相对导航问题,研究了基于特征光标的航天器视觉相对导航方法。首先建立了小角度假设条件下的相对导航模型。给出了航天器相对位置和采用欧拉角描述的相对姿态的近似解析算法。其次利用相对姿态的解析解作为观测信息,采用降阶的无迹卡尔曼滤波方法对目标航天器的姿态角和惯性角速度进行了估计,间接得到了相对姿态和相对姿态角速度的估计值。数值仿真表明提出的解析算法能够有效获得相对位置和相对姿态测量信息,通过降阶滤波可明显提高相对姿态确定精度。     

一种有限推力航天器交会轨道的鲁棒设计方法

基于C—W方程描述的二体相对运动模型,考虑利用范数有界方法刻画航天器交会过程中的参数不确定性,并结合控制推力受限的工程需要,提出了一种在不确定环境下有限推力航天器交会轨道的设计方法。通过构造Lyapunov函数,将此设计问题转化为一个具有线性矩阵不等式约束的凸优化问题,通过求解此问题即可设计出符合航天器交会要求的鲁棒状态反馈控制器。     

Usage of pre-flight data in short rendezvous mission of Soyuz-TMA spacecrafts

The paper describes the reduction of the vehicle autonomous flight duration before docking to the ISS. The Russian Soyuz-TMA spacecraft dock to the ISS two days after launch. Due to the limited volume inside Soyuz-TMA the reduction of time until docking to the ISS is very important, since the long stay of the cosmonauts in the limited volume adds to the strain of the space flight. In the previous papers of the authors it was shown that the existing capabilities of Soyuz-TMA, the ISS and the ground control loop make it possible to transfer to the five-orbit rendezvous profile. However, the analysis of the cosmonauts' schedule on the launch day shows that its duration is at the allowable limit and that is why it is necessary to find a way to further reduce the flight duration of Soyuz-TMA before docking to less than five orbits. In a traditional rendezvous profile, the calculation of rendezvous burns begins only after determination of the actual vehicle insertion orbit. The paper describes an approach in which the first two rendezvous burns are performed as soon as the spacecraft reaches the reference orbit and the values of the burns are calculated prior to the launch based on the pre-flight data for the nominal insertion. This approach decreases the duration of the rendezvous by one orbit. The demonstration flight of a Progress vehicle using the proposed profile was implemented on August 1, 2012 and completely confirmed the correctness of the imbedded principles. The paper considers the possible improvements of the proposed approach and recovery from the contingencies.     

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.     

A robust semi-analytic method to solve the minimum ΔV two-impulse rendezvous problem

A novel semi-analytic approach is developed to determine the minimum $\mathrm{\Delta }V$ for a two-impulse rendezvous and validated both empirically and analytically. A previously published closed-form $\mathrm{\Delta }V$ estimate and the Lambert minimum energy transfer is used to establish upper and lower bounds of the minimum $\mathrm{\Delta }V$ transfer between two orbits. These bounds, in conjunction with the bisection method, operate on a nonlinear radical cost function to guarantee linear convergence. This approach has several real world applications including a low earth orbit (LEO) to highly elliptical orbit (HEO), and a HEO to retrograde geosynchronous orbit transfer. The minimum $\mathrm{\Delta }V$ estimates are better than those reported in the existing literature, while run times improved as much as two orders of magnitude over a fixed time Lambert solver. All singularity cases were addressed such that any orbital geometry, including Hohmann and radial elliptic transfers, converged to the global minimum $\mathrm{\Delta }V$. This approach will work for both coplanar and non-coplanar 3D geometries for any orbit type.     

QAR超限事件飞行操作风险诊断方法

利用某机型的快速存取记录器(QAR,Quick Access Record)数据,对飞机着陆阶段出现的某一QAR超限事件,选取飞机下降率、俯仰角等飞行员综合操作指标在无线电高度20 feet(1 feet=0.304 8 m)的数值以及20~0 feet之间的变化率,分析由这些指标构成的"空间"中发生该QAR超限事件的"高风险子空间".对同一机场同一机型的多个航班数据初步分析得到,着陆总重大于62 t、着陆温度小于32℃时,正常样本与QAR超限样本占比接近,表明环境因素并非该样本空间中QAR超限事件的主要因素.为进一步诊断,以超限事件发生率最大化为目标,以划分空间中包含的样本满足一定数量标准为约束,建立数学模型,并以黄金分割法为基础设计了算法,找出这些操作指标上区间的边界值,以此诊断可能触发该QAR超限事件的高风险区域,为飞行员模拟机针对性训练提供指导.