基于实际飞行数据插值的INS/GNSS组合导航仿真轨迹发生器

针对INS/GNSS组合导航仿真中,捷联惯导系统陀螺、加速度计信号高精度模拟问题,提出了基于实际飞行数据插值的动态轨迹解析生成仿真算法。对转换到地心惯性坐标系中的载体姿态、位置和重力场数据进行关于时间的样条函数插值,得到载体坐标系下陀螺角速率、角增量以及加速度计比力积分增量的高精度分段解析表达式。使生成的陀螺、加速度计信号符合载体运动学和动力学特性,反映杆臂效应影响,同时与经事后处理的实测GNSS伪距、伪距率等数据特征保持一致。提出了四元数约束插值算法,可满足四元数解析插值时范数为1的约束限制条件。基于某实际无人机飞行数据,验证了所提出算法的有效性,完全满足组合导航动态仿真精度要求。该算法也适用于其他高精度高动态导航系统和刚体运动控制仿真中的角运动、线运动传感器信号模拟。     

Programming challenges and impediments to reform: identifying pragmatic solutions

Using two recently published essays by the current writer that assesses the dismal record of performance of Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System in enabling communist legacy defence institutions in Central and Eastern Europe to develop viable defence plans, this essay argues the need for deep reforms in the region’s defence institutions. To guide this reform effort, pragmatic solutions are suggested to improve the ability of these organisations to produce viable defence plans. Recommended reforms are: (1) conduct conceptual and cultural “audits,” (2) make operational and financial data central to decision-making, (3) change current organisational sociology, (4) examine planning methods and practices, and (5) stress the need to adopt policy frameworks to drive the operation of defence institutions.     

基于多指标相似性的T/R组件剩余寿命融合预测方法

为实现对T/R组件剩余寿命的准确预测,及时掌握装备当前健康状态和提高装备维修保障水平,分析T/R组件的故障特点,筛选出反映T/R组件状态退化过程的状态监测指标,通过计算每个指标对应的剩余寿命信息和权重,得到T/R组件的剩余寿命预测结果。通过算例分析与比较,验证了预测方法的实用性与有效性。研究结果可为电子装备剩余寿命预测提供理论指导,对合理计划维修资源和提高装备战斗力具有重要意义。     

非合作目标视觉/惯导相对导航及敏感器自标定方法

利用视觉/惯导对空间非合作目标进行相对导航时,两敏感器的外参数对导航精度有较大影响。考虑到敏感器间的外参数标定复杂且耗时,提出一种利用视觉/惯导在估计相对状态过程中对其外参数进行标定的方法。该方法将视觉/惯导的外参数作为状态变量,与相对轨道运动学方程、相对姿态方程及惯导模型共同组成系统状态方程。利用该状态方程和单目视觉的观测量设计扩展卡尔曼滤波器对相对位姿、惯导偏差及视觉/惯导外参数进行估计,并通过数学仿真对该方法的有效性进行验证。仿真结果表明,该方法能够在视觉/惯导初始外参有偏差的情况下,有效估计相对位姿及惯导漂移,并对视觉/惯导外参数进行标定。     

边界条件对复合材料层合板准静态压痕损伤的影响

在实际的服役过程中,飞机用复合材料层合板通过四边铆接的方式与飞机金属框架进行连接,其受力时的边界条件为四边固支。以实际应用背景为基础,分别从分层损伤扩展模式、接触力、凹坑深度、损伤宽度四个方面系统地比较了四边固支和四边简支两种边界条件下,复合材料层合板准静态压痕损伤的区别。结果表明以上四种变量在两种边界条件下均存在明显差异,可为基于实际应用的复合材料准静态压痕损伤研究提供实验依据。     

喷嘴结构对高压水射流影响及结构参数优化设计

喷嘴是产生高压水射流的关键部件,其结构形式对射流动力学性能有很大影响。以圆柱形喷嘴为对象,进行喷嘴结构对高压水射流的影响分析及结构参数优化设计。采用两相流计算流体力学模型进行喷嘴内外的射流流场分析。为节省计算资源,在优化设计时引入Kriging代理模型替代计算流体力学模型。分别采用改进的非劣分类遗传算法和基于分解的多目标进化算法进行单目标和多目标优化设计。研究结果表明:直线型喷嘴总体性能较优,凹型喷嘴的次之,凸型喷嘴性能最差。以直线型喷嘴为设计对象,以射流初始段长度和流量为目标,得到了单目标和多目标优化设计结果。单目标优化时,两个指标较基准外形分别提高14.71%和27.56%。多目标优化时,优化得到的半锥角处于[15.4°,89.8°]区间内。运用代理模型和进化算法的全局优化方法在进行喷嘴的优化设计时是有效的。     

微纳卫星姿态确定与控制半实物仿真系统设计

航天器姿态控制系统需要特殊的运行环境,在地面很难考核,这给系统可靠性带来一定的风险。针对微纳卫星的特点,设计并研制了一套面向微纳卫星的姿态确定与控制半实物仿真系统。该系统通过数字化模型模拟卫星姿态轨道运动、敏感器模型产生敏感器测量数据、执行器模型生成控制力矩、敏感器模拟器实现通信协议,最终实现姿态控制系统的全系统仿真。这套系统可以接入卫星控制系统回路,实现对姿控系统软件、硬件的考核,同时验证算法的性能。基于该系统,对天拓三号卫星姿控系统进行地面半实物仿真,并对比在轨试验数据,结果表明系统设计合理,仿真结果可信。     

有限质量降落伞充气动力学数值模拟

为研究空投任务中降落伞有限质量充气过程的动力学行为,基于罚函数耦合方法和网格自适应技术分析了降落伞柔性结构与周围不可压缩流场的流固耦合特性。数值模拟开伞过程伞衣三维外形变化,获得降落伞系统下落速度、阻力面积等参数;对比分析初始投放速度对降落伞开伞时间、伞衣阻力面积的影响;通过试验数据对比分析开伞力变化。计算结果表明,该方法可以有效模拟降落伞系统有限质量充气过程的动力学特性,仿真结果与试验结果相符。     

基于DDS舰载火控系统通信

针对舰载火控系统通信需求,提出基于DDS的舰载火控体系结构,实现了系统松耦合,同时满足了实时性要求。通过发布订阅服务的设计,基于默认QoS策略,分别使用内置数据类型和自定义数据类型实现舰载火控系统的发布订阅功能。通过可靠性QoS策略的配置分析其对系统实时性和可靠性的影响。测试结果表明,DDS在舰载火控系统中有广阔的应用前景。     

Indian and Chinese espionage

India and China both have powerful spy networks; completely different in their approaches to espionage; both effective against their perceived enemies. China focuses first on internal threats, on Taiwan and Hong Kong, and then the US and Japan. India’s defense policy focuses on Pakistan and internal terrorist threats, and then on China. In reality, however, when it comes to spying on each other, both China and India suffer from incompetence and apathy – which endangers both their own security and regional stability. This article looks at how they spy on each other, and asks why and how they need to improve. The narrative also touches upon some of the individuals who are waging the spy war, from India’s wily spymaster Ajit Doval down to junior Chinese agents such as Wang Qing and Pema Tsering. The two countries are not friends. They have the largest territorial dispute in the world on their hands, covering an area the size of North Korea, and they have large armies facing each other along 4000 kilometers of frontier. But they also lay claim to the world’s two oldest and richest civilizations, with a rich history of exchange, and now with a combined population of 2.6 billion people and more than a quarter of the world’s economic output. If they cooperated, they could solve many of the world’s problems; but if they lurch into conflict, the potential consequences are terrifying to contemplate. Unfortunately, despite their geographical closeness, they do not know much about each other. They have few cultural interchanges, little diplomacy, few trade missions. They do not watch each other’s films, read each other’s books or listen to each other’s music. Chinese tourists would rather fly to New Zealand for their holidays than cross the border to India, and Indian students would rather study in Europe than China. China and India are neighbors that barely talk to each other. Most significantly, they do not spy on each competently. For countries that do not interact socially, defensive understanding is important for security – but China prefers the glamor of facing up to its Pacific and other maritime rivals such as the US and Japan. India, for its part, does talk a great deal about the China threat, but its resources and expertise are wrapped up in controlling its security threat from Pakistan and the Islamic world. When China and India do try to spy on each other, it is often without the benefit of a long-term focus or understanding. India has some very skilled operatives within the Research and Analysis Wing, but few that specialize in China. China has an enormous pool of resources spread across several government departments, including the Ministry of Public Security, and also has extensive facilities and manpower in the Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission (the JSD) and the new Strategic Support Force (the SSF). However, China’s intelligence services generally behave as if India is not worth spying on. Given that the two countries do not have the cultural or political machinery in place to understand each other, espionage and intelligence gathering is vital to ensure that miscalculations do not take place. This has been apparent over the last few years in stand-offs in the Himalaya, as well as top-level suspicions on each side about a variety of subjects including terrorism, covert operations in Sri Lanka and Burma, and the two countries’ nuclear weapons programs. Both countries do occasionally make efforts in espionage against each other, especially during sensitive periods such as the mountain stand-offs of 2014 and 2013 and during policy developments in nuclear warfare. In this article the author looks at actual spying incidents between the two countries, their methodologies, their staff, their technical capabilities, and how the act of spying, which is usually viewed as intrinsically adversarial, can be a force for good. The article relies on interviews with actual participants in intelligence from both countries as well as extensive use of contemporary online sources, and secondary analysis by both military and academic experts from China, India and NATO countries.