Global Inverse Optimal Tracking Control of Underactuated Omni-directional Intelligent Navigators （ODINs）

This paper presents a design of optimal controllers with respect to a meaningful cost function to force an underactuated omni-directional intelligent navigator （ODIN） under unknown constant environmental loads to track a reference trajectory in two-dimensional space. Motivated by the vehicle＇s steering practice, the yaw angle regarded as a virtual control plus the surge thrust force are used to force the position of the vehicle to globally track its reference trajectory. The control design is based on several recent results developed for inverse optimal control and stability analysis of nonlinear systems, a new design of bounded disturbance observers, and backstepping and Lyapunov＇s direct methods. Both state- and output-feedback control designs are addressed. Simulations are included to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed results.

A vertical track nonlinear energy sink

Eliminating the effects of gravity and designing nonlinear energy sinks(NESs)that suppress vibration in the vertical direction is a challenging task with numerous damping requirements.In this paper,the dynamic design of a vertical track nonlinear energy sink(VTNES)with zero linear stiffness in the vertical direction is proposed and realized for the first time.The motion differential equations of the VTNES coupled with a linear oscillator(LO)are established.With the strong nonlinearity considered of the VTNES,the steady-state response of the system is analyzed with the harmonic balance method(HBM),and the accuracy of the HBM is verified numerically.On this basis,the VTNES prototype is manufactured,and its nonlinear stiffness is identified.The damping effect and dynamic characteristics of the VTNES are studied theoretically and experimentally.The results show that the VTNES has better damping effects when strong modulation responses(SMRs)occur.Moreover,even for small-amplitude vibration,the VTNES also has a good vibration suppression effect.To sum up,in order to suppress the vertical vibration,an NES is designed and developed,which can suppress the vertical vibration within certain ranges of the resonance frequency and the vibration intensity.

Development of track geometry inspection equipment for high-speed comprehensive inspection train in China

Purpose–This study aims to analyze the development direction of track geometry inspection equipment for high-speed comprehensive inspection train in China.Design/methodology/approach–The development of track geometry inspection equipment for highspeed comprehensive inspection train in China in the past 20 years can be divided into 3 stages.Track geometry inspection equipment 1.0 is the stage of analog signal.At the stage 1.0,the first priority is to meet the China’s railways basic needs of pre-operation joint debugging,safety assessment and daily dynamic inspection,maintenance and repair after operation.Track geometry inspection equipment 2.0 is the stage of digital signal.At the stage 2.0,it is important to improve stability and reliability of track geometry inspection equipment by upgrading the hardware sensors and improving software architecture.Track geometry inspection equipment 3.0 is the stage of lightweight.At the stage 3.0,miniaturization,low power consumption,self-running and green economy are co-developing on demand.Findings–The ability of track geometry inspection equipment for high-speed comprehensive inspection train will be expanded.The dynamic inspection of track stiffness changes will be studied under loaded and unloaded conditions in response to the track local settlement,track plate detachment and cushion plate failure.The dynamic measurement method of rail surface slope and vertical curve radius will be proposed,to reveal the changes in railway profile parameters of high-speed railways and the relationship between railway profile,track irregularity and subsidence of subgrade and bridges.The 200 m cut-off wavelength of track regularity will be researched to adapt to the operating speed of 400 km/h.Originality/value–The research can provide new connotations and requirements of track geometry inspection equipment for high-speed comprehensive inspection train in the new railway stage.

Application of Direct Assimilation of ATOVS Microwave Radiances to Typhoon Track Prediction

In order to solve the difficult problem of typhoon track prediction due to the sparsity of conventional data over the tropical ocean, in this paper, the No. 0205 typhoon Rammasun of 4-6 July 2002 is studied and an experiment of the typhoon track prediction is made with the direct use of the Advanced TIROS-N Operational Vertical Sounder (ATOVS) microwave radiance data in three-dimensional variational data assimilation. The prediction result shows that the experiment with the ATOVS microwave radiance data can not only successfully predict the observed fact that typhoon Rammasun moves northward and turns right, but can also simulate the action of the fast movement of the typhoon, which cannot be simulated with only conventional radiosonde data. The skill of the typhoon track prediction with the ATOVS microwave radiance data is much better than that without the ATOVS data. The typhoon track prediction of the former scheme is consistent in time and in location with the observation. The direct assimilation of ATOVS microwave radiance data is an available way to solve the problem of the sparse observation data over the tropical ocean, and has great potential in being applied to typhoon track prediction.

Fixed-Time Output Consensus Tracking for High-Order Multi-Agent Systems With Directed Network Topology and Packet Dropout

This paper studies the problem of fixed-time output consensus tracking for high-order multi-agent systems(MASs)with directed network topology with consideration of data packet dropout.First,a predictive compensation based distributed observer is presented to compensate for packet dropout and estimate the leader’s states.Next,stability analysis is conducted to prove fixed time convergence of the developed distributed observer.Then,adaptive fixed-time dynamic surface control is designed to counteract mismatched disturbances introduced by observation error,and stabilize the tracking error system within a fixed time,which overcomes explosion of complexity problem and singularity problem.Finally,simulation results are provided to verify the effectiveness and superiority of the consensus tracking strategy proposed.The contribution of this paper is to provide a fixed-time distributed observer design method for high-order MAS under directed graph subject to packet dropout,and a novel fixed-time control strategy which can handle mismatched disturbances and overcome explosion of complexity and singularity problem.

New data association technique based on ACO with directional information considered

Due to the advantages of ant colony optimization （ACO） in solving complex problems, a new data association algorithm based on ACO in a cluttered environment called DACDA is proposed. In the proposed method, the concept for tour and the length of tour are redefined. Additionally, the directional information is incorporated into the proposed method because it is one of the most important factors that affects the performance of data association. Kalman filter is employed to estimate target states. Computer simulation results show that the proposed method could carry out data association in an acceptable CPU time, and the correct data association rate is higher than that obtained by the data association （DA） algorithm not combined with directional information.

Bounded consensus tracking of second-order multi-agent systems with sampling delay under directed networks

The bounded consensus tracking problems of second-order multi-agent systems under directed networks with sam- pling delay are addressed in this paper. When the sampling delay is more than a sampling period, new protocols based on sampled-data control are proposed so that each agent can track the time-varying reference state of the virtual leader. By using the delay decomposition approach, the augmented matrix method, and the frequency domain analysis, necessary and sufficient conditions are obtained, which guarantee that the bounded consensus tracking is realized. Furthermore, some numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the theoretical results.

Debiased conversion measurements based target tracking with direction cosine measurements

Phased array radar’s measurements include two direction cosine and range measurements,which can be obtained in the direction cosine coordinates.State equation of the target is nonlinear with the measurements and in order to solve the nonlinear problem,debiased conversion measurements based target tracking with direction cosine and range measurements in direction cosine coordinates named DCMKFPreDcos is proposed first in this paper,where the predicted information is introduced to calculate the converted measurement errors’statistical characteristics to eliminate the correlation between measurement noise and the converted measurement errors covariance.When range rate information can be obtained further,based on the above DCMKF-PreDcos’filtering result,the sequential filtering is adopted to process the additional range rate measurement and the DCMKF-PreDcos algorithm with extra range rate information is given.The predicted information is also introduced to calculate the involved statistical characteristics of converted measurements.The effectiveness of the proposed algorithms is shown in simulation results.

基于云平台的铁路无线电信号DOA跟踪算法

在高速铁路场景下,准确估计和跟踪无线电信号的波达方向(Direction of Arrival, DOA)能够有效提升无线通信服务质量.然而,高速移动的无线信道具有快速时变特性,对信号处理的速度和准确性提出了更高的挑战.针对传统的基于信号子空间的DOA估计算法,由于巨大的计算量而无法应用于高速铁路快速时变系统中进行DOA跟踪的问题,提出了基于卡尔曼滤波和正交压缩近似投影子空间跟踪(Kalman Filter-Orthonormal Projection Approximation and Subspace Tracking of deflation, K-OPASTd)的DOA算法.首先,搭建基于云平台的铁路信号动态测向系统;然后,建立列车接收信号模型,提出K-OPASTd算法对DOA进行动态跟踪;最后,将本文提出的算法与OPASTd算法所得到的估计角度的均方根误差进行仿真对比实验.研究结果表明:信噪比均为10dB时,本文所提算法的均方根误差比OPASTd算法低约60%;阵元均为20时,K-OPASTd算法的均方根误差比OPASTd算法低约80%.

基于模型预测的直驱式波浪发电机机侧最优功率控制技术

直驱式波浪发电系统具有结构简单、成本低、效率高等优点,得到了国内外学者的广泛关注。该文以直驱式波浪发电系统为研究对象,分析并建立了直驱式波浪发电装置的水动力数学模型和永磁直线电机的动态数学模型。推导了基于模型预测的功率控制策略用于直驱式波浪发电系统。在功率控制策略中从功率捕获策略和功率跟踪控制策略展开研究以实现将波浪能转换为电能并汇入直流母线。重点围绕功率捕获策略开展基于模型预测控制技术研究,分别从控制策略、预测区间和成本函数三个角度分析了基于模型预测的最优功率捕获策略。建立了仿真模型并进行仿真分析,结果表明,采用基于模型预测的最优功率捕获策略可有效提高不规则波下发电机从波浪发电系统捕获能量。此外,采用以直流母线功率汇入最大为目标的成本函数可以有效地提高发电机输入直流侧能量,具有重要的实用价值。最后通过实验室模拟平台进行了实验测试。

煤矿履带式定向钻机路径规划算法

煤矿履带式定向钻机路径规划过程中存在机身体积约束和实际场景下的行驶效率需求,而常用的A^(*)算法搜索速度慢、冗余节点多,且规划路径贴近障碍物、平滑性较差。提出一种以改进A^(*)算法规划全局路径、融合动态窗口法(DWA)规划局部路径的煤矿履带式定向钻机路径规划算法。考虑定向钻机尺寸影响,在传统A^(*)算法中引入安全扩展策略,即在定向钻机和巷道壁、障碍物之间加入安全距离约束,以提高规划路径的安全性;对传统A^(*)算法的启发函数进行自适应权重优化,同时将父节点的影响加入到启发函数中,以提高全局路径搜索效率;利用障碍物检测原理对经上述改进后的A^(*)算法规划路径剔除冗余节点,并使用分段三次Hermite插值进行二次平滑处理,得到全局最优路径。将改进A^(*)算法与DWA融合,进行煤矿井下定向钻机路径规划。利用Matlab对不同工况环境下定向钻机路径规划算法进行仿真对比分析,结果表明:与Dijkstra算法和传统A^(*)算法相比,改进A^(*)算法在保证安全距离的前提下,加快了搜索速度,搜索时间分别平均减少88.5%和63.2%,且在一定程度上缩短了规划路径的长度,路径更加平滑;改进A^(*)算法与DWA融合算法可有效躲避改进A^(*)算法规划路径上的未知障碍物,路径长度较PRM算法和RRT^(*)算法规划的路径分别平均减小5.5%和2.9%。

双重响应异常约束的无人机目标跟踪

针对无人机跟踪目标易受视角变化、部分遮挡、背景杂波等因素影响而难以完成对目标的鲁棒跟踪问题,提出一种双重响应异常约束的无人机目标跟踪算法。首先,通过计算局部响应变化向量和全局响应峰值旁瓣比,在线动态更新空间正则化参数,降低边界效应的影响;其次,针对STRCF算法中的时间正则项的参数固定的问题,提出响应异常峰值判断机制,计算次峰响应系数,并将其融合到时间正则化参数上进行实时更新,避免目标模板变异造成跟踪漂移问题;目标函数通过交替方向乘子法迭代求解最优解。在UAV123、UAV20L和DTB70三个无人机数据集上与代表性的目标跟踪算法进行大量实验,结果表明,在UAV123数据集上的精确度达到71.7%,在DTB70数据集上的跟踪平均速度达到48.3帧/s。本文结果与现有相关滤波类无人机目标跟踪算法相比表现较好,具有较高的实时性和鲁棒性。

基于物联网远程监控的太阳能定向跟踪系统设计

设计了一种基于物联网远程监控的太阳能定向跟踪系统,分别对太阳能定向跟踪系统本体和远程监控系统进行了设计与开发,采用离线和实时控制两种方式,通过监控数据计算当前的太阳高度角和方位角,调整光伏板的倾角,从而提高太阳能光伏板的发电率。对该装置设备层的太阳能定向跟踪系统本体采用框架式结构设计,并通过模糊PID算法对跟踪装置电机进行调控;对应用层的远程监控系统采用B/S架构设计,使用MQTT协议与云平台进行数据交互,用户可直接通过浏览器访问监控系统,实现太阳能定向跟踪系统的远程状态检测、实时控制、数据管理等功能。经测试,用户能通过该监控系统控制和监控太阳能定向跟踪系统的运行,满足太阳能定向跟踪系统远程监控的要求,系统具有较高的实用性。

永磁直驱风力发电机非奇异终端滑模控制

为提高永磁直驱风力发电系统的抗扰能力和控制精度,提出了一种扰动观测器与非奇异快速终端滑模控制相结合的最大功率跟踪控制策略。利用扰动观测器得到风力发电机的转矩变化,对控制器进行前馈补偿;采用非奇异快速终端滑模面提高控制器的动态性能,实现系统快速收敛,减少因扰动引起的抖振。仿真结果表明,所提策略在随机风速的情况下可以准确估计转矩变化,提高最大功率跟踪过程中的转速跟踪精度和风能利用率。

基于变风量控制的受控环境压差控制应用研究

压差控制是受控环境气流控制的核心部分,能为实现定向气流的控制目标和提升实验室整体安全性提供有力保障。基于围护结构气密性特征、压力梯度控制需求、快速扰动源等因素,以普通实验室、普通洁净室和气密性生物安全实验室为例,对变风量下的余风量控制、直接压差控制、串级控制3种压差控制方式的适用性、影响因素及应对策略进行了研究,并对空气渗透特性方程的适用性进行了探讨。研究表明:普通实验室和普通洁净室的围护结构孔口和缝隙处空气流动接近于湍流状态,流动指数n可取0.5;气密性实验室的围护结构缝隙长度和水力直径的比值较大,层流占主导地位,流动指数n取值趋近于1.0。

开绕组无刷双馈风力发电机直接功率控制容错策略

针对无刷双馈发电机提出了一种控制绕组采用开绕组拓扑(OW-BDFG)的馈电方案,将三相控制绕组两端打开分别连接变流器构成双两电平变流器(D-TLCs)馈电拓扑,对机侧变流器功率器件IGBT因故障切除后的容错控制策略进行深入分析,提出了功率偏差比较直接功率控制(PEC-DPC)的D-TLCs电压空间矢量优化方案。对比分析了8/4极25kW样机的仿真及实验结果,表明:当机侧变流器1个或2个IGBT被切除后,所提OW-BDFG的PEC-DPC仍可实现变速恒频、最大功率点跟踪及单位功率因数控制,进一步提高了该发电机系统的可靠性和鲁棒性。

基于直接概率积分法的列车-轨道-桥梁系统随机分析

由于施工和制造误差使得铁路工程结构参数不可避免地具有不确定性,同时作为系统主要自激励的轨道不平顺亦具有明显的随机性和时变性,因此,探明不确定因子对列车和轨道-桥梁结构动态性能的影响非常重要。为了高效地完成列车-轨道-桥梁系统随机性能分析,建立列车-轨道-桥梁空间振动分析模型,采用轨道不平顺概率模型和谱表达-随机函数的方式在有限随机变量空间中实现轨道不平顺随机过程的高效模拟。引入概率密度积分方程和直接概率积分法发展了列车-轨道-桥梁系统随机动力方程和相应的计算求解策略。基于MATLAB实现了列车-轨道-桥梁随机振动的直接概率积分法分析程序,计算了全概率不平顺激励和参数随机条件下车-轨-桥系统振动响应的均值、标准差和时变的概率密度信息。研究结果表明:与概率密度演化分析方法相比,直接概率积分法可较好地反映行车过程中系统响应的概率密度特征,然而其在系统响应随机后处理时更为高效,其效率可提高1~2个数量级。此外,考虑轨道不平顺全概率激励更能准确地反映行车过程系统响应的概率特征,平均概率谱可能使得计算结果偏于保守;行车速度对于列车和桥梁动态行为的影响是显著的,随着行车速度的增加系统响应的范围逐渐变大。研究结果进一步拓展了列车-轨道-桥梁随机系统的分析方法,可以高效地用于系统状态评估和设计优化。

新型双定子无刷双馈风力发电机直接功率控制

新型双定子无刷双馈发电机包括内外功率绕组和内外控制绕组,二者分别通过中间带隔磁环的背靠背笼障转子进行磁场耦合。针对该新型双定子无刷双馈风力发电机提出一种直接功率控制方法,内外功率绕组及内外控制绕组分别串联以保持各自同相绕组的电磁一致性,将功率绕组有功和无功功率滞环比较器输出值及控制绕组磁链扇区号综合,采用查找表得到控制绕组机侧变流器所需输出的电压空间矢量。通过定量对比研究12/8极50 kW样机控制系统阶跃信号作用下的特性仿真与实验结果,验证了所提双定子无刷双馈风力发电机直接功率控制在亚同步~超同步速度变化范围内变速恒频发电、最大功率跟踪、无功功率与单位功率因数控制等方面的正确性、可行性和有效性。

DS/FH信号跟踪的频率相位修正技术

直序/跳频(direct sequence/frequency hopping,DS/FH)扩频信号的跟踪受到多普勒效应和电离层效应的严重影响,使其难以应用于卫星导航的抗干扰领域。为了解决该问题,提出将递归最小二乘滤波修正的方法应用在DS/FH信号跟踪上。将处于不同通道中心频率的多普勒频率估计转化到DS/FH信号的整体中心频率进行并滤波,在频率捷变时对载波数控振荡器进行修正。根据对频率跳变前后载波相位和码相位突变的观察,实时估计电离层的电子密度,在频率捷变时修正载波相位和码相位。仿真实验证明,所提方法能够有效地消除DS/FH信号跟踪中的频率相位不连续问题,其跟踪精度与直序扩频信号度基本是相同量级。

基于天线方向性参数辨识的航空器测向研究

雷达测向是航空器必不可少的合作型监视手段,其中测向天线的方向性参数决定了测向的精度。基于传统相邻比幅测向原理及比幅测向误差,提出修正比幅测向模型。基于修正比幅测向模型,确定需要辨识的天线方向性参数,提出一种误差修正遗传模拟退火(error correction genetic simulated annealing,COR-GSA)算法对未知定向天线方向性参数进行辨识。利用自主设计的测向双通路接收机开展辨识实验,并用1000组航空器真实方位数据进行验证,结果表明采用COR-GSA算法辨识天线方向性参数的测向精度最高。最后,利用辨识后的天线方向性参数对航空器进行方位跟踪,跟踪误差较未进行方位修正的跟踪误差降低了18.3%。