Liangchang Zhang, Yurong Xue, You-ning Wang, Chengbo Zhan, W. Ai, Xingyan Wang
{"title":"The Feasibility Research on Reusing High Salinity Wastewater as a Plant Nutrient Medium for Plant Hydroponics in CELSS","authors":"Liangchang Zhang, Yurong Xue, You-ning Wang, Chengbo Zhan, W. Ai, Xingyan Wang","doi":"10.34133/2022/9853421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34133/2022/9853421","url":null,"abstract":"The reuse of wastewater is a key problem in controlled ecological life support system (CELSS). In this study, the feasibility to reuse the treated wastewater (including sanitary wastewater and urine wastewater) as a plant hydroponic medium was verified. Two salt-tolerant plants, apium graveolens Linn (celery) and mesembryanthemum cordifolium L.F. (cordifolium), were cultivated with the reused medium or Hoagland nutrient solution, and the characteristics of crop growth, hydroponic medium composition, and elements absorption by plants were investigated. The results showed that the reused medium replenished with micronutrient elements could maintain the normal growth of cordifolium and celery crops. The biomass productivity of cordifolium cultivated by the recycled medium (121.53 g FW/strain) was higher than that cultivated by Hoagland nutrient solution (98.33 g FW/strain). The nutrient elements accumulation in plant dry mass indicated that plants could effectively utilize the recycled mineral elements in wastewater, and cordifolium exhibited better stability and adaptability to salt-induced environment. The absorption capacity of Na and Cl elements in cordifolium cultivated within the reused medium was the highest, which was 4.54% DW and 2.63% DW, respectively. This study demonstrated the feasibility to directly reuse domestic wastewater as the main ingredient for plant hydroponics, which could provide insights into design and operation of plant hydroponics system and water circulation system in CELSS.","PeriodicalId":136587,"journal":{"name":"Space: Science & Technology","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129392433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiaoqian Chen, Xianqi Chen, Yufeng Xia, Weien Zhou, Wen Yao
{"title":"An ILP-Assisted Two-Stage Layout Optimization Method for Satellite Payload Placement","authors":"Xiaoqian Chen, Xianqi Chen, Yufeng Xia, Weien Zhou, Wen Yao","doi":"10.34133/2022/9765260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34133/2022/9765260","url":null,"abstract":"In the satellite overall design phase, it is a crucial step to perform satellite layout design to guarantee that the aggregation of electronic components can operate normally and stably in an appropriate temperature environment. In order to handle the satellite payload placement problem of the DongFangHong 4 (DFH-4) platform, the heat pipe-constrained component layout optimization (HCLO) problem is proposed with the HCLO model formulated. Through careful investigation, it can be divided into two optimization subproblems that can be solved subsequently. Based on the divide-and-conquer strategy, an integer linear programming- (ILP-) assisted two-stage layout optimization method is proposed. In stage one, component-heat pipe distribution optimization is performed using the ILP technique so that specific heat pipes occupied by each component can be determined and the horizontal movement range of components can be reduced. In stage two, the detailed component layout optimization is investigated to obtain the final positions of components. First, the sequence layout sampling (SeqLS) method is used to generate one nonoverlap initial layout. Next, swap operation between components is incorporated to reduce the centroid deviation. Finally, sequential quadratic programming (SQP) search is conducted based on the generated promising initial layout solutions. Therefore, the SeqLS-based heuristic layout search algorithm is proposed in the second stage. Two layout test cases, including 15 components and 90 components, respectively, are investigated to demonstrate the validity and efficacy of the proposed layout design method. Experimental results show that it is promising to apply such a two-stage approach for satellite payload placement in engineering.","PeriodicalId":136587,"journal":{"name":"Space: Science & Technology","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121391920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analytical Propagation of Space Debris Density for Collisions near Sun-Synchronous Orbits","authors":"Yongjie Liu, Yu Jiang, H. Li","doi":"10.34133/2022/9825763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34133/2022/9825763","url":null,"abstract":"The increasing frequency of human launches has led to a dramatic increase in the amount of space debris, especially near sun-synchronous orbits. Most of the fragments are small in size, which may make tracking difficult. Therefore, characterizing the distribution, evolution, and collision risk of small debris has long been a difficult issue. This paper is aimed at investigating the orbital evolution and global dispersion behavior of debris clouds near sun-synchronous orbits. Firstly, the NASA breakup model is used to provide an initial distribution of small fragments after collision events. Secondly, the continuity equation is adopted to propagate the density variation analytically. Furthermore, we introduce some statistical quantities and the entropy of debris clouds to model the randomness and band formation. A theorem concerning the equivalence of the band formation and maximal entropy is presented. The accuracy of the band formation time estimation is also discussed. For noncatastrophic collisions at an altitude of 800 km due to a projectile with a mass of 100 g and a collision velocity of 1 km/s, we compare the analytical and numerical results of space debris density. The results show that the maximal peak error is within 0.17, and the mean square error is about 0.25 at 400 days. Additionally, the entropy of right ascension of the ascending node is 8.5% less than that for debris clouds near an orbit with the same altitude and an inclination of 30 deg. This indicates the concentrating behavior for debris clouds near sun-synchronous orbits.","PeriodicalId":136587,"journal":{"name":"Space: Science & Technology","volume":"98 8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125969170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intelligent Fuzzy Control in Stabilizing Solar Sail with Individually Controllable Elements","authors":"Lin Chen, Xiaoyue Fu, Santos Ramil, Ming Xu","doi":"10.34133/2022/9831270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34133/2022/9831270","url":null,"abstract":"Fuzzy logical control is a robust and effective control method in industrial fields, which renders it applicable to the attitude control of a solar sail. However, it is hard to apply in black-box and time-varying problem as real solar sail attitude control. Considering the lack of a priori knowledge and the unacceptable manual workload in the design of the fuzzy logical controller (FLC), an intelligent FLC designer (IFLCD) is developed by introducing neural network modelling and automatic design method. Besides, IFLCD also supports self-adaption for better control accuracy. By applying the proposed IFLCD in the attitude stabilization of a solar sail with individually controllable elements (SSICE), an effective solution of unmanned, time-varying, and complex system control method is offered without any mathematical model, which also overcomes the difficulties in FLC design Considering the performance degradation, accident, and distance problems faced by spacecraft, IFLCD can help with more practical problems that are hard be solved by traditional control theory.","PeriodicalId":136587,"journal":{"name":"Space: Science & Technology","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131824959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jinguo Liu, Pengyu Zhao, Keli Chen, Xin Zhang, Xiang Zhang
{"title":"1U-Sized Deployable Space Manipulator for Future On-Orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing","authors":"Jinguo Liu, Pengyu Zhao, Keli Chen, Xin Zhang, Xiang Zhang","doi":"10.34133/2022/9894604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34133/2022/9894604","url":null,"abstract":"Miniaturized, multifunctional, and economical on-orbit service satellites have been increasingly used with the continuous increase of space exploration missions. In this paper, an innovative deployable manipulator is designed, named Cubot, which can be stowed in 1 U-sized (10 cm×10 cm×10 cm) space. With CubeSat as the carrier, the deployable Cubot aims to achieve a variety of on-orbit operation tasks including space debris removal and space station on-orbit maintenance, for future on-orbit servicing, assembly, and manufacturing (OSAM). A kinematics modeling method of a space manipulator with passive joints is proposed, and the motion equation of the manipulator is derived. Considered the elastic potential energy stored in the passive joint during deployment, the momentum change of Cubot is simulated and analyzed. As the main forced element, the end effector is analyzed using FEA. Dynamic stress response with respect to the force distribution and the clamping angle is analyzed to evaluate mechanical performances of the end-effector component. Deployment tests are conducted to verify the feasibility of Cubot based on a principled prototype, which aims to provide engineering and practical experience for the development of this field.","PeriodicalId":136587,"journal":{"name":"Space: Science & Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128755581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"System Design for Pose Determination of Spacecraft Using Time-of-Flight Sensors","authors":"Wenshan Zhu, Jinzhen Mu, Changbao Shao, Jiaqian Hu, Beichao Wang, Zhongkai Wen, Fei Han, Shuang Li","doi":"10.34133/2022/9763198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34133/2022/9763198","url":null,"abstract":"The pose determination between nanosatellites and the cooperative spacecraft is essential for swarm in-orbit services. Time-of–flight (ToF) sensors are one of the most promising sensors to achieve the tasks. This paper presented an end-to-end assessment of how these sensors were used for pose estimation. First, an embedded system was designed based on the ToF camera with lasers as a driven light source. Gray and depth images were collected to detect and match the cooperative spacecraft in real time, obtaining the pose information. A threshold-based segmentation was proposed to find a small set of the pixels belonging to reflector markers. Only operating on the defined active pixel set reduced computational resources. Then, morphological detection combined with an edge following-based ellipse detection extracted the centroid coordinate of the circular marker, while the center-of-heart rate was calculated as the recognition condition. Next, the marker matching was completed using a deterministic annealing algorithm, obtaining two sets of 3D coordinates. A singular value decomposition (SVD) algorithm estimated the relative pose between the nanosatellite and the spacecraft. In the experiments, the pose calculated by the TOF camera reached an accuracy of 0.13 degrees and 2 mm. It accurately identified the markers and determined the pose, verifying the feasibility of the ToF camera for rendezvous and docking.","PeriodicalId":136587,"journal":{"name":"Space: Science & Technology","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133771612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Survey of Space Robotic Technologies for On-Orbit Assembly","authors":"Delun Li, Lou Zhong, Wei Zhu, Zhipeng Xu, Q. Tang, Wenhao Zhan","doi":"10.34133/2022/9849170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34133/2022/9849170","url":null,"abstract":"The construction of large structures is one of the main development trends of the space exploration in the future, such as large space stations, large space solar power stations, and large space telescopes. It is one of important development tendency, which aims to make full use of space robots to assemble space structures autonomously in the aerospace industry. Considering that on-orbit assembly is an effective method to solve the problem of construction of large-scale spatial structures, it is necessary to motivate and facilitate the research of space robotics technologies for on-orbit assembly. Therefore, in this paper, the development status of space robot technology and the relevant space robot on-orbit assembly technology in recent decades are summarized. First, based on the space robot motion planning and assembly sequence planning, the development of space robot planning algorithms is introduced. For space robot assembly task, the space robot assembly method is summarized. From the control point of view, how to solve the vibration suppression and compliant assembly of on-orbit assembly is reviewed, which provides a reference for the autonomous intelligent assembly of space robots for large-scale structures in space. In order to simulate the space assembly scene on the ground, this paper introduces the development of ground verification experiments and provides ideas for the effective verification of space on-orbit assembly technology. In summary, though some of these problems have been satisfactorily solved in the past research, further research is still necessary in the future. Finally, it looks forward to the future research direction of space machine on-orbit assembly.","PeriodicalId":136587,"journal":{"name":"Space: Science & Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131183616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yanming Wei, Hao Yan, Xuhui Liu, Yang Yu, Jinyue Geng, Tao Chen, Tuoqu Fu, Gaoshi Su, Yu Hu, Daoman Han
{"title":"The View of Micropropulsion Technology for China’s Advanced Small Platforms in Deep Space","authors":"Yanming Wei, Hao Yan, Xuhui Liu, Yang Yu, Jinyue Geng, Tao Chen, Tuoqu Fu, Gaoshi Su, Yu Hu, Daoman Han","doi":"10.34133/2022/9769713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34133/2022/9769713","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, micropropulsion systems are analyzed in conjunction with the various mission requirements of China’s deep space exploration. As a great challenge facing the world, deep space exploration can be enabled only in a few countries with a success rate of around 50%. With the advancement of spacecraft and scientific instruments, it is now feasible to build small and low-cost spacecraft for a variety of deep space missions. As spacecraft become smaller, there is a need for proper micropropulsion systems. Examples of propulsion system selections for deep space exploration are discussed with a focus on products developed by Beijing Institute of Control Engineering (BICE). The requirements for propulsion systems are different in lunar/interplanetary exploration and gravitational wave detection. Chemical propulsion is selected for fast orbit transfer and electric propulsion for increasing scientific payloads. Cold gas propulsion and microelectric propulsion are good choices for space-based gravitational wave detection due to the capability of variable thrust output at the micro-Newton level. The paper also introduces the sub-1-U micropropulsion modules developed by BICE with satisfactory performance in flight tests, which are promising propulsion systems for small deep space platforms. A small probe with an electric sail propulsion system has been proposed for the future solar system boundary exploration of China. The electric sail serves as not only a propellant-free thruster but also a detector probing the properties of the space medium.","PeriodicalId":136587,"journal":{"name":"Space: Science & Technology","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127056052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xingyu Zhou, Xiangyu Li, Zhuoxi Huo, L. Meng, Jiangchuan Huang
{"title":"Near-Earth Asteroid Surveillance Constellation in the Sun-Venus Three-Body System","authors":"Xingyu Zhou, Xiangyu Li, Zhuoxi Huo, L. Meng, Jiangchuan Huang","doi":"10.34133/2022/9864937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34133/2022/9864937","url":null,"abstract":"The threat of potential hazardous near-Earth asteroid (PHA) impact on Earth is increasingly attracting public attention. Monitoring and early warning of those PHAs are the premise of planetary defense. In this paper, we proposed a novel concept of surveillance constellation of heterogeneous wide-field near-Earth asteroid (NEA) surveyors (CROWN), in which six space-based surveyors are loosely deployed in Venus-like orbits to detect the NEAs along the direction of the sunlight. First, the concept and overall design of the NEA surveillance constellation are discussed. Second, the transfer and deployment trajectory of the surveyors are investigated based on the Sun-Venus three-body system. The Sun-Venus libration orbit is taken as the parking orbit, and its stable invariant manifolds are used to reduce the deployment fuel consumption. Next, the detection performance of the CROWN was evaluated considering constraints of apparent visual magnitude and field of view. The NEA orbit determination (OD) using the CROWN was studied and verified. Simulation results show that the CROWN can be deployed with a total velocity increment of approximately 300 m/s. During the 5 years of observation, 99.8% of PHAs can be detected and the OD precision is better than a single-surveyor system. This paper can provide a reference for the construction of future asteroid defense system.","PeriodicalId":136587,"journal":{"name":"Space: Science & Technology","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127644870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation and Model Predictive Control–Based Macro-Micro Trajectory Optimization of Microsatellite Swarm","authors":"Xiwei Wu, Bing Xiao, Cihang Wu, Yiming Guo","doi":"10.34133/2022/9802195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34133/2022/9802195","url":null,"abstract":"Probabilistic swarm guidance enables autonomous microsatellites to generate their individual trajectories independently so that the entire swarm converges to the desired distribution shape. However, it is essential to avoid crowding for reducing the possibility of collisions between microsatellites. To determine the collision-free guidance trajectory of each microsatellite from the current position to the target space, a collision avoidance algorithm is necessary. A synthesis method is proposed that generate the collision avoidance trajectories. The idea is that the trajectory planning is divided into macro-planning and micro-planning; macro-planning guides where the microsatellites move step by step from the initial cube to the target cube by probabilistic swarm guidance with Centroidal Voronoi tessellation, while the micro-planning is to generate the optimal path for each step and finally reach the specified position in the target cube by model predictive control. Simulation results are presented for the collision-free guidance trajectory of microsatellites to verify the benefits of this planning scheme.","PeriodicalId":136587,"journal":{"name":"Space: Science & Technology","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131702324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}