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{"title":"The Influence of Coordinate Systems on the Stability Analysis of Lateral–Torsional Coupled Vibration","authors":"Xin Qian, Yu Fan, Yaguang Wu, Wenjun Wang, Lin Li","doi":"10.3390/aerospace10080699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace10080699","url":null,"abstract":"Stability analysis of lateral–torsional coupled vibration is obligatory for rotating machinery, such as aero-engines. However, the state-of-the-art method may lead to stability misjudgment under different coordinate systems. The cause of this misjudgment has not yet been well explored. The purpose of this paper is to clarify the error source of the stability analysis in a more comprehensive manner. A vertical Jeffcott rotor model including torsion vibration is built, and the Lagrange approach is applied to establish the motion equations. The coordinate transformation matrix is used to transfer the motion equations into the rotating coordinate system, making the coefficients of the motion equation constants. The differences in the unstable speed regions in the two coordinate systems are captured. The limitations of the Floquet theory and Hill’s determinant analysis in the stability estimation of the lateral–torsional coupled vibration are explained. It is found that, for Hill’s method, increasing the number of the harmonic truncation cannot correct the misjudgment, and the matrix truncation is the fundamental error source. The above research provides more accurate theoretical support for the analysis of the lateral–torsional coupling instability of rotors.","PeriodicalId":50845,"journal":{"name":"Aerospace America","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87576650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"TCFLTformer: TextCNN-Flat-Lattice Transformer for Entity Recognition of Air Traffic Management Cyber Threat Knowledge Graphs","authors":"Chao Liu, Buhong Wang, Zhen Wang, Jiwei Tian, Peng Luo, Yong Yang","doi":"10.3390/aerospace10080697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace10080697","url":null,"abstract":"With the development of the air traffic management system (ATM), the cyber threat for ATM is becoming more and more serious. The recognition of ATM cyber threat entities is an important task, which can help ATM security experts quickly and accurately recognize threat entities, providing data support for the later construction of knowledge graphs, and ensuring the security and stability of ATM. The entity recognition methods are mainly based on traditional machine learning in a period of time; however, the methods have problems such as low recall and low accuracy. Moreover, in recent years, the rise of deep learning technology has provided new ideas and methods for ATM cyber threat entity recognition. Alternatively, in the convolutional neural network (CNN), the convolution operation can efficiently extract the local features, while it is difficult to capture the global representation information. In Transformer, the attention mechanism can capture feature dependencies over long distances, while it usually ignores the details of local features. To solve these problems, a TextCNN-Flat-Lattice Transformer (TCFLTformer) with CNN-Transformer hybrid architecture is proposed for ATM cyber threat entity recognition, in which a relative positional embedding (RPE) is designed to encode position text content information, and a multibranch prediction head (MBPH) is utilized to enhance deep feature learning. TCFLTformer first uses CNN to carry out convolution and pooling operations on the text to extract local features and then uses a Flat-Lattice Transformer to learn temporal and relative positional characteristics of the text to obtain the final annotation results. Experimental results show that this method has achieved better results in the task of ATM cyber threat entity recognition, and it has high practical value and theoretical contribution. Besides, the proposed method expands the research field of ATM cyber threat entity recognition, and the research results can also provide references for other text classification and sequence annotation tasks.","PeriodicalId":50845,"journal":{"name":"Aerospace America","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90313678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Adaptive IMM-UKF for Airborne Tracking","authors":"Alvaro Arroyo Cebeira, Mariano Asensio Vicente","doi":"10.3390/aerospace10080698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace10080698","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a nonlinear tracking solution for maneuvering aerial targets based on an adaptive interacting multiple model (IMM) framework and unscented Kalman filters (UKFs), termed as AIMM-UKF. The purpose is to obtain more accurate estimates, better consistency of the tracker, and more robust prediction during sensor outages. The AIMM-UKF framework provides quick switching between two UKFs by adapting the transition probabilities between modes based on a distance function. Two modes are implemented: a uniform motion model and a maneuvering model. The experimental validation is performed with Monte Carlo simulations of three scenarios with ACAS Xa tracking logic as a benchmark, which is the next generation of airborne collision avoidance systems. The two algorithms are compared using hypothesis testing of the root mean square errors. In addition, we determine the normalized estimation error squared (NEES), a new proposed noise reduction factor to compare the estimation errors against the measurement errors, and an estimated maximum error of the tracker during sensor dropouts. The experimental results illustrate the superior performance of the proposed solution with respect to the tracking accuracy, consistency, and expected maximum error.","PeriodicalId":50845,"journal":{"name":"Aerospace America","volume":"101 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85820745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Flight Tracking Control for Helicopter Attitude and Altitude Systems Using Output Feedback Method under Full State Constraints","authors":"Yankai Li, Yulong Huang, Dongping Li, Yuan Sun, Hanqing Liu, Yongze Jin","doi":"10.3390/aerospace10080696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace10080696","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose an output feedback flight tracking control scheme for helicopter attitude and altitude systems with unmeasured states under full state constraints. Firstly, a state observer is constructed based on the measured output signals, which is proven to be rigorous since all states are constrained within the desired and assigned scopes. Secondly, the flight tracking controller is built using the state estimations with the full state constraints control method. Then, the Barrier Lyapunov function method is adopted to guarantee the stability of the composite closed-loop nonlinear error systems. Meanwhile, the linear matrix inequality technology is applied to calculate the gains of the state observer. Finally, a numerical simulation example is provided to confirm the reasonableness of the full state constraint output feedback flight tracking control method.","PeriodicalId":50845,"journal":{"name":"Aerospace America","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85985683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Electric Sail Mission Expeditor, ESME: Software Architecture and Initial ESTCube Lunar Cubesat E-Sail Experiment Design","authors":"Mario F. F. Palos, P. Janhunen, P. Toivanen, M. Tajmar, I. Iakubivskyi, Aldo Micciani, Nicola Orsini, Johan Kütt, Agnes Rohtsalu, J. Dalbins, Hans Teras, Kristo Allaje, M. Pajusalu, L. Niccolai, M. Bassetto, G. Mengali, A. Quarta, N. Ivchenko, Joan Stude, A. Vaivads, A. Tamm, A. Slavinskis","doi":"10.3390/aerospace10080694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace10080694","url":null,"abstract":"The electric solar wind sail, or E-sail, is a novel deep space propulsion concept which has not been demonstrated in space yet. While the solar wind is the authentic operational environment of the electric sail, its fundamentals can be demonstrated in the ionosphere where the E-sail can be used as a plasma brake for deorbiting. Two missions to be launched in 2023, Foresail-1p and ESTCube-2, will attempt to demonstrate Coulomb drag propulsion (an umbrella term for the E-sail and plasma brake) in low Earth orbit. This paper presents the next step of bringing the E-sail to deep space—we provide the initial modelling and trajectory analysis of demonstrating the E-sail in solar wind. The preliminary analysis assumes a six-unit cubesat being inserted in the lunar orbit where it deploys several hundred meters of the E-sail tether and charges the tether at 10–20 kV. The spacecraft will experience acceleration due to the solar wind particles being deflected by the electrostatic sheath around the charged tether. The paper includes two new concepts: the software architecture of a new mission design tool, the Electric Sail Mission Expeditor (ESME), and the initial E-sail experiment design for the lunar orbit. Our solar-wind simulation places the Electric Sail Test Cube (ESTCube) lunar cubesat with the E-sail tether in average solar wind conditions and we estimate a force of 1.51e−4 N produced by the Coulomb drag on a 2 km tether charged to 20 kV. Our trajectory analysis takes the 15 kg cubesat from the lunar back to the Earth orbit in under three years assuming a 2 km long tether and 20 kV. The results of this paper are used to set scientific requirements for the conceptional ESTCube lunar nanospacecraft mission design to be published subsequently in the Special Issue “Advances in CubeSat Sails and Tethers”.","PeriodicalId":50845,"journal":{"name":"Aerospace America","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75589249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Application of Pulsar-Based Navigation for Deep-Space CubeSats","authors":"Andrea Malgarini, V. Franzese, F. Topputo","doi":"10.3390/aerospace10080695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace10080695","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the use of pulsar-based navigation for deep-space CubeSats. A novel approach for dealing with the onboard computation of navigational solutions and timekeeping capabilities of a spacecraft in a deep-space cruise is shown, and the related implementation and numerical simulations are discussed. The pulsar’s signal detection, processing, and exploitation are simulated for navigation onboard a spacecraft, thus showing the feasibility of autonomous state estimation in deep space even for miniaturized satellites.","PeriodicalId":50845,"journal":{"name":"Aerospace America","volume":"66 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74676327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Development of an Active Wingtip for Aeroelastic Control","authors":"F. Toffol, S. Ricci","doi":"10.3390/aerospace10080693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace10080693","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the design of an innovative wingtip device actively actuated to control the aeroelastic loads, with a focus on the gust load alleviation. It summarizes the work carried out in the Clean Sky 2 AIRGREEN2 project, where the device was developed from scratch and reached a relevant technology readiness level with the full-scale prototype manufacturing and testing, compulsory to obtain the permit to fly. This paper describes the overall design of the devices, covering the structure, the aero-servo-elasticity characteristics of the whole aircraft, the actuation system design, the scaled wind tunnel testing, and the full-scale structural qualification tests. The paper proves how the development of a new item involves several disciplines simultaneously, remarking on the importance of an integrated approach to the new generation aircraft design.","PeriodicalId":50845,"journal":{"name":"Aerospace America","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74087721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Linear Stability of Liquid Film with Oscillatory Gas Velocity","authors":"Xiang-dong Deng, B. Shi, Yong Tang, Ning-fei Wang","doi":"10.3390/aerospace10080691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace10080691","url":null,"abstract":"The present study theoretically investigated the linear instability of a liquid film sheared by gas flow under acoustic oscillations. In this work, the velocity oscillations of the gas are used to approximately characterize the acoustic oscillations, and the ratio of the conduction heat flux to the evaporation heat flux is used to characterize the heat and mass transfer. Considering the much stronger impact of the heat convection than the heat conduction in practical cases, a correction factor is introduced to satisfy the heat flux ratio within a reasonable range. Because of the oscillatory velocity of gas, several unstable regions, involving the KHI region and the parametric instability (PI) region, appear. The impact of the velocity oscillations on the KHI is related to the forcing frequency. Increasing the oscillatory velocity amplitude promotes the KHI when the forcing frequency is large, while the KHI is restrained with the increase in the oscillatory velocity amplitude when the forcing frequency is small. Since the viscous dissipation is enhanced when the forcing oscillations frequency increases, the PI is suppressed. In addition, when the surface tension decreases, the interfacial instability is also promoted. Increasing the gas–liquid density ratio can destabilize the surface. However, the impact of the heat and mass transfer on the interfacial instability is neglectable as the gas–liquid density ratio is large. Furthermore, the heat and mass transfer have a promoting impact on the PI and KHI, while their destabilizing effect on the indentation between unstable regions is greater. It is significant to note that the location of the maximum growth rate would be in the most unstable region.","PeriodicalId":50845,"journal":{"name":"Aerospace America","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86247847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Experimental Investigation on Morphological Characteristics and Propulsion Performance of Typical Metals Ablated with Multipulse Nanosecond Laser","authors":"Hao Liu, Jifei Ye, Mingyu Li, Heyan Gao","doi":"10.3390/aerospace10080690","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace10080690","url":null,"abstract":"For laser ablation micropropulsion technology with metal as the target to increase the total impulse, the effective utilization and supply of a working medium is a crucial aspect. In this research, the ablation characteristics and propulsion performance of the typical metal targets, copper and aluminum, ablated via nanosecond laser ablation are analyzed. Due to the low melting point of aluminum, the protrusion characteristics in the remelted area are more prominent. Its surface morphology has characteristics for height extremum and roughness that are higher than those of copper. Affected by the anisotropy of the rough surface, the absorbed energy decreases with increasing roughness. The impulse coupling coefficient of the metal decreases and stabilizes at about 6 μN·W−1. The specific pulse of aluminum obtains a minimum value of 603.6 s at 6000 pulses and improves with increasing pulses. The propulsion parameters of copper alters slightly under various working conditions, with a maximum specific impulse of 685 s.","PeriodicalId":50845,"journal":{"name":"Aerospace America","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76238469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Numerical Study on Buoyancy-Driven Görtler Vortices above Horizontal Heated Flat Plate","authors":"Muqing Yang, Dong-li Ma, Liang Zhang","doi":"10.3390/aerospace10080685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace10080685","url":null,"abstract":"The temperature of the solar cells on the upper surface of a solar unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) wing is much higher than the atmospheric temperature during flight. The temperature difference will induce buoyancy-driven Görtler vortices that may influence the aerodynamic characteristics of the wing. In the present study, a hybrid RANS-LES-based approach was used to simulate the flow above a heated flat plate under different flow velocities (from 0.34 m/s to 0.63 m/s) and temperature differences (from 0 K to 60 K), and the influence of Görtler vortices on the flow was analyzed. The existence of buoyancy-driven Görtler vortices would induce velocity normal to the plate, and a negative velocity normal to the plate at the peak position would enhance the momentum exchange within the boundary layer, accelerate the transition, and increase the friction drag coefficient. The drag coefficient with a 60 K temperature difference is almost three times that with a 0 K temperature difference. With an increase in temperature difference or decrease in flow velocity, the intensity of Görtler vortices would increase. A couple of different buoyancy parameters were studied, and a combined parameter based on both the Reynolds number and Grashoff number was proposed as the index parameter of heated plate flow. The flow above a heated flat plate can be divided into three regions by the buoyancy parameter. When the buoyancy parameter is between 100 and 200, the Görtler vortices are stable, and the flow exhibits significant three-dimensional characteristics.","PeriodicalId":50845,"journal":{"name":"Aerospace America","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88442044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}