Advanced exergy analysis of an absorption cooling machine: Effects of the difference between the condensation and absorption temperatures

The water–LiBr absorption machine was analyzed with the purpose of identifying the endogenous, exogenous, avoidable and unavoidable fractions of the exergy destruction. The latter was observed to be largely of endogenous nature, with the desorber and absorber being the major contributors. When the difference between the absorption and condensation temperatures was raised, both the first and second law efficiencies degraded. Furthermore, the absorber endogenous avoidable irreversibility was much larger than that at the desorber when the absorption temperature was lower than the condensation temperature, and the situation reversed when the absorption temperature became higher than the condensation temperature. The same trends were observed in terms of the exogenous avoidable exergy destruction. However, the endogenous unavoidable exergy destruction at the absorber was initially smaller than that at the desorber, and the two components equally contributed to the total endogenous unavoidable irreversibility when the absorption temperature became higher than the condensation temperature.     

Delayed failure of ceramic matrix composites in tension at elevated temperatures

Ultimate tensile strength of five different continuous fiber-reinforced ceramic matrix composites (CMCs), including SiC_f/BSAS (two dimensional (2D), 2 types), SiC_f/MAS (2D), SiC_f/SiC (2D), and C_f/SiC (2D, 2 types), was determined as a function of test rate at 1100–1200 °C in air. All five CMCs exhibited a significant dependency of ultimate tensile strength on test rate such that the ultimate tensile strength decreased with decreasing test rate. The dependency of ultimate tensile strength on test rate, the applicability of preload technique, and the predictability of life from one loading configuration (constant stress-rate loading) to another (constant stress loading) all suggested that the overall, phenomenological delayed failure of the CMCs would be governed by a power-law type of slow crack growth.     

增强现实光照方向估计方法评述与展望

光照一致性是增强现实中实现虚实融合的重要方面,实时地估计出户外场景中的光照方向,对实现户外场景光照一致性和增强真实感具有重要意义.针对光照方向估计问题,首先归纳了户外场景光照方向估计的特点,把现有的光照方向估计方法分为借助光测球等特殊标定物的估算方法、立体视觉法和人工智能法3类方法.然后总结了各类方法的基本原理和有代表性的研究工作,并且比较了各类方法的优缺点和适用范围.最后,根据实际应用中存在的问题和挑战,展望了户外增强现实系统光照方向估计的研究方向.     

基于几何解析的双雷达地面目标定位算法

传统的双雷达地面目标定位算法因测量数据本身固有的误差和量测噪声,使得基于非线性估计定位算法的定位精度不高。本文研究了一种新的双雷达地面目标定位算法,该算法将已知雷达探测数据以几何方式加以表示,通过几何解析对地面目标进行定位。此外,还详细分析了各种因素在不同情况下对定位精度的影响。所研究的算法具有计算量小、远距离定位精度高等优点。最后,通过仿真验证了该算法能够提高远距离定位的定位精度。     

基于扇形领域扩展的同步双向A*算法

为提高航空器飞行的安全性和平滑性,解决传统A^*算法拐弯角度过大、搜索路径节点过多等问题,提出一种基于扇形领域扩展的同步双向A^*搜索算法。首先,根据栅格图法扩展危险区域边界;其次,设计了基于同步双向搜索的A^*算法,动态定义正反向搜索的目标节点。针对搜索角度有限问题,提出了在5×5领域内的扇形领域扩展策略,并设计了含有双重权重参数的评价函数以减少冗余点的产生。为验证改进算法的有效性,选取方形和不规则形状危险区进行仿真。结果表明改进的同步双向搜索算法搜索的路径更平滑;与传统双向A^*算法的结果相比,在不同形状的危险区域下,搜索路径长度分别减少了1.65%、13.16%,搜索路径节点个数减少了42.6%、46.81%,具有较强的搜索效率。     

Accurate positioning of a drilling and riveting cell for aircraft assembly

Modern aircraft assembly demands assembly cells or machines with higher machining efficiency and accuracy. Thus, a dual-machine drilling and riveting cell is developed in this paper. We firstly discuss its physical design, as well as the automatic drilling and riveting process. With the automatic drilling and riveting cell, drilling and riveting production line of aircraft panels can be expected. The frame chain of the drilling and riveting cell is constructed to link the assembly cell to its task space, which is the kinematics base. System calibrations, including task space calibration, the sensor calibration of an orientation alignment unit, the floating calibration of the implicit hand-eye relationship, are explored. For high positioning accuracy, a multi-sensor servoing method is proposed for cell positioning. An orientation-based laser servoing strategy, which uses the feedback of the orientation errors measured by laser displacement sensors, is used to align drilling direction and camera shooting direction. Besides, A single-camera-based visual servoing is applied to align the tool center point (TCP) to reference holes, to obtain their coordinates for drilling position modification. Experiments of multi-sensor servoing for cell positioning are performed on an automatic drilling and riveting machine developed for the panel assembly of an aircraft in China. With the cell positioning method, the automatic drilling and riveting cell can approximately achieve an accuracy of 0.05 mm, which can adequately fulfill the requirement for the assembly of the aircraft.