基于蛟龙号的深海小型岩芯原位取样装置

针对"蛟龙"号载人潜水器海底岩芯原位取样作业需求,结合大洋航次开展国际海底矿区调查和科学研究需要,开展了基于蛟龙号的深海小型岩芯原位取样装置概念规划和系统设计。在分析国内外搭载于潜水器上的深海小型钻机特点基础上,针对潜水器作业工况和技术难点,研究了"蛟龙"号载人潜水器海底岩芯原位取样装置关键技术,分析计算了钻进压力、钻头转速和岩芯剪切扭矩等工作参数,完成了整机概念设计和操作工艺流程分析。为增加原位取芯作业能力和解决"蛟龙号"载人潜水器无配套岩石取芯作业工具的问题提供了相应的技术方案,对"蛟龙号"载人潜水器开展海底精细勘探和原位取样作业具有重要的现实意义。     

鱼类泳动力学与尾鳍推进装置的设计

类似鱼、海豚尾鳍摆式推进装置的研究是机械工程原理在机械工程上的应用。鳍摆式推进装置与普通螺旋桨推进相比,具有低噪音、较好的可靠性等优点,它可用于船舶及潜水器上。本文概括的叙述了国外有关这方面的研究报告,并用鱼类游动的力学理论进行了讨论、并对鳍摆式推进装置效率设计提出了建议。     

美国载人潜水器的应用和管理及其启示

为促进我国载人深潜工作和载人潜水器的可持续发展,文章调研美国载人潜水器运营机构及其载人潜水器的应用和管理,重点介绍大学与国家海洋学实验室系统(UNOLS)发挥的重要作用,并提出启示。研究结果表明:美国载人潜水器运营机构主要包括伍兹霍尔海洋研究所(WHOI)、夏威夷水下研究实验室(HURL)和佛罗里达大西洋大学海港分校海洋研究所(HBOI),其中WHOI的载人潜水器升级最多和应用最广,而HBOI的载人潜水器下潜频次最高;WHOI的载人潜水器运营良好,而HURL和HBOI已不再运营,其中固定经费至关重要,技术和服务水平也是影响因素;科学家可通过UNOLS申请应用WHOI的载人潜水器开展下潜作业,操作过程严格、科学和有序,有利于装备资源的高效配置和使用;我国可借鉴相关业务经验,促进载人潜水器及其保障机制的标准化和规范化。     

国内外载人潜水器的研发与应用

<正>载人潜水器是最早开始发展的一种深海运载器。人类为了满足对深海的好奇,借鉴高空气球原理,采用深水载人球和浮力舱(汽油舱)相组合的方式建造了载人潜水器,开启了探索深海历程。这种潜水器被称为第一代载人潜水器。从20世纪50年代末到60年代中期,载人潜水器的技术得到迅猛发展,自由自航式潜水器取代了     

载人潜水器发展现状及趋势

海洋蕴藏着国家经济发展和国防建设不可或缺的丰富的战略资源,世界各国不断加大在国际海域活动的力度,展开了空前的技术研究与竞赛。深海活动离不开高技术运载装备的支撑,以载人潜水器为代表的运载装备不仅对资源调查与科学研究做过杰出的贡献,而且在军事领域也产生过深远的影响。文中对国内外载人潜水器的发展现状进行了重点分析,对世界范围内重型深海载人潜水器及轻型中浅海载人潜水器的进展现状进行了全面调研,同时介绍了我国"蛟龙号"、"深海勇士号"等载人潜水器发展情况,也对世界范围内载人潜水器的技术性能和应用情况进行了分析对比,在此基础上,展望了载人潜水器的发展趋势,并讨论了潜水器装备的未来技术进展。     

载人潜水器运行管理考核评价体系构建研究

为对载人潜水器运行管理工作进行科学考核评价,保障重大深海装备安全高效运行,文章以“蛟龙”号载人潜水器为例,分析研究了“蛟龙”号载人潜水器的运行管理特点,针对我国科技管理体制和“蛟龙”号载人潜水器的管理技术要求,在结合“蛟龙”号载人潜水器海试与试验性应用实际工作的基础上,建立了科学合理、具备可操作性的考核评价体系。通过在“蛟龙”号载人潜水器运行管理工作中的试应用,充分证明该体系建设方法的有效性,值得在载人无人潜水器等重大装备管理中推广应用。     

载人潜水器发展现状及趋势研究

随着我国综合国力的提升和战略安全环境及新空间的需求,习总书记提出了“海洋强国”的战略目标及深海进入、深海探测、深海开发的发展三部曲战略构想。海洋强国的发展离不开大型运载装备的进步,载人潜水器不仅对资源调查与科学研究做过杰出的贡献,而且在军事界领域也产生过深远的的影响。本文对国内外载人潜水器的应用发展现状进行了重点研究,对世界范围内重型深海载人潜水器及轻型中浅海载人潜水器的应用进展现状进行了全面调研研究,同时介绍了我国蛟龙号、深海勇士号等载人潜水器应用发展情况,也对世界范围内载人潜水器的技术性能和应用情况进行了分析对比,在此基础上,展望了载人潜水器的发展趋势,并讨论了潜水器装备的未来技术进展。     

自适应LQR方法在载人潜水器动力定位中的应用研究

根据我国正在研制开发的某深海载人潜水器的特性及其对载人潜水器动力定位控制的要求,采用最优控制方法LQR与递推辨识系统参数相结合的方法———自适应LQR方法进行控制。仿真结果表明这种方法具有良好的控制效果。     

微型缆控水下观测机器人推进动力分析

文中针对一款配置4个螺旋桨且五自由度运动可控的微型缆控水下观测机器人进行了推进动力性能分析,采用流体力学方法计算了螺旋桨推力和扭矩,以及机器人的总体运动阻力和运动效率等关键动力参数。该水下机器人利用水平配置的螺旋桨推进器可实现前后移动和横向转弯,利用两个V型配置螺旋桨推进器可完成垂向、横向和横滚运动。文章首先对单个螺旋桨转速分别为3 000 rpm,4 000 rpm,5 000 rpm时进行了水动力学分析,计算了不同转速下对应的前向推力和阻力扭矩,拟合了转速-推力和转速-扭矩曲线;其次,对水下机器人整体模型在前向、横向和垂向三个方向上进行了水动力学计算,分析了机器人的整体运动阻力,拟合了机器人的速度-阻力曲线;然后,对应比较螺旋桨的转速-推力曲线和机器人的速度-阻力曲线,大致得出不同螺旋桨转速下机器人的推进速度,明确螺旋桨转速与机器人运动速度的对应关系,为螺旋桨水动力分析确定入口速度;最终,根据螺旋桨入口速度,重新计算螺旋桨水动力,绘制了转速-推力和转速-扭矩曲线,并确定机器人的推进效率,得出了螺旋桨转动和水下机器人整体运动的关键动力参数。     

大深度载人潜水器浮力材料的应用现状和发展趋势

在所有海洋装备中,大深度载人潜水器代表深海技术的制高点,而大深度载人潜水器的研制所要解决的关键问题之一就是浮力材料的选择。文章概述浮力材料的分类以及浮力材料在三代大深度载人潜水器上的应用情况,并对能够满足大深度尤其是全海深载人潜水器需求的浮力材料进行对比研究。研究结果表明:微珠复合泡沫虽然能满足7 000m载人潜水器的需求,但应用在全海深载人潜水器时存在密度大和吸水率高的缺点,且不能满足1.5倍安全压力要求;陶瓷等新型浮力材料的密度小和吸水率低,是未来浮力材料的重要发展方向。本研究可为大深度载人潜水器浮力材料的选择提供一定的理论支持。     

Development of a deep ocean electric autonomous manipulator

This paper describes an underwater 3500 m electric manipulator (named Huahai-4E,stands for four functions deep ocean electric manipulator in China),which has been developed at underwater manipulation technology lab in Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) for a test bed of studying of deep ocean manipulation technologies.The manipulator features modular integration joints,and layered architecture control system.The oil-filled,pressure-compensated joint is compactly designed and integrated of a permanent magnet (PM) brushless motor,a drive circuit,a harmonic gear and an angular feedback potentiometer.The underwater control system is based on a network and consisted of three embedded PC/104 computers which are used for servo control,task plan and target sensor respectively.They communicate through User Datagram Protocol (UDP) multicast communication in Vxworks OS.A supervisor PC with a virtual 3D GUI is fiber linked to underwater control system.Furthermore,the manipulator is equipped with a sensor system including a unique ultra-sonic probe array and an underwater camera.Autonomous grasp strategy based multi-sensor is studied.The results of watertight test in 40 MPa,joint’s efficiency test and autonomous grasp experiments in tank are also presented.     

基于Weis-Fogh机构新型船舶电力推进装置研究

在深入研究Weis-Fogh机构升力特性的基础上,设计了一种基于Weis-Fogh机构的新型船舶电力推进装置。该推进装置由两片平板翼组成,工作时两翼绕共同的转轴从闭合状态向分离的方向迅速旋转而产生推力。从理论上推导出推力和旋转角频率之间的函数关系,并且在系统平均推进效率最优的原则下,得到了Weis-Fogh机构最优的工作角频率。仿真结果证明了该装置理论上的可行性。     

On the fluid structure interaction of a marine cycloidal propeller

Marine cycloidal propulsion system is efficient in maneuvering ships like tugs, ferries, etc. It is capable of vectoring thrust in all direction in a horizontal plane. When used in pair, the system enables a vessel to perform maneuvers like moving sideways, perform rotation about a point, i.e. turning diameter of its own length, etc. In this system, the propeller blades have to change their angle of attack at different angular position of the disc. Due to this reason, the inflow velocity vector to propeller blades changes continuously. The propeller blade oscillates about a vertical axis passing through its body and at the same time rotates about a point. Superposed on these motions is the dynamics of the ship on which the propulsion system is installed. This results in a formidable and challenging hydrodynamics problem. Each of the propeller blade sections could be considered as an aerofoil operating in combined heave and pitch oscillation mode. Due to the constantly varying inflow velocity, the hydrodynamic flow is unsteady. The unsteady hydrodynamic flow is simulated by incorporating the effect of shed vortices at different time instant behind the trailing edge. Due to the kinematics of the problem, the blade is subjected to higher structural deformation and vibration load. The structural deformation and vibration when coupled with the hydrodynamic loading add another level of complexity to the problem. In this paper, the variation of hydrodynamic load on the propeller blade due to steady and unsteady flow is compared. We also model the structural dynamics of the blade and study its effect on the hydrodynamic loading. Finally, we couple the structural dynamics with hydrodynamics loading and study its influence on the propeller blade for different operating regimes.     

Research on propeller dynamic load simulation system of electric propulsion ship

A dynamic marine propeller simulation system was developed, which is utilized for meeting the experimental requirement of theory research and engineering design of marine electric propulsion system. By applying an actual ship parameter and its accurate propeller J’~ KT’ and J’~KP’ curve data, functional experiments based on the simulation system were carried out. The experiment results showed that the system can correctly emulate the propeller characteristics, produce the dynamic and steady performances of the propeller under different navigation modes, and present actual load torque for electric propulsion motor.     

Robust sliding mode control of a mini unmanned underwater vehicle equipped with a new arrangement of water jet propulsions: Simulation and experimental study

This paper presents dynamical modeling and robust control of a Mini Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (MUUV) equipped with a new arrangement of water jet propulsion. The water jet propulsion includes some advantages comparing with a propeller one, such as, reducing the number of required motors, desired number and arrangement of the propulsions, removing adverse torque and cavitation due to propeller rotation and etc. In order to model the proposed MUUV, the gray box method is used in such a way that the dynamical equation of motion is derived analytically by Euler-Lagrangian method, and then the hydrodynamic coefficients (such as added mass and drag coefficients) are derived by performing some tests in a Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) software. The dynamical model is used to simulate the MUUV system and also to design the proposed controllers, which are Feedback Linearization Controller (FLC) and Sliding Mode Controller (SMC). In order to investigate and compare the performance of the MUUV and the applied controllers, three types of tests including a desired signal tracking case and two desired path tracking cases are designed. To do so, a method is presented to obtain the desired signals from a desired path under predetermined conditions. Then, an MUUV prototype is designed and constructed in order to investigate the performance of the proposed water jet propulsions and controllers for regulation and tracking desired signal purpose, experimentally. As it is expected, the simulation and experimental results show better performance of the SMC compared to FLC. Furthermore, the experimental results reveal that the water jet propulsion is implementable to practical prototypes and also can be produced in an industrial level.     

摆动尾鳍水动力性能的试验和数值研究

鱼类能够在水下高速度、低噪音、高效率地游动。鱼类出色的推进性能通过其摆动尾鳍实现。这种摆动尾鳍推进方式已经用在了水下无人航行器上。因此研究摆动尾鳍的水动力性能是非常有意义的。对摆动尾鳍的推进水动力性能进行了详尽的研究。设计、装配了一套仿尾鳍推进系统,并对其进行了相应的水动力试验。在试验中研究了运动参数对摆动尾鳍水动力性能的影响。与此同时,采用基于雷诺平均N-S方程的数值方法对摆动尾鳍的水动力性能进行了研究。在数值计算中采用了k-ωSST湍流模型和有限体积法。数值计算结果和水动力试验结果进行了比较。对尾鳍表面的压力分布和流场中的尾涡结构进行了分析。水动力试验和数值计算都表明摆动尾鳍可以产生推进力和较高的推进效率。     

一种小型水下自航行器推进系统设计与分析

从系统角度考虑,整体优化,设计了水下自航行器推进系统.通过外形优化减小轴向阻力,根据阻力和综合分析设计螺旋桨,并由敞水池试验验证螺旋桨的性能,在此基础上完成了推进控制系统的分析与优化设计.试验结果证明系统设计方法正确,推进系统性能良好.     

A novel maneuverable propeller for improving maneuverability and propulsive performance of underwater vehicles

The existing propulsor that can perform both propulsion and maneuvering along axis of rotation is propeller/rotor for a helicopter. Helicopter propellers when maneuvering increase or decrease their blades’ pitch cyclically to create imbalanced thrust and hence maneuvering force/torque. A “maneuverable propeller” was developed and its performance on both maneuvering and propulsion is assessed. The “maneuverable propeller” is an alternative of the existing helicopter rotors. The novelty of this propulsor is that the imbalanced thrust force/torque is created by cyclically increasing or decreasing the angular speed of their blades relatively to the hubs/shafts, to provide the desired maneuvering torque. This maneuverable propeller is hence defined as the Cyclic Blade Variable Rotational Speed Propeller (CBVRP). One of the best advantages is that the maneuvering torque created by the “maneuverable propeller” is much higher, about 5 times of the shaft torque of the same propeller at thrust only mode. The “maneuverable propeller” has wide applications for both surface ships and underwater vehicles that require high maneuverability for cruising inside the narrow passage.     

Uncertainty estimation of a CFD-methodology for the performance analysis of a collective and cyclic pitch propeller

Estimation and analysis of the uncertainty introduced by using a numerical model for the investigation and study of any type of flow problem have become common industry practice. Through understanding and evaluation of the uncertainty introduced by a numerical model, the accuracy and applicability of the model itself are evaluated. In this paper, the numerical uncertainty of a CFD-methodology developed to analyse the hydrodynamic performance of a collective and cyclic pitch propeller (CCPP) is estimated and analysed. The CCPP is a novel propulsion and manoeuvring concept for autonomous underwater vehicles, aimed to generate both propulsion and manoeuvring forces through advanced control of the propeller's blade pitch. The numerical uncertainty is established for three performance parameters, the generated propulsive force, the side-force magnitude, and the side-force orientation, by conducting a grid and time-step refinement study over three operational conditions. Additionally, the influence of the oscillatory uncertainty, introduced by the periodic nature of the problem, is investigated although shown to have a minimal effect when properly monitored. Based on a least-squares regression analysis of the refined simulation results, the numerical uncertainty is proven to be dominated by the introduced discretisation errors. In the case of the propulsive and side-force magnitude, the total uncertainty is dictated by the time discretisation uncertainty under bollard pull conditions, while the total uncertainty of the captive cases is mainly a result of the spatial discretisation uncertainty. The total uncertainty in the side-force orientation is observed to be primarily a consequence of the time discretisation uncertainty for all simulated cases. Overall, the total uncertainty for captive cases can be considered satisfactory for all three performance parameters, while further work is needed to reduce the observed uncertainty of the simulations under bollard pull conditions.     

CFD analysis of the sensitivity of propeller bearing loads to stern appendages and propulsive configurations

The present investigation focuses on the effects of the stern appendages and the propulsion system on the hydro-loads generated by the propeller during off-design conditions, with particular emphasis on the in-plane components. Recent experimental investigations carried out by free running model tests [7], [8] and CFD analysis [5] for a modern twin screw model, highlighted that maneuvers at small drift angles and yaw rates might be as critical as the tighter ones due to complex propeller-wake interactions. Therefore, design criteria should take into account also these operative conditions, in order to reduce the effects of propeller-wake interaction phenomena that degrade the overall propulsive efficiency, induce shaft/hull structural vibration and increase noise emission. In the present study we analyze the effects of geometric and propulsive modifications with respect to the twin screw configuration studied in [5]. In particular, the effect of the centreline skeg, propeller direction of rotation and control strategies of the propulsion plant on the propeller bearing loads have been investigated from the analysis of the nominal wake in maneuvring conditions, computed by unsteady RANSE simulations coupled with a propeller model based on Blade Element Theory. The considered test cases were turning circle maneuvers with different rudder angles at F_N = 0.265.