海底管线检修潜水器垂直面控制及自航模试验

论述了纵倾控制律设计及自航模试验。首先选择一系列深度,对同一深度采用频域校正法单独设计控制律,使之对不同的速度和漂角具有足够的稳态精度和抗干扰性,这些控制律被集成统一为纵倾控制器,并根据潜深变化进行切换,对于其它深度采用同样的方法设计。控制器首先通过计算机仿真,然后进行自航模试验验证。设计的纵倾控制系统同时在其他试验项目中(水下管线跟踪和动力定位)发挥了重要的作用。     

载人潜水器圆柱形耐压壳体的优化设计研究

采用分枝定界法和序列二次规划方法,对载人潜水器圆柱形耐压壳体的重量最小化进行了研究.设计变量是壳板的厚度、肋骨的型号、间距和数量,讨论了下潜深度、材料几何参数对重量以及其它特征量的影响.算例计算表明,下潜深度越大,屈服极限越高的材料重量减轻越明显.对于大深度而言,选用高屈服极限材料,可以使得材料能够充分利用.文中还对结构重量占排水量比例随深度变化的情况进行了研究.     

一种基于改进蚁群优化算法的载人潜水器全局路径规划

基础蚁群优化算法在解决复杂障碍环境下的载人潜水器路径规划问题时,易过早收敛于局部最优解,信息素挥发系数的设置过于依靠经验,路径规划结果受概率影响大且不稳定。为此,提出了一种改进蚁群算法用于解决载人潜水器的全局路径规划问题。该算法提出"路径延伸块"的概念。算法前期采用动态更新信息素参数的蚁群优化算法进行简单迭代计算获得原始路径,并对原始路径进行栅格延伸以得到"路径延伸块";后期在路径延伸块中再次使用蚁群算法或其他寻优算法(Dijkstra算法)寻找最优路径。改进的算法与基础蚁群优化算法相比,算法效率及稳定性更高,不易收敛于局部最优解,能更好地适应U型槽环境和复杂障碍环境。     

AUV总体概念设计中的多学科和多目标优化研究

针对水下自主式航行器(AUV)在总体概念设计阶段的多学科和多目标优化问题进行了研究。基于MDO的概念将AUV的设计要求分解为系统控制层和5个子系统,考虑了有效负载长度和总质量两个目标函数。采用多学科可行解方法(MDF)和多目标遗传算法(MOGA)给出了多学科的Pareto最优解,并且和经典的多目标方法进了比较。     

浅论我国深海载人潜水器的发展趋势及管理体制

海洋是地球上尚未被人类充分认识和开发利用的各种自然资源潜在的战略基地,因此历来受到各世界强国的关注.分析了目前世界上深海载人潜水器的发展情况及其运行和管理体制,探索了我国深海载人潜水器的发展的管理模式与运行体制,对今后发展我国载人潜水器事业和海洋开发事业有一定的借鉴意义.     

基于电子海图的智能潜水器路径规划研究

随着地理信息系统技术的发展,电子海图作为一种专门的电子地图也越来越成熟。电子海图中提供了详细而准确的海洋环境信息。利用电子海图的环境建模和考虑海流因素的遗传搜索策略为解决大范围海洋环境下智能潜水器全局路径规划提供了一个新的方法。利用电子海图中的信息对智能潜水器的工作环境进行环境建模,以遗传多目标优化算法为搜索策略进行全局路径规划,并考虑海流因素对潜水器的影响,使潜水器在航行时可充分利用海流的能量。通过仿真试验对环境建模和路径规划进行了验证。该方法具有很好的实用性。     

基于层次模型定量推理机制的潜水器故障诊断系统设计

基于智能信息处理故障诊断方法,描述和分析了用于潜水器一类的复杂动态系统。通过引入概率信息的方法对其推理机制进行量化,实现了诊断结果的精确度量以及诊断过程的精确控制;针对系统不同层次间的检测和诊断进程建立了信息交换和综合设计方法,提高了各模块的检诊能力和检诊效率,可以从总体上提高处理复杂故障情况的水平。     

崔维成 “蛟龙”号载人潜水器第一副总设计师

崔维成博士是国内外船舶力学界知名的专家、学者,优秀的归国人员,他在英国完成博士后研究工作后,毅然放弃国外的优厚待遇和工作条件,携妻回国。他长期从事船舶与海洋工程结构力学研究,在完整和破损船体结构的极限强度预报、船舶结构的疲劳强度评估以及可靠性分析与设计等领域做出了创造性的贡献,现为国家科技部863计划重大专项——深海载人潜水器的第一副总设计师。     

一种基于改进蚁群算法的载人潜水器全局路径规划

当前关于使用蚁群算法解决载人潜水器路径规划问题的研究,往往只注重路径的长度和算法收敛速度,容易忽略路径点与障碍物之间的距离和路径的平滑度等要素。载人潜水器过于靠近障碍物航行时容易产生碰撞;按照不平滑路径行驶时,频繁地转向会降低航行效率。为解决这些问题,受人工势场法启发,文中在蚁群算法的概率选择环节引入障碍物惩罚因子φ和转向惩罚因子ψ,对路径点的选择加以限制。仿真测试表明,相比于传统蚁群算法和Dijkstra算法,该算法规划的路径与障碍物之间保持安全距离且转向次数更少,因此载人潜水器按照此路径航行时,安全性和航行效率更高。     

基于磁力耦合器的载人潜水器电力推进装置研究

基于磁力耦合传动技术,对载人潜水器电力推进装置进行了系统设计与传动特性研究。采用电磁场有限元方法研究了永磁式磁力耦合器的运行机理和矩角特性,分析了其稳定传动区域和失步条件;分析了螺旋桨的负载特性,采用切比雪夫多项式研究了螺旋桨的四象限全工况动态模型;建立了水下无刷直流推进电机的数学模型和传递函数,设计了推进电机的转速闭环控制系统以抑制转速波动,提高输出推力的平稳度。完成了样机的设计与制造,通过水池试验验证了该推进装置在载人潜水器上的可行性与适用性。     

水下滑翔器整体外形设计及水动力性能分析

对水下滑翔器的整体外形设计与水动力性能进行研究。在Slocum等几种典型水下滑翔器样机的基础上,对滑翔器的主体和附体进行一体化设计,得到阻力最小的新型水下滑翔器构型设计。利用CFD方法对水下滑翔器进行模拟仿真,通过分析对比五种主体构型,得到了比较合理的主体线型,然后用正交设计方法和曲线拟合法对附体进行了优选工作,最后得到了性能更优的整体载体外形。模拟仿真实验表明,滑翔器在8°左右攻角航行时,具有最大的升阻比;和Slocum等经典样机相比,新的载体具有更好的水动力性能。通过上述研究工作,也可以缩短水下滑翔器研制周期,降低设计成本,并为水下滑翔器的更优设计提供了有力的技术指导和参考。     

Design of a sliding mode fuzzy controller for the guidance and control of an autonomous underwater vehicle

This work demonstrates the feasibility of applying a sliding mode fuzzy controller to motion control and line of sight guidance of an autonomous underwater vehicle. The design method of the sliding mode fuzzy controller offers a systematical means of constructing a set of shrinking-span and dilating-span membership functions for the controller. Stability and robustness of the control system are guaranteed by properly selecting the shrinking and dilating factors of the fuzzy membership functions. Control parameters selected for a testbed vehicle, AUV-HM1, are evaluated through tank and field experiments. Experimental results indicate the effectiveness of the proposed controller in dealing with model uncertainties, non-linearities of the vehicle dynamics, and environmental disturbances caused by ocean currents and waves.     

Experiments on vision guided docking of an autonomous underwater vehicle using one camera

This paper introduces an underwater docking procedure for the test-bed autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) platform called ISiMI using one charge-coupled device (CCD) camera. The AUV is optically guided by lights mounted around the entrance of a docking station and a vision system consisting of a CCD camera and a frame grabber in the AUV. This paper presents an image processing procedure to identify the dock by discriminating between light images, and proposes a final approach algorithm based on the vision guidance. A signal processing technique to remove noise on the defused grabbed light images is introduced, and a two-stage final approach for stable docking at the terminal instant is suggested. A vision-guidance controller was designed with conventional PID controllers for the vertical plane and the horizontal plane. Experiments were conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the vision-guided docking system of the AUV.     

水下机器人耐压舱优化设计与结构分析

水下机器人的耐压舱设计要求在满足总体指标的前提下,最大限度地提高设计强度与稳定性,同时尽可能降低质量。本文使用ANSYS Workbench中的Design Explorer模块,对耐压舱进行快速优化设计,一次获得多个优化候选结果,经过对比分析得到最优设计方案。然后,针对装配形式进行接触分析,确保大压力条件下结构不会在接触面发生失效破坏。最后,对舱体结构进行稳定性分析,确保结构能够在大深度环境中不发生失稳破坏。本研究为水下机器人耐压舱体快速优化设计、强度和稳定性校核提供了参考。     

深海立柱式平台概念设计研究

以上海交通大学海洋工程国家重点实验室提出的多柱桁架式立柱平台(Cell-Truss Spar)概念为例,对Spar平台的概念设计方法和过程进行了初步的研究,并对其水动力性能进行理论和数值计算,分析一些影响Spar平台运动性能的参数。设计涉及到两方面的问题:一是设计方法、流程以及结构物的形式;二是水动力性能。整个设计流程是一个不断循环的交互式的过程,需要考虑很多方面因素的影响。     

Application of particle filter combined with extended Kalman filter in model identification of an autonomous underwater vehicle based on experimental data

This study proposes a method for identification of the nonlinear dynamic model of an AUV while some states are unmeasured; hence, it concentrates on a nonlinear “state and parameter estimation” issue. In this method, a local linearization is used for solving the nonlinear dynamics based on the extended Kalman filter (EKF), and a particle filter (PF) is used to minimize errors and variances of the nonlinear system. In other words, the PF is combined with the EKF in the form of the extended Kalman particle filter (EKPF). The EKPF method is independent of the initial values and satisfies the limits of the parameters and also the assumption that the hydrodynamic coefficients are constant. Hence, it is shown when the ranges or signs of some parameters are known, the EKPF is a more accurate estimator than the EKF. Moreover, a new simulation is done using the model estimated by the EKPF and the results are compared and validated with the measured data of a new experimental test. It is shown that the obtained model can predict the trajectory path with the total normalized root-mean-square error (NRMSE) of 14% and the surge mean speed with the NRMSE of 5%; and it describes the 6DOF motion of the AUV more accurate than the EKF model.     

Modeling and simulation of a novel autonomous underwater vehicle with glider and flapping-foil propulsion capabilities

HAISHEN is a long-ranged and highly maneuverable AUV which has two operating modes: glider mode and flapping-foil propulsion mode. As part of the vehicle development, a three-dimensional mathematical model of the conceptual vehicle was developed on the assumption that HAISHEN has a rigid body with two independently controlled oscillating hydrofoils. A flapping-foil model was developed based on the work done by Georgiades et al. (2009). Effect of controllable hydrofoils on the vehicle stable motion performance was studied theoretically. Finally, a dynamics simulation of the vehicle in both operating modes is created in this paper. The simulation demonstrates that: (1) in the glider mode, owing to the independent control of the pitch angle of each hydrofoil, HAISHEN travels faster and more efficiently and has a smaller turning radius than conventional fix-winged gliders; (2) in the flapping-foil propulsion mode, HAISHEN has a high maneuverability with a turning radius smaller than 15 m and a forward motion velocity about 1.8 m/s; (3) the vehicle is stable under all expected operating conditions.     

深水滑翔机器人耐压壳体结构优化设计

针对深水滑翔机器人耐压壳体在深水中压缩变形和海水密度随水深增大而变化等因素造成驱动浮力变化问题,利用压缩变形和密度变化对驱动浮力影响的互补特性,归纳了载体耐压壳体结构优化设计方法.保证耐压壳体抗压条件和质量最小前提下采用结构优化设计方法,降低耐压壳体压缩变形和海水密度变化对驱动浮力的影响,提高系统能源的利用率.     

Wave effects on ascending and descending motions of the autonomous underwater vehicle

In the paper, a hydrodynamic model including the characteristics of maneuvering and seakeeping is developed to simulate the six-degree of freedom motions of the underwater vehicle steering near the sea surface. The corresponding wave exciting forces on the underwater vehicle moving in waves are calculated by the strip theory, which is based on the source distribution method. With the hydrodynamic coefficients relevant to the maneuvering and seakeeping, the fourth-order Runge–Kutta numerical method is adopted to solve the equations of motions and six-degrees of freedom of the motions for the underwater vehicle steering near the free surface can be obtained. The wave effect on the corresponding motions of the underwater vehicle is investigated and some interesting phenomena with respect to different wave frequencies and headings are observed. The hydrodynamic numerical model developed here can be served as a valuable tool for analyzing the ascending and descending behaviors of the underwater vehicle near the sea surface.