Engineering study for a mass memory system for advanced spacecrafts Final report, 1 Dec. 1969 - 1 Jul. 1970

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Second year technical report on-board processing for future satellite communications systems

Advanced baseband and microwave switching techniques for large domestic communications satellites operating in the 30/20 GHz frequency bands are discussed. The nominal baseband processor throughput is one million packets per second (1.6 Gb/s) from one thousand T1 carrier rate customer premises terminals. A frequency reuse factor of sixteen is assumed by using 16 spot antenna beams with the same 100 MHz bandwidth per beam and a modulation with a one b/s per Hz bandwidth efficiency. Eight of the beams are fixed on major metropolitan areas and eight are scanning beams which periodically cover the remainder of the U.S. under dynamic control. User signals are regenerated (demodulated/remodulated) and message packages are reformatted on board. Frequency division multiple access and time division multiplex are employed on the uplinks and downlinks, respectively, for terminals within the coverage area and dwell interval of a scanning beam. Link establishment and packet routing protocols are defined. Also described is a detailed design of a separate 100 x 100 microwave switch capable of handling nonregenerated signals occupying the remaining 2.4 GHz bandwidth with 60 dB of isolation, at an estimated weight and power consumption of approximately 400 kg and 100 W, respectively

LASER Tech Briefs, September 1993

This edition of LASER Tech briefs contains a feature on photonics. The other topics include: Electronic Components and Circuits. Electronic Systems, Physical Sciences, Materials, Computer Programs, Mechanics, Machinery, Fabrication Technology, Mathematics and Information Sciences, Life Sciences and books and reports

Control Methods for Improving Tracking Accuracy and Disturbance Rejection in Ball Screw Feed Drives

This thesis studies in detail the dynamics of ball screw feed drives and expands understanding of the factors that impose limitations on their performance. This knowledge is then used for developing control strategies that provide adequate command following and disturbance rejection. High performance control strategies proposed in this thesis are designed for, and implemented on, a custom-made ball screw drive. A hybrid Finite Element (FE) model for the ball screw drive is developed and coded in Matlab programming language. This FE model is employed for prediction of natural frequencies, mode shapes, and Frequency Response Functions (FRFs) of the ball screw setup. The accuracy of FRFs predicted for the ball screw mechanism alone is validated against the experimental measurements obtained through impact hammer testing. Next, the FE model for the entire test setup is validated. The dynamic characteristics of the actuator current controller are also modeled. In addition, the modal parameters of the mechanical structure are extracted from measured FRFs, which include the effects of current loop dynamics. To ensure adequate command following and disturbance rejection, three motion controllers with active vibration damping capability are developed. The first is based on the sensor averaging concept which facilitates position control of the rigid body dynamics. Active damping is added to suppress vibrations. To achieve satisfactory steady state response, integral action over the tracking error is included. The stability analysis and tuning procedure for this controller is presented together with experimental results that prove the effectiveness of this method in high-speed tracking and cutting applications. The second design uses the pole placement technique to move the real component of two of the oscillatory poles further to the left along the real axis. This yields a faster rigid body response with less vibration. However, the time delay from the current loop dynamics imposes a limitation on how much the poles can be shifted to the left without jeopardizing the system’s stability. To overcome this issue, a lead filter is designed to recover the system phase at the crossover frequency. When designing the Pole Placement Controller (PPC) and the lead filter concurrently, the objective is to minimize the load side disturbance response against the disturbances. This controller is also tested in high-speed tracking and cutting experiments. The third control method is developed around the idea of using the pole placement technique for active damping of not only the first mode of vibration, but also the second and third modes as well. A Kalman filter is designed to estimate a state vector for the system, from the control input and the position measurements obtained from the rotary and linear encoders. The state estimates are then fed back to the PPC controller. Although for this control design, promising results in terms of disturbance rejection are obtained in simulations, the Nyquist stability analysis shows that the closed loop system has poor stability margins. To improve the stability margins, the McFarlane-Glover robustness optimization method is attempted, and as a result, the stability margins are improved, but at the cost of degraded performance. The practical implementation of the third controller, was, unfortunately, not successful. This thesis concludes by addressing the problem of harmonic disturbance rejection in ball screw drives. It is shown that for cases where a ball screw drive is subject to high-frequency disturbances, the dynamic positioning accuracy of the ball screw drive can be improved significantly by adopting an additional control scheme known as Adaptive Feedforward Cancellation (AFC). Details of parameter tuning and stability analysis for AFC are presented. At the end, successful implementation and effectiveness of AFC is demonstrated in applications involving time periodic or space periodic disturbances. The conclusions drawn about the effectiveness of the AFC are based on results obtained from the high-speed tracking and end-milling experiments

Multimode fibre broadband access and self-referencing sensor networks

Future Internet Access technologies are supposed to bring us a very performing connection to the main door of our homes. At the same time, new services and devices and their increase use will require data transfers at speeds exceeding 1Gbps inside the building or home at the horizon 2012. Both drivers lead to the deployment of a high-quality, futureproof network inside buildings and homes. This environment may end up taking advantage of optical cabling solutions as an alternative to more traditional copper or pure wireless approaches. Related to this latter fact, the objectives of this work are: • The achievement of a full convergence scenario between optical networks from the telecommunication services providers to the end users underscores the necessity of accurate and realistic fibre models in assessing the performance of broadband access networks with the premises of high-capacity and total compatibility. Silicabased MMFs and PF GIPOFs are the most promising candidates for such a convergence within the in-building/home scenario. Contributions to a better understanding of the possibilities of signal transmission outside the baseband of such fibres are investigated, in order to extend their capabilities, together with the evaluation of current fibre frequency response theoretical models by means of an extensive set of measurements. • The achievement of a full convergence scenario between optical networks from the telecommunication services providers to the end users is also contingent on research and development in the field of optical fibre sensors, mainly driven by the growing demand of fully building/home and industry automation, leading to a reliable integration of the optical networks. Related to this, development of multiplexing and measurement techniques for fibre-optic intensity-based sensors are analyzed and experimentally investigated. In the sensor network topology proposed, by replacing the fibre delay line with an electronic delay in the reception stage, it is possible to avoid long fibre delay coils in the remote sensing points and achieving a compact, flexible and re-configurable self-referencing technique. Applications in both scenarios can be considered, on the one hand the in-building/home network and on the other hand the WDM-PON access network topology through which operators provision the different services. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------La demanda e incursión en la sociedad de nuevos servicios multimedia, tales como televisión por Internet (IPTV, Internet Protocol Television) o video-bajo-demanda (VoD, Video on Demand) junto con el incremento del tráfico de datos requerido para nuevas aplicaciones como la televisión por alta definición (HDTV, High-Definition Television) y transferencias P2P (Peer-to-Peer) exigen un aumento de la capacidad de las redes de datos desplegadas hoy en día. Para hacer frente a este aumento de la demanda de capacidad de las redes de acceso, los proveedores de estos servicios multimedia están reemplazando las infraestructuras de las redes de acceso basadas en cable coaxial, tales como xDSL (x- Digital Subscriber Line), por otras nuevas de mayor capacidad desplegadas en fibra óptica, permitiendo la interconexión de los nodos de red con los múltiples hogares y negocios de los abonados, constituyendo el núcleo de lo que es conocido como “fibra hasta el hogar/nodo/edificio” o redes FTTx. Tradicionalmente el despliegue de las redes ópticas se ha realizado mediante fibra óptica monomodo de sílice (SMF, Singlemode Fibre). Ello es debido a su gran ancho de banda que permite una gran capacidad de transporte de servicios y datos. Es por ello que en base a este tipo de fibra se ha realizado el despliegue de redes de distribución y metropolitanas y, de un tiempo a esta parte, incluso penetrando su instalación en las redes de acceso. Junto con lo anteriormente expuesto, existe una necesidad de convergencia de servicios e infraestructuras dentro de las redes de acceso. Actualmente, cables coaxiales, par trenzado de cobre e incluso señales inalámbricas se encuentran entremezcladas dentro del hogar proporcionando servicios diferentes con apenas cooperación entre ellos. Una infraestructura común dentro del hogar en el que una gran cantidad de servicios pudieran ser integrados y soportados por la misma sería un aspecto deseable. Y es más, frente a las desventajas de infraestructuras basadas en cable de cobre (cable coaxial y par trenzado) como son susceptibilidad a interferencias electromagnéticas, presencia de crosstalk y relativa baja capacidad de transporte de datos, las fibras ópticas (tanto en su versión monomodo como multimodo) presentan las ventajas de un menor volumen, mayor flexibilidad y menor peso junto con una capacidad mayor de transmisión de datos sobre distancias mayores. Es por esto que éstas últimas constituyen la base para las futuras redes de acceso en el hogar

Conference Proceedings of the 3rd Biennial Symposium on Turbulence in Liquids

The Third Biennial Symposium on Turbulence in Liquids showed further progress in the investigator\u27s ability to measure turbulence parameters and in the general understanding of turbulence. The most impressive advances in measurement seemed to be the ability to measure deeper into the turbulent boundary layer in order to obtain profiles over the entire turbulence production region and the rapid development of conditioned-sampling techniques for studying hypotheses for mechanisms

DEVELOPMENT OF COLORLESS DISTRIBUTED COMBUSTION FOR GAS TURBINE APPLICATION

Colorless Distributed Combustion (CDC) is investigated for gas turbine engine application due to its benefit for ultra-low pollutant emission, improved pattern factor, low noise emission, stable combustion and low pressure drop, alleviation of combustion instabilities and increased life of turbine blades with less air cooling requirements. The CDC is characterized by discrete and direct injection of fuel and air at high velocity and the reaction zone is stabilized due to controlled aerodynamics inside the combustor and wider (radially) shear layer mixing. Mixing between the injected air and product gases to form hot and diluted oxidant is required followed by rapid mixing with the fuel. This results in distributed reaction zone instead of a concentrated flame front as observed in conventional diffusion flames and hence, to avoid hot spot regions and provide reduced NOx and CO emissions. The focus of this dissertation is to develop and demonstrate CDC for application to stationary gas turbine combustors which generally operate at thermal intensity of 15MW/m3-atm. However, higher thermal intensity is desirable to reduce hardware costs due to smaller weight and volume of the combustors. Design of high thermal intensity CDC combustor requires careful control of critical parameters, such as, gas recirculation, fuel/oxidizer mixing and residence time characteristics via careful selection of different air and fuel injection configurations to achieve desirable combustion characteristics. This dissertation examines sequential development of low emission colorless distributed combustor operating from thermal intensity of 5MW/m3-atm up to 198MW/m3-atm. Initially, various fuel and air injection configurations were investigated at a low thermal intensity of 5MW/m3-atm. Further investigations were performed for a simpler combustor having single air and fuel injection ports for medium thermal intensity range of 28-57MW/m3-atm. Among the flow configurations investigated, reverse cross-flow configuration was found to give more favorable results possibly due to higher residence time because of reverse flow geometry and faster mixing with the fuel injection in cross-flow. This configuration was investigated in detail by further reducing the combustor volume to give ultra-high thermal intensity of up to 198MW/m3-atm. At thermal intensity of 53MW/m3-atm NO emissions were 4ppm in non-premixed mode and 1ppm in premixed mode and CO emissions were 30ppm in both the modes. The pressure loss was less than 5% and heat loss was less than 15%. The pressure fluctuations were less than 0.025% suggesting very stable combustion. At ultra-high thermal intensity of 170MW/m3-atm NO emissions were 8ppm and 3ppm in non-premixed and premixed modes respectively and CO emissions were about 100ppm in both the modes. Dilution of fuel with nitrogen, carbon dioxide and air resulted in significant reduction in NO emission in non-premixed mode from 8ppm to about 2ppm. Methane was used as fuel for all these investigations. Liquid fuel (ethanol) was also tested and very low NO emission of about 6ppm was obtained in direct injection mode and 2ppm in premixed prevaporized mode. CO emission of about 200ppm was observed in both the modes

Enabling Technology in Optical Fiber Communications: From Device, System to Networking

This book explores the enabling technology in optical fiber communications. It focuses on the state-of-the-art advances from fundamental theories, devices, and subsystems to networking applications as well as future perspectives of optical fiber communications. The topics cover include integrated photonics, fiber optics, fiber and free-space optical communications, and optical networking