GAUSS PRINCIPLE OF LEAST CONSTRAINT IN GENERALIZED COORDINATES AND ITS GENERALIZATION

当采用广义坐标描述系统的运动时,相比质点形式的高斯最小拘束原理,通过广义坐标形式的高斯最小拘束原理来建立动力学优化模型,计算效率更高. 从高斯原理的变分形式出发推导了广义坐标形式的高斯最小拘束原理,并研究了非理想约束、单边约束及刚体碰撞情形下的高斯最小拘束原理的形式. 研究认为:对刚体碰撞情形下,高斯最小拘束原理不能取代碰撞恢复定律,碰撞恢复定律以碰撞后广义速度的约束方程形式起作用.     

优化形式的刚体系统动力学模拟

基于广义坐标形式的高斯最小拘束原理来研究刚体系统的动力学问题的优化方法. 相比目前动力学建模普遍采用的质点形式的高斯最小拘束原理,广义坐标形式的高斯最小拘束原理因对所选择的广义坐标没有要求,而使得建模过程更简单及具有更强的通用性. 本文分别建立了有约束和无约束条件下问题的优化动力学模型,对问题进行了动力学数值模拟,并与用拉格朗日微分方程处理的模型进行了对比分析,从而验证了所提方法的有效性.     

基于高斯原理的多体系统动力学建模

基于高斯最小拘束原理,以释放中的绳系卫星为背景,建立地球引力场内变长度大变形柔索联系的多体系统动力学模型. 利用基尔霍夫动力学比拟方法将柔索的变形转化为刚性截面沿中心线的转动,使包含刚性分体与变形体的刚柔耦合系统转化为由柔索的刚性截面与刚性分体组成的广义多刚体系统. 由于刚性截面的局部小变形沿弧坐标的积累不受限制,适合描述柔索的超大变形. 文中对此刚柔耦合多体系统导出其在地球引力场中的拘束函数,考虑各分体在空间中相对位置的几何约束条件,利用拉格朗日乘子构成以条件极值问题为特征的数学模型. 将高斯原理用于多体系统动力学的建模,其特点是以寻求函数极值的变分方法代替微分方程,通过数值计算直接得出运动规律. 其形式统一,不随系统拓扑结构的变化而改变,也无需区分树系统或非树系统.对于带控制的多体系统,动力学分析还可根据技术需要与系统的优化结合进行.      

DYNAMIC MODELING OF MULTI-BODY SYSTEM BASED ON GAUSS'S PRINCIPLE

基于高斯最小拘束原理,以释放中的绳系卫星为背景,建立地球引力场内变长度大变形柔索联系的多体系统动力学模型. 利用基尔霍夫动力学比拟方法将柔索的变形转化为刚性截面沿中心线的转动,使包含刚性分体与变形体的刚柔耦合系统转化为由柔索的刚性截面与刚性分体组成的广义多刚体系统. 由于刚性截面的局部小变形沿弧坐标的积累不受限制,适合描述柔索的超大变形. 文中对此刚柔耦合多体系统导出其在地球引力场中的拘束函数,考虑各分体在空间中相对位置的几何约束条件,利用拉格朗日乘子构成以条件极值问题为特征的数学模型. 将高斯原理用于多体系统动力学的建模,其特点是以寻求函数极值的变分方法代替微分方程,通过数值计算直接得出运动规律. 其形式统一,不随系统拓扑结构的变化而改变,也无需区分树系统或非树系统.对于带控制的多体系统,动力学分析还可根据技术需要与系统的优化结合进行.     

刚体动力学的拟变分原理及其应用

为了适应航天事业发展的需要,极有必要开展多柔体系统的理论分析.作为应用非保守系统的拟变分原理进行多柔体动力学的理论分析的组成部分,研究了刚体动力学的拟变分原理及其应用:建立了刚体动力学的拟变分原理,推导出刚体动力学的拟变分原理的拟驻值条件; 建立了刚体动力学的广义拟变分原理,说明了应用广义拟变分原理求得问题的解析解和数值解的途径; 最后,借助算例说明了应用变分方法来研究刚体动力学问题的优越性.      

多体系统动力学的高斯拘束分析方法

为研究高斯拘束原理下多体系统的动力学分析问题,针对一类多体开环链状结构,运用高斯拘束方法建立了动力学方程,讨论了动力学方程的符号推导过程,并给出了封闭形式的动力学方程解析表达式.以刚性和柔性结构为例,比较分析了不同分析方法、不同自由度下符号推导多体结构动力学方程的运算时间.分析结果表明,高斯拘束方法与传统的拉格朗日方法相比,更适合于多体结构动力学方程的符号推导,且结构自由度越高,其运算优势越明显.高斯拘束方法为一种较好的多体系统动力学分析方法.     

相空间中非保守系统的Herglotz广义变分原理及其Noether定理

与经典变分原理相比,基于由微分方程定义的作用量的Herglotz广义变分原理给出了非保守动力学系统的一个变分描述,它不仅能够描述所有采用经典变分原理能够描述的动力学过程,而且能够应用于经典变分原理不能适用的非保守或耗散系统.将Herglotz广义变分原理拓展到相空间,研究相空间中非保守力学系统的Herglotz广义变分原理与Noether定理及其逆定理.首先,提出相空间中Herglotz广义变分原理,给出相空间中非保守系统的变分描述,导出相应的Hamilton正则方程;其次,基于非等时变分与等时变分之间的关系,导出相空间中Hamilton-Herglotz作用量变分的两个基本公式;再次,给出Noether对称变换的定义和判据,提出并证明相空间中非保守系统基于Herglotz变分问题的Noether定理及其逆定理,揭示了相空间中力学系统的Noether对称性与守恒量之间的内在联系.在经典条件下,Herglotz广义变分原理退化为经典变分原理,与之相应的相空间中的Noether定理退化为经典Hamilton系统的Noether定理.文末以著名的Emden方程和平方阻尼振子为例说明上述方法和结果的有效性.     

基于高斯原理的非理想系统动力学建模

高斯原理给出了通过求函数极值、从可能运动中鉴别出真实运动的规则, 它可以使得多体系统动力学问题不需通过求解微分(代数)方程, 而是采用求解最小值的优化方法来解决, 从而提供了一种适用于优化算法的建模思路, 因此, 如何定义恰当的高斯拘束函数是动力学优化方法得以实现的前提. 对于理想系统而言, 约束对系统的作用可以通过约束方程来体现, 故高斯拘束可表达为系统质点加速度的函数, 系统的动力学问题因此可以描述为目标函数为高斯拘束函数、优化变量为质点加速度的约束最优化问题; 当系统中需要考虑干摩擦等非理想因素时, 部分相互作用不能被所定义的约束方程所涵盖而需要采用额外的物理规律来描述, 这种相互作用破坏了原有的针对理想系统的高斯拘束函数的极值特性. 基于变分类的高斯原理, 推导并证明了目标函数以理想约束力所表达的非理想系统的极值原理, 针对目前文献中用于非理想系统的高斯原理进行了讨论, 指出其实际为文中的极值原理在非理想约束力与理想约束力无明显关联时的一种特殊表达形式, 当非理想约束力与理想约束力有明显的函数关系(如库仑摩擦定律中滑动摩擦力与法向约束力间的线性关系)时, 该形式失效; 同时根据文中的极值原理, 得到了考虑库仑摩擦时非理想的多体系统动力学问题的优化模型. 例子中分析了优化模型及相应的线性互补性模型的关系, 分析发现在满足刚体滑动问题的唯一性条件下二者互为充分必要条件, 从而证明了文中优化模型的可靠性; 并采用优化计算方法进行了动力学模拟, 模拟结果显示了将高斯原理与优化算法相结合的可行性及有效性.      

DYNAMIC MODELING OF NONIDEAL SYSTEM BASED ON GAUSS'S PRINCIPLE$^{\bf 1)}$

高斯原理给出了通过求函数极值、从可能运动中鉴别出真实运动的规则, 它可以使得多体系统动力学问题不需通过求解微分(代数)方程, 而是采用求解最小值的优化方法来解决, 从而提供了一种适用于优化算法的建模思路, 因此, 如何定义恰当的高斯拘束函数是动力学优化方法得以实现的前提. 对于理想系统而言, 约束对系统的作用可以通过约束方程来体现, 故高斯拘束可表达为系统质点加速度的函数, 系统的动力学问题因此可以描述为目标函数为高斯拘束函数、优化变量为质点加速度的约束最优化问题; 当系统中需要考虑干摩擦等非理想因素时, 部分相互作用不能被所定义的约束方程所涵盖而需要采用额外的物理规律来描述, 这种相互作用破坏了原有的针对理想系统的高斯拘束函数的极值特性. 基于变分类的高斯原理, 推导并证明了目标函数以理想约束力所表达的非理想系统的极值原理, 针对目前文献中用于非理想系统的高斯原理进行了讨论, 指出其实际为文中的极值原理在非理想约束力与理想约束力无明显关联时的一种特殊表达形式, 当非理想约束力与理想约束力有明显的函数关系(如库仑摩擦定律中滑动摩擦力与法向约束力间的线性关系)时, 该形式失效; 同时根据文中的极值原理, 得到了考虑库仑摩擦时非理想的多体系统动力学问题的优化模型. 例子中分析了优化模型及相应的线性互补性模型的关系, 分析发现在满足刚体滑动问题的唯一性条件下二者互为充分必要条件, 从而证明了文中优化模型的可靠性; 并采用优化计算方法进行了动力学模拟, 模拟结果显示了将高斯原理与优化算法相结合的可行性及有效性.     

高斯原理解多刚体动力学问题的GPMB程序

本文介绍了一种用变分原理求解多刚体系统的方法,这种方法不建立动力学方程。而根据高斯原理通过对拘束度求极值得到各刚体加速度和角加速度,然后积分求出速度和位置。这种方法不受任何结构形式限制,能有效地解决闭环和带控制问题。GPMR 程序是根据这种方法编制的求解多刚体系统通用程序,实际应用证明该程序计算结果令人满意。     

The generalized Nielsen's equations for controllable variable-mass systems

In this paper, Nielsen's form of Gauss's principle for controllable variable-mass systems is established. By this principle, the generalized Nielsen's Equations are extended to controllable variable-mass systems. The equations in terms of quasi-coordinates are obtained. The equivalence between the generalized Nielsen's equations and Appell's equations is demonstrated.     

基于区域分解的结构动力学系统首次穿越失效

提出了高斯白噪声激励的线性及非线性结构动力学系统的首次穿越失效概率的估计方法. 对于线性结构动力学系统,失效区域被分解为互斥的基本失效域之和,每个基本失效域可用其设计点完全描述,并以正态分布代替卡方分布估计失效概率中的参数. 对于非线性结构动力学系统,基于Rice穿越理论,将非线性方程转化为与之具有相同平均上穿率的线性化方程,然后利用文中方法对等效线性化方程估计首穿失效概率. 最后给出了线性及非线性结构动力学系统的数值例子,并将所提方法与蒙特卡罗法及重要样本法相比较,模拟结果显示了方法的正确性与有效性.     

Forward and inverse dynamics of nonholonomic mechanical systems

This paper deals with the forward and the inverse dynamic problems of mechanical systems subjected to nonholonomic constraints. The intrinsically dual nature of these two problems is identified and utilised to develop a systematic approach to formulate and solve them according to an unified framework. The proposed methodology is based on the fundamental equations of constrained motion which derive from Gauss’s principle of least constraint. The main advantage arising from using the fundamental equations of constrained motion is that they represent an effective method capable to derive the generalised acceleration of a mechanical system, constrained in general by a set of nonholonomic constraints, together with the generalized constraint forces (forward dynamics). When the constraint equations are used to represent the desired behaviour of the mechanical system under study, the generalised constraint forces deriving from the fundamental equations of constrained motion provide the control actions which reproduce the specified motion for the system (inverse dynamics). This approach is systematically extended to underactuated mechanical systems introducing a new method named underactuation equivalence principle. The underactuation equivalence principle is founded on the key idea that the underactuation property of a mechanical system can be mathematically represented using a particular set of nonholonomic constraint equations. Two simple case-studies are reported to exemplify the proposed methodology. In the first case-study the computation of the generalised constraint forces relative to the revolute joint constraints of a physical pendulum is illustrated. In the second case-study the calculation of the control action which solves the swing-up problem for an inverted pendulum is described.     

Inverse Dynamics of Servo-Constraints Based on the Generalized Inverse

The acceleration form of constraint equations is utilized in this paper to solve for the inverse dynamics of servo-constraints. A condition for the existence of control forces that enforce servo-constraints is derived. For overactuated dynamical systems, the generalized Moore-Penrose inverse of the constraint matrix is used to parameterize the solutions for these control forces in terms of free parameters that can be chosen to satisfy certain requirements or optimize certain criterions. In particular, these free parameters can be chosen to minimize the Gibbsian (i.e., the acceleration energy of the dynamical system), resulting in ideal control forces (those satisfying the principle of virtual work when the virtual displacements satisfy the servo-constraint equations). To achieve this, the nonminimal nonholonomic form recently derived by the authors in the context of Kanes method is used to determine the accelerations of the system, and hence to determine the forces to be generated by the redundant manipulators. Finally, an extension to inverse dynamics of servo-constraints involving control variables is made. The procedures are illustrated by two examples.     

Stretched Gaussian Asymptotic Behavior for Fractional Giona–Roman Equation on Biased Heterogeneous Fractal Structure in External Force Fields

We introduce a biased heterogeneous fractional Giona-Roman equation (BHFGRE) on biased heterogeneous fractal structure media describing systems involving external force fields. The BHFGRE is shown to obey generalized Einstein relation, and its stationary solution is the generalized Boltzmann distribution. It is proved that the asymptotic shape of its solution is a stretched Gaussian and that its solution can be expressed in the form of a function of a dimensionless similarity variable for the case of constant potentials and generic potentials.     

Longitudinal dynamics of trains—a non-smooth approach

An efficient and straightforward algorithm for the integration of the constrained systems is developed in the present work. Some of the fundamental issues of contact dynamics are briefly reviewed. Considering Gauss?? least constraint principle, an intuitive and effective computation method of the constraint forces is arrived at. The contact problem is solved by means of the generalized matrix inverse (GI) embedded in an appropriate algorithm and the numerical integration is event-driven. The method is applied to the study of train longitudinal dynamics which is essential for comfort and running safety. Due to the complexity of the phenomena and the presence of dry friction, the investigations have been carried out by numerical methods using regularization. Based on the non-smooth dynamics approach, in the present paper, a comprehensive model is presented. Set-value friction of Coulomb??s law type is accounted for and motion equations are formulated as a differential inclusion. Application examples are presented. Simulations demonstrate the existence of specific phenomena like stick?Cslip and offset in the final equilibrium position. Computational efficiency is dramatically improved compared with previous models, while computation speed is increased by at least an order of magnitude. A wide class of problems may be solved using the present method, as is pointed out in the article.