摘要：Introduction The climax of the industrial revolution was marked by the rapid growth of industry,and advancement in technologies have further fueled this industrial expansion,leading to a surge in economic *** technologies have also increased the degree of destructive human inter-ference with the biosphere.

摘要：Thermophotovoltaic （TPV） system has been regarded as one promising means to alleviate current energy demand because it can directly generate electricity from radiation heat via photons. However, the presently available TPV systems suffer from low conversion efficiency and low throughput. A viable solution to increase their efficiency is to apply micro/nanoscale radiation principles in the design of different components to utilize the characteristics ~f thermal radiation at small distances and in microstructures. Several critical issues are reviewed, such as photovoltaic effect, quantum efficiency and efficiency of TPV system. Emphasis is given to the development of wavelength-selective emitters and filters and the aspects of micro/nanoscale heat transfer. Recent progress, along with the challenges and opportunities for future development of TPV systems are also outlined.

摘要：The increasing gross weight of electric Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV) poses a challenge in practical applications. The range and endurance of the electric UAV are limited by the fixed mass of the battery package. In this work, a design optimization method for the battery package topology of small electric UAV is proposed to enhance the performance. To improve the accuracy of the method, the dynamic battery model and simplified electric component models are *** models are utilized by the trajectory optimization method, which takes the dynamic characteristic into consideration to calculate the aircraft performance. The direct optimal control method is used for solving the trajectory optimization problem, and this method is tested on a small blended-wing-body electric aircraft. The test result shows that the range and energy-consumption are mainly influenced by the parallel topology of the battery package, while the flight time in climb phase is more sensitive to the series topology. It is deduced that the range-and energy-optimal design points can be considered concurrently in design optimization. The work proves the feasibility of integrating the trajectory optimization and battery package design.

摘要：Traditional coupled multi-disciplinary design optimization based on computational fluid dynamics/computational structure dynamics(CFD/CSD)aims to optimize the jig shape of aircraft,and general multi-disciplinary design optimization methodology is *** special consideration is given to the aircraft itself during the *** main drawback of these methodologies is the huge expanse and the low *** solve this problem,we put forward to optimize the cruise shape directly based on the fact that the cruise shape can be transformed into jig shape,and a methodology named reverse iteration of structural model(RISM)is proposed to get the aero-structural performance of cruise *** main advantage of RISM is that the efficiency can be improved by at least four times compared with loosely-coupled aeroelastic analysis and it maintains almost the same fidelity of loosely-coupled aeroelastic *** optimization framework based on RISM is *** aerodynamic and structural performances can be optimized simultaneously in this framework,so it may lead to the true optimal *** aerodynamic performance was predicted by N-S solver in this *** shows that RISM predicts the aerodynamic and structural performances very well.A wing-body configuration was optimized by the proposed optimization *** drag and weight of the aircraft are decreased after optimization,which shows the effectiveness of the proposed framework.

摘要：Aiming at exploring the excellent structural performance of the vein-stiffening membrane structure of dragonfly hind wings,we analyzed two planar computational models and three 3D computational models with cambered corrugation based on the finite element *** is shown that the vein size in different zones is proportional to the magnitude of the vein internal force when the wing structure is subjected to uniform out-of-plane transverse *** membrane contributes little to the flexural stiffness of the planar wing models,while exerting an immense impact upon the stiffness of the 3D wing models with cambered *** a lumped mass of 10% of the wing is fixed on the leading edge close to the wing tip,the wing fundamental fre-quency decreases by 10.7%～13.2%;if a lumped mass is connected to the wing via multiple springs,the wing fundamental fre-quency decreases by 16.0%～18.0%.Such decrease in fundamental frequency explains the special function of the wing pterostigma in alleviating the wing quivering *** particular features of dragonfly wings can be mimicked in the design of new-style reticulately stiffening thin-walled roof systems and flapping wings in novel intelligent aerial vehicles.

摘要：In order to maintain a uniform distribution of pareto-front solutions, a modified NSGA-II algorithm coupled with a dynamic crowding distance(DCD) method is proposed for the multi-objective optimization of a mixed-flow pump impeller. With the pump meridional section fixed, ten variables along the shroud and hub are selected to control the blade load by using a three-dimensional inverse design method. Hydraulic efficiency, along with impeller head, is applied as an optimization objective; and a radial basis neural network(RBNN) is adopted to approximate the objective function with 82 training samples. Local sensitivity analysis shows that decision variables have different impacts on the optimization objectives. Instead of randomly selecting one solution to implement, a technique for ordering preferences by similarity to ideal solution(TOPSIS) is introduced to select the best compromise solution(BCS) from pareto-front sets. The proposed method is applied to optimize the baseline model, i.e. a mixed- flow waterjet pump whose specific speed is 508 min?1?m3s?1?m. The performance of the waterjet pump was experimentally tested. Compared with the baseline model, the optimized impeller has a better hydraulic efficiency of 92% as well as a higher impeller head at the design operation point. Furthermore, the off-design performance is improved with a wider highefficiency operation range. After optimization, velocity gradients on the suction surface are smoother and flow separations are eliminated at the blade inlet part. Thus, the authors believe the proposed method is helpful for optimizing the mixed-flow pumps.

摘要：In order to meet the requirement of network synthesis optimization design for a micro component, a three-level information frame and functional module based on web was proposed. Firstly, the finite element method （FEM） was used to analyze the dynamic property of coupled-energy-domain of virtual prototype instances and to obtain some optimal information data. Secondly, the rough set theory （RST） and the genetic algorithm （GA） were used to work out the reduction of attributes and the acquisition of principle of optimality and to confirm key variable and restriction condition in the synthesis optimization design. Finally, the regression analysis （RA） and GA were used to establish the synthesis optimization design model and carry on the optimization design. A corresponding prototype system was also developed and the synthesis optimization design of a thermal actuated micro-pump was carded out as a demonstration in this paper.

摘要：There are many design parameters to determine a performance of a robot. Especially, in the case of the mobile robots, they requirc complicated motion at various environments to get high performances. In this sense, the analysis of the design parameters is the most important work to design an efficient mobile robot. In this study, we analyze the design parameters for the water-running robot. From the parametric study, we find some solutions to improve the performances of the robot. We derive dynamic equations for the water-running motion, and do a sensitivity analysis to understand the relationships between the parameters （frequency of the leg, stiffness of torsional springs that connects multi frames and mass of frames） and the performance of the water-running motion such as running speed and pitching stability. We use an orthogonal array to make various combinations of the parameters, and to reduce the number of a simulation process. As results, we summarize some solutions to improve the water-running motion. We are expecting that this study is going to be used to design robots that are operated on the water.

摘要：A kind of closed-loop Hall effect sensor is designed and fabricated by considering several factors such as iron core material, Hall device, as well as selected integrated circuit. Through studying the effect of the iron material and structures of current sensor, a kind of optimal Hall effect current sensor is found. The experimental results show that the presented closed-loop Hall effect current sensor achieves 1 mA/A sensitivity. And its lineafity and accuracy are 0.1% and 0.35% FS, respectively, at cur- rents ranging from 0 to 50 A.

摘要：This paper is concerned with the global boundedness problem for a class of stochastic nonlinear systems with matched conditions. The uncertainties in the systems are due to parameter variations and external stochastic disturbance. Only the matched conditions and the possible bound of the uncertainties are demanded. Based on the stochastic Lyapunov stability theory, an explicit controller is constructed in the gradient direction, which renders responses of the closed-loop systems be globally bounded in probability. When the systems degrade to linear systems, the controller becomes linear. Illustrative examples are given to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.