用机器学习动态调整网格,让月球车热仿真快3倍且更准。
Faster Thermal Profiling of a Lunar Rover with Machine Learning Adapted Finite Difference Model

- 用迁移神经网络动态生成适应环境的粗网格,提升精度。
- 相比传统粗网格模型,预测误差降低50%;比纯数据模型高39%。
- 适合需要快速精准热仿真的航天器设计与在轨自主系统。
在极端热环境下运行的自主航天系统需高效精确的热建模支持任务设计与在轨决策。对于月球车,大温差、辐射传热及表面条件变化使热预测尤为困难。高保真物理仿真虽准确但计算成本高,简化模型和查表法常精度不足。本文提出一种物理信息机器学习(PIML)框架,用于简化月球车(含内部热源)的热分析,通过机器学习实现环境自适应粗网格划分。该架构融合迁移神经网络(TNN),根据热载荷与初始条件自适应确定三维有限差分节点分布,提升粗网格计算精度;嵌入可微分有限差分热模拟器以保证物理一致性并支持高效训练;并通过上采样层从粗网格解重建高分辨率温度场。评估表明,该方法相比高保真细网格仿真快3倍,相较粗网格物理模型预测误差降低50%,比纯数据驱动人工神经网络(ANN)提升39%,同时保持物理一致性,实现了热建模中精度与效率的优良平衡。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Autonomous space systems operating in extreme thermal environments require accurate and efficient thermal modeling to support both pre-mission system design and onboard autonomy. For lunar rovers, large temperature gradients, radiative heat transfer, and variable surface conditions make reliable thermal prediction especially challenging. High-fidelity physics-based simulations provide accurate results but are computationally expensive, while simplified models and lookup-table approach often lack sufficient accuracy. Physics-informed machine learning (PIML) offers a promising alternative by combining data-driven models with embedded physical knowledge. This paper presents a PIML framework for thermal analysis of a simplified lunar rover with internal heat sources, where machine learning enables environment-adaptive coarse meshing. The proposed architecture integrates a transfer neural network (TNN) that adaptively determines 3D finite-difference nodalization based on thermal loads and initial conditions, enabling more accurate coarse-mesh calculations. A differentiable finite-difference thermal simulator is embedded within the framework to enforce physical consistency and support efficient training, while an upscaling layer reconstructs high-resolution temperature fields from the coarse-grid solution. The proposed PIML approach is evaluated against high-fidelity fine-mesh simulations, low-fidelity fixed coarse-mesh models, and a purely data-driven artificial neural network (ANN). Results show that the PIML framework improves prediction accuracy by 50% and 39% relative to the coarse-mesh physics model and ANN model, respectively, while maintaining physically consistent thermal distributions. Computationally, the framework is also 3x faster than high-fidelity simulations, demonstrating an effective balance between accuracy and efficiency for thermal modeling of lunar rover systems.
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