区域目标搜索中基于改进RRT的UAV实时航迹规划

在线自主航迹规划是无人机(Unmanned Aerial Vehicles,UAV)执行区域目标搜索任务的有效保证.针对UAV区域搜索中航迹规划的实时性要求,提出了一种固定搜索模式和动态搜索模式相结合的UAV自主航迹规划框架.在快速扩展随机树(RRT)方法的基础上,通过改进随机扩展树的节点选择和引入启发式信息,提出了基于改进RRT的UAV实时搜索航迹规划算法,该算法能够有效降低在线航迹规划的时间代价和扩展节点数.仿真实验结果验证了本文方法的有效性.     

基于买卖合同策略与PSO算法的异构UAV任务分配规划方法

针对PSO算法在初始化异构UAV协同任务分配效率不高、任务分配不均的问题,将PSO算法与买卖合同策略结合起来,运用买卖合同策略来调整PSO算法对异构UAV协同任务的初始分配,同时充分发挥PSO算法对多目标优化具有收敛速度快、寻优精度高等优势,有效解决了异构UAV对多类型任务规划的最优分配。仿真结果表明:该方法在保证任务分配合理的同时,能够有效解决多约束条件下异构UAV协同任务分配规划优化问题。     

基于满意决策的多UAV协同目标分配方法

目标分配是UAV自主控制的重要问题。提出了基于满意决策的多UAV协同的目标分配技术,为解决多UAV协同的目标分配问题和多机场起飞的UAV编队配置问题提供了一种新颖而有效的方法。重点对其中的满意集计算、联合满意度、拒绝度和选择度的建立和计算等关键问题进行了讨论。以压制敌防空火力任务为背景对该方法进行了仿真,并将本文提出的方法和其他方法做了比较,仿真结果表明基于满意决策的多UAV协同的目标分配方法在效率上有明显优势。     

基于改进ACO算法的多UAV协同航路规划

针对无人机(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle,UAV)在执行任务过程中遇到的诸如敌方防空火力、地形障碍及恶略天气等各类威胁源,采用威胁源概率分布的方法进行威胁的量化处理,构建任务空间的威胁概率密度分布图,有效消除了威胁源的差异性。根据UAV在任务飞行过程中的性能约束与时、空协同约束,同时考虑任务过程中UAV的损毁概率最小、任务航程最短,构建了相应的综合任务航路代价最优化目标函数。结合传统蚁群优化算法(Ant Colony Optimization,ACO)在解决此类问题中的不足,给出了相应的改进策略,提出采用协同多种群ACO进化策略来实现多UAV在满足时、空协同约束下的协同航路规划。通过相应的仿真计算表明,改进后的ACO协同多种群进化策略算法更适用于多UAV协同任务航路规划问题,具有一定的实用性。从而为多UAV协同任务航路规划问题的求解提供了科学的决策依据。     

多目标传感器协同探测的资源优化问题

针对反导作战传感器任务规划问题,提出了一种对多目标任务分解的传感器协同探测任务规划方法。首先将整个预警任务分解为元任务,并以分解的元任务为核心,建立基于元任务的任务规划模型,在此基础上,以探测收益为代价函数,分析任务规划模型及算法流程。仿真结果表明,该方法不仅保持了较高的元任务加权探测收益值,而且能够给出较为合理的任务规划方案。     

多UAV协同区域覆盖侦察方法

针对多UAV对未知区域的协同覆盖侦察问题,提出了将STC算法与在线局部调整策略相结合的区域覆盖侦察方法.通过建立无重叠覆盖区域的闭合路径,最小化了重复侦察区域,缩短了任务执行时间;通过在线局部调整保证了只要有一架UAV不出现故障,侦察任务就可以正常进行.仿真结果表明,该方法能够有效解决多UAV协同区域覆盖侦察问题,方法...     

基于分合粒子群算法的多无人机任务重分配

多UAV在执行任务过程中,战场环境以及UAV编队状态的改变将导致原有的分配计划失效或效率降低,因此有必要重新分配任务。针对多无人机任务重分配问题,首先建立了相应的数学模型。其次运用分组基础上的任务重分配策略进行任务分配,提出了改进的K均值聚类算法进行初步分组,再在分组的基础下,提出了分合粒子群优化算法进行组内任务分配。最后进行实验仿真。实验结果与分析表明基于分合粒子群算法的任务重分配方法能有效地满足多变的战场环境要求。     

超算环境科学工作流应用的容错

超算环境中科学工作流技术广泛应用于科学研究和工程仿真领域。复杂多物理过程数值模拟、多阶段数据处理等应用往往需要使用多种应用软件相互协作,构建业务流程自动执行来提升工作效率。然而在超算环境中执行科学工作流应用面临着资源失效、任务配置错误等异常情况,造成工作流执行中断,严重影响完成效率,故容错功能对超算工作流应用的稳定持续运行有重要意义。介绍了科学工作流的容错设计分类,并对典型工作流系统的容错设计进行分析评述;提出了基于决策树的事件-条件-动作容错模型,设计了非侵入式可扩展的容错架构,并针对自主研发的部署在超算环境下的科学工作流应用平台HSWAP,实现了运行时可配置的容错策略。在实际的工程仿真任务中,基于所提出模型和架构实现的容错机制为提高工作流执行效率发挥了重要作用。     

多UCAV协同任务规划的层次分解方法

针对多UCAV协同作战的控制决策问题,从任务、空域和时域三个角度阐述了多UCAV协同任务规划问题的层次特性,提出了多UCAV协同任务规划的分层迭代逻辑流程.基于该分层迭代逻辑流程,完成了多UCAV协同任务规划原型系统的开发工作,并进行了初步的综合仿真验证.仿真结果表明,所提出的分层迭代逻辑流程,可以降低任务规划问题的复杂度,是实现多UCAV协同任务规划的一种有效方法.     

多基地多目标无人机协同任务规划算法研究

在多基地多目标多无人飞行器(unmanned aerial vehicle,UAV)的协同任务规划这类约束条件众多、复杂且耦合的多目标优化与决策问题中,利用传统的粒子群优化算法在寻优时容易陷入局部最优,为此,提出了一种基于模拟退火的混合粒子群算法。基于攻打任务背景,综合考虑无人机的物理性能约束,搭建航迹长度最小适应度函数和威胁代价最小适应度函数以构造目标函数,先利用Voronoi图以及Dijkstra算法进行航迹规划,再利用基于模拟退火的混合粒子群算法进行任务分配。仿真结果表明:所提算法融合了模拟退火算法、粒子群优化算法的优点,能快速求解UAV任务规划的近似最优解,且与粒子群优化算法和模拟退火算法相比,在进化次数足够多的情况下该方法得到的结果更优。     

An Unlikely Alliance: Portuguese and South African Airpower in Angola, 1968–1974

The war that Portugal was obliged to fight in Africa began in 1961 and immediately stretched the resources of its armed forces. Nowhere was this thinness more apparent than in policing the vast territory of Angola. The east and southeast of Angola were particularly vulnerable, as the area was a vast, sparsely populated region characterised by enormous featureless plains or chanas covered in tall grass and broken by an extensive river system and mountainous forests. The only military solution to policing these immense spaces was aviation and specifically the helicopter that could carry troops into battle, protect them with a gunship and bring them home when the operation was concluded. The immediate problem for the Portuguese Air Force (Força Aérea Portuguesa or FAP) in Angola and elsewhere was a scarcity of helicopters. The solution was an alliance with South Africa, which had a strong inventory of Alouette IIIs, to help in policing the east. This move was likewise in the interest of South Africa, as its threat came from Zambia through south-eastern Angola. This article examines the strategic and tactical development of this unusual, cross-cultural alliance and the symbiotic relationship that resulted in destruction of the enemies of both in Angola.     

Helping hands: civil–military cooperation and Italy's military operation abroad

In the Post-Bipolar Era the growing complexity of the military operations requires a new approach for the resolution of international crises. Since the end of the Cold War, peace support operations (PSO) have become the mainstay and principal occupation of most Western armies. At the same time, Italy has been one of the most important actors in such an area. The article focuses on the cooperation between military and civil components (a process called CIMIC) as a key variable in the Italian PSOs. We will analyse in detail the main lessons learned from past military interventions as well as the general context in which new tendencies are taking place. The maintaining of a minimum security frame becomes essential to fulfil activities ‘collateral’ to the mission: reconstructing services and infrastructure, food distribution, water and medication, law and order, de-mining, training of local forces, and supporting local institutions. These are the main tasks to obtain thrust and support from the population.     

Terrorism,insurgency, kidnapping,and security in Africa's energy sector

Energy continues to serve as the bedrock of modern economies and the main driver of modern society. For Africa, the production and supply of energy resources such as crude oil, natural gas, uranium, coal, biomass, biofuels and other renewables are an important source of employment, rents, taxes, royalties and profits. This sector brings in several tens of billions of dollars of revenue annually. The production and delivery of such resources, however, depend on critical infrastructures such as pipelines, refineries, processing plants, terminals, rigs, electrical energy pylons, substations, pump stations, vessels, and tankers. These infrastructures have been attacked by terrorists, insurgents, vandals and saboteurs, all of whom see them as targets against which to register their grievances and extract concessions from the state. This paper is a chronological account of some of the documented incidents of terrorism, insurgency, kidnapping, destruction, sabotage, and human casualties suffered in the oil and gas sectors in Africa between 1999 and 2012. It is based on data extracted from the databases of the RAND Database of World Terrorism Incidents and the University of Maryland's Global Terrorism Database (GTD).     

国内外结构钢焊条研究的现状与发展

本文主要介绍了国外焊条的现状和发展趋势,包括焊条的高韧性、高效率、低尘低毒和耐吸潮性能,为国内的焊条研究提供了参考依据。     

A Sign of Victory?: ‘Scottish Swords’ and Other Weapons in the Possession of the ‘Auld Innemie’

Many late medieval documents, notably inventories of arms and armour, of Englishmen contain references to ‘Scottish swords’ and other weapons. What did the compilers of these documents mean when they described a weapon as ‘Scottish’? How did such weapons come to be in the possession of these men? This article will attempt to explain this phenomenon drawing on primary documentary sources and surviving material culture from Glasgow Museums’ collections and others, as well as artworks from the period.     

Tacit support for terrorism: The rapprochement between the USSR and Palestinian guerrilla organizations following the 1967 war

This article demonstrates the inconsistent and wavering Soviet attitude towards national liberation movements in general and the Palestinian organizations in particular. Until the late 1960s, the Soviets viewed these organizations with suspicion, hesitating to engage in political dialogue with them. However, in the 1970s, political and military events in the region, as well as modifications in the Kremlin's Cold War strategies, led to a general shift towards the Middle East in Soviet foreign policy. Soviet leaders showed increased willingness to provide certain Palestinian organizations with arms with which to conduct terrorist activities against Israeli, pro-Israeli, Jewish and Western targets. The article explores the complex relations between Palestinian organizations and the USSR in the field of international terror. The study also exposes and analyzes the nature and content of Soviet–Palestinian arms dialogues and transactions. It provides clear evidence that Soviet policymakers and other luminaries were fully informed of, and sometimes directly involved in, these transactions and dialogues at the highest levels.     

A1 Qaeda and the radical Islamic challenge to western strategy

The September 11 global crisis prompted by the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon raises major questions concerning the nature and trajectory of terrorism in the post-Cold War global order. Hitherto, terrorism has been largely debated by analysts at the level of nation states. Terrorist and insurgent movements have also been largely anchored in nationalist and ethnic power bases even when they have sought to mobilise a transnational ideological appeal on religious or class grounds. There have been a few exceptions to this pattern such as the alliance between the German Baader-Meinhof group and the Japanese Red Army Faction, but even such international alliances as this did not, until at least the 1980s, presage anything like a global terrorist network necessitating a global strategic response. This study examines terrorism and global strategic responses.     

Helping hands: external support for the KNU insurgency in Burma

This article analyses to what extent the Burmese KNU insurgency made use of external support from states, refugees, and diasporas. Based on extensive fieldwork it is concluded that support from neighbouring states and refugees has for years kept the Karen rebellion alive. Western countries perceived forms of resistance to the illegitimate Burmese regime as just and have therefore played a crucial role in the continuation of conflict in Karen State. It is important that policymakers and donors as well as executing organizations continue to reflect critically on the way they exercise their work.     

Cyberpower in Strategic Affairs: Neither Unthinkable nor Blessed

Abstract

This article explores the effect of connectivity on strategic affairs. It argues that the effect on war's character is potentially, although not yet shown in practice, considerably large. Its effect upon the distribution of power among states in the international system is small, contrary to the claims of ‘cyberwar’ alarmists. All told, however, its effect upon strategic affairs is complex. On the one hand, it represents a significant advance in the ‘complexification’ of state strategies, understood in the sense of the production of intended effects. On the other hand, strategists today – still predominantly concerned with the conflicts and confrontations of states and organised military power – are generally missing the power which non-traditional strategic actors, better adapted to the network flows of the information age, are beginning to deploy. These new forms of organization and coercion will challenge the status quo.