模型参数自适应的交互多模强跟踪算法

基于强跟踪滤波器对突变状态的良好跟踪能力,设计了一种自适应交互多模算法.在交互多模算法框架内,计算"当前"统计模型的概率和目标机动强度信息(由残差统计距离来表征),自适应地调整"当前"统计模型的加速度等参数,提高了"当前"统计模型的自适应性和滤波器的鲁棒性,增强了系统对目标突发强机动的跟踪能力.仿真结果验证了该算法的有效性.     

一种新的机动目标模型及其自适应跟踪算法

针对机动目标跟踪问题,在截断正态概率密度模型的基础上,通过目标机动状况与相邻采样时刻间位置估计量变化之间的函数关系实现噪声方差自适应调整,提出了一种新的自适应滤波算法——基于截断正态概率密度模型修正的自适应滤波算法。计算机仿真结果表明,该算法在跟踪机动目标时,具有良好的跟踪性能,并极大地改善了跟踪非机动目标的能力。     

一种新型杂波环境下突发机动目标跟踪算法

针对杂波环境下突发机动目标跟踪性能下降问题,提出了一种基于自适应匀加速模型的交互式自适应概率数据关联算法。该算法在交互式概率关联算法基础上,采用带渐消因子的自适应匀加速模型(ACA)与匀速模型(CV)相交互,克服了卡尔曼和扩展卡尔曼滤波的三大缺陷,保证了在突发机动下的良好跟踪性能,扩大了机动目标的跟踪范围,实现了杂波环...     

密集杂波环境下一种新的机动目标跟踪算法

针对密集杂波环境下的机动目标跟踪问题,在传统方法基础上结合模糊推理的思想,提出一种模糊自适应交互多模型概率数据关联算法。该算法将目标运动模式分为机动和非机动两类区别对待,无需选取大量模型来覆盖机动目标的运动模式,而是动态调节模型集合中部分模型的参数,具有更强的自适应跟踪能力。最后,给出了算法的仿真分析,结果表明:该方法能够有效地跟踪密集杂波中的机动目标,并且跟踪性能较传统方法有所提高。     

自适应交互多模型算法在机动目标跟踪中的应用

针对多模型算法在机动目标跟踪中存在的问题,运用交互多模型算法(IMM)和自适应滤波理论,设计了一种自适应交互多模型算法(AIMM),结合目标运动模型对目标当前加速度和其方差进行估计,并在此基础上给出了AIMM中模型集和模型转移概率的设计方法,进行了计算机仿真.蒙特卡罗仿真结果表明,与标准IMM算法相比,该算法比IMM算法的跟踪性能有很大提高,跟踪复杂机动目标比IMM有更快的收敛速度,跟踪滞后问题得到较好的解决,跟踪目标的稳定性和精确性均优于IMM算法,有利于机动目标的实时跟踪.     

杂波环境下机动目标跟踪算法研究

杂波环境下的机动目标跟踪问题具有非线性、非高斯、不完全观测的特点,其难点在于观测值与目标的对应关系及每一时刻的运动模式均呈现高度不确定性。文中将多模型理论和辅助粒子滤波算法相结合,提出了一种新的杂波环境下机动目标跟踪算法——多模型辅助粒子滤波算法(MMAPF)。仿真结果表明,该算法与传统的交互多模型——扩展卡尔曼滤波算法、辅助粒子滤波算法相比,在相同的情况下,具有更高的滤波精度和较好总体性能。     

临空高速目标模糊机动检测的IMM-EKPF算法

针对临空高速目标运动状态多变,跟踪困难的问题,将扩展卡尔曼粒子滤波与交互多模算法相结合,提出IMM-EKPF算法,该算法不需要计算雅可比矩阵,能有效求解非线性非高斯环境的机动目标跟踪问题。在此基础上,有效结合模糊机动检测,可以在目标机动和非机动之间转换跟踪算法,以提高跟踪精度,减少计算量。仿真验证该方法在临空高速目标运动状态多变的情况下跟踪效果较好。     

基于参数自适应CS模型的机动目标跟踪算法

为提高对机动目标的跟踪精度,提出一种基于参数自适应当前统计(CS)模型的跟踪算法。即利用加速度增量与位移的关系,自适应调整加速度方差,根据量测残差的统计距离判别目标机动特性,并调整模型的机动频率和滤波器增益系数,提高算法模型与目标机动模式的匹配程度。仿真结果表明,基于参数自适应CS模型跟踪算法能够较好地改善对强机动目标的跟踪性能。     

用于机动目标跟踪的自适应交互式多模型算法

针对当前统计模型对弱机动或非机动目标跟踪效果不理想等问题,提出了一种修正当前统计模型与匀速模型的自适应交互式多模型算法,可在线修正当前统计模型的加速度极限值,调整过程噪声方差,提高了当前统计模型的自适应性。同时,通过在常规匀速模型中引入机动检测机制,抑制了常规匀速模型对机动目标跟踪的滤波发散,通过引入强跟踪算法,增强了模型对目标突发机动的自适应跟踪能力。仿真结果表明,该算法充分发挥了当前统计模型和交互式多模型算法的优势,对强机动和弱机动目标都具有很好的效果。     

基于虚拟检测函数下的IMM-UKF机动目标跟踪

为了有效提高对机动目标的跟踪效果,将无迹卡尔曼滤波(UKF)引入到交互多模型(IMM)算法框架内,加强状态估计精度;引入强跟踪滤波器(STF)到UKF算法中,避免对强机动目标的过大时间延迟和跟踪性能差的缺点;提出虚拟检测函数法,在跟踪过程中自适应调整"当前"统计模型的机动参数,加大模型集与目标真实运动模式匹配概率。仿真结果验证了改进算法的有效性。     

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).     

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.     

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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.     

基于GTST-DMLD-ESD的装备RMS建模仿真

装备的RMS是装备的重要设计参数,是影响战备完好和保障能力的关键因素.引入GTST-DMLD作为主要建模工具,建立起装备系统的RMS描述模型,以ESD为补充和扩展,对维修过程进行建模.并以GTST-DMLD-ESD模型作为装备RMS仿真的核心,对装备RMS仿真模型的总体框架进行了研究,并对各模块进行了较为详细的探讨.     

Panjwai: a tale of two COINs in Afghanistan

The US Army has two approaches to counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan. One is hard, or combat-focused, and the other is soft, or development-focused. This study examines two US Army task forces deployed to Panjwai District, Afghanistan from 2012 to 2013. CTF 4-9 and 1-38 offer a meaningful comparison because they pursued these contrasting approaches among the same population and against the same enemy at the same time and place. The study compares each unit’s approach and finds that neither approach was successful absent the other. The article concludes by recommending further research into combining the approaches at the operational level.