面向多目标跟踪的PHD滤波多传感器数据融合算法

针对密集杂波环境下单传感器应用高斯混合PHD算法进行多目标跟踪时性能下降的问题,提出一种面向多目标跟踪的PHD滤波多传感器数据融合算法。首先构建了基于高斯混合PHD滤波的多传感器数据融合系统框架,各传感器利用高斯混合PHD滤波算法进行局部状态估计,然后对各传感器的状态估计结果进行关联度计算,最后通过构建自适应混合参数,引入协方差交叉算法对关联状态进行融合。仿真实验表明,与单传感器高斯混合PHD多目标跟踪算法相比,所提算法有效提高了目标数量和状态的估计精度。     

回归分析在多雷达航迹关联和融合中的应用

雷达数据关联融合是多站多目标跟踪的主要问题,提出了一种回归分析的数据融合方法.首先,对测量数据进行统计分析,给出观测融合的点估计和置信区间估计,之后基于目标的观测融合数据,采用强跟踪滤波器对多目标进行跟踪.利用上述方法,进行了各种态势下的仿真实验,验证了算法的有效性.     

神经网络辅助多目标跟踪数据融合

多目标跟踪(MTT)算法包括卡尔曼滤波和数据关联算法等,而数据关联算法又是最重要、最困难的方面.联合概率数据关联(JPDA)算法对单传感器多目标跟踪是一种良好的算法,但对于多传感器多目标跟踪的情况,特别是目标较为密集时,计算量剧增.提出了一种改进的方法,一方面将神经网络引入到卡尔曼滤波器中,提高滤波器的自适应能力,减小卡尔曼滤波器的估计误差从而改善多目标跟踪精度;另一方面用神经网络辅助JPDA提高正确关联概率,减小计算量.经仿真研究表明,该方法是行之有效的.     

模糊决策融合的红外弱小目标序列检测

针对红外序列图像中运动弱小点目标的检测问题,重点研究序列关联检测算法.在多帧关联检测的基础上,引入决策融合概念,建立了基于模糊决策融合的序列关联检测方法.基于贝叶斯最小风险准则建立分布式决策模糊融合方法,有效融合单帧检测的结果,提高序列检测算法的性能.实测数据的实验结果验证了基于贝叶斯最小风险准则的分布式决策模糊融合方法的可行性和有效性.     

目标多特征信息的模糊数据关联算法

传统的解决密集杂波环境中多目标跟踪的数据关联算法主要是基于目标的距离特征。由于利用的信息有限,容易导致目标的误跟和失跟。提出一种基于目标多特征信息的数据关联算法,将目标的距离特征、方位特征和雷达散射截面积特征进行模糊信息融合,实现对雷达目标的关联。仿真结果表明了该算法的有效性。     

基于模糊聚类的多目标跟踪算法

提出了一种新的基于模糊聚类的多目标跟踪算法,该算法通过一种改进的模糊聚类算法,首先得到可能的目标数和测量点迹与目标预测位置之间的隶属度,然后结合Kalman滤波将隶属度作为权值系数对预测新息向量进行加权,来实现目标状态估计的更新。仿真结果表明,传统数据融合多目标跟踪算法,一般需要假定目标数并且在多目标密集时易产生关联错误而导致跟踪发散,新算法通过模糊聚类客观有效地确定了目标数并且通过加权过程保证了对多目标密集时的高精度。     

逼近理想灰关联投影多目标决策的点迹-航迹关联算法

点迹-航迹数据关联是多目标跟踪的重要组成部分。将多目标决策思想和灰关联分析方法引入点迹-航迹关联的研究,提出了一种基于逼近理想灰关联投影多目标决策的点迹-航迹数据关联算法。仿真实验表明,该算法在密集多目标情况下有一定的实际应用价值。     

改进CHNN神经网络航迹关联算法

航迹关联和航迹融合是分布式数据融合的重点。基于Hopfield神经网络的航迹关联算法是建立在每个传感器都发现相同目标的基础上的,但是在实际应用中往往不是这样。改进了基于连续型神经网络的广义航迹关联算法,进一步地,该算法可以推广到多个传感器的情形。为了加速Hopfield神经网络的收敛速度,重新定义马氏距离。计算机仿真表示,改进算法适用于多传感器航迹关联问题,且适用于密集目标航迹交叉的情形。     

多目标环境下基于分布式融合思想的误差估计方法

针对多雷达多目标跟踪过程中分布未知的系统误差估计问题,提出了基于"分布式融合思想"的误差估计方法。给出相应误差估计方法的计算公式,利用改进截断奇异值方法来减轻矩阵病态性的影响,提高误差估计的稳健性。设置了两种不同的系统误差仿真场景,对"分布式"误差估计方法在两种情形下的估计性能进行了仔细对比分析。结合"分布式"误差估计方法与"集中式估计"方法所体现出的优缺点,提出了一种将两种方法结合起来的系统误差估计算法,算法通过合理选择阈值门限η,能够在多雷达多目标且系统误差分布未知的复杂环境下对两种误差估计算法自适应地进行切换,从而充分发挥两种误差估计算法各自的优点,给出更好的误差估计结果。     

密集目标有偏航迹整体匹配关联方法

针对密集目标和传感器探测存在较大系统偏差的复杂条件下的分布式融合中航迹关联问题,设计了一种整体匹配航迹关联方法,首先将所有航迹划分成若干个关联聚,对各传感器都有多个目标航迹的关联聚采用多目标点图整体匹配,对某传感器只有单目标航迹的关联聚采用航迹段整体匹配,从而获得关联聚内所有航迹的关联关系。在仿真分析中,随机产生态势,分别计算新算法在不同情形下的漏关联、正确关联率、错误关联率。仿真验证结果表明该算法在不同目标密集程度、系统误差情形下都有较好的适应性。     

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).     

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.     

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.     

The UK,interrogation and Iraq, 2003–2008

The UK’s interrogation operations during the conflict in Iraq (2003–2008) are often portrayed by the media as involving significant amounts of mistreatment. This article demonstrates that these practices are not necessarily representative of the UK’s interrogation operations across this conflict. In doing so it contributes to the limited literature on the practice of interrogation and on the UK’s combat operations in Iraq. The UK’s interrogation capability, and therefore its intelligence-gathering capability, is shown to have rested primarily with the military’s Joint Forward Interrogation Team (JFIT). The JFIT suffered from limitations to the number, training and experience of its interrogators and interpreters. It is argued that maintaining a permanent, higher level of preparedness for interrogation by the British armed forces is desirable.     

Remembering and forgetting Mirambo: Histories of war in modern Africa

ABSTRACT

While the study of organised violence is considered essential to understanding the history of the West, and accordingly imbued with various layers of meaning and remembrance, war is widely regarded as inimical to the modern nation in Africa and stable development more broadly. Using examples drawn from primarily from East Africa, this paper considers the ways in which warfare in the deeper (‘precolonial’) past has been framed and envisioned in recent decades, in particular by governments whose own roots lie in revolutionary armed struggle and who began life as guerrilla movements. While in some cases particular elements of the deeper past were indeed mobilised in pursuit of contemporary political goals, in many other scenarios histories of precolonial violence were beheld as problematic and unworthy of remembrance. This paper highlights the paradox and ambiguity which has attended the memory of key aspects of Africa’s deeper past.     

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.     

SIM—LISP:一个通信网络管理专家系统外壳的设计与实现

本文介绍了笔者为开发名为OONMES的网络管理专家系统所实现的一个简单专家系统工具SIM-LISP。SIM-LISP是一个用C/C++语言来实现的模拟LISP语言的可调用函数集,它短小精巧,速度快,可以完成针对网管专家系统的事实或规则知识的表示、匹配、合一和推理等基本操作,并有与知识对象的连接功能,是网管专家系统内核实现的支撑环境。     

Al Qaida on the US invasion of Afghanistan in their own words

This article consists of selected translations from captured interviews and dairies of Al Qaida members. The time period covered is from mid-2001 to early 2002 and concerns their operations in Afghanistan. The material clearly conveys a range of emotion, from confident to despondent, as well as efforts to contest the US actions. The first several pages give the reader context and some possible “lessons learned,” but the story(ies) are best told by the Al Qaida members themselves. All names are pseudonyms.     

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.