Warranty claims modeling

A company wishes to estimate or predict its financial exposure in a reporting period of length T (typically one quarter) because of warranty claims. We propose a fairly general random measure model which allows computation of the Laplace transform of the total claim made against the company in the reporting interval due to warranty claims. When specialized to a Poisson process of both sales and warranty claims, statistical estimation of relevant quantities is possible. The methodology is illustrated by analyzing automobile sales and warranty claims data from a large car manufacturer for a single car model and model year. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2008     

Estimating failure time distribution and its parameters based on intermediate data from a Wiener degradation model

Instead of measuring a Wiener degradation or performance process at predetermined time points to track degradation or performance of a product for estimating its lifetime, we propose to obtain the first‐passage times of the process over certain nonfailure thresholds. Based on only these intermediate data, we obtain the uniformly minimum variance unbiased estimator and uniformly most accurate confidence interval for the mean lifetime. For estimating the lifetime distribution function, we propose a modified maximum likelihood estimator and a new estimator and prove that, by increasing the sample size of the intermediate data, these estimators and the above‐mentioned estimator of the mean lifetime can achieve the same levels of accuracy as the estimators assuming one has failure times. Thus, our method of using only intermediate data is useful for highly reliable products when their failure times are difficult to obtain. Furthermore, we show that the proposed new estimator of the lifetime distribution function is more accurate than the standard and modified maximum likelihood estimators. We also obtain approximate confidence intervals for the lifetime distribution function and its percentiles. Finally, we use light‐emitting diodes as an example to illustrate our method and demonstrate how to validate the Wiener assumption during the testing. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2008     

Optimum step‐stress accelerated life test plans for log‐location‐scale distributions

This article presents new tools and methods for finding optimum step‐stress accelerated life test plans. First, we present an approach to calculate the large‐sample approximate variance of the maximum likelihood estimator of a quantile of the failure time distribution at use conditions from a step‐stress accelerated life test. The approach allows for multistep stress changes and censoring for general log‐location‐scale distributions based on a cumulative exposure model. As an application of this approach, the optimum variance is studied as a function of shape parameter for both Weibull and lognormal distributions. Graphical comparisons among test plans using step‐up, step‐down, and constant‐stress patterns are also presented. The results show that depending on the values of the model parameters and quantile of interest, each of the three test plans can be preferable in terms of optimum variance. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2008     

量子雷达及其目标探测性能综述

量子技术与传统技术相结合以提升经典系统性能是近年来电子信息、计算机技术等众多科学领域研究热点。由于隐身和电子对抗技术的进步和日益成熟,雷达作为一类典型的电子信息系统,其目标探测受到了越来越多的挑战。从雷达目标探测角度出发,介绍了量子雷达的基本概念与分类、若干实现模型,重点剖析、归纳了量子纠缠等量子效应增强雷达目标探测性能的物理机理与研究现状,指出了量子雷达研究和实现中的关键技术与研究方向。     

基于几何法和信息融合的2D雷达目标高度估计

在由 2 D雷达组成的雷达网中 ,首先用几何方法得到了 2个目标高度估计值 ,然后利用信息融合思想 ,在最小均方误差估计准则下得到了目标高度估计融合值及其方差表示。仿真计算表明 ,基于融合方法得到的高度估计较之只用几何方法得到的高度估计 ,性能得到了明显的提高。     

可供实用的舰船风浪中摇荡时历预报的模式

舰船在风浪中摇荡时历的极短期预报 ,具有多方面的实用价值 .现有的各种预报方法中 ,以卷积法和时间序列法中的ARMA模型较为常用 ,但如何测量艏前波是上述方法实施的前提条件 ,则未能解决 .文中提出的在舰船舯部装塔克测波仪 ,将所测波形时历转换为艏前任意点波形时历的方法 ,可解决上述矛盾 .再采用ARMA建模、依AIC法则估计模型阶数的预报方式 ,即可用于实船进行摇荡时历短期预报     

最小交互熵谱估计在反坦克导弹系统仿真模型验证中的应用

针对反坦克导弹系统动态过程仿真的输出具有短时序、低信噪比的特点 ,研究了应用最小交互熵谱估计验证导弹系统仿真模型有效性的方法 ,并结合某型号滚转稳定的反坦克导弹系统的仿真数据和理论计算数据给出了最小交互熵谱估计的应用结果。     

相似系统间调整因子的量化方法

探讨一种便于操作、系统而量化的方法 ,以预计新研系统的可靠性参数。在相似设备法的基础上 ,提出了利用可量化的调整因子对相似系统的可靠性参数进行转换的方法 ,有效地提高了相似设备法的可操作性和分析精度 ,对研究相似设备法在工程技术领域的应用也具有一定的参考价值     

防空武器火控系统对空中目标参数估计方法仿真

针对防空武器火控系统的特点,提出了一种防空武器火控系统对空中目标参数估计的方法,可以在不知道目标距离的条件下得到目标的航向角与俯仰角,实现对目标的被动式跟踪,对估计误差的统计特性进行了分析,仿真结果表明了该方法比传统的估计方法更加可行.     

亚音速飞行目标气动噪声方位角估计技术

亚音速飞行弹道气动声源是宽带非平稳噪声。提出基于小波函数的波达方向估计算法,并采用时频分析方法进行特征分析,获取气动噪声显著目标特性。通过优化时间-空间谱特征,对在时频域空间谱的目标信号进行优化,从而增强目标信号在空间谱上的显著性,最终有效实现亚音速飞行弹道气动声源的角度估计。实验数据验证表明,基于时频分析阵列信号处理模型,可以更好地实现亚音速飞行目标气动噪声方位角估计。