On the application and extension of system signatures in engineering reliability

Following a review of the basic ideas in structural reliability, including signature‐based representation and preservation theorems for systems whose components have independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) lifetimes, extensions that apply to the comparison of coherent systems of different sizes, and stochastic mixtures of them, are obtained. It is then shown that these results may be extended to vectors of exchangeable random lifetimes. In particular, for arbitrary systems of sizes m < n with exchangeable component lifetimes, it is shown that the distribution of an m‐component system's lifetime can be written as a mixture of the distributions of k‐out‐of‐n systems. When the system has n components, the vector of coefficients in this mixture representation is precisely the signature of the system defined in Samaniego, IEEE Trans Reliabil R–34 (1985) 69–72. These mixture representations are then used to obtain new stochastic ordering properties for coherent or mixed systems of different sizes. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2008     

On a class of multiple failure mode systems

The primary objective of this work is to introduce and perform a detailed study of a class of multistate reliability structures in which no ordering in the levels of components' performances is necessary. In particular, the present paper develops the basic theory (exact reliability formulae, reliability bounds, asymptotic results) that will make it feasible to investigate systems whose components are allowed to experience m ≥ 2 kinds of failure (failure modes), and their breakdown is described by different families of cut sets in each mode. For illustration purposes, two classical (binary) systems are extended to analogous multiple failure mode structures, and their reliability performance (bounds and asymptotic behavior) is investigated by numerical experimentation. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 49: 167–185, 2002; DOI 10.1002/nav.10007     

泛探雷达长时间相参积累目标检测方法研究

泛探雷达利用同时多个接收波束覆盖整个观测空域,可利用长时间相参积累提高动目标检测性能,然而必须解决目标在长积累时间之内出现跨波束、跨距离单元和跨多普勒单元现象带来的积累增益下降问题。在跨波束影响可忽略前提下,研究了基于Keystone变换与Dechirping变换相结合的运动补偿方法,并在此基础上提出了基于Clean思想的多目标检测流程。通过对仿真数据与外场实测数据的处理与分析,验证了本文方法的有效性,可以用于泛探雷达的目标检测。     

基于GA-ML-PMHT的多基站无源协同定位方法

针对无源协同定位系统中低可观测目标的航迹初始及维持问题,提出一种基于遗传算法的极大似然概率多假设的多基站无源协同定位方法。首先,建立多基站无源协同定位系统数学模型。其次,提出基于极大似然概率多假设的无源协同定位航迹初始算法,并首次利用遗传算法解决极大似然概率多假设中的优化求解问题,以提高目标检测跟踪性能。最后,通过滑窗法实现航迹维持。仿真结果表明,所提方法能够有效解决多基站无源协同定位系统中低可观测目标的航迹初始及维持问题。     

The “signature” of a coherent system and its application to comparisons among systems

Various methods and criteria for comparing coherent systems are discussed. Theoretical results are derived for comparing systems of a given order when components are assumed to have independent and identically distributed lifetimes. All comparisons rely on the representation of a system's lifetime distribution as a function of the system's “signature,” that is, as a function of the vector p= (p₁, … , p_n), where p_i is the probability that the system fails upon the occurrence of the ith component failure. Sufficient conditions are provided for the lifetime of one system to be larger than that of another system in three different senses: stochastic ordering, hazard rate ordering, and likelihood ratio ordering. Further, a new preservation theorem for hazard rate ordering is established. In the final section, the notion of system signature is used to examine a recently published conjecture regarding componentwise and systemwise redundancy. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 46: 507–523, 1999     

一种差分空时分组码及其性能分析

文中介绍了一种差分空时分组码的编译方法及其性能分析,与之对比,先导入单天线时差分调制的概念及其方法,理论分析表明,采用无需信道估值的差分空时分组码与相干检测空时分组码相比其性能差3 dB,但与单天线相比仍有接近于10 dB的分集增益。     

基于高斯序列乘积和的相干非高斯分布杂波模拟新方法

提出了一种全新的相干K分布杂波模拟方法。相比经典的零记忆非线性变换(ZMNL)和球不变随机过程(SIRP)法,该方法的优点是能产生自相关函数(ACF)为任意复数的杂波序列,且不需要进行矩阵求逆和非线性变换,运算速度得到显著改善。仿真结果证明了这种方法的有效性。     

Tail hazard rate ordering properties of order statistics and coherent systems

We study tail hazard rate ordering properties of coherent systems using the representation of the distribution of a coherent system as a mixture of the distributions of the series systems obtained from its path sets. Also some ordering properties are obtained for order statistics which, in this context, represent the lifetimes of k‐out‐of‐n systems. We pay special attention to systems with components satisfying the proportional hazard rate model or with exponential, Weibull and Pareto type II distributions. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2007     

Progressive Type‐II censoring and coherent systems

A new connection between the distribution of component failure times of a coherent system and (adaptive) progressively Type‐II censored order statistics is established. Utilizing this property, we develop inferential procedures when the data is given by all component failures until system failure in two scenarios: In the case of complete information, we assume that the failed component is also observed whereas in the case of incomplete information, we have only information about the failure times but not about the components which have failed. In the first setting, we show that inferential methods for adaptive progressively Type‐II censored data can directly be applied to the problem. For incomplete information, we face the problem that the corresponding censoring plan is not observed and that the available inferential procedures depend on the knowledge of the used censoring plan. To get estimates for distributional parameters, we propose maximum likelihood estimators which can be obtained by solving the likelihood equations directly or via an Expectation‐Maximization‐algorithm type procedure. For an exponential distribution, we discuss also a linear estimator to estimate the mean. Moreover, we establish exact distributions for some estimators in the exponential case which can be used, for example, to construct exact confidence intervals. The results are illustrated by a five component bridge system. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 62: 512–530, 2015     

合成双射流冲击平板流场结构与模态分解分析

为揭示合成双射流冲击平板流场结构特征,通过大涡模拟方法对合成双射流冲击平板流动进行了仿真,采用有限时间Lyapunov指数方法对流场的拉格朗日涡结构进行了识别,并与欧拉框架下的速度矢量和涡量结果进行了对比分析。结果表明,在合成双射流两股射流交替作用下,射流核心区涡系结构较为复杂且涡量丰富,远离核心区存在一对稳定的涡结构,且拉格朗日涡结构与涡量对应较好,为合成双射流冲击冷却的布局设计提供了指导。另外,流场本征正交分解表明,第一阶模态关于激励器出口中心轴线大致对称,其能量占总体能量的35%,前6阶模态的能量占80%;根据前6阶模态所反映的流场特性,合成双射流冲击平板流场具有高度的对称性。