智能搜救机器人在障碍地形的自主构型规划

为了解决带有辅助摆臂的智能搜救机器人自动规划构型以实现自主越障的难题,提出一种能够适应复杂地面形状的搜救机器人越障构型规划新方法,其核心是一种高适应性、高效率的机器人姿态预测算法。通过将地形表示为离散的点集,建立了搜救机器人的单侧姿态预测数学模型;进一步提出了快速求解该问题的算法,每秒可预测1 000～1 500个姿态。基于此,设计了机器人越障过程中状态、动作的评价指标,运用动态规划算法与滚动优化思想构建了具有优化能力的、能够实时运行的构型规划器。仿真与实物实验的结果表明,该方法能够使机器人自主调整构型穿越复杂地形,且相较强化学习算法和人工操作具有更平稳的越障效果。     

平流层飞艇气动特性相似缩比分析与风洞试验

阐述了平流层飞艇气动特性天地相似缩比分析设计方法,给出了刚体模型与柔性体模型完成风洞试验需满足的相似准则数,并指导完成两类缩比模型研制及风洞试验。通过对两类缩比模型风洞试验数据的分析,发现平流层飞艇不同充气内压下气动特性规律基本一致,但较刚体模型有明显的差异;柔性特征下的气动阻力系数明显高于刚体,在零攻角状态下甚至高出一倍,引发滚转气动力矩特性出现稳定与发散的本质变化。这对平流层飞艇特别是低压保形下的柔性气动特性评估,克服现有采用刚体气动特性数据或工程估算方法进行“动阻平衡”飞艇总体设计存在较大偏差的弊端,具有重要工程应用价值。     

The impact of animal welfare regulations on firms' product offerings: Humane or organic product?

Increased public concerns about animal welfare have spurred new regulations to improve animals' treatment and living conditions. We study how these regulations affect firms' product offerings, prices, and profits. We consider two competing animal agriculture supply chains, each consisting of a supplier and a buyer. New regulations require firms to choose between offering humane or organic products, which are differentiated by animals' living conditions. We find that consumers' growing awareness of animal welfare encourages firms to offer organic products, which require the highest standards for animals' living conditions. We also show that tightening humane product standards and loosening organic product standards encourage firms to offer organic products—but with distinct pricing implications. The former leads to higher retail prices whereas the latter may lower retail prices. Depending on costs and consumers' awareness of animal welfare, a humane product may be priced higher or lower than an organic product. Furthermore, we provide conditions under which a regulator should offer a unit-cost or an investment cost subsidy to improve social welfare. We show that subsidies can encourage firms to change from offering humane to organic products, or vice versa, to enhance total social welfare.     

环形串联直缸发动机配气系统设计

环形串联直缸发动机具有功率密度高、惯性力小等诸多优点,但其运行时气缸转子始终绕输出轴周向转动,使得传统发动机静态的配气方法不再适用。因此,研究设计一种能够满足该型发动机进排气需求的新型配气系统意义重大。针对该型发动机独特的环形串联结构和差速运动特性,研究了各转子气缸的容积变化规律,分析了各转子气缸进排气相位与转子转角之间的关系,创新设计了一种基于气道复用的动态位置配气系统。根据二冲程发动机配气方案设计加工了配气系统零部件,并通过高压气动实验完成了对该型发动机的动态进排气过程。实验结果表明,当给定外加驱动气压0.25 MPa时,发动机能够以约200 r/min的速度稳定运转,有效验证了该配气系统的可行性。     

融合遗传蚁群算法的区域覆盖卫星星座优化算法

针对特定区域覆盖并密集重访的卫星星座优化设计问题,采用回归轨道和共星下点轨迹星座的设计方案,提出特定区域内重点地区权值排序覆盖并融合遗传蚁群算法优化求解卫星星座轨道参数的方法。分析区域覆盖星座的设计需求,建立回归轨道覆盖区域模型,利用遗传蚁群算法计算出最优轨道根数,使用共星下点轨迹星座求解算法求出所有星座参数。仿真实验结果表明优化设计的星座满足对于区域目标的覆盖时间和重访次数需求,并对重要地点按照权值排序进行了侧重性覆盖和重访,验证了算法的可行性。     

涡轮盘疲劳寿命可靠性设计仿真及优化策略

涡轮盘是航空发动机主要部件之一,一旦发生破坏性故障将导致严重的后果。在充分考虑影响涡轮盘高低周复合疲劳寿命因素不确定性基础上,以MATLAB为平台,设计了涡轮盘高低周复合疲劳寿命可靠性优化设计的联合仿真平台。利用寿命函数和寿命可靠性分析极限状态函数中的共性需求,提出了在优化迭代的过程中自适应构建寿命函数Kriging模型和寿命可靠性极限状态面Kriging模型时共用训练样本点的策略。同时,提出了一种构建寿命函数Kriging模型的学习函数。使用所搭建的疲劳寿命可靠性优化设计平台,完成了某型涡轮盘盘心、榫槽以及涡轮盘系统高低周复合疲劳寿命的可靠性优化设计。结果表明,最优设计方案的局部最大应力显著降低,均值寿命大幅提高,并满足可靠性约束。     

The impact of operational decisions on the design of salesforce incentives

When facing high levels of overstock inventories, firms often push their salesforce to work harder than usual to attract more demand, and one way to achieve that is to offer attractive incentives. However, most research on the optimal design of salesforce incentives ignores this dependency and assumes that operational decisions of production/inventory management are separable from design of salesforce incentives. We investigate this dependency in the problem of joint salesforce incentive design and inventory/production control. We develop a dynamic Principal‐Agent model with both Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection in which the principal is strategic and risk‐neutral but the agent is myopic and risk‐averse. We find the optimal joint incentive design and inventory control strategy, and demonstrate the impact of operational decisions on the design of a compensation package. The optimal strategy is characterized by a menu of inventory‐dependent salesforce compensation contracts. We show that the optimal compensation package depends highly on the operational decisions; when inventory levels are high, (a) the firm offers a more attractive contract and (b) the contract is effective in inducing the salesforce to work harder than usual. In contrast, when inventory levels are low, the firm can offer a less attractive compensation package, but still expect the salesforce to work hard enough. In addition, we show that although the inventory/production management and the design of salesforce compensation package are highly correlated, information acquisition through contract design allows the firm to implement traditional inventory control policies: a market‐based state‐dependent policy (with a constant base‐stock level when the inventory is low) that makes use of the extracted market condition from the agent is optimal. This work appears to be the first article on operations that addresses the important interplay between inventory/production control and salesforce compensation decisions in a dynamic setting. Our findings shed light on the effective integration of these two significant aspects for the successful operation of a firm. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 61: 320–340, 2014     

基于星架系统结构参数的卫星载荷减振方法

卫星工程中广泛采用的有效载荷支架结构可能会与卫星主体结构发生动力耦合,进而造成有效载荷响应显著放大。进一步将有效载荷支架与卫星主体结构考虑为一个整体系统(称为星架系统)。采用有限元方法建立某型卫星系统级动力学分析模型,从中提取结构参数建立集中参数模型,并针对结构参数进行单变量影响分析。结果表明:所建集中参数模型能够反映支架结构与卫星主体结构之间动力耦合规律,载荷响应对两者频率参数的敏感程度远高于其阻尼和质量参数,卫星结构设计阶段应重点考量主体结构和支架结构频率关系以优化卫星载荷的动力学环境。     

Halo轨道的航天器编队构型设计

针对不同干涉基线约束下的最优Halo轨道编队构型设计方法展开研究。以Richardson关于Halo轨道的三阶近似解析解为基础建立同一轨道上两航天器编队的相对运动学模型;以平动点为质心的旋转坐标系为基准构造与编队主航天器和观测目标相关的旋转坐标系,并在此坐标系中给出不同于二体问题的干涉基线计算方法;以满足基线约束下观测时间最长为目标给出最优编队构型设计方法。最后,以绕日-地L2点的Halo轨道为例对上述编队构型设计方法的有效性进行了仿真验证。