基于LMI方法的非脆弱控制器设计

研究具有加性控制器增益摄动闭环系统的稳定性问题,提出一种基于LMI凸优化的非脆弱状态反馈控制器设计方法,证明了控制器增益摄动时闭环系统稳定的充分必要条件,给出了具有非脆弱性控制器的设计形式和求解方法.仿真结果表明,应用该方法设计的控制器是非脆弱的,对控制器增益摄动具有很强的鲁棒性,响应速度与控制效果明显优于常规控制器.     

机载布撒器混合H_2/H_∞变增益状态反馈控制

研究了一种混合H_2/H_∞变增益状态反馈控制方法。在矩阵多胞域内,给出了只依赖于多胞顶点且使闭环系统稳定及满足预定的H_2和H_∞性能的线性矩阵不等式条件,并得到了对应的控制器。该方法不受对象结构约束,且适用于参数快变系统。将该方法应用于机载布撒器俯仰通道自动驾驶仪设计,结果显示了控制器的有效性。     

传感器失效的飞控系统完整性控制器设计

从提高新一代战斗机可靠性和性能出发,提出对飞控系统传感器失效具有完整性的鲁棒容错控制器设计方法.采用状态观测器理论和H∞鲁棒控制理论相结合的方法,针对已知故障设计的控制器,在传感器正常和故障两种情况下,既保证闭环系统的鲁棒稳定性,又保证了闭环系统对于外界干扰具有要求的H∞范数指标.以某型战斗机为算例,考虑俯仰角速率传感器失效和阵风干扰,进行控制器设计,仿真结果验证该方法的正确性和有效性.     

基于零动态设计原理的刚体姿态控制

采用四元数,古典的Rodrigues参数和修改的Rodrigues参数来描述刚体旋转运动.基于微分几何中的零动态设计原理,首先构造一个输出映射,使系统具有相对阶{1,…,1}且零动态渐近稳定.然后求出一类反馈控制器,使得系统部分线性化为一指数稳定的线性方程.仿真结果表明,所求控制器能使闭环系统稳定.     

一类不匹配不确定非线性系统鲁棒变结构控制

针对一类具有不匹配非参数化不确定性的非线性系统 ,设计出一种鲁棒变结构控制器。该控制器能够保证当时间 t趋于无穷时 ,闭环控制系统的输出跟踪误差趋于零。仿真实例说明了该控制器具有满意的控制效果     

一类非线性时滞系统的时滞相关稳定性分析

针对一类非线性时变时滞系统,基于T-S模糊模型,采用自由权矩阵的方法,研究了该系统的稳定性问题。设计了一个与系统状态变量的导数有关的模糊控制器,推导出该控制器使闭环系统渐近稳定的充分条件,该条件等价于一类线性矩阵不等式（LMI）的可解性,并以仿真算例证明了控制器的有效性。     

带有结构不确定性的线性切换系统的鲁棒状态反馈镇定

针对带有结构不确定性的线性切换系统,讨论系统的鲁棒状态反馈镇定问题。对自由系统,得到了一个在给定的切换律下Lyapunov稳定的充分条件。针对受控制系统,设计出一个有效的鲁棒状态反馈控制器,该控制器可以使闭环系统全局渐近稳定,基于Lyapunov方法证明了该受控制器的有效性。     

基于LMI的时滞分段仿射系统H_∞控制

研究了一类有时滞环节的离散分段仿射系统的稳定性及其H∞控制器的设计方法。提出了各时滞分段仿射子系统离散时间状态集的椭圆集表示方法,结合Lyapunov意义的稳定约束,以LMIs形式给出了闭环分段时滞仿射系统的稳定充分条件,从而将系统H∞性能指标最小问题转化成LMI的凸约束求解问题。最后,通过仿真实例验证了所提方法的有效性。     

特征结构配置和H_∞鲁棒控制的飞行控制器设计

常规的特征结构配置(EA)方法不能同时满足系统频域设计指标和鲁棒稳定性的要求,而H_∞鲁棒控制理论在设计控制器时,并没有考虑系统时域性能。为此,基于特征结构配置和H_∞鲁棒控制,设计一种直观的控制器。该控制器以特征结构配置作为内环控制器,以H_∞鲁棒控制器作为外环控制器,使闭环系统能同时获得较好的时域动态特性、鲁棒稳定性以及指令跟踪性能力。通过对某无人机横侧向飞行控制的仿真,进一步验证了该方法的有效性。     

基于自适应积分滑模的无人机编队控制器设计

针对一类受有界干扰影响的无人机编队系统控制器设计问题,基于自适应积分滑模控制框架,提出了一种新型的无人机编队控制器设计方法.通过引入自适应律对扰动上界进行估计,并在控制器中消除了扰动的影响,通过Lyapnov方法对所提出闭环系统的稳定性进行了仿真及分析.仿真结果表明,本文所提出的控制器在保证系统具有一定鲁棒性的前提下完...     

Putin – the masked nemesis of the strategy of ambiguity

Recent events demonstrate the complex and adaptive approach employed by Russia to reassert influence in Europe. The changing face of Russia’s strategy commenced in 2007 when it launched a crippling cyber-attack against Estonia. This was followed by a large Russian conventional attack against Georgia in 2008, occupying two large areas of the nation. 2014 witnessed the Russian annexation of Crimea where in just a week, Russia seized control of Crimea “without firing a shot.” The annexation of Crimea was rapidly followed by a Russian inspired and led subversive war in eastern Ukraine. The common thread among these diverse Russian operations is its use of ambiguity to confound and confuse decision makers in the West.     

India's counter-insurgency experience: the ‘trust and nurture’ strategy

The Indian Army, a force trained primarily for conventional warfare, has been engaged in internal counter-insurgency operations since the 1950s. Despite such a long innings on a counter-insurgency mode, little attention has been accorded within military circles to doctrinal innovation for waging sub-conventional warfare in India's democratic political context. At best, the Army continues to view counter-insurgency duty as secondary to its primary duty of defending India from external conventional threats. By conceptualizing a counter-insurgency strategy of ‘trust and nurture’, this article aims to fill this critical doctrinal gap in India's military policy. The author argues that a counter-insurgency strategy of ‘trust and nurture’ based on democratic political culture, measured military methods, special counter-insurgency forces, local social and cultural awareness and an integrative nation-building approach will result in positive handling of India's internal security problems. The author utilizes India's counter-insurgency experiences in Assam, Mizoram, Nagaland, Punjab, and Operation ‘Sadhbhavana’ in Jammu and Kashmir as illustrative empirical indicants in order to validate the ‘trust and nurture’ strategy.     

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.     

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.     

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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.