Optimizing ship berthing

Ship berthing plans reserve a location for inbound U.S. Navy surface vessels prior to their port entrance, or reassign ships once in port to allow them to complete, in a timely manner, reprovisioning, repair, maintenance, training, and certification tests prior to redeploying for future operational commitments. Each ship requires different services when in port, such as shore power, crane, ordnance, and fuel. Unfortunately, not all services are offered at all piers, and berth shifting is disruptive and expensive: A port operations scheduler strives to reduce unnecessary berth shifts. We present an optimization model for berth planning and demonstrate it for Norfolk Naval Station, which exhibits all the richness of berthing problems the Navy faces. ® 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Inversion of UEP signatures induced by ships based on PSO method

To model the underwater electric potential (UEP) of ships, a multiple point-electrodes method is commonly used. However, it is difficult to determine the total number of point-electrodes, their respective positions and current values. In this paper, the particle swarm optimization (PSO) method is applied to solve the number, positions and current values of these point-electrodes according to the UEP distribution at a known depth below the keel of a ship. A scaled ship model experiment is carried out to determine the effectiveness of the method. The results show that for hulls in a natural corrosion or cathodic protection state, the UEP inversion accuracy can reach 85% at different depths below the keel. This method is suitable for software implementation and can help the simulation and prediction of UEP signatures.     

Optimizing the US Navy's combat logistics force

We study how changes to the composition and employment of the US Navy combat logistic force (CLF) influence our ability to supply our navy worldwide. The CLF consists of about 30 special transport ships that carry ship and aircraft fuel, ordnance, dry stores, and food, and deliver these to client combatant ships underway, making it possible for our naval forces to operate at sea for extended periods. We have modeled CLF operations to evaluate a number of transforming initiatives that simplify its operation while supporting an even larger number of client ships for a greater variety of missions. Our input is an employment schedule for navy battle groups of ships operating worldwide, extending over a planning horizon of 90–180 days. We show how we use optimization to advise how to sustain these ships. We have used this model to evaluate new CLF ship designs, advise what number of ships in a new ship class would be needed, test concepts for forward at‐sea logistics bases in lieu of conventional ports, demonstrate the effects of changes to operating policy, and generally try to show whether and how the CLF can support planned naval operations. Published 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 2008     

耦合杀伤区射击次数与舰艇间距分析

研究了舰艇编队协同防空中满足一阶耦合杀伤区对来袭目标射击次数要求的编队舰舰间距配置问题。依据耦合杀伤区的概念,运用几何三角关系和解析法分析了一阶和二阶耦合杀伤区的纵深计算方法。并对给定杀伤区纵深的单舰和协同舰射击次数进行了研究,给出了射击次数模型及受目标投弹圈影响的耦合杀伤区纵深约束条件。对不同入射舷角的目标、不同速度的导弹类目标和不同高度、速度的飞机类目标3种情况下的射击次数与间距关系进行了仿真,得到了一些有益的结论,对编队近程防空队形的间距配置具有指导意义。     

多种武器攻击下舰艇火灾危险性评估模型

为了正确评估多种武器攻击下舰艇的火灾危险性,建立了多种武器攻击下舰艇火灾危险性评估模型,并通过实例验证了其合理性.运用该模型能找出舰艇防火设计中的薄弱环节,提出降低舰艇火灾危险性的改进措施,并进行了比较计算,表明所提出的措施是有效的.     

A note on a constrained replacement model for ships subject to degradations in utility

In a recent paper, Peter J. Kalman considers a stochastic constrained optimal replacement model using the case of ship replacement as an example. However, the development of the constrained model proposed is not pursued and the optimal interval between replacements is determined in the absence of constraints. Among other things, it is the purpose of the present paper to extend the previous results to develop explicit types of constraints for the case of ship replacement and to determine how the optimal replacement interval may change as a result of these constraints. The constraints are concerned with the state of readiness of each ship in a group of ships. Readiness is assumed to be measured on an ordinal valued utility scale. It is proposed that ordinal valued data on ship combat readiness ratings collected by the Navy may be a useful source of empirical information for a model of the type discussed.     

利用蒙特卡洛法评定火箭炮对岸射击效能

为了更好的评定舰载火箭炮对岸射击的射击效能,选用了毁伤概率为效能指标,应用重叠系数法排除子弹重叠的影响,运用蒙特卡罗法计算出毁伤概率,并给出了保证实验精度的方法。实际举例结果表明,在评定毁伤效率时,应用重叠系数较大程度地减少因重叠造成的误差。该方法在研究火箭弹对岸射击效能时,能够更好的提高精度,减小误差。     

Schedule design for liner services under vessel speed reduction incentive programs

Gas and particulate emissions from ship transportation have been increasing in recent years. In order to mitigate ship emissions near coastal areas, voluntary vessel speed reduction incentive programs (VSRIPs) were put in place by a number of ports. This paper studies a schedule design problem faced by liner shipping companies under VSRIPs. It proposes a mixed-integer nonlinear mathematical model for the minimization of the total cost, consisting of fuel cost, as well as operating cost, minus dockage refunds. The model balances three determinants, that is, the compliance of VSRIPs, the speed limit (the maximum physical speed of ships and the upper speed limit imposed by VSRIPs), and the limited number of ships. An enumerative algorithm and a piecewise-linear approximation algorithm are developed, based on some properties of the nonlinear model. The efficiency of the proposed algorithms is validated through extensive computational experiments.     

A simulated port facility in a theatre of operations

A hypothetical port facility in a theatre of operations is modeled and coded in a special purpose simulation language, for the purpose of conducting simulation experiments on a digital computer. The experiments are conducted to investigate the resource requirements necessary for the reception, discharge, and clearance of supplies at the port. Queue lengths, waiting times, facility utilizations, temporary storage levels, and ship turn-around times are analyzed as functions of transportation and cargo handling resources, using response surface methodology. The resulting response surfaces are revealing in regard to the sensitivity of port operations to transportation resource levels and the characteristics of the port facility's load factor. Two specific conclusions of significant value are derived. First, the simulation experiments clearly show that the standard procedures for determining discharge and clearance capacities take insufficient account of the effects of variability. Second, the response surfaces for ship turn-around times and temporary storage levels indicate that an extremely steep gradient exists as a function of troop levels.     

基于DEM的无人机炸点偏差测量模型

为了保证射击的精度和缩短作战反应时间,舰炮对远程岸上目标实施攻击时需要实时获取炸点相对于目标的偏差情况。目前我军现有的观察校射无人机所采取的炸点偏差模型在地形复杂地区存在较大的原理误差,为解决这一问题,提出了基于数字高程模型(DEM)的无人机炸点偏差模型,经误差仿真,复杂地形条件下该模型偏差测量精度和测量实时性都满足要求。     

Scheduling combat logistics force replenishments at sea for the US Navy

The Replenishment at Sea Planner (RASP) is saving the U.S. Navy millions of dollars a year by reducing fuel consumption of its Combat Logistics Force (CLF). CLF shuttle supply ships deploy from ports to rendezvous with underway U.S. combatants and those of coalition partners. The overwhelming commodity transferred is fuel, ship‐to‐ship by hoses, while other important packaged goods and spare parts are high‐lined, or helicoptered between ships. The U.S. Navy is organized in large areas of responsibility called numbered fleets, and within each of these a scheduler must promulgate a daily forecast of CLF shuttle operations. The operational planning horizon extends out several weeks, or as far into the future as we can forecast demand. We solve RASP with integer linear optimization and a purpose‐built heuristic. RASP plans Replenishment‐at‐Sea (RAS) events with 4‐hour (Navy watch) time fidelity. For five years, RASP has served two purposes: (1) it helps schedulers generate a daily schedule and animates it using Google Earth, and (2) it automates reports command‐to‐ship messages that are essential to keep this complex logistics system operating.     

基于双目视觉定位技术的无人船航迹跟踪控制室内模型实验

水面无人系统的航向控制与航迹跟踪技术在研究开发阶段一般在室内环境进行调试与运行,该过程需要定位系统进行辅助.实船常用的定位技术难以在室内发挥作用,现有的几种室内定位技术存在成本高、信号传播不稳定等问题.设计了一种基于双目视觉定位技术的船模航迹跟踪控制系统.结合实验场地和实验对象,通过在船模上布置特征物、图像预处理、图像...     

远海护航行动中舰载直升机巡逻警戒空域的设置

针对远海伴随护航过程中舰载直升机巡逻警戒空域设置问题,在分析影响舰载直升机巡逻警戒空域设置因素及确定舰载直升机巡逻警戒方式的基础上,结合被护船只的数量和队形,从舰载直升机有效震慑海盗,确保被护船队安全的要求出发,构建了舰载直升机巡逻警戒空域范围的计算模型,对舰载直升机远海伴随护航行动中巡逻警戒空域的设置问题进行了量化研究,所得结论可为舰载直升机巡逻警戒空域的优化设置提供理论指导和使用参考。     

基于神经网络的舰船目标识别研究

为了实现对水下目标的识别,在现有特征提取方法的基础上,提出了一种从DEMON谱线谱和DEMON谱连续谱提取的特征方法,并设计了一个基于BP神经网络和多神经网络分类识别器的舰船目标识别系统。通过对实际舰船噪声目标进行识别,识别效果比较满意。这对舰船目标识别的发展具有一定的参考价值。     

惯性测量匹配法测定船体变形实施方案研究

介绍了船体变形的产生原因,详细分析了船体变形对航姿参数的影响和惯性测量匹配在实船上测量船体变形时的几种实施方案。分别讨论了在中心航姿系统部位和局部基准部位是否安装加速度计和速率陀螺时的不同情况,具体推导了变形角、局部基准部位的航姿角和摇摆线速度的计算公式。对各种方案进行了分析比较,指出了各自的优缺点,为惯性测量匹配法在实船上的应用打下了基础。     

A note on a first application of clustering procedures to fleet material condition measurements

The objective of this paper is to provide an independent evaluation of the nature and interpretation of ships' physical condition data generated by the USN Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV). The substantive context is the classification of ships in terms of material condition and/or readiness based on scores pertaining to individual line elements within each ship. In order to account for multi-dimensional measures of each ship, clustering procedures are employed to evaluate existing ship classification systems and to indicate other possibilities.     

舰空导弹反导作战拦截次数的建模与仿真

根据舰空导弹拦截方式的不同,在自身拦截和协同拦截两种情况下建立了舰空导弹反导拦截次数的数学模型,并在模型参数取典型值的条件下利用MATLAB进行了仿真.结果表明,水面舰艇在防空布阵时应尽可能垂直于反舰导弹的运动方向展开,这不仅有利于降低反舰导弹末制导雷达的捕获概率,而且也有利于通过增加协同拦截次数来降低反舰导弹的外层突防概率,从而提高己方水面舰艇的生存能力.     

爆炸载荷作用下的船用吸能防护结构

重要舰船或舰船的重要部位采用吸能防护结构的必要性已逐渐被人们所认识和接受。防护结构性能好坏的主要指标是培构总能量吸收量和比耗能,本文分析了3种船用吸能防护结构在爆炸最荷作用下的破坏形式,给出了相应的能量吸收估算公式及计算蛄果,比较了等重量下不同防护结构的吸能量和比耗能,从而为船用吸能防护结构用于抗爆炸设计提供了依据和方法。     

基于目标特征的光学遥感图像舰船检测方法

针对在大场景、高分辨率的光学遥感图像舰船目标检测中,传统的阈值检测方法效果不佳,而恒虚警法计算量大的缺点,研究一种根据检测舰船目标的特征,对每个可能的目标区域,快速计算检测阈值的方法。同时,研究基于RNN网络及信噪比的特征选择方法,对目标的特征进行优选并对候选目标进行鉴别。实验结果表明,采用本文方法进行舰船目标检测能获得较好的检测结果.     

有限水深Kelvin源格林函数的传播特性及其应用

为探究有限水深环境下自由面兴波在远场的传播特性,应用线性水动力学的基本理论,从有限水深Kelvin源格林函数的积分表达式中提取相函数,采用同相分析法求得亚临界和超临界速度区下远场传播波系的等相线。结果表明,水深傅汝德数Fh1时远场传播波包括横波和散波两个波系,F_h1时远场波系仅由散波构成,点源兴波的影响范围可由Kelvin角的大小确定,当F_h趋近于1时Kelvin角迅速增大至90°。依据船型要素、两船相对位置和池壁几何参数,并计及船模的定常兴波经池壁反射作用后对自身和另一船模的干扰,提出了有限水深条件下并行航行两船模池壁效应的判别方法,并结合实例检查分析了某试验工况下的池壁效应。