Determination of burn‐in parameters and residual life for highly reliable products

Today, many products are designed and manufactured to function for a long period of time before they fail. Determining product reliability is a great challenge to manufacturers of highly reliable products with only a relatively short period of time available for internal life testing. In particular, it may be difficult to determine optimal burn‐in parameters and characterize the residual life distribution. A promising alternative is to use data on a quality characteristic (QC) whose degradation over time can be related to product failure. Typically, product failure corresponds to the first passage time of the degradation path beyond a critical value. If degradation paths can be modeled properly, one can predict failure time and determine the life distribution without actually observing failures. In this paper, we first use a Wiener process to describe the continuous degradation path of the quality characteristic of the product. A Wiener process allows nonconstant variance and nonzero correlation among data collected at different time points. We propose a decision rule for classifying a unit as normal or weak, and give an economic model for determining the optimal termination time and other parameters of a burn‐in test. Next, we propose a method for assessing the product's lifetime distribution of the passed units. The proposed methodologies are all based only on the product's initial observed degradation data. Finally, an example of an electronic product, namely contact image scanner (CIS), is used to illustrate the proposed procedure. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2003     

Exact algorithms for scheduling multiple families of jobs on parallel machines

In many practical manufacturing environments, jobs to be processed can be divided into different families such that a setup is required whenever there is a switch from processing a job of one family to another job of a different family. The time for setup could be sequence independent or sequence dependent. We consider two particular scheduling problems relevant to such situations. In both problems, we are given a set of jobs to be processed on a set of identical parallel machines. The objective of the first problem is to minimize total weighted completion time of jobs, and that of the second problem is to minimize weighted number of tardy jobs. We propose column generation based branch and bound exact solution algorithms for the problems. Computational experiments show that the algorithms are capable of solving both problems of medium size to optimality within reasonable computational time. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 50: 823–840, 2003.     

二维粒子模拟的多时标法

将多时标法应用于二维激光等离子体全电磁相对论粒子模拟程序中,对共振吸收及相关的物理现象进行了模拟计算,既正确地描述了等离子体的动力学行为,又大大节省了计算时间。     

机器人的分散控制

本论文提出了一种新的机器人分散控制方法,这种分散控制方法把机器人系统的每个自由度作为一个子系统,首先从解耦子系统模型综合出N个分散线性控制器,然后在每个子系统内引入一个自适应控制环补偿非线性耦合项的影响。这种分散控制器的优点是:控制器结构简单、计算量小、易于用多微机系统实现并行控制。     

只测角两站被动定位系统中虚假定位点的识别方法研究

多站被动定位中,虚假定位点的识别问题是电子侦察中尚待解决的一个重要问题。本文研究包含一个运动站的只测角两站被动定位系统,提出先用扩展Kalman滤波对多个辐射源精确定位,然后通过空间相关处理识别虚假定位点的方法,大量的计算机仿真结果表明,上述识别方法在两目标张角大于测角误差的均方根值时,具有良好的识别效果。系统识别出的真实定位点,其定位精度可达单目标环境下的同等定位精度。     

An exact analysis of a joint production‐inventory problem in two‐echelon inventory systems

We consider a two‐echelon inventory system with a manufacturer operating from a warehouse supplying multiple distribution centers (DCs) that satisfy the demand originating from multiple sources. The manufacturer has a finite production capacity and production times are stochastic. Demand from each source follows an independent Poisson process. We assume that the transportation times between the warehouse and DCs may be positive which may require keeping inventory at both the warehouse and DCs. Inventory in both echelons is managed using the base‐stock policy. Each demand source can procure the product from one or more DCs, each incurring a different fulfilment cost. The objective is to determine the optimal base‐stock levels at the warehouse and DCs as well as the assignment of the demand sources to the DCs so that the sum of inventory holding, backlog, and transportation costs is minimized. We obtain a simple equation for finding the optimal base‐stock level at each DC and an upper bound for the optimal base‐stock level at the warehouse. We demonstrate several managerial insights including that the demand from each source is optimally fulfilled entirely from a single distribution center, and as the system's utilization approaches 1, the optimal base‐stock level increases in the transportation time at a rate equal to the demand rate arriving at the DC. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2011     

Approximation methods for the analysis of a multicomponent,multiproduct assemble‐to‐order system

In this article, we consider the performance evaluation of a multicomponent, multiproduct assemble‐to‐order (ATO) system. Each component is managed independently using a base‐stock policy at a supply facility with limited production capacity and an infinite buffer. The arrivals of demands follow a multivariate Poisson process and unfilled demands are backlogged. Because exact analysis of the proposed system is not feasible, we propose two approximation methods which provide upper and lower bounds for various performance measures such as fill rate, average waiting time, and average number of backorders of the proposed system. Our computational experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the two approximation methods under various system settings. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2011     

基于摄影图像的战场信息获取技术研究

利用图像信息获取战场三维几何数据.以装甲车为实例,提出适用的平面二次曲线获取方法,可以克服模糊背景的干扰,得到完整的轮廓曲线,并在此基础上求解了空间曲线三维数据.研究结果表明通过对摄影图像的标定、建模,可以获得战场环境中关注目标的三维几何数据,并且投影矩阵值和提取轮廓准确性对误差影响较大.     

某型装甲车辆侧减速器被动齿轮齿部硬度分布规律研究

介绍了某型履带式装甲车辆侧减速器被动齿轮的功用、材料、常见故障与维修,详细叙述了被动齿轮的试件准备和硬度测量过程,对硬度测量结果进行了数据分析,并讨论了测量误差的产生原因.这些测量结果为被动齿轮的疲劳可靠性分析提供了基础数据.