Evasion policies for a vessel being chased by pirate skiffs

Piracy attack is a serious safety problem for maritime transport worldwide. Whilst various strategic actions can be taken, such as rerouting vessels and strengthening navy patrols, this still cannot completely eliminate the possibility of a piracy attack. It is therefore important for a commercial vessel to be equipped with operational solutions in case of piracy attacks. In particular, the choice of a direction for rapidly fleeing is a critical decision for the vessel. In this article, we formulate such a problem as a nonlinear optimal control problem. We consider various policies, such as maintaining a straight direction or making turns, develop algorithms to optimize the policies, and derive conditions under which these policies are effective and safe. Our work can be used as a real‐time decision making tool that enables a vessel master to evaluate different scenarios and quickly make decisions.     

Comparison of rank aggregation methods based on inherent ability

Ranking is a common task for selecting and evaluating alternatives. In the past few decades, combining rankings results from various sources into a consensus ranking has become an increasingly active research topic. In this study, we focus on the evaluation of rank aggregation methods. We first develop an experimental data generation method, which can provide ground truth ranking for alternatives based on their “inherent ability.” This experimental data generation method can generate the required individual synthetic rankings with adjustable accuracy and length. We propose characterizing the effectiveness of rank aggregation methods by calculating the Kendall tau distance between the aggregated ranking and the ground truth ranking. We then compare four classical rank aggregation methods and present some useful findings on the relative performances of the four methods. The results reveal that both the accuracy and length of individual rankings have a remarkable effect on the comparison results between rank aggregation methods. Our methods and results may be helpful to both researchers and decision‐makers.     

Allocation with demand competition: Uniform,proportional, and lexicographic mechanisms

We examine capacity allocation mechanisms in a supply chain comprising a monopolistic supplier and two competing retailers with asymmetric market powers. The supplier allocates limited capacity to retailers according to uniform, proportional, or lexicographic mechanism. We study the impact of these allocation mechanisms on supplier pricing decisions and retailer ordering behavior. With individual order size no greater than supplier capacity, we show that all three mechanisms guarantee equilibrium ordering. We provide precise structures of retailer ordering decisions in Nash and dominant equilibria. Further, we compare the mechanisms from the perspective of the supplier, the retailers, and the supply chain. We show that regardless of whether retailer market powers are symmetric, lexicographic allocation with any priority sequence of retailers is better than the other two mechanisms for the supplier. Further, under lexicographic allocation, the supplier gains more profit by granting higher priority to the retailer with greater market power. We also extend our study to the case with multiple retailers. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 64: 85–107, 2017     

无人机电磁弹射器效能分析

无人机电磁弹射器是一个由多子系统构成的装备,且各部分之间联系紧密,并不同程度的影响着整体效能。为了确定各组成部分与电磁弹射器效能的影响关系,对其进行系统评价,将系统的整体效能分解为几种典型的效能指标,并采用关联矩阵法(RMA)对由弹射器子系统和效能指标构成的评价体系进行分析。明确了电磁弹射器各部分对系统效能的影响程度,并给出了提高电磁弹射器效能指标的几点建议。     

直觉层次模糊评价法的航材逆向物流效益评估

在分析影响航材逆向物流效益因素的基础上,构建了航材逆向物流效益指标体系,提出了一种新的效益评估方法,这种方法将直觉模糊熵权法与层次分析法有效地结合起来,共同确定指标权重,再通过模糊综合评价法对航材逆向物流效益进行评估,提高了评估的科学性和准确性,为航材部门完善物流环节、提高物流效益提供了一定的参考。     

平方根无迹卡尔曼滤波仅测角导航的空间交会闭环协方差分析方法

针对基于仅测角导航的空间交会问题,开展了采用线性协方差进行闭环控制误差快速分析方法的研究。建立了基于平方根无迹卡尔曼滤波(Square Root Unscented Kalman Filter,SRUKF)的仅测角导航算法并推导了观测敏感矩阵,构建了基于多脉冲Hill制导的闭环控制线性协方差分析模型。算例验证结果表明:提出的闭环控制协方差分析结果与Monte Carlo打靶结果能够很好地吻合;该方法适用于采用传统扩展卡尔曼滤波(Extended Kalman Filter,EKF)的仅测角导航问题,但其迹向位置的估计存在一个与该方向控制误差方差相当的偏心,其误差椭圆的长轴和短轴分别比基于SRUKF的估计结果大24.68%和20.56%。此外,由于采用了QR分解和Cholesky因子更新两种高效的代数运算,基于SRUKF的协方差分析模型的计算速度要比基于EKF的协方差分析模型的大10%。     

一个基于图着色的CACHE优化方法

提出了一个编译时的Cache管理优化方法。该方法根据访存行为将程序中的数据划分成若干数据对象,根据数据对象的大小将Cache划分为一个带有别名的伪寄存器文件,每个伪寄存器由若干Cache行组成,可以容纳一个数据对象;使用一个经过改进的图着色寄存器分配算法来决定这些对象在Cache中的位置以及发生冲突时的替换关系。数据对象的划分将Cache的管理分为两个层次,一个是编译时编译器对粗粒度的数据对象的管理,另一个是运行时硬件对细粒度的Cache行的管理,这样编译器和硬件的优势都得到发挥。基于GCC进行了方法实现,并通过simplescalar构造了支持Cache Coloring的硬件模拟平台。实验结果表明Cache Coloring能较好地开发程序的局部性,降低Cache失效率。     

一种新的装备配置优化模型

传统的装备配置优化问题一般采用确定性的数学规划方法解决,难以满足高技术条件下现代战争中需要对大量随机现象和模糊现象进行精确定量分析的实际要求。在分析了高技术条件下装备配置问题一般特性的基础上,根据机会约束规划和模糊机会约束规划的思想,提出了一种新的建立装备配置优化模型的思路和方法,并给出了基于随机模拟的遗传算法的实值算例,算例结果与实际情况基本相符,反映了模型的科学性与实用性。     

基于虚拟服务器的负载均衡技术研究与实现

Intemet业务量的激增和网络应用特殊化,都使得负载均衡成为迫切需求。Linux虚拟服务器按传输层连接对集群节点进行业务分配,能便捷而高效地实现负载均衡。对Linux虚拟服务器集群的结构与原理进行讨论,重点阐述了满足不同应用需要的4种负载均衡算法,并在Linux操作系统环境下构建了虚拟服务器集群,测试了负载响应、服务性能、调度器备份。结果表明,虚拟服务器集群技术较大幅度地提高了系统的综合性能。     

光纤激光水听器的PGC实时全数字解调系统

概述了基于麦克尔逊干涉仪的光纤激光水听器的相位载波零差法(PGC)调制解调原理,通过数学推导及仿真,分析了调制信号和混频信号的频差是导致全数字化解调结果错误的主要因素之一。针对该诱导因素提供了可行的解决方案,并实现了基于DSP的1 MHz采样频率下使用PGC方法的全数字实时解调系统。对低频水声波段800Hz水声信号进行解调,实验结果表明:解调信号波形良好。