Value management of diagnostic equipment with cancelation,no‐show,and emergency patients

Magnetic resonance imaging and other multifunctional diagnostic facilities, which are considered as scarce resources of hospitals, typically provide services to patients with different medical needs. This article examines the admission policies during the appointment management of such facilities. We consider two categories of patients: regular patients who are scheduled in advance through an appointment system and emergency patients with randomly generated demands during the workday that must be served as soon as possible. According to the actual medical needs of patients, regular patients are segmented into multiple classes with different cancelation rates, no‐show probabilities, unit value contributions, and average service times. Management makes admission decisions on whether or not to accept a service request from a regular patient during the booking horizon to improve the overall value that could be generated during the workday. The decisions should be made by considering the cancelation and no‐show behavior of booked patients as well as the emergency patients that would have to be served because any overtime service would lead to higher costs. We studied the optimal admission decision using a continuous‐time discrete‐state dynamic programming model. Identifying an optimal policy for this discrete model is analytically intractable and numerically inefficient because the state is multidimensional and infinite. We propose to study a deterministic counterpart of the problem (i.e., the fluid control problem) and to develop a time‐based fluid policy that is shown to be asymptotically optimal for large‐scale problems. Furthermore, we propose to adopt a mixed fluid policy that is developed based on the information obtained from the fluid control problem. Numerical experiments demonstrate that this improved policy works effectively for small‐scale problems. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 63: 287–304, 2016     

通用扩张状态观测器鲁棒飞行控制方法

针对存在参数不确定、外界干扰与测量噪声情况下飞行控制问题,提出一种基于通用扩张状态观测器的鲁棒飞行控制方法。首先基于状态相关的Riccati方程（SDRE）控制方法,对飞行器俯仰通道非线性模型进行扩展线性化;而后引入基于通用扩张状态观测器的控制方法,设计干扰补偿增益,实现对外界干扰的估计与补偿;最后通过在线解算状态相关矩阵及代数黎卡提方程,得出状态反馈增益与干扰补偿增益,实现对飞行器期望攻角的跟踪控制。通过与已有方法进行对比,验证了本文所提方法不仅对系统模型不确定性与外界干扰具有较强鲁棒性,而且在较大测量噪声情况下,其依然能够保证良好的跟踪控制效果,具有较强的工程应用价值。     

Population transfers in counter-insurgency: a recipe for success?

Since control over the population constitutes the most crucial determinant for victory in irregular warfare, how should a state authority isolate the insurgents (the “fish” in Maoist terms) from the population (the “sea” in which the “fish” thrive)? Should a state authority simply drain the “sea” by diverting its “water” elsewhere? Does the forcible transfer of the local people who support an insurgency truly work? This article studies how the royalist regime of Greece forcibly transferred thousands of villagers (over 10% of the total population) to counter the communist insurgency during the Greek Civil War (1946–1949) and shows whether and how these deportations could be crowned with success.     

动态滑翔运动建模、机理分析与航迹优化

信天翁凭借动态滑翔的飞行技巧从梯度风中获取能量,从而在几乎不拍翅膀的情况下进行长时间、长距离飞行,这种技巧应用于小型无人机上可拓展其完成任务的能力。基于飞行器动力学对梯度风场中的无人机运动方程进行推导和简化处理;利用简化的运动方程,分别从非惯性参考系中的动能定理和机械能变化的角度,对动态滑翔获取能量的机理进行分析;利用微分平坦法,以最小平均控制输入变化率为目标函数,对徘徊模式和平移模式的动态滑翔航迹进行优化计算。分析结果表明:逆风爬升、顺风下滑是动态滑翔基本获能方式。优化结果表明:控制输入变得更加平滑,甚至出现阶段性的常值,使得控制更加简化;徘徊模式下,当风梯度作为决策变量时,优化过程可在[0,0.5 s-1]的区间上找到使得目标函数值最小的风梯度;平移模式下,目标函数值在该区间上单调递减。     

高动态GNSS信号多普勒模拟任意阶直接数字合成器设计

为高精度模拟高动态条件下GNSS信号的多普勒特性,提出一种任意阶直接数字合成信号合成器的设计方法。设计任意阶直接数字合成信号合成器的结构;通过理论分析,推导各级累加器相位初值的计算公式;给出字长选择方法。经仿真验证,该方法能精确模拟GNSS信号的多普勒特性。此外,提出的直接数字合成器设计方法不受阶数的限制,可普遍应用于各类信号模拟器的设计。     

弹道导弹威胁估计模型构建

简要分析了弹道导弹飞行3个阶段的不同特点及各阶段导弹预警探测手段的侧重点,结合威胁估计的特征构建了弹道导弹威胁估计模型结构框架,运用多阶段贝叶斯网络理论,构造了主动段、自由段和再入段威胁估计模型,并明确了三阶段间的转换时机。采用动态贝叶斯方法对弹道导弹作战全过程进行威胁估计仿真推理,仿真结果能够反映导弹在飞行过程中威胁程度的变化特点,为反导指挥员作出辅助决策提供智力支持。     

武器装备体系能力矩阵评估方法

针对武器装备体系能力难以客观、定量评估的问题,引入复杂网络理论,提出了基于矩阵运算的武器装备体系能力评估方法。分析了武器装备体系能力的概念,建立了武器装备体系的复杂层次网络模型,描述了装备网络的组成、运行过程,定义了装备网络的矩阵描述方法和矩阵运算规则,提出了装备网络作战能力描述参数,给出了装备网络能力的矩阵计算方法,进行了影响因素分析,最后通过实例验证了方法可行性、有效性和灵活性。     

阻拦索张力控制方法

飞机阻拦装置是机场保证飞机正常降落和拦阻因意外原因冲出跑道的飞机的重要保障设施。针对现有机械型阻拦装置难以适应未来多种机型阻拦需求的现状,提出一种以阻拦电机为吸能元件的电磁阻拦装置,搭建考虑阻拦索弯折波影响在内的电磁阻拦装置模型,设计电磁阻拦装置的闭环控制算法,并利用仿真进行了验证。     

基于VR与PNN相结合的机电液控制系统故障诊断方法

针对大型复杂机电液控制系统故障诊断中存在的数学模型获取困难、历史故障数据匮乏问题,提出了一种将虚拟样机与概率神经网络相结合的故障诊断混合方法。建立系统的虚拟样机,并对其可信性进行校核与验证。在此基础上进行大量随机性故障植入与仿真实验,获取故障仿真数据。经过特征提取与概率神经网络模式识别训练,形成用于诊断的知识库,从而实现故障诊断。以操舵系统作为研究案例,得到了较高的故障检测和隔离精度与较低的虚警及漏警率,验证了该方法的可行性,为大型复杂机电液控制系统故障诊断提供新的思路。     

轮毂电机驱动车辆转向控制策略

为提高轮毂电机驱动车辆转向机动灵活性以及安全稳定性,提出了一种基于直接横摆力矩控制的转向控制策略。以带有双桥转向机构的8轮轮毂电机驱动车辆为研究对象,研究其双重转向控制问题,建立基于车辆二自由度单轨模型的车辆参考模型,并以横摆角速度作为控制变量,建立基于横摆力矩PID控制器和横摆力矩分配控制器的转向分层控制模型。利用硬件在环实时仿真实验对所提出的转向控制策略的可行性和有效性进行分析验证。