ADVANCED US CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS AND NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT

The Obama administration has made a great effort to increase the role of advanced conventional weaponry in US national security thinking and practice, in part to help reinvigorate the global nuclear disarmament agenda by reducing the role played by nuclear weapons in the US defense posture. However, such a strategy is fundamentally flawed because increases in US conventional superiority will exacerbate US relative strength vis-à-vis other powers, and therefore make the prospect of a nuclear weapon-free world seem less attractive to Washington's current and potential nuclear rivals. Consequently, it is highly likely that the impact of efforts to increase US advanced conventional superiority through ballistic missile defense and a conventional “prompt global strike” program will ensure that the Obama administration is adopting a pathway to nuclear abolition on which it is the sole traveler for the foreseeable future.     

时钟漂移对GPS/BD2组合系统精度影响分析

首先针对GPS时钟漂移,推导了计算位置误差的表达式,然后对GPS/BD2组合系统的时钟漂移进行了分析和修正,并利用模拟信号源提供的信号进行了仿真.结果表明:经过时钟漂移修正后,定位精度有了一定的提高,验证了仿真结果.     

基于码相关的自适应多波束形成算法

给出了一种基于码相关的GPS接收自适应多波束形成算法.这种算法的优点是在形成波束对准期望信号并消除干扰时,不需要直接给出这些信号的DOA信息.计算机仿真结果给出了对抗干扰的性能.     

Maximizing the ratio of two convex functions over a convex set

The purpose of this article is to present an algorithm for globally maximizing the ratio of two convex functions f and g over a convex set X. To our knowledge, this is the first algorithm to be proposed for globally solving this problem. The algorithm uses a branch and bound search to guarantee that a global optimal solution is found. While it does not require the functions f and g to be differentiable, it does require that subgradients of g can be calculated efficiently. The main computational effort of the algorithm involves solving a sequence of subproblems that can be solved by convex programming methods. When X is polyhedral, these subproblems can be solved by linear programming procedures. Because of these properties, the algorithm offers a potentially attractive means for globally maximizing ratios of convex functions over convex sets. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2006     

GPS载体姿态测量中的整周模糊度的快速求解

全球定位系统 (GPS)的良好性能和便宜的价格为其在姿态测量领域的应用开辟了广阔的前景 ,GPS载体姿态测量技术也成为 GPS应用中的热门研究方向。以利用 GPS载波相位测量来确定载体姿态为背景 ,介绍了 GPS载波相位差分技术的基本原理 ,并针对其中的关键技术问题——载波相位整周模糊度的快速解算 ,叙述和建立了整周模糊度快速解算的具体方法。详细地介绍了载体姿态测量系统中基线的构置方案和求解载体姿态的基本算法 ,即利用基线长确定整周模糊度的初始解集 ,然后利用约束条件来剔除解集中的假解。     

星际探测太阳帆行星和太阳借力轨道全局优化

以太阳帆在20年内飞行至距离太阳200 AU以远进行星际探测为目标,研究太阳帆通过行星借力和太阳借力的轨道全局优化问题。建立太阳帆时间最优转移轨道数学模型,分析行星借力和太阳借力的约束条件,并用这些约束条件构造目标函数,从而将轨道优化的四点边值问题转化为求解无约束条件下的多变量优化问题。通过选取合理的约束权重,采用遗传算法获得大范围的粗略解,代入到序列二次规划算法中获得高精度解。仿真结果表明,虽然太阳帆通过太阳借力已获得相当大的加速度,但加上木星借力仍然可以节省相当多的飞行时间。提出的轨道优化思路,可以为太阳系逃逸任务轨道初步设计提供参考。     

基于相位相关的快速亚像素全局运动估计

为了实现亚像素级图像快速全局运动估计,提出了一种基于相位相关的快速亚像素全局运动估计方法。首先对待计算的两幅图像进行下采样并计算整像素级的全局运动矢量,然后选取两幅图像重叠的部分进行插值,再计算亚像素级的全局运动矢量。最后,将整像素级和亚像素级的计算结果进行加权计算,得出亚像素级的全局运动位移。实验结果表明,文中算法对噪声影响、光照变化和局部遮挡具有较好的鲁棒性,同时能够有效地提高运动估计的精确性和计算效率。     

高动态GPS抗干扰算法仿真研究

对于高动态条件下GPS(global positioning system)接收机的抗干扰问题,研究等距线阵接收信号模型和基于协方差矩阵扩张的基本原理,并仿真分析了2种基于协方差矩阵扩张的经典抗干扰算法：Mailloux算法和Zatman算法在高动态环境下的作用效果。经过Matlab仿真,结果表明,相比与常规方法,Mailloux方法和Zatman方法在阵元是等距线阵时,都能有效地加宽从干扰方向上形成的零陷,能够提高在高动态环境下的抗干扰效果,使接收机能够捕获卫星信号。     

Global counterinsurgency and US army expansion: the case for recruiting foreign troops

Given the nature of global counterinsurgency operations, the demands of military expansion, and the need for cultural, linguistic, and regional expertise, the United States Army should evaluate the establishment of US-led foreign troop units for its evolving force structure. This article proposes the creation of an American foreign legion based upon the recruitment of US-led, ethnically homogeneous tribal force units to meet the grist mill of counterinsurgency operations. This structured approach would be more beneficial than the current reliance on a de facto American Foreign Legion, represented by private military contractors (PMCs), many of them comprised of foreigners. These PMCs carry a number of oversight, accountability, and legal risks not found in a fully integrated, and US-officered foreign legion. The British Brigade of Gurkhas, the South-West African Police Counter-Insurgency Unit (Koevoet), and the Kit Carson Scouts serve as relevant historical examples where foreign troops were used to supplement national manpower resources.     

Russia and Strategic Conventional Weapons:

ABSTRACT

Russian political leaders and military strategists are growing increasingly concerned about “strategic conventional weapons”—a broad category that appears to include all non-nuclear, high-precision, standoff weapons—and about long-range, hypersonic weapons, in particular. These concerns are complex and multifaceted (and, in some cases, contradictory), but chief among them are the beliefs that strategic conventional weapons could prove decisive in a major conflict and that Russia is lagging behind in their development. US programs to develop and acquire such weapons—namely, the Conventional Prompt Global Strike program—are of great concern to Russian strategists, who argue both that the United States seeks such weapons for potential use against Russia—its nuclear forces, in particular—and because strategic conventional weapons are more “usable” than nuclear weapons. Asymmetric responses by Russia include increased reliance on tactical nuclear weapons, efforts to enhance the survivability of its nuclear forces, and investments in air and missile defenses. There is also strong—but not completely conclusive evidence—that Russia is responding symmetrically by attempting to develop a long-range, conventionally armed boost-glide weapon.