Level workforce planning for multistage transfer lines

In this article, we define two different workforce leveling objectives for serial transfer lines. Each job is to be processed on each transfer station for c time periods (e.g., hours). We assume that the number of workers needed to complete each operation of a job in precisely c periods is given. Jobs transfer forward synchronously after every production cycle (i.e., c periods). We study two leveling objectives: maximin workforce size () and min range (R). Leveling objectives produce schedules where the cumulative number of workers needed in all stations of a transfer line does not experience dramatic changes from one production cycle to the next. For and a two‐station system, we develop a fast polynomial algorithm. The range problem is known to be NP‐complete. For the two‐station system, we develop a very fast optimal algorithm that uses a tight lower bound and an efficient procedure for finding complementary Hamiltonian cycles in bipartite graphs. Via a computational experiment, we demonstrate that range schedules are superior because not only do they limit the workforce fluctuations from one production cycle to the next, but they also do so with a minor increase in the total workforce size. We extend our results to the m‐station system and develop heuristic algorithms. We find that these heuristics work poorly for min range (R), which indicates that special structural properties of the m‐station problem need to be identified before we can develop efficient algorithms. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 63: 577–590, 2016     

脉冲功率电源连续发射水冷模拟负载

针对脉冲功率电源连续循环放电吸能需求,提出一种1.9 MA级循环脉冲功率水冷模拟负载方案。考虑水冷负载与实际电磁发射负载的相似性要求,提出4×8钢管阵列组成的电阻网络,可方便实现电源不同组合方式的放电考核;针对1.9 MA级电流产生的脉冲电磁力可能引起水冷模拟负载损坏的问题,建立水冷模拟负载三维有限元分析模型,进行电磁力计算和结构分析,保证水冷模拟负载稳定性;利用热网络法对模拟负载在循环脉冲模式下的强迫风冷却、自然冷却和去离子水冷却等方式进行了温升分析。结果表明:模拟负载采用钢管内通去离子水冷却效果最好,循环放电时温度可以恢复到初始状态,最高温度62.5℃,满足连续放电实验的需求。利用提出的方法设计一台水冷模拟负载样机并进行了连续2次1.9 MA放电研究,试验结果与理论分析吻合较好,负载结构运行稳定,从而验证了理论分析的正确性。     

频域加权LQR控制器改进设计

基于线性二次型调节器(Linear Quadratic Regulator,LQR)控制方法,设计一种频域加权LQR控制器;通过对其常用滤波器进行改进,提出一种新型滤波器设计思路.当振源频率低于执行器下限响应频率,导致执行器输出减小时,通过改变滤波器参数、增大低频部分权重及控制力,可提高低于执行器响应下限频段的控制性能...