基于接收机钟差约束的地基伪卫星导航改进方法

采用地基伪卫星对飞行器进行导航时,由于布站场地有限不可避免地会出现定位构型差的情况,当仅用伪距和伪距变率进行定位定速时,若采用典型的单历元卫星定位定速算法,那么对飞行器的定位定速精度就会比较差。通过分析发现,地基伪卫星导航系统用户接收机钟差和钟差变率的求取不准确很大程度上影响了定位定速精度。针对这种情况,提出了通过提高地基伪卫星接收机钟差和钟差变率的求解精度来提高定位定速精度的方法。首先根据接收机钟差和钟差变率的模型得到它们的观测方程,然后将其加入到单历元定位定速方程组中参与定位定速解算,仿真结果表明了该方法的可行性和有效性。     

基于锁相环的GNSS授时接收机钟差校准算法

GNSS(全球卫星导航系统)授时接收机利用卫星导航信号获取钟差并校准本地时钟,从而与GNSS系统时间同步。提出了全新的基于锁相环的GNSS授时接收机钟差校准算法,将钟差校准过程等效为传统的锁相环模型,鉴相器的功能由PVT(位置、速度与时间)解算实现,压控振荡器的功能由本地时间调整接口实现,环路将本地秒相位与GNSS系统的秒相位锁定。分析了环路总误差的组成,以及环路参数与各误差项的关系,给出了误差最小的环路优化设计准则。在北斗二号卫星导航接收机平台上进行了对比实验,验证了算法的有效性。     

SINS/DVL/AST水下组合导航中的鲁棒信息融合方法

捷联式惯导系统由于自主性强等优势成为自主式水下航行器长航时、长航程导航的主要手段。针对水下环境中外部多导航传感器如多普勒计程仪提供的测速信息和水声单应答器提供的位置信息容易受到非高斯噪声污染的问题,提出基于马氏距离算法的联邦鲁棒卡尔曼滤波算法。在联邦鲁棒卡尔曼滤波算法中,通过马氏距离算法引入膨胀因子,对量测噪声协方差阵进行膨胀,以实现非高斯条件下水下组合导航系统鲁棒性的提升。同时基于子滤波器的滤波性能对信息分配系数进行自适应调整以确保水下组合导航系统的高精度。基于江试试验实测数据进行水下组合导航半物理仿真试验,试验结果表明:相比于传统的联邦卡尔曼滤波算法,联邦鲁棒卡尔曼滤波算法可在非高斯条件下实现更高精度、更加稳定的组合导航;能够满足水下组合导航系统对容错性和鲁棒性的要求。     

无人机卫星导航系统的电磁干扰态势评估方法

在战场复杂电磁环境下,卫星导航接收机很容易受到电磁干扰而出现不定位的现象,针对这一现象,提出了一种基于环境感知无人机卫星导航接收机的电磁干扰态势评估方法。以干扰信号的特征参数、导航接收机未受干扰时的接收状态作为预测的输入,以接收机跟踪环路失锁时的效应阈值作为观测目标值,建立了极端梯度提升(extreme gradient boosting, XGBoost)的预测模型。在此基础上,给出了导航接收机电磁干扰态势的等级,提出了导航接收机在单源和双源电磁干扰下的态势评估方法。通过与高斯过程回归和支持向量机回归的预测方法进行比较,结果表明XGBoost方法具有更好的预测精度。依据该预测方法,综合利用技战术方案,有利于提高无人机在复杂电磁环境中的适应能力。     

群时延傅里叶分解模型及其估计方法

建立了基于三角函数级数的群时延模型,并理论证明了仅采用有限阶数的三角函数群时延即可表征任意群时延对信号相关峰的影响.在此基础上,通过测量信号相关峰,并与不同三角函数群时延组合下的相关峰进行匹配搜索即可估计群时延的三角函数分解级数,从而估计得到相关峰影响等效的群时延特性.仿真中,采用该方法估计得到的群时延特性对滤波器进行...     

The Peninsular War guerrilla and its antecedents: humiliation forgotten,disaster prefigured: the guerra fantástica of 1762

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The brief war that took place between Spain and Portugal in 1762 is one of the least known episodes in the latter’s military history, whereas, thanks to Wellington’s construction of the Lines of Torres Vedras, the French invasion of 1810–11 is right at the other end of the spectrum. Yet the two episodes are closely linked to one another. At the very least, they are uncannily reminiscent in terms of their details – in both cases substantial foreign armies were vanquished through a combination of irregular resistance, scorched-earth tactics and the clever use of field fortifications – and the article therefore argues that Wellington based the plan that defeated the forces of Marshal Massena on the strategy used by the Portuguese half a century earlier.     

Reluctant guerrillas in early nineteenth century China: the White Lotus insurgents and their suppressors

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At the turn of the nineteenth century, China’s Qing dynasty (1644–1912) was hit by a sectarian rebellion. Commonly considered a breakpoint marking the end of the dynasty’s golden age spanning most of the eighteenth century, the war to suppress the rebels, referred to as the White Lotus War (1796–1804) in this article (‘White Lotus’ was the umbrella name used by both the authorities and some sectarians for their teaching), exposed many structural drawbacks of the Qing political and military systems and depleted the dynasty’s financial resources, which had never been recovered. Reluctant in embracing guerrilla warfare in the beginning, the insurgents quickly turned themselves into master guerrillas. Shuttling in two massive mountain ranges in central China, they managed to prolong their rebellion and fought some successful battles against their suppressors. Superior in manpower, weaponry, and logistical support, the government forces had to adapt to guerrilla warfare, albeit passively and ineptly. This article gives a brief introduction to this little-known episode of guerrilla war at the turn of the nineteenth century in Qing China, expounds the strengths and weaknesses of both sides, and sheds light on the roots of the war’s long duration and the grim consequences to the Qing state.     

The snowball phenomenon: the US Marine Corps,military mythology and the spread of hybrid warfare theory

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This article reviews the book by Ofer Fridman and seeks to situate the strategic debate on hybrid war in the context of debate on the US involvement in Iraq. It points to intellectuals from the Marine Corps having a significant role in the initial development of the hybrid warfare concept at a time of some reservation in US military circles over COIN strategy as this was set out in the field manual FM3-24. Thereafter, the hybrid war concept rapidly spread and became a conceptual device used to explain Russian strategic intentions in the aftermath of the invasion of Ukraine in 2014.     

Currency Warfare and Just War: The Ethics of Targeting Currencies in War

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Is Currency Warfare defined as, the use of monetary or military force directed against an enemy’s monetary power as part of a military campaign, a just way to fight a war? This article explores the ethics of waging currency warfare against the Just War Tradition’s principles of jus in bello (just conduct in war) and its criteria of discrimination and proportionality. The central argument is that currency warfare is inherently indiscriminate but may be proportionate when policy makers consider the nature of the threat confronted and the targeted currency's level of internationalization, that is, to what degree it is used in foreign transactions or used as a foreign currency reserve. I evaluate this argument against historical cases during the Second World War (1939–1945), the Gulf War (1990–1991), subsequent operations against Saddam Hussein in the early 1990s, and the ongoing campaign against ISIS.