The impact of component commonality on composite assembly policies

Assemble in Advance (AIA) policy reduces assembly cost due to advance planning, while Assemble to Order (ATO) policy eliminates assembly of excessive (more than demanded) units. The tradeoffs between the two policies have been studied in the past for single product environments. Moreover, it was shown that it is beneficial to employ AIA and ATO simultaneously. In this article, we study the employment of such a composite assembly policy in a multiproduct environment with component commonality. When common components are used, ATO may also enable us to benefit from the risk pooling effect. We provide important managerial insights such as: the multiperiod problem is myopic and changes in inventory levels due to the use of common components, and demonstrate the potential profit increase compared to other policies.© 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2007     

Optimal burn‐in procedure for periodically inspected systems

Burn‐in is a widely used method to improve the quality of products or systems after they have been produced. In this paper, we study burn‐in procedure for a system that is maintained under periodic inspection and perfect repair policy. Assuming that the underlying lifetime distribution of a system has an initially decreasing and/or eventually increasing failure rate function, we derive upper and lower bounds for the optimal burn‐in time, which maximizes the system availability. Furthermore, adopting an age replacement policy, we derive upper and lower bounds for the optimal age parameter of the replacement policy for each fixed burn‐in time and a uniform upper bound for the optimal burn‐in time given the age replacement policy. These results can be used to reduce the numerical work for determining both optimal burn‐in time and optimal replacement policy. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2007     

Modeling and analysis of a mixed‐model assembly line with stochastic operation times

We consider a mixed‐model assembly line (MMAL) comprised a set of workstations and a conveyor. The workstations are arranged in a serial configuration. The conveyor moves at a constant speed along the workstations. Initial units belonging to different models are successively fed onto the conveyor, and they are moved by the conveyor to pass through the workstations to gradually generate final products. All assembling tasks are manually performed with operation times to be stochastic. An important performance measure of MMALs is overload times that refer to uncompleted operations for operators within their work zones. This paper establishes a method to analyze the expected overload times for MMALs with stochastic operation times. The operation processes of operators form discrete time nonhomogeneous Markov processes with continuous state spaces. For a given daily production schedule, the expected overload times involve in analyzing the Markov processes for finite horizon. Based on some important properties of the performance measure, we propose an efficient approach for calculating the expected overload times. Numerical computations show that the results are very satisfactory. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2007     

Combining standardized time series area and Cramér–von Mises variance estimators

We propose three related estimators for the variance parameter arising from a steady‐state simulation process. All are based on combinations of standardized‐time‐series area and Cramér–von Mises (CvM) estimators. The first is a straightforward linear combination of the area and CvM estimators; the second resembles a Durbin–Watson statistic; and the third is related to a jackknifed version of the first. The main derivations yield analytical expressions for the bias and variance of the new estimators. These results show that the new estimators often perform better than the pure area, pure CvM, and benchmark nonoverlapping and overlapping batch means estimators, especially in terms of variance and mean squared error. We also give exact and Monte Carlo examples illustrating our findings.© 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2007     

确定相对体制雷达对不同飞机性能的检飞标准

如何在不同检飞机型的条件下,检验防空导弹武器系统制导雷达的性能,是工程上亟待解决的技术问题。将实践经验和理论分析充分结合,本着经济实用的原则,提出了"对比检飞、等信噪比和等概率"的指标转换方法,确定了不同检飞机型的评定标准。通过实际应用,证明确定的标准切合实际。     

基于神经网络的离散变结构控制系统

系统研究了基于神经网络的离散变结构控制系统设计方法,提出了几种具体设计方案.神经网络的引入可以使滑模(变结构)控制具备学习与自适应能力,使控制信号得以柔化,从而能够减轻或避免困扰常规滑模控制器的抖振现象,改善控制效果.     

基于领域知识的仿真策略及其在可靠性设计决策中的应用

在可靠性工程的需求驱动下,提出了一种描述性的模型框架:"功能仿真模型"。该模型既明确引入了反映系统工作原理的性能领域知识,又能刻画系统的功能逻辑关系,还能建立性能与功能的联系。在此基础上给出了可操作的、基于领域知识的仿真策略———在性能仿真基础上进行功能推理。最后讨论了该仿真策略在可靠性工程中的应用途径。     

超宽带信号正交解调误差的分析及校正

在超宽带相参接收系统中,正交解调的 Ｉ、 Ｑ 两路输出的幅度和相位的不一致性以及直流偏置分量会严重影响系统的性能。本文就超宽带信号的正交解调误差对信号处理的影响进行了分析,提出了一种幅相特性不一致的校正方法,并给出了计算机仿真的结果。     

BTT 导弹自动驾驶仪的多变量频域法解耦设计

研究了一种耦合严重的ＢＴＴ 导弹偏航－滚动通道非方阵模型的自动驾驶仪的设计问题。首先采用内闭环回路法对模型进行了方阵化, 然后采用基于奈奎斯特阵列法思想的多变量频域法进行了设计。仿真表明了自动驾驶仪设计的解耦效果明显     

一类伴随型非线性系统的快速变结构控制

基于反馈线性化、时间次优控制及变结构控制理论,针对一类伴随型不确定非线性系统,提出了一种快速鲁棒变结构控制方案。这种控制方案在控制有约束的条件下,其中一部分用来把非线性系统反馈校正成线性系统,另一部分则用来为线性系统实现时间次优控制。仿真结果表明：这种控制器不仅动态响应快,而且从初始时刻开始就可产生滑模运动,从而增强了系统鲁棒性。