We established a model for an airborne wind lidar. Numerical optimization algorithms should be used to solve this nonlinear model. We designed a Levenberg-Marquardt (L-M) algorithm and tested it with the modeled data....
详细信息
We established a model for an airborne wind lidar. Numerical optimization algorithms should be used to solve this nonlinear model. We designed a Levenberg-Marquardt (L-M) algorithm and tested it with the modeled data. The retrieved velocity and the true velocity agree very well, and the adjusted R-2 is 0.99947. We have carried out an airborne coherent wind lidar experiment in January 2015, and we used the model and the L-M algorithm to process the wind lidar experiment data, and compared the retrieved results with the radiosonde wind profile. The consistency is very good, especially at an altitude above 1.8 km. We may speculate that when the atmosphere flows are not so dramatic, the lidar and the radiosonde measurements are strictly synchronous, it is possible to retrieve horizontal wind speeds and directions consistently with the radiosonde using our wind lidar model and the L-M algorithm. (c) 2016 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
In this article, a novel semiempirical average annual troposcatter transmission loss prediction model is presented. The model is generated by optimizing the correlation coefficients of propagation path conditions util...
详细信息
In this article, a novel semiempirical average annual troposcatter transmission loss prediction model is presented. The model is generated by optimizing the correlation coefficients of propagation path conditions utilizing the modern optimization algorithm. The statistical relativities of troposcatter transmission loss as captured by changing frequency, path length, scatter angle, and meteorological condition are each analyzed using the terrestrial trans-horizon propagation loss data banks released by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). For the percentages of time transmission loss not falling below 50%, the model is combined with the model of anomalous propagation mechanism introduced in the Recommendation ITU-R P.2001. The prediction results of this new troposcatter model are compared with other troposcatter models and with the trans-horizon propagation loss data banks. The comparisons show that the new model has a better estimated accuracy.
作者:
Huang, YongCui, XueBeihang Univ
Fundamental Sci Ergon & Environm Control Lab Sch Aeronaut Sci & Engn Beijing Univ Aeronaut & Astronaut Mailbox 50537 Xueyuan Rd Beijing 100191 Peoples R China Beihang Univ
Fundamental Sci Ergon & Environm Control Lab Sch Aeronaut Sci & Engn Beijing 100191 Peoples R China
A technique for modulating the directional characteristics of the target's infrared signatures based on the anisotropic emission behavior of the target surface is proposed. The integrated infrared transmission mod...
详细信息
A technique for modulating the directional characteristics of the target's infrared signatures based on the anisotropic emission behavior of the target surface is proposed. The integrated infrared transmission model from target to detector is established by matrices. Through the single-, multi-, and omni-directional infrared signature optimization analyses, the effectiveness of the proposed modulation technique is demonstrated and the following conclusions were reached: 1) Because the hemispherical emissivity remains constant, modulating the angular emission patterns of the target surface can enhance or reduce the target's infrared signature level received by the detector. 2) It is possible to adjust the directionality of infrared signatures by virtue of anisotropic emission behavior, generating appreciable peak signals in the desired directions or reducing the infrared signals in the infrared -threatening directions. 3) The optimizing effects upon the directionality of infrared signatures are highly dependent on the geometric features of target and hemispherical emissivity: the smaller the hemispherical emissivity is, the better the effects are.
The bioconversion of glycerol to 1,3-propanediol (1,3-PD) is a complex bioprocess. In this paper, based on biological phenomena of different characteristics at different stages and the genetic regulation of dha regulo...
详细信息
The bioconversion of glycerol to 1,3-propanediol (1,3-PD) is a complex bioprocess. In this paper, based on biological phenomena of different characteristics at different stages and the genetic regulation of dha regulon, we consider a fourteen-dimensional nonlinear multi-stage dynamic system with unknown time and system parameters for formulating the multi-stage cell growth in batch culture. Some important properties of the multi-stage system are discussed. Our goal is to identify the time and system parameters. To this end, we present a parameter identification problem in which the time and system parameters are decision variables and the cost function measures the discrepancy between experimental data and computational results, subject to the multi-stage system, parameter constraints and continuous state inequality constraints. The system sensitivity (the cost function's gradient, namely, the derivative of the cost function with respect to the time and system parameters), which can be computed by solving an auxiliary initial value problem, can be regarded as the search direction of optimization algorithm. The identification problem is converted into a sequence of nonlinear programming subproblems through the application of the time-scaling transformation, the constraint transcription and local smoothing approximate techniques. Due to the highly complex nature of the identification problem, the computational cost is high. Thus, a parallel algorithm is proposed to solve these subproblems based on the novel combinations of system sensitivity and genetic algorithm. Finally, numerical results show that the multi-stage system can reasonably describe the process of batch culture. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Similarity-preserving hashing is a widely used method for nearest neighbor search in large-scale image retrieval. Recently, supervised hashing methods are appealing in that they learn compact hash codes with fewer bit...
详细信息
Similarity-preserving hashing is a widely used method for nearest neighbor search in large-scale image retrieval. Recently, supervised hashing methods are appealing in that they learn compact hash codes with fewer bits by incorporating supervised information. In this paper, we propose a new two-stage supervised hashing methods which decomposes the hash learning process into a stage of learning approximate hash codes followed by a stage of learning hash functions. In the first stage, we propose a margin-based objective to find approximate hash codes such that a pair of hash codes associating to a pair of similar (dissimilar) images has sufficiently small (large) Hamming distance. This objective results in a challenging optimization problem. We develop a coordinate descent algorithm to efficiently solve this optimization problem. In the second stage, we use convolutional neural networks to learn hash functions. We conduct extensive evaluations on several benchmark datasets with different kinds of images. The results show that the proposed margin-based hashing method has substantial improvement upon the state-of-the-art supervised or unsupervised hashing methods. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
A novel bidirectional mechanism and a backward forecasting model based on extreme learning machine (ELM) are proposed to address the issue of ultra-short term wind power time series forecasting. The backward forecasti...
详细信息
A novel bidirectional mechanism and a backward forecasting model based on extreme learning machine (ELM) are proposed to address the issue of ultra-short term wind power time series forecasting. The backward forecasting model consists of a backward ELM network and an optimization algorithm. The reverse time series is generated to train backward ELM, assuming that the value to be forecasted is already known whereas one of the previous measurements is treated as unknown. In the framework of bidirectional mechanism, the forward forecast of a standard ELM network is incorporated as the initial value of optimization algorithm, by which error between the backward ELM output and the previous measurement is minimized for backward forecasting. Then the difference between forward and backward forecasting results is used as a criterion to develop the methods to correct forward forecast. If the difference exceeds a predefined threshold, the final forecast equals to the average of forward forecast and latest measurement. Otherwise the forward forecast keeps as the final forecast. The proposed models are applied to forecast wind farm production in six time horizons: 1-6 h. A comprehensive error analysis is carried out to compare the performance with other approaches. Results show that forecast improvement is observed based on the proposed bidirectional model. Some further considerations on improving wind power short term forecasting accuracy by use of bidirectional mechanistn are discussed as well. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Weapon-target assignment is a combinatorial optimization problem in which a set of weapons must selectively engage a set of targets. In its decentralized form, it is also an important problem in autonomous multi-agent...
详细信息
Weapon-target assignment is a combinatorial optimization problem in which a set of weapons must selectively engage a set of targets. In its decentralized form, it is also an important problem in autonomous multi-agent robotics. In this work, decentralized methods are explored for a modified weapon-target assignment problem in which weapons seek to achieve a prespecified probability of kill on each target. Three novel cost functions are proposed that, in cases with low agent-to-target ratios, induce behaviors that may be preferable to the behaviors induced by classical cost functions. The performance of these proposed cost functions is explored in simulation of both homogeneous and heterogeneous engagement scenarios using airborne autonomous weapons. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed cost functions achieve desired behaviors in cases with low agent-to-target ratios where efficient use of weapons is particularly important.
Saliency detection is used to identify the most important and informative area in a scene, and it is widely used in various vision tasks, including image quality assessment, image matching, and object recognition. Man...
详细信息
Saliency detection is used to identify the most important and informative area in a scene, and it is widely used in various vision tasks, including image quality assessment, image matching, and object recognition. Manifold ranking (MR) has been used to great effect for the saliency detection, since it not only incorporates the local spatial information but also utilizes the labeling information from background queries. However, MR completely ignores the feature information extracted from each superpixel. In this paper, we propose an MR-based matrix factorization (MRMF) method to overcome this limitation. MRMF models the ranking problem in the matrix factorization framework and embeds query sample labels in the coefficients. By incorporating spatial information and embedding labels, MRMF enforces similar saliency values on neighboring superpixels and ranks superpixels according to the learned coefficients. We prove that the MRMF has good generalizability, and develops an efficient optimization algorithm based on the Nesterov method. Experiments using popular benchmark data sets illustrate the promise of MRMF compared with the other state-of-the-art saliency detection methods.
In this paper, we discuss the ambiguity function (AF) synthesis problem for unimodular sequences, which are widely used in radar/sonar and communication systems. Notions of discrete-time ambiguity function and discret...
详细信息
In this paper, we discuss the ambiguity function (AF) synthesis problem for unimodular sequences, which are widely used in radar/sonar and communication systems. Notions of discrete-time ambiguity function and discrete ambiguity function (DAF) are defined, and the corresponding properties are also discussed for unimodular sequences. Depending on these properties, two algorithms are proposed to synthesize the DAF of the unimodular sequence by minimizing the squared error between a desired complex/real function and a realizable one over L-phase alphabet. To break the volume invariant constraint of a single sequence's AF, multi-sequences are also considered to be optimized simultaneously to suppress sidelobes of ambiguity surface. Numerical examples show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms in synthesizing unimodular sequence with a desired AF, and typical polyphase sequences can be well approximated by eight-phase unimodular sequences from the viewpoint of DAF.
An optical frequency-shift-keying demodulator with ultra-small plasmonic nano bi-domes that can filter the coherent optical frequency is developed. Since filtering efficiency depends strongly on the position and numbe...
详细信息
An optical frequency-shift-keying demodulator with ultra-small plasmonic nano bi-domes that can filter the coherent optical frequency is developed. Since filtering efficiency depends strongly on the position and number of the plasmonic nano bi-domes in the array, binary Teaching-Learning-Based optimization (BTLBO) algorithm is proposed to design an array of plasmonic nano bi-domes in order to achieve maximum absorption coefficient spectrum. In BTLBO, a group of learner consists a matrix with binary entries;control the presence ('1') or the absence ('0') of nano particles in the array. (C) 2016 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
暂无评论