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Optimal production lot size with process deterioration under an extended inspection policy
Hu Fei, Xu Genqi & Ma Lixia
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2009, 20 (4): 768-776.  
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A mathematical model to determine the optimal production lot size for a deteriorating production system under an extended product inspection policy is developed. The last-K product inspection policy is considered so that the nonconforming items can be reduced, under which the last K products in a production lot are inspected and the nonconforming items from those inspected are reworked. Consider that the products produced towards the end of a production lot are more likely to be nonconforming, is proposed an extended product inspection policy for a deteriorating production system. That is, in a production lot, product inspections are performed among the middle K1 items and after inspections, all of the last K2 products are directly reworked without inspections. Our objective here is the joint optimization of the production lot size and the corresponding extended inspection policy such that the expected total cost per unit time is minimized. Since there is no closed form expression for our optimal policy, the existence for the optimal production inspection policy and an upper bound for the optimal lot size are obtained. Furthermore, an efficient solution procedure is provided to search for the optimal policy. Finally, numerical examples are given to illustrate the proposed model and indicate that the expected total cost per unit time of our product inspection model is less than that of the last-K inspection policy.

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Low-frequency signal generation in space based on high-frequency electric-antenna array and Doppler effect
Anjing CUI, Daojing LI, Jiang WU, Jinghan GAO, Kai ZHOU, Chufeng HU, Shumei WU, Danni SHI, Guang LI
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2025, 36 (1): 24-36.   DOI: 10.23919/JSEE.2024.000079
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Low-frequency signals have been proven valuable in the fields of target detection and geological exploration. Nevertheless, the practical implementation of these signals is hindered by large antenna diameters, limiting their potential applications. Therefore, it is imperative to study the creation of low-frequency signals using antennas with suitable dimensions. In contrast to conventional mechanical antenna techniques, our study generates low-frequency signals in the spatial domain utilizing the principle of the Doppler effect. We also defines the antenna array architecture, the timing sequency, and the radiating element signal waveform, and provides experimental prototypes including 8/64 antennas based on earlier research. In the conducted experiments, 121 MHz, 40 MHz, and 10 kHz composite signals are generated by 156 MHz radiating element signals. The composite signal spectrum matches the simulations, proving our low-frequency signal generating method works. This holds significant implications for research on generating low-frequency signals with small-sized antennas.

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Incoherence parameter estimation and multiband fusion based on the novel structure-enhanced spatial spectrum algorithm
Libing JIANG, Shuyu ZHENG, Qingwei YANG, Xiaokuan ZHANG, Zhuang WANG
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2025, 36 (4): 867-879.   DOI: 10.23919/JSEE.2023.000155
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In order to obtain better inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) image, a novel structure-enhanced spatial spectrum is proposed for estimating the incoherence parameters and fusing multiband. The proposed method takes full advantage of the original electromagnetic scattering data and its conjugated form by combining them with the novel covariance matrices. To analyse the superiority of the modified algorithm, the mathematical expression of equivalent signal to noise ratio (SNR) is derived, which can validate our proposed algorithm theoretically. In addition, compared with the conventional matrix pencil (MP) algorithm and the conventional root-multiple signal classification (Root-MUSIC) algorithm, the proposed algorithm has better parameter estimation performance and more accurate multiband fusion results at the same SNR situations. Validity and effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated by simulation data and real radar data.

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Torque estimation for robotic joint with harmonic drive transmission based on system dynamic characteristics
Minghong ZHU, Shu XIAO, Fei YU
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2022, 33 (6): 1320-1331.   DOI: 10.23919/JSEE.2022.000151
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In the applications of joint control and robot movement, the joint torque estimation has been treated as an effective technique and widely used. Researches are made to analyze the kinematic and compliance model of the robot joint with harmonic drive to acquire high precision torque output. Through analyzing the structures of the harmonic drive and experiment apparatus, a scheme of the proposed joint torque estimation method based on both the dynamic characteristics and unscented Kalman filter (UKF) is designed and built. Based on research and scheme, torque estimation methods in view of only harmonic drive compliance model and compliance model with the Kalman filter are simulated as guidance and reference to promote the research on the torque estimation technique. Finally, a promoted torque estimation method depending on both harmonic drive compliance model and UKF is designed, and simulation results compared with the measurements of a commercial torque sensor, have verified the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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A tracking algorithm based on adaptive Kalman filter with carrier-to-noise ratio estimation under solar radio bursts interference
Xuefen ZHU, Ang LI, Yimei LUO, Mengying LIN, Gangyi TU
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2025, 36 (4): 880-891.   DOI: 10.23919/JSEE.2025.000061
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Solar radio burst (SRB) is one of the main natural interference sources of Global Positioning System (GPS) signals and can reduce the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), directly affecting the tracking performance of GPS receivers. In this paper, a tracking algorithm based on the adaptive Kalman filter (AKF) with carrier-to-noise ratio estimation is proposed and compared with the conventional second-order phase-locked loop tracking algorithms and the improved Sage-Husa adaptive Kalman filter (SHAKF) algorithm. It is discovered that when the SRBs occur, the improved SHAKF and the AKF with carrier-to-noise ratio estimation enable stable tracking to loop signals. The conventional second-order phase-locked loop tracking algorithms fail to track the receiver signal. The standard deviation of the carrier phase error of the AKF with carrier-to-noise ratio estimation outperforms 50.51% of the improved SHAKF algorithm, showing less fluctuation and better stability. The proposed algorithm is proven to show more excellent adaptability in the severe environment caused by the SRB occurrence and has better tracking performance.

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Chaos-enhanced moth-flame optimization algorithm for global optimization
Hongwei LI, Jianyong LIU, Liang CHEN, Jingbo BAI, Yangyang SUN, Kai LU
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2019, 30 (6): 1144-1159.   DOI: 10.21629/JSEE.2019.06.10
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Moth-flame optimization (MFO) is a novel metaheuristic algorithm inspired by the characteristics of a moth's navigation method in nature called transverse orientation. Like other metaheuristic algorithms, it is easy to fall into local optimum and leads to slow convergence speed. The chaotic map is one of the best methods to improve exploration and exploitation of the metaheuristic algorithms. In the present study, we propose a chaos-enhanced MFO (CMFO) by incorporating chaos maps into the MFO algorithm to enhance its performance. The chaotic map is utilized to initialize the moths' population, handle the boundary overstepping, and tune the distance parameter. The CMFO is benchmarked on three groups of benchmark functions to find out the most efficient one. The performance of the CMFO is also verified by using two real engineering problems. The statistical results clearly demonstrate that the appropriate chaotic map (singer map) embedded in the appropriate component of MFO can significantly improve the performance of MFO.

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An approach to measuring business-IT alignment maturity via DoDAF2.0
Mengmeng ZHANG, Honghui CHEN, Yi MAO, Aimin LUO
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2020, 31 (1): 95-108.   DOI: 10.21629/JSEE.2020.01.11
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Measuring the business-IT alignment (BITA) of an organization determines its alignment level, provides directions for further improvements, and consequently promotes the organizational performances. Due to the capabilities of enterprise architecture (EA) in interrelating different business/IT viewpoints and elements, the development of EA is superior to support BITA measurement. Extant BITA measurement literature is sparse when it concerns EA. The literature tends to explain how EA viewpoints or models correlate with BITA, without discussing where to collect and integrate EA data. To address this gap, this paper attempts to propose a specific BITA measurement process through associating a BITA maturity model with a famous EA framework: DoD Architectural Framework 2.0 (DoDAF2.0). The BITA metrics in the maturity model are connected to the meta-models and models of DoDAF2.0. An illustrative ArchiSurance case is conducted to explain the measurement process. Systematically, this paper explores the process of BITA measurement from the viewpoint of EA, which helps to collect the measurement data in an organized way and analyzes the BITA level in the phase of architecture development.

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Ranking grey numbers based on dominance grey degrees
Yong Liu Jeffrey Forrest, and Naiming Xie
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2014, 25 (4): 618-.   DOI: 10.1109/JSEE.2014.00072
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With respect to the decision making problems where a lot of fuzzy and grey information always exists in the real-life decision making information system, it is difficult for such uncertainty methods as fuzzy mathematics, probability, and interval numbers to deal with. To this end, based on the thought and method of grey numbers, grey degrees and interval numbers, the concept of dominance grey degree is defined. And then a method of ranking interval grey numbers based on the dominance grey degree is proposed. After discussing the relevant properties, the paper finally uses an example to demonstrate the effectiveness and applicability of the model. The result shows that the proposed model can more accurately describe uncertainty decision making problems,
and realize the total ordering process for multiple-attribute decision-making problems.

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A goal-based approach for modeling and simulation of different types of system-of-systems
Yimin FENG, Chenchu ZHOU, Qiang ZOU, Yusheng LIU, Jiyuan LYU, Xinfeng WU
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2023, 34 (3): 627-640.   DOI: 10.23919/JSEE.2023.000084
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A system of systems (SoS) composes a set of independent constituent systems (CSs), where the degree of authority to control the independence of CSs varies, depending on different SoS types. Key researchers describe four SoS types with descending levels of central authority: directed, acknowledged, collaborative and virtual. Although the definitions have been recognized in SoS engineering, what is challenging is the difficulty of translating these definitions into models and simulation environments. Thus, we provide a goal-based method including a mathematical baseline to translate these definitions into more effective agent-based modeling and simulations. First, we construct the theoretical models of CS and SoS. Based on the theoretical models, we analyze the degree of authority influenced by SoS characteristics. Next, we propose a definition of SoS types by quantitatively explaining the degree of authority. Finally, we recognize the differences between acknowledged SoS and collaborative SoS using a migrating waterfowl flock by an agent-based model (ABM) simulation. This paper contributes to the SoS body of knowledge by increasing our understanding of the degree of authority in an SoS, so we may identify suitable SoS types to achieve SoS goals by modeling and simulation.

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Real-time UAV path planning based on LSTM network
Jiandong ZHANG, Yukun GUO, Lihui ZHENG, Qiming YANG, Guoqing SHI, Yong WU
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2024, 35 (2): 374-385.   DOI: 10.23919/JSEE.2023.000157
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To address the shortcomings of single-step decision making in the existing deep reinforcement learning based unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) real-time path planning problem, a real-time UAV path planning algorithm based on long short-term memory (RPP-LSTM) network is proposed, which combines the memory characteristics of recurrent neural network (RNN) and the deep reinforcement learning algorithm. LSTM networks are used in this algorithm as Q-value networks for the deep Q network (DQN) algorithm, which makes the decision of the Q-value network has some memory. Thanks to LSTM network, the Q-value network can use the previous environmental information and action information which effectively avoids the problem of single-step decision considering only the current environment. Besides, the algorithm proposes a hierarchical reward and punishment function for the specific problem of UAV real-time path planning, so that the UAV can more reasonably perform path planning. Simulation verification shows that compared with the traditional feed-forward neural network (FNN) based UAV autonomous path planning algorithm, the RPP-LSTM proposed in this paper can adapt to more complex environments and has significantly improved robustness and accuracy when performing UAV real-time path planning.

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Study on group air to ground attack-defends hierarchical dynamic decision-making
Zhang Li, Zhang An, Zhang Yongfang & Shi Zhifu
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2007, 18 (3): 540-544.  
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As to oppositional, multi-objective and hierarchical characteristic of air formation to ground attack-defends campaign, and using dynamic space state model of military campaign, this article establishes a principal and subordinate hierarchical interactive decision-making way, the Nash-Stackelberg-Nash model, to solve the problems in military operation, and find out the associated best strategy in hierarchical dynamic decision-making. The simulating result indicate that when applying the model to air formation to ground attack-defends decision-making system, it can solve the problems of two hierarchies' dynamic oppositional decision-making favorably, and reach preferable effect in battle. It proves that the model can provide an effective way for analyzing a battle.

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Method for compensating translational motion of rotationally symmetric target based on local symmetry cancellation
Jingqing Li, Sisan He, Cunqian Feng, and Yizhe Wang
Systems Engineering and Electronics    DOI: 10.21629/JSEE.2017.01.05
3D face registration based on principal axis analysis and labeled regions orientation
Guo Zhe, Zhang Yanning, Lin Zenggang & Liu Yantong
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2009, 20 (6): 1324-1331.  
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A novel multi-view 3D face registration method based on principal axis analysis and labeled regions orientation called local orientation registration is proposed. The pre-registration is achieved by transforming the multi-pose models to the standard frontal model’s reference frame using the principal axis analysis algorithm. Some significant feature regions, such as inner and outer canthus, nose tip vertices, are then located by using geometrical distribution characteristics. These regions are subsequently employed to compute the conversion parameters using the improved iterative closest point algorithm, and the optimal parameters are applied to complete the final registration. Experimental results implemented on the proper database demonstrate that the proposed method significantly outperforms others by achieving 1.249 and 1.910 mean root-mean-square measure with slight and large view variation models, respectively.

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Technology and test results of space adaptability of passive hydrogen maser
Hefei Zheng, Lianshan Gao, Keming Feng, Jing Li, Wenming Wang
Systems Engineering and Electronics    DOI: 10.21629/JSEE.2017.02.06
Highly maneuvering target tracking using multi-parameter fusion Singer model
Shuyi Jia, Yun Zhang, and Guohong Wang
Systems Engineering and Electronics    DOI: 10.21629/JSEE.2017.05.03
Optimal midcourse trajectory cluster generation and trajectory modification for hypersonic interceptions#br#
Humin Lei, Jin Zhou, Dailiang Zhai, Lei Shao, and Dayuan Zhang
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2017, 28 (6): 1162-1173.   DOI: 10.21629/JSEE.2017.06.14
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The hypersonic interception in near space is a great challenge because of the target’s unpredictable trajectory, which demands the interceptors of trajectory cluster coverage of the predicted area and optimal trajectory modification capability aiming at the consistently updating predicted impact point (PIP) in the midcourse phase. A novel midcourse optimal trajectory cluster generation and trajectory modification algorithm is proposed based on the neighboring optimal control theory. Firstly, the midcourse trajectory optimization problem is introduced; the necessary conditions for the optimal control and the transversality constraints are given. Secondly, with the description of the neighboring optimal trajectory existence theory (NOTET), the neighboring optimal control (NOC) algorithm is derived by taking the second order partial derivations with the necessary conditions and transversality conditions. The revised terminal constraints are reversely integrated to the initial time and the perturbations of the co-states are further expressed with the states deviations and terminal constraints modifications. Thirdly, the simulations of two different scenarios are carried out and the results prove the effectiveness and optimality of the proposed method. 
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Formation and adjustment of manned/unmanned combat aerial vehicle cooperative engagement system
Yun ZHONG, Peiyang YAO, Jieyong ZHANG, Lujun WAN
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2018, 29 (4): 756-767.   DOI: 10.21629/JSEE.2018.04.10
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Manned combat aerial vehicles (MCAVs), and unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) together form a cooperative engagement system to carry out operational mission, which will be a new air engagement style in the near future. On the basis of analyzing the structure of the MCAV/UCAV cooperative engagement system, this paper divides the unique system into three hierarchical levels, respectively, i.e., mission level, task-cluster level and task level. To solve the formation and adjustment problem of the latter two levels, three corresponding mathematical models are established. To solve these models, three algorithms called quantum artificial bee colony (QABC) algorithm, greedy strategy (GS) and two-stage greedy strategy (TSGS) are proposed. Finally, a series of simulation experiments are designed to verify the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed algorithms.

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Resource allocation approach to associate business-IT alignment to enterprise architecture design
Mengmeng ZHANG, Honghui CHEN, Junxian LIU
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2019, 30 (2): 343-351.   DOI: 10.21629/JSEE.2019.02.13
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Enterprise architecture (EA) development is always a superior way to address business-IT alignment (BITA) issue. However, most EA design frameworks are inadequate to allocate IT resources, which is an important metric of BITA maturity. Under this situation, the idea of IT resource allocation is combined with the EA design process, in order to extend prior EA research on BITA and to demonstrate EAos capability of implementing IT governance. As an effective resource allocation method, portfolio decision analysis (PDA) is used to align business functions of business architecture and applications of system architecture. Furthermore, this paper exhibits an illustrative case with the proposed framework.

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Capacity allocation strategy against cascading failure of complex network
Jun LIU, Xiaolong LIANG, Pengfei LEI
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2024, 35 (6): 1507-1515.   DOI: 10.23919/JSEE.2024.000075
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Cascading failures in infrastructure networks have serious impacts on network function. The limited capacity of network nodes provides a necessary condition for cascade failure. However, the network capacity cannot be infinite in the real network system. Therefore, how to reasonably allocate the limited capacity resources is of great significance. In this article, we put forward a capacity allocation strategy based on community structure against cascading failure. Experimental results indicate that the proposed method can reduce the scale of cascade failures with higher capacity utilization compared with Motter-Lai (ML) model. The advantage of our method is more obvious in scale-free network. Furthermore, the experiment shows that the cascade effect is more obvious when the vertex load is randomly varying. It is known to all that the growth of network capacity can make the network more resistant to destruction, but in this paper it is found that the contribution rate of unit capacity rises first and then decreases with the growth of network capacity cost.

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Cloud removal of remote sensing image based on multi-output support vector regression
Gensheng Hu, Xiaoqi Sun, Dong Liang, and Yingying Sun
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    DOI: 10.1109/JSEE.2014.00124
Conceptual design and RCS performance research of shipborne early warning aircraft
Kuizhi Yue, Yong Gao, Guanxiong Li, and Dazhao Yu
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    DOI: 10.1109/JSEE.2014.00111
Non-coherent sequence detection scheme for satellite-based automatic identification system
Haosu Zhou and Jianxin Wang
Systems Engineering and Electronics    DOI: 10.21629/JSEE.2017.03.04
DOA estimation for mixed signals with gain-phase  
Jiaqi Zhen and Yong Liu
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2017, 28 (6): 1046-1056.   DOI: 10.21629/JSEE.2017.06.02
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Most of the direction of arrival (DOA) estimation methods often need the exact array manifold, but in actual applications, the gain and phase of the channels are usually inconsistent, which will cause the estimation invalid. A novel direction finding approach for mixed far-field and near-field signals with gain-phase error array is provided. Based on simplifying the space spectrum function by matrix transformation, DOA of far-field signals is obtained. Consequently, errors of the array are acquired according to the orthogonality of far-field signal subspace and noise subspace. Finally, DOA of near-field signals can be estimated. The method merely needs one-dimensional spectrum searching, so as to improve the computational efficiency on the premise of ensuring a certain accuracy, simulation results manifest the effectiveness of the method.

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Marginal optimization method to improve the inconsistent comparison matrix in the analytic hierarchy process#br#
Shihui Wu, Jiang Xie, Xiaodong Liu, Bo He, Minxiang Yang, and Zhengxin Li
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2017, 28 (6): 1141-1151.   DOI: 10.21629/JSEE.2017.06.12
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To improve the inconsistency in the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), a new method based on marginal optimization theory is proposed. During the improving process, this paper regards the reduction of consistency ratio (CR) as benefit, and the maximum modification compared to the original pairwise comparison matrix (PCM) as cost, then the improvement of consistency is transformed to a benefit/cost analysis problem. According to the maximal marginal effect principle, the elements of PCM are modified by a fixed increment (or decrement) step by step till the consistency ratio becomes acceptable, which can ensure minimum adjustment to the original PCM so that the decision makers’ judgment is preserved as much as possible. The correctness of the proposed method is proved mathematically by theorem. Firstly, the marginal benefit/cost ratio is calculated for each single element of the PCM when it has been modified by a fixed increment (or decrement). Then, modification to the element with the maximum marginal benefit/ cost ratio is accepted. Next, the marginal benefit/cost ratio is calculated again upon the revised matrix, and followed by choosing the modification to the element with the maximum marginal benefit/cost ratio. The process of calculating marginal effect and choosing the best modified element is repeated for each revised matrix till acceptable consistency is reached, i.e., CR<0.1. Finally, illustrative examples show the proposed method is more effective and better in preserving the original comparison information than existing methods. 
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Functionality evaluation of system of systems architecture based on extended influence diagrams
Mengmeng ZHANG, Honghui CHEN, Xiaoxue ZHANG, Aimin LUO, Junxian LIU
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2018, 29 (3): 510-518.   DOI: 10.21629/JSEE.2018.03.08
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System of systems architecture (SoSA) has received increasing emphasis by scholars since Zachman ignited its flame in 1987. Given its complexity and abstractness, it is critical to validate and evaluate SoSA to ensure requirements have been met. Multiple qualities are discussed in the literature of SoSA evaluation, while research on functionality is scarce. In order to assess SoSA functionality, an extended influence diagram (EID) is developed in this paper. Meanwhile, a simulation method is proposed to elicit the conditional probabilities in EID through designing and executing SoSA. An illustrative anti-missile architecture case is introduced for EID development, architecture design, and simulation.

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Rigid graph-based three-dimension localization algorithm for wireless sensor networks
Xiaoyuan LUO, Wenjing ZHONG, Xiaolei LI, Xinping GUAN
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2018, 29 (5): 927-936.   DOI: 10.21629/JSEE.2018.05.05
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This paper investigates the node localization problem for wireless sensor networks in three-dimension space. A distributed localization algorithm is presented based on the rigid graph. Before location, the communication radius is adaptively increasing to add the localizability. The localization process includes three steps: firstly, divide the whole globally rigid graph into several small rigid blocks; secondly, set up the local coordinate systems and transform them to global coordinate system; finally, use the quadrilateration iteration technology to locate the nodes in the wireless sensor network. This algorithm has the advantages of low energy consumption, low computational complexity as well as high expandability and high localizability. Moreover, it can achieve the unique and accurate localization. Finally, some simulations are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

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Using deep learning to detect small targets in infrared oversampling images
Liangkui LIN, Shaoyou WANG, Zhongxing TANG
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2018, 29 (5): 947-952.   DOI: 10.21629/JSEE.2018.05.07
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According to the oversampling imaging characteristics, an infrared small target detection method based on deep learning is proposed. A 7-layer deep convolutional neural network (CNN) is designed to automatically extract small target features and suppress clutters in an end-to-end manner. The input of CNN is an original oversampling image while the output is a cluttersuppressed feature map. The CNN contains only convolution and non-linear operations, and the resolution of the output feature map is the same as that of the input image. The L1-norm loss function is used, and a mass of training data is generated to train the network effectively. Results show that compared with several baseline methods, the proposed method improves the signal clutter ratio gain and background suppression factor by 3 – 4 orders of magnitude, and has more powerful target detection performance.

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Weapon configuration, allocation and route planning with time windows for multiple unmanned combat air vehicles
Jiaming ZHANG, Zhong LIU, Jianmai SHI, Chao CHEN
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2018, 29 (5): 953-968.   DOI: 10.21629/JSEE.2018.05.08
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Unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAVs) mission planning is a fairly complicated global optimum problem. Military attack missions often employ a fleet of UCAVs equipped with weapons to attack a set of known targets. A UCAV can carry different weapons to accomplish different combat missions. Choice of different weapons will have different effects on the final combat effectiveness. This work presents a mixed integer programming model for simultaneous weapon configuration and route planning of UCAVs, which solves the problem optimally using the IBM ILOG CPLEX optimizer for simple missions. This paper develops a heuristic algorithm to handle the medium-scale and large-scale problems. The experiments demonstrate the performance of the heuristic algorithm in solving the medium scale and large scale problems. Moreover, we give suggestions on how to select the most appropriate algorithm to solve different scale problems.

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Obstacle avoidance method of three-dimensional obstacle spherical cap
Xiuxia YANG, Yi ZHANG, Weiwei ZHOU
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2018, 29 (5): 1058-1068.   DOI: 10.21629/JSEE.2018.05.16
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Focusing on obstacle avoidance in three-dimensional space for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the direct obstacle avoidance method in dynamic space based on three-dimensional velocity obstacle spherical cap is proposed, which quantifies the influence of threatening obstacles through velocity obstacle spherical cap parameters. In addition, the obstacle avoidance schemes of any point on the critical curve during the multi-obstacles avoidance are given. Through prediction, the insertion point for the obstacle avoidance can be obtained and the flight path can be replanned. Taking the Pythagorean Hodograph (PH) curve trajectory re-planning as an example, the three-dimensional direct obstacle avoidance method in dynamic space is tested. Simulation results show that the proposed method can realize the online obstacle avoidance trajectory re-planning, which increases the flexibility of obstacle avoidance greatly.

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Safety analysis of wheel brake system based on STAMP/STPA and Monte Carlo simulation
Jianbo HU, Lei ZHENG, Shukui XU
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2018, 29 (6): 1327-1339.   DOI: 10.21629/JSEE.2018.06.20
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The wheel brake system safety is a complex problem which refers to its technical state, operating environment, human factors, etc., in aircraft landing taxiing process. Usually, professors consider system safety with traditional probability techniques based on the linear chain of events. However, it could not comprehensively analyze system safety problems, especially in operating environment, interaction of subsystems, and human factors. Thus, we consider system safety as a control problem based on the system-theoretic accident model, the processes (STAMP) model and the system theoretic process analysis (STPA) technique to compensate the deficiency of traditional techniques. Meanwhile, system safety simulation is considered as system control simulation, and Monte Carlo methods are used which consider the range of uncertain parameters and operation deviation to quantitatively study system safety influence factors in control simulation. Firstly, we construct the STAMP model and STPA feedback control loop of the wheel brake system based on the system functional requirement. Then four unsafe control actions are identified, and causes of them are analyzed. Finally, we construct the Monte Carlo simulation model to analyze different scenarios under disturbance. The results provide a basis for choosing corresponding process model variables in constructing the context table and show that appropriate brake strategies could prevent hazards in aircraft landing taxiing.

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Evolutionary many objective optimization based on bidirectional decomposition
Chengzhong LYU, Weimin LI
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2019, 30 (2): 319-326.   DOI: 10.21629/JSEE.2019.02.11
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The decomposition based approach decomposes a multi-objective problem into a series of single objective subproblems, which are optimized along contours towards the ideal point. But non-dominated solutions cannot spread uniformly, since the Pareto front shows different features, such as concave and convex. To improve the distribution uniformity of non-dominated solutions, a bidirectional decomposition based approach that constructs two search directions is proposed to provide a uniform distribution no matter what features problems have. Since two populations along two search directions show differently on diversity and convergence, an adaptive neighborhood selection approach is presented to choose suitable parents for the offspring generation. In order to avoid the problem of the shrinking search region caused by the close distance of the ideal and nadir points, a reference point update approach is presented. The performance of the proposed algorithm is validated with four state-of-the-art algorithms. Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed algorithm on all considered test problems.

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MAV/UAV task coalition phased-formation method
Zhiqiang JIAO, Peiyang YAO, Jieyong ZHANG, Yun ZHONG, Xun WANG
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2019, 30 (2): 402-414.   DOI: 10.21629/JSEE.2019.02.18
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The formation of the manned aerial vehicle/unmanned aerial vehicle (MAV/UAV) task coalition is considered. To reduce the scale of the problem, the formation progress is divided into three phases. For the task clustering phase, the geographical position of tasks is taken into consideration and a cluster method is proposed. For the UAV allocation phase, the UAV requirement for both constrained and unconstrained resources is introduced, and a multi-objective optimal algorithm is proposed to solve the allocation problem. For the MAV allocation phase, the optimal model is firstly constructed and it is decomposed according to the ideal of greed to reduce the time complexity of the algorithm. Based on the above phases, the MAV/UAV task coalition formation method is proposed and the effectiveness and practicability are demonstrated by simulation examples.

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Optimal selection of tests for fault detection and isolation in multi-operating mode system
Yuanhong LIU
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2019, 30 (2): 425-434.   DOI: 10.21629/JSEE.2019.02.20
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The complex systems are often in the structure of multi-operating modes, and the components implementing system functions are different under different operation modes, which results in the problems that components often fail in different operating modes, faults can be only detected in specified operating modes, tests can be available in specified operating modes, and the cost and efficiency of detecting and isolating faults are different under different operating modes and isolation levels. Aiming at these problems, an optimal test selection method for fault detection and isolation in the multi-operating mode system is proposed by using the fault pair coding and rollout algorithm. Firstly, the faults in fault-test correlation matrices under different operating modes are combined to fault-pairs, which is used to construct the fault pair-test correlation matrices under different operating modes. Secondly, the final fault pair-test correlation matrix of the multioperating mode system is obtained by operating the fault pair-test correlation matrices under different operating modes. Based on the final fault pair-test correlation matrix, the necessary tests are selected by the rollout algorithm orderly. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by examples of the optimal test selection in the multi-operating mode system with faults isolated to different levels. The result shows that the proposed method can effectively mine the fault detection and isolation ability of tests and it is suitable for the optimal test selection of the multi-operating mode system with faults isolated to the replacement unit and specific fault.

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Approach to MAI cancellation for micro-satellite clusters
Jiajun HUANG, Chaojie ZHANG, Xiaojun JIN
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2019, 30 (5): 823-830.   DOI: 10.21629/JSEE.2019.05.01
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With the development of micro-satellite technology, traditional monolithic satellites can be replaced by micro-satellite clusters to achieve high flexibility and dynamic reconfiguration capability. For satellite clusters based on the frequency division-code division multiple access (FD-CDMA) communication system, the inter-satellite ranging precision is usually constrained due to the influence of multi-address interference (MAI). The multi-user detection (MUD) is a solution to MAI, which can be divided into two categories: the linear detector (LD) and the non-linear detector (NLD). The general idea of the LD is aiming to make a better decision during the symbol decision process by using the information of all channels. However, it is not beneficial for the signal phase tracking precision. Instead, the principle of the NLD is to rebuild the interference signal and cancel it from the original one, which can improve the ranging performance at the expense of considerable delays. In order to enable simultaneous ranging and communication and reduce multi-node ranging performance degradation, this paper proposes an NLD scheme based on a delay locked loop (DLL), which simplifies the receiver structure and introduces no delay in the decision process. This scheme utilizes the information obtained from the interference channel to reconstruct the interference signal and then cancels it from the original delayed signal. Therefore, the DLL input signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) of the desired channel can be significantly improved. The experimental results show that with the proposed scheme, the standard deviation of the tracking steady error is decreased from 5.59 cm to 3.97 cm for SIR = 5 dB, and 13.53 cm to 5.77 cm for SIR = -5 dB, respectively.

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Fault diagnosis based on dial-test data in datacenter networks
Xiaogang QI, Bingchun WANG, Lifang LIU
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2019, 30 (5): 1035-1043.   DOI: 10.21629/JSEE.2019.05.19
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The fast growth of datacenter networks, in terms of both scale and structural complexity, has led to an increase of network failure and hence brings new challenges to network management systems. As network failure such as node failure is inevitable, how to find fault detection and diagnosis approaches that can effectively restore the network communication function and reduce the loss due to failure has been recognized as an important research problem in both academia and industry. This research focuses on exploring issues of node failure, and presents a proactive fault diagnosis algorithm called heuristic breadth-first detection (HBFD), through dynamically searching the spanning tree, analyzing the dial-test data and choosing a reasonable threshold to locate fault nodes. Both theoretical analysis and simulation results demonstrate that HBFD can diagnose node failures effectively, and take a smaller number of detection and a lower false rate without sacrificing accuracy.

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Joint 2D DOA and Doppler frequency estimation for L-shaped array using compressive sensing
Shixin WANG, Yuan ZHAO, Ibrahim LAILA, Ying XIONG, Jun WANG, Bin TANG
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2020, 31 (1): 28-36.   DOI: 10.21629/JSEE.2020.01.04
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A joint two-dimensional (2D) direction-of-arrival (DOA) and radial Doppler frequency estimation method for the L-shaped array is proposed in this paper based on the compressive sensing (CS) framework. Revised from the conventional CS-based methods where the joint spatial-temporal parameters are characterized in one large scale matrix, three smaller scale matrices with independent azimuth, elevation and Doppler frequency are introduced adopting a separable observation model. Afterwards, the estimation is achieved by $L_{1}$-norm minimization and the Bayesian CS algorithm. In addition, under the L-shaped array topology, the azimuth and elevation are separated yet coupled to the same radial Doppler frequency. Hence, the pair matching problem is solved with the aid of the radial Doppler frequency. Finally, numerical simulations corroborate the feasibility and validity of the proposed algorithm.

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Design of synthetic aperture radar low-intercept radio frequency stealth
Wensheng CHANG, Haihong TAO, Yanbin LIU, Guangcai SUN
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2020, 31 (1): 64-72.   DOI: 10.21629/JSEE.2020.01.08
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Not confined to a certain point, such as waveform, this paper systematically studies the low-intercept radio frequency (RF) stealth design of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) from the system level. The study is carried out from two levels. In the first level, the maximum low-intercept range equation of the conventional SAR system is deduced firstly, and then the maximum low-intercept range equation of the multiple-input multiple-output SAR system is deduced. In the second level, the waveform design and imaging method of the low-intercept RF SAR system are given and verified by simulation. Finally, the main technical characteristics of the low-intercept RF stealth SAR system are given to guide the design of low-intercept RF stealth SAR system.

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Integrated method for measuring distance and time difference between small satellites
Yaowei ZHU, Zhaobin XU, Xiaojun JIN, Xiaoxu GUO, Zhonghe JIN
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2021, 32 (3): 596-606.   DOI: 10.23919/JSEE.2021.000051
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The advancement of small satellites is promoting the development of distributed satellite systems, and for the latter, it is essential to coordinate the spatial and temporal relations between mutually visible satellites. By now, dual one-way ranging (DOWR) and two-way time transfer (TWTT) are generally integrated in the same software and hardware system to meet the limitations of small satellites in terms of size, weight and power (SWaP) consumption. However, studies show that pseudo-noise regenerative ranging (PNRR) performs better than DOWR if some advanced implementation technologies are employed. Besides, PNRR has no requirement on time synchronization. To apply PNRR to small satellites, and meanwhile, meet the demand for time difference measurement, we propose the round-way time difference measurement, which can be combined with PNRR to form a new integrated system without exceeding the limits of SWaP. The new integrated system can provide distributed small satellite systems with on-orbit high-accuracy and high-precision distance measurement and time difference measurement in real time. Experimental results show that the precision of ranging is about 1.94 cm, and that of time difference measurement is about 78.4 ps, at the signal to noise ratio of 80 dBHz.

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Vision-based aerial image mosaicking algorithm with object detection
Jun HAN, Weixing LI, Kai FENG, Feng PAN
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2022, 33 (2): 259-268.   DOI: 10.23919/JSEE.2022.000026
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Aerial image sequence mosaicking is one of the challenging research fields in computer vision. To obtain large-scale orthophoto maps with object detection information, we propose a vision-based image mosaicking algorithm without any extra location data. According to object detection results, we define a complexity factor to describe the importance of each input image and dynamically optimize the feature extraction process. The feature points extraction and matching processes are mainly guided by the speeded-up robust features (SURF) and the grid motion statistic (GMS) algorithm respectively. A robust reference frame selection method is proposed to eliminate the transformation distortion by searching for the center area based on overlaps. Besides, the sparse Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) algorithm and the heavy occluded frames removal method are applied to reduce accumulated errors and further improve the mosaicking performance. The proposed algorithm is performed by using multithreading and graphics processing unit (GPU) acceleration on several aerial image datasets. Extensive experiment results demonstrate that our algorithm outperforms most of the existing aerial image mosaicking methods in visual quality while guaranteeing a high calculation speed.

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Fast BSC-based algorithm for near-field signal localization via uniform circular array
Xiaolong SU, Zhen LIU, Bin SUN, Yang WANG, Xin CHEN, Xiang LI
Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics    2022, 33 (2): 269-278.   DOI: 10.23919/JSEE.2022.000028
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In this paper, we propose a beam space coversion (BSC)-based approach to achieve a single near-field signal localization under uniform circular array (UCA). By employing the centro-symmetric geometry of UCA, we apply BSC to extract the two-dimensional (2-D) angles of near-field signal in the Vandermonde form, which allows for azimuth and elevation angle estimation by utilizing the improved estimation of signal parameters via rotational invariance techniques (ESPRIT) algorithm. By substituting the calculated 2-D angles into the direction vector of near-field signal, the range parameter can be consequently obtained by the 1-D multiple signal classification (MUSIC) method. Simulations demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can achieve a single near-field signal localization, which can provide satisfactory performance and reduce computational complexity.

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