Role of sex pheromone components in behavioral reproductive isolation betweenAutographa gamma (L.) and eitherTrichoplusia ni (Hübner) ORChrysodeixis chalcites (Esp.) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Plusiinae)

The composition of theAutographa gamma sex pheromone was reexamined and only (Z)-7-dodecenyl acetate and (Z)-7-dodecenol were identified by capillary GC, GC-MS, and dimethyl disulfide derivatization and subsequent GC-MS analysis. The fatty acid content of the pheromone glands was also studied, and a series of saturated and unsaturated acids was identified. However, most of the related pheromonal compounds were not detected. The male response to the pheromone components was studied in a flight tunnel and compared with the response to calling females. The best synthetic baits evoked a response similar to that observed to the virgin females, but males spent significantly more time at calling females than at the synthetic baits. The preferred synthetic baits consisted of (Z)-7-dodecenyl acetate alone or of a blend with 5% (Z)-7-dodecenol. Increasing the relative amount of the alcohol caused a gradual reduction in male response, particularly in the last steps of the courtship sequence. The addition of the minor sex pheromone components of the sympatric Plusiinae species,Trichoplusia ni andChrysodeixis chalcites, to theA. gamma pheromone was also investigated in the flight tunnel. Some of these components exhibited a significantly antagonistic effect on theA. gamma male courtship behavior. The most potent antagonists were (Z)-5-dodecenyl acetate and (Z)-9-tetradecenyl acetate. The response ofA. gamma andT. ni males to conspecific and heterospecific females was also compared in the flight tunnel. WhereasA. gamma males were attracted only to their conspecific females, a small percentage ofT. ni males were also attracted toA. gamma females and 11% performed the whole courtship sequence.Contribution from the Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), No. 3459-E, 1992 series.     

简单电力系统暂态电压稳定的直接分析法

对综合负荷采用三阶感应电动机并联恒阻抗动态模型,构建了简单电力系统暂态电压稳定分析的微分代数方程组(DAE)模型,并采用非线性动力系统理论计算系统故障后稳定平衡点的吸引域。针对采用牛顿法求取系统不稳定平衡点碰到的初值选取问题,通过对综合负荷感应电动机部分采用其稳态等值电路来求得不稳定平衡点;并采用将非线性系统化为规范型线性系统的方法求得系统故障后稳定平衡点的吸引域边界;进而只须仿真得到故障切除时刻系统的状态即可判断系统能否保持电压稳定。通过与系统全故障过程仿真结果的比较验证了本文方法的正确性。     

Characterization of chemicals mediating ovipositional host-plant finding byAmyelois transitella females

Ovipositional host-finding in the navel orangeworm,Amyelois transitella (Walker), is brought about by an in-flight response to host odors. Wind-tunnel studies of the response of gravid females to almonds showed that this response is mediated primarily by long-chain fatty acids, particularly oleic acid and linoleic acid. Evidence for the behavioral activity of fatty acids is based on the fact that: (1) behavioral activity of almond oil was concentrated in a single liquid chromatographic fraction whose composition was predominantly long-chain fatty acids, (2) behavioral activity was lost when either almond oil or the active fraction of that oil was treated with diazomethane, (3) full activity was elicited by a selective extraction of free fatty acids from crude almond oil, and (4) upwind response by females was elicited by a blend of synthetic oleic and linoleic acids, albeit at a level less than that elicited by almond oil. Five fatty acids identified from the almond oil were: myristic acid (1%), palmitic acid (16%), stearic acid (3%), oleic acid (58%), and linoleic (22%). Attraction to various combinations of synthetic acids was observed only when oleic acid was present, and oleic acid elicited upwind flights to the source when presented alone; however, short-range responses were enhanced by the addition of linoleic acid, which elicited no long-range orientation by itself. Despite significant levels of attraction to synthetic blends, the percentage of females flying to the source was lower than that flying to acidulated almond oil, the best natural attractant tested. Thus, although longrange response may be mediated primarily by a blend of oleic and linoleic acids, additional and as yet unidentified components must also play an important role. Long-range chemically modulated host finding in this and other generalist plant feeders is discussed with respect to current models of the evolution of host finding, and it is argued that suggestions that long-range host finding should be correlated with narrowness of host utilization are logically flawed and are not supported by our current understanding of specific examples of host finding.     

β-Phellandrene: kairomone for pine engraver,Ips pini (Say) (Coleoptera: Scolytidae)

The responses ofIps pini (Scolytidae) to multiple-funnel traps baited with the pheromone, ipsdienol, and various monoterpenes were determined in stands of lodgepole pine in southern and central British Columbia.Ips pini was attracted to both ipsdienol and -phellandrene, demonstrating that -phellandrene is a kairomone for this species.Lasconotus complex (Colydiidae) and aCorticeus sp. (Tenebrionidae) were attracted to both ipsdienol and -phellandrene. TheCorticeus sp. exhibited a synergistic response to the combination of ipsdienol and -phellandrene; the responses of the other two species to the combination were additive. The predators,Thanasimus undatulus, Enoclerus sphegeus, andE. lecontei (Cleridae), were attracted to ipsdienol-baited traps, whileMonochamus clamator (Cerambycidae) andDendroctonus ponderosae (Scolytidae) were attracted to -phellandrene. Attraction of all eight species increased with increasing release rates of ipsdienol and/or -phellandrene.     

基于双策略协同进化的QPSO算法及其应用

为更好地提升量子粒子群优化算法（QPSO）的局部挖掘和全局搜索能力,提出了一种改进的QPSO算法（DSQPSO）。在改进算法中引入了双策略协同进化的思路调整粒子的位置更新公式。为充分体现个体粒子挖掘的优势和群体共同引导的特点,提出了两种吸引点构造的思路,做到个体和种群更好地融合以及信息的互通;分别考虑了最优平均位置与全局最优和粒子的历史最优之间的联系,对粒子搜索范围作出了重新定义;此外,在迭代过程中,借助随机扰动机制对全局最优位置进行调整,以保持种群的多样性。通过18个测试函数将DSQPSO算法与PSO、QPSO、RQPSO和LQPSO四种算法在收敛精度和鲁棒性方面进行对比;进而在两个具体的工程优化问题上,应用改进算法与八个智能算法进行了寻优结果比较。实验表明DSQPSO算法无论在基准测试中还是在工程应用上,其计算精度和收敛效果均有明显优势。     

一类饱和非有理系统状态反馈设计

本文研究了一类饱和非有理系统状态反馈镇定问题.通过线性分式表示技术,这类非有理系统可以转化为带有两个非线性回路的线性时不变(linear time-invariant,LTI)系统.假设非有理函数项分别满足局部扇形区间不等式以及局部Lipschitz条件,提出了两种基于LMI条件的镇定方法.最后,举例证明了所提出方法的有效性.     

Controller design and analysis for singularly perturbed switched systems with actuator saturation

This paper investigates the problems of controller design and stability analysis for singularly perturbed switched systems subject to actuator saturation. A set of well‐defined sufficient conditions for the existence of state feedback controllers is proposed, under which the closed‐loop system is locally asymptotically stable for arbitrary switching law as long as the singular perturbation parameter is sufficiently small. With the obtained controller, the estimation problem of stability bound and basin of attraction of the closed‐loop system is reduced to solving a convex optimization problem. A numerical example and a hydraulic servo position system are used to illustrate the obtained results. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Delay-range-dependent control synthesis for time-delay systems with actuator saturation

The control synthesis problem for a class of linear time-delay systems with actuator saturation is investigated in this paper. The time delay is considered to be time-varying and has lower and upper bounds. A delay-range-dependent approach is adopted and the corresponding existence conditions of the stabilizing state-feedback controller are derived in terms of LMIs. An estimate for the domain of attraction of the origin can be obtained for the underlying systems with different time-delay ranges. Two numerical examples are presented to show the effectiveness and less conservatism of the developed theoretical results.     

路面激扰与电磁激扰下电动轮车辆系统非线性全局动态特性研究

为研究电动轮车辆系统在路面 电磁联合激励下的非线性振动特性,并挖掘参数与初始条件协同作用下系统全局动力学信息,建立了计及悬架系统和轮胎的非线性弹簧力和阻尼力的电动轮车辆系统两自由度1/4垂向振动非光滑非线性时变动力学模型,考虑外部激励的谐波性和随机性以及电磁激励的分段周期性,得到了含谐波性、随机性和周期性的复杂外激励模型,分析了驱动电机转速与多初值的关联性对系统动力学共存行为及其分岔的影响规律,研究了共存运动的多样性及其吸引域的拓扑构型,揭示了转速对系统全局动力学稳定性的影响机理.结果表明：电机转速与多初值协同作用诱发系统出现多样性的共存运动,共存运动吸引域的拓扑结构复杂多样,部分共存运动的振动幅值可能较大亦可能很小,其全局动力学稳定性差异较大.电机转速与初值的协同作用对电动轮车辆系统非线性振动和全局动态特性的影响不予忽视.本文研究对电动轮车辆系统的动态性能改善和结构优化具有重要的理论意义和工程价值.     

Analysis and design of delta operator systems with nested actuator saturation

In this paper, the problem of estimating the domain of attraction is considered for delta operator systems subject to nested actuator saturation. A set invariance condition is established for the delta operator system with nested actuator saturation in terms of auxiliary feedback matrices. Based on the set invariance condition, an optimisation approach is proposed to estimate the domain of attraction for the delta operator system. Thereby, the partial results of nested actuator saturation for both continuous-time systems and discrete-time systems are extended to delta operator system framework. A numerical example is provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed design techniques.