协方差矩阵重构的稳健自适应波束形成算法

针对协方差矩阵含有期望信号成分以及波束指向角失配时,传统自适应波束形成器性能严重下降的问题,提出了协方差矩阵重构的稳健自适应波束形成算法。该算法将全空域划分成若干互不重叠的区域,分别对应干扰区域与信号区域,先利用Capon波束形成器对干扰区域积分,由此构造出干扰协方差矩阵。然后,利用标准Capon波束形成器的波束域MUSIC谱估计法对信号区域积分,重构出信号协方差矩阵,以其主特征向量作为期望信号导引向量估计。由于算法重构了干扰加噪声协方差矩阵并对导引向量进行了修正,保证了自适应波束形成器的性能。理论分析和仿真实验结果表明,算法在训练数据含有期望信号成分和波束指向角度失配情况下具有良好的性能。      

Frequency-invariant robust adaptive beamforming based on interference covariance matrix reconstruction

Consider the problems of frequency-invariant beampattern optimization and robustness in broadband beamforming.Firstly,a global optimization algorithm,which is based on phase compensation of the array manifolds,is used to construct the frequency-invariant beampattern.Compared with some methods presented recently,the proposed algorithm is not only available to get the global optimal solution,but also simple for physical realization.Meanwhile,a robust adaptive broadband beamforming algorithm is also derived by reconstructing the covariance matrix.The essence of the proposed algorithm is to estimate the space-frequency spectrum using Capon estimator firstly,then integrate over a region separated from the desired signal direction to reconstruct the interference-plus-noise covariance matrix,and finally caleulate the adaptive beamformer weights with the reconstructed matrix.The design of beamformer is formulated as a convex optimization problem to be solved.Simulation results show that the performance of the proposed algorithm is almost always close to the optimal value across a wide range of signal to noise ratios.     

基于干扰协方差矩阵重构的恒定束宽鲁棒自适应波束形成

针对宽带波束形成中的恒定束宽波束响应优化设计问题与鲁棒性问题展开研究。首先,提出一种基于相位补偿的恒定束宽全局优化设计方法,通过对阵列流形向量进行相位补偿来设计恒定束宽波束,与现有的一些方法相比,该方法不仅能获得全局最优解,而且物理实现简单。同时,还提出一种基于协方差矩阵重构的鲁棒自适应宽带波束形成算法。该算法采用Capon估计器估计样本数据的空间一频率谱密度函数,然后对期望信号波达方向之外的角度区间进行积分来重构干扰加噪声协方差矩阵,最后利用重构的协方差矩阵设计自适应波束形成器权系数。该波束形成器设计问题被表述成凸优化问题求解。仿真结果表明,在整个输入信噪比范围内,该算法几乎都能获得接近理想值的输出信干噪比。      

一种最差情况下性能最优化的特征分析自适应波束形成方法

自适应波束形成在弱目标检测和空域滤波中应用广泛。然而在实际海洋环境中,失配情况比较普遍,往往会导致传统自适应波束形成方法性能明显下降。针对此问题,本文基于特征分析重构观测信号协方差矩阵来抑制干扰对弱目标检测的影响,在此基础上进一步利用凸优化算法来提高波束形成方法的鲁棒性。数值仿真和海试数据处理结果表明,本文所提方法在抑制干扰对弱目标影响的基础上,在阵元位置平均误差不超过入射信号中心频率对应波长的40%的情况下,仍可以鲁棒地检测目标信号。同时,该方法显著提高了自适应波束形成方法的输出信干噪比,且受对角加载量取值的影响较小。      

基于半定规划和秩-1分解的稳健波束形成

针对标准Capon波束形成器在存在导向矢量失配时性能急剧下降问题, 提出了一种基于半定规划和秩-1分解的稳健波束形成算法. 该方法通过对实际导向矢量的估计提高自适应波束形成算法稳健性. 首先分别从干扰抑制和噪声抑制两个方面推导了新导向矢量应满足的约束条件, 并证明了利用矩阵滤波器构造约束条件的合理性; 构造了估计最优导向矢量的优化问题并将其转化为易于求解的松弛半定规划问题, 同时引入秩-1分解理论用于优化问题的求解. 仿真分析表明, 与目前较为常见的算法相比, 本文算法只需利用期望信号可能入射区间这一先验信息, 能获得更高输出信干噪比和功率估计精度. 关键词： 稳健自适应波束形成 半定规划 秩-1分解 导向矢量估计     

Waveguide invariant focusing for broadband beamforming in an oceanic waveguide

The performance of broadband sonar array processing can degrade significantly in shallow-water environments when interference becomes angularly spread due to multipath propagation. Particularly for towed line arrays near endfire, elevation angle spreading of multipath interference often results in masking of weaker sources of interest. While adaptive beamforming in a series of narrow frequency bands can suppress coherent multipath interference, this approach requires long observation times to estimate the required narrowband covariance matrices. To form wideband covariance matrices which can be estimated with less observation time, plane-wave focusing methods have been used to avoid interference covariance matrix rank inflation. This paper extends wideband focusing to the case of coherent multipath interference. The approach presented here, called waveguide invariant focusing (WIF), exploits a robust relationship for the frequency dependence of horizontal wave number differences. Unlike matched-field methods, WIF does not model multipath wave fronts but rather makes the interference appear to occupy the same rank-one subspace across frequency. This permits formation of wideband covariance matrices without interference rank inflation. Simulation experiments in a realistic ocean environment indicate that adaptive beamforming using WIF covariance matrices can provide a significant array gain improvement over conventional adaptive methods with limited observation time.     

快速收敛最小方差无畸变响应算法研究及应用

常规最小方差无畸变响应(MVDR)自适应波束形成是一种高分辨窄带波束形成器,它是利用实际声场的窄带互谱密度矩阵(CSDM)估计出自适应波束形成权向量。在实际应用中,MVDR算法需要较长的观测时间估计协方差矩阵,不利于对高速运动目标进行定位;对于宽带目标信号,MVDR算法需要对每一个CSDM进行求逆运算,计算量较大;在相干源条件下,目标信号之间会发生"对消"现象,MVDR算法性能急剧恶化。本文提出了基于子带子阵处理的快速收敛MVDR自适应波束形成方法。首先将全频带划分成一组子带,将接收线阵划分成一组子阵,然后对每一子带计算降维的驾驶协方差矩阵(STCM),从而得到快速收敛MVDR自适应波束形成的权值和空间谱估计结果。同时采用双向空间平滑方法对相干源进行MVDR空间谱估计。仿真和海试数据处理结果表明该算法在保证高分辨力的同时,具有瞬时收敛的性能,双向空间平滑技术具有良好的解相干性能。      

海洋环境噪声场对称性分析及噪声消除方法

实际的海洋环境是非常复杂的,存在着海洋自噪声、舰船噪声、生物发声等,阵元接收到的噪声信号存在一定的相关性,此时基于传统阵列信号处理的目标方位估计方法的性能将变差,针对这一问题,提出了一种实部消除方法.首先从阵元接收环境噪声的物理机理出发,将圆环阵接收的噪声场分解为对称噪声场和非对称噪声场,并且研究发现对称噪声场只影响数据协方差矩阵的实部.然后通过消除协方差矩阵实部,达到消除对称噪声场的目的,提高信噪比,但是同时产生了虚假声源.针对虚假声源的问题,提出了基于优化算法重构协方差矩阵实部的方法,消除了虚假声源的影响.仿真分析与海试数据处理结果表明:该方法明显消除了对称噪声,提高了信噪比,改善了阵列信号处理算法的性能.实部消除方法易于实现,有一定的工程应用价值.     

Motion compensation for adaptive horizontal line array processing

Large aperture horizontal line arrays have small resolution cells and can be used to separate a target signal from an interference signal by array beamforming. High-resolution adaptive array processing can be used to place a null at the interference signal so that the array gain can be much higher than that of conventional beamforming. But these nice features are significantly degraded by the source motion, which reduces the time period under which the environment can be considered stationary from the array processing point of view. For adaptive array processing, a large number of data samples are generally required to minimize the variance of the cross-spectral density, or the covariance matrix, between the array elements. For a moving source and interference, the penalty of integrating over a large number of samples is the spread of signal and interference energy to more than one or two eigenvalues. The signal and interference are no longer clearly identified by the eigenvectors and, consequently, the ability to suppress the interference suffers. We show in this paper that the effect of source motion can be compensated for the (signal) beam covariance matrix, thus allowing integration over a large number of data samples without loss in the signal beam power. We employ an equivalent of a rotating coordinate frame to track the signal bearing change and use the waveguide invariant theory to compensate the signal range change by frequency shifting.     

盲重构频域阵列信号的压缩感知水声目标方位估计

针对复杂海洋环境条件下压缩感知水声目标方位估计性能下降的问题,利用盲源分离能够提高信噪比的优势,提出了一种盲重构频域阵列信号的压缩感知水声目标方位估计方法。首先将阵元域信号通过傅里叶变换方法得到多个子带阵列信号;然后对各个子带阵列信号进行复数域盲源分离得到子带解混矩阵和子带分离信号估计,并对子带分离信号进行属性分析和处理;再根据处理后的子带分离信号和子带解混矩阵重构子带阵列信号,对重构的子带阵列信号采用频域压缩感知方法进行空间谱估计,得到各个子带的空间谱;最后将各子带得到的空间谱进行求和,搜索求和后空间谱的峰值则可实现目标方位估计。模拟器数据和海上实测数据验证结果表明,同等条件下该方法的目标检测能力优于经典的最小方差无失真响应(Minimum Variance Distortionless Response,MVDR)方法、频域压缩感知(Compressed Sensing,CS)方法、盲源分离(Blind Source Separation,BSS)与MVDR相结合的方法(BSS+MVDR方法),测向精度更高,明显提高了弱目标信号的空间谱能量,增强了声呐检测弱目标的能力。      

Robust adaptive acoustic vector sensor beamforming using automated diagonal loading

In this paper, a novel robust adaptive acoustic vector sensor beamformer based on shrinkage is derived. Unlike many existing methods, the proposed method is completely automatic (or so-called user parameter-free), which means, it do not need the choice of user parameters. The proposed diagonal loading algorithms use shrinkage-based covariance matrix estimates, instead of the conventional sample covariance matrix, in the standard Capon acoustic vector sensor beamforming formulation. The numerical results show that our method is robust against errors on the steering vector and small sample sizes, and meanwhile gives high output signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR).     

稳健的子带子阵级导向最小方差波束形成算法

导向最小方差(STMV)波束形成是一种利用导向协方差矩阵获得自适应权值的方法,具有快速收敛特性.常规的稳健导向最小方差(RSTMV)波束形成算法在处理宽频带信号时,性能下降明显.为了改善算法的性能,结合频域子带划分和空域子阵划分技术,提出一种多子带不确定集独立约束的稳健子阵级STMV波束形成算法。通过频域子带划分可对不同子带的导向向量误差范数边界进行约束,计算出各子带对应的对角加载量,得到稳健的子带级最小方差波束形成算法权向量;同时采用子阵技术进行降维处理,可进一步增加划分子带的数目,从而提高算法的性能并有效降低计算复杂度,最终得到一种稳健的子带子阵级STMV波束形成算法。理论分析和仿真结果表明,在阵列导向向量存在误差的情况下,该算法在干扰方向形成的零陷最深,且零陷波束宽度最窄,输出信噪比接近理论值,因此性能最佳.实际海试数据处理表明,在强干扰目标存在时,弱目标输出信干噪比较RSTMV算法可提高4 dB,较常规波束形成可提高10 dB,在角度分辨力和算法复杂度方面得到有效改善,同时可以保证目标功率无失真输出。      

Adaptive microphone array for unknown desired speaker's transfer function

The main drawback of minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamformer is the cancellation of the desired speech signal and its degradation in multi-path wave propagation environment. To make the adaptive algorithm robust against room reverberation and to prevent desired signal cancellation an estimation of unknown desired speaker's transfer function was proposed. The estimation is based on the signal and the interference covariance matrices. The estimated transfer function is then applied to the MVDR beamformer. The proposed algorithm was tested on a simulated room with reverberation. The results showed better quality of the restored speech compared to some typical adaptive algorithms.     

密布式多输入多输出声呐阵列目标波达方向估计

针对低信噪比条件下多输入多输出声呐受对称噪声分量影响导致测向性能降低的情况,提出了一种基于协方差矩阵重构方法的波达方向估计算法。首先,将噪声场分为对称噪声和非对称噪声两部分,利用协方差矩阵虚部与对称信号无关的性质,去掉协方差矩阵的实部来降低对称噪声对目标波达方向估计精度的影响,采用降维转换方法和矩阵虚部置换原理重构协方差矩阵的实部,避免了双频谱的干扰。然后利用Toeplitz方法对重构的协方差矩阵进行解相干修正,通过奇异值分解获得噪声子空间,最后对目标的波达方向进行估计,可实现微弱信号的准确测向。理论分析和实验结果表明,该方法明显抑制了对称噪声,提高了目标的波达方向估计性能,具有运算速度快、自由度高和目标分辨力强的特点。      

超声成像中基于特征空间的前后向最小方差波束形成

针对最小方差(MV)波束形成在算法稳健性和超声成像对比度方面存在的缺点,提出一种将特征空间法和前后向空间平滑法融合用于最小方差波束形成的超声成像方法。首先用前后向空间平滑取代传统的前向空间平滑,得到更精确的协方差矩阵;然后计算最优加权向量,并将该向量投影到由协方差矩阵特征空间构造的信号子空间中;最后利用投影所获得的向量与阵元数据进行运算得到成像回波数据。为了验证算法的有效性,对医学成像中常用的点目标和斑目标进行了成像实验。仿真结果表明:所提出的方法不依赖于对角加载参数的选取,在保持MV算法高分辨率的同时,还有效提高图像的对比度和算法的稳健性。      

Fast implementation of sparse iterative covariance-based estimation for source localization

Fast implementations of the sparse iterative covariance-based estimation (SPICE) algorithm are presented for source localization with a uniform linear array (ULA). SPICE is a robust, user parameter-free, high-resolution, iterative, and globally convergent estimation algorithm for array processing. SPICE offers superior resolution and lower sidelobe levels for source localization compared to the conventional delay-and-sum beamforming method; however, a traditional SPICE implementation has a higher computational complexity (which is exacerbated in higher dimensional data). It is shown that the computational complexity of the SPICE algorithm can be mitigated by exploiting the Toeplitz structure of the array output covariance matrix using Gohberg-Semencul factorization. The SPICE algorithm is also extended to the acoustic vector-sensor ULA scenario with a specific nonuniform white noise assumption, and the fast implementation is developed based on the block Toeplitz properties of the array output covariance matrix. Finally, numerical simulations illustrate the computational gains of the proposed methods.     

Direction of arrival estimation for underwater acoustic target based on compressed sensing after blind reconstruction of array signal in frequency domain

The performance of direction of arrival(DOA) estimation based on compressed sensing(CS) decreases in the complex ocean marine environment.In order to tackle this problem,a method of DOA estimation for underwater acoustic target based on CS after blind reconstruction of array signal in frequency domain is proposed.Firstly,the received array data are transformed to frequency domain by Fourier transform and frequency domain wideband signal are divided into part overlapping multiple sub-band array signal.Secondly,each subband array signal are separated using plural blind source separation(BSS) method,the sub-band separated matrix and target signal can be estimated.Thirdly,the array signal in frequency domain are reconstructed according to the separated matrix and separated signals which were not noises.Fourthly,the sub-band spatial spectrum corresponding to the reconstructed array signal is obtained by CS beamforming method.Finally,the total spatial spectrum is achieved by summing the all sub-band spatial spectrum.And the target direction can be estimated by searching the peak value of the total spatial spectrum.The verification results of simulator data and sea measured data show that,under the same conditions,the target detection ability and direction precision of the proposed method is superior to the classical minimum variance distortionless response(MVDR) method,frequency domain CS method,BSS combined with MVDR method.The spatial spectrum energy of faint target signal is improved obviously,and the ability of the sonar to detect faint target is enhanced.     

波束空间能量约束的稳健自适应波束形成

为改善波束形成器在一定失配条件下的工作性能,提出了一种稳健自适应波束形成方法。该方法通过设计信号在波束空间能量分布的约束条件,利用阵列数据协方差矩阵,结合迭代二阶锥规化方法,实现信号驾驶向量的估计,最后利用该估计得到最小方差无失真响应波束形成器。该方法在较恶劣的失配条件下也可以自适应地准确估计信号驾驶向量并保证其成分无失真地通过,使系统的稳健性得到改善。数据仿真结果表明,该方法在理想条件下与成熟的对角加载法性能相当,在失配条件下则优于后者。      

应用经验模态分解的拖船噪声信号重构及抵消方法

针对拖船干扰的时空特点,提出了将EMD(Empirical Mode Decomposition)应用于拖船噪声信号重构及抵消的方法。为了解决以往需要人工干预挑选EMD输出的多路IMF分量的缺点,提出了将多路IMF(Intrinsic Mode Function)分量与基元域信号按照线谱与连续谱分别做功率谱相关并以谱相关系数最大为准则的挑选算法。基于逆波束形成的理论,利用挑选后的IMF分量重构基元域信号,并与原始基元域信号谱减后再进行方位估计。拖曳声呐模拟器数据与实际海试数据验证结果表明,本文算法能够提高弱目标空间增益,尤其是对于靠近干扰盲区的弱目标空间增益提高明显,并且对拖船多途角扩展干扰也具有较好的抵消能力。      

扩散噪声下协方差矩阵重构的语音分离与降噪

针对传统多通道语音分离算法在扩散噪声下性能下降的问题,提出了一种用于语音分离及降噪的空间协方差模型及参数估计方法。该方法将扩散噪声视为独立声源,利用由导向矢量重构的空间协方差矩阵建模目标声源的空间特性,并通过空间协方差分析方法估计用于语音分离的多通道维纳滤波器。同时,还提出了一种联合该方法的后置滤波器参数框架,为输出信号降噪和失真的折中提供了更多选择。在扩散噪声下的单目标和多目标实验中,所提方法的语音提取和分离性能都优于对比算法,联合参数的后置滤波器可提供更为符合人们要求的降噪语音,验证了所提模型与参数估计方法的有效性。