一种改进的非整数自适应时延估计方法*

针对基于时延估计的机电设备故障声定位中的低信噪比和脉冲噪声情况,用α稳定分布建模噪声,改进了非整数自适应时延估计方法。共变相关法对观测序列进行时延估计粗测,将得到的估计值作为非整数自适应时延估计器的初值;将共变相关法中共变序列作为时延估计器的输入信号,在最小平均p范数准则下迭代得到非整数时延估计值。共变序列保留了原始序列间的时延信息,削弱了不相关的噪声。计算机仿真对比实验验证了改进的方法在脉冲环境和低信噪比条件下有更好的性能。     

随机共振法估计二水听器时延差

针对二元阵航船目标方位估计问题,提出了一种基于随机共振滤波的航船辐射噪声双水听器时延差估计方法。设计了一种随机共振滤波器,提取航船螺旋桨旋转噪声在水听器接收信号中出现的本地时间,并通过滤波结果的互相关来估计目标辐射噪声分别到达两个水听器的时延差。在5 dB的输入信噪比下进行200次仿真,提出方法时延估计的归一化均方误差要低于互谱方法一个数量级。对于海试中的非合作航船,提出的方法可以在1 km距离下准确估计出目标辐射噪声到达双水听器的时延差,从而为在二元阵上实现对航船目标的准确测向提供基础。      

基于两级压缩感知的脉冲星时延估计方法

为了快速获得高精度的脉冲星累积脉冲轮廓时延估计,提出了一种基于两级压缩感知的时延估计方法.压缩感知主要包括三个部分:字典、测量矩阵、恢复算法,其中字典尺寸是影响压缩感知估计精度的重要因素.针对压缩感知中字典的原子数增加虽能提高估计精度但又带来计算量大的问题,该方法采用粗估计与精估计两级字典相结合,先利用粗估计字典原子间隔大的特点进行累积脉冲轮廓全相位估计,得到预估时延值,再利用精估计字典的原子间隔小且个数少适合局部估计的特点对累积脉冲轮廓进行精确时延估计.理论分析与实验结果表明:两级字典数据量比传统字典小两个数量级,在相同的时延估计精度下,该方法比传统压缩感知方法计算量大幅度减少,是一种能保持高估计精度并有效降低计算量的脉冲星时延估计方法.     

基于抛物方程的海陆环境信号时延与到达角估计

针对复杂海陆环境中的无线信号传播预测问题,研究了适用于抛物方程的信号时延与到达角估计方法。将自由空间中抛物方程轴向波前信号视为本地副本信号,然后利用信号的自相关特性,将接收信号与副本信号进行互相关运算,最后通过相关函数的峰值检索,得到脉冲信号在复杂环境中传播的附加时延。采用数值算例,验证了该方法的正确性和有效性。此外,采用多重信号分类算法,由抛物方程构建接收阵列的协方差矩阵,并对其进行特征值分解,然后利用信号子空间和噪声子空间的正交性,实现复杂环境中的信号到达角估计。仿真结果表明,相比于传统的平面波谱方法,该方法具有更高的多径分辨率。基于上述方法,并结合数字地图,在典型的海陆环境中进行了仿真实验,分析了蒸发波导对脉冲信号传播时延和到达角的影响。     

基于二次相关的语音信号时延估计改进算法

目前语音信号的时延估计研究,大部分采用的是广义互相关算法。然而,广义互相关时延估计算法易受噪声和混响环境影响。为此,本文提出了一种基于二次相关的语音信号时延估计改进算法,该算法对语音信号进行二次互相关运算,并结合Hilbert变换,对二次互相关峰值进行进一步的锐化处理,使得反映时延的峰值点检测更为准确。实验结果表明,改进的时延估计方法在非平稳的语音信号中能够有效地抑制噪声干扰,且在不同混响条件下时延估计具有更好的性能。     

稀疏贝叶斯学习水声信道估计与脉冲噪声抑制方法

水声信道具有显著的稀疏特性,利用稀疏贝叶斯学习(SBL)算法能够实现稀疏水声信道的有效估计。针对SBL计算复杂度较高的问题,将广义近似消息传递-稀疏贝叶斯学习(GAMP-SBL)引入水声信道估计。该方法在SBL的框架下结合GAMP以消息传递的方式计算信道冲激响应,能够有效降低SBL的计算复杂度。针对假设背景噪声服从高斯分布的信道估计方法在脉冲噪声环境下性能下降问题,提出了基于GAMP-SBL的脉冲噪声抑制水声信道估计方法:首先利用脉冲噪声时域稀疏特性,采用GAMP-SBL估计脉冲噪声并进行抑制,然后再次利用GAMP-SBL实现水声信道估计.基于第九次北极科考冰下脉冲噪声的两次仿真结果表明,所提出的方法在归一化均方误差上相对于未进行脉冲噪声抑制的GAMP-SBL最大分别降低了18.71%,6.61%,在信道解码前误码率上最大分别降低了1.66%,4.05%,并且相对于Clipping方法更加稳健。在信噪比为20 dB时,误码率可低于10-2。      

一种改进的三点内插时延估计算法

本文提出了一种改进的余弦曲线拟合三点内插时延估计算法,并推导了这一估计算法的方差。在带限高斯白噪声的环境下,考虑多途传播和多卜勒频移的影响,进行了计算机仿真研究。仿真结果与理论分析是一致的。该算法具有较高的时延估计精度。     

分布式光纤中的稳健时间延迟估计方法

在分布式光纤传感系统定位中,传统时延估计算法常由于噪声相关性较强而失效。采用一种削弱相关噪声的改进型广义相关法,并针对系统特点,为进一步改善分布式光纤传感定位的准确度与稳定度,提出了一种先对数据按事件信号进行分帧,再采用卡尔曼滤波器对分帧时延估计结果进行跟踪的时延估计方案。系统仿真实验与实际数据测试结果均表明:提出的时延估计方案能够有效抑制强相关性的噪声,提高时延估计的准确度与稳定度。经大量现场测试,本文的方案能够有效地将时延估计误差稳定地控制在0.2个采样间隔以内,能够满足系统实际定位精度要求。     

一种基于最优频段的X射线脉冲星累积轮廓时延估计方法

为提高X射线脉冲星导航中累积脉冲轮廓的时间延迟估计精度, 分析了X射线脉冲星累积脉冲轮廓的频谱特性和现有Taylor快速傅立叶变换时延估计算法的缺陷, 提出了一种基于最优频段的累积轮廓时延估计算法, 并通过建立不同信噪比下时延估计误差与所采用频段之间的关系以确定最优频段. 数值及实测数据实验结果表明: 在短时观测或光子流量较小时, 该算法优于常用的近似最大似然 (FAML)、相关 (CC)、最小二乘 (NLS) 及加权最小二乘 (WNLS) 方法; 在观测时间较长或光子流量较大时, 该算法的估计精度与CC及NLS方法相当, 但其运算量低于NLS, FAML 及WNLS方法. 本文所提算法适用于短时观测脉冲轮廓或低流量脉冲星的高精度时延估计.     

水声正交频分复用系统载波偏移与脉冲干扰估计技术

载波频率偏移和脉冲干扰是水声通信系统中常见的干扰形式。为了提高系统的鲁棒性,消除这两种类型干扰的影响,提出利用空载波对载波频率偏移和脉冲干扰进行估计。空载波估计技术采用了分步优化和联合优化估计两种方法。分步优化估计首先利用重采样和空载波进行载波频率偏移估计,补偿后利用空载波对脉冲噪声进行消除。考虑到载波频率偏移和脉冲噪声估计时的相互影响特性,利用二者的联合估计得到优化解。仿真和水池实验结果表明,两种优化算法都取得了良好的效果;同时联合优化估计比分步优化估计得到更大的系统性能增益,在系统误比特率为10-2时,联合优化解得到了3dB左右的系统性能增益。通过对载波频率偏移和脉冲干扰的估计消除,大大提高了水声通信系统的鲁棒性。      

Self-organization of five species in a cyclic competition game

Cyclic competition game models, particularly the “rock–paper–scissors” model, play important roles in exploring the problem of multi-species coexistence in spatially ecological systems. We propose an extended “rock–paper–scissors” game to model cyclic interactions among five species, and find that two of the five can coexistent when biodiversity disappears, which is different from the “rock–paper–scissors” game. As the number of fingers is five, we named the new model the “fingers” game, where the thumb, forefinger, middle finger, ring finger, and little finger cyclically dominate their subsequent species and are dominated by their former species. We investigate the “fingers” model in two ways: direct simulations and nonlinear partial differential equations. An important finding is that the number of species in a cyclic competition game has an influence on the emergence of biodiversity. To be specific, the “rock–paper–scissors” model is in favor of maintaining biodiversity in comparison with the “fingers” model when the variables (population size, reproduction rate, selection rate, and migration rate) are the same. It is also shown that the mobility and reproduction rate can promote or jeopardize biodiversity.     

Contrastive analysis on tone between Putonghua and Taiwan Mandarin

The differences of the pitch and duration of Chinese syllables between Putonghua （PTH） and Taiwan Mandarin （TM） were studied. The speech materials to be used are not only isolated syllables, but also sentences. The results reveal that： For the isolated syllables, T1 and T2 in TM are influenced by Minnan dialect, therefore their pitch are lower than those in PTH. T3 is fall-rise in PTH, while it is fall in TM. Moreover, the syllable duration sequence for different tone is T3〉T2〉T1〉T4 in PTH, while it is T1〉T2〉T3〉T4 in TM. For the syllables in sentences, T2 is mid-rise in PTH, while it is mid-level in TM. And the T3 is longer than T4 but shorter than T1 or T2 in PTH, while it is the shortest in TM. Furthermore the effects of prosodic phrase boundary on duration for different tones are almost the same in PTH, but the lengthening part of T1 or T2 is longer than that of T3 or T4 in TM.     

Experimental study on downstep in Chinese intonation

Downstep in pitch contour of Chinese Putonghua is examined using subtly designed sentences by controlling tone combinations. The results show both automatic and nonautomatic downstep phenomena exist in Chinese. In non-automatic downstep, low tones compress downwards the pitch range of the following syllables. and the main influence of downstep is on topline. Low tone not only lower the topline behind it, but also raise the high tones before it, the effects are compatible with each other. In automatic downstep, the topline of pitch contour in intonational phrase is presented as a linear downtrend, but it differs among speakers due to the effect of personal stress practice. In comparison with downstep phenomenon in other tone or non-tone languages, the downstep ratio in Chinese is not constant, and the domain of downstep is not limited within the adjacent tones.     

Abelian-Higgs phase of SU(2) QCD and glueball energy

It is shown that SU(2) QCD admits an dual Abelian-Higgs phase, with a Higgs vacuum of a type-Ⅱ superconductor. This is done by using a connection decomposition for the gluon field and the random-direction approximation. Using a bag picture with soft wall, we presented a calculational procedure for the glueball energy based on the recent proof for wall-vortices [Nucl. Phys. B 741(2006)1].     

Theoretical analysis and simulation of conjugate heights for dual-conjugate AO system in lidar

A multi-conjugate adaptive optics （MCAO） can offer a possibility of widening field of view （FOV） characterized by the isoplanatic angle, and the choose of conjugate height becomes a basic problem for MCAO, which influences the size of iosplanatic angle. Considering the application of lidar, the isoplanatic angle＇s expressions of two deformable mirrors （DMs） MCAO for uplink and downlink are deduced. The effects of conjugate heights for dual-conjugate AO are thoughtfully discussed, and the isoplanatic angles are further analyzed. The results show that the isopanatic angle varies with the conjugate height and reaches the maximum as the conjugate height is at the optimal altitude. Moreover, the optimal conjugate height changes with the propagation distance.     

Quick single-photon detector with many avalanche photo diodes working on the time division

Due to the limit of response speed of the present single-photon detector, the code rate is still too low to come into practical use for the present quantum key distribution (QKD) system.A new idea is put up to design a quick single-photon detector.This quick single-photon detector is composed of a multi-port optic-fiber splitter and many avalanche photo diodes (APDs).Au of the ports with APDs work on the time division and cooperate with a logic discriminating and deciding unit driven by the clock signal.The operation frequency lies on the number N of ports, and can reach N times of the conventional single-photon detector.The single-photon prompt detection can come true for high repetition-rate pulses.The applying of this detector will largely raise the code rate of the QKD, and boost the commercial use.     

Signal generation in an isotropic medium in scanning electron acoustic microscope

Based on the research in Ref. [5][Materials Science and Engineering, 1989; A122： 57 63], an improved model of heat source is set up, the different modes of Lamb wave in an isotropic sample generated by a chopped electron beam at frequency f are obtained with integral transform and normal function expansion method, and the output signal of PZT coupled at the back surface of the sample is found out. The generation mechanism of SEAM （Scanning Electron Acoustic Microscopy） signal is discussed. It shows that the SEAM is a near field imaging technique with high spatial resolution and its best lateral spatial resolution is about 2√2α （α is the radius of the focused electron beam）. Some of experimental results of SEAM images are presented in the paper and it shows that the spatial resolution of SEAM is better than 0.5 μm and smaller than the thermal diffusion length of the sample. Therefore the character of near field imaging in SEAM is also proved experimentally.     

High efficiency filtering using two-dimensional photonic crystal coupled cavity structures

Transmission spectra of coupled cavity structures (CCSs) in two-dimensional (2D) photonic crystals (PCs) are investigated using a coupled mode theory, and an optical filter based on CCS is proposed. The performance of the filter is investigated using finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, and the results show that within a very short coupling distance of about 3λ, where λ is the wavelength of signal in vacuum, the incident signals with different frequencies are separated into different channels with a contrast ratio of 20 dB. The advantages of this kind of filter are small size and easily tunable operation frequencies.