Effect of broadband-noise masking on the behavioral response of a harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) to 1-s duration 6-7 kHz sonar up-sweeps

Naval sonar systems produce signals which may affect the behavior of harbor porpoises, though their effect may be reduced by ambient noise. To show how natural ambient noise influences the effect of sonar sweeps on porpoises, a porpoise in a pool was exposed to 1-s duration up-sweeps, similar in frequency range (6-7 kHz) to those of existing naval sonar systems. The sweep signals had randomly generated sweep intervals of 3-7 s (duty cycle: 19%). Behavioral parameters during exposure to signals were compared to those during baseline periods. The sessions were conducted under five background noise conditions: the local normal ambient noise and four conditions mimicking the spectra for wind-generated noise at Sea States 2-8. In all conditions, the sweeps caused the porpoise to swim further away from the transducer, surface more often, swim faster, and breathe more forcefully than during the baseline periods. However, the higher the background noise level, the smaller the effects of the sweeps on the surfacing behavior of the porpoise. Therefore, the effects of naval sonar systems on harbor porpoises are determined not only by the received level of the signals and the hearing sensitivity of the animals but also by the background noise.     

一种适用于大测绘带合成孔径声呐的运动补偿方法

当合成孔径声呐测绘带较大时,运动误差的空变效应严重,经典的相位中心重叠算法难以适用。为此,提出了一种适用于大测绘带合成孔径声呐的运动补偿方法。首先使用混合调制的拉格朗日时延估计算法对前后两帧回波的时延进行估计,之后使用线性回归方法拟合出运动误差,最后利用运动误差的估计值对回波进行逐点精确补偿。仿真数据的结果表明,该算法能够获得比相位中心重叠算法更好的运动估计结果,运动补偿后成像分辨率接近理论分辨率。使用该算法分别对高、低频合成孔径声呐的湖试数据进行了处理,水下地貌和小目标的成像质量均有明显提高。      

用于双光子激发荧光寿命显微成像的高重复频率皮秒扫描相机

建立了一台基于新研制的高重复频率皮秒扫描相机的双光子激发荧光寿命显微成像系统,重点介绍所研制的高重复频率皮秒扫描相机。为了在高时间分辨力的同时扩大时间测量范围,实现大面积两维空间高时间分辨取样测量,从而提高采样速率和更有效地发挥扫描相机的作用,设计和研制了一种大面积、高时间分辨力扫描变像管和一种重复频率高达1MHz的斜坡电压扫描电路。基于上述关键部件所研制的扫描相机具有重复频率高、扫描速度可调、时间分辨力高、工作面积大、非线性低、触发晃动小等优点。用钛宝石飞秒激光器作为激光脉冲源,通过脉冲提取器将76MHz的高重复频率降低为1MHz,采用可调延时器和标准具对扫描相机的时间分辨力、扫描速度和非线性进行标定。该系统的时间分辨力达到6.5ps,非线性为2.60%,可测量的时间范围从十几皮秒到几十纳秒。测量了若丹明6G和香豆素314两种标准荧光染料的荧光寿命,取得了与参考文献一致的实验结果。     

水下回波处理中分数阶傅里叶变换的带通采样实现方法

利用球形压电陶瓷自身所具有的耐压能力,采用径向极化空气背衬压电球壳换能器作为声学接收敏感元件,设计并制作了一种球形耐压水听器。首先对其低频开路接收灵敏度和谐振频率等声学特性进行了分析和有限元仿真,然后对其强度和稳定性等耐压性能进行了分析和有限元仿真,最后对其声学性能和耐压能力进行了测试。测试表明,该球形耐压水听器的直径为36 mm,工作频段为50 Hz10 kHz,低频接收灵敏度为􀀀198:4 dB(0 dB=1 V/Pa),等效自噪声谱级为46.5 dB@1 kHz,其耐压深度可达3000 m。该耐压水听器为大深度水听器设计提供了参考,在深水声学领域具有重要的应用价值。     

Design of sonar transducer based on the laser-induced sound

A design of a kind of sonar transducers was presented. An experimental system was developed for producing the sound signal based on the laser-induced breakdown and bubble oscillation. The power spectrum and the ambiguity function were analyzed. The range resolution and the Doppler resolution constant of the sound signal were determined. It is basically proved in theory that both the range resolution and directivity of the sonar transducer are very high. The transducer can be a sound source of high-resolution sonars.     

Range discrimination by big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) using altered model echoes: implications for signal processing

The sonar emissions of two big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) were modeled to create a "normal" echolocation signal for each bat which was then used as an artificial echo to synthesize a phantom target. The bat's task was to indicate which of two phantom targets (presented singly) was the "near" target and which the "far" target. Threshold range discrimination at a nominal target distance of 80 cm was about 0.6 cm for both bats. The normal signal was then modified to change the relative energy in each harmonic, the signal duration, the curvature of the frequency sweep, the absolute frequency, the phase of the second and third harmonics relative to the first, or the Doppler shift of the signal. To determine which modifications affected ranging performance, the altered models were used in tests of range discrimination that were interleaved on a day-to-day basis with tests using the normal model. Of the 12 modifications tested, only those changing the curvature of the frequency sweep affected performance. This result appears not to be predicted by current models of echo processing in FM bats. Eptesicus may be able to compensate for certain types of distortions of a returning echo, an ability possibly related to Doppler tolerance or to the characteristics of the natural variation in a bat's emissions.     

On estimating system damping from frequency response bandwidths

As damping determines the maximum vibratory response of a system at resonance, reliable estimates of damping are critical both to the design and qualification of systems to be subjected to a vibratory environment and for the evaluation of the effectiveness of modifications or additions provided to increase damping. The sharpness of the frequency response at resonance is often used for this purpose, quantified by the width of the frequency range (bandwidth) for which the response is above some fraction of the maximum response. Several aspects of the use of bandwidth methods in interpreting test results are considered. It is shown that the use of an excessive rate of change of test frequency in a sine sweep leads to overestimates of system damping. A criterion is offered for the identification of the maximum sweep rate for which an observed frequency response function provides a true indication of system damping, rather than an erroneous value dominated by the sweep rate. Applicability of the criterion is demonstrated through the use of results from actual tests. Excessive sweep rates are shown to inflate estimates of system loss factors above the true values in proportion to the square root of the sweep rate. It is also demonstrated with a specific form for an amplitude-dependent stiffness that the resulting nonlinearity can lead to erroneous observations of bandwidth frequencies, as well as the need for further reductions in the sweep rate.     

Frequency scan for the analysis of high mass ions generated by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization in a paul trap

An ion trap has been modified for the analysis of high mass ions generated by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization. Samples are deposited on a probe tip and introduced directly onto the hyperbolically shaped surface of one endcap. All three electrodes - both the endcaps and the ring electrode - are insulated so that the radio frequency (Rf) voltage may be applied to the center ring electrode and the inverted Rf voltage to the endcaps. By using low frequencies (below 100 kHz) and low amplitudes (below 200 V), high mass singly charged ions may be trapped and analyzed by a frequency sweep at constant amplitude. In the high mass range (60-160 kDa), this instrument showed good sensitivity, signal-to-noise ratios, and mass resolution. Copyright 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

任意复包络信号的匀速运动目标回波脉间补偿及相干积累

现代声呐、水下制导等水声探测系统常常使用窄带脉冲、调制、编码、伪随机等种类繁多的发射信号波形来满足低信噪比检测、高分辨估计、抗干扰、主动隐蔽探测的应用需求.针对这一情况,本文研究了任意信号的长时间积累问题,给出了一种任意复包络信号的匀速运动目标回波脉间补偿及相干积累检测方法.通过构建任意发射信号波形的广义模糊函数,将匹配滤波器输出表示为所构造的广义模糊函数,使得任意复包络信号的脉压波形不仅能够用统一的数学模型来表述和计算,而且能够提供多脉冲回波的距离走动信息和多普勒频移信息,为多脉冲距离位置对齐和Fourier变换(FFT)积累提供了依据.对于用广义模糊函数表示的匹配滤波器输出,采用Keystone变换将复包络对齐,消除了距离走动,采用FFT补偿多普勒频移项,实现了任意复包络信号的长时间相干积累.对于水下探测中使用的连续波信号、线性调频信号以及复杂的m序列编码信号、Costas跳频编码信号波形进行了信号积累及检测的计算机仿真,验证了任意复包络信号的匀速运动目标回波脉间补偿及相干积累的正确性.消声水池实验验证了该方法的有效性.     

主动声呐恒包络波形设计及其性能分析

为主动声呐设计恒包络的伪随机编码MSK调制波形。通过分析MSK信号表达式,得到波形的复包络信号。使用遗传算法优化伪随机序列,降低波形的自相关旁瓣,可减小声呐的虚警概率。通过优化复包络信号的自相关函数旁瓣值和互相关函数值,得到自相关性能和正交性能优良的恒包络波形,可以缓解多部声呐间的同频干扰。通过仿真分析波形的模糊度图,波形具有良好的频率分辨率和距离分辨率,可以取代峰均比过高的编码调相信号,满足主动声呐对运动目标的探测需求。     

海豚声纳信号的脉冲分解及特征分析

提出一种海豚声纳目标探测脉冲串信号的脉冲分解方法,在此基础上对海豚声纳脉冲信号的特征进行了分析,其中包括脉冲宽度、脉冲间隔以及脉冲的时间分辨率和频率分辨率,并采用耳蜗滤波对海豚声纳脉冲串信号的时频特征进行了分析。分析结果表明,探测目标的过程中,根据目标距离的不同,海豚会自适应调节脉冲信号的发射频率和信号形式。     

Trading detection for resolution in active sonar receivers

This paper proposes an active sonar receivers that offers a smooth trade-off between detection and resolution. A matched filter is the optimal detector of known signals in white Gaussian noise but may fail to resolve the targets if the time separation of targets is less than the mainlobe width of the autocorrelation function of the transmitted signal. An inverse filter achieves optimal resolution performance for multiple targets in the absence of noise, but amplifies the noise outside the signal bandwidth in a manner that makes it impractical in many realistic scenarios. The proposed active sonar receiver, the variable resolution and detection receiver (VRDR) combines the matched and inverse filter properties to achieve a smooth trade-off between detection and resolution. Simulated receiver operating characteristics demonstrate that for a range of dipole sonar targets, the performance of the VRDR is superior to the matched and inverse filter, as well as another previously proposed bandlimited inverse filter.     

High-resolution angle-Doppler imaging by sparse recovery of underwater acoustic signals

The low resolution of Fourier two-dimensional spatial temporal spectrum estimation and the insufficient sample size of sonar space time sampling data often caused difficulties in high-resolution space time spectrum estimation. Aiming to solve this problem, we proposed a high-resolution angle-Doppler imaging method and designed an anti-reverberation space time filter based on the sparse recovery of underwater acoustic signals. The proposed imaging method established the spatial temporal sparse representation model of array signal under the condition of few observation samples of single measurement vector(SMV), and reconstructed the high-resolution angle-Doppler profile of echo and reverberation through the matching pursuit(MP) algorithm and basis pursuit(BP) algorithm. By utilizing the space time distribution characteristics of echo and reverberation and the prior information of sonar rangecell under test(RUT), a reverberation dictionary composed of special space time guidance vectors was designed, and was used to reconstruct the reverberation and formed an anti-reverberation space time filter to suppress the reverberation interference of angle-Doppler plane. Computer simulations indicated that, under two conditions of forward and side-view array of moving sonar, the single measurement vector of sonar array was successfully used in the reverberation background to reconstruct the high-resolution angle-Doppler profile of low-speed moving target multi-spot echo. Its frequency resolution had a better performance than the Fourier resolution and the angle resolution broke through the Rayleigh limit of the array, the resolution was obviously superior to the Fourier space time spectrum estimation.     

Sound localization of frequency-modulated sinusoids by Old World monkeys

Directional hearing acuity, as measured by the minimum audible angle (MAA), was determined in four Old World monkeys, Macaca radiata. The acoustic stimuli were linear changes in frequency (sweeps) for different frequency ranges and sweep rates. The sweeps ranged between 0.5 and 1.3 kHz, at two durations, 100 and 200 ms. In upsweeps which began at 0.5 kHz and were 200 ms in duration, MAA decreased as sweep rate and frequency range increased. These thresholds were compared to MAAs of sweeps which traversed the same range of frequencies but at a different rate, to MAAs of sweeps with identical rates but over different frequency ranges, and to the MAAs of downsweeps. These comparisons indicated that range, and not sweep rate, exerts the greatest effect on the MAA. Interaural phase differences derived from the upper limits of the frequency range are discussed as potential FM localization cues.     

一种基于多普勒频移的被动合成孔径声纳探测方法*

由于自主小平台声纳孔径有限,对声纳探测的分辨率的提高有所限制。小平台的机动可以有效的与声纳探测方法相结合来提高声纳探测性能。针对这一特点,提出一种基于多普勒频移技术的被动合成孔径声纳探测方法。该方法根据自主小平台的机动所引起声纳的接收信号多普勒频移的变化,进行目标的频率与方位联合估计。本文将自主小平台的机动引入到波束形成技术当中形成一种新的被动合成孔径技术。数值仿真表明,该方法可以有效的进行目标方位估计,并且获得较高的方位分辨率,改善了自主小平台的探测性能。     

宽带参量阵技术在近海探测中的研究

文章针对非线性声学宽带参量阵技术应用于近海海底剖面绘制及掩埋物探测进行了分析研究。对于宽带参量阵声呐产生的差频信号利用Berktay包络解调理论和KZK(Khokhlov-Zabolotskaya-Kuznetsov)方程,对其进行了理论分析,水池实验研究和时域数值模拟,并结合声呐方程计算,说明该技术用于近海探测的可行性。本文同时结合脉冲压缩技术对产生的宽带差频信号做匹配处理,用于提高设备的垂直分辨率。最后在海试实验中,利用文中设计的参量阵声呐,分别使用宽带差频信号和单频差频信号对浅海海底沉积层和海底掩埋管线进行探测,取得了清晰的剖面图和掩埋物探测结果,验证了宽带参量阵技术在海底探测中的有效性和实用性。      

一种具有声低通滤波特性的无源零差光纤水听器

报道了一种新颖的具有抗混叠功能的无源零差迈克耳孙型光纤水听器.它由一个普通的芯轴型光纤水听器和一个圆柱型亥姆霍兹共振器构成.在驻波罐中对其声压相位灵敏度频响进行了测量,结果表明该光纤水听器具有较好的声低通滤波特性,能有效地抑制声信号中的高频成分,从而实现抗混叠滤波.该光纤水听器的低频声压相位灵敏度主要由传感光纤长度和弹性增敏层的物理特性决定,约为-159 dB(0 dB=1 rad/μPa).在1150 Hz附近出现了一个共振峰,这主要由圆柱型亥姆霍兹共振器的声学特性决定.1150～2280 Hz频段内的灵敏度衰减率约为50 dB/倍频程,1500 Hz以后的灵敏度衰减量大于10 dB.这对于提高我国未来声纳系统的抗干扰能力具有十分重要的意义.     

第五讲新型光纤水听器和矢量水听器

光纤水听器和矢量水听器作为当前水声研究领域最具有代表性的两大技术倍受业界关注。光纤水听器的重要贡献在于，从一个全新的角度出发，试图解决传统的水声传感和声纳数据传输一体化设计和实现的一系列问题，这有助于改善声纳系统的可靠性，并且有可能降低其制造、使用和维护的总成本。矢量水听器则由于其特有的指向性和矢量一相位处理方法，在低频和甚低频水声微弱目标探测方面具有潜在的优势．经过不懈的努力，光纤水听器和矢量水听器系统已经从实验室逐渐进入到工程应用阶段．这些对未来声纳系统的发展会产生相当重要的影响．文章尝试从声纳设计的角度对这两者的技术现状进行简要综述，包括它们各自的物理基础、工作原理、关键技术和应用领域．     

海豚等动物神经系统处理多普勒信号的一种可能性方案

海豚、蝙蝠等动物具有功能强大的生物声纳，生物神经系统处理多普勒效应的网络结构可能会有多种形式.对这类生物的神经系统信号处理机制及结构的研究，将能为信息处理提供新的视角.根据序空间神经编码理论，构建了一个生物神经回路处理多普勒信号.经计算机仿真可知，该生物神经网络运算速度快、分辨率高，并能处理任意的连续变频率多普勒信号.所研究的仅由1—2个神经元组成的网络结构是最简单的，由于网络只有一级神经元的延时，保证了处理的快速性，在神经元输出10个脉冲的情况下分辨率可达7^-10. 关键词： 多普勒效应 海豚 神经编码 神经脉冲序列     

水声信号处理领域新进展

本文介绍近30年来水声信号处理领域理论研究的新进展和在声纳设计中的应用。包括水声信号建模、声场匹配、海洋波导和内波现象的探索和研究、声矢量场信息获取和处理,低频水声信道的时/空相关特性,水下目标辐射噪声的不变特征量提取和检测技术,水下语音、图像传输和抗干扰技术。同时概述,声纳设计的前沿领域:大孔径拖曳线列阵声纳、高分辨力合成孔径声纳、深海传呼机等的发展情况。