采用条件波数谱密度函数的宽带高分辨方位谱估计算法

针对宽带高分辨方位估计存在方位估计偏差大、算法复杂度高等问题,提出了一种基于条件波数谱密度(Conditional Wavenumber Spectral Density based,CWSD-based)的宽带高分辨方位谱估计算法.该算法利用条件波数谱密度将阵列信号转换到频率-波数空间,宽带信号能量在该空间的坐标呈现与入射角相关的线性分布,通过借鉴直线检测原理,实现邻近目标的高分辨方位估计,且无需预估角度和信源数等信息。仿真结果表明,该算法理论分辨率与处理最高频率成反比,估计均方误差约为0.1°,对阵形畸变鲁棒,运算效率高。海上试验数据表明,本文方法在方位分辨率、弱目标检测、非目标向噪声抑制、稳健性等方面都优于宽带常规波束形成和最小方差无畸变算法,在实际海洋中可实现超低旁瓣高分辨波达方向估计。      

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。      

声矢量圆阵宽带相干目标MVDR方位估计*

针对宽带相干目标的远程探测问题，本文提出一种基于声压振速联合处理和矢量重构的声矢量圆阵MVDR波束形成方法。该方法利用相位模态变换技术，将声矢量圆阵变换为与信号频率无关的虚拟线阵，并构建虚拟线阵声压与组合振速的互协方差矩阵，利用声压与振速各分量间的空间相关性有效地抑制各向同性环境噪声；并对宽带相干信号的互协方差矩阵进行矢量重构，即将最大特征值对应的特征向量划分为相互重叠的子向量，从而构建前/后向Hermitian矩阵；最后，基于MVDR波束形成器实现宽带相干目标的方位估计。仿真计算和实验数据处理结果表明，该方法具较强的解相干能力和噪声抑制能力以及较高的方位估计性能。     

单矢量水听器稀疏近似最小方差方位估计算法

针对单矢量水听器海上目标探测问题,利用稀疏近似最小方差(Sparse Asymptotic Minimum Variance,SAMV)算法进行目标方位估计,该算法利用单矢量水听器自身具有阵列流形的特点,将整个扫描空间离散化,目标方位分布于某一离散方向位置上,利用空间信号的稀疏性可提高目标方位估计性能。仿真结果表明,SAMV算法在各信噪比条件下方位估计噪声背景级明显优于常规波束形成(Conventional Beam Forming,CBF)算法和最小方差无失真响应(Minimum Variance Distortionless Response,MVDR)算法,当信噪比大于0dB时,该算法测向结果均方根误差小于2°,且SAMV算法具有更好的空间方位分辨能力。消声水池和海上声学浮标海上试验数据处理结果表明,SAMV算法给出了噪声背景级更低的目标方位历程图,有效验证了SAMV算法对海上目标的探测性能及其有效性。      

基于哈达玛积扩展子空间的到达时间和波达方向联合估计

在窄带阵列天线正交频分复用系统的到达时间和波达方向联合估计中, 针对阵元数目较少时波达方向估计精度不高, 特别是多径数目大于阵元数目导致的波达方向无法估计问题, 提出一种基于哈达玛积扩展子空间的到达时间和波达方向联合估计算法. 该算法首先利用各阵元上的频域信道估计构成扩展信道频域响应矢量, 然后计算扩展信道频域响应矢量自相关矩阵, 并进行特征值分解得到哈达玛积扩展噪声子空间, 最后构造伪谱函数并进行二维谱峰搜索, 从而实现到达时间和波达方向的联合估计. 仿真结果表明, 与现有算法相比, 在复杂度没有大幅提高的前提下, 该算法的估计结果均方根误差更加接近克拉美罗界, 且到达时间和波达方向估计能够自动配对, 在多径数目大于阵元数目时依然适用.     

波束形成与独立分量分析融合的宽带高分辨方位估计方法

针对波束域高分辨方位估计存在方位估计偏差大等缺点,提出了将波束形成与独立分量分析融合的宽带高分辨方位估计方法:(1)阵元域数据转换到波束域后,对多波束数据利用基于二阶统计量的独立分量分析算法处理,(2)将波束域独立分量分析融合方法输出结果重构回阵元域信号,(3)对重构后的阵元域数据,使用约束最优化方法改进的MUSIC算法做高分辨方位估计。最后利用ICS (Interactre Circuts&System)声呐模拟器数据和海试数据对算法进行了验证。结果表明:本文方法在弱目标检测、观测区域外强干扰抑制、方位分辨率方面都优先于波束域MUSIC和波束MVDR方法。      

A method for improving the performance of MVDR beamforming

I.IntroductionInbeamformingforsonaritisthemostinterestingfunctionthatonecanobtainthctimcwaveformoutputsofthedesiredsignaltobedetectcdwithanimprovcdSignal-to-NoiseplusInterferenceRatio(SNIR).ItiswellknownthatMVDRbeamforminghasoptimumcapabi1i-hesofsignalprotection,interferenccremovalandnoisercduction.NootherbeamformingtochniquecanyicldalargerincreascinSNIR.Itspoweroutputcanbeusedasawavenumberspectrum(bearing)estimation,whoseprecisionorreso1utionisdeterminedprimarilybySignal-to-NoiseRatio…     

互谱域MVDR自适应时延估计方法研究

针对窄带信号,通过构造互谱时间序列,在互谱域建立了平稳时间序列时延估计的最小方差无畸变响应(MVDR)滤波器模型;利用分段近似处理,类比空间MVDR自适应算法,给出了其具体算法(Algorithm of MVDR in cross spectral domain,CSMVDR);进行了数值仿真实验研究和海上实验数据处理。数值仿真与实验数据处理结果初步验证了CSMVDR时延估计对于舰船辐射噪声的适用性,CSMVDR时延估计有比相关检测更好的时延估计性能,能够提高信噪比增益和时延估计精度。     

High resolution time-delay estimation of underwater target geometric scattering

The geometric scatterings carry the information of the shape of an underwater target. While the time-delay of the weak geometric scattering exists in the received signal cannot be obtained accurately by the conventional time-delay estimation methods because of the limit of the main-lobe width and the interferences from the side-lobe. In this paper, we propose a high resolution time-delay estimation (HRTDE) scheme consisting of two steps. Firstly, when a linear-frequency-modulated (LFM) pulse is transmitted by sonar, the dechirping method transforms the geometric scatterings with different time-delays into multiple single-frequency components respectively, in which the frequency of the dechirped signal shows a linear relationship with the time-delay of the geometric scattering. Then the multiple signal classification (MUSIC) algorithm is adopted to increase the spectrum resolution when multiple single-frequency signals exist in the dechirped signal and the frequency interval is smaller than the frequency resolution limit of the Fourier transform. Simulation results show that the main lobe of the proposed scheme is sharper and with less interference from the side-lobe, compared with the conventional time-delay estimation methods. The results from the anechoic pool experiment demonstrate that the proposed scheme achieves a better time-delay estimation performance for the weak geometric scattering generated by the bottom edge of the underwater target model than match filter based methods.     

近似窄带假设下的最小方差无失真响应波束形成

最小方差无失真响应波束形成算法在应用于语音等宽带信号时,依赖窄带假设可以在频域各个子带分别进行滤波。窄带假设下语音信号协方差矩阵是秩-1矩阵,而实际中窄带信号模型只是实际信号模型的一种近似,同时由于存在统计量估计误差,估计的语音信号协方差矩阵的秩一般大于1。提出利用语音协方差矩阵和噪声协方差矩阵的广义主特征向量来估计相对传递函数,用于重构语音信号协方差矩阵为秩-1矩阵。在REVERB数据集以及CHiME-4数据集上进行实验验证,最小方差无失真响应波束形成算法经过语音协方差矩阵低秩近似后,对估计误差的鲁棒性提高,输出信噪比分别提升平均0.8 dB和1.4 dB,同时提升了语音识别准确率。      

Spatial time-frequency DOA estimation based on joint diagonalization using Jacobi rotation

Direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation consists of locating closely spaced sources impinging from different directions in the presence of considerable noise or interference. Recently, this problem has been solved using spatial time-frequency distribution (STFD) information that is available in the array signals. In this work, a new joint diagonalization approach based on Jacobi rotation, which can efficiently combine all of the relevant STFD points, is proposed to achieve superior DOA resolutions and suppressed sidelobes in the spatial spectrum. It is discovered that our proposed Jacobi technique leads to a non-orthogonal joint diagonalization structure and can avoid pre-whitening the signal component of the observation. In addition, we further adopt the minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) processor instead of the MUltiple SIgnal Classification (MUSIC) algorithm to avoid the estimation of the signal subspace and noise subspace in the time-frequency DOA domain. Finally, computer simulations of several frequently encountered types of challenging scenarios (such as low SNR and coherent arrivals) show that significant improvements are achieved by our proposed approach in comparison to the existing techniques.     

Research and application of fast-convergent minimum variance distortionless response algorithm

The conventional MVDR adaptive beamformer is a high-resolution narrowband beamformer which estimates the optimal beamforming weights using narrowband CSDM of real acoustic field.In practical applications,MVDR algorithm needs long observation time to estimate the covariance matrix.This inherent property makes it difficult to localize fast-moving targets.For wideband signals,MVDR algorithm needs inverting every CSDM which increases the computational demands.For correlated sources,the performance of MVDR will degrade dramatically because the signals will cancel each other.A fast-convergent MVDR algorithm based on subband subarray processing is proposed.The full frequency band is divided into sets of subbands and the line array is divided into sets of subarrays.For every subband the STCM of reduced dimensions is calculated.Then adaptive beamforming weight of fast-convergent MVDR algorithm and spatial spectrum estimation are obtained.At the same time,spatial spectrum estimation can be made for correlated sources using the two-sided spatial smoothing method. Results of simulation and trial data show that the proposed method has high-resolution and near-instantaneous convergence property,two-sided spatial smoothing has satisfactory validity of decorrelation.     

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.     

Sparse asymptotic minimum variance based bearing estimation algorithm for a single vector hydrophone

For underwater target detection using a single vector hydrophone, sparse asymptotic minimum variance(SAMV) method is used to estimate the target bearing. The SAMV discretizes the entire scanning space and the target bearing is located at the position of the discrete direction. The SAMV algorithm utilizes the sparsity of the spatial signal to improve the estimation performance of the target bearing. Background noise level(BNL) of the bearing estimation of SAMV algorithm is lower than those of the conventional beam forming(CBF)method and minimum variance distortionless response(MVDR) method for different signal noise ratios(SNRs). When the SNR is higher than 0 d B, the direction-finding error of this algorithm is less than 2°. Moreover, the SAMV algorithm has a better dimensional orientation resolution capability. The experimental results show that the SAMV algorithm gives a bearing and time recording map with a lower BNL, which effectively verifies the effectiveness of SAMV algorithm in terms of underwater target detection.     

基于矢量传感器的频率估计算法在水声通信中的应用

本文给出了基于矢量传感器的ESPRIT频率估计算法，并将其应用于频率调制水声通信系统中。与声强频率估计算法相比，ESPRIT频率估计可在小样本的情况下，获得高精度的频率估计。仿真和湖试结果表明，基于矢量传感器的ESPRIT频率估计算法可以提高通信速率并降低对通信系统的带宽要求。本算法对信噪比的要求较高，目前看，较适用于近程高速水声通信。     

基于TOA信息的脉冲星信号周期估计方法

针对脉冲星信号周期估计需逐步搜索、计算量大等问题,提出脉冲星信号周期直接估计算法.根据周期不确定误差对时域上脉冲到达时间(Pulse Time of Arrival,TOA)估计方法的影响,推导了基于TOA信息的脉冲星信号周期估计方法的数学模型.该方法将一组观测到的脉冲光子到达时间序列(Photon Time of Arrivals,TOAs)进行等时间间隔分段,在时域上对每段TOAs进行相位估计获得相应的TOA信息,并根据建立的TOA信息与周期误差的关系采用最小二乘原理估计脉冲星信号周期.对周期准确性的评价不同于传统的依赖折叠轮廓的好坏,而是以TOA与时间图像的斜率作为依据,这一依据更直观、易于理解.理论分析与物理、计算机仿真数据结果表明,本文所提的周期估计方法能够根据短时间脉冲光子到达时间序列获得高精度和高分辨率的脉冲信号周期,有利于X射线脉冲星导航的工程应用.     

结合盲源分离的非直单线阵多目标左右舷分辨

针对单线阵左右舷模糊问题,提出了结合盲源分离的非直单线阵多目标左右舷分辨算法。该算法首先通过离散傅里叶变换将阵列接收信号离散化为若干个窄带频谱分量,之后对每个频点的窄带数据讲行盲源分离,得到每个频点上各个来波信号的导向向量;然后通过常规波束形成对各个导向向量进行方位谱估计,并根据左右舷抑制比进行单目标左右舷分辨,确定各个频点上的来波方向;最后对所有频点上的来波方向进行聚类,得到各个真实目标的方位,从而实现多目标左右舷分辨。仿真实验中,相比常规波束形成方法(CBF)和最小方差无畸变响应算法(MVDR),该算法更准确地估计出了目标数目,且保持了较快的计算速度;海试数据处理中,该算法排除了目标镜像的干扰,准确估计出了船只目标的轨迹。仿真及海试数据处理均表明,该算法可以分辨真实目标与目标镜像,具有比CBF和MVDR算法更好的左右舷分辨能力。      

圆阵波束输出的高分辨方位估计

在研究波束域高分辨ＭＵＳＩＣ算法的基础上,本文把阵元域ＷＳＦ算法推广到波束域中。这两种算法对阵列的形式没有限制,可以应用于水声系统中常见的均匀圆阵波束输出,计算机仿真结果表明,对于圆阵波束输出,波束域ＭＵＳＩＣ算法估计目标方位的性能优于阵元域ＭＵＳＩＣ算法,而波束域ＷＳＦ算法测保持了阵元域ＷＳＦ算法的最佳方位估计性能。