多普勒频移和干涉谱联合的水声目标运动参数估计

常见水中运动目标会辐射连续谱噪声和线谱噪声,连续谱噪声在浅海波导环境中形成明暗相间的干涉条纹。根据干涉条纹可以得到目标最近距离与速度的比值,无法直接解出两个参数值。针对利用干涉条纹无法分别估计最近距离与速度问题,提出一种多普勒频移、干涉条纹结合的运动参数估计方法。根据单条线谱多普勒频移得到最近距离与速度参数耦合曲线,再将该曲线与干涉条纹得到参数比值线相交,交点即为两参数估计结果。数值仿真估计声源运动速度、最近距离,在信噪比6dB条件下,平均估计误差分别为0.71%与0.87%。将该方法应用在2021年6月大公岛海域海试数据,5组实验数据估计目标运动速度、最近距离平均误差分别为2.5%,4.4%,证明了方法的有效性。     

水下运动声源的方位方差检测方法

为了提高对水下运动目标的检测能力,利用水下目标辐射信号与海洋环境噪声在空间分布特性上的差异,提出了一种方位方差检测方法。该方法采用时延估计法估计目标方位,对方位求方差以获得检验统计量。采用奈曼-皮尔逊准则,推导了该方法的检测概率关系式,得出了检测性能与信噪比关系曲线,并与宽带能量检测方法进行了比较,表明该方法的性能远优于宽带能量检测方法。理论分析和海上试验结果都验证了该方法的有效性。     

空气中快速运动声源水下声场的波数积分模型

本文采用二维波数积分，对空气中高速运动声源激发的水下声场进行建模。针对二维波数积分计算声场时域解计算量大的问题，提出一种快速计算方法。用本文提出的方法，对深海和浅海情况下，空气中高速运动单频点声源激发的水下声场进行了计算和仿真。计算结果表明：在深海，水下接收信号的幅度和瞬时频率随时间发生变化；接收器深度、接收器与声源运动轨迹的最小距离对接收信号的变化快慢有较大影响，而声源高度的影响较小；在浅海中，接收信号呈现快速的幅度起伏，明显的多普勒频移和大的频率展宽效应。与简正波方法相比，本文方法主要适用于近场计算，而简正波方法适用于远场。另外，当声源频率较高时，二维波数积分方法的计算量将迅速增大。     

字典奇异值分解加权压缩感知多径信号参数估计

为提高水声信道多径参数估计的分辨率,提出了一种基于字典奇异值分解的加权压缩感知算法。对于有源声呐,根据发射信号构造字典,对字典进行奇异值分解,利用大特征值对应的特征向量构造信号子空间,然后使用信号子空间对接收信号进行滤波。对滤波结果进行加权压缩感知参数估计,得出最终时延估计结果。仿真实验表明,所提方法能够对水声多径参数进行超分辨估计,适用于任何脉冲信号。湖试处理结果显示,混响背景下该方法也有较好的多径参数估计性能,能够降低接收数据的噪声成分,提高对水声信道的多径时延、个数和幅度的估计精度。     

流形学习在运动声源声特征提取方面的研究*

运动声源因声信号时变性、叠加性和空时耦合性强,声数据呈现高维、非线性等特点,使得关键声特征提取困难,声特征提取方法复杂度高、数值计算量大、有效性差。因此,如何有效提取声特征并降低提取方法复杂度成为目前多源声场声源精准识别需迫切解决的关键科学问题。由此,该文提出短时傅里叶变换(STFT)和局部线性嵌入算法(LLE)联合的STFT-LLE流形学习声特征提取方法,并将此方法应用于运动声特征提取,且通过仿真实验测试对其进行了验证。该方法为运动声目标的分类识别提供了技术支撑。     

Tracking-positioning of sound speed profiles and moving acoustic source in shallow water

An ensemble Kalman filter(EnKF) approach is proposed to perform sequential tracking of water column sound speed profile(SSP) using a moving acoustic source. First,the SSPs are discretized in depth and range, and are expressed by the empirical orthogonal functions(EOFs). Second, the acoustic source state information and the first three orders of EOF coefficients are expressed as the state variable, and the acoustic field information received by the vertical line array are the measured values. Successively, the state variables and measured values are used to establish the state-measure model. Last, the EnKF is utilized to track the state variables. The simulation results show that the root mean square error of SSP and the absolute error of source are all small, and thus the acoustic source tracking-positioning has high accuracy. Moreover, increasing the number of sample collection, the signal-to-noise ratio and the number of receiving elements can improve the tracking-positioning results. The method is verified using the experimental data of the East China Sea.     

浅海声速剖面与移动声源的跟踪定位

在水平非均匀分布的浅海环境中,针对移动声源跟踪时,声速剖面的变化会对声场产生影响,提出了一种利用集合卡尔曼滤波算法的声速剖面跟踪反演和移动声源跟踪定位的方法。首先,将声速剖面进行距离和深度的参数化表示,从而将对声速剖面的跟踪转化为对声速剖面前3阶经验正交函数系数的跟踪;其次,通过将声源状态信息和声速剖面信息表示为状态变量,而将垂直线列阵接收到的声场信息作为测量值建立状态-测量模型,然后利用集合卡尔曼滤波方法对模型状态变量进行跟踪。仿真结果得出:声速剖面跟踪反演的均方根误差和移动声源跟踪定位的绝对误差都非常小,对声源的跟踪定位精度很高。并且通过增加集合样本数、增加接收信号信噪比以及增加接收阵元数目都可以提高跟踪定位结果精度。最后,利用东海实验数据对本方法进行了验证。     

Sound radiation into air by a point source moving underwater

Based on the discovery that the majority of radiated energy of a stationary sound source in shallow water is into the air at infrasonic frequencies, the sound transmission into air from a point source moving underwater is investigated in this letter. It is found that a moving sound source can radiate more acoustic energy into the air than a stationary one and the amount of energy radiated into the air increases with the speed of the moving source. Simulations show that the sound transmission into air is dominated by the inhomogeneous waves generated by the moving source.     

In search of a noncontact underwater acoustic source

The history of studies of the photoacoustic effect in liquids and its applications to the development of a “virtual” source of underwater acoustic signals is briefly reviewed. The problem of the efficiency of the photoacoustic conversion is considered. The modes of laser generation of sound, i.e., the thermooptical, nonlinear surface, and nonlinear bulk modes of operation, are discussed taking into account the real features of the marine environment, the most important of them being the surface waves. A review of the publications concerned with the problem of a moving photoacoustic source is presented. Advances in the photoacoustic underwater remote sensing technology are described.     

Efficient processing of acoustic signals for high-rate information transmission over sparse underwater channels

For underwater acoustic channels where multipath spread is measured in tens of symbol intervals at high transmission rates, multichannel equalization required for bandwidth-efficient communications may become prohibitively complex for real-time implementation. To reduce computational complexity of signal processing and improve performance of data detection, receiver structures that are matched to the physical channel characteristics are investigated. A decision-feedback equalizer is designed which relies on an adaptive channel estimator to compute its parameters. The channel estimate is reduced in size by selecting only the significant components, whose delay span is often much shorter than the multipath spread of the channel. Optimal coefficient selection (sparsing) is performed by truncation in magnitude. This estimate is used to cancel the post-cursor ISI prior to linear equalization. Spatial diversity gain is achieved by a reduced-complexity pre-combining method which eliminates the need for a separate channel estimator/equalizer for each array element. The advantages of this approach are reduction in the number of receiver parameters, optimal implementation of sparse feedback, and efficient parallel implementation of adaptive algorithms for the pre-combiner, the fractionally-spaced channel estimators and the short feedforward equalizer filters. Receiver algorithm is applied to real data transmitted at 10 kbps over 3 km in shallow water, showing excellent results.     

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 re...     

水声信号稀疏重构高分辨角度-多普勒成像

针对傅氏空时二维谱估计分辨率低以及声呐空时采样数据样本数不足给角度-多普勒成像带来困难的问题,提出一种水声信号稀疏重构的高分辨角度-多普勒成像方法和抗混响空时滤波器的稀疏重构方法。该方法在声呐阵列单测量向量的极少观测样本条件下,建立阵列信号的空时稀疏表示模型,应用稀疏表示的匹配追踪算法和基追踪算法重构回波与混响的高分辨角度-多普勒像。并根据运动声呐回波与混响的空时分布规律及声呐待检测距离单元位置的先验信息,沿着混响空时分布脊线设计混响稀疏表示的专用空时导向向量字典,通过重构抗混响空时滤波器来抑制角度-多普勒平面的混响干扰。对运动声呐前视和侧视阵列的计算机仿真结果表明,在混响背景中,该方法采用声呐阵列单测量向量重构了低速运动目标多亮点回波的高分辨角度-多普勒像,频率分辨率突破傅里叶分辨率,角度分辨率突破阵列瑞利限,分辨率明显优于傅氏空时谱估计。     

Measurement of sound absorption by underwater acoustic material using pulse-separation method

An alternative pulse-separation method is presented for measuring the sound absorption at normal incidence of an underwater acoustic material in a water-filled impedance tube. A damped sine pulse was generated in the water-filled impedance tube with a regular waveform and a short duration time of approximately 1 ms. During the generation of the pulse, the inverse filter principle was used to compensate for the transducer response. In addition, the effects of the characteristics of the tube termination can be eliminated during the generation of the pulse to obtain a single plane pulse wave in the impedance tube, which is a necessary condition for this technique. Measurements of the sound absorption coefficient of the rubber material and the reflection coefficient from a water/air interface were used to verify the pulse-separation method.     

运动声源的边界元声全息识别方法研究

提出了一种可实现任意形状的运动结构噪声源识别的声全息方法。通过结合移动框架技术与边界元声全息技术两种算法的特点,提出利用移动框架技术将存在多普勒效应的时域数据转换成边界元声全息所需的双平面全息数据,然后由边界元法声全息公式重构任意结构表面的声学信息,实现运动结构噪声源定位。该方法既具有移动框架技术处理运动问题的快速简便,又具有边界元方法可处理任意形状问题的特点。最后在半消声水池中,对运动速度为9.96 cm/s的带帽圆柱壳体进行了试验验证,结果表明:在低速条件下,该方法能够准确反演得到该结构的表面有功声强以及声压等声场信息,从而实现噪声源定位。由于条件有限,高速验证需进一步验证。     

Characteristics of thermal acoustic radiation as a source of acoustic signals

A linear dependence of the output voltage of an acoustic thermometer on the temperature difference between the source and the piezoelectric transducer is demonstrated experimentally. The constant component of the output voltage is determined by the noise temperature of the receiving device. The main feature of the thermal acoustic radiation as a source of acoustic signals is that the signal is represented not by the total thermal radiation of the object, which is proportional to the absolute temperature of the latter, but by the part of this radiation that is proportional to the temperature difference between the object and the transducer.     

Spatial correlation of hydroacoustic signals in a biaxial underwater sound channel

In the hydrological conditions of a biaxial sound channel, the cross-correlation between acoustic signals received at points spatially separated (from 10 to 63 km) along the sound propagation track is investigated. The signals are received by a narrow-beam array scanning in the vertical plane. The beam width is ～2° at the mean frequency (1 kHz) of a pseudo-noise signal. It is noted that, as the distance between the points of reception increases, the correlation decreases. This is mainly caused by the effect of the multipath propagation with an incomplete resolution of signals in arrival angles, rather than by changes in the “water” signal spectrum due to the attenuation.     

Effects of sound source location and direction on acoustic parameters in Japanese churches

In 1965, the Catholic Church liturgy changed to allow priests to face the congregation. Whereas Church tradition, teaching, and participation have been much discussed with respect to priest orientation at Mass, the acoustical changes in this regard have not yet been examined scientifically. To discuss acoustic desired within churches, it is necessary to know the acoustical characteristics appropriate for each phase of the liturgy. In this study, acoustic measurements were taken at various source locations and directions using both old and new liturgies performed in Japanese churches. A directional loudspeaker was used as the source to provide vocal and organ acoustic fields, and impulse responses were measured. Various acoustical parameters such as reverberation time and early decay time were analyzed. The speech transmission index was higher for the new Catholic liturgy, suggesting that the change in liturgy has improved speech intelligibility. Moreover, the interaural cross-correlation coefficient and early lateral energy fraction were higher and lower, respectively, suggesting that the change in liturgy has made the apparent source width smaller.     

Image reconstruction of moving acoustic sound sources by temporal reference holography

The feasibility of applying temporal reference holography to detection of moving acoustic radiation sources are examined theoretically and experimentally. Temporal reference holography is proved to be used for the purpose if the width of amplitude spectrum of sound is within a certain range, because the point spread functions of temporal reference hologram coincide with amplitude spectra of sound waves used for recording them.     

一种单频水声信号多径时延估计算法

提出一种针对单频水声信号的多径时延估计算法,通过采用频域加权并结合进化规划算法解决代价函数强烈振荡下的高效全局优化。算法引入多径径数建立由多径时延、幅度系数及径数组成的水声信道多径参数模型,在采用频域加权预白化进行非线性最小二乘代价函数解耦处理的基础上,结合进化规划算法进行非线性参数解空间的高效全局寻优,从而实现多径时延的高分辨率估计。利用仿真数据和海上实验数据进行的实验表明,本算法具有较高的多径时延估计精度并可同时实现多径径数的估计。     

双扩展水声信道的时延多普勒域稀疏估计

利用双扩展水声信道在时延-多普勒域存在的稀疏结构,将信道估计转化为压缩感知框架下的稀疏恢复问题可改善估计性能。但是,稀疏恢复经典方法如l_1范数、近似l₀范数无法适应水声信道时延-多普勒域稀疏度的动态变化,而匹配追踪(Matching pursuit,MP)、正交匹配追踪(Orthogonal Matching Pursuit,OMP)等贪婪类算法则存在着易进入局部最优解、二维搜索导致运算复杂度高等问题。提出在时延-多普勒域稀疏恢复的目标函数中引入非均匀范数约束(Non-uniform Norm Constraint,NNC),即在时延-多普勒域信道响应中根据每个时延-多普勒域位置的幅值分别分配为l₀或l₁范数约束,因而可通过不同范数约束组合的方式适应不同的时延-多普勒域稀疏度;同时,通过对非均匀范数代价函数进行梯度下降迭代求解并将梯度解投影至解空间推导了非均匀范数稀疏恢复的迭代求解方法,从而实现双扩展水声信道时延-多普勒估计。数值仿真和实验数据处理表明该算法相对经典方法有较明显的性能改善。通过仿真、海上水声通信实验结果可获取结论,利用时延-多普勒域稀疏特性的信道估计方法结合均衡器可有效提高双扩展信道条件下的水声通信性能。