水下等离子体声源的聚束特性研究

分析水下等离子体声源的反射聚束特性,对研究和应用水下定向辐射技术具有重要的指导意义。对不同曲面障板的反射规律做了分析,利用Euler方程建立了水下等离子体声源的聚束声场分布模型,利用迎风型WENO格式对方程进行求解,仿真计算了两种曲面障板的聚束过程和声场分布特性,并设计相关实验对仿真结果进行了验证。研究结果表明,仿真结果与实验测量结果基本吻合,得到的声场云图较为直观地反映了声源的反射聚束特性,证明了仿真模型的有效性,为进一步研究水下定向辐射技术、提高声源级奠定了基础。     

分层砂底对浅海信道声传播影响的研究

推导有指向性脉冲声源在海底是分层结构的浅海中声场的积分表达式;分别仿真了爆炸声源和指向性脉冲源在浅海信道中传播的信号波形,其中假设了海底的沉积层和基底分别由水浸泡的砂和固态介质构成,砂底的参数数值用孔隙介质理论和实测相结合的方法进行选择;此外,在用砂和玻璃珠分别模拟砂层海底的水池内,观测了指向性脉冲源在不同接收点的信号的波形;结果表明:仿真波形的包络得到实验的印证。从而证明本文建立的指向性脉冲源在具有砂层海底的浅海中声场模型是可行的,可用于预报海洋环境参数对接收波形的影响,为水下通信、声呐信号设计与处理提供参考信息。     

水声通信实验信道仿真研究

水声信道的时变多途特性对其中通信信号传输构成严重影响，为了分析评估现实实验信道条件下水声通信系统的性能，给出了一种基于实验测量的水声信道仿真方法。此方法通过发射线性调频脉冲以检测信道多径结构，同时分别采用自回归模型与多普勒时间压扩来仿真信道中各路径的时变幅度与时变延迟。通过一个具体的直接序列扩频水声通信系统，表明在仿真与实验信道条件下系统性能具有较好的一致性。     

基于水下等离子体的脉冲通信发射机

水下声通信是海洋中最主要的通信方式,在时变空变随机多途的恶劣信道中实现可靠的超远程水声通信,是一项亟待解决的难题。论文提出了一种利用水下等离子体脉冲信号、采用脉冲定宽时序编码调制方案的超远程水声通信体制,研制了一种基于水下等离子体的微型脉冲声源,搭建了基于该声源的脉冲通信发射机,实现了入水自动检测、休眠定时切换、发射频率可调、码元调制编码等脉冲通信功能。经水池试验验证,该发射机在Φ60×600mm体积内声源级达217dB,较好地实现预设脉冲信号的发射。     

用垂直阵和单水听器测量水下目标辐射噪声的误差分析及其修正方法

文章给出了水声波导模型下垂直阵和单水听器测量水下目标辐射噪声的误差和修正方法,以便使两种测量结果一致和统一。在设定典型水声波导的参数后,用波数积分方法计算出声源到垂直阵各阵元的信道传输函数,再推导出垂直嵌套阵聚焦波束的信道传输函数,从而得到单水听器和垂直嵌套阵的测量误差。数值计算表明在70 m海深条件下,不同深度单水听器测量单频信号频谱级起伏达15 dB以上,总声级测量误差的均值为3 dB,而垂直嵌套阵测量单频信号频谱级起伏仅4 dB,总声级测量误差的均值趋于0 dB。海上实验测量单频信号声源级的结果与数值计算的起伏一致,海试中垂直阵获得较高的空间增益。结论是在浅海条件下垂直阵的测量精度高于单水听器的测量精度,用单水听器测量的目标总声级需要修正时可以修正,而用单水听器测量的单频信号声源级则难以修正。     

基于虚拟时间反转镜的垂直阵舰船辐射噪声级测量方法

研究了利用垂直阵测量舰船辐射噪声过程中因水声信道的多径效应对测量性能产生的影响,建立了基于声场模型的舰船辐射噪声测量的数学模型,推导了基于虚拟时间反转镜辐射噪声测量的理论公式,提出了一种基于虚拟时间反转镜技术的垂直阵舰船辐射噪声级测量方法。该方法首先采用基于波束积分的SCOOTER模型,根据海洋环境参数计算出辐射声源至测量水听器之间的信道传输函数,然后,用计算出的信道传输函数对接收信号做虚拟时反处理,以消除或减弱信道多径效应对接收信号的影响,从而提高舰船辐射噪声级测量精度。针对典型的浅海声信道,进行了计算机仿真试验。结果表明,该方法能有效地进行舰船宽带辐射噪声测量,当阵元个数满足一定要求时,测量得到的声源级与实际声源级相比,误差小于1 dB。      

水下窄脉冲超宽带信号的传播特性仿真

超宽带信号具有分辨率高、截获概率低、穿透能力强等优点,将在水下目标探测、定位及通信等领域具有良好的应用前景。基于水下等离子体声源提出了窄脉冲超宽带信号产生方法,建立了以传播损失和海洋环境噪声为主要影响因素的超宽带脉冲传播信道模型;结合湖试实测数据,利用Matlab仿真软件和Welch谱分析法,仿真分析了不同频率的超宽带脉冲在水下传播不同距离后的功率谱密度以及传播特性。研究成果对水下等离子体超宽带脉冲的工程应用具有重要的参考价值,同时对水下等离子体超宽带脉冲声源的设计和研制也有一定的借鉴意义。     

非均匀海洋环境噪声中的匹配场处理舰船辐射噪声级估计方法

在实际舰船辐射噪声测量过程中,受非均匀海洋环境噪声的影响,导致常规测量方法的性能急剧下降,基于此,提出了一种非均匀海洋环境噪声背景中的垂直阵舰船辐射噪声测量方法。根据水声信道传播理论,建立了由海面多个空时独立均匀分布噪声源构成的非均匀背景噪声场模型,推导了非均匀海洋环境噪声场中垂直阵舰船辐射噪声估计的理论公式。针对典型的浅海水声信道,进行计算机仿真实验,分析了该方法的测量性能并与常规匹配场测量方法进行对比,结果表明:(1)该方法能有效克服非均匀海洋环境噪声对测量结果的影响,测量误差较小;(2)相同测量条件下,该方法测量性能优于常规匹配场舰船辐射噪声级测量方法;(3)当信噪比满足一定要求时,测量得到的声源级与实际声源级相比,误差小于1 dB。     

非均匀海洋环境噪声中的匹配场处理舰船辐射噪声级估计方法

在实际舰船辐射噪声测量过程中,受非均匀海洋环境噪声的影响,导致常规测量方法的性能急剧下降,基于此,提出了一种非均匀海洋环境噪声背景中的垂直阵舰船辐射噪声测量方法。根据水声信道传播理论,建立了由海面多个空时独立均匀分布噪声源构成的非均匀背景噪声场模型,推导了非均匀海洋环境噪声场中垂直阵舰船辐射噪声估计的理论公式。针对典型的浅海水声信道,进行计算机仿真实验,分析了该方法的测量性能并与常规匹配场测量方法进行对比,结果表明:(1)该方法能有效克服非均匀海洋环境噪声对测量结果的影响,测量误差较小;(2)相同测量条件下,该方法测量性能优于常规匹配场舰船辐射噪声级测量方法;(3)当信噪比满足一定要求时,测量得到的声源级与实际声源级相比,误差小于1 dB。      

空气中声源激发水下声场的水平纵向相关性

声场的空间相关特性是声场的重要特征,对水下探测、水声通讯等各种设备在实际海洋环境中应用的参数选择具有重要意义,是水声工程技术研究的重要基础之一。相比于水中声源激发声场的相关特性研究,空气中声源的相关研究很少。本文推导了空气中声源激发水下声场的水平纵向相关的简正波表达式,并通过数值仿真分析,比较了声源分别位于空气中和水中时水下声场的水平纵向相关特性。对南海海域进行的一次悬挂汽笛空气声源、海底水平阵接收信号海上实验获得的数据进行分析,结果表明:空气中声源位于不同距离时,其发射的声信号激发水下声场的水平纵向相关均存在明显的起伏结构,基于本文提出的空气中声源激发水下声场的水平纵向相关系数的简正波表达式能够较好地解释该现象.      

浅水时变多途信道特性分析与模型实验研究

时变多途水声信道是影响水声通信性能的一个重要因素,深入了解水声信道挣性并对水声信道进行建模具有重要的研究意义。本文在分析传统时变信道模型基础上,从时域角度出发,提出采用AR(ρ)模型对已有的浅水时变多途信道模型中的小尺度衰落分量进行修正。然后基于莲花湖实测信道数据,分析了时变信道各个路径的幅度、时延、时间相干系数、系统传递函数等特性,并对修正模型进行了验证正。从仿真结果来看,修正模型与试验结果拟合的很好。本文从多个方面对水声信道特性进行了分析,有助于对水声信道的深入了解,同时为水声通信系统性能评估提供了一种仿真信道模型。     

A high-frequency warm shallow water acoustic communications channel model and measurements

Underwater acoustic communication is a core enabling technology with applications in ocean monitoring using remote sensors and autonomous underwater vehicles. One of the more challenging underwater acoustic communication channels is the medium-range very shallow warm-water channel, common in tropical coastal regions. This channel exhibits two key features-extensive time-varying multipath and high levels of non-Gaussian ambient noise due to snapping shrimp-both of which limit the performance of traditional communication techniques. A good understanding of the communications channel is key to the design of communication systems. It aids in the development of signal processing techniques as well as in the testing of the techniques via simulation. In this article, a physics-based channel model for the very shallow warm-water acoustic channel at high frequencies is developed, which are of interest to medium-range communication system developers. The model is based on ray acoustics and includes time-varying statistical effects as well as non-Gaussian ambient noise statistics observed during channel studies. The model is calibrated and its accuracy validated using measurements made at sea.     

基于拖曳倾斜线列阵的海底反射损失提取方法

在浅海环境中,海底声学参数对水下声场的精确预报十分重要.现有的海底声学参数反演方法大多数是采用固定垂直阵进行的,其缺点是不能实施大面积、高分辨的走航式反演.在已提出的垂直阵海底反射损失反演方法的基础上,研究了基于三种线列阵阵形的海底反射损失提取方法及其特点,提出了基于拖曳倾斜线列阵与三个声源组合的走航式海底参数快速获取方法,并对该方法进行了误差分析.研究结果表明：覆盖同样的掠射角范围,垂直线列阵需与多个距离的声源组合,拖曳水平线列阵只需一个声源组合但需要采用较大的物理孔径,拖曳倾斜线列阵综合了垂直阵和水平 关键词： 水下声场预报 海底声学参数 海底反射损失 拖曳倾斜线列阵     

A frequency-modulated-carrier digital communication technique for multipath underwater acoustic channels

Along with interferences, multipath propagation and, in particular, its instability in shallow sea is the main obstacle to increasing the digital data transfer rate in underwater acoustic communication systems. Given these conditions, the use of simple waveforms, for which the product of bandwidth by the length of the processing interval is close to unity, makes testing the quality of the communication channel much more difficult and strongly limits the possibilities of devices that compensate for current waveform distortions, such as, for example, equalizers. In multipath channels with random parameters, various complex waveforms with different spectrum spreading techniques had been used for years. Complex waveforms with a large base (time-bandwidth product) offer advantages in efficiently suppressing narrowband interferences and providing asynchronous multiple-access communications. This paper proposes a new complex waveform, which uses sequences of chirp pulses. On receiving, this waveform can be divided into individual responses through converting the delays of these individual responses to frequency offsets. After a special frequency conversion of the received signal, the multipath responses are separated in the frequency domain by conventional band-pass filtering.     

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。     

Exploiting joint sparsity for underwater acoustic MIMO communications

MIMO communication has been recognized as a potential solution for high speed underwater acoustic communication, which unfortunately encounters significant difficulties posed by simultaneous presence of multipath and Co-channel interference (CoI). Sparsity contained in the multipath structure of underwater acoustic channels offers an effective way for improving channel estimation quality and thus enhancing the communication performance in the form of time reversal or channel estimation based equalization. However, for MIMO channels with extensive multipath and CoI, the performance gain achieved by classic sparsity exploitation channel estimation methods such as orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) is still not enough to yield satisfactory performance. Under quasi-stationary assumption, underwater acoustic channels of adjacent data blocks exhibit correlated multipath structure, namely, multipath arrivals with similar time delay but different magnitude, which has not been exploited. In this paper, a joint sparse recovery approach is proposed to exploit the sparse correlation among adjacent data blocks to improve the performance of channel estimation. Under the framework of distributed compressed sensing (DCS), a joint sparse model which treats the multipath arrivals as sparse solutions with common time support is adopted to derive a joint sparse recovery algorithm for efficient channel estimation, the results of which are used to initialize and periodly update a channel estimation based time reversal receiver. Finally, underwater MIMO communication experimental results obtained in a shallow water channel are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, compared to the same type of receiver that do not exploit the joint sparse.     

Examination of time-reversal acoustics in shallow water and applications to noncoherent underwater communications

The shallow water acoustic communication channel is characterized by strong signal degradation caused by multipath propagation and high spatial and temporal variability of the channel conditions. At the receiver, multipath propagation causes intersymbol interference and is considered the most important of the channel distortions. This paper examines the application of time-reversal acoustic (TRA) arrays, i.e., phase-conjugated arrays (PCAs), that generate a spatio-temporal focus of acoustic energy at the receiver location, eliminating distortions introduced by channel propagation. This technique is self-adaptive and automatically compensates for environmental effects and array imperfections without the need to explicitly characterize the environment. An attempt is made to characterize the influences of a PCA design on its focusing properties with particular attention given to applications in noncoherent underwater acoustic communication systems. Due to the PCA spatial diversity focusing properties, PC arrays may have an important role in an acoustic local area network. Each array is able to simultaneously transmit different messages that will focus only at the destination receiver node.     

Space-time and frequency-phase stability of the acoustic field in the underwater sound channel

The space-time and frequency-phase stability of the acoustic field is studied for the case of long-range propagation in the underwater sound channel. The possibility of splitting the field components produced by the Doppler effect in the total interference structure of a monochromatic signal is revealed for different ranges, parameters of the channel inhomogeneities, and frequencies. The experiments are performed in summertime in the northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean, near the Kamchatka Peninsula, on a path of 2100 km. Highly stable sound sources with resonant frequencies of 230 and 380 Hz are used for the measurements. The sources are towed at a depth of 70 m with a speed of 5–6 knots. To receive the signal near the channel axis, a bottom-moored (at a depth of 200 m) stationary system is used. The width of the sound beams is studied, and the broadening limits of the frequency spectra are estimated for the coherent and incoherent field components in the case of super-long-range sound propagation. The phase velocities of the split components are determined.     

浅海水声信道冲激响应空变特性研究

浅海声传播对空间参数的变化十分敏感,信道冲激响应随空间的变化使水声信号处理的性能受到很大限制。文中采用射线理论模型估计信道冲激响应,用互相关方法仿真计算了信道响应对空间参数的敏感性,并对信道冲激响应空变特性的实际应用进行了讨论。     

Overview of channel models for underwater wireless communication networks

Acoustic communication in Underwater Wireless Communication Networks (UWCNs) has several challenges due to the presence of fading, multipath and refractive properties of the sound channel which necessitate the development of precise underwater channel models. Some existing channel models are simplified and do not consider multipath or multipath fading. In this paper, a detailed survey on ray-theory-based multipath Rayleigh underwater channel models for underwater wireless communication is presented and the research challenges for an efficient communication in this environment are outlined. These channel models are valid for shallow or deep water. They are based on acoustic propagation physics which captures different propagation paths of sound in the underwater and consider all the effects of shadow zones, multipath fading, operating frequency, depth and water temperature. The propagation characteristics are shown through mathematical analysis. Transmission losses between transceivers are investigated through simulations. Further simulations are carried out to study the bit error rate effects and the maximum internode distances for different networks and depths considering a 16-QAM modulation scheme with OFDM as the multicarrier transmission technique. The effect of weather season and the variability of ocean environmental factors such as water temperature on the communication performance are also shown. The mathematical analysis and simulations highlight important considerations for the deployment and operation of UWCNs.