Bayesian Detection of Targets of Unknown Location

In this paper the array detection problem for certain deterministic signals in spatially uncorrelated Gaussian noise is formulated in Bayesian terms and the required likelihood ratios and resulting performance characteristics are obtained. Primary emphasis is on detection of targets of unknown spatial location using a likelihood ratio approach, with the target location treated as a random parameter, rather than an estimator-correlator approach. The tradeoff among array parameters and signal parameters is demonstrated. It is shown that the dominant uncertainty affecting detection performance seems to be that of location when compared with uncertainty on energy and/or phase.     

Analysis of a Signal Processor for an Antenna Array

A signal processor that provides ratio-squared predetection combining, has been investigated for application in an adaptive antenna array. The analysis and experimental data presented here pertain to the signal processing gain when the antenna array is illuminated by a coherent signal source and a partially coherent noise source. For a noise source which is coherent, the processing gain depends on relative strength of the signal and noise, relative directions of arrival, and the usual "array factor." The array exhibits capturing effects much as in an FM receiver. The effective antenna pattern is a superposition of two beams of different magnitudes, one directed to the signal source and the other to the noise source. When the noise is partially coherent, the behavior of the signal processor is quite complex. Analytical prediction and experimental simulation measurement on a four-channel system indicate that the partially coherent noise may be regarded as the source of an incoherent noise component plus a coherent noise component with the magnitude of the latter determined by the coherence coefficient for the noise source.     

民用飞机增升装置气动噪声学风洞试验初步研究

采用模拟退火法阵列优化设计技术设计了对数螺旋麦克风阵列,开发了基于“波束成型理论冶的阵列试验数据处理软件。将风洞麦克风相阵列噪声识别技术用于SCCH模型增升装置气动噪声研究,开展了增升装置气动噪声源的远场定位探测和强度测量,并用数据处理软件对风洞试验数据进行处理。试验结果表明,随着观察频率的变化缝翼噪声声源的位置与强度会发生变化,襟翼侧缘噪声是一个宽频噪声,不同频率下其强度分布存在差异。同时也发现缝翼安装支架对缝翼和襟翼气动噪声声源有较大影响。文中也给出了多种工况下缝翼和襟翼噪声源分布。     

亚声速矩形射流的噪声辐射特性和声源分布

基于射流噪声模拟试验台，对出口面积相同的圆形喷口及宽高比分别为1、1.5、2、10的矩形喷口亚声速射流的远场噪声辐射特性和噪声源分布位置进行了较为系统的研究。通过远场噪声测量，获得了不同宽高比矩形喷口在不同方位角平面的射流噪声频谱分布结果相对于圆形射流的差异，揭示了矩形射流潜在的降噪潜力。通过基于波束成形算法的传声器阵列，得到了矩形射流噪声源峰值位置随频率的变化情况，系统分析了射流速度、方位角、宽高比等参数对矩形射流噪声源分布的影响。射流速度和方位角对矩形射流噪声源分布的归一化结果影响很小，而宽高比对矩形射流噪声源分布有较大影响：随着矩形宽高比的增加，矩形射流低频段噪声源向上游偏移，高频段噪声源向下游偏移。     

A Superlimiting Phased-Array Receiving System in a Two-Source Environment

The performance of a uniformly spaced phased-steered line array with element channel superlimiting is studied for far-field sources consisting of 1) two sinusoidal signals with different frequencies and angular locations, and 2) a sinusoid and a noise signal at different angular locations. Attention is focused on the nonlinear case where internal noise is negligible compared to both input signals. The analysis for the two-sinusoid case gives the precise frequencies, positions, and amplitudes of all apparent sources. In addition to the two active sources, the array output has an array of images arranged symmetrically in sine space about the larger input, at intervals equal to the spacing between the two active sources. For the case of a separated sinusoid and a noise source, the analysis shows that the angular positions and average powers of the array outputs duplicate the double-sinusoid results, but the images have noise-like spectra. The analyses are confirmed by experimental results obtained with a 60-element superlimiting X-band array.     

Cumulant-based blind optimum beamforming

Sensor response, location uncertainty, and use of sample statistics can severely degrade the performance of optimum beamformers. We propose blind estimation of the source steering vector in the presence of multiple, directional, correlated or coherent Gaussian interferers via higher order statistics. In this way, we employ the statistical characteristics of the desired signal to make the necessary discrimination, without any a-priori knowledge of array manifold and direction-of-arrival (DOA) information about the desired signal. We then improve our method to utilize the data in a more efficient manner. In any application, only sample statistics are available, so we propose a robust beamforming approach that employs the steering vector estimate obtained by cumulant-based signal processing. We further propose a method that employs both covariance and cumulant information to combat finite sample effects. We analyze the effects of multipath propagation on the reception of the desired signal. We show that even in the presence of coherence, cumulant-based beamformer still behaves as the optimum beamformer that maximizes the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR). Finally, we propose an adaptive version of our algorithm simulations demonstrate the excellent performance of our approach in a wide variety of situations     

基于改进的传声器阵列数据分析技术的飞机机体噪声实验研究

 发展了一种平面传声器阵列数据处理新方法——洁净信号处理算法,通过对传声器阵列混淆和旁瓣信号的有效抑制,改进了对声源的分辨。基于改进的数据分析方法,研究了真实飞机结构和真实飞行条件下飞机起落架、襟翼等声源的频谱特性、指向特性。研究结果表明,新的信号处理算法可以更加清晰地分离出飞机表面的气动噪声源。起落架噪声的频谱是由宽频随机噪声与一些较为明显的单音噪声源组成,在不同辐射角度时,起落架噪声的声级在不同频率范围有一定的差异。襟翼侧缘噪声频谱是一个包含有个别明显单音噪声的宽频噪声谱,襟翼内侧缘噪声谱和外侧缘噪声谱有明显的差异,在低频范围,襟翼侧缘噪声的指向性比较明显,但在高频范围,襟翼侧缘噪声没有明显的指向性。     

An Adaptive Interference Canceling Array Utilizing Hybrid Techniques

The steady state properties of an adaptive array utilizing prior knowledge of both approximate signal arrival direction and signal characteristics are presented. The method combines the features of a directionally constrained array and an array with a self-generated reference signal. Explicit results are obtained for output signal, interference, and noise powers assuming a single interferer is present. The inclusion of a self-generated reference circuit is shown to reduce the sensitivity to pointing error typical of arrays utilizing a zero order directional constraint, the improvement being a consequence of the reduction of the desired signal component fed back to the sidelobe canceling circuit. A relationship between the degree of sensitivity reduction and the quality of the reference signal is developed. Results of computations of signal to interference plus noise ratios for a 7-element 10-wavelength nonuniformly spaced array as a function of pointing error are presented. These results show the behavior with one interferer inside and outside the beamwidth of the quiescent array and with multiple interferers for various degrees of perfection of the reference generating circuit. In all cases the computations confirm that the otherwise severe effects of small pointing errors are substantially reduced.     

The Effects of Gaussian Interference on Communication Systemswith Adaptive Arrays

The performance of a bandlimited binary phase-shift-keyed (BPSK) communication system is examined when the received BPSK signal is corrupted by both thermal noise and a directional Gaussian noise interfering signal. The system uses an LMS adaptive array to suppress this interference. The effects of signal power levels, arrival angles, bandwidths, and the array bandwidth are examined. The performance of a system that uses tapped delay lines for the array weights is also examined. It is shown that the performance of a system with tapped delay lines is not affected by the interference bandwidth for a single interferer.     

确定相干机器多噪声源位置的方法研究

提出利用均匀线阵接收的数据构造一种矩阵进行奇异值（SVD）分解,以实现对相干噪声源的方位估计。利用这种方法,通过改变阵列中心位置便可确定机器多噪声源位置。计算机模拟和声学实验证实了这种方法的可行性。     

增升装置多段翼型气动声学风洞实验研究

随着航空运输业的蓬勃发展,飞机的噪声污染受到越来越多的关注。在大型飞机起降阶段,增升装置作为主要的机体部件,其辐射出的噪声量级已经占据飞机总体噪声的很大一部分,是未来飞机能否进一步降低噪声达到适航标准的关键性因素。针对增升装置多段翼型30P30N的气动噪声问题进行实验研究,实验在北航D5气动声学风洞中开展,使用Kevlar布和穿孔板对实验段进行了气动声学改造,以满足透声不透气的气动声学实验要求。通过远场传声器和麦克风阵列测量得到30P30N模型的远场气动噪声特性和定位主要声源位置,引进小波变换的信号分析方法得到噪声的时频特性,全面揭示多段翼型的气动噪声产生机理。     

An intelligent algorithm for coherent sound source localization based on a strong tracking filter

Background noise is inevitable when sensor arrays are used for aeroacoustic measurements in wind tunnels. The direct removal of background noise, however, would affect the measurement accuracy. In particular, the existing array signal processing algorithms are either invalid or inefficient for removing the noise that is coherent with the signal of interest. In this paper, an intelligent algorithm is developed to localize the coherent sound sources and background noise in real time by iteratively checking the collected data from the array. The proposed method can automatically adjust the suboptimal fading factor to extract useful information as much as possible in residual sequence. This algorithm is tested in simulations and then demonstrated in an experiment.Compared to the two existing methods, the results indicate that the new method has a good phase-shift tracking ability and rapid estimation-error convergence speed, and can achieve an acceptable performance even for low-cost acoustic sensors. Overall, the proposed method should assist array beamforming and hence benefit aeroacoustic measurement.     

Specification and Performance of Passive Sonar Spectral Estimators

The application of existing estimation theory to the problem of specification and performance of passive sonar spectral estimators is considered. The classification function is addressed, so that the signal is assumed to be present, and so that the energy arrival angle is known. The spatial filter considered is a line array of M equally spaced omnidirectional hydrophones. Signal and ambient noise are both zero-mean, wide-sense, stationary Gaussian random processes that differ in their spatial correlation across the face of the array. The signal is a plane wave that can be made totally spacially corrected between array elements by inserting delays between sensors to invert the signal propagation delay. The noise correlation is a function of frequency, bandwidth, element separation, and the relative time delay between sensors. Under these assumptions, the Cramer-Rao lower bound is derived for the class of unbiased estimates of signal power in a narrow frequency band at the hydrophone in the presence of correlated ambient noise of known power. The bound is examined numerically, resulting in a threshold phenomenon with M that constitutes a new design consideration. In addition, there is a striking insensitivity to realistic values of ambient noise correlation, and there are ranges in signal-to-noise ratio for which one gains more by increasing M than by increasing the bandwidth-time product. Specific processors, including a new unbiased estimator when noise power is unknown, are developed.     

一种多分量chirp信号阵列检测新方法

提出了一种多分量chirp信号检测与参数估计的新方法。该方法利用天线阵列的空间特性,通过阵列平均在分数阶傅里叶域中引入加权函数来降低噪声、抑制不同源信号之间的相互干扰。和单阵元方法相比,文中方法大大提高了多分量chirp信号检测和参数估计的性能,仿真结果证明了方法的有效性。     

On Optimizing Array Reception of Multipath

This paper reviews system configuration requirements and analyzes detectability performance characteristics for maximum likelihood array reception of multipath. Performance is analyzed to determine the effects of channel multipath structure (multipath delay and signal power division among the paths), space-time correlation properties of the incident processes, and the array spacing. It is shown by a series of case studies, that for single element coupling, as well as array coupling, an increased multipath delay factor results in decreased system detectability for fixed signal and noise intensity levels. The performance capacity is degraded as the available signal power tends to distribute more uniformly between the paths. These effects are attributed to the loss of effective signal energy concentration, resulting in a lower effective pre-detection signal-to-noise ratio. An investigation of the effects upon system performance, due to array element spacing, shows that performance is enhanced by increasing the spacing relative to the multipath delay factor and the reciprocal signal bandwidth. The former is the result of a more directive detectability (beam) pattern arising from the increased spacing. In effect, with increased spacing, the main lobe of the pattern is narrowed, while the side lobes are optimally suppressed by the required noise related array element link, frequency filters (weights).     

DOA estimation using one-bit quantized measurements

The effects 1-bit quantization of the input samples has on the direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation accuracy are considered. The signal model assumes a single stochastic Gaussian point source that is embedded in white Gaussian noise (WGN). The inherent limitations governed by the extreme clipping of the input data are analyzed using the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) that is derived for a two-sensor array. In addition, several estimators for the I-bit estimation are discussed. Numerical and analytical analyses of the estimation error reveal weak dependency on signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) with singular behavior of the estimation error in certain DOA angles.     

Effect of bias on bearing-only target location

The influence of angle measurement bias on passive target location estimation is investigated. First the conditions for target observability are found and generalized to the non-zero-mean measurement noise case. Then the Cramer-Rao lower bound on the estimation error is derived. Numerical examples are included, illustrating the target location uncertainty in the presence of measurement bias     

传感器位置误差条件下的约束总体最小二乘时差定位算法

 现代定位系统中,传感器往往被安放在运动平台上,其位置无法精确得知,存在估计误差,将严重影响对目标的定位精度。针对这一问题,提出基于约束总体最小二乘(CTLS)的到达时差(TDOA)定位算法。首先通过引入中间变量,将非线性TDOA定位方程转化为伪线性方程,再利用CTLS技术,全面考虑伪线性方程所有系数中的噪声。在此基础上推导了定位方程的目标函数,再根据牛顿迭代方法,进行数值迭代,快速得到精确解。采用一阶小噪声扰动分析方法,对该算法的理论性能进行了分析,证明了算法的无偏性和逼近克拉美-罗下限(CRLB)。仿真实验表明,该算法克服了现有总体最小二乘(TLS)算法不能达到CRLB、两步加权最小二乘(two-step WLS)算法在较高噪声时性能发散的缺陷,在较高噪声时定位精度仍然能达到CRLB。     

基于声学风洞的麦克风阵列测试技术应用研究

根据声学风洞气动噪声试验研究的需求,介绍了一种适用于声学风洞试验的麦克风阵列测试技术,并针对声学风洞的特点,利用风洞射流剪切层修正方法,提高了麦克风阵列识别声源的精准度。通过数值仿真和在0．55m×0．4m声学风洞的试验研究,验证了麦克风阵列测试系统和麦克风阵列数据处理方法识别声源的能力。研究结果表明所采用的麦克风阵列测试技术可用于声学风洞试验。最后还采用36通道的麦克风阵列在0．55m×0．4m声学风洞开展了NACA23018翼型气动噪声试验研究,试验明显地观察到翼型后缘噪声,获得不同迎角下翼型的噪声特性。     

激光测振仪直流增益和直流偏移的测量不确定度

介绍了用最小二乘法评价外差式激光测振仪信号处理电路直流增益和直流偏移指标时,测量结果的不确定度分析和评定过程.讨论了影响直流增益测量不确定度的几个主要误差来源,包括信号源误差、被校仪器响应误差、被校仪器直流增益、标准仪器测量误差的影响等等.给出了减小直流增益测量不确定度的主要措施:①环境控制措施,以减少环境带来的不确定度;②选取高精度信号,以减少信号源误差带来的不确定度;③选取高精度标准测量仪器,以减少测量误差带来的不确定度.通过一个实例,给出了激光测振仪信号处理电路直流增益和直流偏移指标不确定度分析和评定结果.该过程及结论可应用在相应参数的计量校准中.