利用FIR滤波器生成随机振动试验驱动信号的新方法

 阐述了一种利用有限冲击响应(FIR) 滤波器生成随机振动试验驱动信号的新方法。该方法通过设计一个FIR 滤波器对白噪声序列进行滤波,使滤波器输出序列的功率谱密度满足试验驱动信号的要求。在随机振动试验控制中,将FIR 滤波器和试验的受控对象组成增广系统,这将有助于简化对控制系统的分析和设计。     

Federated square root filter for decentralized parallel processors

An efficient, federated Kalman filter is developed for use in distributed multisensor systems. The design accommodates sensor-dedicated local filters, some of which use data from a common reference subsystem. The local filters run in parallel, and provide sensor data compression via prefiltering. The master filter runs at a selectable reduced rate, fusing local filter outputs via efficient square root algorithms. Common local process noise correlations are handled by use of a conservative matrix upper bound. The federated filter yields estimates that are globally optimal or conservatively suboptimal, depending upon the master filter processing rate. This design achieves a major improvement in throughput (speed), is well suited to real-time system implementation, and enhances fault detection, isolation, and recovery capability     

Signal Resolution via Digital Inverse Filtering

Research in numerous areas is directed toward the resolution of multiple overlapping signals in a noisy environment. These areas include radar, sonar, speech, seismology, and electrophysiology. Sometimes matched filters are used; other times inverse filters are employed. This paper discusses one approach to the analysis of the resolution of inverse filters. Our method is to compromise the trade-off between signal resolution and the output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). A performance measure for the inverse or deconvolution filter is defined as a quantity proportional to the harmonic mean of the resolution and the SNR. An optimum output pulse duration is obtained using this criterion, where the pulse shape has been previously selected and the input signal waveform is known. In addition, upper and lower bounds for the output pulse duration are presented. Graphs are given which allow the designer to select the optimum inverse filter output pulse duration for a desired signal resolution and an estimated SNR.     

GPS多径信号的自适应滤波估计方法

 研究全球定位系统(GPS)多径信号估计的问题。通过分析自适应滤波器的原理,建立了数字中频信号处理的数学模型,提出一种用自适应滤波实现GPS多径幅度、码相位和载波相位估计的方法。该方法采用不同延迟的伪随机序列对信号进行解扩、解调和累加,得到了作为期望信号的系列自适应滤波相关值。对该方法与其他3种方法进行了理论上的分析比较,得出本方法具有信噪比高、自适应滤波性能好、带有码相位信息和不存在载波模糊度问题等优点。根据各种滤波器算法的特点和本应用的需求,给出了选用递归最小二乘算法实现的方法。通过计算机仿真,验证了提出的方法能够在14 dB的信噪比下,以1个采样间隔的时间延迟分辨率和0.005周的载波相位估计精度估计出GPS L1的多径信号。     

Enhanced motion and sizing of bank in moving-bank MMAE

The focus of this research is to provide methods for generating precise parameter estimates in the face of potentially significant parameter variations such as system component failures. The standard multiple model adaptive estimation (MMAE) algorithm uses a bank of Kalman filters, each based on a different model of the system. Parameter discretization within the MMAE refers to selection of the parameter values assumed by the elemental Kalman filters, and dynamically redeclaring such discretization yields a moving-bank MMAE. A new online parameter discretization method is developed based on the probabilities associated with the generalized chi-squared random variables formed by residual information from the elemental Kalman filters within the MMAE. This new algorithm is validated through computer simulation of an aircraft navigation system subjected to interference/jamming while attempting a successful precision landing of the aircraft.     

New approach to a multistatic passive radar sensor for air/spacedefense

A method to apply the latest technology in Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), in particular the U.S. NAVSTAR GPS (NAVigation System for Timing And Ranging Global Positioning System) and the Russian GLONASS (GLObal'naya Nqvigatsionnaya Sputnikovaya Sistema), as a silent multistatic or parasitic radar for air defense is described. These satellite systems serving as navigational aids are well suited for low power radar applications due to the similarity and compatibility of the transmitted satellite signals with modern radar signals, such as spread spectrum modulation and Pseudo Random Noise (PRN) codes. Preliminary flight tests with airships, jet and propeller aircraft, helicopter, anti tank missiles and spaceborne targets (MIR) to study effects have been conducted     

Minimax detection for signals with unknown parameters

Minimax detectors are often used for the detection of signals with unknown parameters in additive white Gaussian noise. Several minimax strategies are discussed for both real and complex signals, including one based on the least favorable distribution of the unknown parameters and a second, distribution-free method based on the worst case parameter values. Also discussed are the relationships between these minimax detectors and equal correlation filters for real signals and equal deflection quadratic detectors for complex signals. Conditions are given under which the two different minimax strategies produce identical detectors     

Adjacent Channel Interference in a Binary Bandpass Communication System

The effect of adjacent channel interference on the probability of error in a binary bandpass communication system with an integrating and dumping detector is investigated. Narrowband filters are assumed in the receiver of the main signal and transmitters of both main and interfering signals. Plots of the probability of error as a function of signal to noise ratio in the main channel or as a function of carrier frequency difference between the main and interfering signals are presented, assuming that the filters are of the Butterworth type. These figures are helpful in the selection of minimal frequency spacing of adjacent channels.     

Carrier-Tracking Loop Performance for Quaternary and Binary PSK Signals

By expressing the open-loop response voltage as a Fourier series in terms of the phase-tracking error and then utilizing a very useful mean-value expression, we assess the performance of loops suited to recovering the carrier of four-phase (quaternary) and two-phase (binary) phase-shift-keyed (QPSK and BPSK) signals. At high signal to noise ratios (SNRs) they perform comparably, but at low SNRs the former's performance deteriorates much more rapidly. The loop's ability to maintain the carrier frequency despite the noise accompanying the PSK signal is measured by the mean and the variance of the oscillator's control voltage. In particular, Spilker's loop for QPSK and the Costas loop for BPSK signals are discussed.     

Dynamic response of Granlund predetection diversity combiners

A new linearized model is developed for the Granlund combiner that is useful in determining the combiner performance with physically realizable filters and with dynamic variations such as rapid fading and burst signals. The model is tailored for use in determining automatic gain control (AGC) stability. The model is also tailored for use in predicting combiner transient phase correction error     

Decentralized reduced-order filters

Continuous and discrete methods of designing simple reduced-order local filters within a large-scale network are suggested. The filters are designed to estimate only the local variables of interest and not the entire state vector. The method has the advantage that one need not know the mathematical models of the subsystems generating the interconnection variables. The order of the filter can be small enough so that there is no computational burden associated with the filter. The disadvantage of the method is that performance is lost by using a reduced-order filter instead of a full-order filter. An example that demonstrates one application in the aerospace industry is presented     

Narrowband interference suppression in impulsive channels

Suppression algorithms are developed first for a channel containing only impulsive background noise and then for a channel containing a spread-spectrum signal as well. These algorithms are based on nonlinear filters that produce predictions of the interfering signals that are then subtracted from the received signal to suppress the interference. Several such filters, including both fixed and adaptive ones, are proposed and compared using extensive computer simulations. The independence of the filtering procedures from the noise distribution shape, given constant second-order statistics, is shown     

Multistatic adaptive pulse compression

A new technique denoted as multistatic adaptive pulse compression (MAPC) is introduced which exploits recent work on adaptive pulse compression (APC) in order to jointly separate and pulse compress the concurrently received return signals from K proximate multistatic radars operating (i.e., transmitting) within the same spectrum. For the return signal from a single pulse of a monostatic radar, APC estimates the particular receive filter for a given range cell in a Bayesian sense reiteratively by employing the matched filter estimates of the surrounding range cell values as a priori knowledge in order to place temporal (i.e., range) nulls at the relative ranges occupied by large targets and thereby suppress range sidelobes to the level of the noise. The MAPC approach generalizes the APC concept by jointly estimating the particular receive filter for each range cell associated with each of several concurrently-received radar return signals occupying the same spectrum. As such, MAPC is found to enable shared-spectrum multistatic operation and is shown to yield substantial performance improvement in the presence of multiple spectrum-sharing radars as compared with both standard matched filters and standard least-squares mismatched filters     

主字母体制调制系数的选择

针对靶场安全控制系统主字母体制中主字母信号的调制系数选取范围问题,对主字母信号经FM (Fre-quency Modulation,调频)调制后的功率进行理论分析,选取一组频率组成主字母信号调制到中频.通过仿真得到数据曲线.同时将仿真参数移植到与工程设备相似的实验设备上,使用频谱仪进行实际测试,以测试数据拟合出曲线,该曲线符合理论分析及仿真曲线,即理论分析、仿真与设备测试结果一致.可以得出结论,在主字母体制信号可解调的条件下,调制系数与主字母信号经FM调制后的功率的关系函数为对数函数,从而可为工程参数的选择提供参考范围,有利于工程应用.     

An Optical Technique for Simultaneous Beamforming and Cross-Correlation

This paper presents a method of greatly simplifying the processing of received signals from antenna arrays through the use of a coherent optical system for signal processing. It is shown that a coherent optical system is ideally suited for carrying out beamforming operations. Several other advantages of coherent optics for this application are also discussed. A major result is a technique for forming several unambiguous beams simultaneously by correlating the signals from two linear arrays. The coherent optics technique permits this operation to be carried out with extreme simplicity.     

On the Optimum Design of PCM Signals with System Constraints

This paper considers the design of PCM signals with system constraints using Pontryagin's maximum principle. The transmitter signal as well as the correlation signal are determined while maximizing the output signal-to-noise ratio. Both the single and three-pole transmitter filters are considered. An upper bound has been obtained on the performance of PCM signals with constraints.     

基于Laurent分解的星载AIS解调算法

为了适应星载AIS（船舶自动识别系统）条件,提出了一种基于Laurent分解的单通道星载AIS信号解调算法。AIS信号可通过Laurent原理分解成若干调幅脉冲信号,该算法用其中能量最大的2个调幅脉冲信号在接收前端作近似匹配滤波处理,然后采用维特比译码算法对信息码元进行还原。结合实际工程应用,对该算法在低信噪比和混叠信号2种条件下分别进行仿真。仿真结果表明,该算法在2种情况下正确解包率均显著优于传统算法。     

Radar/sonar acceleration estimation with linear-period modulatedwaveforms

Doppler and acceleration tolerance of wideband LPM/HFM (linear period-modulated, hyperbolic frequency-modulated) and linear frequency-modulated (FM) signals are compared. A bank of filters matched to frequency-shifted versions of a wideband LPM/HFM transmission system yields a joint maximum likelihood estimate of range and acceleration and avoids acceleration-induced degradation in detection performance. Analytical and neurophysiological results suggest that such processing can be used in bat echolocation for detection and classification of insect wing motion since wideband LFM waveforms are much less Doppler-tolerant than HFM waveforms but have greater acceleration tolerance     

状态变量有源RC滤波器最大动态范围的研究

高阶有源RC滤波器存在着多种实现方法，而级联实现法在工程上得到广泛应用，因为级联滤波器的设计和调整相当方便。然而，在级联滤波器中．一个更关键的指标是它的动态范围。获得好的动态范围是指两个层面的问题：(1)确保级联内部信号电平不会对各运放产生过激励；(2)确保带内信号电平不会小到被噪声淹没。为了解决上述问题，在详细讨论了包括双二次型在内的状态变量有源RC滤波器最大动态范围的实现问题的基础上给出了实用的设计公式。     

A Class of Signals for Analog Telemetry over a Coherent Channel

This paper proposes and studies a class of signals which generalize frequency position modulation (FPM) and pulse position modulation (PPM). The generalization adds a degree of freedom analogous to a duty factor. Varying this quantity has an effect similar to that of varying the time-bandwidth occupancy in an FPM or PPM system, but it does not significantly increase the channel occupancy. The mean-square error is studied under large signal-to-noise ratio conditions and in the threshold region. We find that the additional degree of freedom allows us to trade between performance in these two ranges of signal-to-noise ratio. The nature of the signals, and their error behavior make them well suited to adaptive telemetry over a coherent channel. Small degrees of channel incoherence are considered and shown to produce only a small degradation in performance.