Diversity Combining with Imperfect Channel Estimates in Correlated Fading

In this paper, we present a framework for evaluating the bit error probability (BEP) of N_d-branch diversity combining with imperfect channel estimates in correlated fading environments. The estimator structure is based on the maximum likelihood estimate and arises naturally as the sample mean of N_p pilot symbols. Our results show that the diversity order of the system under consideration matches that of an ideal system operating in the same correlated fading environment, regardless of the number of pilot symbols.     

Digital and Analog Subcomplementary Sequences for Pulse Compression

Golay's complementary pairing has been a method to increase the utility of binary sequences, because of the temporal sidelobe suppression in the autocorrelation vector summation. Complementary sets of Tseng and Liu and of Hollis exhibit the same effect when several autocorrelations are combined. These complementary pairs and sets of sequences can be extended into long complementary chains by a simple transformation. This transformation is extended here to all pulse compression waveforms. By this method, even though analog complementary sequences cannot be formed, a new class of waveforms, called subcomplementary waveforms, can be formed. Following these rules, repetition of waveforms such as linear frequency modulation (LFM) or linear stepped frequency modulation (LSFM) in a prescribed manner is possible without creating autocorrelation grating lobes or repetitive sidelobes. This method is equally applicable to all analog or digital pulse compression waveforms.     

Reiterative median cascaded canceler for robust adaptive array processing

A new robust adaptive processor based on reiterative application of the median cascaded canceler (MCC) is presented and called the reiterative median cascaded canceler (RMCC). It is shown that the RMCC processor is a robust replacement for the sample matrix inversion (SMI) adaptive processor and for its equivalent implementations. The MCC, though a robust adaptive processor, has a convergence rate that is dependent on the rank of the input interference-plus-noise covariance matrix for a given number of adaptive degrees of freedom (DOF), N. In contrast, the RMCC, using identical training data as the MCC, exhibits the highly desirable combination of: 1) convergence-robustness to outliers/targets in adaptive weight training data, like the MCC, and 2) fast convergence performance that is independent of the input interference-plus-noise covariance matrix, unlike the MCC. For a number of representative examples, the RMCC is shown to converge using ~ 2.8N samples for any interference rank value as compared with ~ 2N samples for the SMI algorithm. However, the SMI algorithm requires considerably more samples to converge in the presence of outliers/targets, whereas the RMCC does not. Both simulated data as well as measured airborne radar data from the multichannel airborne radar measurements (MCARM) space-time adaptive processing (STAP) database are used to illustrate performance improvements over SMI methods.     

CPLD技术在串行通信中的应用研究

对国外某型导弹串行通信技术的系统结构进行了分析,讨论如何使用CPLD(Complex Programmable Logic Devices)实现单片机与曼彻斯特编解码器的接口,在不影响战技指标的前提下,对电路进行简化。设计时采用自顶向下的流程,具体电路可灵活地添加到曼彻斯特码接口系统中。     

Limiter-Discriminator Detection Performance of Manchester and NRZ Coded FSK

The theory of limiter-discriminator detection of a frequency shift keyed (FSK) carrier is reviewed and this theory is used to predict the bit error probability performance of Manchester coded and nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) coded data. A major result of the study is that the predetection time bandwidth product BT and the devia tion ratio h needed to give optimum performance for Manchester coding are seen to be larger than optimum NRZ FSK. Specifically, BT ~ 2 and h ~ 1 will result in Manchester performance about 2 dB worse than optimum NRZ.     

样本量为2的极小样本相容性检验方法

在航空航天领域由于成本、时间周期等原因进行疲劳寿命及可靠性评估时样本量通常极少（m=1或2）,利用相容性检验方法可对样本量进行扩充。常规的Wilcoxon秩和检验和K-S（Kolmogorov-Smirnov）检验适用于小样本情形,而极小样本相容性检验方面研究较少,且缺乏对方法合理性的详细说明和对不同方法检验功效优劣的比较。航空航天产品疲劳寿命多服从正态分布,因此本文主要以正态分布作为研究对象。利用Monte Carlo仿真发现从某一正态分布N（μ,σ²）中随机抽取两个样本x₁、x₂计算均值μ₁和标准差σ₁后构建新正态分布N（μ₁,σ₁²）,其±σ₁、±2σ₁和±3σ₁范围内的点落在原正态分布N（μ,σ²）±3σ范围内的概率依次为99.80%、98.13%和97.37%。在此基础上针对现场试验数据样本量为2的情况,本文提出利用3σ原则对先验信息数据进行相容性检验从而扩充样本量的方法。将该方法与两种文献方法对比后发现其误差率明显更低并呈现出检验性能随先验数据增加而不断提高的优势。     

二元稀土组合物对双基推进剂燃烧催化作用研究

研究了镧（铈）／铜盐、镧／铅盐、镧／铈组合物及镧／铈焙烧复合物对双基推进剂燃烧的催化作用，发现铜盐对稀土化合物的平台催化作用的改善有利，铅盐使稀土化合物的平台催化范围向高压区移动。镧／铈组（复）合物的燃烧催化作用与镧／铈比例密切相关，且使双基推进剂产生2个以上的平台燃烧区。稀土／铜盐对双基推进剂红外透过率的贡献高于其它二元稀土组合物。     

Military avionics optical fiber data buses with active-couplerconfigurations

Military avionics optical fiber data buses of high reliability are discussed. Because Light Emitting Diodes (LED's) have better temperature performance and require less complex driver circuits than laser diodes, the former is normally chosen as an optical source in the severe aircraft environment at present. In this case, optical power budget becomes a critical factor which can significantly limit the number of terminals in a data bus. To effectively solve this problem while maintaining a high reliability, we present several configurations of all-active couplers and hybrid passive/active couplers for avionics optical fiber data buses using PIN photodiodes and LED's. The system design is also described, which incorporates a modulation scheme called partial trilevel Manchester II bi-phase coding     

HyTRV流场特征与边界层稳定性特征分析

高超声速转捩研究飞行器（HyTRV）是为研究三维复杂外形的边界层转捩问题而设计的一款具备真实飞行器典型特征的升力体标模。为支撑更加全面系统的理论分析、数值模拟、风洞试验和飞行试验研究,采用高精度数值模拟方法、线性稳定性理论（LST）和e^N方法对HyTRV标模的典型流动特征和边界层失稳特征进行了分析。研究表明,HyTRV展现出多个相对独立的横流区域和多个流向涡结构;HyTRV的边界层存在横流失稳模态、第二模态、附着线失稳模态等常见模态。横流失稳模态出现在周向高低压区之间的横流区域,能够主导转捩发生;横流区域同时也存在第二模态,其N值普遍比横流失稳模态小;附着线失稳模态呈现出第二模态特性,且频率非常高。还研究了攻角和单位雷诺数的影响。结果表明,随着攻角增加,标模下表面中心线的流向涡结构逐渐消失,横流雷诺数逐渐减小;上表面流向涡结构逐渐从腰部移向顶端,并出现新的流向涡结构。增加攻角,所有失稳模态的N值总体上逐渐减小;增加单位雷诺数,N值显著增加。基于研究结果,针对流向涡失稳、横流失稳、第二模态和附着线失稳等给出了研究建议。     

Optical fiber data bus modulation techniques for military avionics

In this paper, we propose several modulation techniques for use in military avionics optical fiber data buses, namely, Extended Manchester II Bi-Phase Coding with Beginning-Stopping Flags, Partial Trilevel Manchester II Bi-Phase Coding, Four-ary Pulse Width Modulation, Two-ary Pulse Width Modulation with Amplitude-Distinguished Sync Field, Two-ary Message Pulse Width Modulation and Two-ary Sync Pulse Amplitude Modulation, respectively. Compared with an existing modulation scheme of MIL-STD-1773 avionics data buses, the proposed techniques can be effectively used to overcome the difficulty in recognizing the correct operation states of an active transmitter at the output of optical receivers. The feasibility of proposed modulation schemes are discussed, and their performance is also evaluated     

ASPeCT: Unambiguous sine-BOC(n,n) acquisition/tracking technique for navigation applications

This article presents a new tracking technique for sine-BOC(n,n) (or Manchester encoded) ranging signals, which is most likely to be a part of the new European Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), Galileo, signal plan. When traditional sine-BOC(n,n) tracking is considered, although offering excellent performance compared with current signals, it has the main drawback of potentially giving biased measurements. The new method presented herein allows the removal of this threat while maintaining the same level of performance. An adapted version of this technique can also be used for acquisition purposes     

Detection of weak, subpixel targets using mesh-connected cellularautomata

Effective use of military cellular automata such as military data array processor (MilDAP) and geometric arithmetic parallel processor (GAPP), in weak, subpixel target detection is shown to be possible by using new signal processing regimes based on binary ranking filter theory. By using binary ranking filters, the MilDAP can furnish 6 dB of processing gain against white Gaussian noise while monitoring from one to four million potential target tracks at 10-40 frames/s. GAPP is shown to be capable of monitoring 3.7 million tracks over 216×384 detectors at 14000 frames/s and, in a time sharing mode, 15 million tracks over 432×768 detectors at 24 frames/s. The special case of threatening targets is discussed, as well as alternate cellular architectures which use multidimensional binary ranking filters in multidimensional coordinate systems     

Search radar detection and track with the Hough transform. III.Detection performance with binary integration

For pt.II see ibid., vol. 30, no 1, (Jan. 1994). This paper considers how well a Hough transform detector with binary integration improves the performance of a typical surveillance radar. For Hough transform detection, binary integration offers some advantages over noncoherent integration when multiple targets appear in range-time space or when the detector receives signals with a wide range of power. We derive expressions for P_F and P_D for a Hough transform binary integrator and apply the expressions to a typical surveillance radar. The results show that for the case considered, the binary Hough integrator improves the power budget of the radar by about 3 dB for a nonfluctuating target and 1 dB for a highly fluctuating target     

PROFIBUS—PA传输技术与曼彻斯特编码

本文主要讨论了PROFIBUS总线中PROFIBUS－PA的IEC1158－2标准传输技术的特点及在提高总线可靠性方面所作的有关曼彻斯特编码技术的研究。     

Sets of One and Higher Dimensional Welti Codes and Complementary Codes

A Welti code is a binary sequence with an impulse-like autocorrelation function. A set of such codes may possess vanishing cross-correlation functions. The elements of Welti codes must be members of a set of at least two orthogonal vectors or subcodes. First, methods for synthesizing sets of one-dimensional Welti codes with vanishing cross-correlation functions, and conditions upon their existence are discussed. Then, construction methods of sets of two and higher dimensional Welti codes are presented. Based on these constructions, further sets of mutually orthogonal complementary codes in one or more dimensions can be derived. The use of such signals relates to various topics such as communication, radar and navigation systems, measuring and identification in one or higher dimensional systems, synchronization and spatial alignment, or coded aperture imaging.     

Review,based on particles and fields observations made aboard the Giotto spacecraft,concerning the nature of the solar wind interaction with comets P/Halley and P/Grigg–Skjellerup

A key driver underlying the decision to command the Giotto spacecraft on to an encounter with comet P/Grigg-Skjellerup following its highly successful encounter with P/Halley, was the unique scientific opportunity this provided to compare measurements made using the same suite of plasma and fields instruments at (a) very active and 'fresh' comet P/Halley and (b) at a weakly outgassing object (P/Grigg-Skjellerup). In the present paper an overview is provided of the complementary observations resultingly made aboard Giotto during each encounter, with special emphasis on measurements made by the energetic particles instrument EPONA (range E∼60–≥260 keV). Differences identified between the two complementary data sets in the nature of the Solar Wind interaction with the individual comets investigated are discussed and shown to be associated with (a) basic differences between the comets themselves and (b) differences in the interplanetary circumstances characterising each encounter This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Doppler tomography of O-type binaries: The physical properties of seven systems

We have analyzed UV photospheric lines of seven O-type binaries, by means of crosscorrelation and Doppler tomographic methods, with the goal of estimating the physical properties of the individual stars. These systems are HD 1337 (AO Cas), HD 47129 (Plaskett's star), HD 57060 (29 UW CMa), HD 37043 (Iota Ori), HD 215835 (DH Cep), HD 152218, and HD 152248. Mass ratios have been obtained primarily from a cross-correlation technique, but also by several other techniques. The tomographic techniques allow us to separate the spectra of the components. We then can estimate the individual spectral types and luminosity classes of the stars (and henceT _eff and logg, respectively), the luminosity ratio, and projected rotational velocities. We discuss the physical properties of these O-type binaries. These are some of the early results of a large scale project involving 36 O-type double-lined binary systems (from the catalog of Battenet al. 1989) which we will study using IUE and complementary ground-based data.     

A method of obtaining signal components of residual carrier signalwith their power content and computer simulation

An algorithm for obtaining all signal components of a residual carrier signal with any number of channels is presented. The phase modulation type may be NRZ-L or split phase (Manchester). The algorithm also provides an easy way of obtaining the power contents of the signal components. Steps to recognize the signal components that influence the carrier tracking loop and the data tracking loop at the receiver are given. A computer program for numerical computation is also given     

曼联驾到

7月25日,英国曼彻斯特联队和上海申花队在上海体育场进行了一场名为"雪佛兰中国杯"的友谊赛。这是著名的曼彻斯特联足球俱乐部继1999年后第二次访沪。与13年前的那支"红魔"相比,如今换了老板的曼联在收入和利润方面飙升了好几倍,虽然过于注重商业化使得这支老牌劲旅在外界眼中变得愈发功利,但不可否认的是,曼联仍是这个星球上动作得最成功的足球俱乐部之一。曼联驾到,上海滩怎能不掀起一番"红魔浪潮"……     

SN 1987A and SN 1993J: Testing stellar evolution theory?

Nearby supernovae like SN 1987A and SN 1993J provide valuable constraints on the late evolution of massive stars. For this purpose, we review evolutionary models for the progenitor of SN 1987A and confront them with five observational/theoretical tests we devised. We show that single-star models (with the possible exception of rapid-rotation models) fail at least two of these tests, while two binary models (accretion and merger models) are consistent with all available constraints. We conclude that it is most likely that the progenitor of SN 1987A had a binary companion, either at the time of the explosion or at least in the not-too-distant past, and that SN 1987A should therefore not be used to calibrate single stellar evolution theory. For SN 1993J, we infer from the presupernova photometry and the early light curve that its progenitor was a 15M star that lost almost all of its hydrogen-rich envelope prior to the supernova. This seems to require that the progenitor underwent stable case C mass transfer. We discuss future observational tests of binary models for both supernovae.