Optimal polarimetric detection of radar target in a slowlyfluctuating environment of clutter

It is shown that in a situation where a radar target is distant enough from the radar and is included in a natural or artificial clutter environment in such a manner that the conventional detection methods fail, it is possible to improve the radar detection performance by using appropriate signal processing on two orthogonal polarization states. A CFAR (constant false alarm rate) polarimetric detection system based on the study of the polarization difference between clutter and target is proposed. Since the polarization state of the clutter echoes fluctuates slowly from cell to cell, an autoregressive model can be applied to the components of the polarization vector to predict the detection thresholds needed to follow the polarization state variation. The detection thresholds are determined to maintain a false alarm probability equal to 10^-6. The presence of a target registers as a significant variation of the estimation error of the polarization vector. Results obtained from measurements of simple and canonical targets with artificial clutter are presented, and these results validate the principle of polarimetric detection     

基于矢量化检测联邦滤波的INS/BDS/地磁组合导航容错方法

组合导航能够将多种类型的导航信息进行结合,实现优势互补,因此成为了目前导航应用领域的主要发展方向。然而,导航信息的增多势必会引入更多的风险源,从而降低导航系统的可靠性。基于联邦滤波的容错方法是目前抑制故障信息影响的主要解决手段,但是现有的故障容错方法普遍采用统一的检测机制,没有根据各个导航子系统的误差传播特性针对性地构建故障检测模型,因此会引起较高的误警率与漏检率。针对上述问题,提出了基于矢量化检测联邦滤波的INS/BDS/地磁组合导航容错方法。通过构建面向INS/BDS/地磁不同导航信息的故障检测函数,能够实现更加准确的矢量化信息分配,从而可以有效避免可用导航信息的损失以及故障导航信息对整体系统的影响。仿真结果表明,提出的方法可以有效隔离不同类型的故障信息,并减小其对无故障导航信息及整体系统的影响,从而提高了组合导航的精度和可靠性。     

基于先验门限优化准则的探测阈值自适应选择

针对 2维测量和 4 -sigma确认门 ,把先验检测门限优化准则和修正 Riccati方程的解析近似表示相结合 ,得到了在瑞利起伏环境下使跟踪性能优化的信号探测阈值解析表示式 ,从而使在线求解自适应信号探测阈值能比较容易地实现。通过研究和仿真发现 :在滤波稳定阶段 ,本文给出的自适应信号检测门限方法的跟踪性能优于固定虚警率方法的跟踪性能 ;基于先验检测门限优化准则实现检测 -跟踪的联合优化要求信噪比要大于一定的门限 ,在瑞利起伏环境下 ,对 2维测量和 4 -sigma确认门 ,该门限为 1 .57     

末制导雷达虚警概率检验方法

针对只有10^-8～10^-9量级的末制导雷达虚警概率难以检验的问题,研究虚警概率与发现概率、虚警时间的关系,论证了将虚警概率转化为虚警时间的检验方法,利用定时截尾统计检验理论,研究了不同鉴别比、不同试验时间、不同接收故障数时研制方与使用方的风险,提出了新型末制导雷达虚警概率的检验方法,解决了该项指标检验的难题。     

液体火箭发动机故障检测的阈值估计研究

采用区间估计方法选取故障检测阈值,进而以此阈值为标准监测液体火箭发动机的工作情况。基于分离识别信号的概率密度函数还讨论了故障分离的最优阈值问题。某大型液体火箭发动机的热试车数据分析表明:置信区间估计技术可以有效用于发动机故障检测。      

冗余配置捷联惯导系统故障检测门限的确定

以5个单敏感轴陀螺斜置式安装为例 ,讨论了当系统采用广义似然比方法进行故障检测时2个重门限值的设定 ,利用最小错误概率和系统最大可靠性2种指标对门限值进行了优化 ,并对这2种方法的适用范围和优化结果进行了讨论。     

Distributed binary integration

A distributed radar detection system that employs binary integration at each local detector is studied. Local decisions are transmitted to the fusion center where they are combined to yield a global decision. The optimum values of the two thresholds at each local processor are determined so as to maximize the detection probability under a given probability of false alarm constraint. Using an important channel model, performance comparisons are made to determine the integration loss     

Decentralized Filtering and Redundancy Management for Multisensor Navigation

Failure detection and redundancy management is discussed for avionics applications of integrated navigation involving coordinated use of multiple simultaneous sensor subsystems such as GPS, JTIDS, TACAN, VOR/DME, ILS, an inertial navigation system (INS), and possibly even Doppler AHRS. A brief high level survey is provided to assess the status of those techniques and methodologies advertized as already available for handling the challenging real-time failure detection, redundancy management, and Kalman filtering aspects of these systems with differing availabilities, differing reliabilities, differing accuracies, and differing information content/sampling rates. Following the status review, a new failure detection/redundancy management approach is developed based on voter/monitoring at both the raw data and at the filtered-data level, as well as using additional inputs from hardware built-in-testing (BIT) and from specialized tests for subsequent failure isolation in the case of ambiguous indications. The technique developed involves use of Gaussian confidence regions to reasonably account for the inherent differences in accuracy between the various sensor subsystems. Online estimates of covariances from the Kalman filter are to be used for this purpose (when available). A technique is provided for quantitatively evaluating both the probability of detecting failed component subsystems and the probability of false alarm to be incurred, which is then to be traded off as the basis for rational selection of the thresholds used in the automated decision process. Moreover, the redundancy management procedure is demonstrated to be amenable to pilot or navigation operator prompting and override, if necessary.     

A Method for Setting a Test Signal Level Relative to Noise

A method is described for adjusting the leval of an RF test signal generator relative to the noise level at the receiver output. The method compares a detected output to a threshold and counts the number of times noise and signal plus noise cross the threshold in a given number of tries. By setting the threshold at a given false alarm probability for noise alone and then adding the test signal and adjusting its level to give a specified detection probability, the signal-to-noise ratio can be calibrated to an accuracy that depends on the number of samples used to measure the probabilities. The false alarm and detection probabilities are given for best accuracy as well as the rms error in signal-to-noise ratio as a function of the number of samples used.     

遗传算法在微弱GPS信号捕获方法中的应用

 研究了微弱GPS信号的捕获问题，以捕获时较低的虚警概率和较高的检测概率为目标，以累加时的粗捕获(C/A)码周期数和导航数据数，以及捕获门限等参数为决策变量，应用遗传算法(GA)来解决这一多目标优化问题。仿真结果表明，该方法能够有效地解决所提出的问题，所得解能够优化捕获时欲选取的参数，从而提高捕获性能。     

TCAS 系统故障隔离及容错架构设计方法研究

针对TCAS 系统运行过程典型功能危险场景和架构设计过程，本文采用系统工程过程的正向设计流 程方法，针对潜在的功能失效风险，开展TCAS 系统域的故障检测和容错设计技术研究，形成覆盖系统、软件 和硬件层级的故障检测及隔离架构设计方案，以提高装机运行过程中防撞告警的置信度，减少由于误警和虚警 对飞行安全产生的不利影响。     

基于1394网络的分布式组合导航系统时序建模与仿真

总线拓扑完整是基于 1394 总线网络的分布式组合导航系统正常、可靠工作的必然要求,为了确保各传感器节点信息的可靠传输,必须在系统工作前进行总线完整性检查,以排除节点或线缆故障可能对系统造成的不利影响。导航计算机在执行总线完整性检查程序时,总线控制器的时钟源将发生切换,这会带来一定的时序问题。针对分布式组合导航系统在某次 1394b 总线完整性检查过程中出现的虚警故障,通过理论分析和建模仿真,对故障时刻的系统运行时序和虚警原因进行探究。结果表明:在进行总线完整性检查时,组合导航计算机与总线控制器时钟异步导致组合导航计算机软件相邻两周期读取 DPRAM 中同一片缓存是系统报出虚警的根本原因。     

Clutter Map CFAR Analysis

An analysis of the probability of target detection for a clutter map CFAR using digital exponential filtering has been performed. General performance equations are derived. The probability of detection versus signal-to-noise ratio is plotted for a false alarm probability of 1.E-06 for several weight values. The CFAR loss is plotted for a detection probability of 0.9 and false alarm probabilities of 1.E-06 and 1.E-08.     

An operational system implementation of the ESPIRIT DF algorithm

The practical implementation of the ESPRIT algorithm into direction-finding system architecture is considered. In particular, the problems of phase ambiguity resolution for extended array separations and multidimensional azimuth/elevation estimation are addressed. Generalized solutions for these problems are proposed, and a bearing quality indicator that provides a measure of credibility associated with each angle-of-arrival estimate is developed. Plots of computer simulated performance are presented in order to assess the probability of detection, of failure to alarm, and of false alarm as a function of azimuthal separation and period of signal observation     

Calculating Detection Probabilities for Adaptive Thresholds

In calculating detection probabiities for radar and sonar systems it is usually assumed that the threshold required to yield a certain probability of false alarm is known. This is often not the case for real systems and therefore the threshold must be estimated using some measure related to the test statistic. This paper presents a calculation technique that handles estimated (adaptive) thresholds in a general framework that can be applied easily to many detection problems. False alarm and detection probabilities are calculated from the characteristic function of the noise or signal plus noise variate and the characteristic function of the threshold estimate. To illustrate the method the detection performance of overlapped discrete Fourier transforms (DFTs) is calculated for a narrowband Gaussian target signal.     

Performance analysis of a dynamic programming track before detectalgorithm

We analyze a dynamic programming (DP)-based track before detect (TBD) algorithm. By using extreme value theory we obtain explicit expressions for various performance measures of the algorithm such as probability of detection and false alarm. Our analysis has two advantages. First the unrealistic Gaussian and independence assumptions used in previous works are not required. Second, the probability of detection and false alarm curves obtained fit computer simulated performance results significantly more accurately than previously proposed analyses of the TBD algorithm     

Modified Generalized Sign Test Processor for 2-D Radar

The modified generalized sign test processor is a nonparametric, adaptive detector for 2-D search radars. The detector ranks a sample under test with its neighboring samples and integrates (on a pulse-to-pulse basis) the ranks with a two-pole filter. A target is declared when the integrated output exceeds two thresholds. The first threshold is fixed and yields a 10-6 probability of false alarm when the neighboring samples are independent and identically distributed. The second threshold is adaptive and maintains a low false-alarm rate when the integrated neighboring samples are correlated and when there are nonhomogeneities, such as extraneous targets, in the neighboring cells. Using Monte Carlo techniques, probability of false-alarm results, probability of detection curves, and angular accuracy curves have been generated for this detector. The detector was built and PPI photographs are used to indicate the detector's performance when the radar is operated over land clutter.     

Evaluating Radar Detection Probabilities by Steepest Descent Integration

The probability of detection for radars employing noncoherent integration and a fixed threshold or cell-averaging constant false alarm rate (CA-CFAR) processor is computed by numerical contour integration in the complex plane. The technique is applied to both nonfluctuating and chi-squared fluctuating targets. A bound on the truncation error allows for a simple stopping rule for the numerical integration. The method has applicability to many problems in radar detection theory.     

Numerically Efficient Calculations of Clutter Map CFAR Performance

An alternative expression for the false alarm probability ofclutter map constant false alarm rate (CFAR), as derived by Nitzberg, is suggested. The new expression converges more rapidly.     

Optimal serial distributed decision fusion

The problem of distributed detection involving N sensors is considered. The configuration of sensors is serial in the sense that the Jth sensor decides using the decision it receives along with its own observation. When each sensor uses the Neyman-Pearson test, the probability of detection is maximized for a given probability of false alarm, at the Nth stage. With two sensors, the serial scheme has a performance better than or equal to the parallel fusion scheme analyzed in the literature. Numerical examples illustrate the global optimization by the selection of operating thresholds at the sensors