Interference Effects of Pseudo-Random Frequency-Hopping Signals

When a pseudo-random frequency-hopping signal is intercepted by a conventional receiver operating within the same frequency band, the interfering signal has the form of a pulse-amplitude modulated signal. Each pulse amplitude is dependent upon the hopping frequency and the selectivity characteristic of the victim receiver. The probability density function for the interfering pulse amplitude prior to demodulation is determined when the probability density function for the hopping frequency is uniform and the victim-receiver characteristic is 1) ideal flat bandpass, 2) single tuned, and 3) Gaussian shaped. It is shown that the average interfering pulse amplitude and interference power decrease as the frequency-hopping bandwidth increases with respect to the victim-receiver bandwidth. Fast Fourier transform computer techniques are used to obtain the probability density function of the interference amplitude in a Gaussian receiver when several (from 2 to 10) pseudo-random frequency-hopping systems are simultaneously using the same frequency band. The probability that the interference exceeds a prescribed threshold value is computed from the derived probability density functions. This probability may be used in signal-to-interference ratio calculations, to describe the capture effect, or to compute the expected number of clicks produced in an FM discriminator.     

用热流探针测量激波速度

激波速度测量是激波管和激波风洞运行状态的一个重要参数,压电传感器或光学方法测速系统成本高,而传统电离探针在激波马赫数较低、波后温度达不到空气电离程度的情况下无法满足实验要求。提出了一种使用同轴热电偶作为测速探针来测激波速度的方法,弥补了电离探针在激波马赫数较低时的不足。介绍了同轴热电偶探针测速原理,并设计了测量激波速度的系统电路。通过信号放大电路锁定激波冲激信号,触发脉冲信号发生电路,实现了一种单通道、多测点的激波风洞测速系统。分别开展以温度与热流为触发信号的风洞实验,结果表明只有使用热流信号才能满足激波测速的时间要求。     

Range Dependent Waveform of an Active Weighted Pulse Compression Receiver

This paper presents the output waveform of a correlation techniquewhich incorporates time domain amplitude weighting and matchedfiltering. This scheme may be used in pulse compression radars wherefine target detail is desired over an increment of range, the rangewindow. Analytic expressions describing the amplitude, phase, andfrequency modulation of the output waveform are obtained for thecosine-squared weighted spectrum, truncated Taylor weighted spectrum,and cosine-cubed weighted spectrum with weighting mismatchas a parameter. The effects of such mismatches on the amplitude,phase, and frequency modulation of the compressed waveform areplotted. However, the methods used to obtain these results are generalenough to obtain output waveforms of other weighting functions similarlymismatched.     

Generalized Response of a Linear FM Pulse Compression Matched Filter

A pulse compression matched filter is analyzed so that the response may be computed when the pulse width, FM rate, and center frequency simultaneously differ from design conditions. Unilateral and bilateral time domain amplitude weighting for sidelobe reduction is included. A general cross-ambiguity function is defined to include these effects and some basic computed results are presented for the peak envelope response with various degrees of Hamming weighting. Computer evaluation of this cross-ambiguity function allows one to choose a combination of mismatches for signal design trade-off between resolution and detection performance. Since no restrictions are placed upon the mismatch parameters, this analysis may also be used to evaluate the filter discrimination against various interfering signals.     

A Technique for Improving the Clutter Performance of Coherent Pulse Train Signals

The clutter performance of a radar using coherent pulse train signls depends upon the phase and amplitude weighting used on transmit and receive. This paper describes an iterative technique to determine better weightings. Each iteration improves the signal-to-interference ratio, where the interference is the sum of the mean square noise voltage and the mean square clutter voltage at the time of peak signal. Two examples are presented to illustrate the method and to demonstrate that in many cases the procedure will yield weightings that may be used in a system where the transmitter permits no amplitude weighting.     

常用脉冲重复间隔估计算法

雷达信号分选是电子战系统(EW)与反辐射导弹(ARM)的关键技术,脉冲重复间隔(PRI)是信号分选与识别的一个重要参数,它决定了雷达的最大无模糊距离和最大无模糊径向速度。目前以脉冲序列的自相关函数为基础,利用脉冲到达时间(TOA)提出了多种脉冲重复间隔估计算法。本文介绍了几种常用算法的原理,讨论了各算法的缺陷,并给出了PRI变换应用于抖动PRI序列时的计算机仿真结果。最后分析了各种算法的性能与适用范围。     

Characterizing radar emissions using a robust countermeasurereceiver

The author presents a high-sensitivity signal processing approach for detecting and estimating the angle of arrival (AOA), frequency and pulse repetition frequency (PRF) of multiple radar emitters using broadband interferometers. Two time series are generated using information embedded in the sampled cross correlation of the signals obtained from three antenna elements (i.e. two base legs). The phase and amplitude of a complex Fourier transform of these two time series with respect to the sampling clock are used to estimate the AOA and PRF of pulsed emitters     

Impulse Response Determination by Cross Correlation

This paper describes the design of a digital cross correlator and its application in determining the impulse response in linear systems. The output of the cross correlator, which correlates the input and the output of a linear system excited by noise, is the same as the response of the linear system to a pulse which is identical to the noise autocorrelation. The impulse response error is defined as the normalized mean-square deviation of the actual from the true impulse response. A digital computer simulation confirms that the conventional technique yields the same impulse error as the correlation technique, when the width of the input rectangular pulse is equivalent to the width of the noise autocorrelation function. The operation and design of the digital correlator are discussed. An advantage of the specially designed digital correlator over a general-purpose digital computer is to operate in real time without problems of software and storage. The presented experimental and digitally computed results show that the digital correlator can accurately determine the impulse response, even in presence of perturbations. Only the correlation technique allows measurement of system impulse response without disturbing normal operation. Suggestions are made to simplify the design and improve the speed (bandwidth capability).     

脉冲干扰对软件接收机的影响分析

卫星信号经过长距离传播,信号能量损耗严重,到达地面的功率很弱,容易受到各种干扰的影响。脉冲干扰为常见的干扰类型,所以针对不同功率、不同周期,以及不同占空比的脉冲干扰信号,通过接收前端采集受脉冲干扰的GPS L1信号,利用软件接收机及多相关器生成技术,详细分析了脉冲干扰对接收机信号捕获与跟踪性能的影响。分析结果表明,周期为1ms的脉冲干扰信号,能对接收机产生强烈的干扰效果,捕获图中的噪声明显增大;跟踪过程中,载噪比和相关值突发性减小,造成跟踪数据异常。而长周期的脉冲信号仅在脉冲到达时影响接收机的捕获和跟踪,但由于信号跟踪不能连续进行,导致伪距观测量的不连续与导航数据不能正常解码,从而干扰接收机。     

Graphical Solutions to Harmonic Analysis

The basic Fourier integral is studied in terms of the maximum possible harmonic amplitudes, whether or not they actually exist. Graphs that define the pulse shapes in terms of time period, pulse width, rise time, and amplitude are produced. Rectangular, trapezoidal, triangular, and two forms of exponential waveshapes are considered. The discrete harmonic concept is further developed to include the harmonic or noise content in a given bandwidth representative of single pulse and step-type functions. Experimental results that demonstrate the accuracy of actual measurements versus the predicted values are included. Very close correlation can be obtained on pulse shapes, which can be represented by the waveforms cited. Additional text that presents the derivation of the graphs and indicates how other waveshapes can similarly be rendered in graphical form is included.     

The Uncertainty of Pulse Position Due to Noise

The time at which a received signal crosses a certain level fluctuates in the presence of noise. In this paper, a theoretical formula for the standard deviation of this thresholding time is obtained. The formula is applied to the detection of a pulse perturbed by Gaussian noise. Two practical detection schemes, the peak amplitude estimator and the double differentiator, are theoretically analyzed and compared. Also, a formula is derived which may be used to determine the efficacy of a false-alarm detection system.     

一种基于时间触发光纤通信网络时钟同步设计

为解决传统时间触发光纤通信网络(TTFC网络)的时钟同步拥堵问题,提出了基于改进型串行时间 码(IRIG-B码)的TTFC网络时钟同步方案。该方案采用了改进型的IRIG-B码作为时钟同步方式,改进型 的B码信号将同步周期和码元脉宽调整为传统B码的1%o,即改进型的B码信号为每毫秒1帧的时间串码,同时采用数据总线与时钟总线相分离的设计模式,避免了TTFC网络中发送端时钟与数据发生冲突的同时增加了对时的精度。为进一步验证方案的有效性,基于可编程逻辑器件(FPGA)逻辑设计搭建环境进行测试验证。最终试验结果表明,该方案能正确的进行数据收发,同时有效地避免了TTFC网络中的时钟与数据发送冲突,提高了系统带宽。     

Modified Barker Code Approximating Huffman's Impulse-Equivalent Sequence

It is shown by use of D.A. Huffman's polynomial representation for a finite sequence of contiguous pulses in a pulse train that Barker's binary-coded sequences can be modified, by a weighting of pulse amplitudes, to a condition where time sidelobes in the pulse compressed signal are substantially reduced. In such a pulse amplitude modification there is a sacrifice in pulse train energy since each pulse does not have maximum energy. Results here are provided for Barker's sequence of length 13 only.     

面向多电飞机的脉冲波形下局部放电规律

为满足多电飞机（MEA）的大功率用电需求，系统工作电压需要进一步提高，而较高电压会增加相关部件的绝缘失效风险。面向多电飞机特定工作场景和参数，搭建了模拟飞机电作动器中的绕组间绝缘故障测试平台，开展了1 kHz范围内的局部放电（PD）大量重复实验，研究了特定电压幅值、正弦波和方波脉冲波形下局部放电幅值、放电重复率和放电相位等统计特征，并计算评估了不同频率值下多电飞机中的局部放电行为。实验结果表明：在设定频域范围内，方波脉冲下的起始放电电压（PDIV）都低于正弦，方波脉冲波形对绝缘影响更大；随着频率升高，放电幅值逐渐降低，但放电重复率几乎呈线性增长；放电时刻集中于上升沿/下降沿末端。以50 Hz作为对比基准频率，1 kHz时的放电幅值降低80%，而放电重复率增加11.92倍，较高频率下多次累积的小幅值击穿成为威胁绝缘失效的主要原因。计算分析认为高频下空间电荷场强变化导致的放电延迟时间减少和周期数目增加分别导致局部放电脉冲幅值降低和放电重复率增加。本实验结果有助于针对多电飞机电气系统和相关装备开展针对性绝缘测试和评估，并有望为多电飞机向大功率高电压方向的设计提供参考和借鉴。     

基于被动相位噪声补偿的自由空间光学频率传递

针对自由空间光信号传输更易受到环境影响的特点，提出了一种被动相位噪声补偿技术。该方法利用探测往返传输的光信号与发射端参考信号拍频获得链路引入的相位噪声，在发射端通过声光移频器（acousto-optic modulator, AOM）对待传递信号移频取共轭即可在接收端获得相位稳定的光学频率信号。该方法避免了使用复杂的鉴相和伺服控制电路，使系统具有更快的补偿速度且没有鉴相范围的限制。实验结果表明，150 m的室外自由空间链路的平均时间1 s的附加频率不稳定度约为1.9×10-16，平均时间1 000 s的附加频率不稳定度约为4.6×10-19。该相位噪声补偿技术为高精度的自由空间光学频率传递提供了一个简单可靠的方案。     

航空装备计量中脉冲上升时间测量不确定度分析和评定

脉冲信号是航空装备计量保障中非常重要的基础参数,示波器校准仪检定装置是测量脉冲信号上升时间的重要标准。介绍示波器校准仪检定装置的组成,对示波器校准仪检定装置测量高速脉冲上升时间进行分析,对测量结果的不确定度进行评定。结果表明:可通过设置较小的时基、提高脉冲的输入电平等手段减小测量不确定度。研究结果可为航空装备计量技术机构编制示波器校准仪检定装置的建标报告和评定脉冲上升时间的不确定度提供参考。     

An Upper Bound on Detection Probability for Fluctuating Signals

In the theory of signal detectability, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), defined as the quotient of the average received signal energy and the spectral density of the white Gaussian noise, is a fundamental parameter. For a signal which is exactly known, or known except for a random phase, this ratio uniquely defines the detection performance which can be achieved with a matched filter receiver. However, when the signal amplitude is a random parameter, the detection performance is changed and must be determined from the probability density function (pdf) of the amplitude. Relative to the case of a constant signal amplitude, such signal amplitude fluctuation usually degrades performance when a high probability of detection (Pd) is required, but improves performance at low values of Pd; the corresponding change in the required SNR is the so-called signal fluctuation loss Lf. Thus, since Lf in some cases represents an improvement in performance for low values of Pd, a question of at least theoretical interest is: how large might this improvement be, when the class of all signal amplitude pdf's is considered. The solution, presented here, results in a lower bound on the signal fluctuation loss Lf as a function of Pd, or equivalently an upper bound on Pd as a function of SNR. The corresponding most favorable pdf was determined using the Lagrange multiplier technique and results of a numerical maximization are included to provide insight into the general properties of the solution.     

航空声学风洞3/4开口试验平台地板对远场噪声测量的影响

利用Kirchhoff-Helmholtz声学理论建立了地板声波反射问题的时域理论模型,推导了地板面上反射波的幅值函数和延迟时间的表达式,并引入了恰当的数值方法对反射声场进行求解,理论方法的正确性得到了实验结果的验证。以典型的高斯调制正弦波脉冲和连续正弦波为例,用建立的理论方法对噪声信号的传播过程和平台地板对远场噪声测量的影响进行了数值模拟研究,结果表明：地板的存在将使得远场接收到的噪声信号中出现直达波和反射波,反射波包含了中心波和边缘波。在低频段,地板宽度增加,远场噪声声压级增大;在高频段,地板宽度增加对远场总噪声级影响不明显。对于高速列车（HST）模型,车底位置的声源比车顶位置的声源在高频段受到地板反射的影响更大。     

Now You See It, Now You Don't

The signal enhancement properties of a single-loop delayline integrator (DLI) are derived for operation in the presence of correlated noise. The signal is assumed periodic with a period equal to the delay of the DLI and present only for a finite time interval. The noise is assumed additive, zero mean, statistically independent from the signal, and present for an infinite time. The noise also is assumed covariance stationary with a specified auto correlation function. Enhancement is defined as the ratio of the increase in average signal power to the increase in average noise power due to integration. The results are general in that the enhancement is derived in terms of the autocorrelation coefficients of the input noise. Plots of enhancement versus number of signal observations and feedback gain are shown for uncorrelated and exponentially correlated noise. The plots show graphically the optimum choices of feedback gain and number of signal observations for a specified auto correlation function and signal observation time. When strongly correlated noise, characteristic of 10-GHz backscatter from salt flats at low incidence angles, rather than uncorrelated noise is assumed present at the input of the DLI, an example, using DLI parameters typical of modern airborne radars, shows a degradation in the maximum achievable enhancement of 9 dB.