Strapdown inertial measurement units for motion compensation forsynthetic aperture radars

It is shown that synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) motion can be compensated by using an antenna-mounted strapdown inertial measurement unit (IMU) as the motion sensing system, but sensor and system errors affect SAR image quality. A strapdown IMU consists of three accelerator channels and three gyro channels. Strapdown IMU errors include gyro-scale and accelerometer-scale factor and bias errors, velocity error, platform tilt, and errors induced by limited inertial sensor bandwidth. The effects of these errors on the SAR image quality are presented in terms of the SAR impulse response. IMU errors that cause low-frequency phase errors (less than one cycle per array time) are categorized in terms of quadratic and cubic phase errors. IMU errors that cause high-frequency phase errors (greater than one cycle per array time) are categorized in terms of the integrated sidelobe ratio and peak sidelobe ratio. A motion compensation system conceptualization is described wherein a strapdown IMU is attached to an antenna and transfer-aligns to the aircraft's master navigator     

SAR resolution in the presence of phase errors

The author analyzes the effects of phase errors on synthetic aperture radar (SAR). The theory is applied to the following question: how does the achievable resolution vary with the carrier frequency when optimum quadratic focus and/or optimum processing interval (synthetic aperture length) are used? Numerous related results are given, so that much of the material is tutorial. For phase errors corresponding to uncompensated motion, the best achievable RMS resolution with any phase error spectrum satisfies the derived equation. For motion-induced phase errors it is seen that resolution improves with increasing carrier frequency when the first term in the expression applies (e.g. for phase errors concentrated at low frequencies) and resolution is independent of carrier frequency when R δ/v/v is the smaller term (e.g. with broad band or high frequency phase errors)     

捷联惯导与里程计组合导航系统标定方法研究

捷联惯导/里程计组合导航系统中,里程计的刻度系数和相对惯组的安装误差角的标定是影响组合导航精度的关键因素.根据工程应用情况,提出经典标定方法和卡尔曼滤波标定方法,并对两种方法进行比较.在标定出刻度系数和安装误差角后,将该数据装订到惯组中进行车载试验验证,将里程计解算的速度和位置与GPS实测值进行比较.试验结果表明:跑车...     

Inertial navigation system synthesis approach and gravity-inducederror sensitivity

A design criterion for improving the performance of the speed-damped inertial navigation system is presented. The single-axis speed-damped system is approached by optimizing the response of the system to a step-function disturbing signal. Butterworth, integral of time-multiplied absolute-value of error (ITAE), and solution-time standard forms are assumed to be the figures of merit for optimizing the system performance. The steady-state RMS (root-mean-square) gravity-induced navigation errors that are excited in the speed-damped system are determined for two gravity uncertainty models. The proposed figures of merit are compared. These comparisons reveal the sensitivity of predicted navigation errors to uncertainties in the gravity statistics, and simplify the choice of a suitable figure of merit for use in the design and error analysis of inertial navigation systems     

Calibration method of quartz accelerometer on dynamic centrifuge

This paper proposes a novel method for calibrating error coefficients of the quartz accelerometer faster on the dynamic centrifuge, which can generate a continuous dynamic acceleration excitation. Firstly, working principle and structure of the dynamic centrifuge are analyzed, the error sources and the uncertainty of the dynamic centrifuge are expounded, and relevant coordinate systems are established. Then, according to the characteristics of the input specific forces and the propagating method...     

有源相控阵中场测量中的空间误差研究

由于中场监测设备量少,且测量效率高,所以是有源相控阵雷达阵面测量的重要方法之一,在工程中得到了广泛应用。其系统误差包括监测方法误差和测量设备误差,其中测量方法误差非常关键,而测量设备误差与所采用的具体设备有关。在中场测量中,探头的位置偏移导致的空间误差是其特有的测量方法误差。本文对空间误差进行了理论分析,并以x波段有源相控阵的中场测量为例,给出了空间误差的计算结果和实验结果。计算结果表明,空间幅度误差很小;空间相位误差与被测阵面口径、测量距离和探头位置偏移有关。实验结果进一步验证了这种计算结果。分析结果为中场测量的实施提供了参考,具有一定的工程意义。     

双基地聚束SAR运动误差分析

将三维坐标系引入运动误差分析,建立了对任意匀速直线航迹双基地聚束SAR运动误差统一、清晰的分析方法;在此三维坐标系下,推导出各种运动误差引起的相位误差的计算公式。推导基于一般的双基地聚束SAR回波模型,可适用于任意匀速直线航迹的双基地聚束SAR,并且将通常的单基地SAR的运动误差分析作为一种特例也涵盖在内。给出了位置误差、速度误差和加速度误差所造成的相位误差计算公式。从推导结果得出结论:位于不同平台的同一误差,引起的相位误差是不同的;在小场景假设下,双基地聚束SAR的运动误差是空不变的,与目标位置无关。计算机仿真验证了误差分析的正确性。     

无线电外弹道测量设备轴系误差修正方法改进

对无线电外弹道测量设备轴系误差的性质进行分析,论述了传统轴系误差修正方法的缺点,采用坐标系转换的原理,推出了一种轴系误差的精确修正方法。对各种误差项进行分离,将传统的轴系误差修正方法改进为实时快速修正方法,并利用实际标定的误差数据,仿真计算不同修正方法的修正效果,验证了轴系误差精确修正方法的正确性,验证了实时快速修正方法的正确性和快速性。     

机载SAR成像对瞄准线运动补偿的要求

飞机偏离匀速直线运动的运动误差是机载合成孔径雷达成像的基本困难之一。通过详细的理论推导,给出了当飞机沿瞄准线方向同时存在恒定速度误差,恒定加速度误差和正确弦摆动速度误差时,以回波信号压缩波形的主瓣偏移,二次相位误差,三次相位误差以及积分旁瓣比等ＳＡＲ系统图像质量指标的最大允许值表示的机载正侧视ＳＡＲ运动补偿定量要求的解析式。并结合一例子进行了计算分析,所得结论可供有关人员参考。     

Using GPS to calibrate Loran-C

Various techniques for using simultaneous Global Positioning System (GPS)/Loran data to estimate the propagation uncertainties that limit the absolute accuracy of Loran-C are discussed. Significant improvements in the absolute accuracy of Loran can be achieved with very simple calibrations. The absolute accuracy of Loran in the Gulf of Maine without calibration is presented. The maximum and RMS absolute errors are between 700 and 500 m, depending on the choice of land model. Simple calibrations greatly improve the absolute accuracy of Loran. As shown, if the land conductivities are fixed a priori and a single parameter is optimized, the maximum and RMS absolute errors fall to around 250 and 60 m, respectively. Alternatively, land can be treated as a single conductivity which can be adjusted to reduce offshore additional secondary phase factor errors. The performance of this practice is summarized in tables which show maximum and RMS errors of around 300 to 100 m, respectively     

ADS-B用于高精度雷达标定的方法

为了更好地解决高精度雷达标定的问题,提出了基于广播式自动相关监视系统(ADS-B)固定误差及目标回波中心动态修正的雷达标定新方法。首先分析了ADS-B位置数据误差的来源、类型及在雷达坐标系下的特征,同时对民航目标回波中心的变化作了分析建模,在此基础上进一步通过对雷达数据与ADS-B数据之差作动态联合修正,最终估算出雷达系统误差,提高了雷达系统误差标定的精度和稳定性。并利用多批次的实测数据对该标定新方法与其他方法进行了对比验证,结果表明,该方法有效提高了标定的精度和稳定性,并已成功应用于雷达标定设备中。     

TerraSAR-X active radar ground calibrator system

In April 2006, the TerraSAR-X satellite was launched. This paper describes the development of a novel and highly integrated, digitally-controlled active SAR system calibrator (DARC). It consists of both an active transponder path for absolute radiometric calibration and a calibrated receiver chain for antenna pattern evaluation of the satellite antenna. A total of 16 active transponder and receiver systems and 17 receiver-only systems will be fabricated for a calibration campaign in 2006.     

机器人辅助飞机装配制孔中位姿精度补偿技术

在飞机自动化装配中,机器人制孔技术由于其高度柔性和相对低成本而倍受关注.然而,机器人本身的动、静态误差及制孔过程大量坐标系标定和坐标转换会引起难以补偿的残留误差,为提高机器人制孔的位置和姿态精度,构建一种基于激光跟踪仪闭环反馈的机器人辅助飞机装配制孔系统.本文首先论述应用激光跟踪仪建立系统中关键坐标系的方法,并分析了机...     

Analysis of Modeling and Bias Errors in Discrete-Time State Estimation

This paper concerns the effects of modeling and bias errors in discrete-time state estimation. The newly derived algorithms include the effect of correlation between plant and measurement noise in the system. The effects of nonzero mean noise terms and bias errors are considered. With plant or measurement matrix errors, divergence can occur. The local or linear sensitivity approach to error analysis, where the sensitivity is defined as a partial derivative with respect to a variable parameter taken about the modeled value, will not show this divergence due to neglect of higher order terms. Approximate algorithms are presented which circumvent the problem inherent in the local sensitivity approach. These make use of a "conditional bias" concept which views system error as a bias, conditioned on knowledge of the state estimates. It is shown that the actual error in optimum estimation is orthogonal to the residue error for suboptimum estimation where the residue error is defined as the difference between the actual estimation error and the optimum estimation error. Two examples, one concerning an integrated navigation system, demonstrate the theoretical results.     

多个MEMS惯性姿态模块同时标定方法研究

针对MEMS 惯性姿态模块的应用需求, 根据已有的MEMS 三轴加速度计和 三轴陀螺仪的零偏、标度因子和非正交等误差及其随温度的变化模型, 设计了多个 MEMS 惯性姿态模块误差同时标定的方法,该方法可实现多个模块传感器数据的同步采 集,在常温下可对多个MEMS 惯性姿态模块的非正交误差进行批量标定,在全温度范围 内同时标定多个模块的温度漂移误差。试验表明,该方法校正了MEMS 惯性传感器的非 正交误差和温度漂移误差,提高了MEMS 惯性传感器的精度,同时提高了标定的效率, 减少了标定成本,有利于工程实现。     

基于最小熵的多通道SAR系统相位误差估计与补偿

采用多通道合成的方法来增加信号带宽,是提高合成孔径雷达(SAR)系统距离分辨率的一种有效技术手段。针对多通道间相位失配的问题,建立了通道相位误差的频域多项式模型,提出了一种基于最小熵的通道相位误差估计与补偿方法。以距离向压缩脉冲图像的信息熵作为目标函数,误差多项式系数为估计变量,基于最小熵准则建立了相位误差的最优化估计模型。该方法能有效弥补内定标或外定标方法的不足,且不依赖于成像场景的地物类型,只需抽取少量回波数据作为误差估计的样本,具有耗费存储空间少、收敛速度快、不损失信噪比的优点。对不同场景的八通道实测数据进行了处理,实验结果验证了本文方法的有效性和稳健性。     

一种基于输出误差观测的冗余MEMS-IMU标定技术研究

针对传统六位置标定存在标定步骤复杂、标定时间长等问题，同时随着MEMS器件冗余数目增加和冗余配置结构复杂化，利用分立标定技术实现器件误差参数辨识的难度进一步增大，且不同配置结构所采用的标定方法存在通用性较差的问题。因此提出了一种基于Kalman滤波的冗余MEMS-IMU分立标定方案。该方案首先采用小角度建模法实现安装误差的精确建模；然后针对直接以转台三轴角速率为观测值，导致部分状态量不可观的问题，提出了以器件的输出误差值作为观测量、以器件误差参数作为状态量设计Kalman滤波器；最后设计了高精度三轴转台转位编排方式，并利用四陀螺冗余结构进行标定仿真试验。仿真结果表明：该标定方法与六位置标定方案相比，标定精度平均提高了11.37%，可实现MEMS器件误差参数的快速辨识，对实际工程实践具有一定参考价值。     

基于可重构标定板的激光与视觉联合标定方法

目前,激光雷达与视觉传感器的联合标定方法包含动态在线标定与静态离线标定两大类.动态在线标定对标定的环境有较高的要求,且标定结果不稳定;静态离线标定通常采用标定板,因而对标定板的要求较高,手动选择与线拟合都易引入或放大误差,故提出了一种基于可重构标定板的激光雷达与视觉传感器的联合标定方法.首先,对传统的标定板进行拆分与重...     

Phased array of large reflectors for deep-space communication

In this paper the problem of uplink array calibration for deep-space communication is considered. A phased array of many modest-size reflectors antennas is used to drastically improve the uplink effective isotropic radiated power of a ground station. A radar calibration procedure for the array phase distribution is presented using a number of in-orbit targets. Design of optimal orbit and the number of calibration targets is investigated for providing frequent calibration opportunities needed for compensating array elements phase center movements as the array tracks a spacecraft. Array far-field focusing based on the near-filed in-orbit (low Earth orbit (LEO)) calibration targets is also presented and array gain degradation analysis based on the position error of the array elements and in-orbit targets has been carried out. It is shown that errors in the in-orbit targets positions significantly degrade the far-field array gain while the errors in array elements positions are not very important. Analysis of phase errors caused by thermal noise, system instability, and atmospheric effects show insignificant array gain degradation by these factors     

Motion compensation errors: effects on the accuracy of airborne SAR images

This work addresses the study of the effect of residual uncompensated motion errors due to positioning measurement instrument and digital elevation model inaccuracies on the accuracy of airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. It is shown that these not only introduce phase errors following pure geometric considerations, but they also cause additional aberrations related to their interaction with the SAR processing procedure. Extension to the repeat pass airborne interferometry is also included to show their impact on the resulting interferograms.