一种基于线性规划的频率编码旁瓣抑制方法

频率编码信号具有较好的距离-多普勒分辨率、优良的低截获和抗干扰能力,但其旁瓣较高,不适用于检测动态范围大的海面多目标场合。采用失配滤波器法降低旁瓣电平会导致旁瓣宽度展宽,强目标旁瓣宽度展宽,反而遮盖了附近的弱目标。采用脉间码型捷变法,旁瓣抑制效果达不到实际应用要求。文章结合着2种方法,设计一种复合的旁瓣抑制方法。仿真结果表明,在相同信噪比损失和旁瓣宽度的情况下,本方法比失配滤波器法,峰值旁瓣比提高了7.5 dB;在积累相同的脉冲个数情况下,比脉间码型捷变法则提高了18 dB。     

间歇采样转发干扰对相位编码雷达的影响分析

文章分析了间歇采样转发干扰对相位编码脉冲压缩雷达的影响。首先,推导得到了相位编码信号通过匹配滤波器的输出响应。在此基础上,推导了间歇采样转发干扰的匹配输出,研究表明,输出响应为信号编码与间歇采样编码互相关序列的线性插值函数,且只能产生一个假目标。然后,研究了旁瓣抑制网络对间歇采样转发干扰信号的影响,结果表明,旁瓣抑制网络可以有效抑制回波信号的旁瓣,但无法抑制干扰信号的旁瓣。相比输入前数值,干扰旁瓣峰值和位置均发生变化。最后,通过编程计算和仿真实验验证了本文分析的正确性。该研究为雷达对抗干扰评估试验提供重要的理论支撑。     

脉冲压缩在铝薄板电磁超声导波检测中的应用

针对电磁超声换能器(EMAT)换能效率低导致超声回波信噪比(SNR)差这一问题,基于相位编码脉冲压缩技术,讨论了匹配滤波器及旁瓣抑制滤波器的设计及其在电磁超声检测中的实现.选用典型二相编码信号-巴克码作为激励信号,分析了不同码长、载波周期数的巴克码信号对电磁超声导波检测脉冲压缩效果的影响,并研究了旁瓣抑制算法的效果.以...     

C频段统一测控系统非相干测速功能探讨

针对目前国内C频段统一测控系统因不具备测速功能,在发遥控期间无法进行测距,导致其无法对卫星进行连续轨道测量的缺陷,提出了非相干测速方法。非相干测速利用卫星遥测信息中的上行载波多普勒信息以及地面站获取的下行载波多普勒信息,计算得到双向多普勒信息,对双向多普勒进行计算可获得连续的卫星运动速度信息。本文在理论上证明了这种方法的可行性,并以自旋式卫星同步控制过程中天地时延精确修正为例,说明了这种方法的应用价值。     

基于多载频MIMO雷达的Radon-Fourier变换盲速旁瓣抑制

 长时间相干积累方法Radon-Fourier变换(RFT)中盲速旁瓣(BSSL)现象会导致雷达虚警增加、目标检测性能降低。针对BSSL问题,给出了一种基于多输入多输出(MIMO)雷达多载频设计的BSSL抑制方法。首先根据载频与BSSL分布的关系,详细推导了BSSL不交叠的约束条件;然后基于该约束条件给出了具体的载频设计公式。利用设计的载频可得到具有不交叠BSSL的两个RFT输出,通过联合处理这两个RFT输出,可实现BSSL抑制。给出了BSSL抑制性能的评价方法。理论分析和数值实验结果表明,本文算法能够在不降低RFT相干积累性能的同时,有效实现BSSL抑制。     

贝叶斯推理运动轨迹相干累积的动目标检测方法

雷达理论和实践都表明相干累积是机动目标探测行之有效的方法,但其性能会因脉冲回波处理间隔内未知距离和/或多普勒的徒动而降低。为解决这个问题,提出了一种贝叶斯推理运动轨迹相干累积的动目标检测方法。首先,通过对脉冲压缩回波信号的距离频率进行翻转,就可从未翻转与翻转后的回波信号相乘的傅里叶逆变换中,提取出慢时间维描述待探测多目标运动轨迹的时频信号。视该时频信号中各目标运动轨迹为状态变量,获得的时频信号为观测,建立起多目标运动轨迹的状态空间模型。这样,据贝叶斯滤波推理出的目标运动轨迹,构建出快-慢时间维联合的二维匹配滤波器,就能补偿目标高速/机动带来的未知距离和/或多普勒徒动。理论分析和仿真实验均证明：所提算法适用具有复杂且未知运动状态的目标,且呈现出了优于文献报道方法的性能。     

瓦状特征型面塞式喷管三维计算与实验

为了进一步了解瓦状塞式喷管的性能,采用NND差分格式求解三维N S方程和空气冷流对6单元瓦状特征型面塞式喷管进行了数值模拟和实验研究。研究模型的内喷管面积比为4,总面积比为40,设计压强比为1047。计算得到了流场马赫数和塞锥表面压强分布、喷管推力系数效率,以及不同压强比下中心平面、过渡平面和边缘平面的塞锥表面压强变化规律。计算结果与实验数据吻合得较好,效率数值最大相差1%。实验塞式喷管最大的推力系数效率为0 995,同钟型喷管相比,具有很好的高度补偿能力:从地面到高空,效率在0 93～0 995之间变化。和以前简化型面的4单元瓦状塞式喷管相比,实验和数值模拟均说明塞锥特征型面的优化设计提高了喷管性能,更充分体现了塞式喷管的高度补偿特性,可以成为未来工程应用的选择方案。     

脉冲爆震发动机旋流式气动阀的设计与实验

为了研究大管径吸气式脉冲爆震发动机(PDE)的爆震性能,设计了不同结构的旋流式气动阀,由弯曲叶片构成气动阀推力壁"封闭"平面.开展了气动阀阻力系数实验与工程计算方法研究,不同气动阀的阻力系数差别很大,实验结果与理论计算结果相符.爆震燃烧实验证明,阻力系数较大的气动阀能够产生爆震波,要求气动阀阻力系数大于10,堵塞比大于60%,才能实现PDE的协调工作.从而获得了气动阀设计一般原则与工程计算方法,对于气动阀的优化设计有重要的参考价值.      

11位巴克码的LP滤波器及其在多普勒频移下的性能

本文介绍使最大旁瓣值最小的11位巴克码滤波器（LP滤波器）的计算结果。并介绍多普勒频移对这种滤波器性能影响。LP滤波器长度为53时,旁瓣电平降到—39.5dB,比匹配滤波器改善18.7dB。对加权序列长度L为41、45、49和53的11位巴克码的LP滤波器计算结果表明,其性能受多普勒频移的影响表现为:它们的主瓣电平下降、主瓣展宽、最小旁瓣电平上升、旁瓣电平平方和上升和信噪比损失增大。在较小的多普勒频移（f_d）时,L大的LP滤波器其性能优于L小的LP滤波器,在多普勒频移交大时,这种优势逐渐消失,不同长度LP滤波器性能大体一致。     

非正侧视阵列机载雷达多空间角补偿算法

 非正侧阵列机载雷达的杂波分布随距离变化而变化,各距离单元的杂波分布不再满足独立同分布条件,造成统计型空时自适应处理(STAP)处理器性能下降。本文提出了一种多空间角补偿(MSAC)的非正侧视机载雷达杂波抑制方法,该方法先通过角度-多普勒补偿(ADC)预处理以消除在谱中心处的杂波非均匀,然后采用MSAC法在多个多普勒方向使参考单元和待检测单元的杂波谱保持一致,从而进一步消除在其余方位的杂波非均匀。仿真结果表明了该方法的性能明显优于ADC法,且运算量增加不多。     

Clutter Suppression by Complex Weighting of Coherent Pulse Trains

Uniform coherent pulse trains offer a practical solution to the problem of designing a radar signal possessing both high range and range-rate resolution. The Doppler sensitivity provides some rejection of off-Doppler (clutter) returns in the matched filter receiver. This paper considers the use of a processor in which members of the received pulse train are selectively weighted in amplitude and phase to improve clutter suppression. The techniques described are particularly suitable for rejecting interference entering the processor through ambiguous responses (range sidelobes) of the signal. The complex weights which are derived are optimum in the sense that they produce the maximum clutter suppression for a given detection efficiency. In determining these weights, it is assumed that the distribution of clutter in range and range rate relative to targets of interest is known. Thus, clutter suppression is achieved by reducing the sidelobe levels in specified regions of the receiver response. These techniques are directly applicable to array antennas; the analogous antenna problem would be to reduce sidelobe levels in a particular sector while preserving gain. Complex weighting is most successful when the clutter is limited in both range and velocity.     

A Time Sidelobe Reduction Technique for Small Time-Bandwidth Chirp

A filtering technique is described which permits time sidelobe suppression of small time-bandwidth product shirp. Signal-to-noise loss and time sidelobe level sensitivity to Doppler shift are presented for a filtered chirp waveform whose time-bandwidth product is 10.     

Mismatched Filtering of Sonar Signals

A replica correlator (matched filter) is an optimum processor for a receiver employing a pulse of continuous wave (CW) signal in a white Gaussian noise background. In an active sonar, however, when the target of interest has low Doppler shift and is embedded in a high reverberation background, this is not so. High sidelobes of the correlator frequency response pass a significant portion of the signal contained in the mainlobe of the reverberation spectrum. In order to reduce the sidelobes of the correlator output spectrum and at the same time keep the increase in its 3 dB bandwidth to a small amount, we propose lengthening of the replica of the transmitted signal and weighting it by a Kaiser window. It is demonstrated that by extending the weighted replica by 50 percent compared with the transmitted signal, it is possible to reduce the sidelobe levels to at least 40 dB below the mainlobe peak, with the concomitant increase of the 3 dB band-width by less than 5 percent. The degradation in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) performance for such a ?mismatched? filter receiver with respect to the matched filter is less than 1.5 dB.     

Array shape estimation tracking using active sonar reverberation

This paper concerns the problem of array shape estimation and tracking for towed active sonar arrays, using received reverberation returns from a single transmitted CW pulse. Uniform linear arrays (ULAs) deviate from their nominal geometry while being towed due to ship maneuvers as well as ocean currents. In such scenarios, conventional beamforming performed under the assumption of a ULA can sometimes lead to unacceptably high spatial sidelobes. The reverberation leaking through the sidelobes can potentially mask weak targets in Doppler, especially when the target Doppler is close to that of the mainlobe reverberation and the reverberation-to-target ratio (RTR) is very high. Although heading sensors located along the array can be used to provide shape estimates, they may not be sufficiently available or accurate to provide the required sidelobe levels. We propose an array shape calibration algorithm using multipath reverberation returns from each ping as a distributed source of opportunity. More specifically, a maximum likelihood (ML) array shape calibration algorithm is developed, which exploits a deterministic relationship between the reverberation spatial and Doppler frequencies causing it to be low rank in the space-time vector space formed across a single coherent processing interval (CPI). In this application, a sequence of overlapped CPI length snapshots of duration less than the CW pulse is used. The ML estimates obtained for each snapshot are tracked using a Kalman filter with a state equation corresponding to the water pulley model for array dynamics. Simulations performed using real heading sensor data in conjunction with simulated reverberation suggest that 8-10 dB improvement in sidelobe level may be possible using the proposed array shape tracking algorithm versus an algorithm that uses only the available heading information.     

A new algorithm to optimize Barker code sidelobe suppressionfilters

The authors suggest a new algorithm for binary coding waveform sidelobe reduction after matched filtering and present a general method by which optimized sidelobe suppression filters for Barker codes can be obtained with a peak output sidelobe 2.62 dB lower than the results found in the literature (for 13-b Barker code). This optimization algorithm is also promising for other binary coding waveforms, such as truncated pseudonoise (PN) sequences and concatenated codes. This new approach can readily be applied to sidelobe-reduction filter design for other binary coding waveforms, such as truncated PN sequences, concatenated codes, etc., which often find their applications in radar systems and spread spectrum communication systems     

Optimum Mismatched Filters for Sidelobe Suppression

This paper discusses the application of least-mean-squares approximate inverse filtering techniques to radar range sidelobe reduction. The method is illustrated by application to the 13-element Barker code. The performance of the least-mean-square inverse filter is compared with the matched filter and with the simplified sidelobereducing filters of Rihaczek and Golden. A filter which completely suppresses the range sidelobes of a 13-element Barker sequence is only 0.2 dB worse than a matched filter in noise.     

Adaptive resolution of mainlobe and sidelobe detections using model order determination

This work presents the development and performance evaluation of a methodology for distinguishing between mainlobe and sidelobe detections that arise in adaptive radar systems operating in adverse environments. Various adaptive detection test statistics such as the adaptive matched filter (AMF), the generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT), and adaptive coherence estimate (ACE), and combinations of these, have been previously analyzed with respect to their sidelobe rejection capabilities. In contrast to these methods which are based on detecting a single target with known direction and Doppler, the present method uses model order determination techniques applied to the AMF or GLRT data observed over the range of unknown angle and Doppler parameters. The determination of model order, i.e., the number of signals present in the data, is made by using least-squares model fit error residuals and applying the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC). Comprehensive computer simulation results are presented which demonstrate substantial improvement in sidelobe rejection performance and detections of multiple sources compared with previous methods.     

Sequence design for IIR inverse filter pulse compression

An infinite impulse response (IIR) inverse filter structure is presented, and compared with the performance of two finite impulse response (FIR) designs. The IIR design is shown to provide better performance and be able to improve further (e.g., -1.4 dB in sidelobe levels per unit delay increase for the length-13 Barker sequence) by increasing delay. The performance parameters of this IIR inverse filter suggest a design criterion for sequences on which the filter operates; that is related to the roots of the Z transform polynomial of the sequence. The sidelobe-optimal sequence derived according to this criterion is shown to provide sharper sidelobe reduction (-6 dB per unit delay increase for the sidelobe optimal length-13 sequence)     

Effect of Particular Gain Changes upon LFM Sidelobes

The envelope variation of an LFM waveform due to transmitter droop or receiver STC tends to cause range sidelobes. A parametric analysis of the magnitude of the sidelobes has been performed. It is shown that the sidelobes can be quite high at the matched filter output, but are low at the output of the sidelobe reduction filter. 40-dB sidelobes can be achieved even with a 4-dB envelope droop. It is shown that these results are consistent with conventional paired-echo theory. Similar results are shown to hold for droop variations of the filter transfer function.     

An experiment with an S-band radar using pulse compression andrange sidelobe suppression for meteorological measurements

A major technology barrier to the application of pulse compression for the meteorological functions required by a next generation ATC radar is range/time sidelobes which mask and corrupt observations of weak phenomena occurring near areas of strong extended meteorological scatterers. Techniques for suppressing range sidelobes are well known but without prior knowledge of the scattering medium's velocity distribution their performance degrades rapidly in the presence of Doppler. Recent investigations have presented a “doppler tolerant” range sidelobe suppression technique. The thrust of the work described herein is the extension of previous simulations to actual transmitted dispersed/coded waveforms using the S-band surveillance radar located at Rome Laboratory Surveillance Facility. The objectives of the experiment are: 1) to extend the verification of the simulation of the Doppler tolerant technique; and 2) to demonstrate that the radar transmitter, waveform generator, and receiver imperfections do not significantly degrade resolution, performance or reliability of meteorological spectral moment estimates