GPS code and carrier multipath mitigation using a multiantennasystem

Multipath is a major source of error in high precision Global Positioning System (GPS) static and kinematic differential positioning. Multipath accounts for most of the total error budget in carrier phase measurements in a spacecraft attitude determination system. It is a major concern in reference stations, such as in Local Area Augmentation Systems (LAAS), whereby corrections generated by a reference station, which are based on multipath corrupted measurements, can significantly influence the position accuracy of differential users. Code range, carrier phase, and signal-to-noise (SNR) measurements are all affected by multipath, and the effect is spatially correlated within a small area. In order to estimate and remove code and carrier phase multipath, a system comprising a cluster of five GPS receivers and antennas is used at a reference station location. The spatial correlation of the receiver data, and the known geometry among the antennas, are exploited to estimate multipath for each satellite in each antenna in the system. Generic receiver code and carrier tracking loop discriminator functions are analyzed, and relationships between receiver data, such as code range, carrier phase, and SNR measurements, are formulated and related to various multipath parameters. A Kalman filter is described which uses a combination of the available information from the antennas (receivers) in the multiantenna cluster to estimate various multipath parameters. From the multipath parameters, the code range and carrier phase multipath is estimated and compensated. The technique is first tested on simulated data in a controlled multipath environment. Results are then presented using field data and show a significant reduction in multipath error     

基于DSP和CAN的航空发动机分布式控制系统设计

航空发动机控制系统发展趋势是分布式控制系统,本文提出了基于DSP和CAN总线的航空发动机分布式控制系统设计.设计中,用工控机模拟航空发动机电子控制器(EEC);智能传感器和执行机构的控制核心采用DSP芯片;通讯总线选用CAN总线.论文阐述了航空发动机电子控制器与各智能传感器和执行机构的软硬件设计、CAN总线通讯的实现方法.在实验室条件下实现了整个发动机控制系统的物理仿真,仿真系统初步满足了分布式系统控制要求,为航空发动机分布式控制系统的研究奠定了基础.     

VLF electromagnetic waves observed onboard GEOS-1

This paper is concerned mainly with the information which can be extracted from frequency-time spectra in the VLF range. The instrument used is the correlator which has a good frequency resolution (50 Hz) and time resolution (30 ms) in one magnetic and one electric component simultaneously. By suitable computer analysis, it is possible for instance to distinguish between the two dominant electromagnetic emissions, hiss and chorus, as well as to display the complete spectra. This treatment is applied to the Survey periods, which are a fixed sequence of modes, repeated every hour on the hour in order to have reference data from GEOS analogous to many ground-based observatories. One result of this treatment obtained already is that hiss and chorus normally appear together, although one or the other may be dominating in intensity. The occurrence rate of these emissions in local time is also given.For continuous surveillance the filterbank data are used. There are 16 frequency filters supplying magnetic and electric amplitude at few different frequencies. Using these data, a storm sudden commencement can be followed with good time resolution (1 s), and an interesting correlation has been found in a few cases between the VLF signal amplitude and the cold plasma density (as measured by the active part of the S-300 experiment).     

民用飞机辅助燃油箱系统燃油转输油出口位置研究

面对不同的市场需求,民用飞机通常在取得型号合格证之后,通过改装,形成公务机~([1])、遥感机、海监机等在内的特种飞机。大航程、长航时是众多特种飞机的重要特点。民用飞机通常在货舱内加装辅助燃油箱~([2-3])以增加额外的燃油存储空间,增加载油量,从而增大航程。然而辅助燃油箱内的燃油不直接供给发动机,需在巡航阶段将辅助燃油箱内的燃油转输至基本燃油箱内,通过基本燃油箱内供油系统供给发动机~([4-8])。转输动力可以来自转输泵或者闭式通气增压系统,即辅助燃油箱与基本燃油箱产生一定的压差,通过该压差将燃油转输到基本燃油箱内。然而不同的转输口位置,将会导致燃油转输的控制逻辑不同。基于某民用飞机的基本油箱构型,通过不同的转输口位置分析,给出较为合理的转输口位置。     

基于apFFT的罗兰-C窄带干扰频域抑制方法

针对现有罗兰-C接收机普遍采用固定陷波电路抑制窄带干扰的情况,提出了基于全相位谱分析(apFFT)的频域精确自适应陷波罗兰-C窄带干扰抑制方法,设计了基于双相移组合全相位法的FIR频域陷波器。在对窄带干扰进行精确谱分析的基础上,设计相应频点的陷波器对多个窄带干扰进行抑制。基于MATLAB的仿真结果表明:该方法能够根据罗兰-C窄带干扰频率的变化,实现频点任意控制的频域自适应陷波,有效恢复出罗兰-C信号,为增强型罗兰-C接收机的设计提供了一种简单有效的窄带干扰抑制方法。     

飞机射频隐身表征参量及其影响因素分析

 随着军事装备的不断发展,无源探测器（电子支援系统、雷达告警接收机和电子情报接收机）对飞机的探测能力大大提高。为了避免机载雷达设备辐射的射频(RF)信号被截获,要求飞机具有良好的射频隐身性能。综合考虑机载雷达探测距离和无源截获接收机截获距离之间的关系以及天线空域扫描方式发生捷变对飞机射频隐身性能的影响,指出了用施里海尔(Schleher)截获因子评价飞机射频隐身性能的不足,并提出用信号截获率来表征飞机射频隐身特性的方法。最后,对影响信号截获率的因素进行分析与计算,在此基础上给出飞机实现射频隐身的途径与方法。该评价方法综合了飞机在时域、频域和空域上的射频隐身特性,对飞机的射频隐身设计具有参考价值。     

ADS-B监视报文参数统计及其所需性能

基于广播式自动相关监视（ADS-B）报文的位置导航不确定性指标（NUC_P）的监视质量备受关注。针对位置导航不确定性参数好、监视质量却不高的问题，深入研究广播式自动相关监视报文数据项及其与基于性能的通信与监视的相关性。在充分考虑通信导航监视相关性及全球卫星导航系统（GNSS）广域增强等因素基础上，推导、构建了监视所需性能估计模型，并给予合理简化。在测试空域利用2个具有运行资质的生产商ADS-B接收站，连续采集近2亿条ADS-B报文，统计分析报文各信息项的状态参数，并应用到所需性能估计模型评估计算这两个ADS-B站的所需监视性能。此外还将参考文献报文参数代入模型评估所需性能。结果显示，当考虑报文各信息项统计状态及具备广域增强服务支撑时，ADS-B所需监视性能参数估计值未达到99.9%要求。若缺乏广域增强服务及相关性因素等，系统所需性能与国际民航组织（ICAO）监视要求的差距则更大。     

The menagerie of geospace plasma waves

Sounding rockets and satellites have discovered a large variety of plasma waves within the Earth's magnetosphere—geospace. These waves are found over a frequency range of millihertz to megahertz. The frequency ranges are generally associated with characteristic frequencies such as the plasma frequency and gyrofrequency. Most waves are generated by hot or streaming magnetospheric plasma; some waves are due to lightning discharges, to intentional man-made transmitters or to incidental radiation from power transmission systems. Propagation of waves from the observation region back to a probable source region can be modelled using ray tracing techniques in a model magnetosphere where the electron number density, ion composition and magnetic field vector is specified. Information in addition to the common amplitude-frequency-time spectrograms can be obtained from the received waves using multiple antennas and receivers. Cross-correlation of the wave electric and magnetic components can provide information on the wave polarization and direction of propagation and on the wave distribution function.     

CFAR data fusion center with inhomogeneous receivers

Detection systems with distributed sensors and data fusion are increasingly used by surveillance systems. A system formed by N inhomogeneous constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detectors (cell-averaging (CA) and ordered statistic (OS) CFAR detectors) is studied. A recursive formulation of an algorithm that permits a fixed level of false alarms in the data fusion center is presented, to set the optimum individual threshold levels in the CFAR receivers and the optimum `K out of N' decision rule in order to maximize the total probability of detection. The algorithm also considers receivers of different quality or with different communication channel qualities connecting them with the fusion center. This procedure has been applied to several hypothetical networks with distributed CA-CFAR and OS-CFAR receivers and for Rayleigh targets and interference, and it was seen that in general the fusion decision OR rule is not always the best     

宽频高幅值水力激振信号的产生与控制

为了研究火箭发动机全尺寸泵后供应系统的动力学特性,运用脉动压力发生器设计了一种宽频水力激振系统,开展了液流试验和数据分析。结果表明:水力激振系统可以在0~1200Hz的频率范围内,产生时域幅值超过1.5MPa、高信噪比的压力脉动信号,达到了宽频率范围、高激励幅值的目的。通过对电动机转速的控制实现激励频率的可控变化,以满足不同频率激励策略的要求。提高管路系统的入口稳态压力,可以提高激振信号的幅值。通过合适的局部流阻分布,可以在宽频范围内提高水力激振信号的幅值,提高信噪比。      

卫星位置和速度的Lagrange插值算法分析

导航接收机中通常采用开普勒轨道参数法计算卫星的三维位置和速度.这种算法计算量较大,在资源有限的廉价用户机或要求高频度输出卫星位置和速度的高动态接收机中会使处理器资源非常紧张.采用Lagrange插值算法可以获得相同精度的卫星位置和速度,且大大降低计算量.利用GPS数据对不同插值区间长度和插值阶数的Lagrange插值法的计算精度和处理时延进行了定量分析.结果表明,Lagrange插值算法计算卫星位置和速度可以使处理时延降低十几倍,这在每个历元的导航解算需要同时计算多颗卫星位置和速度的接收机中具有重要意义.     

Planck satellite 70 GHz receiver noise tests

The LFI (Low Frequency Instruments) receivers in the coming Planck satellite are of continuous comparison type and use low noise amplifiers based on high electron mobility transistors manufactured from indium phosphide substrate (INP-HEMT-MMIC-LNAs). This article describes the 1/f-noise tests and the associated test system for the 70 GHz demonstrator receiver, which can either use single or dual channel phase switcher methods. The 1/f knee frequency is shown to depend on the calculation method of the r-value. A minimum 1/f knee frequency around 10 mHz has been achieved with full two channel foxtrot and individually adopted r-values for each phase states while a straightforward single phase technology cannot go below 40 mHz     

Application of a Highly Parallel Processor to Radar Data Processing

The application of a highly parallel computer known as PEPE (Parallel Element Processing Ensemble) to radar data processing is described. The PEPE computer consists of a large number of identical processing elements which operate in parallel and are controlled by a common control unit. Each of the processing elements is assigned to a particular radar target such that many targets can be tracked in parallel. PEPE is designed to augment a conventional computer rather than to stand alone. The total data processing load associated with a radar tracking system is distributed between PEPE and the sequential machine in a manner than maximizes the overall system efficiency and desensitizes the system performance to fluctuations in traffic levels. The use of PEPE provides very high data processing throughput potential to a radar data processing system.     

An anti-image interference quadrature IF architecture for satellite receivers

Since Global Navigation Satellite System（GNSS） signals span a wide range of frequency, wireless signals coming from other communication systems may be aliased and appear as image interference. In quadrature intermediate frequency（IF） receivers, image aliasing due to in-phase and quadrature（I/Q） channel mismatches is always a big problem. I/Q mismatches occur because of gain and phase imbalances between quadrature mixers and capacitor mismatches in analog-to-digital converters（ADC）. As a result, the dynamic range and performance of a receiver are severely degraded. In this paper, several popular receiver architectures are summarized and the image aliasing problem is investigated in detail. Based on this analysis, a low-IF architecture is proposed for a single-chip solution and a novel and feasible anti-image algorithm is investigated. With this anti-image digital processing, the image reject ratio（IRR） can reach approximately above50 dB, which relaxes image rejection specific in front-end circuit designs and allows cheap and highly flexible analog front-end solutions. Simulation and experimental data show that the antiimage algorithm can work effectively, robustly, and steadily.     

Performance Degradation Due to Specular Multipath Intersymbol Interference

Plots of performance degradation are used to compare the effects of fading and intersymbol interference in a two- component specular multipath digital communications channel. Similar plots are then used to compare two practical receivers designed to combat the interference. Degradation plots are shown to allow easy identification of each receiver's range of usefulness, as well as identification of variance bounds demanded of channel parameter estimates which the receivers require.     

Filter Selection for Receivers Using Square-Law Detection

A numerical method is described for predicting the detection probability performance of a pulse receiver which uses square-law detection. The method is useful for receivers where the ratio of RF bandwidth to video bandwidth is in the range from 2 to 40; a range where numerical results have previously been hard to obtain. A key feature of the approach is that it takes into account the actual filter transfer functions, pulse envelope shape, and pulse frequency.     

Performance Analysis of Monopulse Receivers for Secondary Surveillance Radar

In modern secondary surveillance radar (SSR) the monopulse technique is currently introduced for the measurement of the azimuth of the targets. The monopulse technique is based on a suitable processing of signals received by a multiple antenna. In SSR the signals are generated by a transponder on the aircraft as replies to interrogations from ground equipment, and consist of trains of pulses. The monopulse measurements can be carried out on the basis of a single pulse from each train, so that it provides a great number of azimuth estimates. Many monopulse measurement devices exist, corresponding to different processing techniques. From the point of view of accuracy and precision, their behaviors differ with respect to the sources of errors, both internal (noise and imperfect calibrations) and external (interference and propagation effects). The four main types of monopulse receivers are analyzed here with respect to the effects of the internal error sources on the resulting measurement accuracy. After an introductory discussion of the performances of the receivers, a detailed analysis is carried out on the basis of a general mathematical model. The results are given in an analytical form and in some comprehensive diagrams.     

Flexible loop filter design for spacecraft phase-locked receivers

A flexible loop filter design for spacecraft phase-locked receivers is proposed. The loop filter is implemented as digital hardware with coefficients that are set by registers. Either a perfect or an imperfect integrating loop filter can be effected. This flexibility is important since not one type of loop filter is preferred for all circumstances. An imperfect integrator is preferred when, as is often the case for spacecraft receivers, it is important to minimize the best-lock frequency drift of an idling loop. A perfect integrator is preferred when the tracking performance of the loop is the most important consideration     

机载光纤数据总线系统的设计

 本文讨论机载数据总线的发展、应用、通讯协议、系统结构。文中着重讨论总线控制器和远程终端的硬件设计、软件设计及光导纤维传输系统的设计,还列举了一些实验情况及结果。     

Spread-Spectrum Signaling for Distributed Fiber Optic Systems

One of the stringent requirements on the receivers of distributed industrial fiber optic systems is fast and accurate adaptive thresholding and a wide dynamic range. This is due to the existence of variable link lengths and geometry, especially in multipleaccess situations, coupled with unipolar optical signaling. This paper analyzes the application of a simple spread-spectrum system in such fiber-optic data links. It proposes a detector model that yields a tractable expression for the probability of error. The optimum threshold and the probability of error are then related to the received optical power, bit rate, and spectrum-spreading factor. A procedure is indicated by which, based on the minimum expected received power, a spreading facor and a threshold are chosen to insure a given maximum error rate at all the receivers.