Maneuvering target tracking with colored noise

It is known that colored noise may degrade the performance of a tracking algorithm. A common remedy is to model colored noise as an autoregressive (AR) process and apply the measurement difference method. One problem with the approach is that the AR parameters are usually unknown. In this work, we propose a new method to adaptively estimate the AR parameters. It is shown that this method is simple and practically feasible. We incorporate oar method into the interacting multiple model (IMM) tracking algorithm and show that the performance is almost as good as that in the known parameters case     

Efficient dynamic programming in presence of nuisance parameters

The dynamic programming approach for maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation of Markov sequences is frequently proposed for problems in control theory, communications, and signal processing. It is usually assumed that the observation sequence is a perfectly known function of the Markov sequence of interest, except for some additive noise with known statistics. However, often the observation is not only a function of the Markov sequence but also of a vector of unknown nuisance parameters. It is shown how the dynamic programming methodology can be extended to estimate both the nuisance parameters and the Markov sequence, using a combined maximum-likelihood and MAP framework. The technique is efficient relative to other possible solutions. The problem of detecting and tracking moving targets observed by imaging sensors is used to demonstrate the efficiency of the procedure     

区域杂波估计的多目标跟踪方法

高斯粒子概率假设密度（PHD）滤波往往假定杂波密度参数已知,这种做法对于实际应用是不现实的。此外,杂波的参数值通常依赖于环境条件,可能随时间发生变化。因此,多目标跟踪算法中需要实时准确估计杂波密度的参数。基于此,提出了一种多目标跟踪的区域杂波估计方法。首先根据量测信息在线估计出场景中的杂波数目,然后估计落入目标附近感兴趣区域的杂波数,并估计每个目标感兴趣区域杂波强度。仿真结果表明,在复杂场景下算法的跟踪性能明显优于未进行杂波估计的多目标跟踪算法,提高了跟踪的实时性和跟踪精度。     

An effect of range-heterogeneous clutter on adaptive Dopplerfilters

The practical implementation of adaptive Doppler filters requires estimates of clutter parameters to determine the adaptive weights. A method of deriving the estimate via the sample matrix inversion (SMI) algorithm using multiple data snapshots from adjacent range cells is presented. For homogeneous clutter environments, the results of this technique asymptotically approach the optimum (a priori known covariance matrix) as the number of snapshots approaches infinity; this asymptotic behavior does not occur for heterogeneous clutter environments. An equation for the decrease in improvement factor is derived. To promote understanding, the simplified special case of narrowband clutter is considered in detail. In almost all cases, the loss is small     

基于不敏变换的动基座传感器偏差估计方法

提出了一种新的基于合作目标的动基座传感器误差绝对配准方法。该方法利用所获得的合作目标位置信息,将载体平台姿态角偏差转换为传感器测量偏差中的一部分,并建立偏差状态方程和测量方程。在此基础上,采用广义最小二乘方法以实现传感器测距误差的估计,不敏滤波的方法则用于实现平台载体的姿态偏差和角度测量偏差的实时估计。仿真结果表明,该方法实现简单,收敛速度快,可以实现单部动基座传感器的偏差估计。     

Range and Bearing Estimation in Passive Sonar

Passive sonar systems are used for estimating the range and bearing of signal sources, such as ships or submarines. In this study, the Cramer-Rao bounds on estimation errors are used as measures of the accuracy of the estimates. The bounds show how parameters such as observation time, signal bandwidth, signal-to-noise ratio, and array geometry can be chosen to obtain maximum accuracy. When the array geometry satisfies certain conditions, the bound for range estimate is shown to be independent of the actual source bearing and the bound for bearing estimate independent of both the range and bearing of the source. It is also shown that the same conditions on array geometry ensure that the range or bearing estimation accuracy is not degraded when tne other pammeter is not known.     

基于设计变量相关性的翼型设计方法

针对传统设计方法缺乏物理背景等不足,利用流动数值仿真及相关性分析的手段,对几何外形与流动变化的相关性规律进行经验总结,并将这种设计经验进行数值化描述后,引入到优化设计中,建立新的气动外形优化设计模型,使设计模型具有一定的物理意义,从而提高设计效率,改善设计结果。通过高速自然层流翼型HSNLF0213的优化设计,利用相关性的分析结果,建立具有物理意义的优化模型,开展了基于单点优化设计且同时满足多点设计要求的设计方法的应用研究,对这种设计方法及思路进行了初步的探索。设计结果证明了该方法的可行性。     

具结构式不确定性系统的鲁棒镇定

考虑一类与摄动参数呈多项式函数关系的不确定性模型 ,这类模型反应了预知部分不确定性信息的物理意义。给出了含这类不确定性系统鲁棒稳定的充分条件和最大稳定域估计方法。在区间系统情形 ,该条件退化为已有结果 ,这间接表明文中条件的保守性有限。进一步得到了状态和输出反馈鲁棒镇定控制器的设计方法 ,及文中方法意义下具有最大稳定域的镇定控制器设计算法。最后 ,给出了一个飞控系统鲁棒镇定控制器设计的例子 ,说明文中方法的可行性。     

Kalman弹道滤波器的快速收敛性研究

在弹道修正过程中,需根据一段实测弹道参数,准确地估算常规弹箭的飞行弹道。工程中,常应用Kalman滤波方法,结合质点弹道模型建立六状态滤波弹道模型。速度初值估计的准确性,是对滤波过程造成影响的主要因素。为改善这一状况,采用多项式拟合用以对速度状态进行估计并以此作为滤波初始值。在此种估计下滤波,速度滤波过程可快速收敛,位置滤波过程收敛速度大幅度提高,可使最优弹道诸元参数获取时间缩短30%。     

透平叶片疲劳强度可靠性设计的研究

本文提出了透平叶片疲劳强度的可靠性设计方法。该方法把透平叶片的静应力、动应力和叶片疲劳强度处理为随机变量,使用疲劳应力分布和疲劳强度分布的干涉模型,在设计阶段确定透平叶片的可靠度。文中给出了透平叶片可靠性设计的实例。      

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     

用失速参数获取压气机轴对称流特性的研究

本文提出了以旋转失速参数来获取轴流式压气机轴对称流特性的新方法。此法在原理上与用喘振参数的K·G法不同,但更易使用,并且应用范围更广。      

动量轮维纳过程退化建模与寿命预测

针对动量轮寿命预测无失效数据问题,利用有漂移的维纳过程对其轴承温度建立性能退化模型,同时,考虑由于加工工艺、制造误差等因素所造成的不确定性,利用随机变量来描述其漂移参数和扩散参数,并结合自助法获取纠偏估计.根据所建模型仿真了轴承温度维纳过程的样本路径,最后,对动量轮进行随机失效阈值情形的寿命预测和剩余寿命预测.该模型为...     

三轴磁通门传感器误差校正方法

三轴磁通门传感器在军事和民用领域应用广泛,但由于其存在三轴非正交、零偏和标度系数不一致的问题,导致其存在转向差,影响了其磁测精度。首先,分析了转向差的产生机理,建立了误差模型,通过最小二乘法估算出了误差参数,进而对磁测数据进行了转向差校正。仿真计算表明,该算法对误差参数估算准确,对磁场分量和总场模值均有较好的校正效果,证明了算法的有效性。在磁场测量实验中,利用该算法估算出了传感器的误差参数,并对实测磁场数据进行了校正。校正后,数据的转向差得到了明显抑制,提高了三轴磁通门传感器的测量精度。     

Measurement-driven Gauss-Hermite particle filter with soft spatiotemporal constraints for multi-optical theodolites target tracking

Multi-Optical Theodolite Tracking systems (MOTTs) can stealthily extract the target’s status information from bearings only through non-contact measurement. The constrained MOTTs are partially compatible, yet many existing research works and results are based on the known model, ignoring its discrimination with the target maneuvering behavior pattern. To compensate for these mismatches, this paper develops a Measurement-driven Gauss-Hermite Particle Filter (MGHPF), which elegantly fuses the spatiotemporal constraints and its soft form to perform MOTT missions. Specifically, the target dynamic model and tracking algorithm are based on the target behavior pattern with the adaptive turn rate, fully exploiting the spatial epipolar geometry characteristics for each intersection measurement by a minimax strategy. Then, the center of the feasible area is approximated via the analytic coordinate transformation, and the latent samples are updated via the deterministic Gauss-Hermite integral method with the target’s predictive turn rate. Simultaneously, the effects of truncation correction and compensation feedback from the current measurement and historical estimation data are adaptively incorporated into the PF’s importance distribution to cover the mixture likelihood. Besides, an effective causality-invariant updating rule is provided to estimate the parameters of these soft spatiotemporal constrained MOTTs with convergence guarantees. Simulated and measured results show good agreement; compared with the state-of-the-art Multi-Model Rao-Blackwell Particle Filter (MMRBPF), the proposed MGHPF improves the filtering accuracy by 7.4%-34.7% and significantly reduces the computational load.     

Resolution of signal sources via spectral moment estimation

In different practical situations it is desired to estimate the number of signal sources and their positions in space or in frequency domain. The first problem is known as the detection or the order estimation and the second one as the resolution. For the resolution problem techniques such as nonlinear least squares (NLSM), high-order Yule-Walker method (HOYW), multiple signal classification (MUSIC), Pisarenko harmonic retrieval method, min-norm method, estimation of signal parameters by rotational invariance technique (ESPRIT), were proposed (Marple, 1987 and Stoica and Moses, 1997). All these high-resolution methods are based on the analysis of the signal covariance matrix. But the covariance matrix is not the only choice to represent the signal spectrum. In different applications (weather radars, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) signal processing, ultrasound imaging in medicine, atmospheric turbulence measurements) the signal spectrum can be modeled through its algebraic moments. Recently a number of efficient nonparametric methods have been proposed to estimate the algebraic spectral moments (Monakov, 1999). The presented paper is an attempt to solve the direction of arrival (DOA) problem via estimation of the algebraic spectral moments. A method proposed in the article is comparable in its accuracy with the MUSIC method. At the same time its computational burden is much lower. The method permits to estimate the signal power of sources easily to complete the full spectral line analysis. Additionally the method shows good robustness in situations when signal sources have noticeable spatial extend     

A Parametric Technique for Time Delay Estimation

The problem of estimating the time difference of arrival of a signal with unknown spectrum to two receivers is treated. A signal model containing both spectral and delay parameters is derived. The model parameters are computed by a two-step procedure: (1) the modified Yule-Walker equations are used to estimate the autoregressive spectrum of the source signal, and (2) a frequency domain squared error criterion is minimized to provide the delay estimate. The performance of the proposed technique is illustrated by simulation results.     

弧齿锥齿轮齿面拓扑修形及加工参数计算

为了能够实现对齿面啮合性能的灵活控制,针对弧齿锥齿轮小轮提出一种齿面拓扑修形方法,即借助二阶曲面对齿面偏差拓扑的近似表达,将齿面拓扑修形分解为5个方向:螺旋角修正、压力角修正、齿长曲率修正、齿廓曲率修正及齿面挠率修正,通过改变5个方向的修形系数对小轮齿面拓扑结构进行自由控制。在此基础上,建立齿面偏差与机床加工参数之间的修正数学模型,通过构建敏感性矩阵并采用最小二乘法求解,反求出获得修形齿面的小轮加工参数,以便指导加工。以一对弧齿锥齿轮副为例进行修形啮合分析,仿真结果表明:选取齿长曲率修形系数为0.0001,齿廓曲率修形系数为0.0005,齿面挠率修形系数为0.0003,对齿面进行拓扑修形后传动误差幅值为-25.60″,接触迹线倾斜角度变为54.7°,相比原始结果啮合性能得到改善。滚检接触区与理论仿真结果一致,验证了修形方法的有效性。      

A CFAR Design for a Window Spanning Two Clutter Fields

When the heterogeneous clutter field spanning the spatial sampling sliding window can be modeled as two contiguous homogeneous clutter fields with the statistical parameters of each field unknown and independent from field to field and with the transition point between fields also not known, then the cell-averaging constant false alarm rate (CFAR) performance significantly degrades, yielding target masking effects and loss of false alarm regulation. For the same defined and encountered environment spanning the sliding window, the performance degradation effects are shown to be largely eliminated when a newly developed class of CFAR tests is employed. These tests are designated as heterogeneous clutter estimating CFARs (HCE-CFAR). The test initially involves the combined use of multiple hypothesis testing and maximum likelihood estimation procedures to estimate the statistical parameters of each of the two fields, and the transition point between them, and then makes use of the relevant estimated clutter field parameters to effect the final decision rule. HCE-CFAR designs are presented for both the cases when the contiguous fields have Rayleigh first-order probability distributions, and log-normal probability distribution. However, the focus of the development and the conducted performance evaluation is for the Rayleigh clutter cases.