Reference Loop Phase Shift in an N-Element Adaptive Array

Adaptive arrays based on the LMS algorithm require the generation of a reference signal which is usually derived from the array output. A particular problem associated with this technique is that of a phase shift in the reference signal loop. The effects of this phase shift on the performance of an N-element adaptive array are discussed. It is shown that a reference loop phase shift causes the array weights to cycle, thereby frequency translating the signals at the output. The weight-cycling frequency is related to various system parameters of an N-element array. In particular, it is observed that the cycling frequency increases as the number of antennas (N) increases.     

Reference Loop Phase Shift in Adaptive Arrays

Adaptive arrays for use in communication systems require the generation of a so-called reference signal, which is usually derived from the array output. A particular problem associated with this technique, the problem of reference loop phase shift, is discussed. It is shown that phase shift in the reference loop causes the array weights to cycle, and also causes the array to frequency-modulate the signal. In spite of this frequency change, the array maintains a maximum SNR at the output.     

Interference Canceler Array with Reference Generating Loop

Adaptive arrays utilizing an internally generated reference signal to drive least mean square (LMS) weight determining loops have experienced difficulty arising from phase shifts induced by the reference generating circuits. The phenomenon observed is that the expected value of the weights oscillate in the steady state modulating the incoming signal. A scheme is reported which avoids this problem. It differs from earlier methods in that the reference generator has no infinite limiter so that the amplitude of the reference is not constant and in that one element is left unweighted. Alternative schemes were considered wherein the reference signal is drawn from all the array elements or from the weighted elements only. Only the latter is fully reported here, and is found superior. It is shown that in the presence of a desired signal and independent element noise, the processing scheme proposed produces weights whose expected values converge to a constant nonoscillatory state provided certain mild constraints are satisfied. In particular, if a cos ? ? 1, a being the gain and ? the phase shift of the filter in the reference generator, the weights converge. In addition, the steady state signal-to-noise power ratio (SNR) is determined. It is found that with a cos ? close to unity the SNR is that of an (N-1) element array coherently combined, where N is the number of elements. The SNR falls off with departures of a and ? from 1 and 0, respectively, but not drastically.     

防止Ⅱ型驾驶员诱发振荡技术的研究

许多严重的飞行事故都与由速率限制引起的Ⅱ型PIO有关。针对如何预防PIO，首先介绍了自适应杆增益和软件限制环节的设计原理。然后以某带速率限制的电传飞机为例，运用同一理论，分析采用自适应杆增益和软件限制环节来改善速率限制的不利影响。仿真结果表明，自适应杆增益环节和软件限制环节都能抑制住PIO的发生，但两者组合加入抑制效果更好，飞行品质也能达到满意的程度。     

Phase-Shift-Keyed Signal Detection with Noisy Reference Signals

This paper derives and graphically illustrates the performance characteristics of Phase-Shift-Keyed communication systems where the receiver's phase reference is noisy and derived from the observed waveform by means of a narrow-band tracking filter (a phase-locked loop). In particular, two phase measurement methods are considered. One method requires the transmission of an auxiliary carrier (in practice, this signal is usually referred to as the sync subcarrier). This carrier is tracked at the receiver by means of a phase-locked loop, and the output of this loop is used as a reference signal for performing a coherent detection. The second method is self-synchronizing in that the reference signal is derived from the modulated data signal by means of a squaring-loop. The statistics (and their properties) of the differenced-correlator outputs are derived and graphically illustrated as a function of the signal-to-noise ratio existing in the tracking filter's loop bandwidth and the signal-to-noise ratio in the data channel. Conclusions of these results as well as design trends are presented.     

An Inverted VOR of Small Aperture

A new type of omnirange very-high-frequency omnidirectional radio (VOR), intended to be compatible with existing receivers, is described. It is ``inverted' in the sense that reference phase is transmitted by AM, as in the Doppler VOR (DVOR). Variable phase is radiated as a rotating square-wave FM field, the radiating elements being concentric loop antennas with circumferences equal to integer numbers of wave-lengths. Each loop radiates one term in the Fourier expansion of the variable phase field.     

Ⅱ型PIO反馈与前馈抑制系统对比

 当舵机速率限制饱和时会产生附加时延,恶化飞行品质,触发Ⅱ型驾驶员诱发振荡（PIO）。运用描述函数法研究速率限制反馈（RLF）和死区增稳（DASA）Ⅱ型PIO抑制系统的开环相位补偿能力,提出RLF抑制系统的参数优化选择方法,分析了DASA抑制系统中死区和滤波器参数对相位补偿能力的影响。研究了两型抑制系统对正弦与偏差输入信号的开环响应特点。建立了含速率限制器的人机系统数学模型,基于描述函数法探究了Ⅱ型PIO的产生机理,推导了抑制Ⅱ型PIO发生的公式,应用连续信号相位补偿法抑制Ⅱ型PIO的发生。对阶跃、离散和正弦3种易于诱发PIO现象的跟踪任务进行数值仿真,对比了两种抑制系统的Ⅱ型PIO抑制能力。结果表明,反馈型RLF抑制系统对Ⅱ型PIO的抑制能力强于前馈型DASA抑制系统,有效降低了Ⅱ型PIO发生的可能性。     

闭环光纤陀螺的死区现象及克服死区实验

克服死区是闭环光纤陀螺设计中需要考虑的重要问题。运用适当的小角速度测试方法测得了闭环光纤陀螺输出信号中的死区。采用了一种简便的偏置输出相移信号的方法以克服闭环光纤陀螺输出信号中的死区。实验表明,上述方法可以克服死区。     

基于UKF准开环结构的高动态载波跟踪环路

 对高动态环境下的全球卫星导航系统（GNSS）载波信号跟踪方法进行了研究。在分析高动态载波信号模型的基础上,提出了一种基于无迹卡尔曼滤波（UKF）的准开环载波跟踪方法。此方法能够消除导航数据二进制相移键控(BPSK)调制的影响,并采用四维UKF相位估计模型提高跟踪精度,同时对估计值进行补偿以减少滤波器的滞后性。通过模拟接收机的高动态运动轨迹,从跟踪误差、跟踪结果和补偿效果3个方面,与基于卡尔曼滤波（KF）的锁频环(FLL)辅助锁相环(PLL)结构的传统跟踪方法进行比较,结果表明基于UKF的准开环跟踪方法能够有效地完成高动态环境下的载波跟踪。     

An Optimum Phase Reference Detector for Fully Modulated Phase-Shift Keyed Signals

Many modern telemetry systems which use phase-shift keying (PSK) have receivers which derive a coherent reference from the fully modulated PSK signal itself and thus conserve the energy which otherwise would be allocated to a discrete reference signal. In this paper, an optimum receiver structure for estimating a phase reference from the PSK signal itself is derived and its realization discussed. It is shown that at low signal-to-noise ratios, the optimum detector can be realized with a Costas loop. Since a Costas loop and squaring loop exhibit identical performance, it follows that either of these simple devices gives optimum performance for low-input signal-to-noise ratios.     

Uniform Sampling Analysis of a Hybrid Phase-Locked Loop with a Sample-and-Hold Phase Detector

Phase-locked-loop (PLL) bit synchronizers often employ integrate-and-dump type phase detectors that provide phase error information only at discrete points in time. Usually these phase detectors are followed by sample-and-hold circuits to produce a stairstep error voltage as the input to a standard analog circuit loop filter. When the loop is configured in this manner, it is referred to as a hybrid PLL. Sampled-data analysis methods (Z transforms) are used to determine the stability and transient response of this loop.     

ATS-6 Spacecraft Attitude Precision Pointing & Slewing Adaptive Control Experiment

The primary objective of the Spacecraft Attitude Precision Pointing and Slewing Adaptive Control (SAPPSAC) Experiment is to establish feasibility and evaluate capabilities of a ground-based spacecraft attitude control system, wherein RF command and telemetry links, together with a ground station on-line minicomputer, perform closed loop attitude control of the Applications Technology Satellite -6 (ATS-6). The ground processor is described, including operational characteristics and the controller software. Attitude maneuvers include precision pointing to fixed targets, slewing between targets, and generation of prescribed ground tracks. Test results show high performance and reliability for over 30 h of on-line control with no serious anomalies. Attitude stabilization relative to a prescribed target has been achieved to better than 0.007° in pitch and roll and 0.020° in yaw for a period of 43 min. Ground tracks were generated which had maximum latitude/longitude deviations less than 0.150 from reference.     

Coherent Square Wave Demodulation of Ideal Limiter Output

An ideal limiter may be used to single-bit quantize a noisy sinusoidal signal. This digitization is particularly economical if the signal is to be recorded. lt might then be desired to obtain phase coherence with the limited input signal. A single-bit digital phase-locked loop. utilizing a square wave reference, could be used for this purpose. The effects of coherent square wave demodulation on the signal-to-noise ratio and the (signal-to-noise spectral density) ratio are discussed. The latter result is directly applicable to the performance of the digital phase-locked loop.     

Further studies on efficient AFEC schemes for Ka-bandsatellite systems

Adaptive fade margin is required to counter the severe but varying rain attenuation in Ka satellite communications. In searching for a suitable rain countermeasure, the effectiveness of the adaptive forward error control (AFEC) scheme is studied. Two AFEC schemes using convolutional codes and concatenated codes are proposed and their performance analyzed. The schemes can provide a progressively adaptive fade margin of 10.1 and 10.4 dB, respectively, in excess of the systems fixed fade margin. To improve the efficient use of shared resources of the system, an AFEC scheme using double coding is introduced, and its performance is analyzed. In this scheme a single codec is used repeatedly, and as a result the hardware cost is reduced and the utilization increased. The effective usable capacity of a conceptual AFEC resource sharing scheme using Golay double coding is also analyzed     

On the Acquisition Time for an Apollo Ranging Code

An Apollo ranging system is considered whose phase reference is obtained by a phase-locked loop for bit synchronization. The bit phase reference is noisy, and the error probability for the ranging code is shown to depend on the input signal energy per bit to noise density ratio. The procedure of computing the acquisition time for the ranging code is then presented and the acquisition time for a lunar ranging code is plotted versus the input signal-to-noise density ratio.     

Phase-Frequency Detection in Sampled Phase-Locked Frequency Mlultipliers

Phase-locked high-frequency multipliers which do not have powergreedy frequency dividers in the feedback loop, but which do have a sample-and-hold circuit as a phase detector are hard to design, due to conflicting requirements which determine the choice for loop gain and loop bandwidth. A circuit is described that acts as a frequency control if the loop is not locked and as a phase control once the loop can be locked. The loop filter has to be optimized for the locked condition only, and the allowable preset error is more than 80 percent of the sample frequency. The circuit also indicates whether the oscillator frequency is an odd or an even multiple of the sample frequency. Pull-in is at least an order of magnitude faster than with phase control alone.     

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     

一种基于参数控制的低轨星载接收机载波跟踪算法CSCD

低轨星座接收机面临大多普勒频移及频繁快速换星等设计约束,对其载波跟踪环路设计提出了较高的动态适应性与跟踪精度要求。针对以上问题,提出了一种基于参数控制的载波跟踪算法。该算法引入环路控制因子参数,将环路滤波器分为牵引和跟踪两阶段。基于理论建模推导环路控制因子的最优参数配置原则,指导实现牵引和跟踪两种状态滤波器的协同配合,在牵引阶段有效引导大多普勒信号快速入锁,在跟踪阶段精确估计载波频移参数,实现基于低轨星载平台的GNSS信号快速准确跟踪。理论与仿真结果均表明基于参数控制的载波跟踪算法能够有效提升环路的动态适应性与跟踪精度,满足低轨星载接收机的设计需求。与传统算法相比,该算法在保证信号跟踪精度的同时,能够将收敛时间缩短78%,且环路设计简单,易于硬件实现。     

微型燃气轮机发电站控制策略分析

介绍了微型燃气轮机发电站的技术特点,基于基本PI算法,分析了微型燃气轮机发电站的基本控制策略。在传统的PI算法基础上,分析了微燃机的嵌套闭环控制策略,分别对微型燃气轮机发电站的转速闭环、功率闭环以及排气温度闭环的控制策略进行了分析和研究,并给出了三个闭环的相关试验曲线。研究结果表明,基于基本PI算法的嵌套闭环控制策略适用于微燃机发电站,可保证电站具有很好的经济性和工作稳定性,其对提高电站的使用寿命也有很大帮助,具有很好的工程应用价值。     

High-Resolution, Radar Coherent Linear FM Microwave Source

The microwave CLFM study was directed to generating 14 ?s S-band pulses of 1000 MHz bandwidth and an rms phase error of a few degrees. Over 972 MHz bandwidth, the sampled phase error relative to the reference was 7 degrees rms and 17 degrees peak, with a maximum Fourier component of 4 degrees. The FM pulse train is generated by a gated BWO driven by a stable linearizing waveform. Phase coherency during each pulse is obtained by a sampling technique, where the phase is corrected at intervals of 1/6 ?s, the RF phase having changed an integral number of cycles in each interval. Multiplication of the BWO signal by the sampling pulse train results in band-limited phase error pulses which are applied in a feedback loop. Pulse-to-pulse coherency is obtained by phase lock of the BWO starting frequency to the crystal reference. Feedback leveling holds the output constant to 0.3 dB. The basic MITRE technique was originally demonstrated at 10 MHz in 1964. Range results measured with the X-band model radar using the CLFM generator are given and confirm the phase errors of the CLFM.