Traditionally,beamforming using fractional Fourier transform（FrFT） involves a trial-and-error based FrFT order selection which is impractical.A new numerical order selection scheme is presented based on fractional p...Traditionally,beamforming using fractional Fourier transform（FrFT） involves a trial-and-error based FrFT order selection which is impractical.A new numerical order selection scheme is presented based on fractional power spectra（FrFT moment） of the linear chirp signal.This method can adaptively determine the optimum FrFT order by maximizing the second-order central FrFT moment.This makes the desired chirp signal substantially concentrated whereas the noise is rejected considerably.This improves the mean square error minimization beamformer by reducing effectively the signal-noise cross terms due to the finite data length de-correlation operation.Simulation results show that the new method works well under a wide range of signal to noise ratio and signal to interference ratio.展开更多
Recent advances in electronics have increased the complexity of radar signal modulation.The quasi-linear frequency modulation(quasi-LFM)radar waveforms(LFM,Frank code,P1−P4 code)have similar time-frequency distributio...Recent advances in electronics have increased the complexity of radar signal modulation.The quasi-linear frequency modulation(quasi-LFM)radar waveforms(LFM,Frank code,P1−P4 code)have similar time-frequency distributions,and it is difficult to identify such signals using traditional time-frequency analysis methods.To solve this problem,this paper proposes an algorithm for automatic recognition of quasi-LFM radar waveforms based on fractional Fourier transform and time-frequency analysis.First of all,fractional Fourier transform and the Wigner-Ville distribution(WVD)are used to determine the number of main ridgelines and the tilt angle of the target component in WVD.Next,the standard deviation of the target component's width in the signal's WVD is calculated.Finally,an assembled classifier using neural network is built to recognize different waveforms by automatically combining the three features.Simulation results show that the overall recognition rate of the proposed algorithm reaches 94.17%under 0 dB.When the training data set and the test data set are mixed with noise,the recognition rate reaches 89.93%.The best recognition accuracy is achieved when the size of the training set is taken as 400.The algorithm complexity can meet the requirements of real-time recognition.展开更多
The mismatch between echo and replica caused by underwater moving target(UMT)'s radial velocity degrades the detection performance of the matched filter(MF)for the linear frequency modulation(LFM)signal.By using t...The mismatch between echo and replica caused by underwater moving target(UMT)'s radial velocity degrades the detection performance of the matched filter(MF)for the linear frequency modulation(LFM)signal.By using the focusing property of fractional Fourier transform(FRFT)to that signal,a detection algorithm for UMT's LFM echo based on the discrete fractional Fourier transform(DFRFT)is proposed.This algorithm is less affected by the target's radial velocity compared with the other MF detection algorithm utilizing zero radial velocity replica(ZRVR),and the mathematical relation between the output peak positions of these two algorithms exists in the case of existence of target echo.The algorithm can also estimate the target distance by using this relation.The simulation and experiment show that this algorithm'sdetection performance is better than or equivalent to that of the other MF algorithm utilizing ZRVR for the LFM echo of UMT with unknown radial velocity under reverberation noise background.展开更多
基于快速傅里叶变换的快速迭代收缩阈值算法(fast iterative shrinkage threshold algorithm based on fast Fourier transform, FFT-FISTA)具有较高的计算效率,但其忽略点扩散函数的空间变化及卷绕误差,造成声源识别性能的损失,为此提...基于快速傅里叶变换的快速迭代收缩阈值算法(fast iterative shrinkage threshold algorithm based on fast Fourier transform, FFT-FISTA)具有较高的计算效率,但其忽略点扩散函数的空间变化及卷绕误差,造成声源识别性能的损失,为此提出基于函数波束形成的改进FFT-FISTA算法。改进算法以函数波束形成输出作为FFT-FISTA算法的迭代输入,建立函数波束形成、声源分布及升幂空间转移不变点扩散函数的线性方程组,基于周期边界条件下的快速傅里叶变换进行迭代求解,使被运算的非周期函数变为一个周期函数,解决补零边界带来的波数泄漏问题,可提高运算准确性,进一步提升成像性能;通过指数运算锐化点扩散函数主瓣,拓展点扩散函数空间转移不变性假设的适用性。仿真和试验结果表明,相较于常规FFT-FISTA算法,改进算法能提升成像空间分辨率及动态范围,扩大FFT-FISTA算法的有效成像区域,压缩气体泄漏试验结果验证了改进算法的有效性。展开更多
Fractional Fourier transform(FRFT)is a linear transform generalizing Fourier transform(FT)that plays an important role in the field of signal processing and analysis.FRFT contains an adjustable parameterα,which it ro...Fractional Fourier transform(FRFT)is a linear transform generalizing Fourier transform(FT)that plays an important role in the field of signal processing and analysis.FRFT contains an adjustable parameterα,which it rotates the signal in the time frequency plane and represents the signal in an intermediate domain between time and frequency.FRFT provides a measure about the angular distribution of signal’s energy in time frequency plane.FT is a special case of FRFT when angleαis equal toπ/2.This paper presents mathematical model for obtaining FRFT of PC6 window function.The different parameters of this window function are also obtained with the help of simulation results.A comparison of window function parameters is presented using FT and FRFT.Also comparison of this window function with Hanning window function is presented in terms of Side Lobe Fall off Rate(SLFOR).For different values of FRFT order,PC6 window function shows variation in different parameters.Thus by changing the FRFT order,the minimum stop band attenuation of the resulting window function can be controlled.展开更多
In low earth orbit (LEO) satellite or missile communication scenarios, signals may experience extremely large Doppler shifts and have short visual time. Thus, direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) systems should be a...In low earth orbit (LEO) satellite or missile communication scenarios, signals may experience extremely large Doppler shifts and have short visual time. Thus, direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) systems should be able to achieve acquisition in a very short time in spite of large Doppler frequencies. However, the traditional methods cannot solve it well. This work describes a new method that uses a differential decoding technique for Doppler mitigation and a batch process of FFT (fast Fourier transform) and IFFT (invert FFT) for the purpose of parallel code phase search by frequency domain correlation. After the code phase is estimated, another FFT process is carried out to search the Doppler frequency. Since both code phase and Doppler frequency domains are searched in parallel, this architecture can provide acquisition fifty times faster than conventional FFT methods. The performance in terms of the probability of detection and false alarm are also analyzed and simulated, showing that a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) loss of 3 dB is introduced by the differential decoding. The proposed method is an efficient way to shorten the acquisition time with slightly hardware increasing.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (606720846060203760736006)
文摘Traditionally,beamforming using fractional Fourier transform（FrFT） involves a trial-and-error based FrFT order selection which is impractical.A new numerical order selection scheme is presented based on fractional power spectra（FrFT moment） of the linear chirp signal.This method can adaptively determine the optimum FrFT order by maximizing the second-order central FrFT moment.This makes the desired chirp signal substantially concentrated whereas the noise is rejected considerably.This improves the mean square error minimization beamformer by reducing effectively the signal-noise cross terms due to the finite data length de-correlation operation.Simulation results show that the new method works well under a wide range of signal to noise ratio and signal to interference ratio.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(91538201)the Taishan Scholar Project of Shandong Province(ts201511020)the project supported by Chinese National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Information System Security(6142111190404).
文摘Recent advances in electronics have increased the complexity of radar signal modulation.The quasi-linear frequency modulation(quasi-LFM)radar waveforms(LFM,Frank code,P1−P4 code)have similar time-frequency distributions,and it is difficult to identify such signals using traditional time-frequency analysis methods.To solve this problem,this paper proposes an algorithm for automatic recognition of quasi-LFM radar waveforms based on fractional Fourier transform and time-frequency analysis.First of all,fractional Fourier transform and the Wigner-Ville distribution(WVD)are used to determine the number of main ridgelines and the tilt angle of the target component in WVD.Next,the standard deviation of the target component's width in the signal's WVD is calculated.Finally,an assembled classifier using neural network is built to recognize different waveforms by automatically combining the three features.Simulation results show that the overall recognition rate of the proposed algorithm reaches 94.17%under 0 dB.When the training data set and the test data set are mixed with noise,the recognition rate reaches 89.93%.The best recognition accuracy is achieved when the size of the training set is taken as 400.The algorithm complexity can meet the requirements of real-time recognition.
基金Sponsored by National Nature Science Foundation of China(60472101)
文摘The mismatch between echo and replica caused by underwater moving target(UMT)'s radial velocity degrades the detection performance of the matched filter(MF)for the linear frequency modulation(LFM)signal.By using the focusing property of fractional Fourier transform(FRFT)to that signal,a detection algorithm for UMT's LFM echo based on the discrete fractional Fourier transform(DFRFT)is proposed.This algorithm is less affected by the target's radial velocity compared with the other MF detection algorithm utilizing zero radial velocity replica(ZRVR),and the mathematical relation between the output peak positions of these two algorithms exists in the case of existence of target echo.The algorithm can also estimate the target distance by using this relation.The simulation and experiment show that this algorithm'sdetection performance is better than or equivalent to that of the other MF algorithm utilizing ZRVR for the LFM echo of UMT with unknown radial velocity under reverberation noise background.
文摘基于快速傅里叶变换的快速迭代收缩阈值算法(fast iterative shrinkage threshold algorithm based on fast Fourier transform, FFT-FISTA)具有较高的计算效率,但其忽略点扩散函数的空间变化及卷绕误差,造成声源识别性能的损失,为此提出基于函数波束形成的改进FFT-FISTA算法。改进算法以函数波束形成输出作为FFT-FISTA算法的迭代输入,建立函数波束形成、声源分布及升幂空间转移不变点扩散函数的线性方程组,基于周期边界条件下的快速傅里叶变换进行迭代求解,使被运算的非周期函数变为一个周期函数,解决补零边界带来的波数泄漏问题,可提高运算准确性,进一步提升成像性能;通过指数运算锐化点扩散函数主瓣,拓展点扩散函数空间转移不变性假设的适用性。仿真和试验结果表明,相较于常规FFT-FISTA算法,改进算法能提升成像空间分辨率及动态范围,扩大FFT-FISTA算法的有效成像区域,压缩气体泄漏试验结果验证了改进算法的有效性。
文摘Fractional Fourier transform(FRFT)is a linear transform generalizing Fourier transform(FT)that plays an important role in the field of signal processing and analysis.FRFT contains an adjustable parameterα,which it rotates the signal in the time frequency plane and represents the signal in an intermediate domain between time and frequency.FRFT provides a measure about the angular distribution of signal’s energy in time frequency plane.FT is a special case of FRFT when angleαis equal toπ/2.This paper presents mathematical model for obtaining FRFT of PC6 window function.The different parameters of this window function are also obtained with the help of simulation results.A comparison of window function parameters is presented using FT and FRFT.Also comparison of this window function with Hanning window function is presented in terms of Side Lobe Fall off Rate(SLFOR).For different values of FRFT order,PC6 window function shows variation in different parameters.Thus by changing the FRFT order,the minimum stop band attenuation of the resulting window function can be controlled.
基金Project(60904090) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
文摘In low earth orbit (LEO) satellite or missile communication scenarios, signals may experience extremely large Doppler shifts and have short visual time. Thus, direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) systems should be able to achieve acquisition in a very short time in spite of large Doppler frequencies. However, the traditional methods cannot solve it well. This work describes a new method that uses a differential decoding technique for Doppler mitigation and a batch process of FFT (fast Fourier transform) and IFFT (invert FFT) for the purpose of parallel code phase search by frequency domain correlation. After the code phase is estimated, another FFT process is carried out to search the Doppler frequency. Since both code phase and Doppler frequency domains are searched in parallel, this architecture can provide acquisition fifty times faster than conventional FFT methods. The performance in terms of the probability of detection and false alarm are also analyzed and simulated, showing that a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) loss of 3 dB is introduced by the differential decoding. The proposed method is an efficient way to shorten the acquisition time with slightly hardware increasing.
