Uniform linear array(ULA)radars are widely used in the collision-avoidance radar systems of small unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs).In practice,a ULA's multi-target direction of arrival(DOA)estimation performance suf...Uniform linear array(ULA)radars are widely used in the collision-avoidance radar systems of small unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs).In practice,a ULA's multi-target direction of arrival(DOA)estimation performance suffers from significant performance degradation owing to the limited number of physical elements.To improve the underdetermined DOA estimation performance of a ULA radar mounted on a small UAV platform,we propose a nonuniform linear motion sampling underdetermined DOA estimation method.Using the motion of the UAV platform,the echo signal is sampled at different positions.Then,according to the concept of difference co-array,a virtual ULA with multiple array elements and a large aperture is synthesized to increase the degrees of freedom(DOFs).Through position analysis of the original and motion arrays,we propose a nonuniform linear motion sampling method based on ULA for determining the optimal DOFs.Under the condition of no increase in the aperture of the physical array,the proposed method obtains a high DOF with fewer sampling runs and greatly improves the underdetermined DOA estimation performance of ULA.The results of numerical simulations conducted herein verify the superior performance of the proposed method.展开更多
交叉熵法可显著加速电网可靠性评估,但往往聚焦于独立随机变量,若将其拓展至相关性变量可进一步提升加速性能。为有效获取相关性变量的重要抽样密度函数以实现其重要抽样,针对相关性建模中广泛使用的核密度估计模型(kernel density esti...交叉熵法可显著加速电网可靠性评估,但往往聚焦于独立随机变量,若将其拓展至相关性变量可进一步提升加速性能。为有效获取相关性变量的重要抽样密度函数以实现其重要抽样,针对相关性建模中广泛使用的核密度估计模型(kernel density estimation,KDE)开展了交叉熵优化研究。因KDE模型不属于指数分布家族,传统交叉熵优化难以实施,故利用复合抽样算法特点提出了新颖的直接交叉熵优化方法,推导出KDE模型最优权重参数的解析表达式。因权重参数数量级较小,直接优化易导致准确性退化,故基于子集模拟思想进一步提出间接交叉熵优化方法,将较小的权重参数优化转换成较大的条件概率优化,提升了优化准确性。通过MRTS79和MRTS96可靠性测试系统的评估分析,验证了所提方法在含相关性变量电网可靠性评估中的高效加速性能。展开更多
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(61973037)National 173 Program Project(2019-JCJQ-ZD-324)。
文摘Uniform linear array(ULA)radars are widely used in the collision-avoidance radar systems of small unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs).In practice,a ULA's multi-target direction of arrival(DOA)estimation performance suffers from significant performance degradation owing to the limited number of physical elements.To improve the underdetermined DOA estimation performance of a ULA radar mounted on a small UAV platform,we propose a nonuniform linear motion sampling underdetermined DOA estimation method.Using the motion of the UAV platform,the echo signal is sampled at different positions.Then,according to the concept of difference co-array,a virtual ULA with multiple array elements and a large aperture is synthesized to increase the degrees of freedom(DOFs).Through position analysis of the original and motion arrays,we propose a nonuniform linear motion sampling method based on ULA for determining the optimal DOFs.Under the condition of no increase in the aperture of the physical array,the proposed method obtains a high DOF with fewer sampling runs and greatly improves the underdetermined DOA estimation performance of ULA.The results of numerical simulations conducted herein verify the superior performance of the proposed method.
文摘交叉熵法可显著加速电网可靠性评估,但往往聚焦于独立随机变量,若将其拓展至相关性变量可进一步提升加速性能。为有效获取相关性变量的重要抽样密度函数以实现其重要抽样,针对相关性建模中广泛使用的核密度估计模型(kernel density estimation,KDE)开展了交叉熵优化研究。因KDE模型不属于指数分布家族,传统交叉熵优化难以实施,故利用复合抽样算法特点提出了新颖的直接交叉熵优化方法,推导出KDE模型最优权重参数的解析表达式。因权重参数数量级较小,直接优化易导致准确性退化,故基于子集模拟思想进一步提出间接交叉熵优化方法,将较小的权重参数优化转换成较大的条件概率优化,提升了优化准确性。通过MRTS79和MRTS96可靠性测试系统的评估分析,验证了所提方法在含相关性变量电网可靠性评估中的高效加速性能。
