基于改进互耦系数估计算法的自适应波束形成

阵列信号在实际应用中,常常会面临噪声的干扰,低信噪比(signal noise ratio, SNR)时波束形成器性能会急剧下降.针对该问题,提出一种基于改进互耦系数估计的抗互耦算法的自适应波束形成,即研究信号在不同输入SNR以及不同干扰波达方向(direction of arrival,DOA)估计误差下的互耦系数估计误差;并通过误差分析修正原算法不同SNR下参与估计信号的数目.改进算法改进了导向矢量和期望信号,提高了低SNR下互耦系数估计的准确度,对比分析验证了其在低SNR情况下有更强的抗干扰能力,对互耦现象有着更好的稳健性.     

Array Calibration for CDMA Smart Antenna Systems

In this paper, we investigate array calibration algorithms to derive a further improved version for correcting antenna array errors and RF transceiver errors in CDMA smart antenna systems. The structure of a multi‐channel RF transceiver with a digital calibration apparatus and its calibration techniques are presented, where we propose a new RF receiver calibration scheme to minimize interference of the calibration signal on the user signals. The calibration signal is injected into a multichannel receiver through a calibration signal injector whose array response vector is controlled in order to have a low correlation with the antenna response vector of the receive signals. We suggest a model‐based antenna array calibration to remove the antenna array errors including mutual coupling errors or to predict the element patterns from the array manifold measured at a small number of angles. Computer simulations and experiment results are shown to verify the calibration algorithms.     

一种阵列天线阵元幅相、位置误差校正方法

针对毫米波热辐射信号弱的问题,该文提出一种对存在阵元幅相、位置误差的线阵进行校正的方法。该文基于低信噪比(SNR)的阵列误差模型,利用单个校正源,其信源方向未精确已知,通过旋转天线阵列在多个校正方位测得校正数据,并估计出阵元幅相、位置误差参数,从而对阵列中的阵元幅相、位置误差进行联合校正。该方法运算复杂度低,具有较高的估计精度,校正性能良好。理论分析和计算机仿真结果表明了该文方法的有效性。     

毫米波热辐射阵列的空间谱估计阵列误差模型研究

将空间谱估计算法应用于毫米波热辐射阵列接收系统对目标进行超分辨率探测,需要解决目标热辐射信号弱及阵列误差使性能下降这两个主要问题.为此,建立了低信噪比阵列误差模型,该模型综合考虑了通道幅相误差对信源和通道噪声的影响,推导出由它们所造成的阵列接收数据自相关矩阵的特征值扰动范围和信号特征向量空间误差距离.利用该模型提出了一种通道幅相误差校正算法,使得高分辨率的空间谱估计算法能够很好地应用于毫米波热辐射阵列接收系统,并通过实验验证了新模型及校正算法的正确性和有效性.     

“北斗”信号重构的导向矢量实时校正

针对导航应用中阵列天线导向矢量误差导致波束合成器性能恶化甚至失效的问题,提出了一种“北斗”信号重构的导向矢量实时校正算法。该算法利用重构的本地“北斗”参考信号与阵列天线接收信号进行相关解扩处理,然后利用信号子空间与信号正交补空间正交的特性,构造代价函数对各卫星方向的阵列导向矢量进行校正。仿真结果表明,经过校正的导向矢量相位误差从-100°~100°降低到-10°~10°范围内,幅度误差从-10~10 dB降低到-4~2 dB范围内;另外,导向矢量校正后,卫星信号波达方向估计误差在0.2°以内,估计精度大大提高。     

宽带聚焦数字波束形成技术

分析了宽带信号波束形成研究的应用背景，并概述其国内外研究现状以及所提出方法的基本思路和应用范围。根据最近提出的频率域频率不变波束形成技术需要进行方位角初次估计和进行多次奇异值分解的问题，提出了在任意传感器阵列存在误差和互耦的情况下，基于摄动方法的宽带信号方位估计算法。该方法在考虑阵列位置、增益和相位测量误差和阵元之间存在互耦的情况下，提出了聚焦矩阵的摄动算法；最后，利用聚焦求和窄带方位估计的方法对宽带信号进行方位估计。     

DOA estimation with double L-shaped array based on Hadamard product and joint diagonalization in the presence of sensor gain-phase errors

A method with double L-shaped array for direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation in the presence of sensor gain-phase errors is presented. The reason for choosing double L-shaped array is that the shared elements between sub-arrays are the most and rotation invariant property can be applied for this array. The proposed method is introduced as follows. (1) If the number of signal is one, first the gain errors are estimated and removed with the diagonal of the covariance matrix of the array output. Then the array is rotated by an unknown angle and DOA can be estimated with the relationship between signal subspace and steering vector of signal. (2) If signals are more than one, the method for eliminating gain errors is the same with the previous case, and then the phase errors are removed by the Hadamard product of the (cross) covariance matrix and its conjugate. After the errors are eliminated, the DOAs can be estimated by rotation invariant property and orthogonal joint diagonalization for the Hadamard product. This method requires neither calibrated sources nor multidimensional parameter search, and its performance is independent of the phase errors. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

     

超宽带信号DOA的估计方法

对信号到达角(DOA)的估计是超宽带定位的关键技术之一.传统的到达角估计方法都基于窄带信号,已不能直接应用在超宽带场合,因此提出了一种基于频域模型的宽带子空间谱估计方法.仿真结果表明,该方法能准确估计超宽带信号的到达角.     

基于改进的循环互相关MUSIC算法的波达方向估计

给出了基于循环互相关运算的信号模型，根据该信号模型，运用改进的循环互相MUSIC算法得到了对具有循环平稳特性的空间源信号波达方向进行估计的有效方法——ICCC-MUSIC算法；定性的分析和仿真实验均表明该方法具有较好的抑制噪声和选择信号的能力，为利用天线阵列提取具有循环平稳特性的源信号提供了较好的实现方法。     

阵列存在未知有界扰动的鲁棒加权子空间拟合

由于阵列响应难于精确标定,因此,阵列信号处理算法的性能不仅受测量噪声的影响同时还受阵列响应扰动的影响。信号回波方向估计DOA受该系统扰动的影响很大。以往的研究均将模型的扰动假设为随机误差,且往往假设扰动是相关矩阵已知的高斯分布。然而,实际系统误差很难满足这一假设。模型误差的更合理的假设是未知有界(UBB)的假设,这里,研究模型扰动是未知有界时,信号的DOA估计问题,提出了鲁棒的信号子空间拟合原理,并用二次锥规划来求解。数值仿真表明该算法是有效的。     

基于斜投影的DOA估计和盲信号识别协同算法

阵列信号处理领域中,经常需要分析阵列接收信号的波达方向(DOA)和波形信息。在缺乏信号先验DOA和波形信息的情况下,提出了一种新的斜投影DOA估计和盲信号识别协同算法,实现对未知阵列接收信号的自适应分析。该算法交替地采用斜投影空域滤波技术将阵列接收信号拆分为单信号群组,在每个单信号群组内进行DOA和波形联合估计。算法适用于主瓣干扰存在的情况,并且在中小快拍数下有较好的估计性能。理论分析和仿真实验证实了文中算法的有效性。     

稀疏极化敏感阵列的波达方向和极化参数联合估计

该文采用稀疏分布极化敏感阵列(SD-PSA),研究了多目标波达方向(DOA)和极化参数的估计问题。首先建立稀疏极化敏感阵列信号模型;然后利用阵列的空间旋转不变性运用ESPRIT算法得出信号的高精度周期性模糊多值DOA估计;同时利用子阵列导向矢量之间的关系得出信号的极化信息和DOA的无模糊粗估计;最后利用DOA粗估计值解模糊,得到信号的高精度无模糊DOA估计。该文所提阵列的阵元间距大于半个波长距离,扩展了阵列2维物理孔径,一定程度上降低了阵元间的互耦影响,相应的信号DOA估计精度大大提高。仿真实验结果验证了该算法对信号DOA和极化参数估计的有效性。     

基于波束域预处理的阵列盲信号分离方法

相控阵雷达采用多个阵元进行信号的接收处理,其多通道信号处理可以采用盲信号处理的方法进行目标源信号分离.由于阵元间距导致信号在阵元间产生相位延迟,在进行盲分离的时候一般只能采用卷积混合模型,盲分离过程是较为复杂的多通道反卷积问题.文中对阵列接收信号进行波束域预处理,通过确定的空间波束相位补偿,将阵元域的多时延混合信号变换为瞬时混合信号,从而采用简单的实数分离算法即可完成信号分离,分离信号可用于后置处理.所提方法简单有效,相比常规阵列信号处理方法,可直接适用于宽带信号.仿真实验验证了其有效性.     

一种利用旋转结构的分布式信号DOA估计方法

某些领域中由于多径影响信号往往具有分布特性,此时传统波达方向(DOA)参数估计算法往往失效.针对此类问题提出了一种无需搜索的分布式信号DOA估计算法,该方法利用已知信号有用信息逐一估计分布信号在相邻阵元间产生的旋转因子,利用DOA旋转不变结构估计分布目标DOA参数.与点目标ESPRIT方法相比该方法能够有效克服多径扩展影响,不敏感于多径分布的具体形式,并在一定程度上抑制相位误差影响.仿真实验证明了其有效性.     

一般阵列误差情况下空时谱分析的研究

本文研究了一般阵列误差情况下的空时二维鲁棒参数估计方法.首先本文给出了一般阵列误差模型,然后基于该模型提出了空时加权子空间拟合(ST-WSF)算法,并给出了信号参数,即信号波达方向和频率的估计的Cramér-Rao下界.仿真结果进一步验证了算法的有效性.     

Outage Probabilities of Wireless Systems With Imperfect Beamforming

This paper investigates the outage probability of a wireless system with conventional beamforming using a uniform linear array beamformer. The focus is to examine the impact of beamforming impairments, such as direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation errors, signal spatial spreads, antenna array perturbation, and mutual coupling. Fading statistics of Rayleigh, Rician, and Nakagami are used to characterize the desired signal, whereas interferers are assumed to be subject to Rayleigh fading. A simplified beamforming model is used in deriving closed-form outage probability expressions. Numerical results illustrate the increase of outage probabilities in the presence of DOA estimation errors, signal spatial spreads, and antenna perturbation. However, negligible outage performance impact is observed due to mutual coupling.     

多入多出系统测向精度与空域相关分析

分析了多人多出系统测向精度问题.提出了天线接收端利用圆形天线阵的布阵形式.精度分析是在该阵列形状下进行的.理论上分析了天线阵列形式与角度估计之间的关系.并在此条件下,分析了影响角度估计精度的各个参数.在此基础上推导了角度估计精度公式,通过计算机仿真进行验证.并将该种阵列形式与常规的阵列进行了对比,为以后多入多出天线系统的构建提供了一定的参考参数.以及在对 MIMO 系统性能进行评估时,影响评估参数的影响因子.     

Direction-of-arrival estimation based on spatial–temporal statistics without knowing the source number

Direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is a central problem in array processing and has a variety of applications. In this paper, a new algorithm for finding DOAs of multiple temporally correlated signals is devised. The proposed approach is based on the joint diagonalization structure of a set of spatio-temporal correlation matrices. Unlike the subspace-based DOA estimators, it is not necessary to estimate the noise or signal subspace explicitly. Moreover, the proposed method can provide the spatial spectrum and estimate the DOAs even when the number of sources is not known a priori. Interestingly, it is revealed that the well-known MUSIC method is a special case of our algorithm. Simulation results validate that the developed approach is superior to conventional DOA estimators in terms of resolution capability, estimation accuracy, and robustness against array model errors.     

Phase-Locked Loop Coherent Combiners for Phased Array Sensor Systems

Phase-locked loops (PLL's) may be used to implement signal combiners which coherently sum multiple signals from an array of sensors. In each combiner channel, the sensor signal is simultaneously downconverted to an intermediate frequency (IF) signal and phase-locked to an appropriately generated reference signal by a "long-loop" PLL. This loop maintains a nominal 90° phase difference between the IF signal and the reference signal irrespective of phase of the channel input (sensor output) signal. The channel IF signals are summed to generate the combiner output signal. The reference signal may be a locally generated sine wave or a delayed version of the combiner output signal. Imperfect phase control and, thus, imperfect signal combining results when noise voltages are associated with the channel signals. In this paper, a lincarized model of a PLL coherent combiner is developed. This model applies when the desired channel signals are equal amplitude and angle modulated; the channel noise voltages are equal level, Gaussian distributed, and independent; and the combiner phase errors are appropriately small. This model is then used to derive equations for the variance of differential phase errors associated with combiner operation and to show the effect of these phase errors on the average power in the combiner output signal. Relevant experimental results from a four-channel combiner are compared with the performance predicted by the linear model.     

The effects of array calibration errors on DF-based signal copyperformance

This paper studies the effect of array calibration errors on the performance of various direction finding (DF) based signal copy algorithms. Unlike blind copy methods, this class of algorithms requires an estimate of the directions of arrival (DOAs) of the signals in order to compute the copy weight vectors. Under the assumption that the observation time is sufficiently long, the following algorithms are studied: classical beamforming, least squares, total least squares, linearly constrained minimum variance beamforming, and structured stochastic estimation. Expressions for the mean-square error of the signal estimates are derived as a function of the calibration errors for both the case where the DOAs are known precisely and for the case where the DOAs must be estimated