An adaptive approach to select analysis window param- eters for linear frequency modulated (LFM) signals is proposed to obtain the optimal 3 dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in the short- time Fourier transform (S...An adaptive approach to select analysis window param- eters for linear frequency modulated (LFM) signals is proposed to obtain the optimal 3 dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in the short- time Fourier transform (STFT) domain. After analyzing the instan- taneous frequency and instantaneous bandwidth to deduce the relation between the window length and deviation of the Gaus- sian window, high-order statistics is used to select the appropriate window length for STFT and get the optimal SNR with the right time-frequency resolution according to the signal characteristic under a fixed sampling rate. Computer simulations have verified the effectiveness of the new method.展开更多
Mechanomyography (MMG) acquires the oscillatory waves of contracting muscles. Electromyography (EMG) is a tool for monitoring muscle overall electrical activity. During muscle contractions, both techniques can investi...Mechanomyography (MMG) acquires the oscillatory waves of contracting muscles. Electromyography (EMG) is a tool for monitoring muscle overall electrical activity. During muscle contractions, both techniques can investigate the changes that occur in the muscle properties. EMG and MMG parameters have been used for detecting muscle fatigue with diverse test protocols, sensors and filtering. Depending on the analysis window length (WLA), monitoring physiological events could be compromised due to imprecision in the determination of parameters. Therefore, this study investigated the influence of WLA variation on different MMG and EMG parameters during submaximal isometric contractions monitoring MMG and EMG parameters. Ten male volunteers performed isometric contractions of elbow joint. Triaxial accelerometer-based MMG sensor and EMG electrodes were positioned on the biceps brachii muscle belly. Torque was monitored with a load cell. Volunteers remained seated with hip and elbow joint at angles of 110° and 90°, respectively. The protocol consisted in maintaining torque at 70% of maximum voluntary contraction as long as they could. Parameter data of EMG and the modulus of MMG were determined for four segments of the signal. Statistical analysis consisted of analyses of variance and Fisher’s least square differences post-hoc test. Also, Pearson’s correlation was calculated to determine whether parameters that monitor similar physiological events would have strong correlation. The modulus of MMG mean power frequency (MPF) and the number of crossings in the baseline could detect changes between fresh and fatigued muscle with 1.0 s WLA. MPF and the skewness of the spectrum (μ3), parameters related to the compression of the spectrum, behaved differently when monitored with a triaxial MMG sensor. The EMG results show that for the 1.0 s and 2.0 s WLAs have normalized RMS difference with fatigued muscle and that there was strong correlation between parameters of different domains.展开更多
An adaptive Fourier Transform (FT) with an optimal window has been proposed for the time-frequency analysis of nonstationary time series. The method allows for a good estimation of both frequency and amplitude of th...An adaptive Fourier Transform (FT) with an optimal window has been proposed for the time-frequency analysis of nonstationary time series. The method allows for a good estimation of both frequency and amplitude of the spectrum and can be easily applied to the general case of time-varying signals. The evaluation of the proposed approach has been performed on measured time-varying signals from a suspension bridge model and a steel frame model whose data have the typical non-stationary characteristics. The numerical results show that the proposed approach can overcome some of the difficulties encountered in the classic Fourier transform technique and can achieve higher computation accuracy.展开更多
The coherence cube technology has become an important technology for the seismic attribute interpretation, which extracts the discontinuities of the events through analyzing the similarities of adjacent seismic channe...The coherence cube technology has become an important technology for the seismic attribute interpretation, which extracts the discontinuities of the events through analyzing the similarities of adjacent seismic channels to identify the fault form. The coherence cube technology which uses constant time window lengths can not balance the shallow layers and the deep layers, because the frequency band of seismic data varies with time. When analyzing the shallow layers, the time window will crossover a lot of events, which will lead to weak focusing ability and failure to delineate the details. While the time window will not be long enough for analyzing deep layers, which will lead to low accuracy because the coherences near the zero points of the events are heavily influenced by noise. For solving the problem, we should make a research on the coherence cube technology with self-adaptive time window. This paper determines the sample points' time window lengths in real time by computing the instantaneous frequency bands with Wavelet Transformation, which gives a coherence computing method with the self-adaptive time window lengths. The result shows that the coherence cube technology with self-adaptive time window based on Wavelet Transformation improves the accuracy of fault identification, and supresses the noise effectively. The method combines the advantages of long time window method and short time window method.展开更多
为了使短时傅里叶变换(short time Fourier transform,简称STFT)获得良好的时频聚集性,必须根据信号的具体特点来选择窗长。分析了现有窗长选择准则的选择机理及其优缺点,发现归一化3阶Renyi熵准则与Stankovic准则一般只会取到窗长选择...为了使短时傅里叶变换(short time Fourier transform,简称STFT)获得良好的时频聚集性,必须根据信号的具体特点来选择窗长。分析了现有窗长选择准则的选择机理及其优缺点,发现归一化3阶Renyi熵准则与Stankovic准则一般只会取到窗长选择范围的最大值,并分析了出现这种问题的原因,而其他准则得到的也不是最优的窗长。提出了一种新的基于对数窗能量的窗长选择准则。对数窗能量与窗长是一种非线性关系,这显著区别于普通窗能量随窗长线性增长的特性,且其增长速度与窗型无关,并在短窗和长窗具有不同的增长速度,因而能够在短窗和长窗之间取得良好的折衷。提供了仿真信号和实际信号的处理实例,其结果证明对数窗能量准则使STFT获得了良好的时频聚集性,效果优于现有的窗长选择准则。展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(6107313361175053+8 种基金6127236960975019)the Heilongjiang Postdoctoral Grant(LRB08362)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China(2011QN0272011QN1262012QN0302011ZD010)the Science and Technology Planning Project of Dalian City(2011A17GX0732010E15SF153)
文摘An adaptive approach to select analysis window param- eters for linear frequency modulated (LFM) signals is proposed to obtain the optimal 3 dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in the short- time Fourier transform (STFT) domain. After analyzing the instan- taneous frequency and instantaneous bandwidth to deduce the relation between the window length and deviation of the Gaus- sian window, high-order statistics is used to select the appropriate window length for STFT and get the optimal SNR with the right time-frequency resolution according to the signal characteristic under a fixed sampling rate. Computer simulations have verified the effectiveness of the new method.
基金CNPq and CAPES for the financial support and grants received.
文摘Mechanomyography (MMG) acquires the oscillatory waves of contracting muscles. Electromyography (EMG) is a tool for monitoring muscle overall electrical activity. During muscle contractions, both techniques can investigate the changes that occur in the muscle properties. EMG and MMG parameters have been used for detecting muscle fatigue with diverse test protocols, sensors and filtering. Depending on the analysis window length (WLA), monitoring physiological events could be compromised due to imprecision in the determination of parameters. Therefore, this study investigated the influence of WLA variation on different MMG and EMG parameters during submaximal isometric contractions monitoring MMG and EMG parameters. Ten male volunteers performed isometric contractions of elbow joint. Triaxial accelerometer-based MMG sensor and EMG electrodes were positioned on the biceps brachii muscle belly. Torque was monitored with a load cell. Volunteers remained seated with hip and elbow joint at angles of 110° and 90°, respectively. The protocol consisted in maintaining torque at 70% of maximum voluntary contraction as long as they could. Parameter data of EMG and the modulus of MMG were determined for four segments of the signal. Statistical analysis consisted of analyses of variance and Fisher’s least square differences post-hoc test. Also, Pearson’s correlation was calculated to determine whether parameters that monitor similar physiological events would have strong correlation. The modulus of MMG mean power frequency (MPF) and the number of crossings in the baseline could detect changes between fresh and fatigued muscle with 1.0 s WLA. MPF and the skewness of the spectrum (μ3), parameters related to the compression of the spectrum, behaved differently when monitored with a triaxial MMG sensor. The EMG results show that for the 1.0 s and 2.0 s WLAs have normalized RMS difference with fatigued muscle and that there was strong correlation between parameters of different domains.
基金Sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 50378041) the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program ofHigher Education (Grant No. 20030487016).
文摘An adaptive Fourier Transform (FT) with an optimal window has been proposed for the time-frequency analysis of nonstationary time series. The method allows for a good estimation of both frequency and amplitude of the spectrum and can be easily applied to the general case of time-varying signals. The evaluation of the proposed approach has been performed on measured time-varying signals from a suspension bridge model and a steel frame model whose data have the typical non-stationary characteristics. The numerical results show that the proposed approach can overcome some of the difficulties encountered in the classic Fourier transform technique and can achieve higher computation accuracy.
文摘The coherence cube technology has become an important technology for the seismic attribute interpretation, which extracts the discontinuities of the events through analyzing the similarities of adjacent seismic channels to identify the fault form. The coherence cube technology which uses constant time window lengths can not balance the shallow layers and the deep layers, because the frequency band of seismic data varies with time. When analyzing the shallow layers, the time window will crossover a lot of events, which will lead to weak focusing ability and failure to delineate the details. While the time window will not be long enough for analyzing deep layers, which will lead to low accuracy because the coherences near the zero points of the events are heavily influenced by noise. For solving the problem, we should make a research on the coherence cube technology with self-adaptive time window. This paper determines the sample points' time window lengths in real time by computing the instantaneous frequency bands with Wavelet Transformation, which gives a coherence computing method with the self-adaptive time window lengths. The result shows that the coherence cube technology with self-adaptive time window based on Wavelet Transformation improves the accuracy of fault identification, and supresses the noise effectively. The method combines the advantages of long time window method and short time window method.
文摘为了使短时傅里叶变换(short time Fourier transform,简称STFT)获得良好的时频聚集性,必须根据信号的具体特点来选择窗长。分析了现有窗长选择准则的选择机理及其优缺点,发现归一化3阶Renyi熵准则与Stankovic准则一般只会取到窗长选择范围的最大值,并分析了出现这种问题的原因,而其他准则得到的也不是最优的窗长。提出了一种新的基于对数窗能量的窗长选择准则。对数窗能量与窗长是一种非线性关系,这显著区别于普通窗能量随窗长线性增长的特性,且其增长速度与窗型无关,并在短窗和长窗具有不同的增长速度,因而能够在短窗和长窗之间取得良好的折衷。提供了仿真信号和实际信号的处理实例,其结果证明对数窗能量准则使STFT获得了良好的时频聚集性,效果优于现有的窗长选择准则。