A high quality top view or side view ship ISAR image with proper cross-range scale is very useful for target recognition. A technique aiming at solving the ship top view image scaling is developed, in which the cross-...A high quality top view or side view ship ISAR image with proper cross-range scale is very useful for target recognition. A technique aiming at solving the ship top view image scaling is developed, in which the cross-range scale information is obtained by measuring the slopes of the two feature lines of the ship, the centerline and the stern line. Neither the prior knowledge about the ship nor the tracking data is required. The proposed technique is fully based on the image. It is used with ease and high efficiency. Examples are provided to demonstrate its effectiveness with both simulated and real data. The scaled results are in accordance with the real shape of the ship.展开更多
A novel method of rotated window Radon transform is developed for identifying the linear texture in SAR image.It is applied to automatic detection of the ship wakes of SEASAT SAR image.The location and direction of th...A novel method of rotated window Radon transform is developed for identifying the linear texture in SAR image.It is applied to automatic detection of the ship wakes of SEASAT SAR image.The location and direction of the traveling ship can be quickly and accurately detectec,In some cases, the ship velocity can also be obtained.展开更多
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging of ocean surface features is studied. The simulation of the turbulent and vortical features generated by a moving ship and SAR imaging of these wakes is carried out. The turbulen...Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging of ocean surface features is studied. The simulation of the turbulent and vortical features generated by a moving ship and SAR imaging of these wakes is carried out. The turbulent wake damping the ocean surface capillary waves may be partially responsible for the suppression of surface waves near the ship track. The vortex pair generating a change in the lateral flow field behind the ship may be partially responsible for an enhancement of the waves near the edges of the smooth area. These hydrodynamic phenomena as well as the changes of radar backscatter generated by turbulence and vortex are simulated.An SAR imaging model is then used on such ocean surface features to provide SAR images.Comparison of two ships' simulated SAR images shows that the wake features are different for various ship parameters.展开更多
Moving ships produce a set of waves of "V' pattern on the ocean. These waves can often be seen by Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). The detection of these wakes can provide important information for surveillanc...Moving ships produce a set of waves of "V' pattern on the ocean. These waves can often be seen by Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). The detection of these wakes can provide important information for surveillance of shipping, such as ship traveling direction and speed. A novel approach to the detection of ship wakes in SAR images based on frequency domain is provided in this letter. Compared with traditional Radon-based approaches, computation is reduced by 20%-40% without losing nearly any of detection performance. The testing results using real data and simulation of synthetic SAR images test the algorithm's feasibility and robustness.展开更多
This paper presents a constructive design of new controllers that force underactuated ships under constant or slow time-varying sea loads to asymptotically track a parameterized reference path, that guarantees the dis...This paper presents a constructive design of new controllers that force underactuated ships under constant or slow time-varying sea loads to asymptotically track a parameterized reference path, that guarantees the distance from the ship to the reference path always be within a specified value. The control design is based on a global exponential disturbance observer, a transformation of the ship dynamics to an almost spherical form, an interpretation of the tracking errors in an earth-fixed frame, an introduction of dynamic variables to compensate for relaxation of the reference path generation, p-times differentiable step functions, and backstepping and Lyapunov＇s direct methods. The effectiveness of the proposed results is illustrated through simulations.展开更多
A nonlinear robust control strategy is proposed to force an underactuated surface ship to follow a predefined path with uncertain environmental disturbance and parameters.In the controller design,a high-gain observer ...A nonlinear robust control strategy is proposed to force an underactuated surface ship to follow a predefined path with uncertain environmental disturbance and parameters.In the controller design,a high-gain observer is used to estimate velocities,thus only position and yaw angle measurements are required.The control problem of underactuated system is transformed into a control of fully actuated system through adopting an improved line-of-sight(LOS) guidance law.A sliding-mode controller is designed to eliminate the yaw angle error,and provide the control system robustness.The control law is proved semi-globally exponentially stable(SGES) by applying Lyapunov stability theory,and numerical simulation using real data of a monohull ship illustrates the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed methodology.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.60502030)the Aeronautical Science Foundation of China (No.05D52027).
文摘A high quality top view or side view ship ISAR image with proper cross-range scale is very useful for target recognition. A technique aiming at solving the ship top view image scaling is developed, in which the cross-range scale information is obtained by measuring the slopes of the two feature lines of the ship, the centerline and the stern line. Neither the prior knowledge about the ship nor the tracking data is required. The proposed technique is fully based on the image. It is used with ease and high efficiency. Examples are provided to demonstrate its effectiveness with both simulated and real data. The scaled results are in accordance with the real shape of the ship.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.49831060,No.69771007),and National Defense Foundation
文摘A novel method of rotated window Radon transform is developed for identifying the linear texture in SAR image.It is applied to automatic detection of the ship wakes of SEASAT SAR image.The location and direction of the traveling ship can be quickly and accurately detectec,In some cases, the ship velocity can also be obtained.
文摘Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging of ocean surface features is studied. The simulation of the turbulent and vortical features generated by a moving ship and SAR imaging of these wakes is carried out. The turbulent wake damping the ocean surface capillary waves may be partially responsible for the suppression of surface waves near the ship track. The vortex pair generating a change in the lateral flow field behind the ship may be partially responsible for an enhancement of the waves near the edges of the smooth area. These hydrodynamic phenomena as well as the changes of radar backscatter generated by turbulence and vortex are simulated.An SAR imaging model is then used on such ocean surface features to provide SAR images.Comparison of two ships' simulated SAR images shows that the wake features are different for various ship parameters.
文摘Moving ships produce a set of waves of "V' pattern on the ocean. These waves can often be seen by Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). The detection of these wakes can provide important information for surveillance of shipping, such as ship traveling direction and speed. A novel approach to the detection of ship wakes in SAR images based on frequency domain is provided in this letter. Compared with traditional Radon-based approaches, computation is reduced by 20%-40% without losing nearly any of detection performance. The testing results using real data and simulation of synthetic SAR images test the algorithm's feasibility and robustness.
基金Supported in Part by the Australian Research Council Under Grant No.DP0988424
文摘This paper presents a constructive design of new controllers that force underactuated ships under constant or slow time-varying sea loads to asymptotically track a parameterized reference path, that guarantees the distance from the ship to the reference path always be within a specified value. The control design is based on a global exponential disturbance observer, a transformation of the ship dynamics to an almost spherical form, an interpretation of the tracking errors in an earth-fixed frame, an introduction of dynamic variables to compensate for relaxation of the reference path generation, p-times differentiable step functions, and backstepping and Lyapunov＇s direct methods. The effectiveness of the proposed results is illustrated through simulations.
基金Projects(61004008,51509055)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProject(61422230302162223013)supported by the Laboratory of Science and Technology on Water Jet Propulsion,China
文摘A nonlinear robust control strategy is proposed to force an underactuated surface ship to follow a predefined path with uncertain environmental disturbance and parameters.In the controller design,a high-gain observer is used to estimate velocities,thus only position and yaw angle measurements are required.The control problem of underactuated system is transformed into a control of fully actuated system through adopting an improved line-of-sight(LOS) guidance law.A sliding-mode controller is designed to eliminate the yaw angle error,and provide the control system robustness.The control law is proved semi-globally exponentially stable(SGES) by applying Lyapunov stability theory,and numerical simulation using real data of a monohull ship illustrates the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed methodology.
