Robust Space-Time Adaptive Track-Before-Detect Algorithm Based on Persymmetry and Symmetric Spectrum

Underwater monopulse space-time adaptive track-before-detect method,which combines space-time adaptive detector(STAD)and the track-before-detect algorithm based on dynamic programming(DP-TBD),denoted as STAD-DP-TBD,can effectively detect low-speed weak targets.However,due to the complexity and variability of the underwater environment,it is difficult to obtain sufficient secondary data,resulting in a serious decline in the detection and tracking performance,and leading to poor robustness of the algorithm.In this paper,based on the adaptive matched filter(AMF)test and the RAO test,underwater monopulse AMF-DP-TBD algorithm and RAO-DP-TBD algorithm which incorporate persymmetry and symmetric spectrum,denoted as PSAMF-DP-TBD and PS-RAO-DP-TBD,are proposed and compared with the AMF-DP-TBD algorithm and RAO-DP-TBD algorithm based on persymmetry array,denoted as P-AMF-DP-TBD and P-RAO-DP-TBD.The simulation results show that the four methods can work normally with sufficient secondary data and slightly insufficient secondary data,but when the secondary data is severely insufficient,the P-AMF-DP-TBD and P-RAO-DP-TBD algorithms has failed while the PSAMF-DP-TBD and PS-RAO-DP-TBD algorithms still have good detection and tracking capabilities.

Range walk and array rotation in space-time adaptive processing:effects and compensations

This paper proposes a unified clutter model incorporating the effects of range walk and array rotation for space-time adaptive processing（STAP） in airborne multi-channel early-warning radar.Based on this clutter model,STAP performance is then analyzed from the perspective of covariance matrix tapering（CMT）.For STAP performance degradation due to array rotation,a determinate compensation method is proposed based on the CMT method.Numerical examples are provided to verify the analysis and the proposed compensation method.

SPACE-TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING FOR AIRBORNE RADAR:A CONVENIENT IMPLEMENTATION APPROACH

A convenient implementation approach to space-time adaptive processing for airborne radar has been proposed, which is added by some auxiliary array elements in the area of main-lobe clutter on the basis of 2-D Capon approach . It is of practical use for its small computational load. This approach possesses the ideal performance in the area of main-lobe clutter . In addition, the approach which is added by some auxiliary beams in the area of main-lobe clutter has also been discussed.

Direct data domain approach to space-time adaptive processing

In non-homogeneous environment, traditional space-time adaptive processing doesn＇t effectively suppress interference and detect target, because the secondary data don＇ t exactly reflect the statistical characteristic of the range cell under test. A ravel methodology utilizing the direct data domain approach to space-time adaptive processing （ STAP ） in airbome radar non-homogeneous environments is presented. The deterministic least squares adaptive signal processing technique operates on a ＂snapshot-by-snapshot＂ basis to dethrone the adaptive adaptive weights for nulling interferences and estimating signal of interest （SOI）. Furthermore, this approach eliminates the requirement for estimating the covariance through the data of neighboring range cell, which eliminates calculating the inverse of covariance, and can be implemented to operate in real-time. Simulation results illustrate the efficiency of interference suppression in non-homogeneous environment.

An Active Anti-Jamming Approach for Frequency Diverse Array Radar with Adaptive Weights

Due to the rapid development of electronic countermeasures(ECMs),the corresponding means of electronic counter countermeasures(ECCMs)are urgently needed.In this paper,an act-ive anti-jamming method based on frequency diverse array radar is proposed.By deriving the closed form of the phase center in a uniform line array FDA,we establish a model of the FDA signal based on adaptive weights and derive the effect of active anti-jamming in this regime.The pro-posed active anti-jamming method makes it difficult for jammers to detect or locate our radar.Fur-thermore,the effectiveness of the two frequency increment schemes in terms of anti-jamming is ana-lyzed by comparing the deviation of phase center.Finally,the simulation results verify the effective-ness and superiority of the proposed method.

Adaptive OFDM system based on space-time block code

To satisfy the request of wireless communication for new generation communication system, a new scheme consisting of a combination of adaptive technology and space-time code-OFDM is presented. The proposed method, exploits adaptive bit allocation scheme over multipath fading channel. Numerical simulations have shown that the proposed scheme can greatly improve the performance of non-adaptive STBC-OFDM system.

STATISTICAL SPACE-TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING ALGORITHM

For the slowly changed environment-range-dependent non-homogeneity, a new statistical space-time adaptive processing algorithm is proposed, which uses the statistical methods, such as Bayes or likelihood criterion to estimate the approximative covariance matrix in the non-homogeneous condition. According to the statistical characteristics of the space-time snapshot data, via defining the aggregate snapshot data and corresponding events, the conditional probability of the space-time snapshot data which is the effective training data is given, then the weighting coefficients are obtained for the weighting method. The theory analysis indicates that the statistical methods of the Bayes and likelihood criterion for covariance matrix estimation are more reasonable than other methods that estimate the covariance matrix with the use of training data except the detected outliers. The last simulations attest that the proposed algorithms can estimate the covariance in the non-homogeneous condition exactly and have favorable characteristics.

Adaptive coherence estimator based on the Krylov subspace technique for airborne radar

A novel adaptive detector for airborne radar space-time adaptive detection （STAD） in partially homogeneous environments is proposed. The novel detector combines the numerically stable Krylov subspace technique and diagonal loading technique, and it uses the framework of the adaptive coherence estimator （ACE）. It can effectively detect a target with low sample support. Compared with its natural competitors, the novel detector has higher proba- bility of detection （PD）, especially when the number of the training data is low. Moreover, it is shown to be practically constant false alarm rate （CFAR）.

W ideband interference suppression based on space-time filter

Based upon the diagonal loading technique and the structure of the space-time adaptive processors, a novel anti-jamming method of satellite navigation is proposed. According to matrix in- verse theorem, the range of the diagonal loading values for space-time adaptive wideband signal pro- cessing structure is deduced, and the optimum equation of diagonal loading beam forming algorithm of space-time structure is obtained. Then, by the analysis of two-dimensional oriented vector in di- rection of the perturbation interference, the wideband interference covariance matrix obtained in the weights training period is modified. Finally, the optimum weight of multi-linear constrained space- time adaptive beam-forming alogrithm is derived for anti-interference filter processing. The new method effectively widens the null steering beams tion results prove the robustness of the proposed when discrepancy happens. The computer simula- method.

Adaptive beamforming and phase bias compensation for GNSS receiver

Adaptive antenna arrays have been used to mitigate the interference on global navigation satellite system（GNSS） receivers. The performance of interference mitigation depends on the beamforming algorithms adopted by the antenna array. However,the adaptive beamforming will change the array pattern in realtime, which has the potential to introduce phase center biases into the antenna array. For precise applications, these phase biases must be mitigated or compensated because they will bring errors in code phase and carrier phase measurements. A novel adaptive beamforming algorithm is proposed firstly, then the phase bias induced by the proposed algorithm is estimated, and finally a compensation strategy is addressed. Simulations demonstrate that the proposed beamforming algorithm suppresses effectively the strong interference and improves significantly the capturing performance of GNSS signals. Simultaneously, the bias compensation method avoids the loss of the carrier phase lock and reduces the phase measurement errors for GNSS receivers.

Design of an adaptive precoding/STBC baseband transceiver on a reconfigurable architecture

Precoding and space-time block coding （STBC）techniques using the uniform channel decomposition （UCD）are proposed to improve the bit error rate （BER） of themultiple-antenna communication system, but at a cost of areduced data rate. In order to achieve a higher overall systemperformance, a novel adaptive transceiver architecture whichflexibly combines both UCD and UCD ＋ STBC technologies isproposed. The channel state information （CSI） feedback pathwas added to the precoder to select which coding method wasto be used, i.e. UCD alone or UCD ＋ STBC. With thesmaller constellation sizes, Matlab simulation results showthat, the adaptive transceiver architecture will select the UCD-only mode under the higher SNR conditions in order to achievea higher bit rate. The UCD ＋ STBC mode will be selectedunder the lower SNR conditions （e. g., SNR 〈 10 dB） inorder to maintain good BER performance at the cost of areduced data rate. This architecture was implemented andverified using both UMC 0.18 ASIC process technology and aXilinx xc4vlx Virtex-4 FPGA at 150 MHz. The simulationresults demonstrate that the required number of reconfigurablearithmetic unit slices grows linearly with the channel matrixsize, while the number of adder array unit and reconfigurablelogic unit slices increases slightly with the constellation size.

A framework of rank-reduced space-time adaptive processing for airborne radar and its applications

A new equivalent formulation of the joint domain space-time optimum processor for airborne phased array radar application is derived. Then a new framework of space-time adaptive processing (STAP) for airborne radar systems which includes most of suboptimum algorithms in the literature is proposed. The performance of two typical rank-reduced time-space joint-domain processors based on Doppler pre-filtering is analyzed in detail based on the proposed framework.

Combined adaptive beamforming with space-time block coding for multi-antenna communications

Aiming at the multi-antenna communication systems, a downlink transmit scheme combining adaptive beamforming （ABF） with space-time block coding （STBC） is first presented, which utilizes the maximization of the output mean signal-to-noise ratio （SNR） and the minimization of the symbol error rate （SER） upper bound of the three widely used modulations as the design criteria. Then, based on the moment generating function （MGF） and the Gauss-Chebyshev integration, a simple and accurate numerical method is presented to analyze the SER performance of the system with the new transmit scheme under the three commonly used modulations. Finally, computer simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed strategy.

An Improved Space-Time Joint Anti-jamming Algorithm Based on Variable Step LMS

In wireless communication, the space-time anti-jamming method is widely applied because it shows better performance than the pure airspace and pure temporal anti-jamming methods. However, its application is limited by its computational complexity, and it cannot suppress narrowband interference that is in the same direction as the navigation signal. To solve these problems, we propose improved frequency filter to filter the narrowband interference from the desired signal direction in advance, meanwhile, an improved variable step Least Mean Square （LMS） method is proposed to complete the space-time array weights with fast iteration, thereby reducing computational complexity. The simulation results show that, compared with conventional methods, the anti-jamming capability of the proposed algorithm is significantly enhanced; and its complexity is significantly reduced.

一种抑制严重非均匀杂波的机载MIMO-STAP方法

在机载MIMO雷达体制下,针对严重非均匀环境(包括斜视阵和前视阵近程段),提出了一种新的基于时域平滑的两级级联降维STAP方法,先后对杂波和孤立干扰进行抑制.第一级对少量独立同分布(IID)辅助样本进行平滑,用得到的所有样本估计杂波特性并用先时后空自适应级联处理器(称为mDT-SAP)中的3DT-SAP(简称3DT)方法进行抑制,第二级用待检测距离单元数据进行平滑估计孤立干扰特性并用3DT方法进行抑制.该方法克服了直接数据域(DDD)方法空时孔径损失大,误差鲁棒性差及没有充分利用统计信息的缺点,具有良好的性能.计算机仿真实验验证了其有效性和优越性.

机载前视阵雷达阵元误差稳健的空时插值补偿方法

空时插值方法通过对地面杂波空时导向矢量进行插值变换,能够有效地降低机载前视阵雷达地面杂波的距离依赖性,改善空时自适应处理器的杂波抑制性能。然而,当机载雷达接收通道存在阵元误差时,该方法对接收的数据处理失效。针对该问题,提出一种稳健的空时插值方法,该方法在杂波空时导向矢量周围选取约束导向矢量,然后进行插值变换,补偿地杂波距离依赖性。仿真结果表明,当机载雷达接收通道存在阵元误差时,该方法能够有效地降低接收的地杂波数据的距离依赖性,提高空时自适应处理器的杂波抑制性能。

知识辅助的机载MIMO雷达STAP非均匀样本检测方法

针对样本协方差矩阵受干扰目标污染时机载多输入多输出(multiple-input multiple-output,MIMO)雷达空时自适应处理(space-time adaptive processing,STAP)目标检测性能下降的不足,提出一种知识辅助(knowledge-aided,KA)的广义内积非均匀样本检测方法。首先利用扁长椭球波函数估计的杂波子空间知识,离线构造杂波协方差矩阵,然后与广义内积非均匀检测器(generalized inner product non-homogeneity detector,GIP NHD)结合,实现对训练样本的有效选择,使目标检测不受训练样本中干扰目标的影响。仿真结果表明,相对于常规GIP方法,KA-GIP方法能够对存在干扰目标的样本进行更加有效地剔除,并且机载MIMO雷达STAP的目标检测性能得到显著提升,因此更有利于实际工程应用。

一种利用功率反演和线性约束最小方差算法的自适应天线(英文)

This paper presents a new algorithm based on the power inversion （PI） and the linearly constrained minimum variance （LCMV）. This algorithm is capable of adjusting the weights of the antenna array in real time to respond to and improve the global positioning system （GPS） received signals coming from the desired directions and at the same time to highly suppress the jammers coming from the other directions. The simulation is performed for fixed and moving jammers. It indicates that this structure can give deeper nulls, more than 115 dB depths for fixed jammers and more than 94 dB depths for moving jammers.

Diagonally loaded SMI algorithm based on inverse matrix recursion

The derivation of a diagonally loaded sample-matrix inversion （LSMI） algorithm on the busis of inverse matrix recursion （i.e.LSMI-IMR algorithm） is conducted by reconstructing the recursive formulation of covariance matrix. For the new algorithm, diagonal loading is by setting initial inverse matrix without any addition of computation. In addition, a corresponding improved recursive algorithm is presented, which is low computational complexity. This eliminates the complex multiplications of the scalar coefficient and updating matrix, resulting in significant computational savings. Simulations show that the LSMI-IMR algorithm is valid.

NEW METHOD FOR REDUCED RANK STAP—NON CLUTTER CHANNEL METHOD

For reduced-rank space-time adaptive processing(STAP) in airborne radar, this paper presents a new method — non clutter channel(NCC） method which is easy to implement in real radar systems. The NCC method uses those “channels” located in the non-clutter domain to construct the reduce-rank transformation matrix. This method avoids eigen-decomposition and the computational cost is very low. The performance is compared with that of several other methods; the simulation demonstrates that the NCC method can well approach the optimum performance and even outperform some more complex methods in low rank.