系统工程与电子技术 ›› 2018, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (11): 2410-.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-506X.2018.11.03

• 电子技术 • 上一篇    下一篇

基于干涉相位的两步法高精度无模糊时延估计

赵培焱, 彭华峰, 邓兵, 贺青   

  1. 盲信号处理重点实验室,四川 成都 610041
  • 出版日期:2018-10-25 发布日期:2018-11-14

Two-stage high accuracy and unambiguous time delay estimation method based on interferometry phase

ZHAO Peiyan, PENG Huafeng, DENG Bing, HE Qing   

  1. National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Blind Signal Processing, Chengdu 610041, China
  • Online:2018-10-25 Published:2018-11-14

摘要:

传统时延估计方法面临精度与分辨率的基本矛盾,难以一次性获得高精度无模糊的估计值。针对该问题提出一种基于干涉相位的两步法高精度无模糊时延估计方法。在得到信号互相位谱以后,首先利用Kalman滤波器增强干涉相位的抗噪声性能,在大频率孔径下得到无模糊低精度预估值,第二步利用该值作为先验模型引导单一频率上相时延的模糊度解算,在该步骤中充分利用信号频段内丰富的频率信息得到多个估计值,再采用基于中位数信任域的方法对多个结果统计平均,提升了频带利用率,并且进一步提高了估计精度。仿真结果验证了所提方法正确性和有效性,对于10 MHz且信噪比高于18 dB的信号,精度优于1 ps。

Abstract:

Traditional methods of time delay estimation are confronted with the basic contradiction between accuracy and resolution, and it is difficult to obtain high accuracy and unambiguous estimation at once. To deal with this problem, a two-stage high accuracy and unambiguous time delay estimation method based on interferometric phase is proposed. The Kalman filter is used to enhance the performance of resistance to noise for the interferometric phase after obtaining the cross spectrum of the signal, and then get the unambiguous but low accuracy estimate at large frequency aperture, which is regarded as the first step. The second step is to solve the ambiguity of the phase delay by all the frequencies in the given frequency span using the estimate obtained in the first step, which greatly increases spectrum utilization. Moreover, since the same time delay is measured by different frequencies, statistical processing can be performed on the results, which further improves the estimation accuracy. Simulations verify the validity of the proposed method. For signals with bandwidths of 10 MHz, the accuracy is better than 1ps when the SNR is higher than 18 dB.