Method for estimating direction of arrival of lightning signal based on energy distribution
Technical Field
The invention belongs to a method for estimating the direction of arrival of a lightning signal, and particularly relates to a method for improving a general broadband direction of arrival estimation method based on energy distribution in a frequency band to realize lightning signal positioning.
Background
The occurrence of lightning may generate many damages, and the physical effects of high temperature, violent shock wave, strong electromagnetic radiation and the like generated by the lightning cause the lightning to generate huge damage in the moment. The personal injury and death can be caused frequently, the building or the communication equipment is destroyed, forest fires are caused, the computer information system is interrupted, the combustion and even explosion of a warehouse, an oil refinery, an oil field and the like are caused, the property and the personal safety of people are endangered, and the threat to the vehicles such as aviation and aerospace is also great. The effective positioning method can provide valuable data for lightning monitoring and meteorological research, and also can provide important support for lightning early warning and disaster prevention and reduction of departments such as an aerospace system, an electric power system and the like. Lightning location is important for understanding lightning physics, and is helpful for revealing physical mechanism and understanding characteristic parameters of lightning discharge, thereby facilitating lightning protection.
The existing lightning positioning technology comprises a traditional magnetic direction finding technology, a very low frequency time arrival method, a very high frequency interferometer method and a positioning technology for processing a focus array signal. The magnetic direction measurement technology is easily affected by the topography of the measurement site or surrounding buildings, the requirements on the position of the antenna and the installation of the antenna are high, the requirements are difficult to meet in practical application, and the error is large. The principle of the time arrival method is that the lightning position is positioned by utilizing the time difference generated when the lightning arrives at different measuring stations, and single-station information has no use value and larger positioning error. The interference technology utilizes a plurality of periods of signals, the average time difference in the whole integration period is determined through the phase difference, the interferometer is divided into a narrow-band interferometer and a wide-band interferometer, the discharge process of thunder and lightning can be known while positioning, but the detection distance of the interference technology is shorter, the commercialization is difficult, more applications are realized in scientific research work, and less applications are realized in actual life. The lightning positioning method focusing on the array signal processing technology eliminates the limitation of the number of the antennas on the signal processing, and can improve the positioning precision by increasing the number of the antennas.
The method for estimating the direction of arrival is used as a main branch of array signal processing, and the principle is that signals are made to be incident on an antenna array which is arranged according to a certain rule, the spatial position of an incident signal source is determined by a certain method, and the method for estimating the direction of arrival can further improve the positioning precision and the noise suppression capability by increasing the number of antennas. The conventional wideband MUSIC method utilizes orthogonality of signal and noise subspace generated by covariance matrix decomposition to construct a signal space spectrum function, and obtains the space parameters of the incident signal by searching peak values. The method has been applied to lightning localization and proved to have high resolution and powerful sidelobe suppression capability. The traditional broadband MUSIC method divides the signal into equal-length subsections in the frequency domain, and estimates each subsection respectively to obtain the average value of the spatial spectrum function. When the sub-segments are segmented, equal-length segmentation is performed only according to the frequency range, and energy distribution in an actual signal frequency band is not considered. On one hand, the bandwidth of the lightning signal is wider, the traditional MUSIC method needs more segments and has larger calculated amount, and the accuracy is reduced along with the increase of the bandwidth, on the other hand, the spectrum of the lightning signal is unevenly distributed and is exponentially distributed, and the idea of evenly dividing cannot fully consider the change of the energy in the frequency band. The lightning signal direction of arrival estimation method based on energy distribution has the advantages of small calculated amount and high precision, and has practical application value.
The China patent 'a VHF frequency band cloud lightning detection and positioning system' (application number 201110204820.9) discloses a VHF frequency band cloud lightning detection and positioning system. The system comprises a central processing station and a plurality of detection processing sub-stations which are arranged at different positions. The central processing station comprises a router, a firewall, a communication and monitoring server, a cloud lightning database, a TDOA calculation server and a cloud lightning positioning and resolving server. Each detection processing sub-station comprises a time frequency unit, a VHF frequency band array antenna, a VHF frequency band array receiving unit, a high-speed synchronous acquisition unit, a VHF frequency band array calibration signal and local oscillator generating unit, a detection processing sub-station digital processing sub-system and an embedded controller. The detection processing sub-station and the central processing station are connected into the public wide area network in a wireless or wired mode; and the obtained cloud lightning detection data are uploaded to the central processing station by the detection processing sub-station through the wide area network, and the central processing station can remotely monitor the working state of each detection processing sub-station. The system can accurately estimate the incident directions of a plurality of simultaneous lightning radiation sources. The signal direction of arrival estimation unit in the digital processing system of the detection processing substation uses eight paths of lightning waveform data frames from the data caching and control unit, and performs spatial spectrum estimation by using a multiple signal classification method to obtain the lightning signal direction of arrival corresponding to the data frames. The invention provides a complete set of technology aiming at key links such as acquisition, detection, signal arrival direction estimation, signal arrival time difference estimation and the like of cloud lightning signals, but the arrival direction estimation link adopts a traditional multiple signal classification method, does not consider the frequency distribution of the lightning signal energy, and has lower precision.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention provides a method for estimating the direction of arrival of a lightning signal based on energy distribution, which aims to solve the problems of large calculated amount and low precision and success rate.
The technical scheme adopted by the invention is that the method comprises the following steps:
step 1: determining critical frequency points of lightning signals
According to the U.S. military standard MILs-STD-464, the general description of the lightning signal model is:
i(t)=I0(e-αt-e-βt)
wherein the relevant parameter I 0=218810A,α=11354s-1,β=647265s-1;
Carrying out Fourier transform on the lightning signals conforming to the model, analyzing the lightning signals, and accumulating energy to a frequency point of 90% to be used as a critical frequency point f h; the expression that the critical frequency point f h needs to satisfy is:
Wherein V (j 2 pi f) is Fourier transform of the lightning signal, j is an imaginary unit, f is a frequency point in the lightning signal spectrum, and h frequency point f h is a critical frequency point at which the energy of the lightning signal spectrum is accumulated to 90%;
Step 2: obtaining array receiving data generated after lightning signals pass through the uniform linear array;
Step 3: dividing lightning signal array received data X (f g) into a plurality of new sub-bands;
first, based on energy distribution, determining new sub-band length and number before and after critical frequency point,
Dividing the lightning signal array receiving data X (f g) into a plurality of new sub-bands, wherein the calculation method comprises the following steps:
W=W1+W2
Step 4: performing broadband direction of arrival estimation on the divided W new subbands;
Step 5: and averaging the spatial spectrum functions of each new sub-band, and searching spectrum peaks to obtain the estimation result of the arrival direction of the lightning signal.
In the step (2), P lightning signals conforming to the description of the model in the step1 are incident into a uniform linear array formed by M omnidirectional array elements, wherein the array element distance of the uniform linear array is d;
Setting the 1 st array element as a reference array element, and receiving data of a time domain array of the m-th array element of the lightning signal as follows:
Wherein i p (t) is the incident p-th lightning signal, n m (t) is Gaussian noise added to the m-th array element at the moment of t, and the time difference t mp between the reception of the p-th lightning signal by the m-th array element and the reception of the p-th lightning signal by the first reference array element is (m-1) dsin theta p/c;
Fourier transforming the time domain array receiving data of the lightning signal, wherein the frequency domain array receiving data of the lightning signal is:
Wherein f g is the g-th frequency point in the lightning signal spectrum, θ p is the incident angle of the p-th lightning signal, a m(θp,fg) is the guiding vector of the p-th lightning signal, I p(fg) the fourier transform of the p-th lightning signal I p (t), and N m(fg) is the fourier transform of gaussian noise N m (t);
writing frequency domain array receiving data of lightning signals into a matrix form:
X(fg)=A(θ,fg)I(fg)+N(fg)
expanding each part of the matrix respectively into the following parts:
A(θ,fg)=[a(θ1,fg),a(θ2,fg),...,a(θP,fg)]
I(fg)=[I1(fg),I2(fg),...,IP(fg)]T
N(fg)=[N1(fg),N2(fg),...,NM(fg)]T
X(fg)=[X1(fg),X2(fg),...,XM(fg)]T。
the determination method in the step 3 (one) is as follows:
Firstly, according to the frequency range of lightning signals, the frequency bands of the lightning signals before and after a critical frequency point are divided averagely, and the number of sub-bands such as the front and the back of the critical frequency point is determined;
Secondly, regarding each even number sub-band in front of the critical frequency point as an original even number sub-band in front of the critical frequency point, determining the length of each new sub-band in front of the critical frequency point according to the ratio of the energy of each original even number sub-band to the sum of the energy of each original even number sub-band, wherein the number of the new sub-bands in front of the critical frequency point is the same as the number of the original even number sub-bands in front of the critical frequency point, thus determining the number and the length of the new sub-bands in front of the critical frequency point, and directly selecting each even number sub-band after the critical frequency point as the new sub-band after the critical frequency point, thus determining the number and the length of the new sub-bands after the critical frequency point;
Equally dividing the lightning signal array received data before and after a critical frequency point to generate original even sub-bands, determining a new sub-band before the critical frequency point according to the duty ratio of the energy of each original even sub-band in the energy summation before the critical frequency point, and directly selecting each even sub-band after the critical frequency point as the new sub-band after the critical frequency point.
Before a critical frequency point of a lightning signal, the method for determining the length and the number of the new sub-band comprises the following steps:
(1) The frequency spectrum of the lightning signal is analyzed, the frequency band before the critical frequency point is divided into equal-length sub-bands, the number of the equal-length sub-bands is Q, each even sub-band is selected as an original even sub-band before the critical frequency point, and the number of the original even sub-bands before the critical frequency point is Q 1;
the calculation method of the number Q 1 of the original even number sub-bands before the critical frequency point of the lightning signal comprises the following steps:
n is a positive integer
(2) The calculation method of the total subband length L 1 of Q 1 original even subbands with the frequency band length L before the critical frequency point of the lightning signal is as follows:
L1=L/Q×Q1
Wherein L is the length of a frequency band before a lightning signal critical frequency point, Q 1 is the number of original even sub-bands before the lightning signal critical frequency point, and Q is the number of equal-length sub-bands divided before the lightning signal critical frequency point;
(3) The calculation method of the energy E q of the q-th original even sub-band of the lightning signal before the critical frequency point comprises the following steps:
Wherein V (j 2 pi f r) is Fourier transform of a lightning signal, j is an imaginary unit, f r is an r-th frequency point in a lightning signal spectrum chart, a starting frequency point of an original even-numbered sub-band of energy to be calculated is an r 1 -th frequency point in the lightning signal spectrum, and a terminating frequency point of the original even-numbered sub-band of energy to be calculated is an r 2 -th frequency point in the lightning signal spectrum;
the energy of each original even number sub-band before the critical frequency point of the lightning signal is determined as
(4) The energy of Q 1 original even sub-bands in front of the calculated critical frequency point of the lightning signal is summed to obtain total energy E, and the calculation method comprises the following steps:
Wherein E q is the energy of the Q-th original even number sub-band before the critical frequency point of the lightning signal, and Q 1 is the number of the original even number sub-bands before the critical frequency point of the lightning signal;
(5) The length C q of the q new sub-band of the lightning signal before the critical frequency point is calculated by the following steps:
Cq=Eq/E×L1
wherein E q is the energy of the Q-th original even sub-band before the critical frequency point of the lightning signal, E is the energy sum of the Q 1 original even sub-bands before the critical frequency point of the lightning signal, and L 1 is the sub-band length sum of the Q 1 original even sub-bands;
(6) The calculation method of the number W 1 of the new sub-bands before the critical frequency point of the lightning signal is as follows:
W1=Q1
the number of new subbands is the same as the number of original even subbands.
After the lightning signal is at a critical frequency point, the length and the number of the new sub-bands are determined as follows:
(1) The frequency spectrum of the lightning signal is analyzed, the frequency band after the critical frequency point is divided into equal-length sub-bands, the number of the equal-length sub-bands is G, each even sub-band is selected as an original even sub-band after the critical frequency point, and the number of the original even sub-bands after the critical frequency point is G 1;
The calculation method of the number G 1 of the original even number sub-bands after the critical frequency point of the lightning signal comprises the following steps:
n is a positive integer
(2) The length of the frequency band after the critical frequency point of the lightning signal is L';
(3) The calculation method of the length B k of the kth new sub-band of the lightning signal after the critical frequency point is as follows:
Bk=L'/G
Wherein L' is the frequency band length of the lightning signal after the critical frequency point, and G is the number of equal-length sub-bands of the lightning signal after the critical frequency point;
(4) The calculation method of the number W 2 of the new sub-bands after the critical frequency point of the lightning signal is as follows:
W2=G1
the number of new sub-bands after the critical frequency point is the same as the number of original even sub-bands after the critical frequency point.
In the step 3 and the step (two), according to the principle of dividing the new sub-bands based on energy distribution, the critical frequency point of the lightning signal is f h, before the critical frequency point f h, the lightning signal array receiving data X (f g) is divided into W 1 new sub-bands, the length of the q new sub-band is C q, and the center point of the original even sub-band before the critical frequency point is taken as the center point of the new sub-band before the critical frequency point; after the critical frequency point f h, dividing the lightning signal array received data X (f g) into W 2 new sub-bands, wherein the length of the kth new sub-band is B k, and taking the central point of the original even sub-band after the critical frequency point as the central point of the new sub-band after the critical frequency point, so that the lightning signal array received data X (f g) can be accurately divided, and the lightning array received data is divided into W new sub-bands.
In step 4 of the present invention, a rotated signal subspace RSS method is used for the divided new subbands, and the specific steps are as follows:
(1) The incidence angle of the lightning signal is estimated in advance by adopting a conventional beam forming method CBF, and an estimated angle eta is obtained;
(2) Dividing array receiving data of each new sub-band into K sections in a time domain, and carrying out Fourier transform on each new sub-band to obtain array receiving data of the new sub-band in a frequency domain;
(3) Dividing array received data of a new sub-band into N shorter sub-bands in a frequency domain, and calculating to obtain covariance matrixes of the array received data of the shorter sub-bands, wherein the covariance matrixes are as follows:
R(fn,η)=E[X(fn)XH(fn)]
Wherein η is a pre-estimated incident angle of the lightning signal, f n is an nth frequency point in a shorter subband, and X (f n) is array receiving data of the lightning signal at a frequency point f n;
(4) Determining the reference frequency as f c, and reconstructing array flow pattern matrixes A (f n, eta) and A (f c, eta) according to the estimated angle eta
(5) The focus matrix T (f n) is determined by the following expression:
T(fn)=V(fn)UH(fn)
Wherein U (f n) and V (f n) are left and right singular vectors of A (f n,η)AH(fc, eta), respectively, (. Cndot.) H represents a conjugate transpose;
(6) The array received data on each frequency point is focused on the reference frequency f c through focusing operation, and the covariance matrix R (f c, eta) after focusing is as follows:
T(fn)R(fn,η)TH(fn)≈R(fc,η)
(7) Performing eigenvalue decomposition on the covariance matrix R (f c, eta) after focusing to obtain a spatial spectrum function of the covariance matrix, and obtaining a spatial spectrum function of a w new subband The calculation method comprises the following steps:
Wherein, The value between [0,180] is taken at intervals of 0.01 to realize the search of angles between [0,180], f c is the reference frequency, a (f c) is the guide vector of the signal subspace, and Z N is the noise subspace.
The step of estimating the incidence angle of the lightning signal in the step (1) is as follows:
a. the incident lightning signal passes through the uniform linear array, and the received data of neglecting noise is as follows:
II(t)=a(θ)i(t)
wherein a (theta) is a guiding vector of a lightning signal, and i (t) is the lightning signal;
b. the received signals are subjected to phase compensation and summation, and an output signal y (t) obtained after the lightning signal received data are subjected to beam forming is:
y(t)=γH·II(t)
Wherein γ is the phase compensation vector, (. Cndot.) H represents the conjugate transpose;
c. the output power P CBF of the conventional beamformer is:
PCBF=γH·R·γ
wherein R is a covariance matrix of data II (t) received after the lightning signal passes through the uniform linear array;
d. And searching the peak value of the output power, wherein the angle eta corresponding to the peak value is the estimated value of the incident angle of the lightning signal.
In step5 of the invention, the spatial spectrum function of each new sub-band is averaged, and the spatial spectrum function of the lightning signal is calculatedThe calculation method is as follows:
Wherein W is the number of new sub-bands, A space spectrum function of a w new sub-band in a lightning signal spectrum;
Spatial spectral function of lightning signal Searching spectral peaks, and searchingAngle corresponding to maximum valueThe lightning signal arrival direction estimation result is obtained.
The invention has the advantages that: the invention fully considers the distribution of energy in the lightning signal spectrum, determines the frequency point where the energy of the lightning signal spectrum is accumulated to 90% as a critical frequency point, calculates the energy of the original even-numbered sub-bands before the critical frequency point, and determines the length of a new sub-band according to the ratio of the energy of each original even-numbered sub-band to the sum of the energy of each original even-numbered sub-band, wherein the higher the energy of the original even-numbered sub-band is, the longer the new sub-band is, the lower the energy is, and the shorter the new sub-band is; after the critical frequency point, the original even-numbered segment sub-band is directly selected as a new sub-band for processing due to lower energy. By carrying out the arrival direction estimation on each new sub-band, the accurate estimation on the arrival direction of the lightning signal is realized. Compared with the traditional broadband MUSIC method, the data processed by the method is reduced by half, the operand is also reduced by half, the accuracy and the success rate are also improved compared with the traditional broadband MUSIC method, and the method has better lightning signal arrival direction estimation performance.
Drawings
FIG. 1 is a far field one-dimensional linear array DOA estimation geometry model diagram;
FIG. 2 is a flow chart of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of an original even number of sub-bands generated after equal-length division of lightning signals before and after a critical frequency point;
FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a new sub-band determined from energy before and after a critical frequency point for a lightning signal;
FIG. 5 is a graph showing root mean square error of direction of arrival estimation for lightning signals using the method of the present invention and the conventional method, respectively;
FIG. 6 is a graph showing the success rate of estimating the direction of arrival of lightning signals by the method of the present invention and the conventional method, respectively.
Detailed Description
The invention is described in detail below in connection with the flow chart of fig. 2.
Step 1: determining critical frequency points of lightning signals
According to the U.S. military standard MILs-STD-464, the general description of the lightning signal model is:
i(t)=I0(e-αt-e-βt)
wherein the relevant parameter I 0=218810A,α=11354s-1,β=647265s-1;
Carrying out Fourier transform on the lightning signals conforming to the model to obtain a spectrogram of the lightning signals shown in the curve of fig. 3, analyzing the spectrogram, and taking a frequency point at which energy is accumulated to 90% as a critical frequency point f h;
In fig. 3, f h is a critical frequency point, and the expression to be satisfied by the critical frequency point f h is:
Wherein V (j 2 pi f) is Fourier transform of the lightning signal, j is an imaginary unit, f is a frequency point in the lightning signal spectrum, and h frequency point f h is a critical frequency point at which the energy of the lightning signal spectrum is accumulated to 90%;
Step 2: obtaining array reception data generated after passing lightning signals through uniform linear array
P lightning signals conforming to the model description in the step 1 are incident into a uniform linear array formed by M omnidirectional array elements, wherein the array element spacing of the uniform linear array is d;
Setting the 1 st array element as a reference array element, and receiving data of a time domain array of the m-th array element of the lightning signal as follows:
Wherein i p (t) is the incident p-th lightning signal, n m (t) is Gaussian noise added to the m-th array element at the moment of t, and the time difference t mp between the reception of the p-th lightning signal by the m-th array element and the reception of the p-th lightning signal by the first reference array element is (m-1) dsin theta p/c;
Fourier transforming the time domain array receiving data of the lightning signal, wherein the frequency domain array receiving data of the lightning signal is:
Wherein f g is the g-th frequency point in the lightning signal spectrum, θ p is the incident angle of the p-th lightning signal, a m(θp,fg) is the guiding vector of the p-th lightning signal, I p(fg) the fourier transform of the p-th lightning signal I p (t), and N m(fg) is the fourier transform of gaussian noise N m (t);
writing frequency domain array receiving data of lightning signals into a matrix form:
X(fg)=A(θ,fg)I(fg)+N(fg)
expanding each part of the matrix respectively into the following parts:
A(θ,fg)=[a(θ1,fg),a(θ2,fg),...,a(θP,fg)]
I(fg)=[I1(fg),I2(fg),...,IP(fg)]T
N(fg)=[N1(fg),N2(fg),...,NM(fg)]T
X(fg)=[X1(fg),X2(fg),...,XM(fg)]T
Step 3: dividing the lightning signal array received data X (f g) into a plurality of new sub-bands
Based on energy distribution, determining the length and the number of new sub-bands before and after a critical frequency point, wherein the determining method comprises the following steps:
Firstly, according to the frequency range of lightning signals, the frequency bands of the lightning signals before and after a critical frequency point are divided averagely, and the number of sub-bands such as the front and the back of the critical frequency point is determined;
Secondly, regarding each even number sub-band in front of the critical frequency point as an original even number sub-band in front of the critical frequency point, determining the length of each new sub-band in front of the critical frequency point according to the ratio of the energy of each original even number sub-band to the sum of the energy of each original even number sub-band, wherein the number of the new sub-bands in front of the critical frequency point is the same as the number of the original even number sub-bands in front of the critical frequency point, thus determining the number and the length of the new sub-bands in front of the critical frequency point, and directly selecting each even number sub-band after the critical frequency point as the new sub-band after the critical frequency point, thus determining the number and the length of the new sub-bands after the critical frequency point;
Equally dividing the received data of the lightning signal array before and after a critical frequency point, wherein the generated original even sub-bands are shown in a shadow part of fig. 3, determining a new sub-band before the critical frequency point according to the duty ratio of the energy of each original even sub-band in the energy summation of the original even sub-bands before the critical frequency point, directly selecting each even sub-band after the critical frequency point as a new sub-band after the critical frequency point, and dividing the received data of the lightning signal array into new sub-bands shown in a shadow part of fig. 4;
before a critical frequency point of a lightning signal, the length and the number of the new sub-band are determined as follows:
(1) The frequency spectrum of the lightning signal is analyzed, the frequency band before the critical frequency point is divided into equal-length sub-bands, the number of the equal-length sub-bands is Q, each even sub-band is selected as an original even sub-band before the critical frequency point, and the number of the original even sub-bands before the critical frequency point is Q 1;
the calculation method of the number Q 1 of the original even number sub-bands before the critical frequency point of the lightning signal comprises the following steps:
n is a positive integer
(2) The calculation method of the total subband length L 1 of Q 1 original even subbands with the frequency band length L before the critical frequency point of the lightning signal is as follows:
L1=L/Q×Q1
Wherein L is the length of a frequency band before a lightning signal critical frequency point, Q 1 is the number of original even sub-bands before the lightning signal critical frequency point, and Q is the number of equal-length sub-bands divided before the lightning signal critical frequency point;
(3) The calculation method of the energy E q of the q-th original even sub-band of the lightning signal before the critical frequency point comprises the following steps:
Wherein V (j 2 pi f r) is Fourier transform of a lightning signal, j is an imaginary unit, f r is an r-th frequency point in a lightning signal spectrum chart, a starting frequency point of an original even-numbered sub-band of energy to be calculated is an r 1 -th frequency point in the lightning signal spectrum, and a terminating frequency point of the original even-numbered sub-band of energy to be calculated is an r 2 -th frequency point in the lightning signal spectrum;
the energy of each original even number sub-band before the critical frequency point of the lightning signal is determined as
(4) The energy of Q 1 original even sub-bands in front of the calculated critical frequency point of the lightning signal is summed to obtain total energy E, and the calculation method comprises the following steps:
Wherein E q is the energy of the Q-th original even number sub-band before the critical frequency point of the lightning signal, and Q 1 is the number of the original even number sub-bands before the critical frequency point of the lightning signal;
(5) The length C q of the q new sub-band of the lightning signal before the critical frequency point is calculated by the following steps:
Cq=Eq/E×L1
wherein E q is the energy of the Q-th original even sub-band before the critical frequency point of the lightning signal, E is the energy sum of the Q 1 original even sub-bands before the critical frequency point of the lightning signal, and L 1 is the sub-band length sum of the Q 1 original even sub-bands;
(6) The calculation method of the number W 1 of the new sub-bands before the critical frequency point of the lightning signal is as follows:
W1=Q1
The number of the new sub-bands is the same as that of the original even sub-bands;
After the lightning signal is at the critical frequency point, the length and the number of the new sub-bands are determined as follows:
(1) The frequency spectrum of the lightning signal is analyzed, the frequency band after the critical frequency point is divided into equal-length sub-bands, the number of the equal-length sub-bands is G, each even sub-band is selected as an original even sub-band after the critical frequency point, and the number of the original even sub-bands after the critical frequency point is G 1;
The calculation method of the number G 1 of the original even number sub-bands after the critical frequency point of the lightning signal comprises the following steps:
n is a positive integer
(2) The length of the frequency band after the critical frequency point of the lightning signal is L';
(3) The calculation method of the length B k of the kth new sub-band of the lightning signal after the critical frequency point is as follows:
Bk=L'/G
Wherein L' is the frequency band length of the lightning signal after the critical frequency point, and G is the number of equal-length sub-bands of the lightning signal after the critical frequency point;
(4) The calculation method of the number W 2 of the new sub-bands after the critical frequency point of the lightning signal is as follows:
W2=G1
the number of the new sub-bands after the critical frequency point is the same as the number of the original even sub-bands after the critical frequency point;
(II) dividing the lightning signal array received data X (f g) into a plurality of new sub-bands
According to the principle of dividing the new sub-bands based on energy distribution, the critical frequency point of the lightning signal is f h, before the critical frequency point f h, the lightning signal array receiving data X (f g) is divided into W 1 new sub-bands, the length of the q new sub-bands is C q, and the center point of the original even sub-bands before the critical frequency point is taken as the center point of the new sub-bands before the critical frequency point; after a critical frequency point f h, dividing the lightning signal array received data X (f g) into W 2 new sub-bands, wherein the length of the kth new sub-band is B k, and taking the central point of an original even sub-band after the critical frequency point as the central point of a new sub-band after the critical frequency point, so that the lightning signal array received data X (f g) can be accurately divided, and the lightning array received data is divided into W new sub-bands, and the calculation method comprises the following steps:
W=W1+W2
step 4: wideband direction of arrival estimation for divided W new subbands
The method for using the rotating signal subspace RSS for the divided new subbands comprises the following specific steps:
(1) Pre-estimating the incident angle of the lightning signal by adopting a conventional beam forming method (Conventional Beamforming, CBF) to obtain an estimated angle eta;
The lightning signal incidence angle estimation method comprises the following steps:
a. the incident lightning signal passes through the uniform linear array, and the received data of neglecting noise is as follows:
II(t)=a(θ)i(t)
wherein a (theta) is a guiding vector of a lightning signal, and i (t) is the lightning signal;
b. the received signals are subjected to phase compensation and summation, and an output signal y (t) obtained after the lightning signal received data are subjected to beam forming is:
y(t)=γH·II(t)
Wherein γ is the phase compensation vector, (. Cndot.) H represents the conjugate transpose;
c. the output power P CBF of the conventional beamformer is:
PCBF=γH·R·γ
wherein R is a covariance matrix of data II (t) received after the lightning signal passes through the uniform linear array;
d. Searching a peak value of the output power, wherein an angle eta corresponding to the peak value is an estimated value of the incident angle of the lightning signal;
(2) Dividing array receiving data of each new sub-band into K sections in a time domain, and carrying out Fourier transform on each new sub-band to obtain array receiving data of the new sub-band in a frequency domain;
(3) Dividing array received data of a new sub-band into N shorter sub-bands in a frequency domain, and calculating to obtain covariance matrixes of the array received data of the shorter sub-bands, wherein the covariance matrixes are as follows:
R(fn,η)=E[X(fn)XH(fn)]
Where η is a pre-estimated incident angle of the lightning signal, f n is the nth frequency point in the shorter subband, and X (f n) is the array received data of the lightning signal at frequency point f n.
(4) Determining the reference frequency as f c, and reconstructing array flow pattern matrixes A (f n, eta) and A (f c, eta) according to the estimated angle eta
(5) The focus matrix T (f n) is determined by the following expression:
T(fn)=V(fn)UH(fn)
Wherein U (f n) and V (f n) are left and right singular vectors of A (f n,η)AH(fc, eta), respectively, (. Cndot.) H represents the conjugate transpose.
(6) The array received data on each frequency point is focused on the reference frequency f c through focusing operation, and the covariance matrix R (f c, eta) after focusing is as follows:
T(fn)R(fn,η)TH(fn)≈R(fc,η)
(7) Performing eigenvalue decomposition on the covariance matrix R (f c, eta) after focusing to obtain a spatial spectrum function of the covariance matrix, and obtaining a spatial spectrum function of a w new subband The calculation method comprises the following steps:
Wherein, Taking a value between [0,180] at intervals of 0.01 to realize the search of angles between [0,180], wherein f c is a reference frequency, a (f c) is a guide vector of a signal subspace, and Z N is a noise subspace;
step 5: averaging the spatial spectrum functions of each new sub-band, and searching through spectrum peaks to obtain the estimation result of the arrival direction of the lightning signal;
averaging the spatial spectrum functions of each new subband and the spatial spectrum functions of the lightning signals The calculation method is as follows:
Wherein W is the number of new sub-bands, A space spectrum function of a w new sub-band in a lightning signal spectrum;
Spatial spectral function of lightning signal Searching spectral peaks, and searchingAngle corresponding to maximum valueThe lightning signal arrival direction estimation result is obtained.
According to the invention, the energy change in the lightning signal spectrum is fully considered, the frequency point where 90% of the lightning signal spectrum energy is accumulated is taken as the critical frequency point according to the characteristics of the lightning signal, and the signals are processed differently before and after the critical frequency point. Before a critical frequency point, calculating the energy of an original even-numbered section sub-band, and determining the length of a new sub-band according to the ratio of the energy of each original even-numbered sub-band to the sum of the energy of each original even-numbered sub-band, wherein the higher the energy of the original even-numbered sub-band is, the longer the new sub-band is, the lower the energy is, and the shorter the new sub-band is; after the critical frequency point, the original even-numbered segment sub-band is directly selected as a new sub-band for processing due to lower energy. And using a general broadband direction-of-arrival estimation method for each new sub-band, and averaging the obtained results to obtain a direction-of-arrival estimation result of the lightning signal.
Compared with the existing method for estimating the direction of arrival of the lightning signal, the method has the advantages that the operation amount is greatly reduced, and the accuracy and the success rate are improved.
The experiment uses an i7-7500U processor, the main memory is 8.00GB, and the simulation platform is Matlab 2016a. To ensure accuracy of the experiment, 200 monte carlo experiments were performed.
FIG. 5 shows the root mean square error of the estimated angle compared with the true angle obtained by estimating the direction of arrival of the lightning signal by the method of the present invention and the conventional method within a certain signal-to-noise ratio after 200 Monte Carlo experiments. As shown in fig. 5, the accuracy of the conventional method is slightly higher than that of the method of the present invention at a low signal-to-noise ratio, but the accuracy of the method of the present invention is significantly improved as the signal-to-noise ratio is improved.
Fig. 6 shows the direction of arrival estimation of lightning signals in the range of a certain signal to noise ratio after 200 monte carlo experiments, and the success rate of the estimation is compared with that of the conventional method. As shown in fig. 6, the success rate of the method of the present invention is higher than that of the conventional method.
Through experimental measurement, the time required for estimating the direction of arrival of 2 lightning signals by the traditional method is 25.87s, the time required for estimating the direction of arrival of 2 lightning signals by the method is 12.48s, and the operation time is greatly reduced.
In summary, the method of the invention not only improves the accuracy of estimation, but also improves the success rate of estimation and reduces the calculated amount.
The foregoing description of the preferred embodiments of the invention is not intended to limit the invention to the particular embodiments disclosed, but on the contrary, the intention is to cover all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the invention.