基于子空间投影波束形成技术的导航接收机抗干扰算法研究

阵列天线空时自适应处理通过联合空域和时域的自适应滤波处理技术能够有效提高导航接收机的窄带和宽带干扰抑制性能。利用导航信号淹没在干扰信号和热噪声的特点,本文提出先将天线阵列接收的空时信号矢量向干扰子空间的正交子空间投影以实现干扰抑制,当接收机对投影后的参考阵元数据捕获成功后,利用捕获估计的本地扩频码相位作为参考信号依据最小均方误差准则进行波束形成。仿真结果表明该抗干扰算法在零陷强干扰的同时使主波束指向导航信号来波方向,有效提高了阵列输出信干噪比,并降低了空时自适应处理对导航信号伪码相关峰形状和载波跟踪性能的影响。     

一种新型的OFDM智能天线

根据自适应天线阵列理论,结合给定的参考波束的误差,引入虚拟干扰的概念,对目标波束图形状进行调整,提出一种新的可以应用于任意类型天线阵列的波束综合算法.应用提出的新算法,在主瓣和旁瓣位置都可以对波束进行有效的调节.最终获得阵列的最优权矢量,能够最小化目标波束图与参考波束图间的差异.理论分析与仿真结果表明,与现有的同类算法相比,该算法能更有效地获得与参考波束基本相符的波束.应用于OFDM智能天线系统时,对不同子载波频率上信号进行单独处理,利用该算法进行波束综合,能够在整个有效频段,使所有子载波上获得基本一致的阵列输出.     

基于协方差矩阵估计的稳健Capon波束形成算法

常规Capon波束形成器性能对模型误差或失配非常敏感,尤其是当期望信号包含在训练数据中,导向矢量失配将引起性能急剧下降。为解决这一问题,提出了一种采用干扰噪声协方差矩阵和导向矢量联合估计的稳健波束形成算法。该方法通过对Capon空间谱在非目标信号的方位区域内的积分,实现对干扰噪声协方差矩阵的估计,解决数据协方差矩阵包含有目标信号时引起信号自相消问题;其次为了克服导向矢量失配的影响,通过最大化输出功率,并增加二次型约束防止估计的导向矢量接近于干扰导向矢量,实现对导向矢量的估计。仿真实验表明:该算法能获得近似最优的输出信干噪比,与现有算法相比稳健性更强。     

基于波束域MUSIC方法的高分辨方位估计

现代声纳系统普遍采用水听器基阵和一定的信号处理来提高对目标的检测和定位能力,而基阵的波束形成则在其中起着核心作用。文中研究了窄带波束域高分辨方位估计技术,分析了波束域MUSIC方位估计的构造过程和具体实现方法。仿真计算表明,基于波束域MUSIC的方位估计算法是一种分辨空间小角域内多个目标的有效方法。     

子空间投影后波束形成的导航接收机抗干扰性能分析

利用导航信号淹没于干扰信号和热噪声的特点,将天线阵列接收的空时信号矢量向干扰子空间的正交子空间投影以实现干扰抑制。当接收机对投影后的单阵元数据捕获成功后,利用捕获估计的本地扩频码相位作为参考信号,依据最小均方误差准则进行波束形成。仿真结果表明该抗干扰算法在零陷强干扰的同时使主波束指向导航信号来波方向,有效提高了阵列输出信干噪比,并降低了空时自适应处理对导航信号伪码相关峰形状和载波跟踪性能的影响。     

频率响应软约束的宽带自适应波束形成

针对常规线性约束最小方差(LCMV)波束形成中输出信干噪比(SINR)较低问题,提出了基于频率响应软约束的宽带自适应波束形成方法,该方法在LCMV波束器的约束条件基础上,增加对期望方向阵列频率响应软约束,可以得到近似无失真信号输出,同时增加波束抑制干扰噪声能力,提高输出SINR性能.仿真结果验证了该方法的有效性.     

浅海远程目标稳健方位估计方法性能分析

受浅海多途效应的影响,传统方位估计方法在空间谱上将出现谱峰偏离甚至分裂现象。针对这一问题,提出了一种新的浅海稳健方位估计方法。该方法将简正波模型与阵列信号模型相融合,推导出新的阵列源矢量形式,并结合矢量最优化对阵列源矢量误差施加有效约束,进而提高高分辨方位估计的稳健性。性能仿真分析表明:当存在海水跃变层深度、海水深度及声速梯度等不确定条件下,该方法均具有更高的主峰与旁瓣比以及更窄的-3dB波束宽度。     

冲击噪声背景下引信目标方位估计方法研究

针对在冲击噪声条件下基于高斯噪声模型的目标检测方法性能退化的缺点,提出了一种新的引信目标方位估计方法。该方法引入α稳定分布模型对冲击噪声建模,通过对引信阵列天线接收信号共变矩阵的特征分解估计噪声子空间,再依据最小范数算法实现了对目标方位的估计。计算机仿真实验证明了所提出新方法的有效性。     

一种稳健的高分辨方位估计方法及其应用

为解决快拍数不足情况下MUSIC高分辨方位估计方法输出空间谱信噪干比损失较大的问题,提出一种稳健的高分辨方位估计方法—CSMUSIC方法,并将其应用于近场声源分布测量中.根据时频变换过程,提出频域协方差矩阵估计过程可用快拍数;基于复域变换处理,解决了复域协方差矩阵估计求取过程可用快拍数;分析了CMUSIC方法实现流程及其降低频域快拍数不足导致的信干噪比损失;通过数值仿真验证了其对目标位置的检测及定位性能.数值仿真处理结果表明,该方法在保持MUSIC方法高分辨的同时,克服了频域快拍数不足引起的信干噪比损失较大问题,实现了对目标位置估计,提高了MUSIC近场声源分布测量方法对目标位置的检测及定位性能.     

基于声矢量阵的宽带波束域高分辨方位估计

宽带信号波束域处理是实现水下目标高分辨方位估计的重要途径,它相对阵元域具有运算量小、分辨信噪比门限低以及角度分辨力高的优点。声矢量阵单个阵元能同时测量声场中的声压量和3个正交的质点振速分量,相对于声压阵,它能获取更多的声场信息。因此通过均匀声矢量阵运用MUSIC算法对宽带信号源波束域DOA估计进行了研究,改善了对弱相干信号源的方位分辨和估计性能,实验所获得的仿真结果表明了该方法具有较高的参考价值。     

Putin – the masked nemesis of the strategy of ambiguity

Recent events demonstrate the complex and adaptive approach employed by Russia to reassert influence in Europe. The changing face of Russia’s strategy commenced in 2007 when it launched a crippling cyber-attack against Estonia. This was followed by a large Russian conventional attack against Georgia in 2008, occupying two large areas of the nation. 2014 witnessed the Russian annexation of Crimea where in just a week, Russia seized control of Crimea “without firing a shot.” The annexation of Crimea was rapidly followed by a Russian inspired and led subversive war in eastern Ukraine. The common thread among these diverse Russian operations is its use of ambiguity to confound and confuse decision makers in the West.     

India's counter-insurgency experience: the ‘trust and nurture’ strategy

The Indian Army, a force trained primarily for conventional warfare, has been engaged in internal counter-insurgency operations since the 1950s. Despite such a long innings on a counter-insurgency mode, little attention has been accorded within military circles to doctrinal innovation for waging sub-conventional warfare in India's democratic political context. At best, the Army continues to view counter-insurgency duty as secondary to its primary duty of defending India from external conventional threats. By conceptualizing a counter-insurgency strategy of ‘trust and nurture’, this article aims to fill this critical doctrinal gap in India's military policy. The author argues that a counter-insurgency strategy of ‘trust and nurture’ based on democratic political culture, measured military methods, special counter-insurgency forces, local social and cultural awareness and an integrative nation-building approach will result in positive handling of India's internal security problems. The author utilizes India's counter-insurgency experiences in Assam, Mizoram, Nagaland, Punjab, and Operation ‘Sadhbhavana’ in Jammu and Kashmir as illustrative empirical indicants in order to validate the ‘trust and nurture’ strategy.     

An Unlikely Alliance: Portuguese and South African Airpower in Angola, 1968–1974

The war that Portugal was obliged to fight in Africa began in 1961 and immediately stretched the resources of its armed forces. Nowhere was this thinness more apparent than in policing the vast territory of Angola. The east and southeast of Angola were particularly vulnerable, as the area was a vast, sparsely populated region characterised by enormous featureless plains or chanas covered in tall grass and broken by an extensive river system and mountainous forests. The only military solution to policing these immense spaces was aviation and specifically the helicopter that could carry troops into battle, protect them with a gunship and bring them home when the operation was concluded. The immediate problem for the Portuguese Air Force (Força Aérea Portuguesa or FAP) in Angola and elsewhere was a scarcity of helicopters. The solution was an alliance with South Africa, which had a strong inventory of Alouette IIIs, to help in policing the east. This move was likewise in the interest of South Africa, as its threat came from Zambia through south-eastern Angola. This article examines the strategic and tactical development of this unusual, cross-cultural alliance and the symbiotic relationship that resulted in destruction of the enemies of both in Angola.     

Helping hands: civil–military cooperation and Italy's military operation abroad

In the Post-Bipolar Era the growing complexity of the military operations requires a new approach for the resolution of international crises. Since the end of the Cold War, peace support operations (PSO) have become the mainstay and principal occupation of most Western armies. At the same time, Italy has been one of the most important actors in such an area. The article focuses on the cooperation between military and civil components (a process called CIMIC) as a key variable in the Italian PSOs. We will analyse in detail the main lessons learned from past military interventions as well as the general context in which new tendencies are taking place. The maintaining of a minimum security frame becomes essential to fulfil activities ‘collateral’ to the mission: reconstructing services and infrastructure, food distribution, water and medication, law and order, de-mining, training of local forces, and supporting local institutions. These are the main tasks to obtain thrust and support from the population.     

Terrorism,insurgency, kidnapping,and security in Africa's energy sector

Energy continues to serve as the bedrock of modern economies and the main driver of modern society. For Africa, the production and supply of energy resources such as crude oil, natural gas, uranium, coal, biomass, biofuels and other renewables are an important source of employment, rents, taxes, royalties and profits. This sector brings in several tens of billions of dollars of revenue annually. The production and delivery of such resources, however, depend on critical infrastructures such as pipelines, refineries, processing plants, terminals, rigs, electrical energy pylons, substations, pump stations, vessels, and tankers. These infrastructures have been attacked by terrorists, insurgents, vandals and saboteurs, all of whom see them as targets against which to register their grievances and extract concessions from the state. This paper is a chronological account of some of the documented incidents of terrorism, insurgency, kidnapping, destruction, sabotage, and human casualties suffered in the oil and gas sectors in Africa between 1999 and 2012. It is based on data extracted from the databases of the RAND Database of World Terrorism Incidents and the University of Maryland's Global Terrorism Database (GTD).     

国内外结构钢焊条研究的现状与发展

本文主要介绍了国外焊条的现状和发展趋势,包括焊条的高韧性、高效率、低尘低毒和耐吸潮性能,为国内的焊条研究提供了参考依据。     

A Sign of Victory?: ‘Scottish Swords’ and Other Weapons in the Possession of the ‘Auld Innemie’

Many late medieval documents, notably inventories of arms and armour, of Englishmen contain references to ‘Scottish swords’ and other weapons. What did the compilers of these documents mean when they described a weapon as ‘Scottish’? How did such weapons come to be in the possession of these men? This article will attempt to explain this phenomenon drawing on primary documentary sources and surviving material culture from Glasgow Museums’ collections and others, as well as artworks from the period.     

Tacit support for terrorism: The rapprochement between the USSR and Palestinian guerrilla organizations following the 1967 war

This article demonstrates the inconsistent and wavering Soviet attitude towards national liberation movements in general and the Palestinian organizations in particular. Until the late 1960s, the Soviets viewed these organizations with suspicion, hesitating to engage in political dialogue with them. However, in the 1970s, political and military events in the region, as well as modifications in the Kremlin's Cold War strategies, led to a general shift towards the Middle East in Soviet foreign policy. Soviet leaders showed increased willingness to provide certain Palestinian organizations with arms with which to conduct terrorist activities against Israeli, pro-Israeli, Jewish and Western targets. The article explores the complex relations between Palestinian organizations and the USSR in the field of international terror. The study also exposes and analyzes the nature and content of Soviet–Palestinian arms dialogues and transactions. It provides clear evidence that Soviet policymakers and other luminaries were fully informed of, and sometimes directly involved in, these transactions and dialogues at the highest levels.     

A1 Qaeda and the radical Islamic challenge to western strategy

The September 11 global crisis prompted by the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon raises major questions concerning the nature and trajectory of terrorism in the post-Cold War global order. Hitherto, terrorism has been largely debated by analysts at the level of nation states. Terrorist and insurgent movements have also been largely anchored in nationalist and ethnic power bases even when they have sought to mobilise a transnational ideological appeal on religious or class grounds. There have been a few exceptions to this pattern such as the alliance between the German Baader-Meinhof group and the Japanese Red Army Faction, but even such international alliances as this did not, until at least the 1980s, presage anything like a global terrorist network necessitating a global strategic response. This study examines terrorism and global strategic responses.