基于空中计算辅助的分布式雷达联合波束赋形设计算法

程子扬,  谭思源,  冉长坤,  何子述

程子扬, 谭思源, 冉长坤, 等. 基于空中计算辅助的分布式雷达联合波束赋形设计算法[J]. 雷达学报(中英文), 待出版. doi: 10.12000/JR26055
引用本文: 程子扬, 谭思源, 冉长坤, 等. 基于空中计算辅助的分布式雷达联合波束赋形设计算法[J]. 雷达学报(中英文), 待出版. doi: 10.12000/JR26055
CHENG Ziyang, TAN Siyuan, RAN Changkun, et al. Over-the-air Computation Aided Joint Beamforming Design for Distributed Radar[J]. Journal of Radars, in press. doi: 10.12000/JR26055
Citation: CHENG Ziyang, TAN Siyuan, RAN Changkun, et al. Over-the-air Computation Aided Joint Beamforming Design for Distributed Radar[J]. Journal of Radars, in press. doi: 10.12000/JR26055

基于空中计算辅助的分布式雷达联合波束赋形设计算法

DOI: 10.12000/JR26055 CSTR: 32380.14.JR26055
基金项目: 国家自然科学基金(62371096),工业控制技术国家重点实验室开放研究项目资助(ICT2026B59)
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    作者简介:

    程子扬,研究员,主要研究方向为MIMO雷达信号处理、雷达通信一体化设计等

    谭思源,硕士,主要研究方向为雷达波形设计、雷达通信一体化

    冉长坤,硕士,主要研究方向为新体制阵列雷达信号处理与智能化抗干扰等

    何子述,教授,主要研究方向为新体制雷达系统、雷达信号处理等

    通讯作者:

    程子扬 zycheng@uestc.edu.cn

    责任主编:梁军利 Corresponding Editor: LIANG Junli

  • 中图分类号: TN951

Over-the-air Computation Aided Joint Beamforming Design for Distributed Radar

Funds: The National Natural Science Foundation of China (62371096), Open Research Project of the State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, China (ICT2026B59)
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  • 摘要: 针对传统分布式雷达网络(DRN)数据回传成本高、效率低的问题,该文研究了一种面向空中计算(AirComp)辅助的分布式雷达网络新架构,旨在提升协同目标检测性能与数据融合效率。首先,从感知层面推导了适用于分布式雷达网络的协同检测器,创新性地揭示了其检测统计量天然具有求和形式,与AirComp的线性叠加机制在数学上高度契合。基于此,该文将各雷达节点的局部对数似然比作为AirComp的聚合对象,使AirComp的计算MSE直接对应检测充分统计量的估计误差,从而建立AirComp精度与检测性能之间的理论关联。并进一步提出一种面向AirComp辅助分布式雷达网络的联合波束赋形设计方法,同步优化雷达发射波束赋形矩阵、接收滤波器以及融合中心(FC)的混合波束赋形(HBF)接收器,并设计了基于交替优化的高效求解算法。仿真结果表明,在相同信干噪比和虚警概率条件下,所提AirDRN架构相较于传统时分双工(TDD)模式具有更优的目标检测性能,在信干噪比分别为7 dB和10 dB时,检测性能分别提升约3.17倍和1.52倍。

     

  • 图  1  基于空中计算的分布式雷达网络场景图

    Figure  1.  Scenario of the over-the-air computation-based distributed radar network

    图  2  系统数据处理与融合流程图

    Figure  2.  Data processing and fusion procedure of the system

    图  3  所提AirDRN-HBF算法的收敛性能

    Figure  3.  Convergence performance of the proposed AirDRN-HBF algorithm

    图  4  不同参数下的收敛曲线对比

    Figure  4.  Comparison of convergence curves under different parameter settings

    图  5  不同参数下接收方向图对比

    Figure  5.  Comparison of receive beampatterns under different parameter settings

    图  6  不同工作模式下的检测概率对比

    Figure  6.  Comparison of detection performance under different operating modes

    图  7  不同波束赋形方案的MSE对比

    Figure  7.  Comparison of MSEs for different beamforming schemes

    1  AirDRN-HBF算法

    1.   AirDRN-HBF algorithm

     1. 输入:系统参数。
     2. 当算法未收敛时,执行以下循环:
     3.  通过求解式(34)更新数字接收滤波矩阵$ {\left\{{\boldsymbol{w}}_{m}\right\}}^{t+1} $。
     4.  通过求解式(36)更新矩阵$ {\left\{{\boldsymbol{G}}_{m}\right\}}^{t+1} $。
     5.  通过求解式(38)更新矩阵$ {\left\{\boldsymbol{Y}\right\}}^{t+1} $。
     6.  通过求解问题(42)更新矩阵$ {\left\{{\boldsymbol{U}}_{m}\right\}}^{t+1} $。
     7.  通过求解式(46)更新$ {\left\{{\boldsymbol{V}}_{\text{bb}}\right\}}^{t+1} $。
     8.  设置初始参数:$ {\left\{\boldsymbol{Y}\right\}}^{t+1} $, $ {\boldsymbol{D}}^{t} $;初始化:$ \boldsymbol{V}_{\text{rf}}^{}\in {\mathcal{M}}_{c} $,
       $ {\text{grad}}^{+}f\left(\boldsymbol{V}_{\text{rf}}^{\left(0\right)}\right)=-\text{grad}f\left(\boldsymbol{V}_{\text{rf}}^{\left(0\right)}\right) $。
     9.   当算法未收敛时,执行以下循环:
     10. 通过Armijo准则确定$ {\kappa }^{\left(q\right)} $。
     11. 通过式(55)更新$ \boldsymbol{V}_{\text{rf}}^{\left(q+1\right)} $。
     12. 通过式(53)更新$ {\tau }^{\left(q+1\right)} $。
     13.    通过式(52)更新$ {\text{grad}}^{+}f\left(\boldsymbol{V}_{\text{rf}}^{\left(q+1\right)}\right) $。
     14.   结束循环 输出:$ {\left\{{\boldsymbol{V}}_{\text{rf}}\right\}}^{t+1}=\boldsymbol{V}_{\text{rf}}^{q+1} $
     15.   计算中间变量$ {\boldsymbol{D}}^{t+1} $和$ {\boldsymbol{Z}}^{t+1} $
     16. 结束循环
     17. 收敛后,将最终迭代结果赋值为输出变量:
     $ {\left\{{\boldsymbol{w}}_{m}\right\}}^{l}={\left\{{\boldsymbol{w}}_{m}\right\}}^{t+1} $,$ {\left\{{\boldsymbol{U}}_{m}\right\}}^{l}={\left\{{\boldsymbol{U}}_{m}\right\}}^{t+1} $, $ \boldsymbol{V}_{\text{bb}}^{l}=\boldsymbol{V}_{\text{bb}}^{t+1} $,
     $ \boldsymbol{V}_{\text{rf}}^{l}=\boldsymbol{V}_{\text{rf}}^{t+1} $
     18. 输出:$ {\left\{{\boldsymbol{w}}_{m}\right\}}^{l} $, $ {\left\{{\boldsymbol{U}}_{m}\right\}}^{l} $, $ \boldsymbol{V}_{\text{bb}}^{l} $, $ \boldsymbol{V}_{\text{rf}}^{l} $
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