摘要
小型旋翼无人机由于其体积小、重量轻、机动性优异等特点,常作为合成孔径雷达(SAR)搭载平台,在低空复杂环境探测中具有广阔应用前景。然而,由于小型旋翼无人机低空飞行过程运动误差随机性强,且受限于旋翼无人机载重限制,无法搭载高精度定位设备,导致运动误差成为影响小型旋翼无人机载穿墙SAR成像精度的关键问题。传统基于逐步逼近(SSA)方法的误差补偿算法基于聚束SAR提出,假设场景中所有像素点的相位误差相同,条带宽波束条件下明显不适用。该文提出一种基于SSA算法的宽波束穿墙SAR空变运动误差补偿方法,该方法结合后向投影(BP)算法对旋翼无人机运动误差的雷达回波进行建模,在SAR图像熵评估准则下,利用SSA优化算法估计天线相位中心对成像场景中每个像素点的相位误差,通过BP算法可对每个像素点进行高精度相位补偿,解决了宽波束穿墙SAR运动误差空变问题。仿真与实测数据处理结果表明,该算法能够在宽波束情况下,对空变运动误差完成精确补偿,使场景中多目标均完成良好聚焦,有效解决了宽波束穿墙SAR运动误差空变问题。
Small rotorcraft Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs),owing to their compact size,lightweight nature,and excellent maneuverability,are often used as platforms for Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR)systems.These UAVs exhibit great potential in complex environment detection at low altitudes.However,the operation of small rotorcraft UAVs involves sharp,random motion errors during flight at low altitudes.Additionally,the limited payload capacity of these vehicles further limits their capacity to carry high-precision positioning equipment.The abovementioned motion errors observed during the operation of UAVs become a key factor that affects the imaging accuracy in UAV-mounted through-the-wall SAR imaging.To address this drawback,a conventional error compensation algorithm based on the Stage by Stage Approaching(SSA)algorithm has been proposed.This approach is based on the bunching SAR imaging mechanism,assuming that the phase error of all the pixels in the scene is the same;this approach is not applicable under the condition of a bandwidth beam.Therefore,this paper presents a wide-beam motion error compensation method for through-the-wall SAR imaging based on the SSA algorithm.The method employs the Back Projection(BP)algorithm to model the motion errors of the radar echo of the rotorcraft UAVs.Using the image entropy evaluation criterion of SAR,the SSA optimization algorithm was applied in this study to estimate the phase errors of the antenna phase center for each pixel in the imaging scene.Subsequently,the BP algorithm was used to perform high-precision phase compensation for each pixel,thereby addressing the spatial variations of motion errors in the wide-beam through-the-wall SAR system.The results of the simulation and experimental data processing reveal that the proposed algorithm can accurately compensate for spatially varying motion errors in wide-beam scenarios.It enables good focusing of multiple targets in the scene and effectively resolves the problem of spatially varying motion errors in wide-beam through-the-wall SAR imaging.
作者
张熙
于君明
刘杰
钟世超
曾小路
杨小鹏
刘仁杰
ZHANG Xi;YU Junming;LIU Jie;ZHONG Shichao;ZENG Xiaolu;YANG Xiaopeng;LIU Renjie(School of Information and Electronics,Beijing Institute of Technology,Beijing 100081,China;Yangtze Delta Region Academy of Beijing Institute of Technology(Jiaxing),Jiaxing 314000,China;The 27th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation,Zhengzhou 450047,China)
基金
国家自然科学基金(62301042)
北京理工大学学术启动项目(XSQD-6120220046)。
关键词
小型旋翼无人机
合成孔径雷达
空变误差
误差补偿
自聚焦
Small rotorcraft unmanned aerial vehicle
Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR)
Spatially varying error
Error compensation
Self-focusing
