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- the invention in general relates to navigation systems, and more particularly to an acoustic system for determining bearing and range to objects via passive sensors.
- a variety of methods and systems for detecting and tracking objects using acoustic information are well known in the art. These systems include both active and passive approaches. While active systems allow for rapid determination of both range and bearing to objects, passive systems can be more desirable where, for example, there are concerns about remaining undetected (e.g., military applications) or in minimizing the acoustic energy being generated (e.g., when in proximity to sea animals sensitive to sonar). Most prior art passive systems have employed approaches that use the acoustic energy radiated from an object to determine its position. This process may involve extra processing or maneuvering, as in the case of target motion analysis (see, e.g., U.S. Pat. No.
- One embodiment of the invention includes a multistatic time-aligned source combiner, that exploits the cross-correlation between a target beam and all other beams to detect and measure the range of the target.
- This combiner performs long-term cross-correlation between the target beam and each individual source beam, and then aggregates the individual correlation results, time aligned based on the scenario geometry, and averaged to enhance the composite signal-to-noise ratio of the range measurement.
- this embodiment exploits innocuous acoustic sources opportunistically as if the array were part of a multi-static, active (e.g., sonar) system.
- a partial listing of benefits that may be realized from this embodiment include: high-resolution target location can be obtained using passive acoustic listening arrays; target ranges may be determined without emitting sounds that might compromise the presence or location host vessel or injure marine life; conventional signal detection methods may be enhanced synergistically with time-aligned source combining; and diverse acoustic sources, including discrete/opportunistic and natural/distributed sources, may be exploited in determining location information.
- FIG. 1 illustrates a multistatic system involving a towed array sonar platform.
- FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a multistatic sonar system illustrating an embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 3 illustrates a graphical output window showing detection of a target.
- the present invention has found a way to exploit the natural and opportunistic acoustic radiation in most environments to detect and localize targets. Unlike earlier acoustic imaging approaches, it can be applied at longer ranges, as would be desirable for many sonar detection and localization applications.
- the presently preferred embodiment achieves this in part because it includes the use of high signal processing gains obtained from long-term cross-correlation techniques. This embodiment of the invention may be better understood by reference to FIG. 1. Many noise sources are located in the far-field.
- These sources may be either opportunistic or innocuous, and may include those having known positions (such as noise-generating coastal facility, navigation aid, etc.), reasonably predictable positions (e.g., commercial shipping traffic with constant speed and heading), or other unknown sources (e.g., wave generated noise, biologics, and other innocuous sounds).
- a source is from a substantially known direction, it is possible to compute the range to a target from the difference in arrival time between the source's direct signal and its echo signal from the target.
- a far-field source 10 generates acoustic signal 11 , one path of which travels directly to the detection device (towed array 13 ) and is detected on beam 15 .
- Acoustic signal 11 is also reflected via target 12 , which combines with other signals from target 12 to form a target signal which is detected on beam 16 .
- the reflected signal may be recovered through correlating the target signal with the source signal, yielding the time difference between the direct path signal and the reflected signal. If the time difference is known, then the distance R to target 12 can be readily determined as follows:
- ⁇ b is the time difference of arrival determined by correlating the two beams
- ⁇ is the sound velocity
- ⁇ b is the relative angle between the direct beam and the target beam.
- FIG. 2 the preferred embodiment for processing this multistatic source information is illustrated.
- Acoustic energy is first detected via plural sound transducers 21 of the array 13 , and processed via beamformer 22 into plural beam channels.
- One of these beams is selected as the target beam, and the remaining beams are cross-correlated with the target beam via correlation function 23 .
- the resulting cross-correlated signals are then stored in a time-series buffer 24 for further processing.
- the beamformer 22 is expected to form a plurality of radial beams that subtend unique solid angles relative to the acoustic center of the array. There is a single geometric solution for each source-beam-to-target-beam pair and a unique time displacement is computed to be applied to each cross-correlation result.
- the beamformer forms a plurality of radial beams where each beam subtends a torus about the axis of the array.
- the linear array has left-right ambiguity in the geometric solutions for the horizontal plane.
- Separate time displacements must be applied to the cross-correlation results to accommodate sound sources that are located to the left and to the right.
- there are two time displacements, ⁇ bt and ⁇ br where a given beam will have correlation between the beam and the target beam.
- taps 26 and 27 illustrate through their different positioning how the cross-correlated signal is output from the buffer 24 at two different time-displaced values to combiner 25 . Both of these are included in the time-aligned, correlation result.
- the relative time displacement of the of the cross-correlation result between the source-target beam pair is computed approximately as follows:
- the aggregation of cross-correlation results may be accomplished by summing the correlation sequences with a time alignment that is consistent with range in the target direction. as in Eq. 2:
- ⁇ b ( R / ⁇ ) (1 ⁇ cos ⁇ b ) (Eq. 2)
- the index into the cross-correlation sequence stored in the buffers 24 is computed by rounding the result of ⁇ b f s where f s is the sampling rate of the acoustic data.
- ⁇ is the weighting factor for ensemble averaging.
- the preferred embodiment accomplishes cross-correlation in the frequency domain.
- a forward FFT is computed for each beam, including the target beam.
- Cross-correlation is accomplished by taking the product of the of the beam spectrum with the target spectrum and taking the inverse FFT:
- the ensemble averaged results may be displayed according to any convenient format 29 .
- a graphical display which shows the ensemble averaging results, is the primary display for the processed data.
- FIG. 3 illustrates hypothetical results of a linear, towed array, showing a target located abeam of the array at a range of 2000 meters.
- the input data from the array is beamformed into 416 beams distributed uniformly in cosine space, with a simulated reflecting target located on beam 208 .
- Gaussian, white noise was used to simulate an experimental environment where each beam receives a uniform mixture of coherent (correlatable) noise and incoherent noise.
- the coherent (correlatable) content of each peripheral beam is set at 50% (0.5) of the total beam amplitude.
- the effective “sonar” cross-section of the target is at 2000 m 2 , and the propagation velocity of sound in water is 1500 m/s.
- Cross-correlation is performed between the target beam and every other beam.
- the cross-correlation is done using frame sequences of 65,536 samples; i.e., using 64K FFTs. This is a relatively long-term correlation spanning about 21 seconds of data, and successive cross-correlations are done with a 50% overlap of the frames.
- the weighting factor ⁇ is used in ensemble averaging is 0.1.
- FIG. 3 illustrates an example where there is a peak in the ensemble averaged result occurring at a measured range of 2000 meters.
- the source combining technique of the preferred embodiment may be dependent upon one finding a cross-correlation between a beam pointed in the direction of a noise source and the beam pointed in the direction of the target.
- Computing the cross-correlation between one source direction and the target is essentially a bi-static situation.
- the beam thus pointed at the acoustic source seeks to use the coherent portion of the sound/noise as a replica for matched-filter detection of the same signal reflected of the target—a sort of “ping stealing” as might be used in bi-static sonar.
- ping stealing the direct blast is quite strong and readily separated from noise; it is a clean replica to use in matched filter detection of energy reflected from the target.
- far-field source combining may not able to extract a “clean replica” from the beam pointed at the source. Instead, one may have to use the entire signal received by the beam as a replica.
- the signal reflected off of the target has a copy of the source buried among energy reflected from all other sources and the background noise of that beam.
- the cross-correlation function operates to detect the coherent portion of the two signals, both masked by incoherent noise.
- target detection may be enhanced relative to the noise of the process by using long-term cross correlation. In the illustrated case of FIG. 3, signal sequences of 21-seconds were cross correlated to maximize the amplitude of the detection.
- the preferred embodiment also uses ensemble averaging to enhance the detectability of the target over a longer period of time.
- the present ensemble averaging algorithm uses an exponential decay process sliding over successive results; however, block summation averaging could yield better results in some applications.
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- [0001] The government has certain rights in this invention pursuant to Contract No. N00024-00-C-4088 awarded by the Department of the Navy.
- 1. Field of the Invention
- The invention in general relates to navigation systems, and more particularly to an acoustic system for determining bearing and range to objects via passive sensors.
- 2. Background
- A variety of methods and systems for detecting and tracking objects using acoustic information are well known in the art. These systems include both active and passive approaches. While active systems allow for rapid determination of both range and bearing to objects, passive systems can be more desirable where, for example, there are concerns about remaining undetected (e.g., military applications) or in minimizing the acoustic energy being generated (e.g., when in proximity to sea animals sensitive to sonar). Most prior art passive systems have employed approaches that use the acoustic energy radiated from an object to determine its position. This process may involve extra processing or maneuvering, as in the case of target motion analysis (see, e.g., U.S. Pat. No. 5,216,815 to Bessacini) or Ekelund ranging (see, e.g., U.S. Pat. No. 5,877,998 to Aidala et al.). Additional information such as frequency parameters of the radiating object have also been considered (see, e.g., U.S. Pat. No. 5,432,753 to Maranda). However, in all these cases it is the acoustic energy from the object of interest that is measured, and the energy from other objects is either ignored or filtered.
- A different approach for passive detection was suggested by John Potter in his article, “Acoustic Imaging Using Ambient Noise.” This article describes the results of a computer simulation of modeling reflectors (e.g., a spherical shape) scattering ambient acoustic energy (e.g., isotropic and partial anisotropic noise). Its conclusions were that near-perfect reflectors in isotropic noise cannot be imaged, except in the near-field, but that in typical oceanic environments there should be considerable anisotropy such that imaging is possible. In conducting their simulation several simplifying assumptions were made regarding the model for scattered pressure amplitude of a source wave, and the ranges were taken as givens. In other words, while this article pointed to the possibility of applications in which scattering objects might be imaged, it did not describe a working solution for how to carry out that imaging. Epifanio et al., and Potter and Chitre more recently improved on this by showing how images could be formed via intensity mapping of a region at various frequencies. However, the practical range for their acoustic imaging was limited, Epifanio et al. imaging fixed objects between 13 m and 38 m. Thus, to date the systems based on this acoustic imaging concept only address short range, near-field imaging applications, and have not attempted to address issues like range determination.
- One embodiment of the invention includes a multistatic time-aligned source combiner, that exploits the cross-correlation between a target beam and all other beams to detect and measure the range of the target. This combiner performs long-term cross-correlation between the target beam and each individual source beam, and then aggregates the individual correlation results, time aligned based on the scenario geometry, and averaged to enhance the composite signal-to-noise ratio of the range measurement. In doing so, this embodiment exploits innocuous acoustic sources opportunistically as if the array were part of a multi-static, active (e.g., sonar) system.
- A partial listing of benefits that may be realized from this embodiment include: high-resolution target location can be obtained using passive acoustic listening arrays; target ranges may be determined without emitting sounds that might compromise the presence or location host vessel or injure marine life; conventional signal detection methods may be enhanced synergistically with time-aligned source combining; and diverse acoustic sources, including discrete/opportunistic and natural/distributed sources, may be exploited in determining location information.
- The invention may be more readily appreciated from the following detailed description, when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
- FIG. 1 illustrates a multistatic system involving a towed array sonar platform.
- FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a multistatic sonar system illustrating an embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 3 illustrates a graphical output window showing detection of a target.
- The present invention has found a way to exploit the natural and opportunistic acoustic radiation in most environments to detect and localize targets. Unlike earlier acoustic imaging approaches, it can be applied at longer ranges, as would be desirable for many sonar detection and localization applications. The presently preferred embodiment achieves this in part because it includes the use of high signal processing gains obtained from long-term cross-correlation techniques. This embodiment of the invention may be better understood by reference to FIG. 1. Many noise sources are located in the far-field. These sources may be either opportunistic or innocuous, and may include those having known positions (such as noise-generating coastal facility, navigation aid, etc.), reasonably predictable positions (e.g., commercial shipping traffic with constant speed and heading), or other unknown sources (e.g., wave generated noise, biologics, and other innocuous sounds).
- If a source is from a substantially known direction, it is possible to compute the range to a target from the difference in arrival time between the source's direct signal and its echo signal from the target. Thus, in the illustrated case of FIG. 1 a far-
field source 10 generatesacoustic signal 11, one path of which travels directly to the detection device (towed array 13) and is detected onbeam 15.Acoustic signal 11 is also reflected viatarget 12, which combines with other signals fromtarget 12 to form a target signal which is detected onbeam 16. The reflected signal may be recovered through correlating the target signal with the source signal, yielding the time difference between the direct path signal and the reflected signal. If the time difference is known, then the distance R totarget 12 can be readily determined as follows: - R=(υτb)/(1−cos φb) (Eq. 1)
- where τb is the time difference of arrival determined by correlating the two beams, υ is the sound velocity, and φb is the relative angle between the direct beam and the target beam.
- If the correlation content of a given beam or the energy reflected from the target are not sufficiently high, then the correlation result will be buried in the incoherent correlation noise, even with long-term cross-correlation (time-bandwidthed). However, even if the correlation result of a given beam has too low of a SNR (signal-to-noise ratio), by using the correlation results from
multiple beams 17 with acoustic information frommultiple sources 18, a composite signal with sufficient SNR can be recovered. - Turning now to FIG. 2, the preferred embodiment for processing this multistatic source information is illustrated. Acoustic energy is first detected via
plural sound transducers 21 of thearray 13, and processed viabeamformer 22 into plural beam channels. One of these beams is selected as the target beam, and the remaining beams are cross-correlated with the target beam viacorrelation function 23. The resulting cross-correlated signals are then stored in a time-series buffer 24 for further processing. - If any signal displays a sufficiently strong cross-correlation, then information about the time difference between the two beams forming the cross-correlated signal could be used to readily determine a target range. However, even in the absence of a single strong enough signal, if all the cross-correlation signals are appropriately combined a sufficiently strong signal can be recovered.
- In order to combine the signals, they are first time-aligned. The cross-correlation result between a given source beam and the target beam is displaced in time according to the geometric relationship of the sound source, the reflecting target, the receiving acoustic array and the intervening sound propagation conditions. The results are combined by superimposing each of the individual, time-aligned correlation results
- For the general case of a receiving array (e.g., for a 3-dimensional arrangement of acoustic transducers)21, the
beamformer 22 is expected to form a plurality of radial beams that subtend unique solid angles relative to the acoustic center of the array. There is a single geometric solution for each source-beam-to-target-beam pair and a unique time displacement is computed to be applied to each cross-correlation result. - For the special case of a linear array of acoustic transducers, the beamformer forms a plurality of radial beams where each beam subtends a torus about the axis of the array. In a practical sense, the linear array has left-right ambiguity in the geometric solutions for the horizontal plane. Separate time displacements must be applied to the cross-correlation results to accommodate sound sources that are located to the left and to the right. Thus, there are two time displacements, τbt and τbr, where a given beam will have correlation between the beam and the target beam. In the case of FIG. 2, taps 26 and 27 illustrate through their different positioning how the cross-correlated signal is output from the
buffer 24 at two different time-displaced values tocombiner 25. Both of these are included in the time-aligned, correlation result. - For the case where the signal of a distant, far-field source impinges upon the
target 12 and thearray 13, the relative time displacement of the of the cross-correlation result between the source-target beam pair is computed approximately as follows: The aggregation of cross-correlation results may be accomplished by summing the correlation sequences with a time alignment that is consistent with range in the target direction. as in Eq. 2: - τb=(R/τ) (1−cos φb) (Eq. 2)
- The index into the cross-correlation sequence stored in the
buffers 24 is computed by rounding the result of τbfs where fs is the sampling rate of the acoustic data. - One skilled in the art will appreciate that there are many factors that must be considered in solving the scenario geometries and in the computation of time dis-placements. Solutions more rigorous than described here are used to treat factors such as: near-field sources, the acoustic propagation environment, the relative depth of the target, a priori knowledge of target and/or source locations, bathymetry data, and other factors.
- By bringing these cross-correlation results into time alignment, according to the geometries, the cross-correlation results reinforce one another. This summation over the different beams (except for the auto-correlation of the target beam) produces a signal-to-noise enhancement proportional to the number of beams formed in the array, and the content of opportunistic sources found in the environment. This process is repeated for a plurality of ranges, adjusting the time-alignment factors (e.g., taps26 and 27) for each beam-pair as affected by range. The combined output for the target beam for all ranges is thus determined.
- To further enhance the signal recovery relative to the noise, the process is repeated again and an ensemble average of the output values is determined. One skilled in the art will know how to select an appropriate implementation of ensemble averaging for their desired application. In the illustrated case, an exponential decay algorithm was used of the form:
- where α is the weighting factor for ensemble averaging.
- With respect to the cross-correlation used, the preferred embodiment accomplishes cross-correlation in the frequency domain. A forward FFT is computed for each beam, including the target beam. Cross-correlation is accomplished by taking the product of the of the beam spectrum with the target spectrum and taking the inverse FFT:
- There are limits to the length of sequences included in a cross-correlation computation. For example, these limits may occur because of relative motion between the target and the towed array. As the towed array moves through the water, there are changes in multi-path propagation that will impact the use of long sequences in cross-correlation. In idealistic simulations better results are obtained using very long sequences, but in the preferred approach the correlated sequence was limited to about 20 seconds of data. To accommodate de-correlation at the ends of the sequences, overlapping segments were used in the correlation process.
- Those skilled in the art will appreciate that a variety of signal detection means, beamformers, and cross-correlation algorithms may be used to arrive at useful cross-correlated signals. While none is necessarily preferred in the context of the invention, the selected system must be able to resolve angular difference between the beams in order to time align the signals.
- The ensemble averaged results may be displayed according to any
convenient format 29. In the illustrated case of FIG. 3, a graphical display, which shows the ensemble averaging results, is the primary display for the processed data. FIG. 3 illustrates hypothetical results of a linear, towed array, showing a target located abeam of the array at a range of 2000 meters. The input data from the array is beamformed into 416 beams distributed uniformly in cosine space, with a simulated reflecting target located onbeam 208. Gaussian, white noise was used to simulate an experimental environment where each beam receives a uniform mixture of coherent (correlatable) noise and incoherent noise. In this case, the coherent (correlatable) content of each peripheral beam is set at 50% (0.5) of the total beam amplitude. The effective “sonar” cross-section of the target is at 2000 m2, and the propagation velocity of sound in water is 1500 m/s. Cross-correlation is performed between the target beam and every other beam. The cross-correlation is done using frame sequences of 65,536 samples; i.e., using 64K FFTs. This is a relatively long-term correlation spanning about 21 seconds of data, and successive cross-correlations are done with a 50% overlap of the frames. The weighting factor α is used in ensemble averaging is 0.1. FIG. 3 illustrates an example where there is a peak in the ensemble averaged result occurring at a measured range of 2000 meters. - The source combining technique of the preferred embodiment may be dependent upon one finding a cross-correlation between a beam pointed in the direction of a noise source and the beam pointed in the direction of the target. Computing the cross-correlation between one source direction and the target is essentially a bi-static situation. The beam thus pointed at the acoustic source seeks to use the coherent portion of the sound/noise as a replica for matched-filter detection of the same signal reflected of the target—a sort of “ping stealing” as might be used in bi-static sonar. In the case of ping stealing, the direct blast is quite strong and readily separated from noise; it is a clean replica to use in matched filter detection of energy reflected from the target. However, far-field source combining may not able to extract a “clean replica” from the beam pointed at the source. Instead, one may have to use the entire signal received by the beam as a replica. Similarly, the signal reflected off of the target has a copy of the source buried among energy reflected from all other sources and the background noise of that beam. In processing the two beams, the cross-correlation function operates to detect the coherent portion of the two signals, both masked by incoherent noise. One skilled in the art will also appreciate how target detection may be enhanced relative to the noise of the process by using long-term cross correlation. In the illustrated case of FIG. 3, signal sequences of 21-seconds were cross correlated to maximize the amplitude of the detection. This is a relatively long sequence as, e.g., most active sonar pings used today are on the order of 2 to 10 seconds. Using a long sequence enhances the result, but at the same time the result is more sensitive to relative motion between the target and the array.
- As discussed above, the preferred embodiment also uses ensemble averaging to enhance the detectability of the target over a longer period of time. The present ensemble averaging algorithm uses an exponential decay process sliding over successive results; however, block summation averaging could yield better results in some applications.
- While the foregoing constitute certain preferred and alternative embodiments of the present invention, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited thereto and that in light of the present disclosure, various other embodiments will be apparent to persons skilled in the art. Thus, for example, while the preferred embodiment is illustrated in connection with marine environments, the invention may be used in any acoustic environment, including but not limited to air environments where, e.g., darkness, fog or smoke obscure visual means. Further, while the preferred embodiment has been described in terms of hardware circuitry, those skilled in the art will recognize that everything except the initial acoustic detector may be implemented in either hardware, software, or some combination of hardware and appropriately configured programs and processors implementing the described functionality, depending on the design choices that a skilled artisan may make. Accordingly, it is to be recognized that changes can be made without departing from the scope of the invention as particularly pointed out and distinctly claimed in the appended claims which shall be construed to encompass all legal equivalents thereof.
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