To reduce the dependence on the prior information, improve the signal detection ability under the condition of low signal-to-noise ratio, and effectively describe the time-frequency relationship of the signal, the strong immunity of Chua’s circuit to noise and its sensitivity to the initial value of the signal are utilized to construct Chua’s circuit group, and to design the corresponding signal detection method. Drawing on the idea of calculus, the complex modulated signal to be detected is divided into multi-segment short-time linear signals, and Chua’s circuit group with five synchronous circuits is constructed. The efficient detection of the signal and the accurate measurement of the frequency are realized. Through simulation experiments, the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is verified, and the simulation circuit with engineering practical significance is given.
对比参考文献[14]中IF估计的相对误差(Relative Error of the IF Estimation, REIF)的仿真结果,设置待检测信号参数与该文献中的参数相同,但将信噪比整体降低17 dB,同步电路组的参数与上一节中相似,对不同信噪比进行200次蒙特卡洛仿真实验,借鉴该文献中的REIF评估方法效能,得到仿真结果如图7所示。将所提方法信噪比降低17 dB后,方法效能与文献[14]结果近似。因为文献[14]基于时频分析,而时频分析性能随着信噪比的降低算法效能明显下降,而非线性电路具有对噪声的强免疫性,更加适用于低信噪比的条件。
为实现对应的同步电路,需要构造一个五维的微分方程组。为此,利用电压跟随器、反相加法器模块、积分器模块、反相器等模块组合实现,同步电路组如图9所示。将待检测信号加载在电源上,将第2.2节的频率测量方法写入数字信号处理器(Digital Signal Processing, DSP)中,即可实现对信号的检测及频率参数的测量。
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