摘要
Amultiple-inputmultiple-output(MIMO)sonarcansynthesizealarge-aperturevirtualuniformlineararray(ULA)fromasmallnumberofphysicalelements.However,thelargeapertureisobtainedatthecostofagreatnumberofmatchedfilterswithmuchheavycomputationload.Toreducethecomputationload,aMIMOsonarimagingmethodusingavirtualsparselineararray(SLA)isproposed,whichcontainstheofflineandonlineprocessing.Intheofflineprocessing,thevirtualULAoftheMIMOsonaristhinnedtoavirtualSLAbythesimulatedannealingalgorithm,andmatchedfilterscorrespondingtoinactivevirtualelementsareremoved.Intheonlineprocessing,outputsofmatchedfilterscorrespondingtoactiveelementsarecollectedforfurthermultibeamprocessingandhence,thenumberofmatchedfiltersintheechoprocessingprocedureiseffectivelyreduced.Numericalsimulationsshowthattheproposedmethodcanreducethecomputationloadeffectivelywhileobtainingasimilarimagingperformanceasthetraditionalmethod.
出版日期
2016年02月12日(中国Betway体育网页登陆平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)