CN107783108B - Radar signal processing method for radar altimeter system of plant protection rotor unmanned aerial vehicle - Google Patents

Radar signal processing method for radar altimeter system of plant protection rotor unmanned aerial vehicle Download PDF

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CN107783108B
CN107783108B CN201610726136.XA CN201610726136A CN107783108B CN 107783108 B CN107783108 B CN 107783108B CN 201610726136 A CN201610726136 A CN 201610726136A CN 107783108 B CN107783108 B CN 107783108B
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Plant protection rotor unmanned aerial vehicle radar altimeter system radar signal processing method belongs to the radar field, solves the solution of plant protection rotor unmanned aerial vehicle radar height, and solves the problem of precision and stability, and the technical essential is: the method comprises the following steps: s1, AD data acquisition; s2, FFT conversion; s3, CFAR threshold detection; s4, peak value processing; and S5, high settlement. The effect is as follows: in the radar signal processing of the altimeter system, the peak value processing is carried out so as to improve the precision and the stability.

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Radar signal processing method for radar altimeter system of plant protection rotor unmanned aerial vehicle
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the field of radars, and relates to a millimeter wave radar altimeter of a plant protection rotor unmanned aerial vehicle.
Background
Plant protection unmanned aerial vehicle, as the name implies is the unmanned aircraft who is used for agriculture and forestry plant protection operation, and this type unmanned aircraft has flight platform (fixed wing, single rotor, many rotors), GPS to fly to control, spraying mechanism triplex, flies to control through ground remote control or GPS, realizes spraying the operation, can spray medicament, seed, powder etc..
Compared with the traditional plant protection operation, the unmanned aerial vehicle plant protection operation has the characteristics of accurate operation, high efficiency, environmental protection, intellectualization, simple operation and the like, and saves the cost of large machinery and a large amount of manpower for farmers. Plant protection unmanned aerial vehicle has the operation height low, and the drift is few, characteristics such as can hover in the air, and the downdraft that the rotor produced helps increasing the air current to the penetrability of crops when spraying pesticide, if height between control plant protection unmanned aerial vehicle that can be stable and the ground vegetation, at the pesticide spray operation in-process, then can be better make the pesticide efficient spray the vegetation on to improve the prevention and cure effect of pesticide etc. make the pesticide reach the biggest utilization ratio.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to solve the problems of resolving the radar height of the plant protection rotor unmanned aerial vehicle, and resolving accuracy and stability, the invention provides the following technical scheme: a radar signal processing method for a plant protection rotor unmanned aerial vehicle radar altimeter system comprises the following steps:
s1, AD data acquisition;
s2, FFT conversion;
s3, CFAR threshold detection;
s4, peak value processing;
and S5, high settlement.
Has the advantages that: in the radar signal processing of the altimeter system, the peak value processing is carried out so as to improve the precision and the stability.
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FIG. 1 is a graph of frequency variation of a chirped sawtooth FMCW over a frequency sweep period;
fig. 2 is a flow chart of a signal processing method of a radar altimeter system of a vegetation rotor unmanned aerial vehicle in embodiment 2.
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Example 1: a radar signal processing method for a plant protection rotor unmanned aerial vehicle radar altimeter system comprises the following steps:
s1, AD data acquisition;
AD data acquisition, through AD sampling digital processing, the number of data point N that AD gathered, after removing partial data, the number of the surplus point is N _ s.
S2, removing direct current, wherein the step is an optional step;
(1) respectively calculating the average values I _ mean and Q _ mean of respective N _ s data of the I path and the Q path;
Figure GDA0002890279390000021
(2) wherein I is time domain data of the I path, Q is time domain data of the Q path, I _ mean is the mean value of the I path, and Q _ mean is the mean value of the Q path;
(3) subtracting the average value of each path from each data of the path I and the path Q;
(4) the IQ data DC calculation formula is as follows:
Figure GDA0002890279390000022
wherein, I 'is data after direct current removal, and Q' is data after direct current removal.
S3, FFT conversion;
preferably, I, Q data after being subjected to direct current removal are combined into an I + jQ data form, the sawtooth wave I + jQ data are subjected to FFT conversion, time domain data are converted into frequency data, of course, AD acquisition data can also be directly subjected to FFT conversion, I, Q data are combined into an I + jQ data form, and the sawtooth wave I + jQ data are subjected to FFT conversion.
S4, CFAR threshold detection;
and carrying out CFAR threshold detection on the complex modulus value of each point after the FFT.
S5, peak value processing;
the peak processing: after CFAR threshold detection, selecting a maximum point as an output peak value, and executing the following method when threshold peak value extraction is carried out:
setting a peak point threshold factor α for limiting the absolute value of the difference between the detected threshold-crossing maximum peak point and the maximum peak point appearing in the previous cycle, so that the absolute value of the difference is not greater than the peak point threshold factor α:
the expression is as follows:
|L_max(k)-L_max(k-1)|≤α;
Figure GDA0002890279390000031
wherein: l _ max (k) is the maximum peak point coordinate of the threshold passing of the k period, L _ max (k-1) is the maximum peak point coordinate of the last period, and k represents the kth moment; v. ofmaxThe maximum flight speed of the unmanned aerial vehicle is shown, lambda is the wavelength of the millimeter wave radar, fs is the sampling rate, and N is the number of points of FFT;
if the absolute value difference value of the threshold-crossing maximum peak point at the moment k and the threshold-crossing maximum peak point at the moment k-1 is within the set range of the threshold factor alpha of the peak point, the peak point of the kth period is considered to be effective; and if the threshold-crossing maximum peak point exceeds the set peak point threshold factor alpha at the moment k, replacing the peak point output at the moment k with the peak point at the moment k-1.
As a preferable scheme, a peak point sudden change accumulation factor phi is set, and the peak point sudden change accumulation factor phi is defined as that if b periods are continued from the moment k, the value range of b is 5-10, and the threshold crossing maximum peak point is compared with the threshold crossing maximum peak point of the previous period and both exceed the threshold factor a, at the moment k + b, the threshold crossing maximum peak point calculated at the current moment is taken as the threshold crossing maximum peak point at the current moment.
S6, spectrum maximum estimation, wherein the step is an optional step:
obtaining a threshold-crossing maximum peak point for spectrum maximum estimation: setting the coordinates of the threshold-crossing maximum peak point A1 as (a1, k1), wherein a1 represents the value of the threshold-crossing maximum peak point, and k1 represents the amplitude value corresponding to the threshold-crossing peak point; the coordinates of the secondary peak points are A3(A3, k3), the coordinate of the central peak point A is (amax, kmax), and e is amax-a1, the point A1, the coordinate of the point A2 symmetric to the point A is (a2, k1) is (a1+2e, k1), and the zero point A4 of the complex envelope is (a4, k1) is (A3+ e, 0);
wherein: a2, a3 and a4 are the values of the threshold-crossing maximum peak point of the corresponding point, and k3 is the amplitude value corresponding to the threshold-crossing peak point of the corresponding point;
a2, A3 and A4 are straight lines, and the linear relationship is as follows:
Figure GDA0002890279390000041
order to
Figure GDA0002890279390000042
Then
Figure GDA0002890279390000043
Setting error E and deviation E to compare, if | E tint<E, the value of the over-threshold peak point at the moment is the value of the required central peak point, if the deviation E is greater than the set error E,
Figure GDA0002890279390000044
beta is a correction factor, the value range is 1.5-1.9, the value of e is calculated by changing the correction factor, and the value amax of the central peak point is calculated to be a1+ e.
S7, high settlement;
the value amax of the central peak point, and its corresponding frequency value f _ amax, according to the formula
Figure GDA0002890279390000045
Calculating to obtain the height; where T is the modulation period, B is the bandwidth, and c is the speed of light.
Setting an altitude threshold factor epsilon, which is used for limiting the absolute value of the difference between the current altitude data H (k) and the altitude data H (k-1) appearing in the previous period, so that the absolute value of the difference is not larger than the altitude threshold factor epsilon;
the expression is as follows:
the value of | H (k) | -H (k-1) | is less than or equal to epsilon, and the value range of epsilon is 0.8-1.3;
if the absolute value difference value of the height data at the k moment and the absolute value difference value at the k-1 moment are within the range of the set height threshold factor epsilon, the peak point of the k-th period is considered to be effective; if the height data exceeds the set height threshold factor epsilon at time k, the height data output at time k is replaced with the height data at time k-1.
And setting an altitude abrupt change accumulation factor theta, wherein the altitude abrupt change accumulation factor theta is defined as that if b periods continue from the time k, and the altitude data exceeds a threshold factor theta compared with the altitude data of the previous period, the altitude data obtained by resolving the current time is taken as the altitude data of the current time at the time k + b.
Outputting a height value, namely outputting the height value by adopting a sliding window algorithm for the height data output at a single time; the altitude data at time k is equal to N in the sliding windowcThe average value of the maximum height value and the minimum height value of the individual height value is removed and is output as the final height data, and the calculation formula is
Figure GDA0002890279390000051
Wherein N iscIndicating the number of height data points taken by the sliding window.
The improvement of the embodiment is that a peak threshold algorithm and a height threshold algorithm are added when the peak point is processed, through the two steps, the stability of data is improved in a matching mode, and the range finding precision can be improved through a designed spectrum maximum estimation algorithm.
Example 2: application publication No. CN 104678397A's patent application discloses an ultrasonic wave altimeter for unmanned aerial vehicle, has adopted the mode of ultrasonic wave to measure the terrain clearance when unmanned aerial vehicle is near the ground, realizes unmanned aerial vehicle's function of independently taking off and landing, but the ultrasonic wave altimeter biggest range finding that describes in this patent is 11m, and this is far away not enough in spraying the pesticide use to plant protection unmanned aerial vehicle. Therefore, in order to improve the ranging range of the unmanned aerial vehicle altimeter between 30 m and 40m and ensure the ranging precision to be about 0.2m, the invention provides the unmanned aerial vehicle altimeter realized based on the millimeter wave radar. Compared with other detection modes, the millimeter wave radar has the advantages of stable detection performance, good environmental adaptation, small size, low price, capability of being used in relatively severe rainy and snowy weather and the like.
As a supplement to the technical solution of embodiment 1, the millimeter wave radar designed in this embodiment has an operating frequency of 24GHz or 77GHz, and adopts an FMCW continuous wave system, mainly because of the chirp mode, its distance resolution is high. The waveform can adopt a chirp triangular wave FMCW, a sawtooth wave and a constant frequency wave or a combined waveform of the waveforms. Adopt single triangle wave emission waveform, can carry out relative distance's detection to the target, through the relative velocity between the unmanned aerial vehicle that detects out and the vegetation, assume the vegetation is static, then this speed is unmanned aerial vehicle upper and lower flying speed. Accurate settlement of the relative distance of the target can be completed by adopting a single triangular wave. The sawtooth wave can only detect the relative distance of the target, and the constant frequency wave can only detect the speed of the target. Because the Doppler frequency shift that unmanned aerial vehicle vertical flight produced can cause the deviation of certain distance, so can adopt the combination waveform of sawtooth wave and constant frequency wave, realize the compensation to sawtooth wave band distance detection through the constant frequency wave band to the measurement of speed to improve the distance precision between unmanned aerial vehicle and the vegetation. Triangular wave and sawtooth wave and constant frequency wave's combined waveform can all be regarded as the transmission waveform and realize vegetation unmanned aerial vehicle altimeter, can select the transmission waveform according to the application scene of difference to apply to the application field of different vegetation better, in order to reach better distance detection precision.
The range finding scope of the vegetation rotor unmanned aerial vehicle radar altimeter system that this embodiment designed is 1 ~ 50m, and the range finding precision is 0.2 m.
The embodiment mainly provides a design of a vegetation rotor unmanned aerial vehicle anti-collision signal processing part based on a millimeter wave radar and a signal processing method.
The radar center frequency f designed by the embodiment is 24.128 GHz. The emission waveform selects a single sawtooth wave, the period is 1ms, the bandwidth is 250MHz, and the sampling rate fs is 320 KHz. The transmit waveform is shown in fig. 1.
The present embodiment only needs to realize the resolution of the target range speed through one path of IQ data. A processing flow chart of the millimeter wave radar signal for preventing collision of the vegetation rotor unmanned aerial vehicle is given as follows, and is shown in fig. 2;
the method comprises the following concrete steps:
1.AD data acquisition, i.e. data processing
Continuous IQ data with height information is subjected to digital processing through AD sampling, the number N of data points acquired by AD is related to the sampling frequency fs and the sweep frequency period T of the system, namely N is fs T. Because partial data in the front of the collected data is abnormal due to system reasons and cannot be used for subsequent data processing, the time domain data of the remaining points are subjected to subsequent processing after partial data needs to be removed. If the number of points to be removed is N _ q, the number of remaining points is N _ s, and N _ s is N-N _ q. The data to be processed subsequently is N _ s pieces of data.
2. Remove direct current
(1) Respectively calculating the average values I _ mean and Q _ mean of the I path and the Q path, namely the average values I _ mean and Q _ mean of the respective N _ s data
Figure GDA0002890279390000061
Wherein I is the time domain data of the I path, Q is the time domain data of the Q path, I _ mean is the mean value of the I path, and Q _ mean is the mean value of the Q path.
(2) And subtracting the mean value obtained by the last step of calculation from each data of the path I and the path Q, thereby finishing the purpose of removing direct current and reducing the influence of a direct current part on target threshold detection.
(3) The IQ data DC calculation formula is as follows:
Figure GDA0002890279390000062
wherein, I 'is data after direct current removal, and Q' is data after direct current removal.
3. Window function processing
I, Q data after direct current removal are combined into an I + jQ data form, then windowing is carried out, a Hanning window or a Hamming window and the like can be selected, side lobes are reduced, and therefore the detection performance of the target is improved; the hanning window will cause the main lobe to widen and decrease, but the side lobes will decrease significantly.
4. FFT transformation
And performing FFT (fast Fourier transform) on the windowed sawtooth wave I + jQ data, and converting time domain data into frequency data.
5. CFAR threshold detection
And carrying out CFAR threshold detection on the complex modulus value of each point after the FFT. The CFAR threshold detection can select a threshold detection method SO-CFAR with an average selected unit, the protection unit can select 1 to 2 points, and the number of window points can select 15 to 20.
6. Peak processing algorithm design
Considering that each peak point corresponds to a corresponding height value in the module value data of the millimeter wave radar altimeter after FFT. After CFAR threshold detection, the maximum point is selected as the output peak. For the characteristic of using single peak point output, it is easy to cause the peak point to jump in a large range, for example, if the output peak point of the previous period is M ═ 5, and the output peak value of the current period is M ═ 30, then the distance jumps by 15 points, and the distance jumps accordingly. In order to improve the stability of the height data output of the unmanned gyroplane, the following new algorithm design is proposed when threshold peak extraction is performed.
Setting a peak point threshold factor α for limiting the absolute value of the difference between the detected threshold-crossing maximum peak point and the maximum peak point appearing in the previous cycle, so that the absolute value of the difference is not greater than the peak point threshold factor α:
the expression is as follows:
|L_max(k)-L_max(k-1)|≤α;
Figure GDA0002890279390000071
wherein: l _ max (k) is the maximum peak point coordinate of the threshold passing of the k period, L _ max (k-1) is the maximum peak point coordinate of the last period, and k represents the kth moment; v. ofmaxThe maximum flight speed of the unmanned aerial vehicle is shown, lambda is the wavelength of the millimeter wave radar, fs is the sampling rate, and N is the number of points of FFT;
if the absolute value difference value of the threshold-crossing maximum peak point at the moment k and the threshold-crossing maximum peak point at the moment k-1 is within the set range of the threshold factor alpha of the peak point, the peak point of the kth period is considered to be effective; and if the threshold-crossing maximum peak point exceeds the set peak point threshold factor alpha at the moment k, replacing the peak point output at the moment k with the peak point at the moment k-1.
And if the absolute value difference value of the threshold-crossing maximum peak point at the moment k and the threshold-crossing maximum peak point at the moment k-1 is within the range of the designed threshold factor, the peak point of the kth period is considered to be effective, and subsequent calculation is carried out, and if the threshold-crossing maximum peak point at the moment k exceeds the designed threshold factor, the peak point output at the moment k is replaced by the peak point at the moment k-1.
As an explanation of the above technical means, in a time unit of an adjacent period, the peak point calculated in the current period and the peak point of the previous period may remain unchanged in the adjacent period if the speed does not change in the adjacent period, but may cause a certain change in the peak point of the current period if the vertical flying speed of the drone changes in the adjacent period (here, the horizontal flying speed of the drone is for the altimeter if the unmanned drone is collision-proof),if the unmanned aerial vehicle is close to the ground, the number of points in the current period is larger than the number of points in the previous period, if the unmanned aerial vehicle is far away from the ground, the number of points in the current period is smaller than the number of points in the previous period, the variation range of the peak point is the designed peak point threshold value factor alpha, and the value range selected by the factor mainly depends on the maximum flight speed of the unmanned aerial vehicle in the adjacent period, namely the formula
Figure GDA0002890279390000081
Wherein v ismaxThe maximum flight speed of the unmanned aerial vehicle is shown, lambda is the millimeter wave radar wavelength, fs is the sampling rate, and N is the number of points of FFT.
However, if the height value changes after the flying environment below the plant protection rotor unmanned aerial vehicle changes suddenly, the number of peak points corresponding to the threshold passing may also continuously exceed the designed threshold factor. If the correction is not carried out, after the height is suddenly changed, the threshold-passing maximum peak point detected in each period can exceed the set threshold value factor, and the threshold-passing maximum peak point coordinate can be corrected to be the peak point coordinate at the last moment every time, namely, the height value before the height sudden change can be kept by the same method, and the height value after the sudden change cannot be adapted. In order to improve the adaptability of the radar altimeter of the unmanned aerial vehicle to various environments, a peak point mutation accumulation factor phi is introduced for the adaptability.
The peak point mutation accumulation factor phi is defined as that, if the coordinate value of the threshold-crossing maximum peak point changes suddenly from the time k, continuously for b cycles, that is, the threshold-crossing maximum peak point appearing in the continuously for b cycles is compared with the threshold-crossing maximum peak point in the previous cycle and exceeds the threshold factor a, at the time k + b, the maximum peak point is not replaced by the threshold-crossing maximum peak point in the previous cycle, but the threshold-crossing maximum peak point calculated at the current time is directly used as the threshold-crossing maximum peak point at the current time, so that the task of switching the threshold-crossing maximum peak point in the scene with the height mutation is completed. The value range of b is 5-10.
7. Spectral maximum estimation algorithm
After the threshold-crossing maximum peak point is obtained through the last step, in order to improve the accuracy of height value measurement of the altimeter system of the plant protection rotor unmanned aerial vehicle, a spectrum maximum estimation algorithm for improving the distance measurement accuracy is provided.
Ideally, the frequency spectrum of the echo difference frequency signal has only one spectral line, but actually, in the using process, due to the barrier effect existing in sampling, the spectral line with the maximum amplitude of the discrete frequency spectrum inevitably shifts the position of a spectral peak, so that a certain error exists between the distance value calculated by the peak point and the actual distance. When a spectral peak is shifted, the central spectral line corresponding to the main lobe peak will be shifted to the left or to the right. If the left peak value is larger than the right peak value in the left and right peak values of the threshold-crossing maximum value peak value point, the position of the central spectral line is between the maximum peak value point and the left peak value point, otherwise, the position is between the maximum peak value point and the right peak value point.
Because the spectrum obtained by FFT calculation samples continuous distance spectrum at equal intervals, the maximum point of the spectrum amplitude is necessarily positioned in the main lobe of the curve, and the main lobe has two sampling points. Obtaining a threshold-crossing maximum peak point for spectrum maximum estimation: setting the coordinates of the threshold-crossing maximum peak point A1 as (a1, k1), wherein a1 represents the value of the threshold-crossing maximum peak point, and k1 represents the amplitude value corresponding to the threshold-crossing peak point; the coordinates of the secondary peak points are A3(A3, k3), the coordinate of the central peak point A is (amax, kmax), and e is amax-a1, the point A1, the coordinate of the point A2 symmetric to the point A is (a2, k1) is (a1+2e, k1), and the zero point A4 of the complex envelope is (a4, k1) is (A3+ e, 0);
wherein: a2, a3 and a4 are the values of the over-threshold maximum peak point of the corresponding point, and k3 and k4 are the amplitude values corresponding to the over-threshold peak point of the corresponding point;
a2, A3 and A4 are approximately a straight line, and the linear relationship is as follows:
Figure GDA0002890279390000091
order to
Figure GDA0002890279390000092
Then
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Setting error E and deviation E to compare, if | E tint<E, the value of the over-threshold peak point at the moment is the value of the required central peak point, if the deviation E is greater than the set error E,
Figure GDA0002890279390000094
beta is a correction factor, the value range is 1.5-1.9, the value of e is calculated by changing the correction factor, and the value amax of the central peak point is calculated to be a1+ e.
The reason for selecting the correction factor is as follows: due to the initial time
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The coordinate of the point a symmetric point a2 is (a2, k1) — (a1+2E, k1), the abscissa of the point a is symmetric to the abscissa of the point a2 about the maximum peak point under the initial condition, that is, the coordinate of the point a2 is a1+2E, if the deviation E is greater than the set error E, it means that the coordinate of the point a2 is selected too large, that is, the maximum peak point is between a1+2E, and the 2-fold deviation E needs to be reduced. The value principle of the correction factor beta can be selected according to the required E value, if the required precision of E is not high, the correction factor beta can be selected to be 1.9 for correction, if the required precision of E is high, multiple iterations are possibly required to meet the requirement, the correction factor beta needs to be selected to be as small as possible, and 1.5 can be selected for correction.
7. High settlement
Calculating the value amax of the central peak point obtained in the last step, and the corresponding frequency value f _ amax according to a formula
Figure GDA0002890279390000102
Where T is the modulation period, T is 1ms, B is the bandwidth, B is 260MHz, c is the speed of light, and c is 3.0 × 108. Since this embodiment employs sawtooth waves with a very fast period, the difference frequency caused by the maximum speed generated by the vertical ascent and descent of the drone is substantially negligible, so this embodiment does not involve the resolution of the relative speed.
And therefore, the calculation function of the height information of the radar altimeter system of the plant protection rotor unmanned aerial vehicle is completed by single detection.
8. In order to improve the accuracy of altitude information obtained by altimeter calculation and further reduce large-range fluctuation of data, the following data processing algorithm is adopted for further calculation.
The concrete implementation method is as the idea of step 6.
Firstly, an altitude threshold factor epsilon is designed, and the factor is mainly used for limiting the absolute value of the difference between the detected current altitude data H (k) and the altitude data H (k-1) appearing in the previous period not to be larger than the altitude threshold factor epsilon.
I.e., | H (k) | H (k-1) | is less than or equal to epsilon, and the value range of epsilon is generally 0.8-1.3.
And if the absolute value difference value of the height data and the previous time k-1 at the time k is within the range of the designed threshold factor, considering that the peak point of the k-th period is valid, and performing subsequent calculation, and if the height data exceeds the designed threshold factor at the time k, replacing the height data output at the time k with the height data at the time k-1.
Similarly, if the height value changes after sudden change of the flying environment below the plant protection rotor unmanned aerial vehicle, the corresponding height data may also continuously exceed the designed threshold factor. If the height is not corrected, after the height is suddenly changed, the height data detected in each period can exceed the set threshold factor, and each time the height data is corrected into the height data at the previous moment, the height data cannot be well adapted to the suddenly changed height value. To improve the further stability of the altitude output, an altitude jump integration factor θ is introduced for this purpose.
The definition of the height abrupt change accumulation factor theta is that if the height data suddenly changes for b continuous periods from the time k, namely the height data occurring in the b continuous periods is compared with the height data in the previous period and exceeds the threshold factor theta, the height data at the time k + b does not need to be replaced by the height data in the previous period, but the height data calculated at the current time is directly used as the height data at the current time, so that the stability of the height data is improved completely.
For the height data of single output, the sliding window algorithm is adopted to output the height value for the smoothness of the output. I.e. the height data at time k equals N in the sliding windowcThe average value of the maximum height value and the minimum height value of the individual height value is removed and is output as the final height data, and the calculation formula is
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Wherein N iscIndicating the number of height data points taken by the sliding window.
The above description is only for the purpose of creating a preferred embodiment of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can substitute or change the technical solution and the inventive concept of the present invention within the technical scope of the present invention.

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1.A radar signal processing method for a radar altimeter system of a plant protection rotor unmanned aerial vehicle is characterized by comprising the following steps:
the method comprises the following steps:
s1, AD data acquisition;
s2, FFT conversion;
s3, CFAR threshold detection;
between the step S1 and the step S3, there is a step of dc removal, which includes:
(1) respectively calculating the average values I _ mean and Q _ mean of respective N _ s data of the I path and the Q path;
Figure FDA0002890279380000011
(2) wherein I is time domain data of the I path, Q is time domain data of the Q path, I _ mean is the mean value of the I path, and Q _ mean is the mean value of the Q path;
(3) subtracting the average value of each path from each data of the path I and the path Q;
the IQ data DC calculation formula is as follows:
Figure FDA0002890279380000012
wherein, I 'is data after direct current removal, and Q' is data after direct current removal;
s4, peak value processing;
the peak processing: after CFAR threshold detection, selecting a maximum point as an output peak value, and executing the following method when threshold peak value extraction is carried out:
setting a peak point threshold factor α for limiting the absolute value of the difference between the detected threshold-crossing maximum peak point and the maximum peak point appearing in the previous cycle, so that the absolute value of the difference is not greater than the peak point threshold factor α:
the expression is as follows:
|L_max(k)-L_max(k-1)|≤α;
Figure FDA0002890279380000013
wherein: l _ max (k) is the maximum peak point coordinate of the threshold passing of the k period, L _ max (k-1) is the maximum peak point coordinate of the last period, and k represents the kth moment; v. ofmaxThe maximum flight speed of the unmanned aerial vehicle is shown, lambda is the wavelength of the millimeter wave radar, fs is the sampling rate, and N is the number of points of FFT;
if the absolute value difference value of the threshold-crossing maximum peak point at the moment k and the threshold-crossing maximum peak point at the moment k-1 is within the set range of the threshold factor alpha of the peak point, the peak point of the kth period is considered to be effective; if the threshold-crossing maximum peak point exceeds the set peak point threshold factor alpha at the moment k, replacing the peak point output at the moment k with the peak point at the moment k-1;
and S5, high settlement.
2. The plant protection rotor unmanned aerial vehicle radar altimeter system radar signal processing method of claim 1, characterized in that:
and setting a peak point sudden change accumulation factor phi, wherein the peak point sudden change accumulation factor phi is defined as that if b periods are continuously carried out from the moment k, the value range of b is 5-10, and the threshold-crossing maximum peak point is compared with the threshold-crossing maximum peak point of the previous period and exceeds a threshold factor a, the threshold-crossing maximum peak point calculated at the moment k + b is taken as the threshold-crossing maximum peak point at the moment.
3. The plant protection rotor unmanned aerial vehicle radar altimeter system radar signal processing method of claim 1, characterized in that:
between steps S4 and S5, there is a step of spectral maximum estimation: obtaining a threshold-crossing maximum peak point for spectrum maximum estimation: setting the coordinates of the threshold-crossing maximum peak point A1 as (a1, k1), wherein a1 represents the value of the threshold-crossing maximum peak point, and k1 represents the amplitude value corresponding to the threshold-crossing peak point; the coordinates of the secondary peak points are A3(A3, k3), the coordinate of the central peak point A is (amax, kmax), and e is amax-a1, the point A1, the coordinate of the point A2 symmetric to the point A is (a2, k1) is (a1+2e, k1), and the zero point A4 of the complex envelope is (a4, k1) is (A3+ e, 0);
wherein: a2, a3 and a4 are the values of the threshold-crossing maximum peak point of the corresponding point, and k3 is the amplitude value corresponding to the threshold-crossing peak point of the corresponding point;
a2, A3 and A4 are straight lines, and the linear relationship is as follows:
Figure FDA0002890279380000031
order to
Figure FDA0002890279380000032
Then
Figure FDA0002890279380000033
Setting error E and deviation E to compare, if | E tint<E, the value of the over-threshold peak point at the moment is the value of the required central peak point, if the deviation E is greater than the set error E,
Figure FDA0002890279380000034
beta is a correction factor, the value range is 1.5-1.9, the value of e is calculated by changing the correction factor, and the value amax of the central peak point is calculated to be a1+ e.
4. The plant protection rotor unmanned aerial vehicle radar altimeter system radar signal processing method of claim 1, characterized in that:
the height settlement: the value amax of the central peak point, and its corresponding frequency value f _ amax, according to the formula
Figure FDA0002890279380000035
Calculating to obtain the height; where T is the modulation period, B is the bandwidth, and c is the speed of light.
5. The plant protection rotor unmanned aerial vehicle radar altimeter system radar signal processing method of claim 1, characterized in that:
during height calculation, setting a height threshold factor epsilon, which is used for limiting the absolute value of the difference between the current height data H (k) and the height data H (k-1) appearing in the previous period, so that the absolute value of the difference is not greater than the height threshold factor epsilon;
the expression is as follows:
the value of | H (k) | -H (k-1) | is less than or equal to epsilon, and the value range of epsilon is 0.8-1.3;
if the absolute value difference value of the height data at the k moment and the absolute value difference value at the k-1 moment are within the range of the set height threshold factor epsilon, the peak point of the k-th period is considered to be effective; if the height data exceeds the set height threshold factor epsilon at time k, the height data output at time k is replaced with the height data at time k-1.
6. The plant protection rotor unmanned aerial vehicle radar altimeter system radar signal processing method of claim 5, wherein:
and setting an altitude abrupt change accumulation factor theta, wherein the altitude abrupt change accumulation factor theta is defined as that if b periods continue from the time k, and the altitude data exceeds a threshold factor theta compared with the altitude data of the previous period, the altitude data obtained by resolving the current time is taken as the altitude data of the current time at the time k + b.
7. The plant protection rotor unmanned aerial vehicle radar altimeter system radar signal processing method of claim 1, characterized in that:
the system also comprises height output, and for single-output height data, a sliding window algorithm is adopted to output a height value;
the altitude data at time k is equal to N in the sliding windowcThe average value of the maximum height value and the minimum height value of the individual height value is removed and is output as the final height data, and the calculation formula is
Figure FDA0002890279380000041
Wherein N iscIndicating the number of height data points taken by the sliding window.
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