A novel ultrasonic array signal processing scheme for wind measurement

Xinbo Li; GeYan Zhu; Wei Gao; Haixin Sun; Guojun Liu; Yue Wu; Yaowu Shi

doi:10.1016/j.isatra.2018.07.042

A novel ultrasonic array signal processing scheme for wind measurement

ISA Trans. 2018 Oct:81:259-269. doi: 10.1016/j.isatra.2018.07.042. Epub 2018 Aug 25.

Authors

Xinbo Li¹, GeYan Zhu², Wei Gao², Haixin Sun³, Guojun Liu⁴, Yue Wu⁴, Yaowu Shi²

Affiliations

¹ School of Communication Engineering, Jilin University, Renmin Street No. 5988, Changchun 130022, China; School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Renmin Street No. 5988, Changchun 130022, China.
² School of Communication Engineering, Jilin University, Renmin Street No. 5988, Changchun 130022, China.
³ School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Renmin Street No. 5988, Changchun 130022, China; School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Changchun University, Weixing Road, No. 6543, Changchun 130022, China. Electronic address: [email protected].
⁴ School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Renmin Street No. 5988, Changchun 130022, China.

PMID: 30149980
DOI: 10.1016/j.isatra.2018.07.042

Abstract

This article presents a novel ultrasonic array signal processing scheme for wind speed and wind direction measurement. Two ultrasonic array structures are illustrated and the corresponding array signal processing method is proposed. The statistical performance of proposed scheme, such as estimation variance and Cramer Rao Bound (CRB), is derived. The ambiguity problem for traditional uniform line array (ULA) structure is theoretically discussed. The hardware experiment results verify the feasibility of the proposed wind measurement method.

Keywords: Array signal processing; CRB analysis; Estimation variance; Ultrasonic sensor array; Wind measurement.