Balanced multiwavelets with optimum time-frequency resolution

2012 ◽  
Vol 35 (17) ◽  
pp. 2057-2066
Author(s):  
Baobin Li ◽  
Dengfeng Li
Keyword(s):  
Frequency Resolution ◽  
Optimum Time ◽  
Time Frequency

scholarly journals Vehicle speed measurement by on-board acoustic signal processing

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 138-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hüseyin Göksu
Keyword(s):  
Relative Motion ◽  
Wavelet Packet ◽  
Absolute Error ◽  
Frequency Resolution ◽  
Vehicle Speed ◽  
Air Conditioner ◽  
Wavelet Packet Analysis ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Speed Sensor ◽  
Frequency Domain Methods

Estimation of vehicle speed by analysis of drive-by noise is a known technique. The methods used in this kind of practice generally estimate the velocity of the vehicle with respect to the microphone(s), so they rely on the relative motion of the vehicle to the microphone(s). There are also other methods that do not rely on this technique. For example, recent research has shown that there is a statistical correlation between vehicle speed and drive-by noise emissions spectra. This does not rely on the relative motion of the vehicle with respect to the microphone(s) so it inspires us to consider the possibility of predicting velocity of the vehicle using an on-board microphone. This has the potential for the development of a new kind of speed sensor. For this purpose we record sound signal from a vehicle under speed variation using an on-board microphone. Sound emissions from a vehicle are very complex, which is from the engine, the exhaust, the air conditioner, other mechanical parts, tires, and air resistance. These emissions carry both stationary and non-stationary information. We propose to make the analysis by wavelet packet analysis, rather than traditional time or frequency domain methods. Wavelet packet analysis, by providing arbitrary time-frequency resolution, enables analyzing signals of stationary and non-stationary nature. It has better time representation than Fourier analysis and better high-frequency resolution than Wavelet analysis. Subsignals from the wavelet packet analysis are analyzed further by Norm Entropy, Log Energy Entropy, and Energy. These features are evaluated by feeding them into a multilayer perceptron. Norm entropy achieves the best prediction with 97.89% average accuracy with 1.11 km/h mean absolute error which corresponds to 2.11% relative error. Time sensitivity is ±0.453 s and is open to improvement by varying the window width. The results indicate that, with further tests at other speed ranges, with other vehicles and under dynamic conditions, this method can be extended to the design of a new kind of vehicle speed sensor.

scholarly journals A Signal Decomposition Method for Ultrasonic Guided Wave Generated from Debonding Combining Smoothed Pseudo Wigner-Ville Distribution and Vold–Kalman Filter Order Tracking

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junhua Wu ◽  
Xinglin Chen ◽  
Zheshu Ma
Keyword(s):  
Kalman Filter ◽  
Guided Waves ◽  
Guided Wave ◽  
Signal Decomposition ◽  
Frequency Resolution ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Filter Order ◽  
Order Tracking ◽  
Simulation Signal ◽  
Carbon Fibre Composites

Carbon fibre composites have a promising application future of the vehicle, due to its excellent physical properties. Debonding is a major defect of the material. Analyses of wave packets are critical for identification of the defect on ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation and testing. In order to isolate different components of ultrasonic guided waves (GWs), a signal decomposition algorithm combining Smoothed Pseudo Wigner-Ville distribution and Vold–Kalman filter order tracking is presented. In the algorithm, the time-frequency distribution of GW is first obtained by using Smoothed Pseudo Wigner-Ville distribution. The frequencies of different modes are computed based on summation of the time-frequency coefficients in the frequency direction. On the basis of these frequencies, isolation of different modes is done by Vold–Kalman filter order tracking. The results of the simulation signal and the experimental signal reveal that the presented algorithm succeeds in decomposing the multicomponent signal into monocomponents. Even though components overlap in corresponding Fourier spectrum, they can be isolated by using the presented algorithm. So the frequency resolution of the presented method is promising. Based on this, we can do research about defect identification, calculation of the defect size, and locating the position of the defect.

Effects of Gabor transform parameters on signal time-frequency resolution

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yin Chen ◽  
He Zhenhua ◽  
Huang Deji
Keyword(s):  
Frequency Resolution ◽  
Gabor Transform ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Signal Time

The Optimization of Time-Frequency Control: Using Non-Autonomous Time-Delay Feedback Systems as Example

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chi-Wei Kuo ◽  
C. Steve Suh
Keyword(s):  
Time Delay ◽  
Dynamic Instability ◽  
Frequency Control ◽  
Frequency Resolution ◽  
Control Technique ◽  
Time Step ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Control Scheme ◽  
Fxlms Algorithm ◽  
On Line

A novel time-frequency nonlinear scheme demonstrated to be feasible for the control of dynamic instability including bifurcation, non-autonomous time-delay feedback oscillators, and route-to-chaos in many nonlinear systems is applied to the control of a time-delayed system. The control scheme features wavelet adaptive filters for simultaneous time-frequency resolution. Specifically Discrete Wavelet transform (DWT) is used to address the nonstationary nature of a chaotic system. The concept of active noise control is also adopted. The scheme applied the filter-x least mean square (FXLMS) algorithm which promotes convergence speed and increases performance. In the time-frequency control scheme, the FXLMS algorithm is modified by adding an adaptive filter to identify the system in real-time in order to construct a wavelet-based time-frequency controller capable of parallel on-line modeling. The scheme of such a construct, which possesses joint time-frequency resolution and embodies on-line FXLMS, is able to control non-autonomous, nonstationary system responses. Although the controller design is shown to successfully moderate the dynamic instability of the time-delay feedback oscillator and unconditionally warrant a limit cycle, parameters are required to be optimized. In this paper, the setting of the control parameters such as control time step, sampling rate, wavelet filter vector, and step size are studied and optimized to control a time-delay feedback oscillators of a nonautonomous type. The time-delayed oscillators have been applied in a broad set of fields including sensor design, manufacturing, and machine dynamics, but they can be easily perturbed to exhibit complex dynamical responses even with a small perturbation from the time-delay feedback. These responses for the system have a very negative impact on the stability, and thus output quality. Through employingfrequency-time control technique, the time responses of the time-delay feedback system to external disturbances are properly mitigated and the frequency responses are also suppressed, thus rendering the controlled responses quasi-periodic.

scholarly journals Common Crossing Structural Health Analysis with Track-Side Monitoring

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 77-84
Author(s):  
Mykola Sysyn ◽  
Olga Nabochenko ◽  
Franziska Kluge ◽  
Vitalii Kovalchuk ◽  
Andriy Pentsak
Keyword(s):  
Gaussian Process Regression ◽  
Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition ◽  
Frequency Resolution ◽  
Hilbert Huang Transform ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Structural Health ◽  
Rolling Surface ◽  
Mode Decomposition ◽  
Inertial Measurements ◽  
Common Crossing

Track-side inertial measurements on common crossings are the object of the present study. The paper deals with the problem of measurement's interpretation for the estimation of the crossing structural health. The problem is manifested by the weak relation of measured acceleration components and impact lateral distribution to the lifecycle of common crossing rolling surface. The popular signal processing and machine learning methods are explored to solve the problem. The Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT) method is used to extract the time-frequency features of acceleration components. The method is based on Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD) that is advantageous to the conventional spectral analysis methods with higher frequency resolution and managing nonstationary nonlinear signals. Linear regression and Gaussian Process Regression are used to fuse the extracted features in one structural health (SH) indicator and study its relation to the crossing lifetime. The results have shown the significant relation of the derived with GPR indicator to the lifetime.

scholarly journals Low Latency Convolutive Blind Source Separation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jiawen Chua
Keyword(s):  
Frequency Domain ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Impulse Response ◽  
Source Separation ◽  
Frequency Resolution ◽  
Separation Performance ◽  
Window Length ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Time Systems ◽  
Separation Parameters

<p>In most real-time systems, particularly for applications involving system identification, latency is a critical issue. These applications include, but are not limited to, blind source separation (BSS), beamforming, speech dereverberation, acoustic echo cancellation and channel equalization. The system latency consists of an algorithmic delay and an estimation computational time. The latter can be avoided by using a multi-thread system, which runs the estimation process and the processing procedure simultaneously. The former, which consists of a delay of one window length, is usually unavoidable for the frequency-domain approaches. For frequency-domain approaches, a block of data is acquired by using a window, transformed and processed in the frequency domain, and recovered back to the time domain by using an overlap-add technique.  In the frequency domain, the convolutive model, which is usually used to describe the process of a linear time-invariant (LTI) system, can be represented by a series of multiplicative models to facilitate estimation. To implement frequency-domain approaches in real-time applications, the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) is commonly used. The window used in the STFT must be at least twice the room impulse response which is long, so that the multiplicative model is sufficiently accurate. The delay constraint caused by the associated blockwise processing window length makes most the frequency-domain approaches inapplicable for real-time systems.  This thesis aims to design a BSS system that can be used in a real-time scenario with minimal latency. Existing BSS approaches can be integrated into our system to perform source separation with low delay without affecting the separation performance. The second goal is to design a BSS system that can perform source separation in a non-stationary environment.  We first introduce a subspace approach to directly estimate the separation parameters in the low-frequency-resolution time-frequency (LFRTF) domain. In the LFRTF domain, a shorter window is used to reduce the algorithmic delay of the system during the signal acquisition, e.g., the window length is shorter than the room impulse response. The subspace method facilitates the deconvolution of a convolutive mixture to a new instantaneous mixture and simplifies the estimation process.  Second, we propose an alternative approach to address the algorithmic latency problem. The alternative method enables us to obtain the separation parameters in the LFRTF domain based on parameters estimated in the high-frequency-resolution time-frequency (HFRTF) domain, where the window length is longer than the room impulse response, without affecting the separation performance.  The thesis also provides a solution to address the BSS problem in a non-stationary environment. We utilize the ``meta-information" that is obtained from previous BSS operations to facilitate the separation in the future without performing the entire BSS process again. Repeating a BSS process can be computationally expensive. Most conventional BSS algorithms require sufficient signal samples to perform analysis and this prolongs the estimation delay. By utilizing information from the entire spectrum, our method enables us to update the separation parameters with only a single snapshot of observation data. Hence, our method minimizes the estimation period, reduces the redundancy and improves the efficacy of the system.  The final contribution of the thesis is a non-iterative method for impulse response shortening. This method allows us to use a shorter representation to approximate the long impulse response. It further improves the computational efficiency of the algorithm and yet achieves satisfactory performance.</p>

scholarly journals An Efficient Adaptive Window Size Selection Method for Improving Spectrogram Visualization

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shibli Nisar ◽  
Omar Usman Khan ◽  
Muhammad Tariq
Keyword(s):  
Fourier Transform ◽  
Filter Bank ◽  
Window Size ◽  
Fixed Time ◽  
Frequency Resolution ◽  
High Spectral Resolution ◽  
Background Information ◽  
High Temporal Resolution ◽  
Low Frequencies ◽  
Time Frequency

Short Time Fourier Transform (STFT) is an important technique for the time-frequency analysis of a time varying signal. The basic approach behind it involves the application of a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) to a signal multiplied with an appropriate window function with fixed resolution. The selection of an appropriate window size is difficult when no background information about the input signal is known. In this paper, a novel empirical model is proposed that adaptively adjusts the window size for a narrow band-signal using spectrum sensing technique. For wide-band signals, where a fixed time-frequency resolution is undesirable, the approach adapts the constant Q transform (CQT). Unlike the STFT, the CQT provides a varying time-frequency resolution. This results in a high spectral resolution at low frequencies and high temporal resolution at high frequencies. In this paper, a simple but effective switching framework is provided between both STFT and CQT. The proposed method also allows for the dynamic construction of a filter bank according to user-defined parameters. This helps in reducing redundant entries in the filter bank. Results obtained from the proposed method not only improve the spectrogram visualization but also reduce the computation cost and achieves 87.71% of the appropriate window length selection.

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