ESTIMATION METHOD FOR WEAK SINUSOIDAL AMPLITUDE IN ALPHA NOISE.pdf

ESTIMATION METHOD FOR WEAK SINUSOIDAL AMPLITUDE IN ALPHA NOISE Wang Chunyang a , Liu Xuelian a , Fan Bin a Dept. of Electronic and Information Engineering, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, China. a wangchunyang19@163.com, tearlxl@126.com, fanbinzone@126.com ABSTRACT Accurate estimation of the amplitude parameter of sinusoidal signals from noisy observations is an important problem in many signal processing applications. In this paper, the problem is investigated under the assumption of non-Gaussian noise of Alpha stable distribution. According to the chaos theory and the properties of almost periodic functions, a new estimation method for amplitude of sinusoidal signal is proposed. This paper introduces the principle of the new method and the concrete implementation process. The simulation experiments show that the method can effectively estimate the amplitude of weak sinusoidal signal in alpha noise and the accuracy is higher than the method of FFT. Index Terms—weak sinusoidal signal, alpha noise, amplitude estimation, chaotic system, the almost periodicity 1. INTRODUCTION The weak signal parameter estimation is a very important branch in the field of signal processing, and it has wide applications in mechanical monitoring, radar detection and medical signal and other fields. However, because of the strong noise, which brings great difficulties to estimate the signal parameter, especially in communication system, seismic exploration and underwater acoustic signal processing, and many natural or man-made noises with non- Gaussian pulse characteristics. Aim at the noise of non- Gaussian, if making a Gaussian hypothesis to design the optimal receiver, the performance will be degraded significantly. Therefore, the weak signal parameter estimation in non-Gaussian noise has important theoretical significance and application value. The paper studies the characteristics of alpha noise, the almost