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Magnetic Anomaly Detection Based on a Multi-Parameter-Constrained Mirror Dual-Branch Biased Monostable Stochastic Resonance System
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Rongxiang Xia
Rongxiang Xia ,
Mingxi Chen
Mingxi Chen
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Lizhi Hong
Lizhi Hong ,
Zhiyuan Ai
Zhiyuan Ai and
Shaojie Ma
Shaojie Ma *
School of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sensors 2026, 26(12), 3776; https://doi.org/10.3390/s26123776 (registering DOI)
Submission received: 19 May 2026
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Revised: 5 June 2026
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Accepted: 11 June 2026
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Published: 13 June 2026
Abstract
Magnetic anomaly detection is vulnerable to environmental noise and insufficient prior target information, making non-periodic anomaly signals difficult to detect at low-signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) conditions. This paper proposes a detection method based on a multi-parameter-constrained mirror dual-branch biased monostable stochastic resonance (SR) system. Nonlinear odd-order bias terms are introduced into the conventional biased monostable potential function to build a multi-parameter-controllable SR model. This improves regulation of potential-well width, depth, and wall morphology, enhancing noise-energy utilization and responses to non-periodic features. Considering peak-type, valley-type, and bipolar anomaly morphologies, a mirror dual-branch SR structure is developed to cooperatively detect features with different polarities. To preserve temporal waveforms and time–frequency structures during parameter optimization, a composite metric combining the correlation coefficient and wavelet-domain image structural similarity index is constructed. Multi-fidelity robust Bayesian optimization is used to obtain a unified robust parameter set for the magnetic anomaly signal family. Experiments with simulated colored noise and measured geomagnetic noise show that the proposed method effectively recovers magnetic anomaly features under strong noise. At −19 dB SNR, its detection probability remains above 80%. Compared with orthogonal basis function decomposition, empirical mode decomposition, and complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition with adaptive noise, the method achieves better noise suppression, feature preservation, and detection performance under low-SNR conditions.
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Xia, R.; Chen, M.; Hong, L.; Ai, Z.; Ma, S.
Magnetic Anomaly Detection Based on a Multi-Parameter-Constrained Mirror Dual-Branch Biased Monostable Stochastic Resonance System. Sensors 2026, 26, 3776.
https://doi.org/10.3390/s26123776
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Xia R, Chen M, Hong L, Ai Z, Ma S.
Magnetic Anomaly Detection Based on a Multi-Parameter-Constrained Mirror Dual-Branch Biased Monostable Stochastic Resonance System. Sensors. 2026; 26(12):3776.
https://doi.org/10.3390/s26123776
Chicago/Turabian Style
Xia, Rongxiang, Mingxi Chen, Lizhi Hong, Zhiyuan Ai, and Shaojie Ma.
2026. "Magnetic Anomaly Detection Based on a Multi-Parameter-Constrained Mirror Dual-Branch Biased Monostable Stochastic Resonance System" Sensors 26, no. 12: 3776.
https://doi.org/10.3390/s26123776
APA Style
Xia, R., Chen, M., Hong, L., Ai, Z., & Ma, S.
(2026). Magnetic Anomaly Detection Based on a Multi-Parameter-Constrained Mirror Dual-Branch Biased Monostable Stochastic Resonance System. Sensors, 26(12), 3776.
https://doi.org/10.3390/s26123776
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