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17 June 2025

When the amplitude of the laser Doppler signal is less than that of the noise amplitude, the speed information cannot be identified. In this paper, the recognition of weak Doppler signals is accomplished by superimposing multiple-frame Doppler signal...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,505 Views
18 Pages

11 February 2022

As the noise power increases, the target signal features become less obvious, which leads to the failure of weak signal detection methods. To address this problem, a quantum weak signal detection method, Local Semi-Classical Signal Analysis-Singular...

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  • Open Access
78 Citations
13,686 Views
18 Pages

In order to get rid of the dependence of the navigation and positioning system on the global navigation satellite system (GNSS), radio, television, satellite, and other signals of opportunity (SOPs) can be used to achieve receiver positioning. The sp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,285 Views
15 Pages

Research on Features of Pipeline Crack Signal Based on Weak Magnetic Method

  • Bin Liu,
  • Ziqi Liu,
  • Ning Luo,
  • Luyao He,
  • Jian Ren and
  • He Zhang

2 February 2020

Quantitative online detection of microcracks in long-distance oil and gas pipelines is an international problem, and the effective detection method is still lacking. In this paper, a mathematical model of non-uniform distribution of crack magnetic ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,468 Views
19 Pages

Acquisition of Weak BDS Signal in the Lunar Environment

  • Zhanghai Ju,
  • Liang Chen and
  • Jianguo Yan

6 May 2023

Autonomous navigation using the GNSS has been increasingly used in lunar exploration missions, as it is considered an efficient method for spacecraft to operate without relying on ground facilities. However, so far, only GPS and Galileo have been stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
8,469 Views
27 Pages

28 August 2015

Stochastic resonance (SR) has been proved to be an effective approach for weak sensor signal detection. This study presents a new weak signal detection method based on a SR in an underdamped system, which consists of a pinning potential model. The mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,440 Views
18 Pages

15 June 2020

In order to enhance weak signals in strong noise background, a weak signal enhancement method based on EMDNN (neural network-assisted empirical mode decomposition) is proposed. This method combines CEEMD (complementary ensemble empirical mode decompo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,003 Views
17 Pages

Application of Fractional-Order Multi-Wing Chaotic System to Weak Signal Detection

  • Hongcun Mao,
  • Yuling Feng,
  • Xiaoqian Wang,
  • Chao Gao and
  • Zhihai Yao

This work investigates a fractional-order multi-wing chaotic system for detecting weak signals. The influence of the order of fractional calculus on chaotic systems’ dynamical behavior is examined using phase diagrams, bifurcation diagrams, and...

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  • Open Access
871 Views
24 Pages

A Weak Signal Detection Method Based on HFER Features in Sea Clutter Background

  • Yan Yan,
  • Yongxian Song,
  • Hongyan Xing and
  • Zhengdong Qi

To address the issue of aliasing between weak signals and sea clutter, we have developed a weak signal detection method leveraging High-Frequency Energy Ratio (HFER) features. This feature detection approach significantly enhances the detection perfo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,238 Views
15 Pages

Circular Regression in a Dual-Phase Lock-In Amplifier for Coherent Detection of Weak Signal

  • Gaoxuan Wang,
  • Serge Reboul,
  • Jean-Bernard Choquel,
  • Eric Fertein and
  • Weidong Chen

14 November 2017

Lock-in amplification (LIA) is an effective approach for recovery of weak signal buried in noise. Determination of the input signal amplitude in a classical dual-phase LIA is based on incoherent detection which leads to a biased estimation at low sig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
697 Views
21 Pages

14 August 2025

Stochastic resonance (SR) systems possess the remarkable ability to enhance weak signals by transferring noise energy into the signal, and thus have significant application prospects in weak signal detection. However, the classic bistable SR (CBSR) s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,560 Views
13 Pages

Extraction Method of Offshore Mariculture Area under Weak Signal based on Multisource Feature Fusion

  • Chenxi Liu,
  • Tao Jiang,
  • Zhen Zhang,
  • Baikai Sui,
  • Xinliang Pan,
  • Linjing Zhang and
  • Jingyu Zhang

Mariculture is crucial in environmental monitoring and safety assurance of marine environments. Certain mariculture areas are often partially or completely submerged in water, which causes the target signal to be extremely weak and difficult to detec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,608 Views
13 Pages

25 May 2022

Due to the inevitable acquisition system noise and strong background noise, it is often difficult to detect the features of weak signals. To solve this problem, sparse representation can effectively extract useful information according to the sparse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,934 Views
18 Pages

30 August 2024

When analyzing vibration or acoustic signals in machinery, noise interference within the characteristic signals can significantly distort the results. This issue is particularly pronounced in complex environments, where mechanical signals are often o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,614 Views
24 Pages

Research on eLoran Weak Signal Extraction Based on Wavelet Hard Thresholding Processing

  • Langlang Cheng,
  • Shougang Zhang,
  • Zhen Qi,
  • Xin Wang,
  • Yingming Chen and
  • Ping Feng

16 August 2024

As the eLoran signal propagates, its strength gradually diminishes with increasing distance, making subsequent signal capture and terminal development challenging. To address this phenomenon, this paper proposes an improved method based on wavelet ha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,712 Views
29 Pages

Microseismic Signal Characteristics of the Coal Failure Process under Weak-Energy and Low-Frequency Disturbance

  • Xiaoyuan Sun,
  • Yongliang He,
  • Tingxu Jin,
  • Jianlin Xie,
  • Chuantian Li and
  • Jiewen Pang

29 September 2023

In deep mining, “critical static stress + slight disturbance” is an important inducing form of coal mine rockburst disasters. In previous studies, the critical static stress has been shown to be consistent with the loading direction of a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,987 Views
18 Pages

9 July 2022

As one of the most important processes in steel wire rope inspection, defect signal processing is of great significance in guaranteeing safety and precision measurement. Aiming at the weak signal detection of steel wire rope with mixed strands and no...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,063 Views
27 Pages

8 November 2021

In engineering practice, the bearing fault signal is composed of a series of complex multi-component signals containing multiple fault characteristics information. In the early stage of fault sprouting and evolution, the fault features are easily dis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,998 Views
16 Pages

19 November 2019

This paper presents the dynamic behaviors of a second-order asymmetric stochastic delay system with a Duffing oscillator as well as through the detection of weak signals, which are analyzed theoretically and numerically. The dynamic behaviors of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,740 Views
21 Pages

A New Chaotic Weak Signal Detection Method Based on a Simplified Fractional-Order Genesio–Tesi Chaotic System

  • Hongcun Mao,
  • Yuling Feng,
  • Xiaoqian Wang,
  • Chao Gao,
  • Changhao Lin and
  • Zhihai Yao

The detection of weak signals is a well-established application in chaos theory. This theory leverages the inherent robustness of chaotic systems, enabling them to resist noise and thus serve as effective tools for identifying weak signals. However,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,490 Views
25 Pages

A novel communication and navigation fusion system (CNFS) was developed to realized high accuracy positioning in constrained conditions. Communication and navigation fusion signal transmitted by base stations are in the same time and frequency band b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
668 Views
22 Pages

13 August 2025

The enhancement of weak-fault signal characteristics in rolling bearings under strong background noise interference has always been a challenging problem in rotating machinery fault diagnosis. Research indicates that multivariate statistical indicato...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,283 Views
30 Pages

Small-Signal Modelling and Stability Assessment of Phase-Locked Loops in Weak Grids

  • Claudio Burgos-Mellado,
  • Alessandro Costabeber,
  • Mark Sumner,
  • Roberto Cárdenas-Dobson and
  • Doris Sáez

30 March 2019

This paper proposes a low-complexity small signal model for a 3-leg converter connected to a balanced three-phase, three-wire weak grid and synchronised to this grid using a PLL implemented in a synchronous rotating d-q axis. A thorough analysis of t...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,394 Views
18 Pages

20 February 2021

As one of the main payloads mounted on the Yutu-2 rover of Chang’E-4 probe, lunar penetrating radar (LPR) aims to map the subsurface structure in the Von Kármán crater. The field LPR data are generally masked by clutters and noises of large quantitie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,048 Views
14 Pages

A High Dynamic Weak Spread Spectrum Signal Acquisition Strategy Based on Iterative Local Search

  • Fan Yang,
  • Guangming Wang,
  • Zhijun Meng,
  • Xiye Guo,
  • Enqi Yan and
  • Suyang Liu

12 September 2022

To solve the acquisition problem of the satellite-ground microwave link ranging of the China Space Station, iterative local search (ILS) is proposed. In this paper, an iterative-local-search-based acquisition strategy is presented, and a Doppler freq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
6,767 Views
23 Pages

28 August 2015

A two-dimensional Duffing oscillator which can produce stochastic resonance (SR) is studied in this paper. We introduce its SR mechanism and present a generalized parameter-adjusted SR (GPASR) model of this oscillator for the necessity of parameter a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
213 Views
20 Pages

Weak-signal fluorescence channels (e.g., 4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI)) often fail to provide reliable structural details due to low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and insufficient high-frequency information, limiting the ability of single-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
326 Views
23 Pages

15 December 2025

This study proposes a joint denoising method based on intelligent optimization variational mode decomposition (VMD) and normalized least mean square error (NLMS). Experiments show that this method has good adaptability to non-stationary weak signals...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,371 Views
29 Pages

25 July 2019

In recent years, magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) have been widely used as a new material in biomedicine and other fields due to their broad versatility, and the quantitative detection method of MNPs is significantly important due to its advantages in i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,219 Views
24 Pages

9 March 2021

It is important to examine in detail how the distribution of academic research topics related to renewable energy is structured and which topics are likely to receive new attention in the future in order for scientists to contribute to the developmen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,304 Views
24 Pages

29 June 2021

This paper presents a small signal stability analysis to assess the stability issues facing PV (photovoltaic) inverters connected to a weak grid. It is revealed that the cause of the transient instabilities, either high-frequency or low-frequency osc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,914 Views
19 Pages

Weak Signal Processing Method for Moving Target of GNSS-S Radar Based on Amplitude and Phase Self-Correction

  • Wenning Gao,
  • Fuzhan Yue,
  • Zhenghuan Xia,
  • Xin Liu,
  • Chuang Zhang,
  • Zongqiang Liu,
  • Shichao Jin,
  • Yao Zhang,
  • Zhilong Zhao and
  • Ying Zhang

9 February 2023

Navigation satellite signals have the advantages of all-day, all-weather, and global coverage, and the use of navigation signals for the detection of moving targets has significant application prospects. However, the GNSS signal is very weak, and the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,737 Views
10 Pages

9 December 2024

Geiger-mode avalanche photodiode (GM-APD) is a single-photon-detection device characterized by high sensitivity and fast response, which enables it to detect echo signals of distant targets effectively. Given that weak and small targets possess relat...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
1,164 Views
11 Pages

12 September 2024

The spectral detection of weak frequency band signals poses a serious problem in many applications, especially when the target is within a certain frequency band under low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) conditions. A kind of novel technique based on the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,374 Views
26 Pages

It is always an interesting research topic for digital receiver (DRX) designers to develop a DRX with (1) ultrawide instantaneous bandwidth (IBW), (2) high sensitivity, (3) fine time-of-arrival-measurement resolution (TMR), and (4) fine frequency-mea...

  • Abstract
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,077 Views
19 Pages

The [World Economic Forum 2016, https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economicforum- annual-meeting-2016. Accessed 5 Aug 2017] predicted that the world would face the Fourth Industrial Revolution which means innovative changes through convergence of c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,225 Views
16 Pages

9 October 2021

Compared with a scalar tracking receiver, the Beidou vector tracking receiver has the advantages of smaller tracking errors, fast loss-of-lock reacquisition, and high stability. However, in extremely challenging conditions, such as highly dynamic and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,310 Views
16 Pages

27 May 2022

The performance of the passing train and the structural state of the track bed are the concerns regarding the safe operation of subways. Monitoring the vibration response of the track bed structure and identifying abnormal signals within it will help...

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  • Open Access
1,085 Views
15 Pages

23 April 2025

Biomolecule detection is pivotal in disease diagnosis. In this study, we present a novel aptamer–antibody sandwich module integrated with an imaging weak measurement system to enhance the sensitivity and specificity of biomolecule detection. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,974 Views
29 Pages

2 December 2022

Rolling bearing health status monitoring is essential for identifying early failures and avoiding un-planned downtime in industrial systems. To overcome the problems of existing entropy methods with multiple faults that are easily confounded at diffe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
8,417 Views
14 Pages

A Complexity-Based Approach for the Detection of Weak Signals in Ocean Ambient Noise

  • Shashidhar Siddagangaiah,
  • Yaan Li,
  • Xijing Guo,
  • Xiao Chen,
  • Qunfei Zhang,
  • Kunde Yang and
  • Yixin Yang

18 March 2016

There are numerous studies showing that there is a constant increase in the ocean ambient noise level and the ever-growing demand for developing algorithms for detecting weak signals in ambient noise. In this study, we utilize dynamical and statistic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,676 Views
18 Pages

10 May 2024

Accurately extracting weak signals is extremely important for overall performance and application in optoelectronic imaging and optical communication systems. While weak signals are susceptible to noise, adaptive filtering is a commonly used noise re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,043 Views
11 Pages

7 November 2022

In practice, the near-bit signals are usually accompanied by noises generated by drilling tool vibration and high-speed rotary. This study introduces discrete wavelet transform to a well drilling area and presents a new weal signal extraction algorit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,184 Views
14 Pages

12 February 2018

It is especially indispensable for new businesses or industries to predict the innovation of new technologies. This requires an understanding of how the complex process of innovation, which is accomplished through more efficient products, processes,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
986 Views
20 Pages

The acoustic signals of the drill pipe of a seafloor drill present weak features under noise interference such as marine environmental noise and the mechanical vibration of the seafloor drill. Accurately extracting the features of the weak acoustic s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
652 Views
13 Pages

18 October 2025

Effective detection of acoustic signals plays a crucial role in numerous fields, including industrial equipment fault prediction and environmental monitoring. Acoustic sensing technology, owing to its substantial information carrying capacity and non...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,082 Views
13 Pages

6 May 2025

When the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) falls below −10 dB, signals are considered weak. Radar systems, particularly those on small platforms like drones and satellites, often face this challenge due to limited power, resulting in low transmit pow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,138 Views
21 Pages

19 January 2022

Slip is one of the most common forms of failure in aviation bearings, and it can pose a great threat to the stable operation of aviation bearings. Bearing cage speed monitoring methods based on weak magnetic detection can achieve nondestructive measu...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,797 Views
11 Pages

Impact of Weak Signals on the Digitalization of Risk Analysis in Process Safety Operational Environments

  • Chizubem Benson,
  • Christos D. Argyropoulos,
  • Olga Nicolaidou and
  • Georgios Boustras

24 March 2022

Weak signals in risk analysis digitalization are of great importance for preventing major accidents in risk analysis in the process industry, especially for process operations and production. However, some of the negative impacts are incorrect operat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,247 Views
16 Pages

29 July 2014

In this paper a stochastic resonance (SR)-based method for recovering weak impulsive signals is developed for quantitative diagnosis of faults in rotating machinery. It was shown in theory that weak impulsive signals follow the mechanism of SR, but t...

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