Study on multi-frequency weak signal detection method based on stochastic resonance tuning by multi-scale noise

In practical engineering applications, useful information is often submerged in strong noise and the feature information is difficult to be extracted. Aimed at the detection problem of multi-frequency signal under colored noise background, a novel weak signal detection method based on stochastic resonance (SR) tuning by multi-scale noise is proposed. Firstly, noisy signal is processed by orthogonal wavelet transform to decompose the signal into multi-scale ingredients. According to the orthogonal wavelet transform coefficients characteristics of 1/f distribution, multi-scale noise is constructed so as to make the frequency-band containing the driving frequency be enhanced through SR system. Thus multi-frequency weak signal is detected. The method is effective to detect multi-frequency weak signal under colored noise background. Experiment signal analysis results show that the proposed method is simple for multi-frequency weak signal detection, and has good prospects for engineering applications.