zhichao Zhang

Dr. zhichao Zhang

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Academic Career Length

3Years (2024-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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5 February 2025 in Sensors
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ZDZhongliang Deng
Zhongliang Deng
ZZzhichao Zhang
zhichao Zhang
ZDZhenke Ding
Zhenke Ding
BLBingxun Liu
Bingxun Liu
The global navigation satellite system (GNSS) struggles to deliver the precision and reliability required for positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services in environments with severe interference. Fifth-generation (5G) cellular networks, with their low latency, high bandwidth, and large capacity, offer a robust communication infrastructure, enabling 5G base stations (BSs) to extend coverage into regions where traditional GNSSs face significant challenges. However, frequent multi-sensor faults, including missing alarm thresholds, uncontrolled error accumulation, and delayed warnings, hinder the adaptability of navigation systems to the dynamic multi-source information of complex scenarios. This study introduces an advanced, tightly coupled GNSS/5G/IMU integration framework designed for distributed PNT systems, providing all-source fault detection with weighted, robust adaptive filtering. A weighted, robust adaptive filter (MCC-WRAF), grounded in the maximum correntropy criterion, was developed to suppress fault propagation, relax Gaussian noise constraints, and improve the efficiency of observational weight distribution in multi-source fusion scenarios. Moreover, we derived the intrinsic relationships of filtering innovations within wireless measurement models and proposed a time-sequential, observation-driven full-source FDE and sensor recovery validation strategy. This approach employs a sliding window which expands innovation vectors temporally based on source encoding, enabling real-time validation of isolated faulty sensors and adaptive adjustment of observational data in integrated navigation solutions. Additionally, a covariance-optimal, inflation-based integrity protection mechanism was introduced, offering rigorous evaluations of distributed PNT service availability. The experimental validation was carried out in a typical outdoor scenario, and the results highlight the proposed method’s ability to mitigate undetected fault impacts, improve detection sensitivity, and significantly reduce alarm response times across step, ramp, and multi-fault mixed scenarios. Additionally, the dynamic positioning accuracy of the fusion navigation system improved to 0.83 m (1σ). Compared with standard Kalman filtering (EKF) and advanced multi-rate Kalman filtering (MRAKF), the proposed algorithm achieved 28.3% and 53.1% improvements in its 1σ error, respectively, significantly enhancing the accuracy and reliability of the multi-source fusion navigation system.

21 May 2024 in Sensors
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ZZzhichao Zhang
zhichao Zhang
ZDZhongliang Deng
Zhongliang Deng
JLjingrong liu
jingrong liu
ZDZhenke Ding
Zhenke Ding
BLBingxun Liu
Bingxun Liu
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) offer comprehensive position, navigation, and timing (PNT) estimates worldwide. Given the growing demand for reliable location awareness in both indoor and outdoor contexts, the advent of fifth-generation mobile communication technology (5G) has enabled expansive coverage and precise positioning services. However, the power received by the signal of interest (SOI) at terminals is notably low. This can lead to significant jamming, whether intentional or unintentional, which can adversely affect positioning receivers. The diagnosis of jamming types, such as classification, assists receivers in spectrum sensing and choosing effective mitigation strategies. Traditional jamming diagnosis methodologies predominantly depend on the expertise of classification experts, often demonstrating a lack of adaptability for diverse tasks. Recently, researchers have begun utilizing convolutional neural networks to re-conceptualize a jamming diagnosis as an image classification issue, thereby augmenting recognition performance. However, in real-world scenarios, the assumptions of independent and homogeneous distributions are frequently violated. This discrepancy between the source and target distributions frequently leads to subpar model performance on the test set or an inability to procure usable evaluation samples during training. In this paper, we introduce LJCD-Net, a deep adversarial migration-based cross-domain jamming generalization diagnostic network. LJCD-Net capitalizes on a fully labeled source domain and multiple unlabeled auxiliary domains to generate shared feature representations with generalization capabilities. Initially, our paper proposes an uncertainty-guided auxiliary domain labeling weighting strategy, which estimates the multi-domain sample uncertainty to re-weight the classification loss and specify the gradient optimization direction. Subsequently, from a probabilistic distribution standpoint, the spatial constraint imposed on the cross-domain global jamming time-frequency feature distribution facilitates the optimization of collaborative objectives. These objectives include minimizing both the source domain classification loss and auxiliary domain classification loss, as well as optimizing the inter-domain marginal probability and conditional probability distribution. Experimental results demonstrate that LJCD-Net enhances the recognition accuracy and confidence compared to five other diagnostic methods.

25 June 2025 in Applied Sciences
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ZDZhongliang Deng
Zhongliang Deng
ZZzhichao Zhang
zhichao Zhang
XGXiangchuan Gao
Xiangchuan Gao
PLPeijia Liu
Peijia Liu
In complex urban electromagnetic environments, wireless positioning signals are subject to various types of interference, including narrowband, chirp, and pulse jamming. Traditional generic suppression methods struggle to achieve global optimization tailored to specific interference mechanisms. This paper proposes a classification-driven differentiated jamming suppression (CDDJ) method, which adaptively selects the optimal mitigation strategy by pre-identifying interference types and integrating classification confidence levels. First, the theoretical bounds of the output carrier-to-noise ratio (C/N0out) under typical interference scenarios are derived, characterizing the performance distribution of anti-jamming efficiency (Γ). Then, a mapping relationship between interference categories and their corresponding suppression strategies is established, along with decision criteria for strategy switching based on signal quality evaluation metrics. Finally, an OpenMax-Lite rejection layer is designed to handle low-confidence inputs, identify unknown jamming using the Weibull distribution, and implement a broadband conservative suppression policy. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method exhibits significant advantages across different interference types. Under high JSR conditions, the signal recovery rate improves by over 10% and 8% compared to that of the WPT and KLT methods, respectively. In terms of SINR performance, the proposed approach outperforms the AFF, TDPB, and FDPB methods by 1.5 dB, 1.1 dB, and 5.3 dB, respectively, thereby enhancing the reliability of wireless positioning in complex environments.