The invention discloses a multi-channel frequency hopping communication method based on a broadside array of an
underwater unmanned vehicle, and aims to solve the problem that the communication performance of the broadside array is reduced due to correlation and intensity inconsistency of
array element noise of the broadside array caused by over-strong platform self-
noise of the
underwater unmanned vehicle. According to
signal energy of array elements in a broadside array, starboard and starboard
ambiguity resolution is carried out to determine a
signal incidence side,
direction of arrival estimation is carried out on the array elements of the
signal incidence side,
delay inequality of adjacent
array element signals is obtained, then the
array element signals are compensated, multiple array elements after
delay inequality compensation are sequentially weighted and merged, multiple merging results are obtained, and the multiple merging results are obtained. The number of array elements which are finally required to be combined is selected to form an array element subset; the output signal-to-
noise ratio of the array element subset and the
weighting coefficient of each array element are solved to obtain a unique
weighting coefficient, all array element signals in the array element subset are combined, the signal
arrival time in the combined signals is calculated, Doppler
estimation compensation is carried out, the compensated combined signals are solved through an iteration
receiver, and original bit information is obtained.