AUTOMATED COMPUTATION OF A DIMENSION OF A MOVING PLATFORM

    公开(公告)号:US20170299372A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-10-19

    申请号:US15487938

    申请日:2017-04-14

    Applicant: THALES

    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and a system for the automated computation of a length or width dimension of a moving platform. The method includes sending radio waves toward the platform along a predetermined transmission axis and acquiring at least one digital power profile signal representative of a received reflected signal power as a function of a radial distance along the transmission axis relative to a reference point. This method next includes applying a filtering operator on the acquired digital power profile signal, making it possible to obtain a filtered digital signal, determining, by computation, a first radial distance corresponding to a first variation peak of the filtered digital signal and a second radial distance corresponding to a second variation peak of the filtered digital signal, and the computing a radial dimension of the platform as a function of the first and second radial distances.

    METHOD FOR DETECTION BY LONG INTEGRATION AND CORRESPONDING RADAR SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20200166605A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-28

    申请号:US16692970

    申请日:2019-11-22

    Applicant: THALES

    Abstract: Upon each new detection, called pivot detection, by a radar system, the method includes the steps consisting of: grouping together, with the pivot detection, grouped detections, defined as detections that belong to a sweep preceding the sweep of the pivot detection and that have a non-nil probability according to a grouping criterion; filtering the grouped detections so as to keep only detections that are kinematically strictly coherent with the pivot detection, by: initializing a histogram, each dimension of which is a temporal variation of a coordinate measured by the radar system; computing a potential value interval for each coordinate of the pivot detection and each grouped detection; computing a minimum temporal variation and a maximum temporal variation for the or each coordinate from potential value intervals of the pivot detection and each grouped detection; incrementing the set of classes of the histogram whose index along each dimension is located between the computed minimum and maximum temporal variations; and detecting a target once at least one class of the histogram reaches a predefined value.

    SYSTEM FOR GENERATING AN ANALOGUE SIGNAL
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    发明申请
    SYSTEM FOR GENERATING AN ANALOGUE SIGNAL 有权
    用于生成模拟信号的系统

    公开(公告)号:US20160087614A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-03-24

    申请号:US14891297

    申请日:2014-05-19

    CPC classification number: H03K4/94 H03K3/64 H03K4/023 H03M1/661 H03M1/745

    Abstract: The system has: a set of at least two electric current generators, at least one capacitor and activation/deactivation devices for the electric current generators; the electric current generator being connected in parallel with one another and the capacitor being connected in series with the electric current generators, the activation/deactivation devices controlling the generators by a digital stream allowing control of the intensity of the electric current entering the capacitor and generating a trapezoidal voltage signal at the terminals of the capacitor, the analog signal being reconstructed through interpolation of the trapezoidal signal.

    Abstract translation: 该系统具有:一组至少两个电流发生器,至少一个电容器和用于电流发生器的激活/去激活装置; 电流发生器彼此并联并且电容器与电流发生器串联连接,激活/去激活装置通过数字流控制发电机,从而允许控制进入电容器的电流的强度并产生 在电容器的端子处的梯形电压信号,通过对梯形信号的插值重建模拟信号。

    SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY HARMONIZING THE POSITION AND/OR ORIENTATION BETWEEN AN APPARATUS ON BOARD A MOBILE CARRIER AND A REFERENCE FRAME OF THE MOBILE CARRIER

    公开(公告)号:US20230213616A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-06

    申请号:US17777870

    申请日:2020-11-26

    Applicant: THALES

    CPC classification number: G01S7/4026

    Abstract: The invention relates to a system and a method for automatically harmonizing the position and/or orientation between an apparatus on board a mobile carrier and a reference frame of said mobile carrier, said mobile carrier being provided with an inertial unit able to provide measurements in the reference frame. The system comprises:



    at least one accelerometer mechanically coupled to the onboard apparatus, and providing acceleration measurements in a reference frame referred to as the associated onboard apparatus,
    a reception unit configured to receive measurements provided by said inertial unit and measurements provided by the accelerometer,
    a computing unit configured to calculate values of parameters defining a geometric transformation for conversion of data from the reference frame of the carrier and the reference frame of the onboard apparatus, from the measurements, carried out for at least two different flight orientations, by said inertial unit and by said accelerometer.

    METHOD FOR MEASURING WAVE HEIGHT BY MEANS OF AN AIRBORNE RADAR

    公开(公告)号:US20210223385A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-22

    申请号:US15734667

    申请日:2019-06-13

    Applicant: THALES

    Abstract: A method for determining wave height by means of a radar carried by an aircraft, the method implementing the following steps: a first step of pointing the antenna of the radar; a second step of determining the clutter acquisition plan according to the altitude of the aircraft; a third step of determining, for each clutter zone defined by the acquisition plan, two Doppler parameters PARA1 and PARA2 characterising the zone as a whole; a fourth step of calculating the average values of the parameters PARA1 and PARA2 over all of the zones in question; and a fifth step of estimating the wave height from the averages of the parameters PARA1 and PARA2. The wave height estimated in this way is transmitted to the aircraft and used to determine the conditions for the water landing of the aircraft.

    PROXIMITY RADAR METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A ROTARY-WING AIRCRAFT

    公开(公告)号:US20200256983A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-13

    申请号:US16708194

    申请日:2019-12-09

    Applicant: THALES

    Abstract: A proximity radar method for a rotary-wing aircraft includes a sequence of phases T(k) of steps. In a first phase T(1), the electronic computer of the radar system computes unambiguous synthetic patterns on the basis of a first activated interferometric pattern M(1) of N unitary radiating groups. In the following phases T(k) of steps, executed successively in increasing order of k, the electronic computer computes synthetic patterns on the basis of interferometric patterns M(k) of rank k, wherein the N unitary radiating groups of a series deviate simultaneously in terms of azimuth and in terms of elevation as k increases, and establishes maps of rank k of the surroundings in terms of azimuth distance/direction and/or elevation distance/direction cells wherein the detected obstacle ambiguities, associated with the network lobes, are removed by virtue of the map(s) provided in the preceding phase or phases.

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