Abstract:
A radial slot antenna comprising a radial waveguide, which includes an upper plate, having a centroid and an edge region and provided with a plurality of radiating apertures, formed as slots in the upper plate, which develop around the centroid. The radiating apertures are arranged to form first and second radiating regions, which are distinct and radially separated by a dwell region without radiating apertures and wherein, in the first and second radiating regions, radially adjacent radiating apertures are separated from one another by a radial distance, the dwell region having a radial width greater than the radial distances of the radiating apertures in the first and second radiating regions. The slot antenna further comprises a signal feeder for supplying am electromagnetic field to assume, in the first and second radiating regions, opposite phases, so that the electromagnetic field emitted by the slot antenna can be expressed via Bessel functions.
Abstract:
A SAR apparatus including: a radar transceiver to emit electromagnetic pulses and to provide a radar signal in response to echoes of the electromagnetic pulses; and a processing unit, configured to produce SAR images of moving objects from the radar signal. The processing unit includes: a first processing module to apply translational motion compensation to a central reference point of a moving object in a subaperture of the radar signal; a second processing module, to execute phase compensation with the single central reference point as reference; and a third processing module to apply phase compensation to the radar signal as a function of an estimated phase component the auxiliary point and of a normalization parameter to a distance in range between the central reference point and the auxiliary point.
Abstract:
The invention regards an external vision and/or weapon aiming system for a military land vehicle and/or a military naval unit. The system comprises: two sensors configured to capture video streams of a same external scene, each in a respective spectral band; an electronic processing unit configured to insert a respective aiming reticle in the images of each captured video stream, thereby generating a corresponding pre-processed video stream, and to process the two pre-processed video streams; and a user interface configured to display a video stream received from the electronic processing unit. The system is characterized in that the electronic processing unit is configured to process the two pre-processed video streams by means of image enhancement and picture-in-picture functionalities, thereby generating first and second enhanced video streams.
Abstract:
A system comprising: a SIP Proxy Server, and DMR Gateway(s) to interface the SIP Proxy Server with DMR Network(s) matching Private/professional Mobile Radio (PMR) features; each DMR Gateway is univocally assigned with a SIP ID and is designed to: interpret messages from the SIP Proxy Server to manage DMR signalling/data/voice features toward DMR Terminals, and initiate DMR features on account of DMR Terminals operating under it and make requests for DMR signalling/data/voice features toward destinations belonging to another Network; each DMR Gateway is designed to: transcode an over-the-air, manufacturer-specific DMR Terminal registration into a SIP REGISTER message to result in the SIP Proxy server perceiving and managing the DMR Terminal as a SIP User Agent;the SIP Proxy Server is designed to manage: DMR signalling features, including voice call set-up, and DMR data features using the SIP MESSAGE method, and/or DMR signalling/data/voice group features.
Abstract:
A quantum cryptographic key distribution system, including: an optical source which generates a plurality of optical pulses; an optical beam splitter, which generates, starting from each optical pulse, a first and a second optical sub-pulse; a first and a second peripheral device; and an optical path having a first and a second end connected to the optical beam splitter, the optical path extending through the first and second peripheral devices and being traversed in opposite directions by the first and second optical sub-pulses. The peripheral device randomly phase shifts the second optical sub-pulse by a first phase, and the second peripheral device randomly phase shifts the first optical sub-pulse by a second phase. Furthermore, the optical path is such as to cause interference in the first optical beam splitter between the first and second optical sub-pulses, as a function of first and second phases.
Abstract:
A continuous scanning module is described, comprising: a polygonal scanning drum (9) rotating at substantially constant speed (f9) and provided with a plurality of first reflecting side faces (9.1-9.7) and at least one polygonal forward motion compensation-forward motion compensation drum (15) rotating synchronously with the scanning drum (9). The forward motion compensation drum (15) is provided with second reflecting side faces (15.1-15.7)) each of which receives an image from a corresponding first reflecting face of the scanning drum, and reflects it towards a scanning path.
Abstract:
The invention regards a system of command and control and of aiming and firing for a military land vehicle equipped with at least one weapon. This system of command and control and of aiming and firing comprises: an external vision system for aiming and firing operationally associated with a weapon of the military vehicle; an external vision system for command and control; an aiming and firing user interface configured to control both the external vision system for aiming and firing and the associated weapon, and the external vision system for command and control; and a command and control user interface configured to control both the external vision system for command and control and the external vision system for aiming and firing and the associated weapon.
Abstract:
One or more embodiments of the invention concern a device comprising: a cathode that lies on a cathode plane and includes, in an active region, one or more cathode straight-finger-shaped terminals with a main extension direction parallel to a first reference direction; for each cathode terminal, one or more electron emitters formed on, and in ohmic contact with, said cathode terminal; and a gate electrode that lies on a gate plane parallel to, and spaced apart from, said cathode plane, does not overlap the cathode and includes, in the active region, two or more gate straight-finger-shaped terminals with a main extension direction parallel to the first reference direction; wherein the gate terminals are interlaced with said cathode terminal(s).
Abstract:
An aiming system for portable weapons comprising pairs of inertial sensors of gyroscopic, accelerometer and magnetometric type arranged respectively on a weapon and on an helmet with Head Up Display, so as to determine both the relative orientation and the relative position in space of the weapon and of the helmet, with consequent display of the line of fire on the Head Up Display.
Abstract:
A communication method of the SMF type for a network of nodes including a multicast group. The method includes the steps, performed by a first node, of: determining a set of respective multipoint relays; determining the nodes for which the first node is a multipoint relay; determining a routing table including identifiers of destination nodes and corresponding identifiers of next-hop nodes; receiving a multicast packet sent from a sending node, where the first node is a multipoint relay; checking if, for each node identifier of the multicast group, the entry in the routing table that includes a destination node identifier corresponding to the node identifier of the multicast group contains a next-hop node identifier that corresponds to the sending node, and if the counter contained in the multicast packet respects a relation with a limit; and determining whether to retransmit the multicast packet, on the basis of the outcome of the checking step.