摘要:
The present invention relates to devices for correlating two phase-modulated signals, in order to determine the delay between said two signals. The signals are applied to phase detectors which receive one and the same local wave. One of the signals is delayed by a variable delay time. The phase values obtained are subtracted from one another. The result is then integrated in the complex plane for a given period of time. The variation of the variable delay permits to determine the correlation function and in particular, the position and the amplitude of the correlation peak.
摘要:
1. A system for radiating recurrent pulsed signals having a variable carrier frequency, said system comprising: a source of signals having a random voltage: a non-linear amplifier coupled to said source for amplifying said signals and providing amplified signals, said amplifier having a gain which decreases upon the amplitude of said signals exceeding a predetermined absolute value and having an output; means coupled to said output of said amplifier for storing an amplified signal for the duration of each recurrence period of said pulsed signals; and variable frequency, voltage controlled oscillator means coupled to said storing means.
摘要:
Video signals delivered by a side-looking radar system during M successive recurrences in each section of a sweep range are sampled, coded and registered in the form of a series of samples of modulus .rho..sub.i and a series of samples of phase .phi..sub.i. The device performs the correlation with a series of samples .theta..sub.i of a synthesized replica by computing, for each recurrence, the modulus of a vector whose components are: ##EQU1##
摘要:
To improve the accuracy of angular measurements in a radar or sonar system by suppressing noise due to target glint, an angular-deviation signal .epsilon. derived from the output signals .SIGMA. and .DELTA. of a sum channel and a difference channel is multiplied with a gain-control signal K(t) before being subjected to recursive filtering. Signal K(t) is obtained, also by recursive filtering, from a weighting function P(t) which goes to zero during periods when the measurement of the angular deviation is unreliable as determined from a low value of sum signal .SIGMA. and from a peaking of a quadrature deviation signal .epsilon.q, function P(t) being proportional to the product .SIGMA..sup.n .multidot.(S-.vertline..epsilon.q.vertline.) where the exponent n is at least equal to 1 and S is a predetermined threshold. The recursive filter processing the deviation signal .epsilon. has two cross-connected stages, both controlled by signal K(t), respectively emitting a corrected deviation measurement .epsilon. and an estimated time differential .tau.d.epsilon./dt, .tau. being a delay introduced in a recursive loop of each stage. Prior to being multiplied with gain-control signal K(t), the deviation signal .epsilon. may be additively combined with an angular-orientation signal .theta..sub.r of a radar antenna to yield an angular value .theta..sub.c which can then be multiplied by a measured target distance D to provide a transverse-deviation signal d; in that case the two filter stages respectively emit a corrected deviation signal d and a target-velocity estimate v.
摘要:
To improve the accuracy of angular measurements in a radar system by suppressing noise due to target glint, an angular-deviation signal .epsilon. derived from the output signals .SIGMA. and .DELTA. of a sum channel and a difference channel is gated so as to be read only when the sum signal .SIGMA. is at or near a maximum. In a more elaborate embodiment, passage of the deviation signal .epsilon. is also blocked when a quadrature-deviation signal .epsilon.q, likewise derived from the sum and difference signals .SIGMA. and .DELTA., has an absolute magnitude above a preferably adjustable threshold.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a band compression device which make it possible to match a system furnishing signals of spectral width B, to a system having a pass-band b smaller than B. It comprises successively and serially, a variable threshold gating device, an amplifier and a low-pass filter. Control means, connected to the output of the compression device, for controlling the threshold gating device, and permits a constant false alarm ratio in a radar application.