摘要:
1. In a pulsed radar signal tracking receiver, first, second and third means for tracking received signals in the respective polar coordinates of range, elevation and azimuth, said second and third means for tracking being adapted to be actuated solely during the occurrence of a control signal, said first means for tracking in range producing a first output pulse positionable in range and a second output pulse upon the coincidence of said first output pulse and received signal, means resettable at the radar pulse repetition rate for deriving an auxiliary pulse in response to the first signal received during each radar pulse repetition interval, switching means for selectively applying when actuated said first output pulse as said control signal to said second and third means and for selectively applying when deactuated said auxiliary pulse as said control signal to said second and third means, and means for applying said second output pulse to said switching means for actuating said switching means.
摘要:
An all-digital, distance measuring radio equipment is disclosed wherein the duration of each cycle of operation is determined by a train of clock pulses which is applied to a plurality of counters. Detection of a reply signal triggers a search counter which then counts until the end of the cycle. At the end of the cycle the count acquired by the search counter is transferred into a memory counter which starts the subsequent cycle at this value, establishes a range gate upon reaching a count corresponding to the maximum range, starts counting again from zero and ends the cycle at the same count that it held at the start of the cycle. A decode counter counts from the start of each cycle to the center of the range gate and, upon receipt of the range gate center signal, applies its acquired value to a readout means to indicate distance.
摘要:
A target extractor for radar systems which accurately determines the radial position of the target within the range cell containing the target. The azimuth of the target is determined by conventional extractor systems. An incremental target range is located with respect to a primary range cell boundary. The primary range cell is selected as the range cell which contains the maximum number of reflected transmitter pulses. The number of reflected transmitter pulses received in secondary range cells located radially below and radially above the primary range cell is determined by the target extractor. The target extractor also determines the ratio of the pulses detected in the secondary range cells which are located radially on each side of the primary range cell. The location of the target defined within the radial dimension of the primary range cell is determined by interpolation circuitry in the target extractor. The interpolation circuitry shifts the effective location of its output signal by an amount which is proportional to the determined ratio of the pulses in the secondary range cells.
摘要:
The present invention relates to an aircraft radar receiver for search and for tracking a target through one or more telemetry windows which, in the search phase, carry out distance scanning and which, on receiving a target echo, locks onto the same in order to supply telemetric information, said receiver comprising means for, during the search phase, desensitizing the radar receiver for the distance which corresponds to the altitude of the aircraft above the ground so that the altitude return signal does not cause the radar to switch to tracking state, wherein the desensitization means are inoperative when the altitude return signal occurs in the radar tracking state.
摘要:
In a radar target acquisition system means are provided for analyzing the video return including an automatic gate circuit causing the range gate to sweep out, and to sequentially sample the video return; a filter acquisition video processing circuit including means for discriminating between random and sinusoidal amplitude modulation appearing on the video return and having known frequency characteristics equal to the scan and pulse repetition frequencies of the radar within the pass band of the filter circuit, and means for comparing the discriminated amplitude modulated video return signal to at least one established threshold; and a track circuit which remains de-activated during the sweeping mode and is activated upon command from the filter acquisition circuit. Means are provided for manually initiating the gate circuit and for inhibiting the track circuit to await response from the filter acquisition circuit.
摘要:
In distance measuring equipment utilized in radio navigation, a detector is provided in the airborne receiver which locates the synchronous reply pulse from the ground transponder transmitted in response to an interrogation pulse from the airborne transmitter. This is accomplished digitally by a shift register that serves as a continuously operating memory during each range scan. The memory bits of the register represent a corresponding number of range intervals covering the range being scanned in each interrogation. Received pulses (which will include random pulses as well as the synchronous reply pulse if it is present) excite the input memory bit and are transferred along the register in synchronism with the range intervals of the scan; thus, at the end of the scan, pulse information will be stored in the register at those bits corresponding to range intervals at which pulses were received. This information is recirculated during the next range scan, and addition-subtraction logic at the input causes the non-synchronous pulses to be destroyed from memory and multiple pulse information to be accumulated in adjacent bits at the range at which a newly arriving pulse is received in synchronism with the recirculating information. Accordingly, by successive scans, a pulse train is accumulated at the range of the recurring synchronous reply pulse, range acquisition being confirmed when the fifth pulse of the train appears at the signal input. Having located the synchronous pulse, operation in the search mode ceases and the equipment commences range tracking and produces a continuous range indication that may be displayed to the pilot.
摘要:
A target take-over circuit, being aligned with estimated target positions, causes a wide range gate to follow up a series of estimated range values. Each of these values render a counter position, which is compared with a previous reduced counter position to obtain a timing interval. During this interval the access to each of the range gate channels is enabled and disabled successively, while the range gate channel, supplied with a video signal, delivers a square-wave reference voltage, of which the duration corresponds with the target range, valid at the moment of detection. The range servo follows up said voltage, whereupon a tracking system is actuated.
摘要:
A coherent pulse doppler altimeter system employing a single antenna wherein the transmit signal is a generated series of pulses the pulse width and repetition frequency of which are varied keeping the average power high although peak transmitter power can be low enough to permit utilization of all solid state components. The ground return pulse will have a doppler shift caused by the vertical component of the aircraft velocity and a doppler spread due to the horizontal velocity. The receiver is tuned to receive the first side band of the return signal. The receiver is range gated by a gate pulse which is varied as the pulse repetition frequency (PRF) is varied so that just the leading edge of a return pulse passes through the gate. Variations in PRF are controlled by the tracking of that leading edge by the range gate. The PRF is then counted to give altitude.
摘要:
14. In a radar ranging system, in combination, a stable source of sinusoidal oscillations; means for deriving from said source a series of first pulses spaced fixed intervals from one another; a source of randomly occurring pulses; selector means connected to receive said randomly recurring pulses and said first pulses for selecting certain ones of said first pulses at a randomly recurring rate; phase shifting means for shifting the phase of said sinusoidal oscillations; means for deriving from said phase shifted sinusoidal oscillations a series of second pulses; a step-down counter circuit; cyclic means operatively associated with said phase shifting means and receptive of said selected pulses for rendering said step-down counter operative beginning at a time in coincidence with a given one of said second pulses, the output of said step-down counter comprising a series of third pulses spaced a given plurality of times said fixed intervals from one another; selector means receptive of said third pulses for selecting a given one of said third pulses; and means including said cyclic gate means responsive to a shift in phase between said series of first pulses and said series of second pulses an amount approximately equal to one period of said series of third pulses for rendering said step-down counter responsive to the one of said second pulses spaced from said given second pulse an amount equal to one period of said series of third pulses in the direction opposite to that of said phase shift.
摘要:
A radar system is provided with a first radar apparatus for the range and angle tracking of targets located at a relatively long range and with a second radar apparatus for at least the angle tracking of targets at a relatively short range. The radar apparatus both operate at an own wavelength, but they employ one and the same tracking antenna. The wavelength of the second radar apparatus is so selected that, in case a target being tracked at a relatively low altitude is within the range of said second radar apparatus, the interference caused by the receipt of target echoes reflected by the earth surface does not influence the antenna tracking movement. When a target being tracked is outside the range of the second radar apparatus, it is tracked by the first radar apparatus in range and in angle coordinates. When said target arrives within the range of the second radar apparatus, it can be tracked in angle coordinates by the latter radar apparatus and in range by the former radar apparatus.