Title
A novel beamformer for circular sonar arrays
Abstract
A new Beamformer (BF) technique using Linear Deltamodulation (DM) on the spatially sampled circular array sensor signals is presented. In this method, the FIR-type of beam-former implementation for circular arrays results in an extremely simplified hardware which does away with multipliers and retains basically adders. Thus, the immediate problem of large word-size is considerably resolved. The DM-type of BF by virtue of the implementation, provides an additional advantage of beam-space interpolation. Various aspects of array gain, sidelobes and noise performance are dealt with the help of simulation studies. Hardware structures both for fixed and programmable beamformer coefficients are also proposed which bring out the potential of this technique for compact sonar systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
1981
10.1109/ICASSP.1981.1171147
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, IEEE International Conference ICASSP '81.
Keywords
Field
DocType
hardware,interpolation,quantization,baseband,delta modulation,geometry,signal processing,sonar
Signal processing,Telecommunications,Adder,Computer science,Delta modulation,Circular buffer,Interpolation,Sonar,Array gain,Artificial intelligence,Beamforming,Pattern recognition,Algorithm
Conference
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
6
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rajendar Bahl1123.18
P. V. Indiresan200.68