Joint STARS phased array radar antenna

The Joint STARS phased array radar system is capable of performing long range airborne surveillance and was used during the Persian Gulf war on two E8-A aircraft to fly many around-the-clock missions to monitor the Kuwait and Iraq battlefield from a safe distance behind the front lines. This paper is a follow-on to previous publications on the subject of the Joint STARS antenna and deals mainly with mission performance and technical aspects not previously covered. Radar data of troop movements and armament installations are presented, a brief review of the antenna design is given, followed by technical discussions concerning the three-port interferometry, gain and sidelobe design approach, cost control, range test implementation and future improvements     

A space-fed phased array for surveillance from space

A space-fed radar antenna called a venetian blind is proposed for all-weather wide-area surveillance from space. Radar requirements for tasked and untasked operation are discussed, and the process of selecting the venetian blind concept, which can support both, is described. In its untasked form (essentially a space-fed passive lens), it achieves off-axis squint angles of many beamwidths with negligible performance degradation. It is inherently insensitive to mechanical distortion and is a first step in the evolution to the more complex tasked system antenna. The antenna lens consists of easily manufactured slats with microstrip dipole radiating elements and matching networks on a dielectric substrate. Phase control is achieved with low-loss delay lines in the passive lens or active transmit/receive modules if electronic scan is desired     

雷达天线系统隐身方法研究

以飞行器为载体的雷达天线系统隐身,是飞行器隐身研究的一项重要课题,文中从时域、空域、带外及正交极化、带内同极化四个方面探讨了雷达天线系统隐身的基本原理。     

Privacy algorithm for cylindrical holographic weapons surveillancesystem

A novel personnel surveillance system has been developed to detect and identify threatening objects, which are undetectable by metal detectors, concealed on the human body. This new system can detect threats which are fabricated with plastic, liquid, metal, or ceramic. It uses millimeter-wave array technology and a cylindrical holographic imaging algorithm to provide full-body, 360-degree coverage of a person in near real-time. This system is ideally suited for mass transportation centers such as airport checkpoints that require high throughput rates and full coverage. Research and development efforts are underway to produce a privacy algorithm that removes the human features from the images while identifying the potential threats. This algorithm locates and segments the threats and places them on a wire-frame humanoid representation. The research areas for this algorithm development include artificial neural networks, image processing, edge detection, and dielectric measurements. This system is operational and results from this test and the privacy algorithm will be discussed in this paper     

民用飞机主导式结冰探测系统设计

飞机结冰会造成全机气动性能下降、飞行品质降级等一系列问题,对飞行安全造成极大的威胁。现代民用飞机普遍装备结冰探测器以应对飞行中的结冰问题。主导式结冰探测系统是一种新型的自动判断飞机是否进入结冰条件的飞机结冰探测系统,能够有效减少机组操作负担。首先对主导式结冰探测系统进行了详细的介绍,包括主导式结冰探测系统和传统咨询式结冰探测系统的区别、主导式结冰探测系统优势以及主导式结冰探测系统主要设计难点。然后阐述了基于磁致伸缩式结冰探测器的主导式结冰探测系统的设计方法,主要在于识别出结冰探测器无法探测的结冰条件,通过将结冰条件预设在防冰系统控制器中,来确保能够在所有结冰气象条件下及时开启防冰系统。     

船载天线视角计算方法研究

天线视角是航天测量船的一个重要指标，通过分析各种视角遮挡情况，列出相应的视角计算方法，为船用天线视角设计提供了依据。同时本文分析了针对视角遮挡问题在船舶设计阶段应采取的措施。     

用于SAR运动补偿的DGPS/SINS组合系统研究

使用考虑位置误差相关项的伪距率观测模型 ,研究了用于合成孔径雷达运动补偿的差分 GPS/ SINS伪距率组合系统。结果表明 ,组合系统的长期位置精度能达到 1 m左右。 GPS数据更新率低于 INS,在 GPS测量时间间隔内 ,组合系统的性能仅由 INS决定。虽然 INS误差随时间积累 ,在 GPS数据更新率为 1 s的情况下 ,即使采用中等精度的惯性仪表 ,其相对位置精度为厘米级 (这里相对位置精度指组合系统在 GPS测量时间间隔内位置误差的变化范围)。     

舰载战斗机发动机适配性体系研究

为有效促进舰载战斗机发动机研发,参考国外舰载战斗机发动机研制经验,结合作战使用需求,系统梳理了舰载战斗机发动机适配性体系组成,重点围绕海洋作战适配性、海洋环境适配性、舰载使用适配性阐述了相关能力要求。在此基础上,提出了整机试验、陆基飞-发适配性试验和舰基舰-机-发适配性试验逐层递进的舰载战斗机发动机适配性体系验证考核方式。分析认为未来舰载战斗机发动机适配性工作应加强体系融合联合攻关,注重远海长航舰面维修保障能力设计,加快推进发动机舰载适配性标准规范体系建设。     

High Fidelity Circular Array Simulation

This describes a unique approach to performing high fidelity UHF circular array simulations on a High Performance Computer (HPC). Traditional airborne surveillance simulations have been limited in either spatial or temporal fidelity due to the expensive software and hardware requirements. Recently, advances have been made which provide the rapid deployment of high fidelity scenarios through a modular visual programming environment on an HPC. Based on the visual programming environment Khoros, the Radar Analysis Simulation Tool (RAST-K) is a flexible simulation for quickly prototyping airborne surveillance configurations containing radar system features, point targets, and USGS maps. Additionally, RAST-K has been ported to a Linux cluster to simulate realistic flight scenarios. As these scenarios involve changing characteristics between Coherent Processing Intervals (CPIs), additional interfaces were developed to control platform, target, and environmental attributes, as well as partition the simulations across the resource of processors. This paper will discuss these topics by providing an overview of the RAST-K simulation and its use in the simulation of a circular UHF antenna configuration. After which, the simulation of realistic flight scenarios through the use of the HPC is discussed, along with relevant results.     

Radar Performance Review in Clear and Jamming Environments

The performance of electronically scanned radar systems is evaluated for clear and barrage jamming environments. Radar figures of merit in jamming are derived for search and track modes and are directly related to antenna pattern relative sidelobe levels. A random sidelobe model is analyzed with various numbers of independent jammers. Probability distributions of detection probability are derived to determine detection performance versus average jamming level and number of jammers.     

Improved Antenna Systems for ILS Localizers

For many years Norwegian airports have been equipped with instrument landing system (ILS) localizers of conventional type. Most of the localizers, however, were found not to perform very well on these sites. The course bends were too large and even moderate amounts of snow and ice could cause the localizer to fall out of operation. To overcome these difficulties, the requirements for localizer operation at these airports were analyzed and a new and improved antenna system developed. After a long period of operational testing, during which it was made clear that a substantial improvement in performance had been achieved, the new localizer antenna system is now in operation at 13 Norwegian airports.     

单脉冲双极化天线阵列设计

文章研究了单脉冲双极化天线阵列。天线阵混合馈电微带单元由共面微带线馈电和缝隙耦合微带线馈电两者结合形成,"十"字形微带单脉冲比较器与天线阵同面,具有结构紧凑、加工方便和成本低的优点。经仿真验证,在工作频带内其辐射单元双端口隔离度高于34dB;并且2个极化端口在其对应主平面方向的副瓣电平均低于-20dB。天线可适用于新一代多极化雷达系统。     

基于光强反射和压电振动的混合式结冰探测系统

为解决目前飞机结冰探测存在测点单一,测量不准确、探测位置不匹配的问题,基于光强反射方法研制了光纤结冰传感器,基于压电振动方法研制了平膜结冰传感器,将两者进行组合嵌入至NACA0012翼型,研制了一种适合飞机翼面、多点分布测量的混合式结冰探测系统,并在低温冷库、结冰风洞中进行了测试.研究表明:多点分布测量的混合式结冰探测...     

Maritime border control multisensor system

This focuses on the classification task performed into a multi-sensor system for the coastal surveillance. The system is composed of two platforms of sensors: a land-based platform equipped with a land based radar, an Automatic Identification System (AIS) and an infrared camera (IR); an airborne platform carrying an airborne radar that can operate in a spotlight Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) mode, a video camera, and a second IR camera. The tasks performed by the system are the detection, tracking, identification, and classification of multiple targets, the evaluation of their threat level, and the selection of an intervention on them. The classification algorithm implemented inside the system exploits an analytical approach based on the confusion matrix (CM) of the imaging sensors that belong to the system. Some measures of effectiveness (MoE) of the system are evaluated, considering both cases where an ideal error-free classification process and a non-ideal classification process are performed.     

机载雷达天线伺服控制扰动观测器建模仿真

机载雷达天线伺服控制的精度是雷达系统精确搜索、识别和探测目标的重要指标之一。由于风速和载体运动速度的影响,雷达天线做扫描运动时会承受较大的空气阻力,空气阻力随着时间和扫描运动角度的变化而变化,使雷达天线伺服控制产生附加负载扰动转矩。为了尽可能减小扰动对雷达伺服控制精度的影响,本文提出一种基于扰动观测器的雷达天线伺服控制解决方案。建立雷达天线伺服控制系统的动力学模型、伺服控制模型,将空气阻力产生的附加转矩通过扰动观测器引入被控对象的控制输入端进行补偿,并对不同风速影响进行建模仿真和试验分析。结果表明：基于扰动观测器的雷达天线伺服控制精度有显著提高。     

Development of airborne moving target radar for long range surveillance

The following topics are discussed in the context of the development of an airborne moving target radar for long range surveillance: US Navy long range shipborne radar; Cadillac I airborne early warning (AEW) radar; Cadillac II airborne early warning (AEW) radar; airborne moving target indicating (AMTI) radar; related post-war radar activities; and the invention of the displaced center antenna. Among the topics studied is the use of a monopulse antenna in an MTI radar to remove the degradation of the MTI caused by rapid scanning of the antenna. A method of using a monopulse antenna for motion compensation in airborne MTI is discussed.<>     

Synthetic aperture radar imaging systems

This paper presents profiles of 12 airborne and spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging systems. This information is intended to help potential users evaluate the systems for specific applications. The systems profiled in this article can be used for commercial purposes; some have been built specifically for commercial use while others also serve as science and research tools, Both domestic and foreign systems designed for government agencies and private industry are profiled. Nine of these systems are currently operational; two systems are scheduled to begin service in the near future. A third system is no longer active, but archive data are commercially available     

机载卫星通信天线引导概率分析

针对某机载Ka频段卫星通信天线的使用环境,论述其天线角跟踪系统在捷联航姿设备引导下,天线主波束指向卫星目标位置的概率,分析影响天线角跟踪系统引导概率的主要因素,通过消减系统中大误差源保证了天线引导概率,通过扩展主波束指向空域提高了目标落入概率。计算数据和试验验证表明,给出的分析方法可行,设计策略有效。     

UWB Perimeter Surveillance

This program will develop an automated and unmanned ultra-wide band (UWB) perimeter surveillance sensor designed to provide detection and tracking of personnel and vehicles at the perimeter of critical areas such as military installations and other such facilities. This effort describes the work being done for the protection of high value assets using a compact system which incorporates two technologies to enhance the probability of detection in stressing environments