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Arthur B. Baggeroer.
Kitchens, Jonathan Paul
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2009-01-27T20:54:05Z
2009-01-27T20:54:05Z
2008
2008
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/44216
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2008.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-72).
Classical hydrophones measure pressure only, but acoustic vector-sensors also measure particle velocity. Velocity measurements can increase array gain and resolve ambiguities, but make vector-sensor arrays more difficult to analyze. This thesis derives a new set of useful performance measures for acoustic vector-sensor arrays. It characterizes the vector-sensor array beampattern with and without modeling errors, or "mism;atch." It also develops a hybrid Cramer-Rao bound for direction-of-arrival estimation under mismatch. The results are analyzed, compared to Monte-Carlo simulations, and explored for insight.
by Jonathan Paul Kitchens.
S.M.
72 p.
eng
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