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Quality Evaluation of Novel DTD Algorithm Based on Audio Watermarking
PublikacjaEcho cancellers typically employ a doubletalk detection (DTD) algorithm in order to keep the adaptive filter from diverging in the presence of near-end speech signal or other disruptive sounds in the microphone signal. A novel doubletalk detection algorithm based on techniques similar to those used for audio signal watermarking was introduced by the authors. The application of the described DTD algorithm within acoustic echo cancellation...
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Audio codec employing frequency-derived tonality measure
PublikacjaA transform codec employing efficient algorithm for detection of spectral tonal components is presented. The tonality measure used in MPEG psychoacoustic model is replaced with the method providing adequate tonality estimates even if the tonal components are deeply frequency modulated. The reliability of hearing threshold estimated using psychoacoustic model with standardized tonality measure and the proposed one is investigated...
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Position Estimation in Corridors Along the Coupled Mode of Radiating Cables
PublikacjaRadiating cables are mostly used to provide radio communication in tunnels or corridors, but they can also be used to estimate the position of a mobile terminal along the cable. In this paper, a measuring receiver’s position was estimated by measuring the difference in the direct signal’s reception time, which was generated by a transmitter connected to one end of the radiating cable, and the delayed signal retransmitted from another...
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Problems with microprocessor voltage-to-frequency and frequency-to-voltage converters implementation
PublikacjaThe article presents the problems of digital voltage-to-frequency and frequency-to-voltage processing. Transducer systems implemented in microprocessor technology are presented, the timing of signals and functioning algorithms are discussed. An analysis of processing errors has been performed and the results of experimental studies of realized systems are presented.
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Automatic localization and continous tracking of mobile sound source using passive acoustic radar
PublikacjaA concept, practical realization and applications of the passive acoustic radar for localization and continuous tracking of fixed and mobile sound sources such as: cars, trucks, aircrafts and sources of shooting, explosions were presented in the paper. The device consists of the new kind of multi-channel miniature three dimensional sound intensity sensors invented by the Microflown company and a group of digital signal processing...
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Multifrequency self-optimizing narrowband interference canceller
PublikacjaThe problem of cancellation of a nonstationary sinusoidal interference, acting at the output of a linear stable plant, is considered. It is assumed that disturbance is a multifrequency narrowband signal, and that system output is contaminated with wideband noise. It is not assumed that the reference signal is available. Two disturbance cancelling schemes are proposed, one for disturbances with unrelated frequency components, and...
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A novel method of local chirp-rate estimation of LFM chirp signals in the time-frequency domain
PublikacjaIn the paper, novel dynamic representations of a complex signal in the time-frequency domain are introduced. The proposed approach is based on using the gradient of the short-time Fourier transform complex phase. A channelized instantaneous complex frequency (CICF) and a complex local group delay (CLGD) are included in the presented signal representations. An application of the newly-introduced distributions is demonstrated by...
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Przegląd metod szybkiego prototypowania algorytmów uczenia maszynowego w FPGA
PublikacjaW artykule opisano możliwe do wykorzystania otwarte narzędzia wspomagające szybkie prototypowanie algorytmów uczenia maszynowego (ML) i sztucznej inteligencji (AI) przy użyciu współczesnych platform FPGA. Przedstawiono przykład szybkiej ścieżki przy realizacji toru wideo wraz z implementacją przykładowego algorytmu prze-twarzania w trybie na żywo.
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POPRAWA OBIEKTYWNYCH WSKAŹNIKÓW JAKOŚCI MOWY W WARUNKACH HAŁASU
PublikacjaCelem pracy jest modyfikacja sygnału mowy, aby uzyskać zwiększenie poprawy obiektywnych wskaźników jakości mowy po zmiksowaniu sygnału użytecznego z szumem bądź z sygnałem zakłócającym. Wykonane modyfikacje sygnału bazują na cechach mowy lombardzkiej, a w szczególności na efekcie podniesienia częstotliwości podstawowej F0. Sesja nagraniowa obejmowała zestawy słów i zdań w języku polskim, nagrane w warunkach ciszy, jak również w...
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Analysis of Lombard speech using parameterization and the objective quality indicators in noise conditions
PublikacjaThe aim of the work is to analyze Lombard speech effect in recordings and then modify the speech signal in order to obtain an increase in the improvement of objective speech quality indicators after mixing the useful signal with noise or with an interfering signal. The modifications made to the signal are based on the characteristics of the Lombard speech, and in particular on the effect of increasing the fundamental frequency...
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Estimation of Coherence Bandwidth for Underwater Acoustic Communication Channel
PublikacjaA shallow underwater acoustic communication channel is characterized by strong multipath propagation. The signal reaching the receiver consists of a direct waveform and a number of its delayed and suppressed replica. A significant time dispersion of the transmitted signal and selective fading of its spectrum are observed. Coherence bandwidth defines maximal bandwidth, wherein the channel amplitude characteristic remains constant...
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Properties and interpretation of Instantaneous Complex Frequency
PublikacjaThe concept of Instantaneous Complex Frequency (ICF) was first defined by Lindon and developed mainly in works of two authors S. Hahn and M. Rojewski. Although it is not widely used in signal analysis, ICF was already used as a complex signal representation in the verification of handwritten signatures, pitch estimation, symbol timing recovery in PSK receiver and in detection of anomalies in data transmission. It should be noted,...
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Detection of impulsive disturbances in archive audio signals
PublikacjaIn this paper the problem of detection of impulsive disturbances in archive audio signals is considered. It is shown that semi-causal/noncausal solutions based on joint evaluation of signal prediction errors and leave-one-out signal interpolation errors, allow one to noticeably improve detection results compared to the prediction-only based solutions. The proposed approaches are evaluated on a set of clean audio signals contaminated...
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Analiza stanu nawierzchni i klas pojazdów na podstawie parametrów ekstrahowanych z sygnału fonicznego
PublikacjaCelem badań jest poszukiwanie parametrów wektora cech ekstrahowanego z sygnału fonicznego w kontekście automatycznego rozpoznawania stanu nawierzchni jezdni oraz typu pojazdów. W pierwszej kolejności przedstawiono wpływ warunków pogodowych na charakterystykę widmową sygnału fonicznego rejestrowanego przy przejeżdżających pojazdach. Następnie, dokonano parametryzacji sygnału fonicznego oraz przeprowadzano analizę korelacyjną w celu...
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Human voice modification using instantaneous complex frequency
PublikacjaThe paper presents the possibilities of changing human voice by modifying instantaneous complex frequency (ICF) of the speech signal. The proposed method provides a flexible way of altering voice without the necessity of finding fundamental frequency and formants' positions or detecting voiced and unvoiced fragments of speech. The algorithm is simple and fast. Apart from ICF it uses signal factorization into two factors: one fully...
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Multichannel Human Body Communication
PublikacjaHuman Body Communication is an attractive alternative for traditional wireless communication (Bluetooth, ZigBee) in case of Body Sensor Networks. Low power, high data rates and data security makes it ideal solution for medical applications. In this paper, signal attenuation for different frequencies, using FR4 electrodes, has been investigated. Performance of single and multichannel transmission with frequency modulation of analog...
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A new approach to active noise and vibration control - [Part II: unknown frequency case]
PublikacjaThis paper presents a new approach to rejection of complex-valued sinusoidal disturbances acting at the output of a discrete-time stable linear plant with unknown and possibly timevarying dynamics. It is assumed that both the instantaneous frequency of the sinusoidal disturbance and its amplitude may be slowly varying with time and that the output signal is contaminated with wideband measurement noise. It is not assumed that a...
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The role of hydrodynamic cavitation in tuning physicochemical properties of food items: A comprehensive review
PublikacjaBackground: Today, food processing industries are looking for alternative technologies with an eco-friendly character for the processing of food, beverages and agricultural crops. Ideally, such technologies may preserve the original properties of the food products while reaching their primary target of application. Scope and approach: At this point, hydrodynamic cavitation (HC) is recognized as one of the potential technologies...
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Optical profilometer
PublikacjaThe profilometry plays a huge role in the most fields of science and technology. It allows to measure the profile of the surface with high-resolution. This technique is used in the fields like optic, electronic, medicine, automotive, and much more. The aim of the current work was to design and build optical profilometer based on the interference phenomena. The developed device has been working with He-Ne laser (632.8 nm). The optical...
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Reception of Terrestrial DAB+ and FM Radio with a Mobile Device: A Subjective Quality Evaluation
PublikacjaNowadays, terrestrial broadcasting enables to receive content anytime and everywhere. People can obtain information both with a portable or desktop receiver, which include pocket-sized devices as well as high-end Hi-Fi equipment, not to mention car audio systems. Numerous manufacturers include FM-compatible chipsets in a variety of user equipment (UE), including mobile phones. However, digital radio signal processing modules, such...
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Experimental and numerical identification of corrosion degradation of ageing structural components
PublikacjaThe study presents experimental and numerical identification of corrosion degradation of thin-walled structural components employing guided wave propagation. The steel structural components are subjected to through-thickness varying corrosion degradation levels. The developed approach using the non-destructive guided wave-propagation quantifies the equivalent average corrosion degradation level by exploring a limited number of...
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Quality Evaluation of Speech Transmission via Two-way BPL-PLC Voice Communication System in an Underground Mine
PublikacjaIn order to design a stable and reliable voice communication system, it is essential to know how many resources are necessary for conveying quality content. These parameters may include objective quality of service (QoS) metrics, such as: available bandwidth, bit error rate (BER), delay, latency as well as subjective quality of experience (QoE) related to user expectations. QoE is expressed as clarity of speech and the ability...
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On adaptive covariance and spectrum estimation of locally stationary multivariate processes
PublikacjaWhen estimating the correlation/spectral structure of a locally stationary process, one has to make two important decisions. First, one should choose the so-called estimation bandwidth, inversely proportional to the effective width of the local analysis window, in the way that complies with the degree of signal nonstationarity. Too small bandwidth may result in an excessive estimation bias, while too large bandwidth may cause excessive...
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Methodology and technology for the polymodal allophonic speech transcription
PublikacjaA method for automatic audiovisual transcription of speech employing: acoustic and visual speech representations is developed. It adopts a combining of audio and visual modalities, which provide a synergy effect in terms of speech recognition accuracy. To establish a robust solution, basic research concerning the relation between the allophonic variation of speech, i.e. the changes in the articulatory setting of speech organs for...
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Methodology and technology for the polymodal allophonic speech transcription
PublikacjaA method for automatic audiovisual transcription of speech employing: acoustic, electromagnetical articulography and visual speech representations is developed. It adopts a combining of audio and visual modalities, which provide a synergy effect in terms of speech recognition accuracy. To establish a robust solution, basic research concerning the relation between the allophonic variation of speech, i.e., the changes in the articulatory...
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Application of IR UWB Spectrum Shaping to IEEE 802.15.4a Standard
PublikacjaCoexistence of existing narrowband systems and new ultra wideband devices in the same frequency range requires using some interference mitigation techniques, for example based on spectrum shaping. This paper presents efficiency of impulse radio spectrum shaping methods, applied to IEEE 802.15.4a UWB alternate physical layer signals. Basic parameters of 802.15.4a signal structure and outline of proposed spectrum shaping methods...
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Using phase of short-term Fourier transform for evaluation of spectrogram performance
PublikacjaThe concept of spectrogram performance evaluation which exploits information on phase of short-term Fourier transform (STFT) is presented. A spectrograph which is time-frequency analyzing tool, is compared to a filter bank that demultiplexes a signal. Local group delay (LGD) and channelized instantaneous frequency (CIF) is obtained for each filtered component signal. In presented solution the performance is evaluated using so-called...
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Design, Realization and Measurements of Enhanced Performance 2.4 GHz ESPAR Antenna for Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks
PublikacjaThis paper presents the design, realization and measurements of an Electronically Steerable Parasitic Array Radiator (ESPAR) antenna with enhanced performance of estimating the incoming signal direction. Designed antenna is dedicated for 2.4 GHz ISM applications with emphasis on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). Proposed antenna provides different radiation patterns by proper configuration of the parasitic elements. Thus, several...
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An Instantaneous Engine Speed Estimation Method Using Multiple Matching Synchrosqueezing Transform
PublikacjaInstantaneous rotational speed measurement of the engine is crucial in routine inspection and maintenance of an automobile engine. Since the contact measurement of rotational speed is not always available, the vibration measurement has been used for noncontact rotational speed estimation methods. Unfortunately, the accuracy of the noncontact estimation methods by analyzing engine vibration frequency is not satisfactory due to the...
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Wykorzystanie metody Neldera-Meada do identyfikacji wartości parametrów niequasi-statycznego modelu małosygnałowego tranzystora MOS
PublikacjaW artykule zaprezentowano wyniki zastosowania metody sympleksu Neldera-Meada do ekstrakcji wartości parametrów niequasi-stycznego modelu małosygnałowego tranzystora MOS. Przedstawiono równoważny elektryczny schemat zastępczy i model matematyczny nowego modelu małosygnałowego MOSFETa dla częstotliwości mikrofalowych. Opisano zaimplementowany algorytm i otrzymane rezultaty badań.
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The Influence of the Radio Channel on Precision of Position Estimation of the User Terminal Using the NB-IoT Radio Interface
PublikacjaIn the article the method of user terminal position estimation using the broadcast signals transmitted in the downlink of the NB-IoT interface was presented, including the analysis of the radio channel influence on precision of position estimation as well as the eNodeB (Evolved Node B) synchronization. The practical ability to estimate the position in the test area has been verified in the laboratory conditions, using the reference...
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Sparse vector autoregressive modeling of audio signals and its application to the elimination of impulsive disturbances
PublikacjaArchive audio files are often corrupted by impulsive disturbances, such as clicks, pops and record scratches. This paper presents a new method for elimination of impulsive disturbances from stereo audio signals. The proposed approach is based on a sparse vector autoregressive signal model, made up of two components: one taking care of short-term signal correlations, and the other one taking care of long-term correlations. The method...
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On the instantaneous frequency smoothing for signals with quasi-linear frequency changes
PublikacjaThe problem of estimation of the slowly-varying instantaneous frequency of a nonstationary complex sinusoidal signal buried in noise is considered. This problem is usually solved using frequency tracking algorithms. It is shown that the accuracy of frequency estimates can be considerably increased if the results yielded by the frequency tracker are further processed using the appropriately designed filters. The resulting frequency...
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Selected properties and parameters of radio channel impulse response estimation in ISM 2.4 GHz band
PublikacjaThe article presents experimental research indicating that the impulse response of the communication channel, determined in practice, are not of an universal character, but only represent its approximate value for the frequency on which this measurement was made. Phases for each of the replicas of the measurement signal were determined during the analysis of the received signals in the baseband. Phase changes of individual replicas...
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Residence time distribution in rapid multiphase reactors
PublikacjaResidence time distribution (RTD) provides information about average hydraulic residence time and the distribution of material in the reactor. A method for determining RTD for reactors with very short hydraulic residence times is deconvolution based on extraction of real RTD by the analysis of a non-ideal input signal. The mean residence time and dispersion were determined for the spinning fluids reactor (SFR). For the first time...
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A Robust Random Forest Model for Classifying the Severity of Partial Discharges in Dielectrics
PublikacjaPartial Discharges (PDs) are a common source of degradation in electrical assets. It is essential that the extent of the deterioration level of insulating medium is correctly identified, to optimize maintenance schedules and prevent abrupt power outages. Temporal PD signals received from damaged insulation, collected through the IEC-60270 method is the gold standard for PD detection. Temporal signals may be transformed to the frequency...
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Impact of optimization of ALS point cloud on classification
PublikacjaAirborne laser scanning (ALS) is one of the LIDAR technologies (Light Detection and Ranging). It provides information about the terrain in form of a point cloud. During measurement is acquired: spatial data (object’s coordinates X, Y, Z) and collateral data such as intensity of reflected signal. The obtained point cloud is typically applied for generating a digital terrain model (DTM) and a digital surface model (DSM). For DTM...
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Noise in biological Raman spectroscopy
PublikacjaRaman spectroscopy is a widely used method to investigate chemical molecules by analyzing their vibrational transitions. It utilizes inelastic scattering of the laser light irradiating the investigated object. The scattered light requires appropriate filtering to reduce dominant laser light and expose much weaker components having shifted wavelengths of a characteristic spectral pattern. These components are measured by dispersing...
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High frequency impulse ground penetrating radar application in assessment of interlayer connections
PublikacjaGround Penetrating Radar (GPR) technique is commonly used in the nondestructive evaluation of pavement structures. In particular, this method is used to estimate thicknesses of pavement layers as well as it can be utilized in advanced studies of pavement structures. The device presented in this paper comprise the high frequency impulse antennas that allow for investigating the interlayer zones in terms of their electromagnetic...
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Graph Representation Integrating Signals for Emotion Recognition and Analysis
PublikacjaData reusability is an important feature of current research, just in every field of science. Modern research in Affective Computing, often rely on datasets containing experiments-originated data such as biosignals, video clips, or images. Moreover, conducting experiments with a vast number of participants to build datasets for Affective Computing research is time-consuming and expensive. Therefore, it is extremely important to...
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Feasibility study of a Raman spectroscopic route to drug detection
PublikacjaWe present an surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) approach for detection of drugs of abuse in whole human blood. We utilize a near infrared laser with 830 nm excitation wavelength in order to reduce the influence of fluorescence on the spectra of blood. However, regular plasmon resonance peak of plasmonic nanoparticles, such as silver or gold fall in a much lower wavelength regime about 400 nm. Therefore, we have shifted...
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Radioisotope measurement of selected parameters of liquid-gas flow using single detector system
PublikacjaTo determine the parameters of two-phase flows using radioisotopes, usually two detectors are used. Knowing the distance between them, the velocity of the dispersed phase is calculated based on time delay estimation. Such a measurement system requires the use of two gamma-ray sealed sources. But in some situations it is also possible to determine velocity of dispersed phase using only one scintillation probe and one gamma-ray source....
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An Attempt to Create Speech Synthesis Model That Retains Lombard Effect Characteristics
PublikacjaThe speech with the Lombard effect has been extensively studied in the context of speech recognition or speech enhancement. However, few studies have investigated the Lombard effect in the context of speech synthesis. The aim of this paper is to create a mathematical model that allows for retaining the Lombard effect. These models could be used as a basis of a formant speech synthesizer. The proposed models are based on dividing...
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New First - Path Detector for LTE Positioning Reference Signals
PublikacjaIn today's world, where positioning applications reached a huge popularity and became virtually ubiquitous, there is a strong need for determining a device location as accurately as possible. A particularly important role in positioning play cellular networks, such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). In the LTE Observed Time Difference of Arrival (OTDOA) positioning method, precision of device location estimation depends on accuracy...
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Wear of Electroplated Tools Used for Flat Grinding of Ceramics
PublikacjaTwo methods for the abrasive properties evaluation, based on the image processing, are presented in the paper. Image processing analysis was developed to evaluate quickly the abrasive properties as the tool wears down. The coefficient based on the image brightness was calculated and additional analysis was based on the number of grains located on the active surface of the tool before and after machining. The active surfaces of...
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Parallel Background Subtraction in Video Streams Using OpenCL on GPU Platforms
PublikacjaImplementation of the background subtraction algorithm using OpenCL platform is presented. The algorithm processes live stream of video frames from the surveillance camera in on-line mode. Processing is performed using a host machine and a parallel computing device. The work focuses on optimizing an OpenCL algorithm implementation for GPU devices by taking into account specific features of the GPU architecture, such as memory access,...
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Nanofiltration in the food industry
PublikacjaNanofiltration (NF), as a pressure-driven membrane process, has been widely demonstrated to have great potential for food processing applications. There are several advantages of this membrane process over traditional methods that makes NF suitable for food processing, such as the low thermal damage to the product, higher aroma retention, lower energy consumption, and low maintenance costs. In this chapter, according to the recent...
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Easy recipes for cooperative smoothing
PublikacjaIn this paper we suggest how several competing signal smoothers, differing in design parameters, or even in design principles, can be combined together to yield a better and more reliable smoothing algorithm. The proposed heuristic, but statistically well motivated, fusion mechanism allows one to combine practically all kinds of smoothers, from simple local averaging or order statistic filters, to parametric smoothers designed...
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Azimuth estimator for a rotating array radar with wide beam
PublikacjaThe problem of estimating azimuth in rotating array radar with a beam, wide in the azimuth plane, is considered. Under such setup the echo signal usually has a very low signal to noise ratio, but the number of observations is large, because of long dwell times. The proposed solution is based on the maximum likelihood approach, but it employs simplifications which facilitate its implementation in real time systems. Results, obtained...
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Realizacja mobilnego urządzenia do wytwarzania kurtyny elektromagnetycznej do zastosowań specjalnych
PublikacjaIn the article the assumptions, design and realisation of the technological demonstrator of a mobile device for generating an electromagnetic curtain (AEGIS) were presented, both in the area of hardware and software. The device is designed to block radio communication by which it is possible to detonate the Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Devices (RCIEDs). The preliminary laboratory tests of the demonstrator for generating...