Qinetiq Limited

Stephen Arthur Pointer

Jonathan James Davies

Shaun Michael Dunn

Samuel William Downer

Mark Arwyn Bennett

Alan Thomas Parsons

Peter James Rapson

Colin Andrew Mead

Measuring apparatus for providing information on the relative location of a target site which is radiating a target signal that includes a predetermined pulse signal, comprises receiver means for providing a pair of temporally spaced output pulses in response to a single received said predetermined pulse signal and cross-correlation means coupled to said receiver means for cross-correlating said pair of output pulses or signals derived therefrom.

Underwater location apparatus

This invention relates to a pumping system. The design of the system is such that bi-directional operation can be achieved using a significantly smaller and hence lighter unit than those currently available. It uses the direction of rotation of the drive shaft to control the opening and closure of the by-pass means for controllably returning the fluid to the first reservoir.

Pumping system with clutch and associated by-pass

For digital underwater transmission an information sequence () of digital bits is partitioned into a succession of symbols each comprising n bits where n is equal to or greater than one (2potential symbols), each symbol () is replaced () a corresponding base code sequence of length m bits and the result () is passed to an acoustic transducer after bi-phase modulation () on a carrier. The code has good correlation properties, e.g. a pseudo-random maixmal length sequence, a Gold code or a Kasami code, and the value of m/n is at least (32). Preferably the base sequence is cyclically extended at one or both ends prior to modulation, and Solomon Reed redundancy coding () is initially applied to the information sequence. The output () of modulator () may be prefaced () by a pair of chirp waveforms (). Provision is made for Doppler and multi-path correction.

Communication system for underwater use

In a digital acoustic transmission device in which a digital sequence () is electrically modulated () on a carrier cos &#x3c9;t, the modulated carrier () is prefaced with at least two pulse signals () of known timing relative to each other and to the modulated digital sequence to provide an output signal () for acoustic transmission. The pulse signals indicate to receiver the start of a transmission, and contain Doppler information for resampling the modulated signal prior to demodulation. Where the information sequence is in encoded blocks of equal length, the relationship between successive blocks can be used to update the Doppler information for use with the following block. Channel information can also be derived from the pulse signals and/or blocks for raking the next part of the incoming signal. Preferably the pulse signals have good correlation characteristics. In the embodiments the pulse signals are an immediately successive identical pair of linearly rising chirps.

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Stephen Arthur Pointer