WO2013004924A9 - Dispositif pour détecter des objets tels que des mines - Google Patents
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- G01V3/00—Electric or magnetic prospecting or detecting; Measuring magnetic field characteristics of the earth, e.g. declination, deviation
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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- F41H—ARMOUR; ARMOURED TURRETS; ARMOURED OR ARMED VEHICLES; MEANS OF ATTACK OR DEFENCE, e.g. CAMOUFLAGE, IN GENERAL
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- the present invention relates to a device for detecting objects, such as mines, placed in an area to be explored, said device being placed on a vehicle moving at a speed V and being formed of a panel on which is disposed a set of radiation and a processing circuit to provide indications on the presence of such objects.
- the invention provides a device of the kind mentioned in the preamble that has good performance.
- mines buried in the sand These mines are often designed to be undetectable and thus have a dielectric constant quite close to that of the sand in which they can be buried. It follows that their reflection coefficient is close to that of the sand that surrounds them and therefore, they are difficult to be detected by electromagnetic radiation.
- the present invention proposes various measures for detecting objects which are difficult to detect and which therefore make it possible to detect mines of various sizes: anti-personnel mines or anti-tank mines, these mines being able to be in soils which do not favor this detection.
- the radiation assembly comprises an alignment of antennas arranged transversely to the speed V of displacement of said vehicle.
- the size of the whole of this alignment is dependent on the size of the objects to be detected.
- Another aspect of the invention provides duplexing means for the radiation set to be used both in transmission to illuminate said area to be scanned and in reception to collect reflected waves from that area.
- a first advantage is obtained that the number of antenna is reduced by half and that a greater coherence in the treatment of the transmitted waves and the received waves is obtained thus bringing better performances.
- a second advantage over the known device is that it overcomes the deformations of the panel during the overflight of the areas to be explored.
- said vehicle flies over said area to be explored at an altitude of the order of 10 m, the transverse dimension of the alignment being of the order of 7 m while the illumination frequency s range from 2 to 4 GHz.
- the choice of the emission or illumination frequency is favorable to a better penetration of the wave in sandy soils and thus allows a better detection of the mines which are buried there.
- FIG. 1 shows a device for detecting objects, embarked on an aircraft, notably a helicopter,
- FIG. 2 shows a diagram of a device of the invention
- FIG. 3 explains the scanning of an area to be explored and the formation of a synthetic antenna
- FIGS 4 and 5 are intended to explain the parameters involved in the signal processing.
- the reference 1 indicates a helicopter moving at a speed V in which is embedded the device of the invention.
- the device of the invention By this device, it is proposed to explore the soil of an area 5 to explore, considered in the context of the example described, as a mined area.
- mines 11, 12, 13, ... are scattered and can be buried.
- the great difficulty in detecting these mines arises when they are buried in dry sand.
- mines are designed to be the least detectable possible and are made of a material whose dielectric constant is close to that of the sand that surrounds them.
- These dielectric constants have respective approximate values of 2.7 and 3.1 to 3.4.
- the resulting reflection coefficients are directly related to these constants and are therefore quite close to one another. This means that the treatment must be done judiciously.
- a set of radiation 18 formed of an alignment of antennas 20 disposed on a panel 25 fixed to the tail of the helicopter 1.
- these antennas are of the Vivaldi type.
- This helicopter flies over mined area 5 at a speed V compatible with the detection process to be performed and at a height such that the antennas can be considered in the near area.
- the electric field and the magnetic field are not in a constant ratio and their distribution in space varies with the distance from the antenna.
- an arrow 27 has been shown which illustrates that an illumination wave is directed towards the area and is reflected thereon.
- Figure 2 shows the diagram of the object detection device according to the invention.
- Each antenna 20 is connected to a switching system 28 formed by high frequency switches SP32T type or otherwise found on the market.
- switches 31, 32, 33 and 34 which each manage, on so-called accesses access upstream, thirty-two access so that the number of antennas amounts to 128.
- the downstream accesses of these switches 31 to 34 are connected to upstream accesses of a fifth switch 40.
- All these switches 31-34, 40 are on the dependence of a processing circuit 50 and more precisely of a processing member 52 which manages all the operating processes of the device of the invention.
- duplexing means 55 forming part of the processing circuit 50 and constituted by at least one circulator, which makes it possible to separate the waves to be transmitted and the waves received.
- An access of this circulator is connected to the downstream access of the switch 40.
- the switching system 28 and the circulator 55 are placed on the panel 25, so close to the antennas 20.
- the waves to be transmitted are generated from a voltage frequency controlled oscillator (VCO) bearing the reference 60.
- VCO voltage frequency controlled oscillator
- the output wave of the oscillator 60 passes through an amplifier 62. which gives the necessary power to the wave which will finally be emitted by the antennas 20 and a directional coupler 64 which will take a small portion of the wave at the output of the amplifier 62.
- Another access of the circulator 55 collects the received wave which is first amplified by an amplifier 66 before being applied to a quadrature detector 70 formed of two mixers 71 and 72 with two inputs, one of which receives the output signal. of the amplifier 66 and the other a replica of the signal of the oscillator 60 via the coupler 64. The replicas applied to the inputs of the two mixers are phase shifted by 90 ° respectively. This is achieved by a 3dB coupler 75 properly connected.
- the output signals I and Q of the detector 70 are then processed by the member 52.
- This processing member 52 provides, for example on a screen 80, a map of the explored zone on which the detected mines are highlighted.
- the processing unit 52 draws up this map on the basis of a synthetic aperture of the antenna as shown in FIG. 3.
- This figure illustrates the area to be explored 5 and the trace 85 of the synthetic antenna resulting from the treatment. performed by the processing unit 52.
- This trace 85 moves on the zone at the speed V which is that of the helicopter and T represents the scan rate obtained by the sequential switching of the different antennas 20 by acting on the switches 31 -34 and 40.
- This synthetic antenna gives the necessary resolutions, of the order of 7cm corresponding to mines.
- the altitude is then 10m and the illumination frequency varies between 2 and 3 GHz.
- the frequency of the oscillator can change every 2 or
- the frequency of the oscillator 60 can change according to one of the frequencies f1, f2 or f3 under the control of the processing unit 52.
- the device of the invention operates as follows.
- FIG. 4 shows in a simplified manner the essential elements for the explanation of the signal processing.
- zone 5 is considered which is the zone to be analyzed and the trace 85 of the synthesized antenna.
- the trace of the antenna 85 extends over a width W and over a length L defined from the speed "V" of the aircraft.
- This zone is decomposed into a set of points J arranged in two dimensions x and y respectively: in the direction of the width and in the direction of movement of the aircraft.
- Each of these points reflects the wave emitted from the aircraft and the refers to the radiation assembly 18 comprising the alignment of antennas 20 ...
- We call r the wave reflected at a point j.
- the received signal S (t) can be written:
- u (t) gives the place of the antenna A in the alignment 20 and also as a function of the time t defining the switching thereof.
- This formula (2) represents the inverse operation of the previous one but has undergone an adaptive filtering, that is to say that the contribution of the other reflected waves outside the point considered in "j" has been suppressed.
- - e is the thickness of the sand in which the mine is buried.
- the height H over which the aircraft flies determines the value of the module of r.
- the process will be, in a preferential manner, repeated for three different frequencies sufficiently spaced.
- the images obtained have highlights or extinctions due to the different combinations of the reflection coefficients of the interfaces of the ground and the mine.
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DE112012002840.6T DE112012002840B4 (de) | 2011-07-06 | 2012-07-05 | Vorrichtung zum Detektieren von Objekten, wie etwa Minen |
KR1020147001285A KR102026909B1 (ko) | 2011-07-06 | 2012-07-05 | 지뢰와 같은 물체를 검출하는 장치 |
US14/130,644 US10031252B2 (en) | 2011-07-06 | 2012-07-05 | Device for detecting objects such as mines |
CA2840848A CA2840848C (fr) | 2011-07-06 | 2012-07-05 | Dispositif pour detecter des objets tels que des mines |
TNP2013000548A TN2013000548A1 (en) | 2011-07-06 | 2013-12-30 | Device for detecting objects such as mines |
MA36732A MA35412B1 (fr) | 2011-07-06 | 2014-02-05 | Dispositif pour detecteur des objets tels que des mines |
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