Research On Miniaturization Of Multi-beam Sounder System

Multi-beam Swath Sounder is a seafloor mapping device with high efficiency,high accuracy and fine resolution. It is very fitted to sweep mapping for wide area,miniaturization of which is currently the main goal of this area.In this paper,on the base of H/HCS-017 Swath Sounder,we researched on the design of Swath Sounder's miniaturization. There are three main parts for this research:putting forward and reasoning the technical parameters of swath sound system;the design of sonar array and its work mode;research on convergence algorithm for the center of energy.During the process of system reasoning,H/HCS-017 Swath Sounder was used for reference. By the procedure of scheme reason of hydro-device,such as performance choosing and parameters rough estimation,device selecting and performance index's checking computation,balance between application index and technical index of system,elementary technical scheme and report text are studied out in final.Finally,we applied the theory and method in the software,designed in VC6.0,which can be used for the further improvement of Swath Sounder aftertime.