Investigation of Randomly Populated Cylindrical, Spherical, and Cubical Arrays for Application in Space, Aerial, and Underwater Collaborative Beamforming
This work investigates and analyzes collaborative beamforming for a Swarm-enabled distributed sensing project. It investigates the use of a three-dimensional, randomly populated, and uniformly-distributed array in three configurations: spherical, cylindrical, and cubical. These topologies uniquely a...
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| author | Kristopher R. Buchanan Roanne Manzano-Roth Annie Lin Gabriella Loaiza Meghan Sills Jin Li Sara R. Wheeland Sounak Chakrabarti Angelica R. Rodriguez Gregory H. Huff Mark Patefield Anthony Jones |
| author_facet | Kristopher R. Buchanan Roanne Manzano-Roth Annie Lin Gabriella Loaiza Meghan Sills Jin Li Sara R. Wheeland Sounak Chakrabarti Angelica R. Rodriguez Gregory H. Huff Mark Patefield Anthony Jones |
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| description | This work investigates and analyzes collaborative beamforming for a Swarm-enabled distributed sensing project. It investigates the use of a three-dimensional, randomly populated, and uniformly-distributed array in three configurations: spherical, cylindrical, and cubical. These topologies uniquely act like a practical bound to contain the elements in swarm-type applications. In addition, these topologies provide mathematical simplicity toward understanding the fundamental research problem of both surface and underwater swarm-based UUV sensor networks, and their constraints to implementing a physical system in a volumetric setting. Therefore, statistical, ensemble, mean-valued average beampatterns scanned at the meridian elevation plane are analyzed in closed form using a large population of one million elements densely populated amongst geometrical bounds. This large density profile applies the law of large numbers in which numerical beampatterns converge to their expected (mean) patterns. Faithful agreement of the solution is shown to validate the distributed array pattern behavior. Finally, additional simulations are provided in this work using a cylindrical manifold that comprises ten, fifty, and one hundred isotropic radiators to determine the feasibility of a small element population. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-677bc9addaa94b0195f8d157d714cb2d2025-01-30T00:03:09ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362024-01-011217194417197110.1109/ACCESS.2024.348698710736610Investigation of Randomly Populated Cylindrical, Spherical, and Cubical Arrays for Application in Space, Aerial, and Underwater Collaborative BeamformingKristopher R. Buchanan0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7736-6639Roanne Manzano-Roth1Annie Lin2Gabriella Loaiza3Meghan Sills4Jin Li5Sara R. Wheeland6Sounak Chakrabarti7https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1025-9713Angelica R. Rodriguez8https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5022-772XGregory H. Huff9Mark Patefield10Anthony Jones11Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific (NIWC Pacific), San Diego, CA, USANaval Information Warfare Center Pacific (NIWC Pacific), San Diego, CA, USANaval Information Warfare Center Pacific (NIWC Pacific), San Diego, CA, USANaval Information Warfare Center Pacific (NIWC Pacific), San Diego, CA, USANaval Information Warfare Center Pacific (NIWC Pacific), San Diego, CA, USANaval Information Warfare Center Pacific (NIWC Pacific), San Diego, CA, USANaval Information Warfare Center Pacific (NIWC Pacific), San Diego, CA, USADepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USAJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USADepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USANaval Information Warfare Center Pacific (NIWC Pacific), San Diego, CA, USANaval Information Warfare Center Pacific (NIWC Pacific), San Diego, CA, USAThis work investigates and analyzes collaborative beamforming for a Swarm-enabled distributed sensing project. It investigates the use of a three-dimensional, randomly populated, and uniformly-distributed array in three configurations: spherical, cylindrical, and cubical. These topologies uniquely act like a practical bound to contain the elements in swarm-type applications. In addition, these topologies provide mathematical simplicity toward understanding the fundamental research problem of both surface and underwater swarm-based UUV sensor networks, and their constraints to implementing a physical system in a volumetric setting. Therefore, statistical, ensemble, mean-valued average beampatterns scanned at the meridian elevation plane are analyzed in closed form using a large population of one million elements densely populated amongst geometrical bounds. This large density profile applies the law of large numbers in which numerical beampatterns converge to their expected (mean) patterns. Faithful agreement of the solution is shown to validate the distributed array pattern behavior. Finally, additional simulations are provided in this work using a cylindrical manifold that comprises ten, fifty, and one hundred isotropic radiators to determine the feasibility of a small element population.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10736610/Ad hoc wireless networkantenna arrayaperiodic arraycollaborative beamformingcooperative beamformingdistributed beamforming |
| spellingShingle | Kristopher R. Buchanan Roanne Manzano-Roth Annie Lin Gabriella Loaiza Meghan Sills Jin Li Sara R. Wheeland Sounak Chakrabarti Angelica R. Rodriguez Gregory H. Huff Mark Patefield Anthony Jones Investigation of Randomly Populated Cylindrical, Spherical, and Cubical Arrays for Application in Space, Aerial, and Underwater Collaborative Beamforming IEEE Access Ad hoc wireless network antenna array aperiodic array collaborative beamforming cooperative beamforming distributed beamforming |
| title | Investigation of Randomly Populated Cylindrical, Spherical, and Cubical Arrays for Application in Space, Aerial, and Underwater Collaborative Beamforming |
| title_full | Investigation of Randomly Populated Cylindrical, Spherical, and Cubical Arrays for Application in Space, Aerial, and Underwater Collaborative Beamforming |
| title_fullStr | Investigation of Randomly Populated Cylindrical, Spherical, and Cubical Arrays for Application in Space, Aerial, and Underwater Collaborative Beamforming |
| title_full_unstemmed | Investigation of Randomly Populated Cylindrical, Spherical, and Cubical Arrays for Application in Space, Aerial, and Underwater Collaborative Beamforming |
| title_short | Investigation of Randomly Populated Cylindrical, Spherical, and Cubical Arrays for Application in Space, Aerial, and Underwater Collaborative Beamforming |
| title_sort | investigation of randomly populated cylindrical spherical and cubical arrays for application in space aerial and underwater collaborative beamforming |
| topic | Ad hoc wireless network antenna array aperiodic array collaborative beamforming cooperative beamforming distributed beamforming |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10736610/ |
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