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Design and Implementation of a Composite Hydrophone of Sound Pressure and Sound Pressure Gradient
Guojun Zhang1,2, Lansheng Zhang3, Songxiang Ji2
1Key Laboratory of National Defense Science and Technology for Underwater Acoustic Technology, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China.
Abstract:
The bionic cilium MEMS vector hydrophone has the characteristics of low power consumption, small volume, and good low-frequency response. Nevertheless, there exists the problem of left-right ambiguity in the azimuth estimation of a single hydrophone. In order to solve the engineering application problem, a sound-pressure sound-pressure-gradient hydrophone is designed in this paper. The new composite hydrophone consists of two channels. The bionic cilium microstructure is optimized and used as the vector channel, to collect the sound pressure gradient information, and a scalar channel, based on a piezoelectric ceramic tube, is added, to receive the sound pressure information. The theoretical analysis, simulation analysis, and test analysis of the composite hydrophone are carried out, respectively. The test results show that the sensitivities of the hydrophone can reach up to -188 dB (vector channel) and -204 dB (scalar channel). The problem of left-right ambiguity is solved by combining the sound pressure and sound pressure gradient in different ways. This is of great significance in the engineering application of single cilium MEMS hydrophone orientation.
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