Electronically Scanned Arrays MATLAB® Modeling and Simulation

chapter three

Subarrray Beamforming

Arik D. Brown

Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems

Contents

3.1    Introduction

3.2    Subarray Pattern Formulation

3.3    Subarray Beamforming

3.3.1    Subarray Phase Shifter Beamforming

3.3.2    Subarray Time Delay Beamforming

3.3.3    Subarray Digital Beamforming

3.4    Overlapped Subarrays

3.5    MATLAB Program Listings

3.5.1    Compute_1D_AF.m (Function)

3.5.2    Compute_1D_EP.m (Function)

3.5.3    Compute_1D_PAT (Function)

3.5.4    process_vector.m (Function)

3.5.5    Taylor.m (Function)

3.5.6    Subarray1D.m

3.5.7    Subarray1D_DBF.m

3.5.8    Subarray1D_Overlapped.m

References

3.1    Introduction

In Chapters 1 and 2, the basic fundamentals of ESAs are discussed. Important topics germane to ESA design ...