Abstract
A spiral wave navigation beacon is described that creates an outgoing signal with a wavefront that is a diverging spiral cylindrical wave followed by a reference signal of circular wavefront as previously described by Dzikowicz and Hefner in JASA. In this demonstration, the signals are created by driving a cylindrical transducer’s orthogonal sine and cosine modes of vibration in phase quadrature as previously described by Brown and Bachand in JASA. The two dipolar radiation patterns combine to create a helically diverging spiral wavefront that may be used for navigation and communication. The electronic system design and transducer characterization will be presented and are the subject a senior-capstone design project in the College of Engineering at UMass Dartmouth for four of the authors (I.D.B., C.G., K.C., Z.F.). [The project provided a multidisciplinary opportunity in acoustical engineering, instrumentation, calibration, and signal processing and was sponsored by industry (BTech).]
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