Abstract: A combustion module for a turbomachine is provided and includes an annular casing extending about a longitudinal axis; an annular combustion chamber located inside the casing and comprising coaxial annular walls connected to one another by an annular chamber dome, the walls and the chamber dome consisting of at least two annular envelopes, which are made of a ceramic-matrix composite material. The module can include anti-disengagement devices to keep the annular edges pressing axially against one another and fuel injectors borne by the casing and engaged in apertures of one of the envelopes.

Abstract: Colorant Compositions free of cochineal red are described. The colorant compositions mimic the color of cochineal red and they are stable in the pressure of active materials typically found in cosmetic compositions.

Abstract: A method for a radar system having a plurality of antennas is provided. The method includes processing a plurality of radar signals for determining a distance between the radar system and at least one target and a velocity of the at least one target, thereby forming a plurality of processed radar signals. Each radar signal of the plurality of radar signals is received by an associated antenna of the plurality of antennas. The plurality of processed radar signals are digitally beamformed for at least one beam direction, thereby forming a plurality of beamformed radar signals. The plurality of beamformed radar signals are summed from the plurality of antennas per beam direction.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuitries are disclosed for compressing radar data.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a concept for detecting radar targets. A plurality of first receive signals is received from first antennas of an antenna array. A first combined range-Doppler map is determined by combining range-Doppler maps of each of the first antennas. First confirmable range-Doppler cells of the first combined range-Doppler map are determined which match a predetermined confirmation criterion. A plurality of second receive signals is received from second antennas of the antenna array. A second combined range-Doppler map is determined by combining range-Doppler maps of each of the second antennas. Second confirmable range-Doppler cells of the second combined range-Doppler map are determined which match the predetermined confirmation criterion. The first and second confirmable range-Doppler cells are combined to obtain a set of confirmable range-Doppler cells.

Abstract: A combustion module for a turbomachine is provided and includes an annular casing extending about a longitudinal axis; an annular combustion chamber located inside the casing and comprising coaxial annular walls connected to one another by an annular chamber dome, the walls and the chamber dome consisting of at least two annular envelopes, which are made of a ceramic-matrix composite material. The module can include anti-disengagement devices to keep the annular edges pressing axially against one another and fuel injectors borne by the casing and engaged in apertures of one of the envelopes.

Abstract: Techniques are provided for sensing, detecting, characterizing, and imaging dielectric objects using microwave signals. An example of a method for obtaining an image with a dielectric tomography system includes positioning an object in at least a portion of an electromagnetic field of a characterized sensor including at least one transmit antenna configured to transmit a radio frequency signal within 10 MHz and 10 GHz, positioning one or more receive antennas configured to receive one or more radio frequency signals scattered by the object, determining permittivity information associated with the object based at least in part on phase and magnitude measurements of the one or more radio frequency signals received by the one or more receive antennas, and computing one or more images based on the permittivity information and calibration information associated with the characterized sensor.

Abstract: Techniques are provided for sensing, detecting, characterizing, and imaging dielectric objects using microwave signals. An example of a method for obtaining an image with a dielectric tomography system includes positioning an object in at least a portion of an electromagnetic field of a characterized sensor including at least one transmit antenna configured to transmit a radio frequency signal within 10 MHz and 300 GHz, positioning one or more receive antennas configured to receive one or more radio frequency signals scattered by the object, determining permittivity information associated with the object based at least in part on phase and magnitude measurements of the one or more radio frequency signals received by the one or more receive antennas, and computing one or more images based on the permittivity information and calibration information associated with the characterized sensor.

Abstract: A method for calibrating a transmitter of a plurality of transmitters of a radar system is provided. The method includes setting the radar transmitter to be calibrated to a first Doppler Division Multiplexing (DDM) pattern and associating each of the other transmitters in the plurality with a respective second DDM pattern. A target is detected by performing radar detection with the plurality of transmitters, wherein the transmitter is operated with the first DDM pattern and each of the other transmitters is operated with its associated second DDM pattern, extracting Doppler Fourier transform coefficients for a Doppler spectrum peak corresponding to the target and for spurs associated with the peak, applying an inverse discrete Fourier transform to the extracted Doppler Fourier transform coefficients, detecting a phase error of the transmitter using a result of the inverse discrete Fourier transform and calibrating the transmitter according to the detected phase error.

Abstract: A method of handling radar signals of a radar system having a plurality of antennas is provided. The method may include generating a plurality of time-based radar signals based on a radar signal received by an associated antenna of the plurality of antennas, and transforming each time-based radar signal of the time-based radar signals into radar signals that each comprise a plurality of pairs of a frequency-based-value and an associated intensity value.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a radar receiving system is provided comprising a first receiving circuit, a second receiving circuit, a spectral analyzer, an object detector, and a phase compensation circuit. The spectral analyzer is configured to generate, from a first plurality of reception signals, a first set of Fourier transformation output values and, from a second plurality of reception signals, a second set of Fourier transformation output values. The object detector is configured to determine a range/Doppler bin of a plurality of range/Doppler bins as an estimate of a range and speed of an object. The phase compensation circuit is configured to determine a phase offset between the Fourier transformation output values of the first set and second set of Fourier transformation output values and to compensate the phases of at least a part of the second set of Fourier transformation output values by the determined phase offset.

Abstract: A radar device is provided comprising a first processing unit, a radar circuitry, at least one security circuitry, at least one secure memory, and a secure interface arranged for communicating with a second processing unit that is external to the radar device, wherein the first processing unit is arranged to configure and/or run the radar device based on parameters obtained via the secure interface from the second processing unit.

Abstract: It is suggested to process radar signals at a first radar unit as follows: (i) receiving the radar signals via at least one receiving antenna; (ii) selecting a portion of the radar signals or of data that is based on the radar signals for further processing; and (iii) conveying a reduced amount of data to a second radar unit, wherein the reduced amount of data is based on the portion of the radar signals or of data that is based on the radar signals.

Abstract: An automotive radar arrangement includes a radar receiver configured to generate radar reception data from radio signals received by a plurality of radar receive antennas. A radar signal processor is configured to determine an estimate of an angular position of at least one object by processing the radar reception data. A communication interface is configured to receive information about a reference angular position of the at least one object. A determiner is configured to determine a compensation for the radar reception data based on the estimate of the angular position and the reference angular position of the at least one object. The radar signal processor is configured to correct the radar reception data and/or further radar reception data for the detection of a further object based on the compensation. An output interface is configured to provide information about the presence of the further object to a vehicle controller.

Abstract: A Signal Processing Unit (SPU) having a thresholding circuit configured to detect a peak cell of a radar data cube, and to output an identification of the peak cell and energy values of the peak cell and its adjacent cells; and an interpolation circuit coupled to the thresholding circuit, and configured to determine and transmit from the SPU to a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), a relative position of the peak cell between the adjacent cells based on the energy values.

Abstract: A combustion module for a turbomachine is provided and includes an annular casing extending about a longitudinal axis; an annular combustion chamber located inside the casing and comprising coaxial annular walls connected to one another by an annular chamber dome, the walls and the chamber dome consisting of at least two annular envelopes, which are made of a ceramic-matrix composite material. The module can include anti-disengagement devices to keep the annular edges pressing axially against one another and fuel injectors borne by the casing and engaged in apertures of one of the envelopes.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuitries are disclosed for compressing radar data. In one example, a method includes storing radar data in a memory, the radar data being stored in a data cube having a slow-time dimension, a fast-time dimension, and a channel dimension. The data cube is divided into one or more zones. For each zone a number of data matrices is selected based on a compression factor. Sets of data matrices containing the number of data matrices are formed and, for each set of data matrices, for each data matrix, the data vectors are coded to generate a coded data matrix. A coding for data vectors in a data matrix is the same and a coding for different data matrices is different. The coded data matrices are combined to generate a compressed data matrix for the zone and the compressed data matrices for the one or more zones are stored.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for calibrating a radar system to compensate for a channel offset. In one example, a method is disclosed for processing radar signals with a radar device. The method includes including receiving respective radar signals from respective virtual receive channels, wherein each virtual receive channel corresponds to a combination of a transmit antenna element and a receive antenna element of an antenna element array. Respective received radar data is generated from the respective radar signals and the radar date is processed to identify one or more stationary objects. Based on the radar data, an estimated radar device motion relative to the one or more stationary objects is determined. A difference between the estimated radar device motion and an expected motion of the radar device is determined and a correction vector is determined based on the difference. The correction vector to is applied to subsequent radar data.

Abstract: A woven fibrous preform of a hollow aerodynamic profile of a turbomachine vane or blade, has a non-interlinked trailing edge and a draping of two 3D woven fibrous textures.

Abstract: A radar device is provided that is arranged for conducting an interference detection and mitigation based on received and sampled radar signals and storing interference-mitigated data; conducting an FFT on the interference-mitigated data and storing FF-transformed data; conducting a compression on the FF-transformed data into compressed data; and storing the compressed data in a memory. Also, a method for operating such radar device is suggested.