CN216593539U - Boat towing array system - Google Patents
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The utility model discloses a ship towing array system, which comprises: the towing cable, the towing body, the rigid connecting rod and the hydrophone array are arranged on the towing body; one end of the towing body is connected with the boat through a towing cable, and the other end of the towing body is connected with the hydrophone array through a rigid connecting rod; wherein, the towed body is provided with a camera device and an illuminating device; the hydrophone array is provided with a compass, a sensor and a hydrophone. The utility model can adjust the ascending, descending and sailing tracks of the system according to the actual scene so as to improve the positioning and tracking capability of marine organisms, the working mode is more flexible, and the measurable range is wider; by integrating the camera device and the illuminating device on the towed body, the species and the abundance of marine organisms, and the temperature, the salinity and the depth data of a water body can be accurately identified, so that basic data and data support are provided for the behavioral research of the marine organisms; by rigidly connecting the hydrophone array with the towed body, the stability of the array posture is ensured, and meanwhile, the noise interference can be reduced, so that the monitoring result is more accurate.
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Technical Field
The utility model relates to the field of marine ecological environment monitoring, in particular to a ship towed array system.
Background
In recent years, with the increase of human activities near shore such as ship transportation, bridge construction, wind power plant construction and wind turbine generator operation, huge marine noise poses serious threats to mammal survival. In order to implement effective resource maintenance and management on marine mammals, the information such as the distribution, the position, the abundance and the like of the marine mammals must be acquired in time, so that efficient marine mammal monitoring equipment must be developed, the appearance, the seasonality, the population structure and the density of the marine mammals, evasive behaviors and the like are observed, and effective remedial measures are taken to reduce adverse effects to the maximum extent.
Currently, marine animal monitoring mostly employs stationary passive acoustic monitoring systems that collect audio data of marine mammals using hydrophones (arrays) for monitoring and analysis. However, this system tends to have its own drawbacks: firstly, the monitoring means is single, the type and the quantity of the acquired data are limited, and when the complex marine environment is met, the accuracy of monitoring and identification is difficult to ensure, particularly the problems of species identification and population abundance estimation. Secondly, the monitoring range is small, the efficiency is low, the fixed passive acoustic monitoring system is lack of mobility, only a small part of areas around the hydrophone can be monitored, if monitoring in a large range is needed, a large amount of manpower and material resources are consumed, and the practicability is low.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model aims to provide a ship towed array system, which aims to solve the problems of incomplete monitoring data, inaccurate identification result, low monitoring efficiency and high monitoring cost when the existing acoustic monitoring system monitors marine animals.
In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a ship towed array system, comprising:
the towing cable, the towing body, the rigid connecting rod and the hydrophone array are arranged;
one end of the towed body is connected with a boat through the towing cable, and the other end of the towed body is connected with the hydrophone array through the rigid connecting rod; wherein the content of the first and second substances,
the towed body is provided with a camera device and an illuminating device;
the hydrophone array is provided with a compass, a depth sensor and hydrophones.
Preferably, the material of the tow body comprises carbon fibre.
Preferably, the towed body comprises a base, a top plate arranged on the base and a dorsal fin arranged on the top plate.
Preferably, the towed body further comprises a towed fish arranged on the top plate and used for controlling the ascending, descending and sailing tracks of the towed body.
Preferably, the towed body further comprises a watertight compartment disposed below the base.
Preferably, the hydrophone array comprises three hydrophone structures, a support skeleton for supporting and connecting the three hydrophone structures.
Preferably, each said hydrophone structure is encased by a fairing.
Compared with the prior art, the utility model has the beneficial effects that:
1) the monitoring system provided by the utility model is dragged by the automatic winch to work, and the ascending, descending, sailing track and the like of the system can be adjusted according to actual scenes in the sailing process of the boat so as to improve the positioning and tracking capability of marine organisms, so that the monitoring system has a more flexible working mode and a wider measurable range.
2) Sensing equipment such as camera device, lighting device and depth sensor have been integrated on monitoring system's towed body, and the video image data of catching is favorable to distinguishing marine organism's species and abundance, and the temperature, salinity, the depth data of water can provide basic data and data support for the behavioural study of marine organism, compares with prior art, and the monitoring means is more diversified.
3) According to the utility model, the hydrophone array formed by the three hydrophone structures is rigidly connected with the towed body, so that the stability of the array posture is better ensured; the hydrophone array is far away from the boat, so that the noise interference is reduced; the number of hydrophones can be adjusted according to the requirement, and the flexibility is strong.
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In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solution of the present invention, the drawings needed to be used in the embodiments will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art that other drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without creative efforts.
Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a towed array system for a ship according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a ship towed array system according to another embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a side view of a tow body according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a front view of a tow body according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a bottom view of a towed body according to one embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a hydrophone array according to an embodiment of the utility model.
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The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
It should be understood that the step numbers used herein are for convenience of description only and are not intended as limitations on the order in which the steps are performed.
It is to be understood that the terminology used in the description of the utility model herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the utility model. As used in the specification of the present invention and the appended claims, the singular forms "a," "an," and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
The terms "comprises" and "comprising" indicate the presence of the described features, integers, steps, operations, elements, and/or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof.
The term "and/or" refers to and includes any and all possible combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.
Referring to fig. 1, fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a ship towed array system according to an embodiment of the present invention. Specifically, the ship towed array system in this embodiment includes:
a towing cable 01, a towing body 02, a rigid connecting rod 03 and a hydrophone array 04;
one end of the towed body 02 is connected with a boat through the towing rope 01, and the other end of the towed body is connected with the hydrophone array 04 through a rigid connecting rod 03; wherein the content of the first and second substances,
the towed body 02 is provided with a camera 021 and an illuminating device 022;
the hydrophone array 04 is provided with a compass 041, a depth sensor 042 and a hydrophone 043.
It should be noted that, for monitoring marine animals, especially marine mammals, the currently adopted monitoring system is mainly a fixed passive acoustic monitoring system. The passive acoustic monitoring system collects audio data of marine mammals in a non-invasive mode, and a hydrophone or an array consisting of a plurality of hydrophones is distributed in water and used for detecting, identifying, positioning and tracking the marine mammals. This approach typically recovers and analyzes the data after a period of time, and is therefore costly to deploy and recover. Meanwhile, because the activity range of the marine mammal is wide, the passive acoustic monitoring system can only monitor a fixed area, the monitoring range is limited, and the efficiency is low. Therefore, the embodiment of the utility model aims to provide a ship towed array system, which can increase the monitoring range, improve the efficiency, save the monitoring cost and ensure that accurate monitoring data is obtained.
Specifically, as shown in fig. 1, in the boat towed array system, the hydrophone array 04 and the towed body 02 are mainly used for monitoring. Wherein, a camera 021 and an illuminator 022 are arranged on the towed body 02. The camera 021 is mainly used for collecting video information in the sea, because the existing passive acoustic monitoring system usually only collects the audio frequency of the sea, under the complex marine environment, it is difficult to distinguish which species is producing sound by using the sound. For example, when the vocalization rate is high, it is difficult to distinguish whether multiple creatures vocalize simultaneously or a single creature vocalizes multiple times. Therefore, in the embodiment, the camera 021 is combined, video information of the marine environment can be acquired, and the video information is used for subsequent data analysis work of judging species and abundance of marine organisms, temperature, salinity, depth and the like of the water body. It will be appreciated that in a marine environment at a certain height below sea level, the light tends to be dark and less visible. In order to clearly perform imaging, the towed body 02 of the present embodiment is further provided with an illumination device 022, and when the towed body is in a low-luminance marine environment, the illumination device 022 adjusts parameters such as the luminance of illumination light according to the result of automatic detection.
Further, the towed body 02 is rigidly connected to the hydrophone array 04 by a rigid connection rod 03 to ensure the stability of the hydrophone array 04. The compass 041, the depth sensor 042 and the hydrophone 043 are arranged on the hydrophone array 04 and used for sensing the posture and the depth data of the hydrophone array 04 and acquiring the audio in the sea. It is noted that a transducer for converting an acoustic signal into an electrical signal is used to receive an acoustic signal in water, and is called a receiving transducer, also called a hydrophone 043.
The above contents are all data acquisition devices, and in practical application, if data are acquired firstly and stored locally, and then the data are returned to land for data analysis, the manual intervention behavior is often delayed, and the adverse conditions of the marine environment cannot be timely intervened. In order to solve the problem, in this embodiment, a ship-borne monitoring platform is further arranged on the ship, when audio data and video data are respectively collected by the hydrophone array 04 and the towed body 02, the audio data and the video data are wirelessly transmitted to the monitoring platform, and then the data can be analyzed and processed in real time through the ship-borne platform, so that the monitoring efficiency is greatly improved, the motion state of marine animals can be timely mastered, whether the marine environment is safe or not can be judged, and manual decision making and the like can be assisted.
Referring to fig. 2, in order to help better understand the towed array system of the boat provided by the present invention, fig. 2 provides a schematic structural diagram of the towed array system of the boat with a clearer connection relationship. In practical application, as shown in fig. 2, the boat first selects a certain sea surface area to be stationary, and then arranges the arrangement of the boat towed array system. The towing cable 01 of the ship towed array system is connected with the towing body 02 and is thrown below the sea surface through an automatic winch of the ship. The towed body 02 is rigidly connected with the hydrophone array 04 through a rigid connecting rod 03.
In an alternative embodiment, the material of the tow body 02 includes carbon fiber. The carbon fiber is a high-strength high-modulus fiber with a carbon content of more than 90%, and the high-temperature resistance is the first of all chemical fibers. The acrylic fiber and viscose fiber are mainly used as raw materials and are formed by high-temperature oxidation and carbonization, and the acrylic fiber and viscose fiber are excellent materials for manufacturing high-technology equipment such as aerospace and aviation.
Referring to fig. 3-5, in one embodiment, in order to better illustrate the structure of the towed body 02, a side view, a front view and a bottom view of the towed body 02 are provided. As shown in fig. 3, the towed body 02 includes a base, a top plate provided on the base, and a dorsal fin provided on the top plate. Wherein, a towing cable 01 hanging ring is arranged at the front position of the top plate and is used for being connected with the towing cable 01. The camera 021 is installed at the most front end of base, and the leading camera is located the below of base. Further, the towed body 02 further includes a towed fish, which is disposed above the roof and used for controlling the ascending, descending, sailing trajectory, etc. of the towed body 02. In an alternative embodiment, the length, width and height of the fish can be set to 1.2m, 1.4m and 0.87m respectively.
In an alternative embodiment, a watertight compartment is also provided below the base. The watertight compartment is a compartment enclosed by a bulkhead and a deck, which can keep watertight under a specified water pressure, and mainly has the function of ensuring the floating state and stability of the towed body 02 so that the towed body has certain sinking resistance.
In an alternative embodiment, the towed body 02 may be provided with a thermohaline depth sensor for recording the marine environmental parameters of the marine organisms.
Further, as shown in fig. 4, in one embodiment, the two wings of the top plate are triangular and have a curvature, and the dorsal fins are in the shape of a right trapezoid. It will be appreciated that the wings are bent downwards to ensure overall system attitude stability, and that the dorsal fins and black blocks of the wings represent the connection points with the three rigid rods.
In a specific embodiment, the hydrophone array 04 comprises three hydrophones 043 structure, a supporting framework for supporting and connecting the three hydrophone 043 structures, as shown in fig. 6, wherein the rigid connecting rod 03 comprises three hydrophone; and one end of each of the three rigid connecting rods 03 is connected with the three hydrophones 043 structures, and the other end of each of the three rigid connecting rods is connected with the two wings of the top plate and the black block position of the dorsal fin.
In an alternative embodiment, each hydrophone 043 structure is encased by a fairing. Wherein the fairing is used for payload of the hydrophone 043 structure to prevent the hydrophone 043 structure from being affected by harmful environments such as sea water dynamics, acoustic vibrations and the like. Each hydrophone 043 structure is provided with two hydrophones 043, a compass 041 and a depth sensor 042, audio signals, postures (course, rolling and pitching) of the hydrophone array 04 and depth data of the hydrophone array 04 are respectively recorded, and the data of all the depth sensors 042 are connected to a watertight cabin through signal lines and then transmitted to a shipborne platform through a towing cable 01 to be used for calculating the three-dimensional coordinate position of marine organisms. The three hydrophone arrays 04 are fixed by a support framework to ensure the stability of the array posture. It should be noted that, the two hydrophones 043 provided in this embodiment is only a preferable mode, and in practical application, the number of the hydrophones 043 may be adjusted according to the practical application requirement, and is not limited herein.
The ship towed array system provided by the embodiment of the utility model can adjust the ascending, descending and sailing tracks of the system according to the actual scene so as to improve the positioning and tracking capabilities of marine organisms, and has more flexible working mode and wider measurable range; by integrating the camera 021 and the lighting device 022 on the towed body 02, the species and abundance of marine organisms, and the temperature, salinity and depth data of a water body can be accurately identified, so that basic data and data support are provided for the behavioral research of the marine organisms; by rigidly connecting the hydrophone array 04 with the towed body 02, the stability of the array posture is ensured, and meanwhile, the noise interference can be reduced, so that the monitoring result is more accurate.
While the foregoing is directed to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the utility model.
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1. A boat towed array system, comprising:
the towing cable, the towing body, the rigid connecting rod and the hydrophone array are arranged;
one end of the towed body is connected with a boat through the towing cable, and the other end of the towed body is connected with the hydrophone array through the rigid connecting rod; wherein the content of the first and second substances,
the towed body is provided with a camera device and an illuminating device;
the hydrophone array is provided with a compass, a depth sensor and hydrophones.
2. The boat towed array system of claim 1, wherein the material of the tow body comprises carbon fiber.
3. The boat towed array system of claim 1, wherein said towed body includes a base, a top plate disposed on said base, and a dorsal fin disposed on said top plate.
4. The boat towed array system of claim 3, wherein said towed body further comprises a fish, disposed on said top plate, for controlling the raising, lowering and sailing trajectory of said towed body.
5. The boat towed array system of claim 3, wherein said tow further comprises a watertight compartment disposed below said base.
6. The ship towed array system of claim 1, wherein said hydrophone array comprises three hydrophone structures, a support framework for supporting and connecting said three hydrophone structures.
7. The ship towed array system of claim 6, wherein each of said hydrophone structures is encased by a fairing.
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