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Accession Number:
AD1006022
Title:
Effects of Hearing Protection Device Attenuation on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Audio Signatures
Descriptive Note:
Technical Report,01 May 2014,30 Aug 2015
Corporate Author:
US Army Research Laboratory Adelphi United States
Report Date:
2016-03-01
Pagination or Media Count:
20.0
Abstract:
The goals of this study were to investigate the measure of attenuation of hearing protection devices HPDs and to develop a filter that uses parameters of HPDs to alter acoustic signatures of Unmanned Aircraft Systems UASs. The results could be used to select appropriate HPDs for environments where noise from UASs may be distracting. Implemented in Matrix Laboratory MATLAB, the filters interface stored several HPDs and their protector factors-Single Number Rating and High-Middle-Low ratings. In custom mode, user-defined HPD parameters were imported into the program. Once a UAS sound file was loaded, the program read it as signal data and displayed graphs of its magnitudes with respect to time and frequency. In the filtering process, the program retrieved the signals magnitudes and applied different decibel attenuations at certain frequency bands. It then returned the attenuated signal and graphs of its new magnitudes to be compared with the original signal data. The new sounds along with other data displayed in the interface were exported for further study. In the future, the work could aid in the development of a filter to attenuate unmanned aerial vehicle noise in different environmental conditions and to test the effectiveness of HPDs with impulse noise.
Distribution Statement:
APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
