Hello Rohitshya,
From my understanding, you would like to know why the plot of LFM signals looks distorted.
There are few things which I feel which might be the problem in the following code:
- You have determined the distances from the hydrophones to the receiver targets, but it is also necessary to account for the distances between the transmitter and the receiver targets.
distances(i, j) = norm(hydrophone_coords(i, :) - receiver_coords(j, :))+norm(receiver_coord(j,:));
- As for the signal received, there will be delay due to the distance. So, the phase delay of the signals would be
phase_delays = distances /c ;%where c is the sound of water
- The received samples by the hydrophones experience a shift due to delays caused by the varying distances between target receiver and each hydrophone. These shifts were not accounted for in the calculations.
- It appears that all received signals have been summed directly without accounting for any time delays, although phase shifts have been taken into consideration. Suppose is delay of the signal, the received signal is given by, where is the carrier frequency and the is the signal sent from the transmitter.
To better visualize you can make use of the function “waterfall” which will create a waterfall plot from the received signals: https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/waterfall.html
I believe the above suggestions would resolve your query.
