Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2008.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-72).Classical hydrophones measure pressure only, but acoustic vector-sensors also measure particle velocity. Velocity measurements can increase array gain and resolve ambiguities, but make vector-sensor arrays more difficult to analyze. This thesis derives a new set of useful performance measures for acoustic vector-sensor arrays. It characterizes the vector-sensor array beampattern with and without modeling errors, or "mism;atch." It also develops a hybrid Cramer-Rao bound for direction-of-arrival estimation under mismatch. The results are analyzed, compared to Monte-Carlo simulations, and explored for insight.by Jonathan Paul Kitchens.S.M
