A hypercomplex model of acoustic vector sensor array is introduced.The hypercomplex number is used to model holistically the four output signal components of an acoustic vector sensor.

摘要将超复数代数引入矢量水听器信号处理领域，用超复数来整体表示了矢量水听器输出的4信号分量，并建立了矢量水听器阵列的超复数模型。