Improvement in airborne position measurements based on an ultrasonic linear-period-modulated wave by 1-bit signal processing

In this paper, we describe an expansion of the airborne ultrasonic systems for object localization in the three-dimensional spaces of navigation. A system, which revises the microphone arrangement and algorithm, can expand the object-position measurement from +90° in a previous method up to +180° for both the elevation and azimuth angles. The proposed system consists of a sound source and four acoustical receivers. Moreover, the system is designed to utilize low-cost devices, and low-cost computation relying on 1-bit signal processing is used to support the real-time application on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). An object location is identified using spherical coordinates. A spherical object, which has a curved surface, is considered a target for this system. The transmit pulse to the target is a linear-period-modulated ultrasonic wave with a chirp rate of 50–20 kHz. Statistical evaluation of this work is the experimental investigation under repeatability.

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