Ultrasonic distance sensor improvement using a two-level neural network

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 677-682

  Carullo, Alessio ^b   Ferraris, Franco ^b   Graziani, Salvatore ^a,c   Grimaldi, Ugo ^b   Parvis, Marco ^b  

^a IEEE

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; ERROR CORRECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; NEURAL NETWORKS; THERMAL EFFECTS; ULTRASONIC DEVICES; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONICS;

CORRECTION SYSTEM; DISTANCE UNCERTAINTY; ECHO; TIME OF FLIGHT; ULTRASONIC DISTANCE SENSOR; ULTRASONIC PULSE;

PROXIMITY SENSORS;

EID: 0030128181     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.492808     Document Type: Article

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