Sampled baseband correlators for in-air ultrasonic rangefinders

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 341-350

  Sabatini, Angelo M ^a   Rocchi, Alessandro ^a  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Correlation techniques; Digital signal processing; Sonar sensors

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA ACQUISITION; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; SENSORS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

IN AIR ULTRASONIC RANGEFINDERS; SAMPLED BASEBAND CORRELATORS; SONAR SENSORS;

RANGE FINDERS;

EID: 0032036327     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/41.681234     Document Type: Article

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