Chaotic Pulse Position Modulation to Improve the Efficiency of Sonar Sensors

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1809-1814

  Fortuna, Luigi ^a   Frasca, Mattia ^a   Rizzo, Alessandro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chaos applications; Chaotic pulse position modulation (CPPM); Ranging measurement; Sonar systems

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; CROSSTALK; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PULSE MODULATION; RANGE FINDING; ROBOTICS; SENSORS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC DEVICES;

CHAOTIC PULSE POSITION MODULATION (CPPM); DETECTION FILTERS; RANGING MEASUREMENT;

SONAR;

EID: 0344013016     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2003.820452     Document Type: Article

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