Ultrasonic ranging sensor using simultaneous emissions from different transducers

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1660-1669

  Hernandez, Álvaro ^a   Ureña, Jesús ^a   García, Juan J ^a   Mazo, Manuel ^a   Hernanz, Daniel ^a   Dérutin, Jean Pierre ^b   Sérot, Jocelyn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CROSSTALK; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; GEOMETRY; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSORS;

ECHO DISCRIMINATION; MULTIMODE TECHNIQUES; RECEPTION ANGLE; ULTRASONIC RANGING SENSORS;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOLOCATION; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROBOTICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSDUCER; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; ECHOLOCATION; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROBOTICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 12344335332     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2004.1386683     Document Type: Article

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