Acoustic time delay estimation and sensor network self-localization: Experimental results

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 841-850

  Ash, Joshua N ^a   Moses, Randolph L ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; CALIBRATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MICROPHONES;

COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF (COTS) SPEAKERS; LOWER BOUNDS; PSEUDO-NOISE SEQUENCES; TIME-DELAY ESTIMATION (TDE);

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS;

ACOUSTIC TIME DELAY ESTIMATION; ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; EXPERIMENT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MICROPHONE; MICROPHONE ARRAY; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDONOISE SEQUENCE; SELF LOCALIZATION; SENSOR; SENSOR NETWORK; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION;

EID: 23744449512     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1953307     Document Type: Article

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