A measurement method based on Kalman filtering for ultrasonic time-of-flight estimation

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 442-448

  Angrisani, Leopoldo ^a   Baccigalupi, Aldo ^a   Schiano Lo Moriello, Rosario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Distance measurement; Extended Kalman filter; Kalman filter; Level measurement; Time of flight (TOF) estimation; Ultrasonic based measurement

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; ESTIMATION; KALMAN FILTERING; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DISTORTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT;

EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER; ULTRASONIC TIME-OF-FLIGHT (TOF) ESTIMATION; ULTRASONIC-BASED MEASUREMENT;

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 33645315240     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2006.870123     Document Type: Article

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