Electro-acoustic and acousto-optic communications for robotic agents in smart structures

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6414, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Wild, Graham ^a   Hinckley, Steven ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acoustic emission; Fibre optic sensing; Piezoelectric transducers; Structural health monitoring; Wireless communications

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; OPTICAL SENSORS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ALUMINIUM PANELS; COMMUNICATIONS ENCODING; FIBRE OPTIC SENSING; LEAD ZIRCONATE TITANATE (PZT);

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 34247384248     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.695750     Document Type: Conference Paper

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