Processing of ultrasonic echo envelopes for object location with nearby receivers

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2751-2755

  Egaña, Aimar ^a   Seco, Fernando ^a   Ceres, Ramón ^a  

^a Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

Autonomous navigation; Personal mobility aids; Signal processing; Sonar systems; Time of flight (TOF) estimation; Ultrasonic technology

Indexed keywords

NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; NEGATIVE IONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SONAR; ULTRASONIC TESTING; ULTRASONICS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; PERSONAL MOBILITY AIDS; SONAR SYSTEMS; TIME-OF-FLIGHT (TOF) ESTIMATION; ULTRASONIC TECHNOLOGY;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

EID: 57049185248     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2008.926408     Document Type: Article

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