TOF estimation of ultrasonic echo signal for object location

Information Technology Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2182-2188

  Lu, Zhenkun ^a,b   Wei, Gang ^a   Chen, Fangjiong ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Wuzhou University   (China)

Author keywords

Correction gauss newton method; Hilbert transform; TOF estimation; Ultrasonic echo; Wavelet denoising

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; GAUSS NEWTON; GAUSS-NEWTON METHODS; HILBERT TRANSFORM; NON-LINEAR LEAST SQUARES; OBJECT LOCATION; ULTRASONIC ECHO; ULTRASONIC ECHO SIGNALS; ULTRASONIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRASONIC SIGNALS; ULTRASONIC TIME OF FLIGHTS; WAVELET DE-NOISING TECHNIQUES; WAVELET DENOISING;

ESTIMATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; NOISE POLLUTION CONTROL; NUMERICAL METHODS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

EID: 80053637046     PISSN: 18125638     EISSN: 18125646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/itj.2011.2182.2188     Document Type: Article

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