The embedded ultrasonic structural radar (EUSR) algorithm was developed by using piezoelectric wafer active sensor (PWAS) array to detect defects within a large area of a thin-plate specimen. EUSR has been verified to be effective for detecting a single crack either at a broadside or at an offside position. In this research, advanced signal processing techniques were included to enhance inspect...

High-quality electret microphones and single-chip processors are economical enough to be used in large numbers. This latitude opens opportunities for dynamic source location and sound capture with spatial selectivity in three dimensions, This report discusses algorithms for matched-filter processing of microphone arrays and for coordinate tracking of moving talkers. A prototype conferencing sys...

recordings of ambient noise or microtremors are increasingly used to find valuable information on soil in one dimension at a given site. ambient vibrations, which are assumed to be mainly composed of surface waves, can be used to determine the surface wave dispersion curve in order to retrieve shear wave velocity profile. in this regard, microtremors are usually recorded simultaneously in an ar...

For a sinusoidal signal, buried in white Gaussian noise, as an input to a parallel array of bistable oscillators, it is reported that conditions exist where the signal-to-noise ratio gain exceeds unity, for both subthreshold and suprathreshold sinusoids. The performance of infinite arrays is closely approached by finite arrays of moderate size, representing a novel method of applying the stocha...

muscle fatigue assessment has been the basis of numerous studies, specifically, in neuromuscular rehabilitation and the applications of fessystems. various emgbased techniques, in time and frequency domains, have been investigatedover years for the detection and evaluationof this phenomenon. the main objective of this study has beento evaluate the efficiency of applying a number of techniques w...

background: muscle fatigue is an important issue in neuromuscular rehabilitation. better control of this phenomenon would result in better prevention of its consequent physiological damages. objective: to provide a mathematical representation of muscle fatigue as a function of time. methods: we conducted this study by combining the emg-based estimation methods of muscle activation with the avai...

introduction: purkinje cell (pc) output displays a complex firing pattern consisting of high frequency sodium spikes and low frequency calcium spikes, and disruption in this firing behavior may contribute to cerebellar ataxia. riluzole, neuroprotective agent, has been demonstrated to have neuroprotective effects in cerebellar ataxia. here, the spectral analysis of pcs firing in control, 3-acety...

A formal proof is presented for a recently presented systolic array for recursive least squares estimation by inverse updates. The derivation of this systolic array is highly non-trivial due to the presence of data contra-flow and feedback loops in the underlying signal flow graph. This would normally prohibit pipelined processing. However, it is shown that suitable delays may be introduced int...

In signal processing, the direction of arrival (DOA) estimation denotes the direction from which a propagating wave arrives at a point, where a set of antennas is located. Using the array antenna has an advantage over the single antenna in achieving an improved performance by applying Multiple Signal Classification (MUSIC) algorithm. This paper focuses on estimating the DOA using uniform linear...

This paper presents a new technic to improve resolution and direction of arrival (DOA) estimation of two closed source, in array processing, when only few samples of received signal are available. In these conditions, the detection of sources (targets) is more arduous, and even breaks down. To overcome these problems, a new algorithm is proposed. It combines spatial smooth method to widen the s...