This paper investigates the use of ranging data collected from ultrasonic sensors mounted on a two-wheeled mobile robot, Pioneer 3-DX, to build an occupancy grid map for an unknown indoor environment based on fuzzy sensor fusion of the ultrasonic ranging data. Because of uncertainties inevitably encountered by using the ultrasonic sensors, a more reliable sensor model is derived to solve the pr...

Canopy characterization is a key factor to improve pesticide application methods in tree crops and vineyards. Development of quick, easy and efficient methods to determine the fundamental parameters used to characterize canopy structure is thus an important need. In this research the use of ultrasonic and LIDAR sensors have been compared with the traditional manual and destructive canopy measur...

The impact of pressure regulator noise on the performance of ultrasonic meters has been discussed for several years now. This is one of the problems still to be solved in ultrasonic flow metering technology. Engineers have so far attempted to solve the problem by installing complex spatial pipe arrangements at high costs to reduce interfering noise levels. The issue has been examined systematic...

The purpose of this paper is uncertainty evaluation in a target differentiation problem. In the problem ultrasonic data fusion is applied using Dezert-Smarandache theory (DSmT). Besides of presenting a scheme to target differentiation using ultrasonic sensors, the paper evaluates DSmT-based fused results in uncertainty point of view. The study obtains pattern of data for targets by a set of two...

Highly sensitive air-coupled ultrasonic sensors are essential for various applications such as testing of composite materials. One of the major challenges for the development of air-coupled ultrasonic sensors is the impedance matching to air. With a lower acoustic impedance than the usual piezoelectric materials, charged cellular polypropylene film (cPP) offers better matching to air with a sim...

Existing traffic information acquisition systems suffer from high cost and low scalability. To address these problems, the application of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has been studied, as WSN-based systems are highly scalable and have a low cost of installing and replacing the systems. Magnetic, acoustic and accelerometer sensors have been considered for WSN-based traffic surveillance, but t...

The method of Acoustic Wavefield Imaging (AWI) offers many advantages over conventional ultrasonic techniques for nondestructive evaluation, and also provides a means of incorporating fixed ultrasonic sensors used for structural health monitoring into subsequent inspections. AWI utilizes these fixed sensors as wave sources and an externally scanned ultrasonic transducer (or laser interferometer...

Non-contact sensing is very desirable in many measurement situations. Non-contact sensors are free of probe wear or bounce, collect data at much higher rates than contact devices and do not influence the object being measured. Compared to capacitive and inductive devices, laser triangulation sensors have much larger standoff (distance from the sensor to the part). Compared to ultrasonic sensors...

One of the new clinical techniques to assess the lower body parameters is the wearable ultrasonic sensors. The device which can measure the static and dynamic balance abilities in sport and clinical setting by the traveled signals of ultrasonic transmitter and receiver between two feet was developed and validated. The new device consisted of a pressure gauge and a digital centimeter indicator a...