Electrical Engineering 0544) Localization of Dynamic Acoustic Sources with a Maneuverable Array

Statistically optimized near field acoustic holography (SONAH) differs from conventional near field acoustic holography (NAH) by avoiding spatial Fourier transforms; the processing is done directly in the spatial domain. The main advantage of SONAH compared with NAH is that the usual requirement of a measurement aperture that extends well beyond the source can be relaxed. Both NAH and SONAH are...

Ultrasonic phased array inspection technology is widely used in nondestructive evaluation (NDE) applications and it has been proved to be an effective method for flaw detections in industry. In our study, this nondestructive evaluation method is proposed to detect the corrosion defects on engine cylinders. In order to demonstrate its feasibility, it is necessary to study the characteristics of ...

The paper describes a 3D acoustic imaging system that uses a 2D receiver array and a 2D transmitter array. For many years, high quality acoustic imaging has been achieved by using synthetic transmit aperture (STA) technique [1][2]. Normally, STA uses an array of receivers and a small number of transmitters to produce an image. However, the conventional arrangement of transmitters in a same hori...

Sound sources can be localized and analysed using phased microphone arrays.Beamforming is a method for processing microphone array data to produce images that represent the distribution of the acoustic source strength.It is an imaging technique that applies to continuous or discrete source distribution.A microphone array can be designed to be more sensitive to the sound coming from one or more ...

A nonlinear least-squares (LS) method is formulated to estimate the speed and the closest-point-of-approach (CPA) time and range of a ground vehicle whose broadband acoustic energy emissions are received by a ground-based wideaperture planar acoustic sensor array of unknown shape. It is assumed that the vehicle travels at a constant speed in a straight line. The three estimated motion parameter...