People have difficulty understanding ultrasonic sensing because they cannot see sound. The purpose of simulation is to overcome this problem by visualizing the scattering of ultrasonic waves off objects. The lattice gas model calculates wave behavior with finite difference equations to produce data suitable for grayscale visualization. This visualization is useful when designing ultrasonic sens...

Near-field ultrasonic response (50-2000 kHz) of an underwater 1-3 piezocomposite transducer is experimentally investigated using a polarimetric polarization maintaining fiber sensor. Measured outputs from our sensor and a reference hydrophone are observed to be comparable.

Intramedullary nail internal fixation is the most prevalent method of treatment of fracture. The study on hole testing and localization of intramedullary nail is one of the most important research topics in present-day orthopedic medicine. This paper gives a new method for hole testing of intramedullary nail based on ultrasonic sensor. Considering the disadvantage, ultrasonic attenuates too fas...

In this work pits, obstacles and navigation of the module is developed for the effective driver control and safety navigation scheme is approached. The system consists of Bluetooth module, IR sensor, Ultrasonic sensor and microcontroller unit. Ultrasonic sensor is used to detect pits and uneven surfaces, IR sensors is used to detect obstacles on left and right sides of the system and using Blue...

In this study, two kinds of nondestructive evaluation (NDE) techniques (rebound hardness and ultrasonic pulse velocity methods) are investigated for the effective maintenance of underwater concrete structures. A new methodology to estimate the underwater concrete strengths more effectively, named “artificial neural network (ANN) – based concrete strength estimation with the combination of rebou...

We present a sensor network based indoor localization system that uses ultrasonic distance measurements for realtime localization of flying four-rotor robots. Such quadrocopters are on-board sensor controlled systems. They are very sensitive to lateral drifts, which cannot be compensated by mounted sensors. In our work, we provide a framework for time-of-flight based localization systems relyin...

An interferometric sensor based on nonmetallic silica optical fiber is presented as an ultrasonic wideband transducer for optoacoustic imaging applications. We have characterized the sensitivity of the optical fiber sensor by detecting optoacoustic signals from an optically absorbing object embedded in a tissue-mimicking phantom and have compared the signals recorded with those detected from th...

This paper proposes a technique for measurement of liquid flow using venturi and ultrasonic flow meter(UFM) to have following objectives a) to design a multi-sensor data fusion (MSDF) architecture for using both the sensors, b) improve sensitivity and linearity of venturi and ultrasonic flow meter and c) detect and diagnosis of faults in sensor if any. Fuzzy logic algorithm is used to fuse outp...

This paper describes a new approach for mobile robot navigation using an interval analysis based adaptive mechanism for an Unscented Kalman filter. The robot is equipped with inertial sensors, encoders and ultrasonic sensors. The map used for this study is two-dimensional and it is assumed to be known a-priori. Multiple sensor fusion for robot localisation and navigation has attracted a lot of ...

Information obtained by the ultrasonic sensor is influenced by the characteristics of the sensing system such as sensitivity, directivity and so on. In order to investigate its influence, we constructed two ultrasonic ranging systems of which characteristics differs from each other and examined their performance such as obstacle detectability and resultant sonar map.