Recently, research works on the bio-engineering actively carried out, and the useful tool for the micromanipulation is also developed. Purpose of this research is to develop the minute size knife for the cutting of the minute object such as the cell. In this paper, we report on the microknife that cuts o the object by using ultrasonic vibration of the sharp needle. We employed the multilayer pi...

A unique sensing system is described using an ultrasonic transducer for measuring tree trunk diameters in the orchard. Trunk diameters were calculated from the time it took sound waves to travel from the transducer to the trunk and back to the sensor. The device was calibrated with objects ranging in diameter from 1.6 (0.63 inch) to 19.0 cm (7.5 inches). The distance between the transducer and ...

Collision and turnover are fatal to mobile robots. Control methods are suggested for solving the fatal problems of mobile robots maneuvered by an operator. Speed reduction and wall following are applied for collision avoidance using ultrasonic sensor data. Modified Hough transform is suggested to obtain a wall model from sonar data overcoming limitations of ultrasonic sensors. The robot is also...

Ultrasonic concentration meters have widely been used at water purification, sewage treatment and waste water treatment plants to sort and transfer high concentration sludges and to control the amount of chemical dosage. When an unusual substance is contained in the sludge, however, the attenuation of ultrasonic waves could be increased or not be transmitted to the receiver. In this case, the v...

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 measurement kit of the ADA-CAT (Americans With Disabilities Act-Compliance Assessment Toolkit) consists of measurement instruments, such as a measuring tape, a sound level meter, a light level meter, and a magic slope block. Perhaps the most important tool is the measuring tape for length and height measurement as distances are used so prolifically in the ADA assessment process. Currently, ...

In this project, I aim to locate objects in a room using a wireless sensor network of ultrasonic rangefinders. The goal is to accomplish object localization using computationally cheap sensors, such as the ultrasonic rangefinders, without requiring any tagging or modification to the object being tracked, i.e., requiring invasive techniques. To approach this problem through rapid prototyping, I ...

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...

All manned spacecraft are vulnerable to leaks generated by micrometeorite or debris impacts. Methods for locating such leaks using leak-generated, structure-borne ultrasonic noise are discussed and demonstrated. Cross-correlations of ultrasonic noise waveforms from a leak into vacuum are used to find the location of the leak. Four methods for sensing and processing leak noise have been develope...