A new type of highly-directional ultrasonic range sensor is designed, fabricated, and tested in this paper. To improve directivity, the parametric acoustic array, a nonlinear effect of media between two intensive waves, is applied to an ultrasonic range sensor. Additionally, a new type of the stepped-plate transducer is applied for generating high amplitude waves consisting of two frequencies. ...

Using numerical simulations, we investigated the responses of the π-phase-shifted fiber Bragg gratings (πFBGs) impinged by pressure ultrasonic waves. The effect of the grating length, grating refractive index modification depth, and ultrasonic frequency on the wavelength sensitivity and intensity sensitivity of the πFBG ultrasonic sensor for ultrasonic waves of different wavelengths was analyze...

The whole work is based on possibility to use Lego Mindstorms robotics systems to reduce costs. Lego Mindstorms consists of a wide variety of hardware components necessary to simulate, programme and test of robotics systems in practice. To programme algorithm, which simulates space using the ultrasonic sensor, was used development environment supplied with kit. Software Matlab was used to rende...

This paper presents a novel ultrasonic sensing system for autonomous mobile systems. We describe how wide-angled ultrasonic transducers can be used to obtain substantial information of the environment. This can be achieved by exploiting the overlapping of the detection cones from neighbor sensors. The ultrasonic sensing system also allows the detection of multiple echoes from different echo pat...

Improved ranging accuracy is obtained by the development of a novel ultrasonic sensor ranging algorithm, unlike the conventional ranging algorithm, which considers the divergence angle and the incidence angle of the ultrasonic sensor synchronously. An ultrasonic sensor scanning method is developed based on this algorithm for the recognition of an inclined plate and to obtain the localization of...

This paper presents a novel vision based obstacle detection algorithm that is adapted from a powerful background subtraction algorithm: ViBe (VIsual Background Extractor). We describe an adaptive obstacle detection method using monocular color vision and an ultrasonic distance sensor. Our approach assumes an obstacle free region in front of the robot in the initial frame. However, the method dy...

In this article, embedded ultrasonic sensors were prepared using 1–3-type piezoelectric composite and piezoelectric ceramic as the piezoelectric elements, respectively. The frequency bandwidth of the novel embedded ultrasonic sensors was investigated. To obtain the relationship between the receiving ultrasonic velocity and compressive strength, as well as their response signals to crack damage,...

In this paper we design and implement an embedded surveillance system by use of ultrasonic signal coding of ultrasonic sensors with multiple pyroelectric infrared sensors (PIR) to detect an intruder in a home or a storehouse. The PIR sensors are placed on the ceiling, and the ultrasonic sensor module consists of a transmitter and a receiver which are placed in a line direction; however, ultraso...

Ultrasonic receiver circuit with Phase-locked loop 4046 Ultrasonic amplifier with high amplification factor · Transformer-coupled ultrasonic transmitter circuit. General-Purpose CMOS Rail-to-Rail Amplifier. ADP7104. 20 V, 500 mA, Low The circuit shown in Figure 1 is a completely self-contained distance sensor that utilizes an ultrasonic transmitter and sensitive analog receiver in conjunction.

In this study, we have evaluated the ability of ultrasonic sensors to produce guidance signals for greenhouse application robots. First, one high-quality ultrasonic sensor was selected and some basic experiments were carried out. Experimental results showed that with predetermined internal parameters, the accuracy of the selected sensor was good for distances between 15 and 215 cm and angles be...