Implementation of Acoustic Sensor Network for Relative Positioning System

Author

De Marziani, C. ; Urefia, J. ; Hernandez, A. ; Mazo, M. ; Garcia, J.J. ; Jimenez, A. ; Villadangos, J.M. ; Perez, M.C. ; Ochoa, A. ; Balinas, J. ; Alvarez, F.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Alcala, Alcala de Henares

fYear

2007

fDate

4-7 June 2007

Firstpage

1559

Lastpage

1564

Abstract

This work presents the development and implementation of an acoustic sensor network mainly proposed for relative positioning of mobile robots and autonomous modules. The system consists of several objects to be located, each one of them with an acoustic sensor node. Every node has the required technology in order to compute its position, by using only acoustic emissions as ranging mechanism; this reduces the complexity in the hardware to be implemented. Direct Sequence Code Division Multiple Access (DS-CDMA) techniques are used to allow simultaneous emission from several objects, so spatial relations among objects can be measured in a shorter time. Using the data collected by the proposed ranging mechanism, a relative positioning algorithm is computed with the aim of obtaining the positions among objects.

Keywords

acoustic transducers; code division multiple access; distance measurement; mobile robots; spread spectrum communication; DS CDMA; acoustic sensor network; autonomous modules; direct sequence code division multiple access; mobile robots; relative positioning system; Acoustic emission; Acoustic sensors; Acoustic transducers; Computer architecture; Hardware; Peer to peer computing; Real time systems; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Sensor systems; Signal processing algorithms;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics, 2007. ISIE 2007. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Vigo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0754-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISIE.2007.4374835

Filename

4374835