Design and development of computer controlled active sonar system
Nowadays computerization is the most popular, reliable and flexible design for various types of control and communication systems. Sound navigation and ranging (SONAR) is a modern ultrasonic range finding technique used for collecting the information of a distant object without any physical contac...
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Technical Gazette
2014
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| Summary: | Nowadays computerization is the most popular, reliable and flexible design for various types of control and communication systems. Sound navigation
and ranging (SONAR) is a modern ultrasonic range finding technique used for collecting the information of a distant object without any physical contact.
In this paper, a personal computer (PC) based active SONAR system is presented. The developed SONAR system contains both transmitter and receiver
parts in the same module. A pair of 40 kHz piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers is used to transmit ultrasound toward the object and receive the reflected
from the object respectively. A driver-software named CURF (Computerized Ultrasonic Range Finder) is developed for this system, using Turbo C
language aimed at IBM PC and its clone machines. The CURF software provides necessary support for interfacing the developed hardware as well as
desired calculations. A number of tests have been done and it is found that the performances of the developed system are good in terms of accuracy,
simplicity, cost and power consumption. |
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