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Low Cost Binaural System Based on the Echolocation

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Robot 2019: Fourth Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT 2019)

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Ultrasonic sensors offers attractive features at an affordable cost. The main problem faced by the use of these devices is that the data obtained are not so easy to interpret, restricting their efficiency. This paper describes a binaural sensor system that is able to determine the coordinates of an object or a target in a two-dimensional space, focusing on mathematical and signal processing techniques to provide accurate measurements and increase the system reliability. The proposed work consists only of low cost components, which aims to demonstrate that improvement is possible. Experimental tests, performed in different scenarios, reported good accuracy and repeatability of the measurements.

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Acknowledgement

This work is financed by the ERDF—European Regional Development Fund through the Operational Programme for Competitiveness and Internationalisation—COMPETE 2020 Programme within project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006961, and by National Funds through the FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) as part of project UID/EEA/50014/2013.

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  1. Academic Department of Electronic, Federal University of Technology - Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil

    Thiago Fernandes Moya Moreira & Márcio Cunha

  2. INESC TEC - INESC Technology and Science and CeDRI - Research Centre in Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Bragança, Portugal

    José Lima

  3. INESC TEC - INESC Technology and Science and Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Paulo Costa

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  1. School of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Manuel F. Silva

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Bragança, Portugal

    José Luís Lima

  3. Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Luís Paulo Reis

  4. UPC, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    Alberto Sanfeliu

  5. Centro Universitario de la Defensa (CUD), Zaragoza, Spain

    Danilo Tardioli

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Moreira, T.F.M., Lima, J., Costa, P., Cunha, M. (2020). Low Cost Binaural System Based on the Echolocation. In: Silva, M., Luís Lima, J., Reis, L., Sanfeliu, A., Tardioli, D. (eds) Robot 2019: Fourth Iberian Robotics Conference. ROBOT 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1093. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36150-1_6

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