A Parametric Array Ultrasonic Ranging Sensor with Electrical Beam Steering Capability

Hwang, Yonghwan; Je, Yub; Lee, Haksue; Lee, Jae‐Il; Lee, Chonghyun; Kim, Won-Ho; Moon, Wonkyu

doi:10.3813/aaa.918960

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“…[3][4][5][6][7] Such a phased array PAL has been successfully used in active noise control, 3 sound reproduction systems, 8 immersive 3D audio, 9 and related areas. 4,10 However, existing models suitable for predicting the performance of a phased array PAL are not only limited for far field calculation, but also the simplifying assumptions and approximations deteriorate their accuracy. 11,12 The total audio sound generated by a phased array PAL is not simply the superposition of the audio sound radiated by each PAL element, because this generation is a nonlinear process.…”

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A cylindrical expansion of the audio sound for a steerable parametric array loudspeaker

Zhong

Kirby

Karimi

et al. 2021

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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In this work, a cylindrical expansion for the audio sound generated by a steerable baffled parametric array loudspeaker (PAL) based on the phased array technique is derived from the Westervelt equation. The expansion is a series of twofold summations with uncoupled angular and radial components in the cylindrical coordinate system. The angular component is determined by the trigonometric functions, and the radial component is an integral containing the Bessel functions and an arbitrary excitation velocity profile. The numerical results for a typical steerable PAL are presented and compared to those obtained using the convolution model. It is found that the prediction of the audio sound using the proposed cylindrical expansion improves the agreement with the experimental results when compared to the existing models. This is because no further approximations are required in the cylindrical expansion of the quasilinear solution of the Westervelt equation, whereas the complex near field nonlinear interactions between the ultrasonic waves cannot be correctly captured in a convolution model. The proposed cylindrical expansion does, therefore, provide an alternative approach to modeling a phased array PAL and high accuracy with a relatively low computational cost.

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