Technical gazette, Vol. 21 No. 4, 2014.
Original scientific paper
Design and development of computer controlled active sonar system
S. M. A. Motakabber
; International Islamic University Malaysia, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Gombak, 53100 KL, Malaysia
Muhammad Ibn Ibrahimy
; International Islamic University Malaysia, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Gombak, 53100 KL, Malaysia
Abstract
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.
Keywords
ASDICS; computer interfacing; piezoelectric transducer; RADAR; SONAR; ultrasonic range finder; ultrasound; under water radar; WPESS
Hrčak ID:
126069
URI
Publication date:
15.8.2014.
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