TY - GEN
T1 - Sound direction sensor with an acoustic channel
AU - Nguyen, Minh Dung
AU - Inaba, Akira
AU - Suzuki, Akira
AU - Takahashi, Hidetoshi
AU - Iwase, Eiji
AU - Matsumoto, Kiyoshi
AU - Shimoyama, Isao
PY - 2010/6/1
Y1 - 2010/6/1
N2 - This paper reports on a method for estimating direction of a sound with one directional acoustic sensor. Inspired by the two input structure of bushcricket ear, our sensor was designed to have an acoustic channel and a micro piezo-resistive cantilever. The radiated sound acts simultaneously on the external and on the inner surface of the cantilever. As the result, the directionality of our sensor varies with the frequency of incident sound. The sound direction was estimated by using directional responses of the sensor at multiple frequencies so that it does not require either angle scanning or microphone arrays. We demonstrated that this method enables the sound direction to be estimated with the average error of 4 degrees in laboratory experiments.
AB - This paper reports on a method for estimating direction of a sound with one directional acoustic sensor. Inspired by the two input structure of bushcricket ear, our sensor was designed to have an acoustic channel and a micro piezo-resistive cantilever. The radiated sound acts simultaneously on the external and on the inner surface of the cantilever. As the result, the directionality of our sensor varies with the frequency of incident sound. The sound direction was estimated by using directional responses of the sensor at multiple frequencies so that it does not require either angle scanning or microphone arrays. We demonstrated that this method enables the sound direction to be estimated with the average error of 4 degrees in laboratory experiments.
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U2 - 10.1109/MEMSYS.2010.5442321
DO - 10.1109/MEMSYS.2010.5442321
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77952788442
SN - 9781424457649
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)
SP - 655
EP - 658
BT - MEMS 2010 - The 23rd IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, Technical Digest
T2 - 23rd IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, MEMS 2010
Y2 - 24 January 2010 through 28 January 2010
ER -