Design and implementation of an ultrasonic local positioning system for robot guidance in a heavy liquid metal environment

Author

De Cock, Wouter ; Kenis, Steven ; Van Roy, Ken ; Verachtert, Lieven ; Leroux, Paul

Author_Institution

Belgian Nucl. Res. Centre SCK-CEN, Mol, Belgium

fYear

2013

fDate

23-27 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

In this paper, we describe a preliminary research towards the use of chirp coded spread spectrum techniques to implement a local positioning system to assist robot operators during manipulations and maintenance tasks in the future MYRRHA reactor. Preliminary test results in a simple experimental setup show promising results towards further developments of the system as the developed algorithms are able to discriminate between different transducers.

Keywords

fission reactor design; fission reactor instrumentation; fission research reactors; liquid metal fast breeder reactors; ultrasonic transducers; MYRRHA reactor; chirp coded spread spectrum techniques; heavy liquid metal environment; robot guidance; transducers; ultrasonic local positioning system; Chirp; Interference; Noise; Receivers; Synchronization; Transducers; Transmitters; Chirp; Digital Signal Processing; Local Positioning System; Spread Spectrum;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advancements in Nuclear Instrumentation Measurement Methods and their Applications (ANIMMA), 2013 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Marseille

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1046-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ANIMMA.2013.6727991

Filename

6727991