Multichannel airborne ultrasonic ranging system based on the Piccolo C2000 MCU

Author

Cambini, C. ; Giuseppi, L. ; Calzolai, M. ; Giannelli, P. ; Capineri, Lorenzo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Univ. of Florence Italy, Florence, Italy

fYear

2014

fDate

11-12 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

80

Lastpage

84

Abstract

The combination of different characteristics of airborne ultrasonic transducers for ranging applications opens up new applications for autonomous navigation systems in robotics. The features of a Piccolo C2000 MCU are suitable for the design of a ranging system with four channels. Each channel has different operating range and accuracy depending on the transducer characteristics and the implemented ranging technique. This paper presents the system architecture and the experimental results obtained with transducers operating at 40kHz, 100kHz and 300kHz.

Keywords

distance measurement; microcontrollers; ultrasonic transducers; Piccolo C2000 MCU; airborne ultrasonic transducers; autonomous navigation systems; frequency 100 kHz; frequency 300 kHz; frequency 40 kHz; multichannel airborne ultrasonic ranging system; ranging applications; robotics; Abstracts; Computer architecture; Distance measurement; Education; Navigation; Robots; Transducers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Education and Research Conference (EDERC), 2014 6th European Embedded Design in

Conference_Location

Milano

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6841-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDERC.2014.6924363

Filename

6924363