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An Ultrasonic Human–Computer Interface

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Sensors and Microsystems

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 268))

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The paper describes the design, the technology, and the characterization of an array of 16 elements of airborne ultrasonic transducers. The array is connected to a dedicated electronic platform that provides the 16 channels programmable analog front-end electronics and the synchronization and data acquisition and transmission for real-time target detection and tracking or for high-resolution imaging. The transducers are designed to operate at 150 kHz to cover a distance of about 200 mm and with featured narrow vertical directivity and wide horizontal directivity to scan an almost plane section with a linear array configuration.

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The authors wish to acknowledge the research grant from Texas Instruments for the development of the project.

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  1. Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Via S. Marta 3, 50139, Florence, Italy

    L. Capineri, M. Calzolai & A. Bulletti

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  1. L. Capineri
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Correspondence to L. Capineri .

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  1. Dept. of Electronic Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

    Corrado Di Natale

  2. Department of Information Engineering, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

    Vittorio Ferrari

  3. SENSOR Laboratory, IDASC, National Research Council (CNR), Brescia, Italy

    Andrea Ponzoni

  4. Department of Information Engineering, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

    Giorgio Sberveglieri

  5. Department of Information Engineering, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

    Marco Ferrari

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Capineri, L., Calzolai, M., Bulletti, A. (2014). An Ultrasonic Human–Computer Interface. In: Di Natale, C., Ferrari, V., Ponzoni, A., Sberveglieri, G., Ferrari, M. (eds) Sensors and Microsystems. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 268. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00684-0_61

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