In this section, we will go over the possible application area of our project, as well as the objective.
Possible application areas
Audio localization has quite a few applications in the real
world. In particular, such as system can be used in a homeautomation system to identify a person's location. Also, this
project has applications in sonar and radar systems.
Objective
In this project we would like to:
Accurately determine the origin of a sine wave to within 22.5
Adjust to real-time change in the signal location
However, first we need to set a few parameters. Firstly, our
field-of-view is the half plane in front of the array and onlydeals with the azimuth, not the elevation. Secondly, as we
will learn in
Beamforming Theory ,
the signal will have to originate in the far-field.
shows how our set-up will work.
The setup
The star represents our far-field source. The black
circles represent microphones. The area shaded in greenrepresents the correct region. The areas shaded in yellow
represent our margin of error. The areas shaded in redrepresent the incorrect areas.
