A Room Impulse Response Measurement Method Robust towards Nonlinearities based on Orthogonal Periodic Sequences

The paper discusses a measurement approach for the room impulse response (RIR), which is insensitive to the nonlinearities that affect the measurement instruments. The approach employs as measurement signals the perfect periodic sequences for Wiener nonlinear (WN) filters. Perfect periodic sequences (PPSs) are periodic sequences that guarantee the perfect orthogonality of a filter basis functions over a period. The PPSs for WN filters are appealing for RIR measurement, since their sample distribution is almost Gaussian and provides a low excitation to the highest amplitudes. RIR measurement using PPSs for WN filters is studied and its advantages and limitations are discussed. The derivation of PPSs for WN filters suitable for RIR measurement is detailed. Limitations in the identification given by the underestimation of RIR memory, order of nonlinearity, and effect of measurement noise are analysed and estimated. Finally, experimental results, which involve both simulations using signals affected by real nonlinear devices and real RIR measurements in the presence of nonlinearities, compare the proposed approach with the ones that are based on PPSs for Legendre nonlinear filter, maximal length sequences, and exponential sweeps.

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IMPULSE RESPONSE MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUE IN THE MONITOORING CONDITION OF THE EQUIPMENT

Ukrainian Metrological Journal ◽

10.24027/2306-7039.3a.2020.220294 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 0 (3A) ◽

pp. 186-190

Author(s):

V. A. Shirokova ◽

T. V. Barashkova

Keyword(s):

Impulse Response ◽

Measurement Technique ◽

Response Measurement

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Impulse Response Measurement Technique for Piezoelectric Transducer Arrangements

IEEE Transactions on Sonics and Ultrasonics ◽

10.1109/t-su.1968.29441 ◽

1968 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 13-17 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

O.M. Stuetzer

Keyword(s):

Impulse Response ◽

Measurement Technique ◽

Piezoelectric Transducer ◽

Response Measurement

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The quantitative advantages of using B-field sensors in time-domain EM measurement for mineral exploration and unexploded ordnance search

Geophysics ◽

10.1190/geo2011-0385.1 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 77 (4) ◽

pp. WB137-WB148 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Michael W. Asten ◽

Andrew C. Duncan

Keyword(s):

Impulse Response ◽

Time Constant ◽

Exponential Decay ◽

Time Domain ◽

Step Response ◽

Late Time ◽

Additional Parameter ◽

Unexploded Ordnance ◽

Response Measurement ◽

Response Systems

The use of simple models for decay of conductive targets under conductive overburden and for the decay of magnetically permeable conductive steel objects allows quantitative consideration of the advantages of the use of magnetic-field detectors in time-domain electromagnetic (TEM) measurements, or more generally, the advantage of step response over impulse response TEM systems. We identified eight advantages of the step response versus impulse-response systems. The first two advantages relate to the inductive limit (early time) decay behavior, in which a target response amplitude is largely dependent on geometrical rather than conductivity parameters. Five further advantages occur when measuring response of a target in a conductive host or under conductive overburden; the maximum target-to-overburden response occurs 25%–30% earlier in time, the earliest target detection time occurs a factor 2–4 earlier, and the amplitude advantage of target-to-overburden response is a factor in the range of 1–10 for the step versus impulse-response systems, respectively. These advantages agree quantitatively with field observations on a chalcopyrite orebody under conductive cover. We used a model response for a conductive permeable sphere to derive mathematically consistent approximations for the power-law and exponential decay behaviors for step and impulse responses of metal objects, from which the onset of late-time exponential decay of EM responses of unexploded ordnance occurs about a factor of two earlier in time for the step response. This earlier-time transition together with the higher signal-to-noise ratio available from the step-response measurement makes measurement of the fundamental time-constant of unexploded ordnance (UXO) possible for medium and large UXO where the time constant is in the range of tens of milliseconds. This time-constant thus becomes accessible as an additional parameter for UXO characterization and discrimination.

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