scholarly journals Acoustic wave response to groove arrays in model ears

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. e0260020
Author(s):  
Brian W. Keeley ◽  
Annika T. H. Keeley

Many mammals and some owls have parallel grooved structures associated with auditory structures that may be exploiting acoustic products generated by groove arrays. To test the hypothesis that morphological structures in the ear can manipulate acoustic information, we expose a series of similar-sized models with and without groove arrays to different sounds in identical conditions and compare their amplitude and frequency responses. We demonstrate how two different acoustic signals are uniquely influenced by the models. Depending on multiple factors (i.e., array characteristics, acoustic signal used, and distance from source) the presence of an array can increase the signal strength of select spectral components when compared to a model with no array. With few exceptions, the models with arrays increased the total amplitude of acoustic signals over that of the smooth model at all distances we tested up to 160 centimeters. We conclude that the ability to uniquely alter the signal based on an array’s characteristics is evolutionarily beneficial and supports the concept that different species have different array configurations associated with their biological needs.

1996 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 510-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane C. Visto ◽  
Jerry L. Cranford ◽  
Rosalind Scudder

The present study investigated whether children with specific language impairment (SLI) differed from children with normal language learning in their ability to process binaural temporal information. The SLI group was matched with peers of the same chronological age, as well as peers with similar language age. All three subject groups were tested with measures of complex sound localization involving the precedence effect phenomenon. Subjects were required to track the apparent motion of a “moving” fused auditory image (FAI). Movement of the FAI was simulated by varying the delay incrementally between pairs of clicks presented, one each, from two matched loudspeakers placed on opposite sides of the child’s head. With this task, the SLI subjects’ performances were found to be similar to their language age-matched but chronologically younger peers. Both groups exhibited tracking skills that were statistically poorer than that of the chronologically age-matched group. Additional tests indicated this effect was not due to differences in motoric tracking abilities nor to the SLI subjects’ abilities to perceive small binaural time cues. Thus, children with SLI appear to be impaired in their ability to use binaural acoustic information in a dynamic ongoing fashion. The requirements for processing such nonlinguistic acoustic information in a “dynamic and ongoing” fashion may be similar to those involved in the ongoing processing of rapid changes in the temporal and spectral components of the speech chain.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (16) ◽  
pp. 5450
Author(s):  
Yunfei Li ◽  
Yang Zhou ◽  
Ming Fu ◽  
Fan Zhou ◽  
Zhaozhao Chi ◽  
...  

Leakage detection methods based on the analysis of leakage acoustic signals provide an effective technical approach for detecting small leaks in water supply pipelines. From a technical perspective, the study of the propagation characteristics of acoustic waves generated by the leakage in the water supply pipeline is necessary for detecting the leak location on the basis of acoustic signals. In this study, a 3D transient leakage acoustic wave propagation equation was derived by combining the principles of fluid dynamics and Lighthill acoustic analogy theory. The propagation of the leakage-induced noise in water supply pipeline was modelled theoretically. We simulated the propagation of a leakage acoustic wave under different conditions for different target scenarios encountered in actual pipeline inspections. Specifically, we analysed the effect of different factors, such as the pipe size and acoustic source characteristics, on acoustic propagation. Finally, the simulated experiments were practically performed using a self-designed simulated water supply pipeline and self-developed spherical water supply pipeline detector to validate the simulation analysis. The results of this study provide a theoretical guidance and basis for the analysis of characteristics of leakage acoustic wave signals and the recognition of leakage conditions in water supply pipelines.


2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 729-737
Author(s):  
Gong Chen ◽  
Lei Cai ◽  
Lv Zong ◽  
Yan Wang ◽  
Xin Yuan

Passive acoustic technology (PAT) is an important tool to acquire the passive acoustic signals from marine organisms. In this paper, PAT fish detection is introduced at great length, including the relevant instruments, signal processing methods, and workflow. Focusing on the key tasks of PAT fish detection, the authors proposed a sparse decomposition algorithm that extracts coherent ratio of passive fish acoustic signal, and designed a feature extraction method for that signal based on speech imitation technology. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed sparse decomposition algorithm can detect fish acoustic signal accurately at low signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs), and the proposed feature extraction method can effectively extract fish acoustic signals from the marine background. The research results shed important new light on the protection and management of fishery resources in the seas and oceans.


2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 220-231
Author(s):  
Hong Kun Wang ◽  
Shou Xiang Wang ◽  
Jing Nie

Abstract With the formation of China’s large power grid, the security of the network is particularly important. The contaminant flashover of insulators has a serious impact on the operation safety of a high voltage power network. In this paper, the acoustic signals’ characteristics of the contaminant insulators flashover are analyzed, and, as a result, the correlation between the acoustic signal and the contaminant insulator flashover is established. To experiment with contaminant insulator for three different Equivalent Salt Deposit Densities (ESDD), acoustic signals were collected separately. Then, the contaminant insulators’ acoustic signals of flashover were analyzed by wavelet packet. The characteristics of the signals were obtained, and they can be judged for contaminant flashover warning.


Author(s):  
Таtiana М. Tkachenko ◽  
Yulia H. Pilkevich ◽  
Heorhii M. Rozorinov

The basic sources of contamination and obstruction of reservoirs are cleared not enough sewer water of industrial and communal enterprises, large stock-raising complexes, wastes of production; upcast of water and railway transport; wastes of roughing-out of flax, pesticides and other. Сontaminents, getting in natural reservoirs, result in the quality changes of water, that, mainly, appear in the change of physical properties of water, in the change of chemical composition of water, in a presence floating substances on the surface of water and laying of them on the bottom of reservoirs. The increases of population, expansion of old and origin of new cities considerably increased entering of domestic flows internal reservoirs. Synthetic cleansers that is widely used in the way of life contaminate reservoirs in a yet greater degree. In the total the capacity of waters goes down for oxigenating, activity of bacteria that mineralize organic substances is paralysed. The unfavorable ecological state of many freshwater ecosystems inflicts substantial harm to the fish resources of reservoirs and puts under a threat possibility not only to develop fish industry, conducting fish artificially, but also simply to catch her. All of it stimulate to do events in relation to the improvement of the ecological state of fresh reservoirs. Voice vibrations are the important constituent of the ecological monitoring of the biota state of fresh reservoirs. Information is about formation of sound in a reservoir part of that is activity of fishes turns out by means of acoustic sensors, that farther yields to computer treatment. The modern methods of recognition of fish acoustic patterns are based on the standards of signals, with properties of average estimations, or on comparisons of acoustic signals with a standard. It is shown that for creation of standards, as a rule, executed: previous signal processing, extraction of features of acoustic signal. Acoustic signals that act from movable objects – fishes can change depending on objective external terms and physical state of reservoirs. The hard algorithms of recognition of acoustic patterns are characterized high probability of error. In this connection repressing are adaptive algorithms of recognition of acoustic patterns. In the process of forming of standards clarification of software comes true according to the features of acoustic signal. Realization of process of creation of standards allows to determine the measure of functional readiness of parameters and knowledge base for the decision of recognition tasks of acoustic signals. In the process of recognition the probability terms of the correct comparing are set to the standard, on default of that an algorithm stops to be executed and requires additional studies. It requires creation of standards that reflect the characteristic features of fish signals. Presently for authentication mostly choose such pattern of acoustic signals, as period length of signal fundamental wave. It can be determined or by the search of maximal value in an autocorrelation function, or by the search of minimum value in the function of mean value of difference of signal amplitudes, or by the search of difference of two maximal values in the sequence of going into detail wavelet-coefficients. It is shown that for the tasks of recognition of fish acoustic patterns, most exact and requiring the least studies there is presentation of acoustic signal as a set of sign vectors of frames. In detail methodologies of the period selection of fundamental wave of acoustic signal were analysed: SIFT, EFT-А and EFT-WT. Methodology of EFT-WT is characterized absence of the thresholds set in good time; by the rapid search of period of fundamental wave; by absence of dependence on a noise-level, as a certain range of frequencies is investigated. At the same time calculable complication of wavelet transform is relatively high, in this connection it is necessary optimization of calculation algorithms.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 2012-2016

This paper presents a novel technique for calculation of attenuation of acoustic signals in the materials in underwater channel. A laboratory procedure and algorithms have been developed for finding attenuation. In many applications like sonar signal processing acoustic signal attenuation in the dome or in an enclosure are required to be known. Finding the actual attenuation while signal passes through the materials is very useful in calculating the precise power transmitted through the enclosures. The attenuation in materials mainly dependent on type of material, signal frequency and launch angle of the signal. A proper procedure has been presented in this paper


2018 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
pp. 283-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.M. Ratcliffe ◽  
L. Jakobsen

Echolocation calls produced by bats in their larynges allow these flying, nocturnal mammals to orient and find food at night. The acoustic signals are not like bird song, and even individual bats exhibit great flexibility in call design and between-species overlap is common. As a result, identifying bats to species by their echolocation calls even in communities with few bat species can be difficult. Unfortunately, the situation is worse still. As a result of several factors — some to do with microphones, some with environment, some with bats, and the calls themselves — acoustic information transmitted to and transduced by microphones can be dramatically different from the actual signal produced by the bat and as would be recorded on axis, close to its mouth using ideal microphones under ideal conditions. We outline some of these pitfalls and discuss ways to make the best of a bad situation. Overall, however, we stress that many of these factors cannot be ignored and do impact our recordings.


2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei-Wei Kan ◽  
Qiu-Yu Li ◽  
Lei Pan

Abstract The scattering behavior of the anisotropic acoustic medium is analyzed to reveal the possibility of routing acoustic signals through the anisotropic layers with no backscattering loss. The sound-transparent effect of such medium is achieved by independently modulating the anisotropic effective acoustic parameters in a specific order, and experimentally observed in a bending waveguide by arranging the subwavelength structures in the bending part according to transformation acoustics. With the properly designed filling structures, the original distorted acoustic field in the bending waveguide is restored as if the wave travels along a straight path. The transmitted acoustic signal is maintained nearly the same as the incident modulated Gaussian pulse. The proposed schemes and the supporting results could be instructive for further acoustic manipulations such as wave steering, cloaking and beam splitting.


Entropy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (12) ◽  
pp. 1153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoni Hernández-Fernández ◽  
Iván G. Torre ◽  
Juan-María Garrido ◽  
Lucas Lacasa

In this work we consider Glissando Corpus—an oral corpus of Catalan and Spanish—and empirically analyze the presence of the four classical linguistic laws (Zipf’s law, Herdan’s law, Brevity law, and Menzerath–Altmann’s law) in oral communication, and further complement this with the analysis of two recently formulated laws: lognormality law and size-rank law. By aligning the acoustic signal of speech production with the speech transcriptions, we are able to measure and compare the agreement of each of these laws when measured in both physical and symbolic units. Our results show that these six laws are recovered in both languages but considerably more emphatically so when these are examined in physical units, hence reinforcing the so-called ‘physical hypothesis’ according to which linguistic laws might indeed have a physical origin and the patterns recovered in written texts would, therefore, be just a byproduct of the regularities already present in the acoustic signals of oral communication.


2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 6654-6661
Author(s):  
Qingying Zhao ◽  
Min Li ◽  
Jun Luo ◽  
Hanqing Wang ◽  
Jinge Cao

This paper describes a nanorobot control algorithm designed for approaching tumor tissue in local blood vessel for targeted drug delivery. The algorithm coordinates nanorobots’ movements through use of two types of chemical molecules, an acoustic signal and velocity characteristic of blood fluid. After detecting the chemical molecules released by cancer cells, a nanorobot moves toward the area of higher concentration of the molecule and releases another chemical molecule which alerts others to aggregate to the target. When nanorobots detect acoustic signals emitted by nanorobots reaching target, their paths will be planned according to intensity of acoustic signals and velocity characteristic of blood fluid. The simulations show that compared with the existed approaches, the proposed algorithm results in an increase of nanorobots’ population and a decrease of cost time to reach target site with the help of acoustic signals and velocity characteristic. As a whole, the results obtained suggest that the algorithm presented in this paper is a better strategy for approaching tumor tissue in local blood vessel by nanorobots.


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