An off-the-shelf drone for indoor operation would come with a variety of different sensors that are used concurrently to avoid collision with, e.g., walls, but these sensors are typically uni-directional and offers limited spatial awareness. In this paper, we propose a model-based technique for distance estimation using sound and its reflections. More specifically, the technique is estimating Time-of-Arrivals (TOAs) of the reflected sound that could infer knowledge about room geometry and help in the design of sound-based collision avoidance. Our proposed solution is thus based on probing a known sound into an environment and then estimating the TOAs of reflected sounds recorded by a single microphone. The simulated results show that our approach to estimating TOAs for reflector position estimation works up to a distance of at least 2 meters even with significant additive noise, e.g., drone ego noise.
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Sound-based Distance Estimation for Indoor Navigation in the Presence of Ego Noise
Usama Saqib, Jesper Rindom Jensen
European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), A Coruña, Spain, 2019, pp. 1–5
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@inproceedings{saqib2019sound,
title = {Sound-based Distance Estimation for Indoor Navigation in the Presence of Ego Noise},
author = {Saqib, Usama and Jensen, Jesper Rindom},
booktitle = {2019 27th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)},
pages = {1--5},
year = {2019},
publisher = {IEEE},
doi = {10.23919/EUSIPCO.2019.8902694}
}
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