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Project Overview

The goal is to build ultrasonic radars to detect small objects. This project will focus on designing circuits to change phases to each transducer to control the scanning directions. An ultrasonic sensor (transducer, used as both transmitter and receiver) sends an ultrasonic pulse. The mechanical wave is reflected back from any objects and detected by the transducer. The time delay in the pulse-echo can be used to calculate the distance of the objects. The use of a number of transducers to form a phased array has following advantages: increasing the signal to noise ratio; increasing detection distance, having much narrow beam to have higher direction resolution, and scanning all directions automatically by changing phase of each transducer electronically. By scanning all directions, the ultrasonic phased array will generate 3D images like a radar.

Team Members

Jiming Song

Advisor

Abubaker Abdelrahman

Electrical

Senior in Electrical Engineering

Jack Riley

Electrical

Senior in Electrical Engineering

Ryan Foster

Electrical

Senior in Electrical Engineering

Samuel Rosette

Electrical

Senior in Electrical Engineering

Kevin Czerwinski

Electrical

Senior in Electrical Engineering

Derek Thomas

Computer

Senior in Computer Engineering

Final Semester Deliverables

Final Poster
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Final Report


Final Semester Bi-Weekly Reports

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First Semester Work

Report 1
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Design Document
Design Presentation