Project
# | Title | Team Members | TA | Documents | Sponsor |
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35 | Acoustic Motion Tracking |
Hojin Chun Sean Nachnani |
Yuchen He TA | design_document0.pdf final_paper0.pdf other0.pdf proposal0.pdf |
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Group Members: Sean Nachnani (nachnan2) Kevin Chun (hchun8) General Description: The project idea is to use sound rather than video as a means of motion recognition. Current smart devices are limited to only using natural language processing to interpret a user's needs. We want to expand upon this further and allow devices to perform commands using simple gestures. The current idea is to create a 4-input microphone array with an ADC that allows for at least a 48khz sample rate, and use a speaker that can reproduce sounds up to at least 24khz. We will start off by sending pseudo-random pulses across a large bandwidth and correlating the sent signal with the received input from the microphones. Given time we will switch to using FMCW (Frequency Modulated Continuous Waveform) radar as a basis for this approach. This will allow us to achieve accurate distance and velocity measurements, and potentially transmit in the inaudible range. I have spent the last month prototyping this device using a raspberry Pi and a speaker array. I've gotten the pseudo random pulse approach to work, coding all the signal processing in Python, mainly with the PyAudio and SciPy libraries. The prototype's speaker array is currently sampling at 44.1khz and using a speaker that can play up to 20khz. I was able to achieve accurate measurements within the range of a normal living room (about the size of a smaller classroom in eceb). We plan on building the microphone array using 4 MEMS microphones and appropriate ADCs to sample up to 48khz. This will allow us to play sounds up to 24khz, which will give us enough bandwidth to get accurate measurements. We'll also use a micro controller (most likely a raspberry pi) to sample from these microphones and perform the DSP needed. This system will be designed to be plugged into a regular power outlet. Related Research Papers: CAT: High-Precision Acoustic Motion Tracking http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~wmao/resources/papers/cat.pdf FingerIO: Using Active Sonar for Fine-Grained Finger Tracking https://fingerio.cs.washington.edu/fingerio.pdf |