A low-cost PC-based range finder system

• Main Authors: Motakabber, S. M. A., Ibrahimy, Muhammad Ibn
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology Press 2013
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/33207/1/276-E0008_IJCCE_2013_M.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/33207/; http://www.ijcce.org/index.php

Now computerization is the most popular, reliable and flexible design for various types of control and communication systems. Sound navigation and ranging (SONAR) is a modern ultrasonic range finding technique used for collecting the information about a distant object without any physical contact. In this research work a PC based active SONAR system is proposed. A pair of 40 kHz piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers is used in this project. A driver-software named is developed using turbo C language aimed at IBM PC and its clone machines. The software provides necessary support for interfacing the hardware as well as calculations. A numbers of test were done and found that the proposed system performances are good in terms of accuracy ±5%, simplicity,cost and power consumption.