This paper proposes a new source locating method referred to as the one receiving point locating method in which only one receiving point is required. This method locates the moving object from its azimuth and elevation angles, so that the receiving system and the locating procedure can be realized simpler than the conventional methods. These angles are detected from two phase differences of the arrival signal impinged on each element of a three-element sensor array. For the phase estimation from the Fourier coefficients of signals, the notch Fourier transform (NFT) with small computational complexity is employed. To compare the locating accuracy of the NFT, we also consider the maximum likelihood estimation (MLE). Furthermore, to improve the locating resolution of the NFT, we propose a new arrival angles detection method referred to as the correlation-based NFT (COR-NFT). The COR-NFT detects the azimuth and elevation angles from two phases of cross-correlation functions of each sensor output. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated using data collected with an experimental system. In this experimental system, we use the ultrasonic wave as the signal instead of the electromagnetic wave, because we can not easily utilize a higher operating frequency for our poor mounting technique. The used frequency is well suited to the size of the array which can be conveniently built and treated. In our experiments, we have confirmed that the locating resolution is improved with increasing the number of sampled data
N, where the standard deviations of detected angles are within 12.4deg, 3.45deg, 2.56deg, and 4.35deg for the NFT, the MLE (
N=4), the MLE (
N=32), and the COR-NFT (
N=32), respectively. Furthermore, it is possible to detect the moving direction of the source by the proposed moving object tracking method.
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