WO2005083464A1 - Procede et dispositif detecteur pour l'obtention d'informations sur la position d'un objet au moyen d'un detecteur d'ultrasons - Google Patents

Procede et dispositif detecteur pour l'obtention d'informations sur la position d'un objet au moyen d'un detecteur d'ultrasons Download PDF

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WO2005083464A1
WO2005083464A1 PCT/AT2005/000064 AT2005000064W WO2005083464A1 WO 2005083464 A1 WO2005083464 A1 WO 2005083464A1 AT 2005000064 W AT2005000064 W AT 2005000064W WO 2005083464 A1 WO2005083464 A1 WO 2005083464A1
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
    • G01S15/00—Systems using the reflection or reradiation of acoustic waves, e.g. sonar systems
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    • G01S15/10—Systems for measuring distance only using transmission of interrupted, pulse-modulated waves
    • G01S15/102—Systems for measuring distance only using transmission of interrupted, pulse-modulated waves using transmission of pulses having some particular characteristics
    • G01S15/104—Systems for measuring distance only using transmission of interrupted, pulse-modulated waves using transmission of pulses having some particular characteristics wherein the transmitted pulses use a frequency- or phase-modulated carrier wave
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
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    • G01S15/06—Systems determining the position data of a target
    • G01S15/42—Simultaneous measurement of distance and other co-ordinates

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  • the invention relates to a method for obtaining information about the position of an object with the aid of an ultrasound sensor which has an ultrasound transmitter and an ultrasound receiver, the directional characteristics of the ultrasound transmitter and receiver being different, in which method an ultrasound transmitter signal is used with the aid of the ultrasound transmitter is emitted and an ultrasound signal reflected by the object is received with the aid of the ultrasound receiver and evaluated to obtain position information.
  • the invention relates to a sensor device for obtaining information about the position of an object, with an ultrasound sensor which has an ultrasound transmitter and an ultrasound receiver, the directional characteristics of the ultrasound transmitter and receiver being different, and with an evaluation unit assigned to the ultrasound receiver Evaluation of an ultrasound signal emitted by the ultrasound transmitter, reflected by the object and received with the aid of the ultrasound receiver in order to obtain position information.
  • the classic ultrasonic sensor typically consists of a combined ultrasonic transducer, which allows a switch between transmit and receive operation. Because of the simple generation, narrow-band signals in the form of short bursts of constant frequency (for example 10-15 periods of a frequency between 50 kHz and 400 kHz) are generally used. This measurement signal is transmitted with an electrostatic or piezoelectric ultrasound transmitter. The signal reflected by an object is z. B. received again with the help of the ultrasound receiver.
  • a narrow band limitation in some of the available ultrasonic transducers and the frequency-dependent air damping result in the inevitable flattening of the rise in the envelope when transmitting ultrasonic signals, which in the case of a fixed threshold value and different reception amplitudes lead to large measurement uncertainties.
  • the signal amplitude of a reflected signal depends in particular on the following factors:
  • Reflection properties of the object to which the distance is determined mainly depend on the shape and orientation of the object.
  • a smooth, flat surface provides a strong reflection signal when the sensor axis is aligned approximately normally, but if the alignment is poor, it can also completely mirror the incoming signal so that no reflection signal is received at all.
  • a corner or edge does not reflect an incoming signal in one direction, but reflects it in several directions, but with a significantly smaller amplitude.
  • the amplitude of a reflected signal depends on the amplitude of the signal arriving at the object and thus on the position of the object within the radiation characteristic: the strongest level is in the middle of the When the main lobe is reached, the signal amplitude decreases with increasing radiation angle up to a zero point, in the direction of which no signal is emitted and which thus causes a blind area, and then rises again to the maximum of the first side lobe, which is about 17 dB smaller to reach the following side lobes via further zeros.
  • Cases 2) and 3) present problems for the classic ultrasonic sensor particularly when it comes to making statements as to whether an object is within a precisely defined area in front of the sensor: namely, while a well-aligned plane over a large angle is detected because the reflection properties are so good that even signals that are emitted via side lobes can be detected by the threshold value detector, a corner or edge is only recognized in a narrow area within the main lobe. At the edge of this strongly object-dependent directional characteristic, there are also strong measurement uncertainties.
  • JP 59-120875 A discloses an ultrasound sensor system in which an ultrasound sensor and an ultrasound receiver with axes that diverge relative to one another are arranged next to one another, the ultrasound sensor and the ultrasound receiver also being equipped with L-shaped tubes for deflecting the ultrasound, to avoid an adverse influence of dirt, rain or the like, if possible.
  • the actual ultrasonic transducers are located inside these L-shaped tubes.
  • a larger number of ultrasonic receivers are provided, the receivers being matched to a predetermined directional range.
  • the transmitter also sends out a narrow-band or monofrequency ultrasound signal, and a calculation is carried out on the receiver side on the basis of time difference.
  • this training is obviously complex, but the disadvantages explained above in connection with cases 2) and 3) still exist. It is an object of the invention to remedy this situation and to provide a method or a sensor device as stated at the outset, with which or in a comparatively simple manner improved locating and subsequently distance measurement with the aid of ultrasound, in particular of objects in Air.
  • the invention provides a method or a sensor device as defined in the following independent claims. Particularly advantageous embodiments and further developments are specified in the dependent claims.
  • the present invention is based on the use of separate ultrasonic transmitters and receivers, which differ by different directional characteristics, in particular both in amplitude and in phase, which result in different courses of the phase shifts over the radiation or reception angles of the ultrasonic wave .
  • the control of the ultrasound transmitter with signals of different frequencies allows the evaluation of these phase shifts in such a way that received signals can be assigned to precisely defined reflection areas according to their phase shifts.
  • the control signals are selected so that a range of permissible radiation and reception angles is made possible, in which valid measurements can be carried out. By specifically varying this angular range or by analyzing the phase shifts of the received signal, information about the directions of the reflected ultrasound waves can be obtained.
  • the runtime of a time-limited signal can be measured for distance measurement.
  • ultrasonic transmitters and receivers with a sufficiently large bandwidth corresponding to the signal are also required.
  • the received signal is evaluated using a correlative method which has high resolution, good interference suppression and good echo separation capability for detection of objects in close proximity. If the ultrasonic transmitter has a narrow, rotationally symmetrical main lobe with adjacent, generally likewise rotationally symmetrical side lobes, the effect of the phase shift of a radiated signal that occurs can be described solely by the radiation angle (angle between the sensor axis and the actual radiation direction).
  • the phase shift of the received signal is then essentially determined solely by the radiation angle if the ultrasound receiver has a significantly broader directional characteristic than the ultrasound transmitter with a constant phase shift in this area and its main lobe overlaps the main lobe and adjacent side lobes of the transmitter.
  • An ultrasound receiver that is laterally offset with respect to the ultrasound transmitter causes a certain asymmetry due to the different possible, differently long transmission and reception beams, which leads to a mathematically complex determination of the possible reflection areas.
  • a concentric arrangement of ultrasound transmitters and receivers can be provided so that their beam axes overlap and the transmission and reception beams travel the same way. In this case it makes sense to use an internal, e.g. circular, converter part to use, which can also be used as part of the transmitter converter in transmit mode.
  • the directional characteristic of an ultrasonic transducer is to be described here with the model of a piston membrane, which shows a strong dependence on the frequency of the emitted signal: the higher the signal frequency, the narrower the resulting main and side lobes in the directional characteristic.
  • the piston membrane model further shows that every second side lobe, starting with the first one, causes a phase shift of the transmitted or received signal of 180 °. If this phase shift occurs in parts (frequency components) of the signal, there is a strong decrease in the correlation result achieved in a correlative evaluation, which is used for signal detection - ⁇ - will. As long as a signal is emitted within the main lobe that results from the highest frequency occurring in the signal, a large, easily detectable correlation maximum is obtained.
  • the phase shift leads to a rapid deterioration of the correlation maximum and thus to a sharp limitation of the directional characteristic of the sensor.
  • the decrease in the correlation maximum occurs much earlier than a shift in the correlation maximum caused by the deterioration in the correlation, as a result of which measurement errors in the marginal region of the valid measuring range, as can be expected with classic ultrasonic sensors, can be excluded.
  • the directional characteristic also depends on the signal frequency. With an adaptation of the emitted signal based on measured values of the ambient temperature, it is also possible, if necessary, to compensate for the temperature influence on the defined measuring range of the ultrasonic sensor.
  • a successive variation of the directional characteristic by changing the emitted signal enables the search for a detection limit outside of which no signal detection takes place.
  • this detection limit supplies a family of possible radiation directions with the same phase shift, which, in conjunction with the distance measured value, give an estimate of possible positions of the reflection point.
  • these limits are concentric conical shells that can be described using the opening angle, which is now the same as the direction of radiation.
  • the determination of the transmitted beam direction to the reflection point is made possible directly by the signal evaluation of the received ultrasound signal.
  • the correlation process is not carried out over the entire signal, but continuously over part of the signal, starting at low frequencies.
  • the limit of the measuring range is recognized by the fact that the correlation result decreases from that part of the signal from which the signal is transmitted through side lobes.
  • the emission direction of the transmission signal is located in the transition between the main lobe and a side lobe of the directional characteristic of the highest signal frequency of the signal part currently used for the correlation. The angle of the direction of radiation thus results directly from the signal frequency.
  • the present technique is ideally suited for determining the position of objects in space by recording and evaluating series of measured values from different sensor positions whose position in the room is known become.
  • the use of classic ultrasonic sensors leads to ambiguous solutions that are difficult to control due to the ambiguous detection areas that depend on the object properties. If the position of the reflecting objects in the room is already known, the position of the objects in the room can be checked by evaluating individual measured values, and possible position deviations can also be determined.
  • the frequency can be increased from 30 kHz to 80 kHz, for example, a different form of the ultrasound transmission signal can also be provided, which is broadband, ie contains a corresponding number of frequency components.
  • the frequencies in the ultrasound transmission signal can be increased in steps, but in principle the frequencies can also be reduced (continuously or in steps) from the highest frequency to the lowest frequency.
  • twist or pivot the actual ultrasound sensor i.e. the ultrasound transmitter together with the ultrasound receiver to be able, whereby the transmission axis and the reception axis change together in their orientation in space.
  • FIG. 1 schematically shows an arrangement of an ultrasound transmitter and an ultrasound receiver in a reference coordinate system and a reflection point (object) which reflects a signal emitted along a transmission beam back along a reception beam to the ultrasound receiver;
  • FIG. 1A schematically, in the manner of a block diagram, a sensor device with an ultrasound transmitter and an ultrasound receiver separated therefrom and associated electronic circuits;
  • FIG. 2 shows a schematic view of directional characteristics of a piston membrane for different frequencies, with the help of such a model the directional characteristics of many ultrasonic transducers can be described;
  • signal amplitude A normalized
  • t in ⁇ s
  • the influence of the directional characteristics shown in FIG. 2 on a broadband signal in this case on a linear frequency-modulated signal pulse or chirp with a length of 3 ms and with a frequency range from 30 kHz to 80 kHz, at a beam angle of 17 °;
  • FIG. 5 schematically shows an ultrasonic sensor in connection with two reflecting objects, the entire radiation angle range and the defined detection range obtained according to the invention being illustrated schematically;
  • FIG. 6 shows the basic structure of a concrete measuring arrangement, with a rotatably mounted ultrasonic sensor in association with two reflection objects, namely a smooth plane and a round rod;
  • Fig. 7 in a diagram: Distance (in m) over the sensor angle ⁇ the results obtained with the measuring arrangement shown in Fig. 6, the measured distances to the plane and the round bar above the orientation (the Beam angle) of the ultrasonic sensor are illustrated; and
  • 8A and 8B show two embodiments of concentric transducer arrangements in a schematic plan view.
  • FIG. 1 schematically shows a plate 1 on which an ultrasound transmitter 2 and an ultrasound receiver 3 are rigidly mounted. Furthermore, a coordinate system with coordinate axes x, y, z is illustrated, whereby the x and y axes are assumed to lie in the plane of the plate 1.
  • a transmission signal 5 emitted by the ultrasound transmitter 2 at angles ⁇ and ⁇ reaches an object 4, that is to say a reflection point, is reflected back by the latter to the ultrasound receiver 3 in accordance with a signal beam 6 and arrives there at angles ⁇ and ⁇ .
  • angles ⁇ and ⁇ denote the angle between the x-axis and the projection of the emitted beam 5 or the received beam ⁇ onto the base plane, ie the plate 1, whereas the angles ⁇ and ⁇ show the deviation of these beams 5, 6 from the Specify transmitter axis 12 or receiver axis 13.
  • the radiation properties of the Transmitter converter with the same beam angles ß the same.
  • transmitter 2 and receiver 3 can be obtained, for example, if the transmitter 2 e.g. surrounds the receiver 3 in a ring shape, as will be explained in more detail below with reference to FIGS. 8A and 8B.
  • FIG. 1A in addition to FIG. 1, a schematic of a structure of an ultrasound sensor device with the ultrasound sensor 2 and the ultrasound receiver 3 and associated control and evaluation units assigned to these transducers is shown.
  • the ultrasonic transmitter 2 is preceded by a control unit 8, in which the desired broadband transmission signal 5 'is formed with a defined length, as is shown by way of example in FIG. 1A.
  • the intended transmission signal i.e. in a control signal 5 'with a predetermined duration, e.g. a duration of 3 ms, the frequency increases continuously, the frequency increasing for example from 30 kHz to 80 kHz.
  • an ultrasound receiver 3 is followed by an evaluation unit, generally designated 9, which contains a correlator unit 9a and a reference pattern memory 9b.
  • the received ultrasound signal is in the correlator unit 9a 6, after its conversion into an electronic signal in the transducer of the ultrasound receiver 3 and after a sampling or digitization (not illustrated in any more detail), is correlatively compared with a reference signal stored in the reference signal memory 9b, the reference signal stored in the memory 9b being free of phase shifts as caused by the transmission of the transmission signal 5 with the aid of the ultrasound transmitter 2 with predetermined - relatively narrow - directional characteristics are introduced.
  • This correlation method will be explained in more detail below.
  • FIG. 1A a general control and data processing unit 10 is shown in FIG. 1A.
  • this unit 10 which also forms part of the evaluation unit 9 with regard to the data processing carried out in it, the transit time of a time-limited transmission signal 5 from the ultrasound transmitter 2 to the object 4 and the received signal 6 from the object 4 back to the ultrasound receiver 3 can also be determined to measure the distance from the ultrasonic sensor 7 to the object 4 after determining the angular orientation to the object 4.
  • An ultrasonic transducer can usually be described using the model of the piston membrane, the frequency-dependent directional characteristic of which can be seen in FIG. 2.
  • a constant frequency of the emitted signal for example 30 kHz
  • it consists of a main lobe 15a and side lobes 16a, 17a with decreasing amplitude maxima compared to the main lobe 15a, the lobes 15a, 16a, 17a being separated from one another by zeros.
  • Each side lobe 16a, 17a, starting with the first side lobe 16a also ideally (model case) produces a phase shift of 180 ° of the signal emitted by it.
  • both the associated main lobe 15b and 15c and the adjacent side lobes 16b and 16c; 17b and 17c narrower.
  • a frequency-modulated signal is emitted, the effective directional characteristic of the ultrasound transmitter is dynamically changed in accordance with the frequency of the signal part emitted at the respective time. If one considers a linear frequency-modulated signal (eg the signal 5 'in FIG.
  • the following area or signal component 22 is emitted via the first side lobe 16b, which ends again with a zero point 21b. This part of the signal experiences a phase shift (phase shift) of 180 °.
  • a correlative method is used to evaluate the received ultrasound signal (6 in FIG. 1), which involves a cross-correlation between the received signal 6 and a stored reference signal (ie a signal which generally corresponds to the control signal 5 ′, that is to say a signal without this influencing the directional characteristic, corresponds).
  • a stored reference signal ie a signal which generally corresponds to the control signal 5 ′, that is to say a signal without this influencing the directional characteristic, corresponds.
  • a stored reference signal ie a signal which generally corresponds to the control signal 5 ′, that is to say a signal without this influencing the directional characteristic, corresponds.
  • the evaluation of the maxima occurring in the cross-correlation allows, on the one hand, an assessment of the quality of the received signal 6 and, on the other hand, the exact determination of the position of the reference signal within the received signal.
  • This correlation technique can be exemplified with the help of Table 1 below, in which only the signs of signal values (samples) on the one hand of the reference signal (in the first line of the table) and on the other hand of the signal emitted by transmitter 2 and received by receiver 3 (in the second line of the table). Below, the correlation result is illustrated in the third line, whereby it can be seen that the correlation is excellent initially - before the first phase jump by 180 ° due to the radiation in the side lobe, with increasing frequency - see (,, + ⁇ - Character) .
  • An anti-correlation (cf. the "-" signs) can be found from the dashed line.
  • the amplitudes of the correlation maxima K are then plotted in FIG. 4 as a function of the radiation angle ⁇ .
  • a flat area 26 at small angles and a steep drop at the edge 27a or 27b of this area 26 can be seen.
  • the introduction of a detection threshold 25 permits an evaluation of the correlation maxima, so that only the correlation maxima are used for the distance measurement, the amplitude of which corresponds to the defined threshold value 25 exceeds. This procedure results in a clear and lent sharply delimited detection range 26 (radiation angle range) of the ultrasonic sensor (2 in FIG. 1, 1A).
  • An evaluation of the correlation result with the aid of a detection threshold 25 is functionally equivalent to a determination of the positions of the zeros (corresponding to the positions of the phase jumps) of the directional characteristic.
  • the phase jumps in turn take place in the zeros of the directional characteristic of the ultrasound transmitter 2, the radiation angle ⁇ n of which can be determined using the following equation:
  • ⁇ n the radiation angle of the zero point n (corresponds to the angle of the boundary between the side lobe n-1 and the side lobe n of the directional characteristic, where the side lobe 0 denotes the main lobe),
  • T is the absolute temperature
  • a change in the temperature leads to a shift in the zero points ⁇ n in the directional characteristic and thus, with a given radiation angle ⁇ , to a shift in the relative positions 21a, 21b of the phase jumps in the received chirp signal (see Table 1 and Fig. 3).
  • the method for determining the radiation angle ⁇ is based on the evaluation of the relative positions of the phase jumps, in particular the first, in the received signal 6.
  • Temperature compensation is thus possible in the form that by adapting the start and end frequency and by adapting the time course of the frequency in the transmission signal 5 (or the Control signal 5 ') is achieved in that the relative positions of the phase jumps, in particular of the first phase jump, remain the same in the received signal 6 at the radiation angles ⁇ to be determined.
  • An alternative to taking the influence of temperature into account is to mathematically correct the knife events on the receiver side.
  • the ultrasonic sensor 7 consisting of a combination of an ultrasonic transmitter 2 and receiver 3, is used to measure the distance to two reflecting objects 31 and 32. Both objects 31, 32 are illuminated due to the directional characteristics of the ultrasound transmitter 2 that are sufficiently wide for this purpose and reflect the respective incoming signal back to the ultrasound receiver 3. However, due to the phase shift occurring due to the frequency modulation of the transmission signal 5 at larger radiation angles, only the signal reflected by an object 31 is generated 6 shows a good correlation result, while the signal reflected by the other object 32 is ignored due to its low correlation result regardless of the signal amplitude. A prerequisite for this is a sufficiently broad directional characteristic of the ultrasound receiver 3 of the ultrasound sensor 7 with a constant phase shift.
  • FIG. 6 shows a comparable measuring arrangement with an ultrasonic sensor 7 and with two objects 42, 43. The results of a measurement carried out with the arrangement shown in FIG. 6 can then be seen in FIG. 7.
  • the ultrasonic sensor 7 can be rotated with its axis 12 about an axis running perpendicular to it (and to the plane of the drawing) (cf. also the axis 12 'after pivoting), with a correspondingly changing axis angle ⁇ , on a substructure (not shown in more detail) stored, and it measures the distance to the two objects 42, 43, namely to a round rod 42 and to a smooth plane 43. Because of the exclusive swivel or. Rotational movement of the ultrasonic sensor 7, the reflection point R of the plane 43 always remains in a fixed position. The angle 44 between the two reflection points, namely on the plane 43 and on the round rod 42, is 15 °.
  • the technique described is essentially based on the frequency dependence of the phase shift of ultrasound signals, and this effect is exploited by the use of a broadband ultrasound signal, the different frequency components of which are exposed to corresponding phase shifts so that they are - within one and the same signal - be moved relative to each other.
  • the phase shift changes at a constant frequency depending on the direction, whereby it typically remains approximately constant in the central region of the main lobe, whereas it changes rapidly in the edge region of the main lobe, or jumps by 180 ° in the piston membrane model in the zero crossing.
  • a lateral position of the ultrasound receiver 3 (with a negligible phase response) has no influence on the location information, but only on the measurement value; this influence can be neglected in some cases. But if you want to have a sensor that measures properly, there is a concentric arrangement of transmitter 2 and receiver 3, i.e. avoid lateral offset to be provided.
  • FIG. 8A and 8B schematically illustrate two embodiments for such a concentric arrangement of the ultrasonic sensor 2 and the ultrasonic receiver 3, the control of the ultrasonic transmitter 2 with the aid of the control unit 8 and the connection of the ultrasonic receiver 3 with the correlator unit 9a also being shown is; see. see also Fig. 1A.
  • FIG. 8A shows an ultrasound receiver 3 (reception transducer) which is circular in plan view and which is arranged within an annular transducer means of the ultrasound transmitter 2.
  • the transmitter 2 and the receiver 3 which again have different directional characteristics as set out above, are arranged and operated independently of one another, similar to the above-described side-by-side arrangements of transmitter 2 and receiver 3.
  • a switch 55 an electronic switch
  • Transducer means 2 is arranged to selectively switch between the control unit 8 and the correlator unit 9a.
  • the transducer of the “ultrasound receiver” 3 can be connected to the control unit 8 in transmission mode and thus additionally used as an ultrasound transmitter transducer means (cf. the dashed position of the switch 55 in FIG. 8B), whereas in a receiving mode in which the 8B occupies the position shown in full line in FIG. 8B, the transducer of the ultrasound receiver 3 is connected to the correlator unit 9a and thus acts as a receiver transducer, depending on the distance of the objects to be located and thus the transit time of the ultrasound signal 5-6 the switching takes place in accordance with time intervals in the order of magnitude of, for example, half a ms, a ms or a few ms.
  • the directional characteristic of the combined transmitter / transducer means 2 + 3 can certainly have a comparatively narrow form compared to the directional characteristic of the transducer of the ultrasound receiver 3 itself As a result, the Ef effects can be achieved by using the frequency dependence of the directional characteristic of the ultrasonic transmitter (2 + 3 combined).
  • the transducers of the ultrasound transmitter 2 and receiver 3 in the form of a circle or a ring; other geometric shapes such as ellipses, rectangles, in particular squares, etc. are also conceivable. For reasons of symmetry, however, a circular shape will generally be preferred.

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Dans le but d'obtenir des informations sur la position d'un objet (4; 31, 32; 42, 43), un signal d'émission d'ultrasons (5) est émis au moyen d'un émetteur d'ultrasons (2), et un signal d'ultrasons (6) réfléchi par l'objet (4; 31, 32; 42, 43) est reçu au moyen d'un récepteur d'ultrasons (3), et évalué en vue d'obtenir des informations de position. L'invention est caractérisée en ce que la caractéristiques directionnelle de l'émetteur d'ultrasons (2), fonction de la fréquence, et qui est faible, comparativement à la caractéristique directionnelle du récepteur d'ultrasons (3), est modifiée dynamiquement, par utilisation d'un signal d'émission (5') renfermant des fréquences de signaux différentes, et en ce qu'en passant d'un lobe de rayonnement (15a) dans la caractéristique directionnelle, à un lobe de rayonnement voisin (16b), un déphasage se présente, et en ce que le signal d'ultrasons réfléchi reçu est comparé avec un signal de référence mémorisé, en vue de déterminer un domaine angulaire d'émission (26) de l'émetteur d'ultrasons (2), à utiliser pour des déterminations de position.
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