Robust and accurate calibration method of acoustic travel-time tomography for measurement of indoor air temperature: Applications of room acoustics

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Abstract

Acoustic travel-time tomography (ATOM) is a widely used experimental technique for remote sensing of indoor air temperature. The procedure of ATOM corresponds to collecting the time-of-flight of early reflections in room impulse response, which is then used as the input data to reconstruct temperature within the tomographic area. Usually, the coordinates of the used transceivers are known; however, practical constraints often prevent the accurate access of these coordinates, which can have an impact on the measurement accuracy. In the present work, we address the issue of predicting accurate coordinates of transceivers. Unlike earlier published papers by Dokhanchi et al. [Measurement 164, 107934 (2020)], which are based on adjusting the distance between transceivers, we propose a robust and accurate calibration method. Results show the feasibility of the proposed method, where 109 updated coordinates out of the total 201 successfully recover a highly accurate temperature within a plexiglass box (1.33 m × 1.0 m × 1.27 m). Compared to the method based on the adjustment of the distance between the transceivers, the present calibration method reduces the uniform temperature discrepancy from 0.22 °C to 0.05 °C. Moreover, we show that this calibration method remains applicable for indoor graded temperature.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4017-4030
Number of pages14
JournalThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Volume157
Issue number6
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jun 2025
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

Scopus 105007451188
ORCID /0000-0002-0803-8818/work/187080216
ORCID /0000-0001-7244-3503/work/187083417

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