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Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 245–250 (2012) DOI: 10.2478/v10168-012-0032-5
Technical Note
This paper presents a mechanical positioning system for a measuring microphone designed for acoustic
studies in anechoic and reverberation chambers at the Department of Mechanics and Vibroacoustics,
AGH. The results are discussed in the context of mechanical positioning and its impact on the outcome
of the execution of individual measurement procedures. Moreover, areas for research were identified and
solution concepts shown for further development of the automation of acoustic measurements in different
research rooms in order to reduce the human involvement in them.
Keywords: positioning system, manipulator, turntable, anechoic chamber.
Fig. 1. The location of the manipulator in the anechoic Fig. 2. Directional characteristics of a twelve-speaker sound
chamber. source for frequencies of 125, 1000 and 4000 Hz.
J. Felis, A. Flach, T. Kamisiński – Testing of a Device for Positioning Measuring Microphones. . . 247
Fig. 7. The turntable in the reverberation chamber at the Department of Mechanics and Vibroacoustics.
turntable, while the sound source and measuring mi- measurements with manual positioning take about 30
crophones are positioned manually (Kamisiński et al., hours.
2010). A prototype system described here is in opera- Preliminary studies showed that the manipulator
tion at the Department of Mechanics and Vibroacous- fully satisfied its basic design and construction princi-
tics. ples. The actual positioning accuracy and the load-
bearing capacity of the turntable was greater than
6. Summary and conclusions planned. The study also demonstrated the possibility
of further improvement to the measurement capability
The studies conducted so far demonstrate several of the structure.
benefits of the mechanical positioning of the micro- One problem with testing in an anechoic chamber,
phone during acoustic measurements. The main ben- which does not require the use of the keypad, is the lack
efit is the possibility of performing a large number of of rapid movements of the modules outside the mea-
measurements in a short time with virtually no hu- surement. Therefore we began work by a method allow-
man intervention after proper preparation and pro- ing for a quick positioning of the manipulator modules
gramming of the manipulator position. A vision system in the zone of wedges in the anechoic chamber, and by
is used to observe the process of measuring. The du- modifying the actuators. This problem is also associ-
ration of acoustic measurements is mainly determined ated with a reduction of the impact of elements of the
by the time it takes to move the microphone between manipulator on the sound field of the chamber. Further
the measurement points. The measurement of sound work toward the gradual improvement of the software
power with the use of the manipulator takes up to 10 controlling the measurement procedures is also under-
minutes, whether by manual positioning it takes about way. A new concept of positioning the measuring mi-
2 hours. For measurements of the spatial directional crophone in the anechoic chamber, shown in Fig. 5,
characteristics at an angular resolution of 1◦ , the mea- reduces these nuisances and increases the research ca-
surement lasts 30 minutes, whereas the corresponding pabilities of the device.
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