Characterization of a robot arm for use in acoustic experiments

In this thesis, I characterized the motion of a robot arm, which is used to position a speaker in an echoic room at a distance of 1m around a subject's head under computer control. I also made some initial measurements of the acoustic transfer function from the speaker on the robot arm to a microphone in the center of the room as a function of speaker location. I wrote and implemented code in MATLAB to control placement on the robot arm and record experimental measurements.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2002

Author dc:creator

• Wamola, Davis (Davis W.), 1977-

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Barbara Shinn-Cunningham.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/16860

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/16860