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V. C ONCLUSION
This paper demonstrates successfully the data communica-
tion capabilities of ultrasonic GW in a dispersive isotropic
waveguide. Results from a numerical finite element model
and experiments are presented and discussed. Data rates of
120 kbits/s could be achieved. Future work will investigate
Fig. 5. Photo of the experimental setup showing the position of the actuator
the acoustic communication link in more complex structures,
and sensor (only the rightmost and the leftmost are used in this experiment), such as composite as well as sandwich structures, and study
and the position of the damage. performance measures of the channel, e.g. bit-error rates.
Fig. 7. (top) Envelope of the matched filter response of the multibit sequence
10001101000111110100 when the reference signal for the matched filter
computation is always the impulse response of the undamaged specimen. The
digital information can be recovered in case of the damaged specimen, but
a significant drop in amplitude occurs with increasing damage size; (bottom)
The amplitude of the matched filter envelope increases again when the
reference signal is updated by a new impulse response function of the damaged
structure. This proves the robustness of the acoustic data communication link.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The authors acknowledge support by the German Research
Foundation through the AcoComm project (grant 349435502).
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