John Monro wrote:

   ...

> Jack,
> I'm guessing at your application, but if your problem is similar to the 
> removal of 'clutter' in RADAR, a lot has been written on this.
> 
> If the desired reflections are from a moving object and the undesired 
> ones are from stationary objects, then an adaptive filter with a long 
> adaption time could be useful as newly-introduced reflections from the 
> moving object will be only partially canceled.

With adequate frequency discrimination, reflectors moving at different 
velocities can be distinguished by Doppler shifts.

Jerry
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Jacky_42 wrote:
>>Jacky_42 wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I have a problem where I send a signal and listen for reflections of
>>>different surfaces but I dont want to listen for signals that are
>>>reflected of two or more surfaces.
>>>
>>>How can I use an adaptive filter to remove these kind of reflections?
> 
> Any
> 
>>>help on this topic will be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>Jacky, that's a toughie. All you have to go on is time delay. (With 
>>light, there could be handedness, which distinguishes between even and 
>>odd numbers of reflections.) Is there some special character of the 
>>space in which reflections occur that might help?
>>
>>Jerry
>>-- 
>>Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.
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> 
> 
> Jerry/John,
> 
> Firstly, thank you for responding to my query. The time delay approach is
> not suitable as I am always expecting a reflection from one surface or
> another. The internal reflections at some point in time are overlapping
> with the surface reflected signals.
> 
> I don't know how to remove the echo if its correlated with your expected
> signal.
> 
> The signals that I am sending are sound signals. I am not familiar with
> handedness. I dont know if it applies to sound waves. 
> 
> -Jack
> 
> 
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Jack,
I'm guessing at your application, but if your problem is similar to the 
removal of 'clutter' in RADAR, a lot has been written on this.

If the desired reflections are from a moving object and the undesired 
ones are from stationary objects, then an adaptive filter with a long 
adaption time could be useful as newly-introduced reflections from the 
moving object will be only partially canceled.

Regards,
John

Jacky_42 wrote:

   ...

> The signals that I am sending are sound signals. I am not familiar with
> handedness. I dont know if it applies to sound waves. 

"Mirror images" don't happen with sound, as I wrote. I was thinking 
aloud; a bad habit.

Jerry
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>Jacky_42 wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have a problem where I send a signal and listen for reflections of
>> different surfaces but I dont want to listen for signals that are
>> reflected of two or more surfaces.
>> 
>> How can I use an adaptive filter to remove these kind of reflections?
Any
>> help on this topic will be greatly appreciated.
>
>Jacky, that's a toughie. All you have to go on is time delay. (With 
>light, there could be handedness, which distinguishes between even and 
>odd numbers of reflections.) Is there some special character of the 
>space in which reflections occur that might help?
>
>Jerry
>-- 
>Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.
>�����������������������������������������������������������������������
>

Jerry/John,

Firstly, thank you for responding to my query. The time delay approach is
not suitable as I am always expecting a reflection from one surface or
another. The internal reflections at some point in time are overlapping
with the surface reflected signals.

I don't know how to remove the echo if its correlated with your expected
signal.

The signals that I am sending are sound signals. I am not familiar with
handedness. I dont know if it applies to sound waves. 

-Jack


		
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Jacky_42 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem where I send a signal and listen for reflections of
> different surfaces but I dont want to listen for signals that are
> reflected of two or more surfaces.
> 
> How can I use an adaptive filter to remove these kind of reflections? Any
> help on this topic will be greatly appreciated.

Jacky, that's a toughie. All you have to go on is time delay. (With 
light, there could be handedness, which distinguishes between even and 
odd numbers of reflections.) Is there some special character of the 
space in which reflections occur that might help?

Jerry
-- 
Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.
�����������������������������������������������������������������������

Jacky_42 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem where I send a signal and listen for reflections of
> different surfaces but I dont want to listen for signals that are
> reflected of two or more surfaces.
> 
> How can I use an adaptive filter to remove these kind of reflections? Any
> help on this topic will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jack
> 
> 
> 
> 		
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Jacky,
Hopefully your first double reflection arrives back after your last 
single reflection.  In this case you could discriminate on the basis of 
time delay.

I suggest you use the usual adaptive filter configuration for 
suppressing echoes, and make the number of taps large enough so that the 
signal sample delay from the first tap to the last is longer than your 
longest multiple-reflection time. (There may be a lot of taps involved.)

When you do the FIR filter MACs and when you do the coefficient updates, 
only do it for the taps corresponding to the delay times of the range of 
delayed signals that you want to suppress, i.e the multiple-reflection 
signals, (and probably also the immediate, undelayed signal, if you want 
to get rid of that as well).

I can't confirm that this works, but offer it as something to think about.

Regards,
John

Hi,

I have a problem where I send a signal and listen for reflections of
different surfaces but I dont want to listen for signals that are
reflected of two or more surfaces.

How can I use an adaptive filter to remove these kind of reflections? Any
help on this topic will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Jack



		
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