Theoretical and experimental study on time-domain monopole time reversal method with excluding autocorrelation

Abstract

Monopole time reversal is an advanced noise source localization technique, but its sidelobe level in localizing sound sources is greatly affected by noise, leading to a decrease in the accuracy of sound source localization under a low signal-to-noise ratio. To address this issue, this paper proposes a time-domain monopole time reversal technique that excludes autocorrelation to reduce the impact of noise on sound source localization results. Numerical simulation and experimental results show that, compared to conventional monopole time reversal techniques, the proposed method can effectively reduce the sidelobes in sound source localization results and achieve accurate sound source localization under −20 dB low signal-to-noise ratio conditions.