| Re: Seperating Multiple Signals in the Same Band |
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Group: comp.dsp · Group Profile
Author: MarkMark Date: Jun 11, 2008 08:55
On Jun 11, 10:59Â am, Jerry Avins ieee.org> wrote:
> xkenneth wrote:
>> Overview of the problem:
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>> I have a quite complicated filtering application here that I could
>> really use some help and insight on. I'm trying to extract a
>> repetitive signal (a pulse) that is not cyclical but appears on
>> certain modulus. (Meaning a pulse could come 2 to 5 modulus after
>> another.)
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> Ken,
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> I've read many of the replies you got and your responses to them. It's a
> bit difficult to follow your replies because they don't distinguish
> between what you write anew and what you quote. Perhaps you can fix that.
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> I can only guess what hou mean by "modulus" in your description ot the
> pulse's timing. Would you clarify that please?
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> I've seen no discussion of how the noise adds to the signal to corrupt
> it. Is it inherent in the measurement process, as with a microphone
> measuring room sound? If it is at all possible to exclude noise from the
> signal, that is always better than trying to suppress it later. Can you
> describe how you make your measurements?
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> Jerry
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to the OP, please clarify what you are trying to find:
a) the TIMING of the peak of the pulse?
or
b) the AMPLITUDE of the peak of the pulse?
If you are looking for timing, you may want to consdier filtering in
the time domain instead of the frequency domain...
Also if your desired signal has a steeper rise and fall time compared
to the noise, you may use that to advantage..
I have read someplace about interesting algortihms used in car
ignition control to recognize the acoustical signature of "pinging" or
"detonation" from "knock sensors". You may want to search those
terms.. Sounds like a similar problem.. Also in recovering the
timing pulses from the magnetic sensor in the distributor, when the
spark fires, there is a ton of noise, but the system knows it just
fired the spark so it ignores any data that comes back within x ms of
a spark fire etc.
Mark
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