Features |
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No line-of-sight requirement |
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Measures both position
and orientation at any point along the cable |
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Is immune to many
interference sources |
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Accommodates a range
of active volumes and cable lengths |
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Tracks cable motion
at useful rates |
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Is easily portable |
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Can potentially have
a small cable diameter (for example, < 1 mm) |
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Applications |
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Shape measurement
of towed acoustic arrays |
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Precision placement
of urban transmission cables and pipelines |
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Advanced robotics
for sensing of body and limb position |
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Advanced surgical
techniques |
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Guidance for steerable
drilling systems |
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3-D computer input |
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Spatial registration
of sensor data |
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Computer input devices |
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Noninvasive surgery |
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Dynamic array beamforming |
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Search and rescue |
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