Robotics, free-reed instruments, and naughty birds: Finding the common thread
Eric A. Dieckman · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2014
Musical acoustics often provides an accessible starting point for undergraduate research in which the basics are learned and applied to interesting problems. Even if students later study other areas of acoustics, the research experience gained is invaluable. This presentation will touch on a number of research projects encountered since the author's 2006 award for investigations of the acoustic behavior of Southeast Asian free-reed mouth organs. These projects come from a wide variety of acoustic disciplines, from nondestructive evaluation and architectural acoustics to benign bird exclusion and acoustic sensors for mobile robots, with the common thread of signal processing providing a focal point.