Bats versus dolphins – the ultimate battle of sonar systems

Thursday, November 8, 2018 - 09:20 in Mathematics & Economics

Active sensors are incorporated into a number of technologies, such as meteorology devices and self-driving cars, and use the echo from sound, radio or light waves to locate objects. But despite nearly a century of development, these active sensing technologies still fail to replicate the performance of sonars (sound waves) used in the biological world by dolphins and bats for echolocation.

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