Interior sound measurements play an important role in vehicle development and refinement. Sometimes hundreds of microphones are installed in an automotive cabin. During test preparation and execution, a lot of time is spent in determining the microphone positions and in tracking cables to the data acquisition channel. A smart acoustic localization approach is presented to automate this process and to realize considerable time gains. It is based on estimating the distance between a microphone and (at least 4) sources by acoustic time-of-arrival measurements, combined with novel algorithms that cope with reflections and non-line-of-sight issues. The method will be illustrated using in-vehicle measurements.
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