“…Furthermore, although SD‐based AE source localization generally requires as few sensors as possible to reduce the calculation time, a large number of sensors need to be arranged to improve the localization accuracy when the specimen size is large 27,28 . Therefore, the correlation analysis between the signals collected by different sensors has become a hot research direction recently 29,30 . In this process, for n sensors, assuming the time of receiving the signal is, respectively, , thus, the actual time difference between the i th and j th sensors can be calculated by the following Equation (1).…”