Mukherjee, Joshua;
Christopoulos, Giorgos;
Shen, Zhouyang;
Subramanian, Sriram;
Hirayama, Ryuji;
(2026)
AcousTools: A ‘Full-Stack’, Python-Based,
Acoustic Holography Library.
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control
(In press).
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Abstract
Acoustic Holography is an emerging field where mid-air ultrasound is controlled and manipulated for novel and exciting applications. These range from midair haptics, volumetric displays, contactless fabrication, and even chemical and biomedical applications such as drug delivery. To develop these applications, a software framework to predict acoustic behaviour and simulating resulting effects, such as applied forces or scattering patterns is desirable. There have been various software libraries and platforms that attempt to fill this role, but there is yet to be a single piece of software that acts as a ‘full-stack’ solution. We define this full-stack as the process from abstraction to physicalisation starting with setup, modelling acoustic propagation, transducer phase retrieval, sound field analysis, and control of the acoustic holographic hardware itself. Existing methods fail to fulfil one or more of these categories. To address this, we present AcousTools, a Python-based acoustic holography library, designed to support the full suite of acoustic holographic applications and we show AcousTools’s ability to meet each step of the full-stack’s requirements. AcousTools has the potential to become the standard code library for acoustic holography, with the uniquely complete suite of features wrapped in a language that is known to be easy to use, AcousTools will increase the ability for researchers to develop novel applications as well as accurately review other’s work. The full-stack, aside from software, will also be useful for researchers – providing a way to view and compare methodologies by understanding where they fit into the stack.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | AcousTools: A ‘Full-Stack’, Python-Based, Acoustic Holography Library |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://ieee-uffc.org/ |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10220719 |
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