• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.483-489
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• 2009

The Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) algorithm is being used widely for identifying the location of a source emanating either electrical or acoustic signal. It's application areas will not be limited to identifying the source at a fixed location, for example the origin of an earthquake, but will also include the trajectory monitoring for a moving source equipped with a GPS sensor. Most of the TDOA algorithm uses time correlation technique to find the time delay between received signals, and therefore difficult to be used for identifying the location of multiple sources. In this paper a TDOA algorithm based on cross-spectrum is developed to find the trajectory of two sound sources with different frequencies. Although its application is limited to for the sources on a disk plane, but it can be applied for identifying the locations of more than two sources simultaneously.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.121-127
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• 2011

As considerable interests in noise emission from a ship have been increased, the need for localization of noise sources of the marine propeller generating cavitation and singing noise is looming large. In many practical cases, cavitation and singing noise occur on a particular position of the certain blade of the propeller. It is so important to know the position of noise source correctly in order to eliminate or suppress unwanted noise. In this study, we develop "noise source localization technology" using TDOA method. Experimental measurements carried out at the circulating water channel and towing tank show that noise source can be clearly identified and localized using TDOA method.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.2
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• pp.114-119
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• 2009

Sound source localization systems in service robot applications estimate the direction of a human voice. Time delay information obtained from a few separate microphones is widely used for the estimation of the sound direction. Correlation is computed in order to calculate the time delay between two signals. Inverse cosine is used when the position of the maximum correlation value is converted to an angle. Because of nonlinear characteristic of inverse cosine, the accuracy of the computed angle is varied depending on the position of the specific sound source. In this paper, we propose an efficient sound source localization system using angle division. By the proposed approach, the region from $0^{\circ}$ to $180^{\circ}$ is divided into three regions and we consider only one of the three regions. Thus considerable amount of computation time is saved. Also, the accuracy of the computed angle is improved since the selected region corresponds to the linear part of the inverse cosine function. By simulations, it is shown that the error of the proposed algorithm is only 31% of that of the conventional a roach.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.11C
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• pp.957-964
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose an indoor positioning algorithm based on 3 points near field angle-of-arrival estimation without side information. The conventional angle-of-arrival based positioning scheme requires the distance between the listener and the center of two points which is obtained by a received signal strength based range estimation. However, a received signal strength is affected by structure of room, placement of furniture, and characteristic of signal, these effects cause a large error to estimation of angle. In this paper, the proposed positioning scheme based on near field angle-of-arrival estimation can be used to estimate the position of listener without a prior distance information, just using time-difference-of-arrival information given from 3 points microphones. The performance of the proposed scheme is shown by cumulative distribution function of root mean squared error.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.5A
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• pp.801-808
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 전파의 도달시간을 이용한 이동통신 측위 시스템에서 사용되는 직접해, 최소 자승, 테일러 시리즈 그리고 찬 알고리즘의 성능을 분석하고, 각 알고리즘을 사용하여 계산된 결과를 궤환시켜 이동국의 위치를 재계산함으로써 보다 향상된 측위를 할 수 있는 결정 궤환 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 규칙 7셀 좌표와 불규칙 셀 좌표를 이용하여 이동국을 위치시킨 후, 전파의 지연시간에 따른 측위오차와 표준편차 그리고 각 알고리즘별 발산횟수를 조사하였으며, 실험결과 결정 궤환 방법을 사용하였을 경우 기존의 방법보다 향상된 성능을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 1997.11a
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• pp.14-14
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• 1997

추진제의 노화 못지 않게 점화제의 노화도 추진 기관 성능에 큰 영향을 미칠 것으로 예측된다. 따라서 10년 이상 경과된 활성 모터에서 점화기를 분해하여 노화에 의한 점화제의 성능 변화를 알아보았다. 분석에 사용한 점화제는 II-D Bi-Convex형상의 B-KNO$_3$ 펠렛으로 열량, 자동 점화온도, 기계적 물성의 변화를 관찰하였고, 밀폐 용기(Closed bomb)에서 연소시험을 통하여 노화에 따른 점화알약의 압력변화를 측정하고 이론 값과 비교하였다. 또한 비활성 모타를 이용한 연소시험으로 점화기의 점화지연시간, 최대 압력, 최대 압력 도달시간 등을 측정하고 이론식과 비교하여 노화에 의한 변화를 관찰하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.34-42
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• 1993

수중운동 추적체계의 추적 성능은 표적에 부착된 핑거로부터의송신음향이 수중센서에 도달하기 까지의 시지연과, 해저에 부설된 각 센서가 시지연을 이용하여 기하학적으로 계산하는 LOP를 얼마나 정확하게 추출하느냐에 달려있다. 본 논문에ㅓ는 수중운동 추출하느냐에 달려있다. 본 논문에서는 수중운동 추적체계의 추적성능을 예측하기 위하여 먼저 CRLB를 이용한 시지연 예측오차의 기준경계식을 유도하고, 임의 표적운도에 이를 적용시켜 추적거리오차를 추출하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과, 표적이 원형 기동하는 경우보다 직선 기동하는 경우에 표적위치에 따라 오차의변화가 더 심하고, 수중운동 추적체계의 이론적 설계성능은 주파수 대역에 의해 영향을 가장 많이 받음을 확인하였다. 한편 4km*4km 범위의 수중센서 패턴을 사용하고 주파수 대역폭을 200Hz로 취한 경우 시간지연에 의한 수중운동 추적체계의 이론적 추적오차는 0.24m 이내로 시뮬레이션 되었다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.8C
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• pp.605-612
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• 2008

This paper researches the estimating location using repeater effect adjustment method in CDMA based system. Repeaters are commonly used by commercial and amateur radio operators to extend signals in the radio frequency range from one receiver to another. The repeater signals are increasing arrival time from base station to mobile station. So if we calculates the mobile station using repeater signals, the estimating position error is increased. However nobody researched about adjusting repeater effects. This paper proposes repeater effect adjustment algorithm. For adjusting repeater effects, we make the triangle using mobile station, reference base station and neighbor base station, and then detect the repeater effects using the triangle characteristic. The proposed method system showed the improved performance in estimating parameters and locating positions by computer simulations.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Groundwater Environment
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.95-100
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• 1999

Hydrocarbon compounds in vadose zone soils caused by adsorption onto the surfaces of solid particles are generally considered to show retardation effect. In this study, we investigated the retardation effect on the transport of Benzene in a sandy soil by conducting batch and column tests. The batch test was conducted by equilibrating dry soil mass with Benzene solutions of various initial concentrations. and by analyzing the concentrations of Benzene in initial and equilibrated solutions using HPLC. The column test consisted of monitoring the concentrations of effluent versus time known as a breakthrough curve (BTC). We used KCl and Benzene solutions with the concentration of 10 g/L and 0.88 g/L as a tracer, and injected them into the inlet boundary of the soil sample as a square pulse type respectively, and monitored the effluent concentrations at the exit boundary under a steady state condition using an EC-meter and HPLC. From the batch test, we obtained a distribution coefficient assuming that a linear adsorption isotherm exists and calculated the retardation factor based on the bulk density and porosity of the column sample. We also predicted the column BTC curve using the retardation factor obtained from the distribution coefficient and compared with the measured BTC of Benzene. The results of the column test showed that i) the peak concentration of Benzene was much smaller than that of KCl and ⅱ) the travel times of peak concentrations for the two tracers were more or less identical. These results indicate that adsorption of Benzene onto the sand panicles occurred during the pulse propagation but the retardation of Benzene caused by adsorption was not present in the studied soil. Comparison of the predicted with the measured BTC of Benzene resulted in a poor agreement due to the absence of the retardation phenomenon. The only way to describe the absolute decrease of Benzene concentration in the column leaching experiment was to introduce a decay or sink coefficient in the convection-dispersion equation (CDE) model to account for an irreversible sorption of Benzene in the aqueous phase.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.115-122
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• 2011

In this paper, we present a method to estimate an accurate real-time sound source direction based on time delay of arrival by using generalized cross correlation with four cross-type microphones. In general, existing systems have two disadvantages such as system embedding limitation due to the necessity of data acquisition for signal processing from microphone input, and real-time processing difficulty because of the increased number of channels for sound direction estimation using DSP processors. To cope with these disadvantages, the system considered in this paper proposes hardware design for enhanced real-time processing using microphone array signal processing. An accurate direction estimation and its design time reduction is achieved by means of an efficient hardware design using spatial segmentation methods and verification techniques. Finally we develop a system which can be used for embedded systems using a sound codec and an FPGA chip. According to experimental results, the system gives much faster real-time processing time compared with either PC-based systems or the case with DSP processors.