• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1996.06a
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• pp.18-21
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• 1996

예인형 선배열 소나에서 기존의 선배열 빔형성 기법을 적용하면 예인함 기동시 선배열 형상 변형에 의해 심각한 성능 저하 현상이 나타난다. 이러한 문제 해결을 위해 센서배열 변형을 고려한 견실한 빔형성 기법은 선배열 형상 추정을 위해 칼만필터를 이용한 형상 추정기법을 이용하고, 변형보상 빔형성을 위해 선배열 세그먼트 기울기 추정값을 이용하는 변형보상 빔형성 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안된 기법을 기존의 빔형성 기법을 적용하여 시뮬레이션에 의해 제안된 기법의 보상성능을 입증 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06c
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• pp.469-472
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• 1998

수중에서 발생된 기포들의 상화작용에 의한 방출주파수의 변화를 알아보기 위해 선배열 기포에 대해 이론적으로 연구하였다. 기포들의 결합진동에 의한 방출주파수는 가능한 가장 저주파수의 음파가 발생됨을 설명하였으며, 일부의 기포가 음원역할을 하는 실제적인 선배열 기포의 경우는 방출주파수가 기포의 총 개수보다는 음원기포의 개수와 기포간 거리에 좌우됨을 밝혔다. 이러한 이론결과는 참고문헌[6]의 실험결과에 비교적 잘 일치하였다. 이것은 기포간의 결합진동은 기포들의 초기 발생조건에 따라 이론적으로 다르게 다루어야 함을 의미한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.9 no.2 s.25
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• pp.20-25
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• 2006

Low frequency towed line array with high array gain and beam resolution is a long range surveillance sensor for anti-submarine warfare. The beam characteristics is however deteriorated due to the distorted line array sensor caused by low towing speed, wind, current, and towing ship maneuvering. An adaptive beamforming method is utilized in this paper to enhance the distorted line array beam performance by estimating and compensating the nonlinear array shape. A polynomial curve fitting in the least square sense is used to estimate the array shape iteratively with the distributed heading sensors data along the array. Real time array shape estimation and nonlinear array beam calculation is applied to a very long towed line array sensor system and the beam performance is evaluated and compared to the linear beamformer for the simulation and sea trial data.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.25 no.7
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• pp.346-355
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• 2006

Acoustic data from a shallow water experiment in the East Sea of Korea (MAPLE IV) is Processed to investigate the Performance of matched-field geo-acoustic inversion and source localization. The receiver array consists of two legs as in an L-shape. one vertical and the other horizontal lying on the seabed. Narrowband multi-tone CW source was towed along a slightly inclined bathymetry track. The matched-field geo-acoustic inversion includes comparisons between three processing techniques. all based on the Bartlett processor as; (1) the coherent processing of the data from the full array, (2) the incoherent Product of each output from both the horizontal and vertical arrays, and (3) the cross correlation between the horizontal and vertical arrays. as well as processing each array leg separately. To verify the inversion results. matched-field source localization for low level source signal components were performed using the same Processors used at the inversion stage.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.395-402
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• 2016

In this paper, a wideband adaptive beamforming approach for an acoustic vector sensor linear array is presented. It is a very important issue to estimate the stable covariance matrix for adaptive beamforming. In the conventional wideband adaptive beamforming based on coherent signal-subspace (CSS) processing, the error of bearing estimates is resulted from the focusing matrix estimation and the large number of data snapshot is necessary. To alleviate the estimation error and snapshot deficiency in estimating covariance matrix, the steered covariance matrix method in the pressure sensor is extended to the vector sensor array, and the subarray technique is incorporated. By this technique, more accurate azimuth estimates and a stable covariance matrix can be obtained with a small number of data snapshot. Through simulation, the azimuth estimation performance of the proposed beamforming method and a wideband adaptive beamforming based on CSS processing are assessed.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.255-262
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• 2020

In modern passive sonar systems, a towed array sensor is used to minimize the effects of own ship noise and to get a higher SNR. The thin and long towed array sensor can be guided in a non-linear form according to the maneuvering of tow-ship. If this change of the array shape is not considered, the performance of beamformer may deteriorate. In order to properly beamform the elements in the array, an accurate estimate of the array shape is required. Various techniques exist for estimating the shape of the linear array. In the case of a method using a heading sensor, the estimation performance may be degraded due to the effect of heading sensor noise. As means of removing this potential error, weighted polynomial fitting technique for estimating array shape is developed here. In order to evaluate the performance of proposed method, we conducted computer simulation. From the experiments, it was confirmed that the proposed method is more robust to noise than the conventional method.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.383-391
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• 2014

In order to detect underwater acoustic signals, various SONAR array types have been developed, including towed line array SONAR system (TASS). However, the TASS suffers from performance degradation which is caused by aperture deformation during a turn, because the TASS have a long-aperture array. A parabolic array model for turning TASS have been developed to solve the degradation problem occurred during a turn. In this paper, adaptive beamforming system is developed using the parabolic TASS model to cancel interference signals. The developed beamforming system is based on generalized sidelobe canceller (GSC) structure and self-tuning adaptive algorithm.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.21 no.8
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• pp.686-694
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• 2002

This paper proposes an algorithm for estimating positions of array elements placed on a sea floor using acoustic signal in multipath ocean environment. The positions of array elements are estimated by using the travel times of m-sequence signal influenced by the multi-paths environment. The horizontal distance between source and receiver calculated based on the ray model. The proposed paper the algorithm is verified by both simulation data and field experiment in the Bast Sea.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06e
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• pp.151-154
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• 1998

이 논문에서 비선형 배열 MUSIC 빔형성 기법을 이용하여 예인형 선배열 센서 시스템의 표적 좌우 방위 분리 방법을 기술하였다. 이 기법은 배열 운동모델 Water-Pully 모델과 방향센서의 정보를 이용하는 칼만필터를 설계하여 예인함 기동에 따른 배열형상을 추정하고 표적의 좌우방위를 분리하기 위하여 추정된 배열형상에서 MUSIC 빔형성 기법으로 신호처리를 수행하였다. 또한 예인주기와 예인진폭과 같은 예인함 기동형태의 전형적인 빔형성 기법과 MUSIC 빔형성 기법으로 표적의 좌우 방위 분리 성능을 비교 분석하였다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.85-88
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• 2000

가늘고 긴 선배열을 해상에서 운용할 때 비선형 형상이 유도되므로 음원에 대한 정확한 탐지를 위하여 배열형상 추정이 필요하다. 방위센서를 이용한 배열형상 추정을 위하여 배열의 천 정도가 적은 경우에만 적용 가능한 다항 근사화 방법의 제한점을 극복하기 위하여 반복법을 제안하고, 수치 시뮬레이션을 통하여 반복회수에 따른 배열형상 추정결과를 분석하였다