• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.387-395
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• 2019

TMA (Target Motion Analysis) in passive sonar is generally conducted with the bearing only or the bearing frequency. In order to conduct TMA fast and accurately, it is essential to estimate a initial target maneuver precisely. The accuracy of TMA can be improved by using SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio) information and acoustic propagation model additionally. This method assumes that the radiated noise level of the target is known, but the accuracy of TMA can be degraded due to a mismatch between the assumed radiated noise level and the actual radiated noise level. In this paper, TMA with the acoustic propagation model, bearing measurements, and SNR information is conducted in the ocean environment of South Korea (East Sea/ Yellow Sea/ South Sea). And the performance analysis of TMA for the mismatch in the radiated noise is presented.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.435-445
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• 2022

In this study, the reverberation of a bistatic sonar operated in southeastern coast in the East Sea in July 2020 was analyzed. The reverberation sensor data were collected through an LFM sound source towed by a research vessel and a horizontal line array receiver 1 km to 5 km away from it. The reverberation sensor data was analyzed by various methods including geo-plot after signal processing. Through this, it was confirmed that the angle reflected from the sound source through the scatterer to the receiver has a dominant influence on the distribution of the reverberation sound, and the probability distribution characteristics of bistatic sonar reverberation varies for each beam. In addition, parametric factors of K distribution and Rayleigh distribution were estimated from the sample through moment method estimation. Using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test at the confidence level of 0.05, the distribution probability of the data was analyzed. As a result, it could be observed that the reverberation follows a Rayleigh probability distribution, and it could be estimated that this was the effect of a low reverberation to noise ratio.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.95-104
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose a method to design a generalized sinusoidal frequency modulated(GSFM) pulse that is robust to reverberation environment. GSFM pulses are a generalized form of SFM(Sinusoidal frequency modulated) pulses, which have the advantage of having a thumbtack ambiguity function with excellent range and Doppler resolution. However, the periodicity disappears during the generalization process, therefore, the detection performance is reduced in reverberation environment compared to SFM pulse with comb spectrum. In this paper, the trade-off relationship between the reverberation suppression performance of the SFM pulse and the range resolution performance of the GSFM pulse is analyzed by appropriately changing the parameter ${\rho}$ of the GSFM pulse. In order to verify the performance of the proposed GSFM pulse, the simulation was performed and it was confirmed that the proposed GSFM pulse has excellent distance resolution while detecting the slow Doppler target.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.141-144
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• 2004

수중 음향 탐지 시스템에서 빔 형성 기법은 오랫동안 많은 연구자들에 의해 연구되어 왔다. 빔 형성 기법은 탐지성능에 직결되기 때문에 최적의 빔 설계는 중요한 문제가 된다. 그리고 최적의 빔 형성기를 구현하기 위해서는 개별 센서에 대한 가중회로의 구성이 필수적이며, 가중회로를 구성하기 위해서는 개별 센서에 대한 등가회로 모델링과 정합회로 설계가 필수적이다. 이전의 연구에서는 센서 등가회로 모델링 Tool과 정합회로 디자인 Tool 각각의 구성과 사용방법에 대해서 소개하였다. 본 논문에서는 이 두 가지 Tool을 모두 이용하여 센서 등가회로 및 정합회로를 모델링하였고, 이를 바탕으로 실제 가중회로를 구현하였다. 실험을 위해 물-공기의 상사효과를 가정하였으며, 공기 중에서 스피커 어레이를 이용하여 빔 형성을 하였다. 또한, 이론치와 실험치를 비교하여 BeamCAD, 센서 등가회로 모델링 Tool 그리고 정합회로 디자인 Tool로 이루어진 소나 센서 디자인 Tool의 타당성을 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.463-466
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• 2004

수중 음향 탐지 시스템에서 빔 형성 기법은 오랫동안 많은 연구자들에 의해 연구되어 왔다. 빔 형성 기법은 탐지성능에 직결되기 때문에 최적의 빔 설계는 중요한 문제가 된다. 그리고 최적의 빔 형성기를 구현하기 위해서는 개별 센서에 대한 가중회로의 구성이 필수적이며, 가중회로를 구성하기 위해서는 개별 센서에 대한 등가회로 모델링과 정합회로 설계가 필수적이다. 이전의 연구에서는 센서 등가회로 모델링 Tool과 정합회로 디자인 Tool 각각의 구성과 사용방법에 대해서 소개하였다. 이 두 가지 Tool을 모두 이용하여 센서 등가회로 및 정합회로를 모델링하였고, 이를 바탕으로 실제 가중회로를 구현하였다. 가중회로는 정합회로와 트랜스포머로 구성된다. 본 논문에서는 이와같이 구성된 가중회로와 스케일 모델에 맞게 제작된 스피커 어레이를 이용하여 빔형성 실험을 하였으며, 그 결과를 이론치와 비교하였다. 이것을 바탕으로 BeamCAD, 센서 등가회로 모델링 Tool 그리고 정합회로 디자인 Tool로 이루어진 소나 센서 디자인 Tool의 타당성을 검증하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.83-91
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• 2001

This paper proposes the Focused beamforming to estimate the location of target residing near to the observation platform in the underwater environment. The Focused beamforming technique provides the location of target by the coherent summation of a series of incident spherical waveforms considering distinct propagation delay times at the sensor array. But due to the movement of the observation platform and the variation of the underwater environment, the shape of the sensor array is no longer to be linear but it becomes distorted as the platform moves. Thus the Focused beamforming should be peformed regarding to the geometric shape variation at each time. To estimate the target location, the artificial image plane comprised of cells is constructed, and the delays are calculated from each cell where the target could be proximity to sensors for the coherent summation. After the coherent combining, the beam pattern can be obtained through the Focused beamforming on the image plane. Futhermore to compensate the variation of the shape of the sensor array, the paper utilizes the Nth-order polynomial approximation to estimate the shape of the sensor array obeying the water pulley modeling. Simulation results show the performance of the Focused beamforming for different frequency bands of the radiated signal.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.53-63
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• 2016

We consider simulation study combining static and mobile decoys for survivability of a surface warship against torpedo attack. It is assumed that an enemy torpedo is a passive acoustic homing torpedo and detects a target within its maximum target detection range and search beam angle by computing signal excess via passive sonar equation, and a warship conducts an evasive maneuvering with deploying static and mobile decoys simultaneously to counteract a torpedo attack. Suggesting the four different decoy deployment plans to achieve the best plan, we analyze an effectiveness for a warship's survival probability through Monte Carlo simulation, given a certain experimental environment. Furthermore, changing the speed and the source level of decoys, the maximum torpedo detection range of warship, and the maximum target detection range of torpedo, we observe the corresponding survival probabilities, which can provide the operational capabilities of an underwater defense system.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.9-21
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• 2010

In this paper, optimum design of distributed detection is considered for a parallel sensor network system consisting of a fusion center and multiple passive sonar nodes. Nonrandom fusion rules are employed as the fusion rules of the sensor network. For the nonrandom fusion rules, it is shown that a threshold rule of each sensor node has uniformly most powerful properties. Optimum threshold for each sensor is investigated that maximizes the probability of detection under a constraint on energy consumption due to false alarms. It is also investigated through numerical experiments how signal strength, false alarm probability, and the distance between three sensor nodes affect the system detection performances.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.489-495
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• 2003

Single towed line array receiver contains an ambiguity on conjugate bearings because of lacking aperture in transverse direction. To solve the left/right bearing ambiguity of line array receiver this paper proposed using single line array with fixed cardioid beam. Fixed cardioid beam has problem about back beam gain exists for steering beam inherent. Back beam is makes form on direction that is different from actually source so that reduced the performance of left/right bearing discrimination. In this paper, line way with adaptive cardioid beam for resolve problem of back beam gain is proposed. So the proposed method has more improved left/right bearing discrimination than fixed cardioid beam, Simulation results show the performance of the proposed method.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.2
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• pp.141-147
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• 2014

This paper proposes a robust localization algorithm and optimal number of receivers considering the detection range of underwater targets. The accuracies of the source position, receiver position and sound velocity are improved using the known positions of underwater objects. The accuracies of these parameters influences the performance of the target localization error. Although the source and receiver positions are obtained by the global positioning system (GPS), there are still positional errors due to GPS and variations in sea temperature. First, the influence of those errors are analyzed mathematically and an algorithm is improved to improve the accuracies of source position, receiver position and sound velocity by using geographic points. The performance of the proposed scheme is evaluated in comparison with the conventional algorithm by computer simulations.