• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2007.05b
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• pp.2913-2917
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• 2007

Turbocharger has been widely used in many passenger cars in application with diesel engines because of high power and fuel efficiency. However, flow-induced noise (whoosh or hissing noise) which is generated within the compressor during its operation at marginal surge line can deteriorate noise characteristics. Hissing noise excitation was associated with the generation of turbulence within the turbocharger compressor and radiated through the transmission path in turbocharger system. In this study, a sharp-edged reactive-type muffler was devised and installed in the transmission path to reduce the hissing noise. Acoustic and fluid dynamic characteristics for the muffler were investigated which is related to the unsteadiness of turbulence and pressure in turbocharger system. A transfer matrix method was used to analyze the transmission loss of the muffler. Simple expansion muffler with extended tube of the reactive type is proposed for the reduction of high frequency component noise. Turbulence computation was carried out by a standard ${\kappa}-{\varepsilon}$ model. An optimal design condition of the muffler was obtained by extensive acoustic and fluid dynamic analysis on the engine dynamometer with anechoic chamber. A significant reduction of the hissing noise was achieved at the optimal design of the muffler as compared with the conventional turbocharger system.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.171-178
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• 1997

Vehicle interior noise has become increasingly important in this recent years. The noise of a vehicle is one of the important problems in a vehicle design. The interior noise is caused by various vibration sources of vehicle compartment. The booming noise of a vehicle can be significantly affected by vibrations transmitted from engine excitation forces to the vehicle body. Specially, we are interested in the state of transmission paths such as engine mounts to reduce noise in a vehicle compartment. In this paper, we have been calculated the contribution of each transmission path such as engine mounts to interior noise. To identify contribution of each input sources and transmission paths to output, the effectiveness of each input component to output is calculated. Sensitivity analysis is carried out for investigation of contribution to output due to input variations. With the simulation of magnitude and phase change of inputs using vector synthesis diagram, the trends of synthesized output vector are obtained. As a result, we suggested sensitivity analysis of vector synthesis as a technique of prediction and control for noise in a vehicle compartment.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.48 no.3
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• pp.409-420
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• 2020

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to develop a measurement scale for evaluating the auditory affect of automobile engine sounds. Methods: In order to collect affective vocabulary, literature review, user tests, and expert interviews were conducted. Affective vocabulary related to automobile engine sounds was selected through three methods. To develop the evaluation scale, open/close card-sorting and expert interview-based survey method was used. Results: The results of this study are as follows; In order to select the main affective vocabulary from the collected vocabulary, 39 vocabularies with a frequency of 5 or higher were selected as vocabulary expressing the main auditory affect of automobile engine sounds. Each affective vocabulary is divided into three di- mensions, it was confirmed that the conceptual model for the auditory affect of automobile engine sounds is composed of three levels: intuitive, descriptive, and evaluative of hierarchical structure. As a result of the study, four indices of intuitive dimension, seven indices of descriptive dimension, and one index of evaluative dimension were derived from the evaluation scale of the auditory affect in an automobile engine sound. Conclusion: The auditory evaluation scale developed in this study can be used to systematically measure and evaluate the auditory affect of automobile engine sounds.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.329-334
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• 2013

Order spectrum analysis is widely used to grasp the features of noises due to powertrain system including engine and intake/exhaust system. It is known from many previous researches that order components related to the first and second firing frequencies of engine considerably affect the noise of car interior. The purpose of this paper is to find out the difference in sound quality: Pleasantness of car interior noise according to the change of its order spectrum. For this, car interior noises of 6-cylinder and 4-cylinder engines are recorded and their order spectrum levels are modified by applying adaptive digital filters. After subjective listening test employing paired comparison method is conducted, it is investigated that the level change of half-order components is a noticeable factor to improve Pleasantness of the car interior noises whereas level decrease of firing order does not always give the positive effect on its sound quality.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.292-302
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• 2020

Machine learning algorithms have made immense contributions in various fields including sonar and radar applications. Recently developed Cycle-Consistency Generative Adversarial Network (CycleGAN), a variant of GAN has been successfully used for unpaired image-to-image translation. We present a modified CycleGAN for translation of underwater ship engine sounds with high perceptual quality. The proposed network is composed of an improved generator model trained to translate underwater audio from one vessel type to other, an improved discriminator to identify the data as real or fake and a modified cycle-consistency loss function. The quantitative and qualitative analysis of the proposed CycleGAN are performed on publicly available underwater dataset ShipsEar by evaluating and comparing Mel-cepstral distortion, pitch contour matching, nearest neighbor comparison and mean opinion score with existing algorithms. The analysis results of the proposed network demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed network.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2017.01a
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• pp.161-162
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• 2017

외부환경을 인식하고 상황을 판단해 자율적으로 행동하는 지능형 서비스 로봇은 앞으로 새로운 시장을 열어줄 것으로 기대되며 이와 관련된 연구와 개발이 빠르게 확대되고 있다. 이러한 서비스 로봇에게 가장 중요한 기능은 인간과의 원활한 상호작용이다. 여기서 말하는 상호작용이란 단순히 인간이 원하는 것을 명령하고, 로봇이 이 명령을 수행하는 것에 그치는 것이 아니라, 로봇이 스스로 인간의 감정을 파악하고, 이에 대한 적절한 로봇 자신의 감정 표출이나 서비스, 행동을 제공함으로써 직접적인 소통이 이루어지는 것을 의미한다. 이렇게 로봇이 자연스럽게 인간과 함께 공존하기 위해서 감성 로봇(Emotional Robot) 분야에서 관련된 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다 본 논문에서는 국내의 감성 로봇의 연구 현황과 발전 방향에 대해 서술한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 1995.04a
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• pp.217-222
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• 1995

소음기의 음향 성능을 평가하기 위해서는 음원의 임피던스를 알아야 한다. 음원의 임피던스를 구하기 위한 많은 연구가 행해졌고 정재파법, 음향전달함수법, Two Load Method(TLM), Four Load Method(FLM)등이 여러가지 방법이 개발되었다. 정재파법은 저주파수에서 음원의 출력보다 큰 출력음을 발생시킬 수 있는 스피커가 있어야 하고, 주파수별로 반복 측정해야 하는 번거로움으로 인해 실험에 어려움이 따른다. 전달함수법과 Two Load Method(TLM)는 관내에서 음압을 측정해야 하는데 엔진의 흡배기계와 같이 음압이 높거나 고온의 가스 유동이 있는 경우 측정이 매우 어렵다. 한편 Four Load Method(FLM)는 외부의 방사 음압을 측정하여 음원의 특성을 구하기 때문에 위에서 언급한 문제점들이 없는 반면에 무향실을 이용해야 한다. 본 논문은 음원의 임피던스 측정의 여러 방법 중 FLM에 의하여 스피커 음원의 임피던스를 측정하고 삽입손실을 구하면서 FLM이 가진 문제점을 검토하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.16 no.8
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• pp.155-161
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• 1999

아이들 상태에서 차실 내에 불쾌감을 주는 매우 높은 크기의 소음이 발생하였다. 본 논문에서는 아이들 시 문제소음의 원인을 분석하고 저감하는데 필요한 관련이론의 적용과 이에 수반되는 데이터측정, 데이터처리 및 데이터 해석과정을 자세하게 기술하였다. 소음진동 측정 및 분석 결과 문제의 소음은 엔진의 회전 2.5차 성분을 가지고 구조기인소음이었다. 아이들 시 문제의 실내소음에 영향을 미치는 구조전달경로들의 기여도를 분석하기 위해 소음경로해석시험 및 모드시험을 실시하였다. 시험분석 결과에 따라 기여도가 놓은 배 기계 및 트랜스미션계의 진동 전달특성을 개선하므로써 만족할 수준의 소음 저감효과를 얻었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.78-83
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• 2003

General algorithm is developed for the prediction of internal flow-induced noise. This algorithm is based on the integral formula derived by using the General Green Function, Lighthills acoustic analogy and Curls extension of Lighthills. Novel approach of this algorithm is that the integral formula is so arranged as to predict frequency-domain acoustic signal at any location in a duct by using unsteady flow data in space and time, which can be provided by the Computational Fluid Dynamics Techniques. This semi-analytic model is applied to the prediction of internal aerodynamic noise from a throttle valve in an automotive engine. The predicted noise levels from the throttle valve are compared with actual measurements. This illustrative computation shows that the current method permits generalized predictions of flow noise generated by bluff bodies and turbulence in flow ducts.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.220-222
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• 2001

가상 현실을 요하는 멀티미디어 콘텐츠, DC-Title, 게임기등의 멀티미디어에서는 고급 장비의 사용 없이 2개의 스피커를 이용하여 3차원 효과를 들을 수 있는 입체 음향 기법이 활용된다. 2채널 3D오디오 방식에 있어서 위치음 효과는 머리전달함수(HRTF)를 사용하여 얻을 수 있다. 콘볼루션을 이용하는 기존의 방식들은 많은 계산량과 HRTP DB 저장을 위한 큰 메모리 용량을 요구한다. 따라서 실시간 구현이 어려울 뿐 아니라 고속 DSP를 사용해야 하는 단점을 가진다. 본 연구에서는 주파수 영역 분석법의 하나인 MDCT를 이용함으로써 계산량을 줄임과 도시에 HRTP DB의 데이터 양도 줄인다. 결과적으로 실시간 처리가 가능할 뿐 아니라 저속 DSP를 사용하여 구현 가능하게 함으로써 저가로 구현 할 수 있다. 본 연구 결과는 기존 제품들 중 스펙트럼 분석법을 이용한 오디오 압축 장치에 활용될 수 있는데 예를 들면 MP3/AAC/WMA Player에 적용하여 3차원 입체 음향을 구현 할 수 있다.