• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.33-40
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• 2006

In towed array passive sonar system, sonar operators cannot detect and track the all targets simultaneously in the omni-directional area by just Operator Initiated Tracking(OIT). In this paper, omni-directional automatic target detection and tracking algorithm is described and optimize the parameters through ocean data to overcome the drawbacks of OITs. The algorithm is verified through sea trials with submarines.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 1998.04a
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• pp.20-20
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• 1998

적 잠수함을 탐지했을 때 적 잠수함이 10km 이내의 거리에서는 어뢰에 부착된 선체 부착형 능동소나로 적 잠수함을 추적하여 직접 공격하는 방법이 효과적이다. 그러나 10km에서 19km 정도의 거리인 경우에는 로켓트를 이용하여 어뢰를 목표지점까지 운반하고 운반된 어뢰가 바닷속에 착수하면 수동예인 음탕기(TASS)로 적 잠수함을 탐지 추적하는 체계가 효율적이다. 19km 이상이 되면 헬기로 적 잠수함을 탐지하고 목표지점에 어뢰를 투하시키는 방안이 일반적으로 운용되고 있다. 그러나 최근에는 50km 정도까지도 유도탄으로 어뢰를 운반하는 체계가 선호되어 적용되고 있기도 하다.