• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.351-359
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• 2015

Typical underwater acoustic transducers detect only the magnitude of an acoustic pressure and they have the limitation of not being able to recognize the direction of the sound signal. Hence, the authors of this paper proposed a new vector sensor structure based on Tonpilz transducers that could detect both the magnitude and the direction of a sound pressure. In the proposed structure, the piezoceramic ring was divided into four segments, and proper combination of the output voltages of the segments in response to the external sound pressure could provide the information on the orientation of the sound source. In this paper, a Tonpilz transducer has been fabricated to have the proposed structure and its characteristics has been measured to confirm the validity of the proposed structure.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.417-420
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• 2004

동해는 크게 북한한류계수의 지배적인 영향을 받는 북부해역, 동한난류계수의 지배적인 영향을 받는 남부해역과 이들이 만나서 극전선이 형성되는 중부해역 등 세 해역으로 구분할 수 있고 이러한 환경에서의 해군 함정의 대잠탐지환경은 같은 동해라 하더라도 크게 다를 것으로 예상된다. 본 연구에서는 저주파 거리종속 모델인 RAM 을 이용하여 평균해황 하에서 각 해역에서의 전달손실 값을 비교하였다. 음원을 수심 100m, 수신기 수심을 10m와 100m로 설정하여 실험을 하였으며 아울러 평균해황이 아닌 일정시기에 관측한 순간해황 자료를 통한 모델결과도 같이 분석하였다. 실험결과, 연안에 위치한 음원으로부터 음파가 외해로 전달됨에 따라 냉난수대간의 수온전선 영향을 받게되며 수온전선을 통과하면서 남부해역에서의 음파는 중부 및 북부해역 보다 난류의 영향을 더 많이 받게된다. 따라서 북부보다는 중부해역이, 중부보다는 남부해역에서의 전달손실값이 더 커지게 된다. 특히 이러한 경향은 북한한류계수가 발달하여 난류와 수온전선이 형성되는 8월에 더 큰 것으로 나타났다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.43 no.4
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• pp.414-421
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• 2024

In this paper, we design and verify a system that can detect piping leakage noise in an environment with significant reverberation and reflection using a multi-channel acoustic sensor module as a technology to prevent major plant accidents caused by leakage. Four-channel microphones arranged in a tetrahedron are designed as a single sensor module to measure three-dimensional sound intensity vectors. In an environment with large effects of reverberation and reflection, the measurement error of each sensor module increases on average, so after placing multiple sensor modules in the field, measurement results showing locations with large errors due to effects such as reflection are excluded. Using the intersection between three-dimensional vectors obtained from several pairs of sensor modules, the coordinates where the sound source is located are estimated, and outliers (e.g., positions estimated to be outside the site, positions estimated to be far from the average position) are detected and excluded among the points. For achieving aforementioned goal, an excluding algorithm by deciding the outliers among the estimated positions was proposed. By visualizing the estimated location coordinates of the leakage sound on the site drawing within 1 second, we construct and verify a system that can detect the location of the leakage sound in real time and enable immediate response. This study is expected to contribute to improving accident response capabilities and ensuring safety in large plants.

• 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 Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.46 no.12
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• pp.975-985
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• 2018

The drones have been developed for military purposes and are now used in many fields such as logistics, communications, agriculture, disaster, defense and media. As the range of use of drones increases, cases of abuse of drones are increasing. It is necessary to develop anti-drone technology to detect the position of unwanted drones using the physical phenomena that occur when the drones fly. In this paper, we estimate the DOA(direction of arrival) of the drone by using the acoustic signal generated when the drone is flying. In addition, the dynamics model of the drones was applied to the unscented kalman filter to improve the microphone array detection performance and reduce the error of the position estimation. Through simulation, the drone detection performance was predicted and verified through experiments.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.12-19
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• 2015

In this paper, temporal variations of acoustic transmission loss (TL) affected by internal tide are studied by computer simulation using oceanic data measured in the southern sea of Jeju Island in summer. Temperature was measured with depth (bottom depth are nearly 80 m) in two sites near Seogwipo coast every one hour for 25 hours during July 27 and 28, 2009. The periodic fluctuation of temperature due to the internal tide was observed and its vertical displacement was more than 10 m. In order to investigate temporal variation of TL by internal tide, acoustic propagation between two measurement sites (3.8 km distance) was simulated with a source depth of 10 m. TL variation for 1/3 octave band of 100 Hz center frequency highly coincided with tidal period but more complex variation with indistinct tidal period was observed for 1 kHz. Maximun standard deviation of TL variation was 4.2 dB for 100 Hz at 2.8 km distance from a source and it was 3.7 dB for 1 kHz. The tidal variation was also shown in detection range and its maximum variance was less than 1 km. These results imply that temporal variation of TL should be considered for acoustic researches at the southern sea of Jeju Island.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.43 no.1
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• pp.29-38
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• 2024

The Matched Field Processing (MFP) is an estimation method for a source range and depth based on the prediction of sound propagation. However, as the frequency increases, the prediction inaccuracy of sound propagation increases, making it difficult to estimate the source position. Recently proposed, the Frequency-Difference Matched Field Processing (FD-MFP) is known to be robust even if there is a mismatch by applying a frequency-difference autoproduct extracted from the auto-correlation of a high frequency signal. In this paper, in order to evaluate the performance of the FD-MFP using a horizontal line array, simulations were conducted in the environment of the East Sea of Korea. In the area of Bottom Bounce (BB) and Convergence Zone (CZ) where detection of a sound source is possible at a long range, and the results of localization were analyzed. According to the the FD-MFP simulations of horizontal line array, the accuracy of localization is similar or degraded compared to the conventional MFP due to diffracted field and mismatch of sound speed. There was no clear result from the simulations conforming that the FD-MFP was more robust to mismatch than the conventional MFP.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.179-185
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• 2017

The problem that occurred in the design/fabrication/testing of the wideband transmitting power amplifier for an embedded active SONAR (Sound Navigation and Ranging) system operating underwater was analyzed and the solution of the problem was proposed in this paper. Wideband acoustic SONAR systems had been developed in order to improve the underwater detection performance. The underwater acoustic transmission system had been also developed to achieve the wideband SONAR system. In this paper, the wideband acoustic transmission signal was generated using a 2 Level sawtooth type Class D PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) which was not complicated to implement. When the sonar signals having two or more frequencies were simultaneously generated, parasitic frequencies were added to the original signals by integer multiples of the frequency difference of the original signal. To cope with this problem, we proposed a way to remove the parasitic frequency from the source signal through modeling and simulation of the implemented power amplifier and PWM control hardware using MATLAB and Simulink.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.282-287
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• 2004

This paper proposes the nearfield eigenvector method for array shape estimation using reference signals basted on the nearfield signal modeling. Generally. direction finding methods assume the reference signals to be plainwave. However, in case of the reference signals in nearfield, this assumption is inadequate for array shape estimation. In this paper. the nearfield reference signals are modeled. and we propose the nearfield eigenvector method. The numerical experiments indicated that the proposed method shows good performance for array shape estimation regardless of the ranges of the reference signals.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.35-40
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 사운드디자이너가 주어진 영상조건 속에서 음원(sound source)을 어떻게 구성하고, 디자인하고, 믹싱하는가 에 따라 수용자의 그 감응도(감정적변화:sympathy response)와 인지도(이해와 기억도:acknowl-edgment)가 달라질 수 있는가를 분석하고자 한 것이다. 그 방법으로 영상음향의 구조에서 음악, 음향, 대사의 상호크기, 연결, 편집, 강조, 등을 달리한 영상 내에서 사운드디자인과 믹싱을 달리하여 실험하였으며 주관적평가방법과 뇌파변화측정방법 2가지로 하여 비교, 평가 분석하고자 했다. 사운드의 디자인구조가 수용자에게 미치는 영향도를 알아보는 이러한 연구는 영화, 방송 등 미디어사운드에서 사운드디자인 구조를 어떻게 만들어야 하는가? 에 대한 방법론적 정리에 기여할 것으로 기대된다.