• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06e
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• pp.185-188
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• 1998

본 연구에서는 256(16$\times$16)개의 마이크로폰 정방형 배열에 의한 음향 홀로그래피 시스템을 제작하고, FFT에 의한 음향 홀로그래피법 알고리즘을 이용한 음원 위치 추정에 관하여 기술한다. 본 연구에서 설계한 측정 시스템은 방사된 음들을 동시 수음함으로서 실시간 데이터 처리가 가능하다. 또한 환경 잡음이 존재하는 실음장에서도 계측시간을 단축함과 동시에 고분해능으로 안정하게 음원의 위치를 추정할 수 있다. 본 연구의 타당성을 검증하기 위해 SYSNOISE에 의한 음장해석과 음향 홀로그래피 알고리즘을 이용하여 마이크로폰 간격 및 측정면 크기, 측정거리의 최적 조건을 구한 후 실음장 측정 실험에 적용하였다. 수치 시뮬레이션과 무향실에서 실험 데이터에 의해 음원 위치를 추정한 결과 유사한 결과를 얻었다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.26 no.8
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• pp.415-425
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• 2007

This paper proposes a method of underwater source localization using the wideband interference patterns matching. By matching two interference patterns in the spectrogram, it is estimated a ratio of the range from source to sensor5, and then this ratio is applied to the Apollonius circle. The Apollonius circle is defined as the locus of all points whose distances from two fixed points are in a constant value so that it is possible to represent the locus of potential source location. The Apollonius circle alone, however still keeps the ambiguity against the correct source location. Therefore another equation is necessary to estimate the unique locus of the source location. By estimating time differences of signal arrivals between source and sensors, the hyperbola equation is used to get the cross point of the two equations, where the point being assumed to be the source position. Simulations are performed to get performances of the proposed algorithm. Also, comparisons with real sea experiment data are made to prove applicability of the algorithm in real environment. The results show that the proposed algorithm successfully estimates the source position within an error bound of 10%.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.247-251
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• 2013

In this paper, near-field source localization algorithm is presented using Matrix Pencil in Uniform Linear Array(ULA). Based on the centrosymmetry of the ULA, the proposed algorithm decouples the steering vectors which allow for the bearing estimation using Matrix pencil. With estimated bearing, the range estimation of each source is consequently obtained by defining 1D MUSIC spectrum. Simulation results are presented to validate the performance of the proposed algorithm.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.231-239
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• 2019

In sonar systems, the passive ranging of a target is an active research area. This paper analyzed the performance of passive ranging based on an array invariant method for different environmental and sonar parameters. The array invariant developed for source range estimation in shallow water. The advantages of this method are that detailed environmental information is not required, and the real-time ranging is possible since the computational burden is very small. Simulation was performed to verify the algorithm. And this method is applied to sea-going experimental data in 2013 near Jinhae port. This study shows the performance of ranging for source orientation, transmission signal length, and length of a receiver through numerical simulation experiments. Also, the results using nested array and uniform line arrays are compared.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.52-57
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• 2001

The passive ranging estimation techniques using a focused beamformer have been studied under the water. It is well known that the passive ranging estimation method using a focused beamformer is excellently evaluated. Among these, the passive ranging sonar is known to have a good performance under low signal-to-noise. ratio. However, its performance is degraded in multi-source environments. In this paper, we proposed the technique using dual focused beamformers to estimate the range. And when the sampling frequency is low, it is very difficult to steer the focused beam to the desired direction, as a result of this, the low performance occurs because of a distorted beam pattern. In this paper, we study the effect of sampling rate on passive ranging by using focused beamformer. And we verified the performance of the proposed method via computer simulation.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.43 no.3
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• pp.324-334
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• 2024

The Wavefront Curvature Ranging (WCR) is an estimation method for a source range from the wavefront curvature of acoustic waves. The conventional method uses trigonometry to estimate the source range by assuming the sound speed as a constant. Because of this assumption, range error occurs in the ocean environment where the bottom reflection is clearly separated. In order to reduce the range error, Matched Wavefront Curvature Ranging (MWCR) was proposed applying the sound speed structure in the ocean environment and Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE). The range error was reduced in the results of the simulation on the proposed method. In the future, this method will be applicable to the sonar system if the reliability of ranging is confirmed by measured signal.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.10
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• pp.164-170
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• 2014

A single near-field sounde source bearing and ranging method based on a independent doublet array is proposed. In the common case of bearing estimation method, unform linear array or uniform circular array are used. It is constrained retaining aperture because of array structure to estimate the distance of the sound source. Recent using independent doublet array sound source's bearing and distance esmtimation method is proposed by wide aperture. It is limited to the case doublets are located on a straight line. In this paper, we generalize the case and estimate the localization of a sound source in the various array structure. The proposed algorithm was verified performance through simulation.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.311-318
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• 2021

Underwater, signals are transmitted by sound waves. Sound waves are transmitted through a multipath, either directly or through reflection, due to the variety of underwater environmental characteristics. In such diverse and complex underwater environments, tests must be conducted to determine the extent of the hazard from the survivability and pitfalls of submarines by measuring the underwater radiated noise. Usually, the sound source level measurement of underwater radiated noise should be made within the closest point (CPA: Closest Point of Approach) ± a few meters between the measurement sensor and the submarine. In this study, FDOA and TDOA methods were proposed to estimate the underwater source range. A simulation based on the underwater channel model confirmed the performance of the proposed method.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.163-169
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• 2020

The asynchronous bistatic sonar needs to estimate direct blast arrival time at a receiver to localize targets, and therefore the direct blast arrival time estimation error could be added to target localization error in comparison with synchronous system. Direct blast especially appears as several peaks at the matched filter output by multipath, thus we compared the first peak detection technique and the maximum peak detection technique of those peaks for direct blast arrival time estimation through sea trial data. The test was performed in a shallow sea with bistatic sonar made up of spatially separated source and line array sensors. Line array sensors obtained the target signal which is generated from the echo repeater. As a result, the first peak detection technique is superior to maximum peak detection technique in direct blast arrival time estimation error. The result of this analysis will be used for further research of target tracking in the asynchronous bistatic sonar.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.75-81
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• 2001

In this paper we analyzed the localization error of near-field detection algorithm in the sea. The near-field detection algorithms using triangulation and wavefront curvature basically assume a signal in two dimension of bearing and range. But the assumption causes localization error because there is three dimension of bearing, range, and depth in the sea. Even through three dimensional effect is considered, the localization error is occurred if multipath propagation in the sea is ignored. To analyze the localization error in the sea, we simulate the near-field localization using acoustic propagation model and focused beamforming considering wavefront curvature. The simulation results indicate that localization error always occurs in the sea and the error varied with sound velocity profile, water depth, bottom slope, source range, etc.