• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2010.10a
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• pp.533-534
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• 2010

Fiber optic sensor has bee widely used in the industrial applications. For the application of acoustic detection of the high voltage electric transformer Sagnac interferometer can be used. In this paper several different materials of mandrel were used in the fiber sensor array. Based on the transformer oil fiber optic sensor is more sensitive than in the air.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.8
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• pp.74-80
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• 2001

Because of ocean waves, swell, steering corrections, etc, the hydrophones of a towed array will not live along a straight line. However the degradation of bearing estimation performance occurs when beamforming is carried out on the hydrophone outputs of an acoustic towed array which is not straight. So it is required to estimate the shape of the array for the improved beamformer output. In this paper, an iterative array shape estimation technique is presented, which is based on the use of the least squares polynomial fitting to the data from heading sensors. The estimation error and the influence of deformations on the performance of the conventional beamformer output are investigated. Finally, the suggested method is applied to the real system in order to investigate the applicability.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.329-336
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• 2003

Intra-Vascular Ultra-Sound (IVUS) transducers were developed for the application to diagnose coronary diseases. The transducer consists of 32 piezoelectric elements with a front insulation layer and a polymeric acoustic backing layer on a hollow alumina tube. The optimal geometrical structure of the transducer was designed through theoretical analysis of radiation patterns of the transducer. Samples of the IVUS transducers of the diameter of 3㎜ were fabricated to illustrate the design scheme. For the piezoelectric elements, 2-2 mode piezocomposite materials were employed. Experimental performance of the transducers showed good agreement with the design results, which verified feasibility of the transducer for IVUS applications.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.110-115
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• 2001

In this paper, we propose a beamformer adequate for the nested away that is generally used for multiple frequency band signal processing. The nonisotropic beam pattern of channel in this array causes two problems: the bearing-estimate error of mainlobe and the difference between design and output in sidelobe level. By separating the time delay among channel signals and the time delay among sensor signals in channel, we can remove the effects of the nonisotropic beam pattern of channel in the beamformer output. Through this process, a method to correct simultaneously these problems is proposed.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06d
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• pp.18-24
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• 1998

최근의 연구를 통해 해양의 내부파가 음파전달에 영향을 주어 비정상적인 손실을 일으키는 것을 밝혀졌다. 한국 동해세서도 강한 수온약층을 중심으로 내부파가 존재할 것으로 여겨져 왔으며, 이를 규명하고자 '98년 6월 각종 장비를 동원한 해양 관측을 동해항 근해에서 실시하였다. 또한 내부파에 의한 음파의 전파 특성을 추정학자 음원과 수신기를 고정한 상태에서 음향 실험을 실시하였다. 실험 결과 전형적인 내부파는 주기가 약 5-12분이고 최대 진폭은 15m 정도임이 밝혀졌다. 특히 10여개의 내부파 묶음이 약 36cm/sec 의 속도로 이동하고 있음도 확인하였다. 15개의 음향센서로 이뤄진 수직선배열 수신기와 음원을 이용한 음향 실험결과 역시 4-12분 주기에서 부분적으로 스펙트럼이 높게 나타났으며, 특히 주파수 1kHz 인 경우에는 4, 6분 주기에서 15개의 센서에 대해 일관되게 높은 스펙트럼 준위가 나타났다. 내부파에 의한 이러한 음파의 특성은 음파의 모든간 결함으로 나타나는 일종의 간섭 현상으로 설명될 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.12
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• pp.2151-2156
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• 2006

Beamforming for underwater acoustic communication (UAC) is affected by the broadband feature of UAC signal, which has relatively low currier frequency as compared to the signal bandwidth. The narrow-band assumption does not hold good in UAC. In this paper, we discuss a broadband FIR beamformer for UAC using the baseband equivalent way signal model. We consider the broadband FIR beamformer for QPSK UAC with carrier frequency 25kHz and symbol rate 5kHz. Array geometry is a uniform linear way with 8 omni-directional elements and sensor spacing is the half of the carrier wavelength. The simulation results show that the broadband n beamformer achieves nearly optimum signal to interference and noise ratio (SINR) and outperforms the conventional narrowband beamformer by SINR 0.5dB when two-tap FIR filter is employed at each sensor and the inter-tap delay is a quarter of the symbol interval. The broadband FIR beamformer performance is more degraded as the FIR filter length is increased above a certain value. If the inter-tap delay is not greater than half of the symbol period, SINR performance does not depend on the inter-tap delay. More training period is required when the inter-tap delay is same as the symbol period.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.19 no.10
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• pp.987-995
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• 2009

As an experimental technique to analyze the far-field characteristics of underwater cylindrical array sensors, cylindrical acoustic holography is studied. Inside an laboratory water tank, far-field directivity patterns as well as near-field source images are reconstructed from the measured hologram by hydrophone array. Approximate equation for far-field directivity estimation is derived based on stationary phase method. The simulation and experiment show well usefulness of the proposed method in application of underwater array sensors.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.111-116
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• 2009

As an experimental technique to analyze the far-field characteristics of underwater cylindrical array sensors, cylindrical acoustic holography is studied. Inside an laboratory water tank, far-field directivity patterns as well as near-field source images are reconstructed from the measured hologram by hydrophone array. Approximate equation for far-field directivity estimation is derived based on stationary phase method. The simulation and experiment show well usefulness of the proposed method in application of underwater array sensors.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1996.10a
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• pp.19-23
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• 1996

이 연구는 영상 홀로그래픽의 원리를 이용하여 직선배열형 음향센서 어레이를 측정대상에 직접 주사시켜 고분해능을 가지고 짧은 계측시간에 정확한 음원의 절대위치를 추저에 그 목적을 두고 있다. 시뮬레이션을 통하여 재생시 평생간섭파의 영향을 제거하기 위해 측정면의 길이와 센서간격을 나이키스트조건이 성립하는 최적조건을 찾아내었고, 실험을 통하여 실제음장에서 음원 위치 추정을 행하여 비교.검토한 결과 , 계산기상의 시뮬레이션 결과와 일치함이 확인되었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.707-708
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• 2012