• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.100-107
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• 2017

The focused MVDR (Minimum Variance Distortionless Response) can be applied for source localization in near field. However, if the number of sensors are increased, it requires a large amount of calculation to obtain the inverse of the covariance matrix. In this paper we propose a focused MVDR method using that beam space is formed from output of far field beamformer at the subarray. The performances of the proposed method was evaluated by simulation. As a result of simulation, the proposed method has the higher spatial resolution performance then the conventional delay-and-sum beamformer.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.440-446
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• 2015

Acoustic signal is emitted from a vessel and received by a cylindrical array sensor at some distance from the vessel. Acoustic signal is the source for a cylindrical array sensor which is designed to detect the acoustic signal. Cylindrical array sensors seldom have an ideal hydrodynamic shape and are not sufficiently robust to survive without some protection and they are normally housed in a sonar dome. Reflected signals by some structure inside a sonar dome make unwanted signals. Therefore, an acoustic baffle is used to minimize unwanted signals. The performance of the acoustic baffles can be determined from the acoustic numerical analysis at the design stage. In this study, finite element method was used to analyze the acoustic field around the cylindrical array sensor and baffle effects. The baffle performance can be defined the echo reduction. To show the baffle performance, the specimens were made for pulse tube test and echo reductions were measured during the test. In this paper, the effect of echo reduction of the acoustic baffle was discussed.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.770-773
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• 2003

To measure discharge breakdown acoustic signal, Fabry-Perot interferometer fiber optic sensor is used. Fiber optic sensor array can measure the partial discharge acoustic signal caused by defect of power facilities such as power cables, transformers and gas insulation. Fabry-Perot interferometer is selected as an fiber optic sensor array. It is shown that Fabry-Perot fiber optic sensor array detected discharge breakdown acoustic signal, effectively.

• 대한공업교육학회지
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.238-251
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• 2009

The noise itself that affects the sensor array is defined as the noise which happens in the place where the system is installed and the circumference noise which comes from the ocean. The array structure for detecting acoustic signal in the underwater effected turbulent layer flow noise. In this paper to design the conformal array spectral density function was introduced and several cases of flow induced noise which affect transfer function were simulated. Modified Corcos wall pressure model was used as turbulent boundary layer flow noise. The effect of noise has been reduced as integrated sum of transfer function has been reduced by decreasing elastomer thickness and density when kx is in low wave number area. Also the characteristics of transfer function by Corcos wall pressure displayed the product of frequency density function. This simulation results can be applied to the conformal array design in unmmaned underwater vehicle in the near future.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.72-76
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• 2000

A calibration technique is proposed to improve the performance of 2-D towed array shape estimation using the Kalman filter. In the case of using displacement sensors, 2-D hydrophone positions estimated by the Kalman filter are calculated by assuming that the adjacent hydrophones are horizontally equi-spaced so that maximum distance is equal to the array length. The assumption causes errors in estimating hydrophone positions. The proposed technique using linear model approximation or spline interpolation can reduce the errors by exploiting the fact that the whole length of array is preserved whatever the array shape is. The numerical experiments show that the proposed method is very effective.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.559-567
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• 2020

This paper proposes a noise cancelling algorithm to remove own-ship noise for a towed array sonar. Extra beamforming is performed using partial channels of the acoustic array to get a reference beam signal robust to the noise bearing. Frequency domain Adaptive Noise Cancelling (ANC) is applied based on Normalized Least Mean Square (NLMS) algorithm using the reference beam. The bearing of own-ship noise is estimated from the coherence between the reference beam and input beam signals. Own-ship noise level is calculated using a beampattern of the noise with estimated steering angle, which prevents loss of a target signal by determining whether to update a filter so that removed signal level does not exceed the estimated noise level. Simulation results show the proposed algorithm maintains its performance when the own-ship gets out off its bearing 40 % more than the conventional algorithm's limit and detects the target even when the frequency of the target signal is same with the frequency of the own-ship signal.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.305-310
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 기존의 선형 견인 어레이 방법인 FFTSA기법에서의 여러 가지 환경적 요인에 대한 입사각 추정 성능의 변화에 대해서 고찰하여 보았다. 즉, 시간 및 공간적 코히어런스 주기 변화에 대한 추정 성능 변화와 견인 센서 어레이가 가져야 하는 직선 경로에서 주위의 환경적 요인으로 인해 직선 방향을 중심으로 이탈된 발진 경로, 또는 진동경로가 발생되는 시스템 에러주기 변화에 대한 추정 성능의 변화에 대해 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통하여 입사각 추정 성능의 변화를 살펴보았다. 또한 비선형 특성을 지니는 견인 배열 센서 어레이인 Conformal array를 FFTSA기법에 적용했을 경우 환경적 요인에 의한 입사각 추정 성능의 변화를 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통하여 기존의 FFTSA기법과 비교하여 보았다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.177-180
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• 2000

소나 시스템에서는 신호 대 잡음비의 향상, 표적의 방위탐지 및 위치 데이터 산출, 간섭신호 제거 등을 위하여 지향성 빔을 만들어 사용한다. 본 논문에서는 선형으로 배열된 센서에서 각 센서쌍들에 대한 상호상관 행렬을 이용한 SCCBF(Spatial Cross Correlation Beamformer) 알고리즘을 제안하였다 이상적인 조건하에서 제안된 SCCBF는 CBF(Conventional Beamformer)에 비해 3dB의 Array Gain을 갖는 것을 이론적으로 검증하고 표적의 탐지 방위정확도를 나타내는 빔폭(Beam Width)이 CBF 보다 0.5배정도가 됨을 검증하고 모의실험을 통하여 이를 입증하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.230-237
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• 2005

The angle-tracking of maneuvering targets is required to the state estimation and classification of targets in underwater acoustic systems. The Problem of angle-tracking multiple closed and crossing targets has been studied by various authors. Sword et al. Proposed a multiple target an91e-tracking algorithm using angular innovations of the targets during a sampling Period are estimated in the least square sense using the most recent estimate of the sensor output covariance matrix. This algorithm has attractive features of simple structure and avoidance of data association problem. Ryu et al. recently Proposed an effective multiple target angle-tracking algorithm which can obtain the angular innovations of the targets from a signal subspace instead of the sensor output covariance matrix. Hwang et al. improved the computational performance of a multiple target angle-tracking algorithm based on the fact that the steering vector and the noise subspace are orthogonal. These algorithms. however. are ineffective when a subset of the incident sources are coherent. In this Paper, we proposed a new multiple target angle-tracking algorithm for coherent and incoherent sources. The proposed algorithm uses the relationship between source steering vectors and the signal eigenvectors which are multiplied noise covariance matrix. The computer simulation results demonstrate the improved Performance of the Proposed algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.161-164
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 표적 추적 시스템에서 센서 어레이에 입사되는 표적신호에 대한 센서 출력 신호간의 지연시간 추정(TDE:Time Delay Estimation)을 위해 백색상호 상관법(CSP:Cross-Power Spectrum Phase Analysis)을 이용한다. 그러나 음파의 다중경로 전달특성 및 배경잡음의 영향으로 인해 CSP계수는 많은 클러터(Clutter)를 포함하게 되고 결국 방위 추정 오차의 요인이 된다. 따라서 센서 어레이 중심좌표를 기준으로 대칭 배열된 센서쌍(Pair)에 대한 CSP계수를 동기가산 하여 실제 표적 방향 이외의 방향정보를 제거하는 방법을 제안한다. 시간에 따라 각도를 변침하는 표적에 대한 표적기동분석 (BOTMA:Bearings Only Target Motion Analysis)을 위해 매 관측시간마다 동기가산을 행한 CSP결과를 누적하여 방위각 궤적을 형성하였을 때 시간 Window에 따라 약간의 차이는 있지만 약 10dB의 궤적 추적 성능을 확인하였다.