• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.8
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• pp.44-57
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• 2001

This paper analyses the performance of FFTSA (Fast Fourier Transform Synthetic Aperture) in the effects of temporal coherence and oscillatory towed course, which is one of the techniques for passive synthetic aperture SONAR process using linearly distributed towed array. Also this paper proposes the FFTSA technique using towed array having conformal shape to alleviate the performance degradation for estimating the incident angle under inconsistent under water environments. And this paper analyses the performance of the proposed FFTSA technique making use of conformal structure throughout exhaustive computer simulations.

• Composites Research
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.145-150
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• 2018

Various structural health monitoring (SHM) systems have been suggested for aerospace industry in order to increase its life-cycle and economic efficiency. In the case of aircraft structure madden with metal, a major concern was hot spots, such as notches, bolts holes, and where corrosion or stress concentration occurs due to moisture or salinity. However, with the increasing use of composites in the aerospace industry, further advanced SHM systems have been being required to be applied to composite structures, which have much complex damage mechanism. In this paper, a method of acoustic emission localization for composite structures using Q-switched laser and multiple Amplifier-integrated PZTs have been proposed. The presented technique aims at localization of the AE with an error in distance of less than 10 mm. Acoustic emission simulation and the localization attempt were conducted in the composite structure to validate the suggested method. Localization results, which are coordinates of detected regions, grid plots and color intensity map have been presented together to show reliability of the method.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.38 no.6
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• pp.661-669
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• 2019

High frequency active sonar is appropriate for detecting small targets such as a diver in coast environment. In case of using high frequency active sonar in shallow coastal environment, a false alarm rate is high due to clutters caused by marine biological noise, ship noise, wake, etc. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for target detection which is robust against clutter in active sonar system in shallow coastal environment. The proposed algorithm increases the rate of reduction clutter using calculation of statistical characteristics of signal and a clustering method. The algorithm is evaluated and analysed with sea trial data, as a result, that shows the rate of reducing rate of clutter of 96 % and over.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.290-301
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• 2019

The proposed algorithm deals with a detection problem of target echo for narrow-band continuous-wave active sonar in the underwater environment in this paper. In the active sonar systems, ping signal emitted for target detection produces a signal that consists of multiple reflections by many scatterers around, which is called reverberation. The proposed algorithm aims to detect the low-Doppler target echo in the reverberant environment. The proposed algorithm estimates the bearing, frequency, and temporal bases based on beamspace-domain multichannel nonnegative matrix factorization. In particular, the bases are divided into two basis groups - the reverberation group and the echo group, then the basis groups are estimated independently. In order to evaluate the proposed algorithm, a simulation with synthesized reverberation was performed. The results show that the proposed algorithm has enhanced performance than the conventional algorithms.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.468-479
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• 2022

To detect targets with active sonar system in the underwater environments, the targets are localized by receiving the echoes of the transmitted sounds reflected from the targets. In this case, reverberation from the scatterers is also generated, which prevents detection of the target echo. To detect the target effectively, reverberation suppression techniques such as pre-whitening based on autoregressive model and principal component inversion have been studied, and recently a Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF)-based technique has been also devised. The NMF-based reverberation suppression technique shows improved performance compared to the conventional methods, but the geometry of the transducer and receiver and attenuation by distance have not been considered. In this paper, the performance is improved through preprocessing such as the directionality of the receiver, Doppler related thereto, and attenuation for distance, in the case of using a continuous wave with a bistatic sonar. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed system, simulation with a reverberation model was performed. The results show that the detection probability performance improved by 10 % to 40 % at a low false alarm probability of 1 % relative to the conventional non-negative matrix factorization.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Fisheries Technology Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.17-20
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• 2002

수산자원의 현존량을 추정함에 있어, 계량어군탐지기(이하, 계량어탐 이라 한다)를 이용한 음향자원량 조사는 넓은 수역을 단시간에 조사 가능한 효율적인 방법으로서 확립되어 있다. 한편, 최근에 멸치, 꽁치 등의 표층어종의 자원량조사의 필요성이 높아지고 있지만, 계량어탐은 수직 빔을 이용하므로, 표층의 탐지범위가 좁고, 어군의 선체도피행동이나 표층 데드죤이 존재한다. 그 때문에, 표층을 광범위하게 탐지 가능한 소너를 이용한 자원량 추정법의 개발이 요구되고 있다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.119-120
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• 2004

Split-beam 트랜스듀서의 입력신호로써 Sweep 신호를 구동한 어군탐지기 SONAR에 대하여 기술한다. Sweep 신호의 대역폭은 트랜스듀서 공진 대역의 대역폭에서 주파수 이동 변환하였다. 목표 대상물의 방위각 추정은 각 수신 채널 사이의 크로스-스펙트럼을 사용하여 추정한다. 추정 방위각의 정확도는 제안한 시스템의 알고리듬에 관계하고 있다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1996.10a
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• pp.30-34
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• 1996

본 논문에서는 광대역 소음원의 위치를 탐지하여 2차원 영상면에 소음원을 영상화할수 있는 3차원 배열을 제안하였다. 배열 요소간의 상호상관함수가 2차원 영상면의 화소의 밝기에 대응되도록 영상함수를 유도하였으며 영상면은 사각면 및 원통면등으로 선택가능 하도록 하여 소음원의 위치동정 해석이 용이하도록 하였다. 몇가지 소음원에 대한 수치 모의실험결과는 제안된 배열이 소음원의 3차원적인 동정 해석 등에 응용될 수 있음을 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Fisheries Technology Conference
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• 2000.05a
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• pp.65-66
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• 2000

수중 음향 기술의 비약적인 발전은 어업에 있어서 초음파를 이용한 어군탐지와 해양관측 조사의 목적은 물론 가청주파수음을 이용한 어류의 유집, 위협, 치자어의 수중음 학습에 의한 어류의 양식 등 여러 면으로 응용되고 있다$^{1.2)}$ . 특히, 가청 저주파수음을 이용한 어류의 음향 순치는 최근 길러서 잡는 어업인 해양 목장화 사업의 큰 과제로 대두되고 있을 뿐만 아니라, 이제까지 많은 연구에서 어류가 가청저주파수음에 민감한 행동반응을 나타내고 있는 것이 확인되고 있으며, 이를 이용하여 수산업에 수중음의 응용을 높이려는 노력들이 행해지고 있다$^{3.4)}$ . (중략)