• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.195-224
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• 2023

This paper proposes a method for the acoustic imaging wherein the traditional requirement of the relative movement between the transmitter and target is overcome. This is facilitated through the beamforming acoustic array in the transmitter, in which the target is illuminated by the array at various azimuth and elevation angles without the physical movement of the acoustic array. The concept of beam steering of the acoustic array facilitates the formation of the beam at desired angular positions of azimuth and elevation angles. This paper substantiates that the combination of illumination of the target from different azimuth and elevation angles with respect to the transmitter (through the beam steering of beam forming acoustic array) and the beam steering at multiple frequencies (through SF) results in enhanced reconstruction of images of the target in the underwater scenario. This paper also demonstrates the possibility of reconstruction of the image of a target in underwater without invoking the traditional algorithms of Digital Image Processing (DIP). This paper comprehensively and succinctly presents all the empirical formulae required for modelling the acoustic medium and the target to facilitate the reader with a comprehensive summary document incorporating the various parameters of multi-disciplinary nature.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.225-231
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• 2014

본 논문은 해양에서 발생하는 음향 표적에 대해서 표적의 식별 정보 피드백을 통해 관심 표적 추적 성능을 향상시키는 기법을 제안한다. 기존의 다중주파수 표적 추적 기법은 탐지된 음향신호 특성만 활용하여 추적을 수행하는 반면, 본 논문에서 제안하는 기법은 탐지된 음향신호 특성과 더불어 관심 표적의 특징인자가 식별되는지 여부를 추적에 활용한다. 제안하는 기법은 특징인자가 식별되는 측정치에 대해서만 추적을 수행하여 관심 표적이 아닌 표적에 대한 불필요한 추적을 방지한다. 또한 특징인자가 식별된 표적을 추적할 때 동적으로 추적 파라메터를 최적화하여 관심 표적에 대해 지속적이고 안정적인 추적을 수행한다. 모의 신호를 이용하여 실험을 수행하였으며 미약한 신호가 나타나는 수중 표적에 대해 제안하는 기법을 적용한 결과, 불필요한 표적 개수가 감소하고 관심 표적의 추적이 지속적으로 안정되게 수행됨을 확인하였다.

• 수산해양기술연구
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.37-45
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• 2008

Assessment and management of fisheries abundance in fresh water like a river or a lake is very important to maintain fisheries itself as well as tourist industry even if their scale is not much large. The species for catch in fresh water are mainly a mandarin fish, a carp, an eel, and others. Because oriental river prawn is a main prey of these species and the change in its abundance is directly related to their abundance change in fresh water, information on the abundance and distribution of the species are necessary. Hydroacoustic survey is known to one of the efficient method among several methodology. Information on acoustic target strength is key parameter to estimate abundance for acoustic survey. In this study, measurements on oriental river prawn, Macrobrachium koreana, were conducted for two high frequencies(200kHz and 420kHz) with tilt angle using automatic rotating system. The results of acoustic target strength obtained from the experiment were compared with those of acoustic scattering model, Distorted Wave Born Approximation(DWBA) model. For 200kHz, the result of acoustic target strength experiments was expressed in terms of the averaged target strength dependence on the body langth(BL, cm) as a following relationship; < $TS_{200kHz}$ > = 45.9log(BL) - 107.4. These results provide basic information for studying acoustic target strength and conducting acoustic survey of oriental river prawn.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2007년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.812-819
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• 2007

Acoustic Target Strength (TS) is a major parameter of the active sonar equation, which indicates the ratio of the radiated intensity from the source to the re-radiated intensity by a target. This research provides the time pattern of TS in time domain, which is applicable to pulse modulated acoustic pressure field. If the time pattern of TS is predicted by using TS equation in frequency domain, it takes long time and difficult since time function pulsed acoustic wave may be decomposed into their frequency domain components. But TS equation in time domain has a convenience. If the expression for pulsed acoustic field has been obtained, the problem can be solved. Furthermore this paper introduces about mathematical equivalence quantities between EM wave and Acoustic Wave.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.203-208
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 소나 시스템을 통해 획득된 수중 음향 신호를 디지털 영상의 형태로 변환한다. 그리고 이러한 형태의 영상에 대해 영상 처리 기법을 도입하여 표적 후보를 탐지하고, 이들 영역에 대해 정보를 강화하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 수중 표적의 탐지 과정은 우선 수중음향신호 영상에서 불규칙한 형태로 분포하고 있는 배경 잡음을 추정하여 재구성한 뒤, 원 영상에서 배경 영상을 제거하여 초기 표적 후보군을 획득한다. 또한 도플러 신호 정보를 가공하여 가중치 맵을 생성하고, 배경잡음이 제거된 영상에 대해 가중치 맵을 이용한 필터링 과정을 수행함으로써 표적 후보에 대한 정보를 보다 정확히 확보하고, 단일프레임에서의 표적 후보 정보를 강화한다. 본 논문에서는 시뮬레이션으로 획득된 수중음향신호에 대해 제안된 알고리즘을 적용하여, 불규칙적으로 발생하게 되는 잡음이 대부분 제거됨을 확인하였고, 필터링 및 표적 탐지 과정을 통해 수중음향신호 영상에서 표적이 더욱 명확히 표시됨을 확인하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.38-42
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• 1995

This paper presents a target scoring method using shock wave signals, which are generated from the supersonic speed of a projectile. The shock wave is detected from three acoustic sensors located in the target plane and the difference of the delay times are measured. The target coordinates are calculated from the effective propagation of velocity (EPV) and the delay times of the shock wave; and the EPV is from the projectile velocity and the delay time. With a comparison between the measurement result and the known coordinates, the accuracy and the usefulness of the proposed scheme is validated.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.265-275
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• 2005

A prerequisite for deriving the abundance estimates from acoustic surveys for commercially important fish species is the identification of target strength measurements for selected fish species. In relation to these needs, the goal of this study was to construct a data bank for converting the acoustic measurements of target strength to biological estimates of fish length and to simultaneously obtain the target strength-fish length relationship. Laboratory measurements of target strength on 15 commercially important fish species were carried out at five frequencies of 50, 70, 75, 120 and 200 kHz by single and split beam methods under the controlled conditions of the fresh and the sea water tanks with the 389 samples of dead and live fishes. The target strength pattern on individual fish of each species was measured as a function of tilt angle, ranging from $-45^{\circ}$ (head down aspect) to $+45^{\circ}$ (head up aspect) in $0.2^{\circ}$ intervals, and the averaged target strength was estimated by assuming the tilt angle distribution as N $(-5.0^{\circ},\;15.0^{\circ})$. The TS to fish length relationship for each species was independently derived by a least-squares fitting procedure. Also, a linear regression analysis for all species was performed to reduce the data to a set of empirical equations showing the variation of target strength to a fish length, wavelength and fish species. For four of the frequencies (50, 75, 120 and 200 kHz), an empirical model for fish target strength (TS, dB) averaged over the dorsal sapect of 602 fishes of 10 species and which spans the fish length (L, m) to wavelength (\Lambda,\;m)$ ratio between 5 and 73 was derived: $TS=19.44\;Log(L)+0.56\;Log(\Lambda)-30.9,\;(r^2=0.53)$.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1992년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집(국내학술편); KOEX, Seoul; 19-21 Oct. 1992
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• pp.558-563
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• 1992

Bearing information of target is used critically for target tracking in underwater environment. In passive sonar, target bearing measurements are obtained by processing the acoustic signal emanating from the target. PDA tracking algorithm is usually applied in this case since bearing measurements have several peaks due to interference with other acoustic sources or reflections from underwater media. In this paper, we propose a modified PDA algorithm adopting new probabilistic distributions of the number, position, and amplitude of peaks based on the analysis of real data. This algorithm is tested on real and artificially generated data. The computer simulation result shows improvement of the tracking performance.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.429-439
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• 2014

The target echoes contain information on the target such as the orientation, kinematics, and internal structure, as well as the external geometrical shape of the target. In addition, the pattern of the target echoes depends on the arrangement of the transmitters and receivers in space. Therefore, the study of the target echoes in a multi-static SONAR system can be useful for detecting and tracking submerged objects using an underwater surveillance system. For this purpose, an acoustic measuring system for multi-static target echoes was designed and tested in an acoustic water tank. Some preliminary data are presented and discussed.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제25권6호
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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.