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Enhancement of Bearing Estimation Performance at Endfire Using Cardioid Inverse Beamforming (좌우분리 역빔형성 기법에 의한 센서 축방향의 방위탐지 성능 향상)

  • 강성현;김의준;윤원식
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.21-29
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    • 2001
  • In order to detect the precise port/starboard direction of arrival of target signal in real noisy ocean environments, Inverse beamforming (IBF) algorithm is surveyed theoretically and the detection performances of IBF are analyzed with simulations. Cardioid Inverse beamforming algorithm was proposed for port/starboard discrimination and the performance was studied with simulations. It is shown that IBF has a 3dB array gain advantage over Conventional beamforming (CBF) under ideal conditions. This 3 dB advantage is proven theoretically and illustrated with simulations. The fact that the IBF beamwidth is narrower than the CBF beamwidth by a factor of 0.68 proves the performance of defection and spatial resolution improvement. Comparing the simulation results of Cardioid Inverse beamforming and Conventional Cardioid beamforming, it is shown that Cardioid Inverse beamformer has enhanced performance in minimum detection level, detection accuracy and resolution. Due to the results of moving target bearing detection test in endfire, it is shown that Cardioid Inverse beamformer has better performance, comparing the Conventional Cardioid beamformer.

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Robust adpative beamforming for triplet sonar arrays (삼중 배열 소나를 위한 강인한 적응 빔형성 기법)

  • Ahn, Jae-Kyun;Ryu, Yongwoo;Chun, Seung-Yong;Kim, Seongil
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.36 no.2
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    • pp.115-122
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    • 2017
  • We propose a robust adaptive beamforming algorithm for triplet array sonar. The proposed beamforming algorithm obtains robustness to mismatches, left/right discrimination, and has two steps. The first is a cardioid beamformer, which supports left/right discrimination of target signals. It applies the conventional delay-and-subtract to each triplet's signal with its rotation angle and obtains multiple cardioid beams. The second is a robust adaptive beamforming to minimize nearby interferences. We regard cardioid beams as input signals of a line array and apply an adaptive beamforming algorithm to the cardioid beams. Simulations results show that the proposed algorithm provides significantly better performance than the conventional algorithms, while supporting left/right discrimination of target signals.

Array Gain Improvement of Triple Line Array System Using Inverse Beamforming (역 빔형성기를 이용한 3중 선배열 시스템에서의 어레이 이득향상)

  • 오효성;강성현;김의준;고정태;김용득
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.10 no.5
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    • pp.786-795
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    • 1999
  • To detect the precise of arrival of target signal in real ocean environments, Inverse beamformnig(IBF) solutions to the Inverse beamforming integral equation are surveyed theoretically and the performance properties of the IBF are analyzed with simulations. IBF-Cardioid beamforming algorithm is proposed for port/starboard discrimination and the performance gains are studied with simulations. It is shown that IBF has a 3 dB array noise gain advantage over CBF under ideal conditions. This 3 dB array noise gain advantage is proven by theocratical studies and simulations. This array noise gain advantage leads to a minimum detectable level advantage for IBF output compared with CBF output. The fact that the IBF beamwidth is narrower than the CBF beamwidth by a factor of 0.68 proves the performance of detection and spatial resolution improvement. Comparing the simulation results of IBF-Cardioid beamforming and Conventional Cardioid beamforming, it is shown that IBF-Cardioid beamformer have performance enhancement in minimum detection level, detection accuracy and resolution.

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Adaptive beamforming of triplet arrays for active sonar systems (능동소나 시스템을 위한 삼중 배열의 적응 빔형성)

  • Ahn, Jae-Kyun;Ryu, Yongwoo;Chun, Seung-Yong;Kim, Seongil
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.66-72
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    • 2018
  • In this paper, we propose an adaptive beamforming algorithm of triplet arrays for active sonar systems. The proposed algorithm consists of three steps: matched filters, cardioid beamforming, and line array beamforming. First, we apply a matched filter of a transmitted pulse to received individual sensor signals and obtain filterd signals. Then, we perform the fast Fourier transform to the matched filter results, and make a cardioid beam for each triplet data, respectively. Finally, we apply an adaptive beamforming by assuming that the cardioid beams are input signals of a line array. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm provides better performances than conventional algorithms.

Bearing Estimation of Narrow Band Acoustic Signals Using Cardioid Beamforming Algorithm in Shallow Water

  • Chang, Duk-Hong;Park, Hong-Bae;Na, Young-Nam;Ryu, Jon-Ha
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.21 no.2E
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    • pp.71-80
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    • 2002
  • This paper suggests the Cardioid beamforming algorithm of the doublet sensors employing DIFAR (directional frequency analysis and recording) sensor signals in the frequency domain. The algorithm enables target bearing estimation using the signals from directional sensors. The algorithm verifies its applicability by successfully estimating bearings of a target projecting ten narrow-band signals in shallow water. The estimated bearings agree very well with those from GPS (global positioning system) data. Assuming the bearings from GPS data to be real values, the estimation errors are analyzed statistically. The histogram of estimation errors in each frequency have Gaussian shape, the mean and standard deviation dropping in the ranges -1.1°∼ 6.7°and 13.3∼43.6°, respectively. Estimation errors are caused by SNR (signal to noise ratio) degradation due to propagation loss between the source and receiver, daily fluctuating geo-magnetic fields, and non-stationary background noises. If multiple DIFAR systems are employed, in addition to bearing, range information could be estimated and finally localization or tracking of a target is possible.

The Bearing Estimation of Narrowband Acoustic Signals Using DIFAR Beamforming Algorithm (DIFAR 빔형성 알고리듬을 이용한 협대역 음향신호의 방향성 추정)

  • 장덕홍;박홍배;정문섭;김인수
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.169-184
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    • 2002
  • In order to extract bearing information from the directional sensors of DIFAR(directional frequency analysis and recording) that is a kind of passive sonobuoy, the cardioid beamforming algorithm applicable to DIFAR system was studied in the frequency domain. the algorithm uses narrow-band signals propagated though the media from the acoustic sources such as ship machineries. The proposed algorithm is expected to give signal to noise ratio of 6dB when it uses the maximum response axis(MRA) among the Cardioid beams. The estimated bearings agree very well with those from GPS data. Assuming the bearings from GPS data to be real values, the estimation errors are analyzed statistically. The histogram of estimation errors in each frequency have Gaussian shape, the mean and standard deviation dropping in the ranges -1.1~$6.7^{\circ}$ and 13.3~$43.6^{\circ}$, respectively. Estimation errors are caused by SMR degradation due to propagation loss between the source and receiver, daily fluctuating geo-magnetic fields, and non-stationary background noises. If multiple DIFAR systems are employed, in addition to bearing, range information could be estimated and finally localization or tracking of a target is possible.

Left/Right Bearing Discrimination with Adaptive Cardioid Beamforming (적응 카디오이드 빔 형성을 이용한 좌/우 방위 분리 기법)

  • 손윤준;천승용;김기만
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.489-495
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    • 2003
  • Single towed line array receiver contains an ambiguity on conjugate bearings because of lacking aperture in transverse direction. To solve the left/right bearing ambiguity of line array receiver this paper proposed using single line array with fixed cardioid beam. Fixed cardioid beam has problem about back beam gain exists for steering beam inherent. Back beam is makes form on direction that is different from actually source so that reduced the performance of left/right bearing discrimination. In this paper, line way with adaptive cardioid beam for resolve problem of back beam gain is proposed. So the proposed method has more improved left/right bearing discrimination than fixed cardioid beam, Simulation results show the performance of the proposed method.

Implementation of the omnidirectional target bearing detector utilizing towed linear arrays (예인선배열 센서를 이용한 전방위 표적방위 탐지기 구현)

  • 이성은;천승용;황수복;이형욱
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.59-64
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    • 2002
  • Passive sonar system forms the various beams in any desired directions to obtain the improvement in Signal-to-Noise(S/N) ratio, bearing detection and localization of targets, and the attenuation of interferences from other directions. Detection of modern underwater targets is becoming increasingly difficult as noise reduction technology leads to considerably low-level acoustic emissions. Therefore, the improvement of beamforming is very important to detect modern underwater targets at the long range in the complex environmental sea. Also, to react to the fast attack mobiles such as torpedoes, port and starboard discrimination is required to be performed very quickly. In this paper, we proposed the implementation of omnidirectional target bearing detector without port and starboard ambiguity to detect effectively the low-level underwater targets. The port and starboard discrimination is performed by cardioid processing and the improvement of beamforming utilizes the cross correlation matrix of individual hydrophone pairs of linear array sensors. The sea test result shows that the system implemented is good for the detection of the low-level underwater targets.

A Study on Wideband Beamforming for Left/Right Discrimination (광대역 좌/우 분리 빔 형성 기법 연구)

  • 천승용
    • Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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    • 1993.06a
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    • pp.222-225
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    • 1993
  • 일반적임 빔 형성기는 표적의 방위탐지가 가능하지만, 구조적인 특성상 대칭적인 빔을 형성하므로 표적의 좌/우 방위 구분이 불가능하기 때문에 표적의 정확한 방위를 탐지하고자 할 때 좌/우 구분이 가능한 빔 형성기가 필수적이다. 좌/우 분리 빔 형성 기법으로는 카디오이드(Cardioid) 빔 형성기법을 일반적인 빔 형성기에 적용시키는 방법이 최적으로 알려져 왔다. 그러나 좌/우 분리 빔을 형성하기 위해서는 많은 연산량과 하드웨어 설계에 대한 고려가 있어야한다. 본 논문에서는 좌/우 분리 빔 형성을 위하여 주파수 빔 형성기법과 카디오이드 빔 형성기법을 합성하여 적용하였다. 주파수 빔 형성 기법은 짧은 수행시간 동안에 표적의 정보추출을 위하여 고려되었으며, 카디오이드 빔 형성기법은 3개의 센서를 이용하여 센서의 기울기를 보상하여 수행하는 기법을 적용하였다. 또한 방향성 있는 시뮬레이션 신호를 생성하여 좌/우 분리 빔 형성 시뮬레이션을 수행하였다.

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