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A Circularly Polarized Waveguide Narrow-wall Slot Array using a Single Layer Polarization Converter

  • Kim, Dong-Chul;Min, Kyeong-Sik
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.59-65
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    • 2000
  • This paper describes the characteristics of a one dimensional narrow-wall slotted waveguide array with a single-layer linear-to-circular polarization converter consisting of a dipole array. An external boundary value Problem of one slot and three dipoles, which approximates the mutual coupling between the dipole array and an edge slot extending over three faces of a rectangular waveguide, is formulated and analyzed by the method of moments; design of polarization conversion is conducted for this model as a unit element. If every unit element has perfect circular polarization, grating lobes appear in the array pattern due to the alternating slot angle: these are suppressed in this paper by changing the dipole angle and degrading the axial ratio of the unit element. The validity of the design is confirmed by the measurements. The dipole array has negligible effects upon slot impedance; the polarization conversion for existing narrow-wall slotted arrays is realized by add-on dipole array.

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Performance Characteristics of Subband Adaptive Array Antenna using Kalman Algorithm (Kalman 알고리즘에 의한 대역분할. 합성형 어댑티브 어레이 안테나의 동작 특성)

  • 박재성;오경석;주창복;박남천;정주수
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.501-507
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    • 1999
  • At the mobile unit for adaptation the propagation environment, it is necessity to adapt very fast the weight coefficient vector of adaptive array antenna In this paper, for the BPSK and BFSK signals with S/I=2, S/N=10 subband adaptive array signal processing method to the linear array antenna using the LMS & the Kalman filter algorithm is proposed. For the 4 elements equidistance linear array antenna systems LMS and Kalman algorithms with subband adaptive instruction principles using the subband signal processing method are adopted and the computer simulation results to the constant amplitude envelope signals such as BPSK or BFSK can be seen that the convergence characteristics of directional patterns and the signal following characteristics are more fast and stable.

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Content-Addressable Systolic Array for Solving Tridiagonal Linear Equation Systems (삼중대각행렬 선형방정식의 해를 구하기 위한 내용-주소법 씨스톨릭 어레이)

  • 이병홍;김정선;채수환
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.556-565
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    • 1991
  • Using the WDZ decomposition algorithm, a parallel algorithm is presented for solving the linear system Ax=b which has an nxn nonsingular tridiagonal matrix. For implementing this algorithm a CAM systolic arrary is proposed, and each processing element of this array has its own CAM to store the nonzero elements of the tridiagonal matrix. In order to evaluate this array the algorithm presented is compared to theis compared to the LU decomposition algorithm. It is found that the execution time of the algorithm presented is reduced to about 1/4 than that of the LU decomposition algorithm. If each computation process step can be dome in one time unit, the system of eqations is solved in a systolic fashion without central control is obtained in 2n+1 time steps.

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A Study on Fault Diagnosis for Planar Active Phased Array Antenna (평면 능동위상배열안테나 결함소자 진단방법에 관한 연구)

  • Jin-Woo Jung;Seung-Ho Kang
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.11-22
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    • 2023
  • A radiating elements fault diagnosis method with simplified radiation pattern measurement procedure was presented for planar active phased array antenna system. For presenting the mentioned method, the technique for linear approximation based on the radiation characteristics of a planar array configuration and a technique for solving a unique solution problem that occur in process of diagnosing a fault in a radiating elements were presented. Based on the presented method and a genetic algorithm, experimental simulations were performed for radiating element defect diagnosis according to various planar active phased array antenna configurations. As a result, it was confirmed that the presented radiating element fault diagnosis method can be smoothly applied to planar active phased antennas having various configurations.

Improvement of Control Performance of Array-Sensor System Using Soft Computing (Soft Computing을 이용한 배열 센서 시스템의 제어 성능 개선)

  • Na, Seung-You;Ahn, Myung-Kook
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.79-87
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, we propose a method to obtain a linear characteristic using soft computing for systems which have array sensors of nonlinear characteristics. Also a procedure utilizing the pattern information of array sensors without additional sensors is proposed to reduce disturbance effects. For a typical example, even a single CdS cell for CdS array has nonlinear characteristics. Overall linear characteristic for CdS array is obtained using fuzzy logic for each cell and overlapped portion. In addition, further improvement for linearization is obtained applying genetic algorithms for the parameters of membership functions. Also the effect of disturbing external light changes to the CdS array can be reduced without using any additional sensors for calibration. The proposed method based on fuzzy logic shows improvements for position measurements and disturbance reduction to external light changes due to the fuzziness of the shadow boundary as well as the inherent nonlinearity of the CdS array. This improvement is shown by applying the proposed method to the ball position measurements of a magnetic levitation system.

Cascade AOA Estimation Using Uniform Rectangular Array Antenna (등간격 사각 배열 안테나를 적용한 캐스케이드 도래각 추정)

  • Kim, Tae-Yun;Hwang, Suk-Seung
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.923-930
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    • 2018
  • In the wireless communication system based on an array antenna, the angle of arrival (AOA) information of signal is very important element and various AOA estimation algorithms have been studied. Although most AOA estimation algorithms employ the uniform linear array (ULA), some algorithms apply the planar array (PA) antenna. In this paper, we present an algorithm for efficiently estimating AOAs of adjacent multiple signals, based on the uniform rectangular array antenna. This approach has two steps; after approximately estimating AOA groups consisting of the closely located signal sources using CAPON, accurately estimating the individual AOA of each signal in the estimated AOA group using Beamsapce MUSIC. The estimation performance of the presented cascade AOA algorithm is illustrated through the computer simulation example.

A Cylindrical Hybrid Antenna for Shaping Complex Beam Patterns (복합 빔 패턴 형성을 위한 원통형 하이브리드 안테나)

  • Eom, Soon-Young;Jung, Young-Bae;Jeon, Soon-Ick;Kim, Chang-Joo
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.18 no.11
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    • pp.1279-1290
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    • 2007
  • In this paper, a cylindrical hybrid antenna which is spatially fed by an off-set linear feed array is described to form complex beam patterns. The linear feed array consists of twelve micro-strip patch elements and forms a flat-topped beam pattern with a beam-width of $90^{\circ}$ in the horizontal plane. The vertical curve on the cylindrical reflector with the linear feed array is shaped in order to form a cosecant beam pattern within the range of $-5^{\circ}$ to $-25^{\circ}$ in the vertical plane. To form complex beam patterns, the hybrid antenna with cylindrical reflector aperture of $140{\times}50\;cm$ was designed and fabricated to be operated within the IMT 2000 service band, and also electrical performances of the antenna were measured and analyzed.

Development of a Small Animal CT using a Linear Detector Array and Small-Scale Slip Rings

  • An Ung Hwan;Chun In Kon;Lee Sang Chul;Cho Min Hyoung;Lee Soo Yeol
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.43-47
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    • 2005
  • We have developed a small bore x-ray CT for small animal imaging with a linear x-ray detector array and small-scale slip rings. The linear x-ray detector array consists of 1024 elements of 400□m×400□m with a gadolinium oxysulfide (GOS) scintillator on top of them. To avoid use of expensive large diameter slip rings for projection data transmission from the X­ray detector to the image reconstruction system, we used the wireless LAN technology. The projection data are temporally stored in the data acquisition system residing on the rotating gantry during the scan and they are transmitted to the image reconstruction system after the scan. With the wireless LAN technology, we only needed to use small-scale slip rings to deliver the AC electric power to the X-ray generator and the power supply on the rotating gantry. The performances of the small animal CT system, such as SNR, contrast, and spatial resolution, have been evaluated through experiments using various phantoms. It has been experimentally found that the SNR is almost linearly proportional to the tube current and tube voltage, and the minimum resolvable contrast is less than 30 CT numbers at 40kVp/3.0㎃. The spatial resolution of the small animal CT system has been found to be about 0.9Ip/㎜. Postmortem images of a piglet is also presented.

Feasibility Study on Detection of Defective Elements in a Linear Phased Array Transducer through Ultrasonic Field Analysis and Visualization (초음파 음장해석 및 가시화를 통한 선형 위상차배열 트랜스듀서의 결함요소 검출 가능성 연구)

  • Choi, Kwang-Yoon;Yang, Jeong-Won;Ha, Kang-Lyeol;Kim, Moo-Joon;Kim, Jung-Soon;Lee, Chae-Bong
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.28 no.5
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    • pp.416-423
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    • 2009
  • The ultrasonic pressure fields for the 3 MHz linear phased array transducer with sixteen piezoelectric elements of which one may not be operated by defect were simulated theoretically and measured experimentally using a visualization system of the Schlieren method. The simulation results for steering angles of $0^{\circ}$ and $30^{\circ}$ show that the side-lobe patterns of the transducer including a defective element is quite different from the transducer with all normal elements, and those patterns are in good agreement with the results of visualization. It is shown that the defective elements in a linear array transducer can be detected by comparison of the simulated and the visualized side-lobe patterns in two dimensional acoustic fields.

An Optimal Beamforming Technique for Conformal Array (Conformal Array를 위한 최적 빔 형성 기법)

  • 김준환;김기만
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 1999.05a
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    • pp.43-46
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    • 1999
  • Various techniques for optimizing the performance indices of sonar arrays have been discussed, Maximizing the directivity or beamforming technique with constraints have been studied, however these performances are adapted on the condition of isotropic linear array. In this paper we discuss the problems resulting from application of conformal array by using previous techniques. Finally, we could get a desired beam pattern after use of the compensated weight vector to solve the problems.

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