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Performance analysis of sensor selection methods for beam steering direction of non-linear conformal array (비선형 곡면 배열 센서의 빔 지향 방위별 센서 선택 방법에 대한 성능 분석)

  • Kwon, Taek-ik
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.40 no.4
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    • pp.391-399
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    • 2021
  • The conformal array sensor has different sub-array depending on different beam steering directions. According to the method to effective the sensor, the performance of the conformal array sensor can be different, where the sub-array selects an effective sensor. Also, due to the figure of the conformal array sensor, the figure of the sub-array can be different each other, which results in different performance on directivity index, beam width and etc. In this paper, two methods to select sub-array which is the criteria for each sensors position vector and directive vector were proposed. For two sub-array selection methods, the performance of the directivity index, horizontal and vertical beam width were compared with the average and variance. In addition, this comparison was conducted when the number of sensors was fixed. When the number of sensors was not fixed, the directional vector method mainly results in high performance, but the performance of vertical beam width was lower or equal. When the number of sensors was fixed, the performance of two methods is similar, but the performance of variance was deteriorated.

GA-Enhanced Dual-Band Aperiodic Linear Dipole Array with Low Sidelobe Level (낮은 부엽 준위를 갖는 이중 대역 다이폴 배열 안테나)

  • Son, Trinh-Van;Kwon, Gina;Hwang, Keum Cheol;Park, Joon-Young;Kim, Seon-Joo;Kim, Dong-Hwan
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.37C no.12
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    • pp.1296-1302
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    • 2012
  • In this research, optimization of a dual-band dipole array was performed using genetic algorithm. A non-uniform, aperture-shared linear array was configured with dipoles which resonate at 4 GHz and 9.5 GHz. The excited current distributions on dipoles were computed considering mutual coupling between dipole elements. The current distributions were also computed using method of moment (MoM). The optimization using genetic algorithm was performed to obtain the low sidelobe levels in two operating frequency band. The PSLs of the optimized array for 4 GHz and 9.5 GHz are -15.7 dB and -17 dB, respectively. Comparison between computed and simulated results are also discussed.

Performance Analysis of Data Association Applied Frequency Weighting in 3-Passive Linear Array Sonars (주파수 가중치를 적용한 3조의 수동 선배열 소나 센서의 정보 연관 성능 분석)

  • 구본화;윤제한;홍우영;고한석
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.109-116
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    • 2004
  • This paper deals with data association using 3 sets of passive linear array sonars (PUS) geometrically positioned in a Y-shaped configuration, but fixed in an underwater environment. The data association problem is directly transformed into a 3-D assignment problem, which is known to be NP-hard. For generic passive sensors, it can be sotted using conventional algorithms, while it in PLAS becomes a formidable task due to the presence of bearing ambiguity. In particular, we proposed data association method robust to bearing measurements errors by incorporating frequency information and analyze a region of ghost problem by geometrical relation PUS and target. We analyzed the effectiveness of the proposed method by representative simulation in multi-target.

The Characteristics of Wide-Band/Wide-Scan E-plane Notch Phased Array Antenna

  • Kim, Jun-Yeon;So, Joon-Ho;Lee, Moon-Que;Cheon, Chang-Yul
    • KIEE International Transactions on Electrophysics and Applications
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    • v.3C no.5
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    • pp.194-198
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    • 2003
  • A wide-band E-plane notch phased array antenna having bandwidths of 3:1 and a scan volume of $\pm$ 45 is designed considering the active element pattern (AEP) with analysis of the full structure of E-plane notch phased array antenna. Using the numerical E-plane waveguide simulator as an infinite linear array in the broadside angle, the active reflection coefficient (ARC) of the unit element is optimized in the design frequency range. To evaluate the convergence of the AEP, the simulation of full array as changing the number array is investigated, and the minimum numbers of array that have characteristics similar to the AEP of an infinite array are determined.

Design and Fabrication of Linear Array Transducer for Ultrasonic Medical Imaging System (초음파 의료 진단 장치용 선형 배열 변환기의 설계 및 제작)

  • Cho, Yeong-Hwan;Sung, Keong-Mo
    • Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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    • v.1990 no.05
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    • pp.29-32
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    • 1990
  • In this paper, we designed and fabricated linear array transducer for ultrasonic medical imaging system. Fabricated transducer is 85mm in length and has 64 elements. It shows good sensitivity and band width characteristics compared with commercial transducers.

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Short-Ended Coaxial Slot-Coupled Strip Array Antenna (단락종단된 동축 슬롯 결합 스트림 배열 안테나)

  • 김중표;이창원
    • Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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    • 2000.11a
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    • pp.399-403
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    • 2000
  • A new type of collinear antenna called short-ended coaxial slot-coupled strip array antenna is investigated theoretically. The antenna has an advantage of structural simplicity. The integral equations are derived for the proposed structure by use of the Fourier transform and mode expansion, and the simultaneous linear equations are obtained. The slot electric field and strip current are then obtained by solving the simultaneous linear equation. The effects of slot and strip number on the radiation efficienty, beamwidth and directivity gain are also presented.

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The Performance Improvement of Towed Array Shape Estimation Using Kalman Filters (견인 어레이 형상 추정의 칼만 필터 접근 방법에 대한 성능 개선)

  • 박민수;도경철;오원천;윤대희;이충용
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 1999.06a
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    • pp.691-694
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    • 1999
  • This paper presents a performance improvement technique of 2-D towed array shape estimation using Kalman filters. The proposed algorithm by linear model approximation corrects the position errors caused by the Kalman filter results. However, since the assumed linear model makes errors at bending parts, the spline interpolation algorithm based on curve is proposed to reduce the errors.

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A compensated algorithm for dirction-of-arrival estimationof the linear array with faulty sensors (결함센서를 갖는 선형 어레이의 방향 추정을 위한 보정 알고리듬)

  • 김기만;윤대희
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.22 no.7
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    • pp.1574-1578
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    • 1997
  • In this paper, some problems that occur from faulty elements in a direction finding system composed of the linear array are studied and the method which improves the performance is proposed. The faulty element means the sensor that has no output or highly reduced gain than other normal sensors. In the presence method, the ocrrecting vector is calculated by maximizing the spatial spectrum subject to a constraint. The compensated spatial spectrum is obtained by this vector. The computer simulations have been performance to study the performance of the proposed method.

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Multiple Target DOA Tracking Algorithm Applicable to Arbitrarily Shaped Array (임의형상 배열센서에 적용 가능한 다중표적 방위각 추적 알고리즘)

  • Ryu, Chang-Soo
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TE
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    • v.42 no.2
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2005
  • Ryu et al. proposed a multiple target DOA tracking algorithm using a linear sensor array. In Ryu's algorithm first, the signal subspace is estimated using sensor output and the angular innovations of targets are extracted from the estimated signal subspace. Next, the DOA's of targets are tracked using the angular innovations as the inputs of Kalman filters. Ryu's algorithm has good features that it has no data association problem and is efficient. However, Ryu's algorithm can't be a lied to an arbitrarily shaped array because it was proposed using linear sensor array. Actually, when the sensor array is used in the various application fields, sensors have a position error. Therefore, the sensor array can be an arbitrarily shaped array. In this paper, we propose a multiple target DOA tracking algorithm applicable to an arbitrarily shaped array, and it sustains the good features of Ryu's algorithm.