• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.61-81
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• 2022

The available underwater acoustic spectrum is limited. Therefore, it is imperative to avoid frequency interference from overlapping frequencies of underwater acoustic equipment (UAE) for the co-existence of the UAE. Cognitive technology that senses idle spectrum and actively avoids frequency interference is an efficient method to facilitate the collision-free operation of multiple UAE with overlapping frequencies. Cognitive technology is adopted to identify the frequency usage of UAE to apply cognitive technology. To this end, we investigated two principle underwater acoustic sources: UAE and marine animals. The UAE is classified into five types: underwater acoustic modem, acoustic positioning system, multi-beam echo-sounder, side-scan sonar, and sub-bottom profiler. We analyzed the parameters of the frequency band, directivity, range, and depth, which play a critical role in the design of underwater acoustic cognitive technology. Moreover, the frequency band of several marine species was also examined. The mid-frequency band from 10 - 40 kHz was found to be the busiest. Lastly, this study provides useful insights into the design of underwater acoustic cognitive technologies, where it is essential to avoid interference among the UAE in this mid-frequency band.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.451-456
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• 1990

Underwater acoustic navigation and position fixing systems have been extensively used not only in surface position fixing but also in underwater position fixing. Tn recently, application of these systems has been in the field of underwater inspection of offshore platforms, where it is vital to track the position of an unmanned submersible or diver carrying underwater cameras and nondestructive testing equipment. But these systems are included the fixing errors as results of a signal with additive noise, the attenuation of sound and the interference effects due to multipath reflection and forward scattering. In this paper to improve the position fixing by the supershort baseline acoustic position system, a method to apply the Kalman filter to the fix of the system is proposed and the digital simulation under noise condition is conducted. The optimal positions by the Kalman filter are compared with original positions, and it is confirmed that the results of the pro-posed method are evidently more accurate.

• 센서학회지
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.199-206
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• 2023

This study presents a novel monitoring technique for underwater high-voltage direct current (HVDC) cables based on the Distributed Acoustic Sensor (DAS). The proposed technique utilizes vibration and acoustic signals generated on HVDC cables to monitor their condition and detect events such as earthquakes, shipments, tidal currents, and construction activities. To implement the monitoring system, a DAS based on phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry (Φ-OTDR) system was designed, fabricated, and validated for performance. For the HVDC cable monitoring experiments, a testbed was constructed on land, mimicking the cable burial method and protective equipment used underwater. Defined various scenarios that could cause cable damage and conducted experiments accordingly. The developed DAS system achieved a maximum measurement distance of 50 km, a distance measurement interval of 2 m, and a measurement repetition rate of 1 kHz. Extensive experiments conducted on HVDC cables and protective facilities demonstrated the practical potential of the DAS system for monitoring underwater and underground areas.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제24권12호
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• pp.992-998
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• 2014

Acoustic radiation efficiency is one of the important factors in the prediction of underwater radiated noise of ships. A ship has much equipment to operate successful mission in a ship. Most of equipment is running simultaneously as multi-excitation and becomes the source of underwater radiated noise. In many cases of multi-excitation, phase difference between multi-excitation is not considered. Because vibration response under multi-excitation is the vector sum of each single excitation, acoustic radiation efficiency based on surface velocity field can be affected by phase of excitation. In this study, acoustic radiation efficiency of a plate on air and a stiffened cylindrical model in water under multi-excitation with phase difference is investigated.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회논문지
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.11-22
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• 2022

단거리와 달리 장거리 수중 음향 통신에서는 전파 손실을 최소화하기 위해 저주파 신호와 심해 음파 채널을 사용한다. 이 경우 대역 확산과 같은 은밀 통신 기법을 이용하더라도 통신 사실을 숨기기 어려우며, 통신 신호가 탐지 신호처럼 작용하므로 감청기에 수중 운동체의 존재가 노출될 수 있다. 수중 운동체의 경우 은밀성 유지가 매우 중요하므로, 감청기가 통신 신호를 이용하여 아군 수중 운동체를 탐지할 가능성을 반드시 고려해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 수중 운동체의 피탐지 성능 분석을 위한 장거리 수중 음향 통신 환경을 모델링하고, 피탐지 성능 분석을 위한 관심영역 설정 방법과 평가 척도를 제안하였다. 전산 모의 실험을 통해 파라미터를 산출하고, 관심영역에서 피탐지 확률 분석 및 피탐지 성능 분석을 수행하였다. 분석 결과는 제안된 수중 운동체의 피탐지 성능 분석 방법이 장거리 수중 통신 장비의 운용에 있어 중요한 역할을 할 수 있음을 보였다.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제19권7호
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• pp.673-678
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• 2009

The efficiency of active sonar that is used underwater observation equipment is important for obtain the information of topography and trace for the objects. Sound wave transmitted from sonar are distorted by acoustic window which is to protect sonar. Making various sonar dome is impossible for experiment, because consumed unnecessary time and expense. So, the purpose of this study is to simulate and analyze the acoustic window propagated sound wave from sonar for designing model reduced insertion loss. Simulation is performed by transient analysis and fluid-structure interaction analysis. As a result, this study will give a opportunity for efficient design of sonar dome without high cost and time consumption.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.30-36
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• 2008

Underwater ambient noise originating from geophysical, biological, and man-made acoustic sources contains information on the source and the ocean environment. Such noise affectsthe performance of sonar equipment. In this paper, three steps are used to identify the ambient noise source, detection, feature extraction, and similarity measurement. First, we use the zero-crossing rate to detect the ambient noisesource from background noise. Then, a set of feature vectors is proposed forthe ambient noise source using the Hilbert-Huang transform and the Karhunen-Loeve transform. Finally, the Euclidean distance is used to measure the similarity between the standard feature vector and the feature vector of the unknown ambient noise source. The developed algorithm is applied to the observed ocean data, and the results are presented and discussed.

• 지구물리와물리탐사
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.57-68
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• 2024

온실가스 저감을 위하여 대규모의 단지를 건설할 수 있고 발전 효율성이 우수한 해상 풍력이 각광 받고 있다. 해상 풍력 단지에서 생산한 전력을 송전하기 위해서는 해저 전력 케이블이 필수적이며, 케이블의 모니터링 및 고장 지점 파악을 위하여 해저 케이블의 위치 또는 매설 심도 분석이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 해저 전력 케이블을 탐지하기 위한 기술 및 연구에 대하여 소개하였으며, 탄성파/음향, 전자 탐사, 자력 탐사로 분류하여 조사하였다. 탄성파/음향은 주로 선박에 장비를 설치하여 해저 전력 케이블을 탐지하였으며, 전자 및 자력 탐사는 AUV, ROV와 같은 무인 잠수정에 장비를 설치하여 케이블을 탐지하였다. 본 논문을 활용한다면 해저 케이블 탐지 기술에 대한 기초자료로 사용될 수 있을 것으로 생각된다.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제20권12호
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• pp.1139-1146
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• 2010

The indoor noise of the naval vessel is very important related to the optimum environmental conditions for crews as well as the ability of fighting power of antisubmarine. Especially, sonar equipment room is one of the rooms where require to be silent because the informations of the underwater noise are collected and analyzed in there. In this paper, the sound reduction of the TASS console, one of the main noise sources in a sonar equipment room for a typical naval vessel, is described. The noise source of this TASS console is the flowing noise of cooling fan. In order to reduce this kind of noise, the plenum chamber and acoustic elbow were developed. Related to the development of the plenum chamber, the area of the air-outlet and sound absorption of the inner lining were investigated experimentally with the evaluation system of the sound insertion loss. Acoustic elbow was also manufactured and evaluated with the evaluation system of the sound insertion loss. Finally, in order to evaluated the ability of noise reduction of the plenum chamber and acoustic elbow, the indoor noise of the sonar equipment was measured when they were appled to TASS console.

• 한국해양공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양공학회 2000년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.216-221
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• 2000

This paper deals with the Gain Control in the processing of the underwater acoustic image obtained from side scan sonar(SSS) system. At first, this paper describes the principles of SSS that is a surveying equipment for the underground of the rivers or dams as well as sea floor. Then this paper analyzes the cause and effects of the time varying intensity from the view point of transmission loss and beam pattern. At last, the time varying gain filter that is adopted by the towfish is introduced.