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Realization of Point-Listening Characteristics by Enclosed Microphone Array System with Optimal Complex Weighting

  • Ohyama, Shinji;Sasagawa, Yukifumi;Cao, Li;Kobayashi, Akira
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1999.10a
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    • pp.266-269
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    • 1999
  • An electronically Scannable microphone system is in the Planning stage. For this Purpose, a multiple microphone array with controllable delay is available. To achieve effective point-listening characteristics, we proposed an enclosed microphone array system with a complex weighting method. In this system, both the microphone arrangement and the value of the complex weighting are important. In this report, the construction of microphone array system and the signal-processing method are explained, and the calculation method for optimal complex weighting is also presented. A prototype experimental setup is designed and fabricated to verify the expected characteristics.

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Guided Wave Phased Array for Inspection of Plate Structures (유도초음파 위상배열을 이용한 판 구조물 검사)

  • Kwon, Hyu-Sang;Park, Seong-Chol;Cho, Seung-Hyun;Lee, Seung-Seok;Kim, Jin-Yeon
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.56-63
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    • 2009
  • This paper describes a general approach for processing data from an omni-directional guided wave transducer array for the rapid inspection of large plate structures. A basic phased array algorithm is presented that can be applied to any array geometry. For guided waves on plate, beam steering algorithm is derived and the corresponding beam pattern is analyzed. The algorithms are applied to simulation and experimental data. The results show well its usefulness in structural applications.

Design of One-Dimensional Systolic Array for Recognition of Context-Free Language (Context-Free 언어의 인식을 위한 일차원 시스토릭 어레이의 설계)

  • 우종호;한광선
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.30-36
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    • 1990
  • Context-free language can be recognized by Cocke-Younger-Kasami algorithm. This algorithm is a class of polyadic-nonserial dynamic programming technique and has the O(n**3) time complexity. In this paper, a one-dimensional systolic array for recognition of context-free language is designed. The designed triangle type two-dimensional array is projected and transformed to an one-dimensional array. The designed one-dimensional array has n processing elements and \ulcornern+1)/2\ulcorner(n-1)+3n-1 time units to process the algorithm (n is the length of input string). The time complexity is O(n\ulcorner.

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Preliminary Simulation on Spaceborne Sparse Array Millimeter Wave Radar for GMTI

  • Kang, Xueyan;Zhang, Yunhua
    • Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.322-327
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    • 2010
  • Spaceborne sparse array radar for ground moving targets indication (GMTI) has outstanding advantage over full array radar for constructing ultra-large aperture. Rapid development of millimeter wave (MMW) technology make it possible for realizing MMW GMTI radar, which is much more sensitive to slow moving ground target. The paper presented the system model of a multi-carrier frequency sparse array MMW radar as well as preliminary simulation results, which showed future application of the system is very promising.

Performance Enhancement of Spread Spectrum LEO Satellite communication System Using Constant Modulus Antenna Array

  • Lee, Byung-Seub
    • Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.65-70
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    • 2017
  • The structure of MMSE receiver front-ended by CMA(Constant Modulus Array) array working in CDMA forward link which is applicable to LEO spread spectrum satellite communication system is proposed. By using the despreaded pilot signal of forward link as a reference signal, the CMA array can capture multi-path signals securely even in severely faded LEO satellite channel. The remaining MAI (Multiple Access Interference) is cancelled by the cascaded MMSE receiver. Besides theoretical development, through relevant computer simulation, it is proved that the proposed system shows much better BER performance than any other possible candidate systems. As a spatio-temporal receiver mounted on a mobile vehicle, the proposed system also reduces implemental cost and complexity by adopting the simplest algorithm for its spatial and temporal domain processing.

Seismic Noise Reduction Using Micro-Site Array Stacking (미소-위치 배열 중합을 이용한 지진파의 잡음제거)

  • Choi, Hun;Sohn, Sang-Wook;Bae, Hyeon-Deok
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.63 no.3
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    • pp.395-403
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    • 2014
  • This paper presents a new approach to improve the signal to noise ratio (SNR) for local seismic disaster preventing system in densely populated area. The seismic data measured in the local site includes various sensing noises (offset or measurement noise) and man-made/natural noises (road and rail traffic noise, rotating or hammering machinery noise, human activity noise such as walking and running, wind/atmospheric pressure-generated noise, etc.). These additive noises are different in time and frequency characters. The proposed method uses 3-stages processing to reduce these different additive noises. In the first stage, misalignment offset noise are diminished by time average processing, and then the second and third stages, coherent/incoherent noises such as man-made/natural noises are suppressed by array stacking. In addition, we derived the theoretical equation of the SNR gain improved by the proposed method. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, computer simulations were performed with real seismic data and test equipment generated data as the input.

Hardware Design of Enhanced Real-Time Sound Direction Estimation System (향상된 실시간 음원방향 인지 시스템의 하드웨어 설계)

  • Kim, Tae-Wan;Kim, Dong-Hoon;Chung, Yun-Mo
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.115-122
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, we present a method to estimate an accurate real-time sound source direction based on time delay of arrival by using generalized cross correlation with four cross-type microphones. In general, existing systems have two disadvantages such as system embedding limitation due to the necessity of data acquisition for signal processing from microphone input, and real-time processing difficulty because of the increased number of channels for sound direction estimation using DSP processors. To cope with these disadvantages, the system considered in this paper proposes hardware design for enhanced real-time processing using microphone array signal processing. An accurate direction estimation and its design time reduction is achieved by means of an efficient hardware design using spatial segmentation methods and verification techniques. Finally we develop a system which can be used for embedded systems using a sound codec and an FPGA chip. According to experimental results, the system gives much faster real-time processing time compared with either PC-based systems or the case with DSP processors.

A Study on the Pixel-Parallel Usage Processing Using the Format Converter (포맷 변환기를 이용한 화소-병렬 화상처리에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Hyeon-Gi;Lee, Cheon-Hui
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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    • v.9A no.2
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    • pp.259-266
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    • 2002
  • In this paper we implemented various image processing filtering using the format converter. This design method is based on realized the large processor-per-pixel array by integrated circuit technology. These two types of integrated structure are can be classify associative parallel processor and parallel process DRAM (or SRAM) cell. Layout pitch of one-bit-wide logic is Identical memory cell pitch to array high density PEs in integrate structure. This format converter design has control path implementation efficiently, and can be utilize the high technology without complicated controller hardware. Sequence of array instruction are generated by host computer before process start, and instructions are saved on unit controller. Host computer is executed the pixel-parallel operation starting at saved instructions after processing start. As a result, we obtained three result that 1) simple smoothing suppresses higher spatial frequencies, reducing noise but also blurring edges, 2) a smoothing and segmentation process reduces noise while preserving sharp edges, and 3) median filtering may be applied to reduce image noise. Median filtering eliminates spikes while maintaining sharp edges and preserving monotonic variations in pixel values.

Reconstructing Flaw Image Using Dataset of Full Matrix Capture Technique (Full Matrix Capture 데이터를 이용한 균열 영상화)

  • Lee, Tae-Hun;Kim, Yong-Sik;Lee, Jeong-Seok
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.13-20
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    • 2017
  • A conventional phased array ultrasonic system offers the ability to steer an ultrasonic beam by applying independent time delays of individual elements in the array and produce an ultrasonic image. In contrast, full matrix capture (FMC) is a data acquisition process that collects a complete matrix of A-scans from every possible independent transmit-receive combination in a phased array transducer and makes it possible to reconstruct various images that cannot be produced by conventional phased array with the post processing as well as images equivalent to a conventional phased array image. In this paper, a basic algorithm based on the LLL mode total focusing method (TFM) that can image crack type flaws is described. And this technique was applied to reconstruct flaw images from the FMC dataset obtained from the experiments and ultrasonic simulation.

Increase of Side-lobe Level Difference of Spherical Microphone Array by Implementing MEMS Sensor

  • Lee, Jae-Hyung;Choi, Si-Hong;Choi, Jong-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2011.04a
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    • pp.816-820
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    • 2011
  • A method for increasing the difference of side-lobe level in spherical microphone array is presented. In array signal processing, it is known that narrow interval between sensors can increase the difference between main lobe and side-lobe of array response which eventually increase the source recognition capability. Recent commercial array being used, however, have shown certain limitation in using the number of sensors due to its costs and geometrical size of array. To overcome this problem, we have adapted MEMS sensors into spherical microphone array. To check out the improvement, two different types of spherical microphone array were designed. One array is composed with 32 regular instrument microphones and the other one is 85 MEMS sensors. Simulation and experiments were conducted on a sinusoidal noise source with two arrays. The time history data were analyzed with spherical harmonic decomposition and beamforming technique. 85 MEMS sensors array showed the improved side-lobe level suppression by more than 4 dB above the frequency content of 2 kHz compared to 32-sensor array.

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