• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.115-122
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• 1995

It is practical to taper the element (e.g., antenna or sensor) spacing with uniform weight rather than to taper the weights with uniform spacing. In a rectangular array, a triangular grid geometry of elements is more economical than a rectangular grid geometry in terms of reducing the number of elements. A space-tapering approach is proposed to improve the performance of a rectangular phased array with a triangular grid geometry of elements above a ground plane. The effects of space tapering on the main beam width and sidelobe level are discussed. It is shown that the proposed approach improves the sidelobe performance while the main beam width becomes a little broader.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.39-46
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• 1993

In this paper, an offset paraboloidal reflector antenna satisfied efficiency of over 60% and sidelobe envelope line of 29-25$log\theta$ was designed and manufactured for Ku-band VSAT(Very Small Aperture Terminal) antenna. The radiation patterns of experimental antenna were computed by applying the series expansion method using the Zernike polynomials. The measured patterns are in good agreement with the computed results. The Gain, efficiency, and sidelobe envelop line fairly well satisfy the design specifications except first sidelobe level.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.366-375
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• 2016

This paper describes an algorithm to suppress composite noise in a two-microphone speech enhancement system for robust hands-free speech communication. The proposed algorithm has four stages. The first stage estimates the power spectral density of the residual stationary noise, which is based on the detection of nonstationary signal-dominant time-frequency bins (TFBs) at the generalized sidelobe canceller output. Second, speech-dominant TFBs are identified among the previously detected nonstationary signal-dominant TFBs, and power spectral densities of speech and residual nonstationary noise are estimated. In the final stage, the bin-wise output signal-to-noise ratio is obtained with these power estimates and a Wiener post-filter is constructed to attenuate the residual noise. Compared to the conventional beamforming and post-filter algorithms, the proposed speech enhancement algorithm shows significant performance improvement in terms of perceptual evaluation of speech quality.

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.428-431
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• 2003

In this paper, distances between elements are optimized for low sidelobe level (SLL) microstrip patch array using Genetic Algorithms. Genetic Algorithms are "global" numerical-optimization methods, it's advantages are very simple coding and fast optimization. This paper show how to optimize the maximum SLL using Genetic Algorithms. In the results, although mutual coupling is neglected, it's maximum SLL is 3.5 dB lower than Uniformly Spaced Array(distance=$0.5{\lambda}$).

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.4E
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• pp.22-27
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• 1998

A modified perturbation method is proposed to optimize the beam pattern of thinned microphone arrays. Both microphone spacing and array weight are iteratively adjusted via successive perturbation to achieve an optimum beam pattern in a Dolph Chebyshev sense. To improve the sidelobe performance, an alternative perturbation with respect to microphone spacing and array weight is implemented. Also, a linear space-tapering is employed in the perturbation process. It is demonstrated that the proposed approaches successfully yield sidelobe performances comparable to that of a normal array. Computer simulation results are presented.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2001.06a
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• pp.37-40
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 수렴속도 향상을 위해 시간영역의 적응알고리즘을 직교변환인 아다말(Hadamard)변환을 이용하여 적응알고리즘을 변환영역에서 수행하며, 변환영역에서 수렴성능 향상을 위해 가변스텝 사이즈를 갖는 적응알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안한 알고리즘을 일반적인 부엽제거기(Generalized Sidelobe Canceller GSC)에 적용하여 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 하였으며, 각 알고리즘들의 계산량, 수렴 성능을 이용하여 각각 비교, 분석하여 제안한 알고리즘의 성능이 우수함을 입증하였다.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.66 no.8
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• pp.1242-1249
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for the performance analysis of the sidelobe blanker (SLB) in radar system, which is based on the matrix pencil method (MPM). In general, the SLB in radar is composed of the main antenna, the auxiliary antenna, and the processing unit. The auxiliary antenna with wide beamwidth receives interference signals such as jamming or clutter signals. The main antenna with high gain receives the target signal in the main beam and the interference signals in the sidelobe. In this paper the Swerling model is used as the target echo signal by considering a probabilistic radar cross section (RCS) of the target. To estimate the SLB performance it needs to calculate the probability of target detection and the probability of blanking the interference by using the signals received from the main and auxiliary antennas. The detection probability and the blanking probability include multiple summations of infinite series with infinite integrations, of which convergence rate is very slow. Increase of summation range to improve the calculation accuracy may lead to an overflow error in computer simulations. In this paper, to resolve the above problems, we used the MPM to calculate a summation of infinite series and improved the calculation accuracy and the convergence rate.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.389-394
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• 2016

MIMO (Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output) in underwater acoustic communication has distortion of received signal because of ISI (Inter-Symbol Interference) and crosstalk among transmitters. Time-reversal mirror was used for compensating of signal distortion, but it has a limit in eliminating crosstalk effectively. This paper proposes a time-reversal mirror based on GSC (Generalized Sidelobe Canceller) for removing crosstalk. The FAF05 (The Focused Acoustic Forecasting 05) experimental data has been used to verify the suggested method by comparison with the conventional time-reversal for communication performance, and it is demonstrated that the suggested method produces better communication performance results than conventional time-reversal.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.20 no.11
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• pp.1217-1224
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• 2009

This paper newly proposes a methodology towards computing antenna element weights which are satisfying asymmetric sidelobe levels(SLLs) specified arbitrarily on both sides of the main beam pattern, in the linear phased array antenna pattern synthesis problem. Opposite to the conventional methods in which the element weights are directly optimized from the array factor, this method is based on the optimum perturbations of complex roots inherent to the Schelkunoff's polynomial form which is described for the array factor. From the proposed methodology, the capability of nulling the directions of multiple jammers is also possible by independently perturbing only the complex roots corresponding to each jamming direction, hence allowing an enhancement of the simplicity of the numerical procedure by means of a proper reduction of the dimension of the solution space. The complex weights over the array are then easily computed by substituting the optimally perturbed complex roots to the Schelkunoff's polynomial. Some examples are examined and numerically verified by substituting the extracted weights into the array factor equation.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.183-194
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• 2011

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is widely used because of high resolution imaging capability in all weather and day/night condition. In this paper development of Spotlight SAR simulator is proposed for image quality analysis. Proposed SAR simulator is based on the SAR system design parameters so that SAR image performance can be expected which is essential throughout the full system development procedure from the initial concept design stage to the final in-flight calibration and validation stage. The raw data of ideal point target is first generated by taking account of the flight and imaging geometry and the various SAR system design parameters, and the Spotlight image formation algorithm is implemented in order to obtain the point target response. Finally the image quality of the generated raw data is analyzed in terms of spatial resolution, peak to sidelobe ratio and integrated sidelobe ratio.