• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.301-310
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• 2020

The laser ultrasonic technique is gaining popularity for nondestructive evaluation (NDE) applications because it is a noncontact and couplant-free method and can inspect a target from a remote distance. For the conventional laser ultrasonic techniques, a pulsed laser is often used to generate broadband ultrasonic waves in a target structure. However, for crack detection using nonlinear ultrasonic modulation, it is necessary to generate narrowband ultrasonic waves. In this study, a pulsed laser is shaped into dual-line arrays using a spatial mask and used to simultaneously excite narrowband ultrasonic waves in the target structure at two distinct frequencies. Nonlinear ultrasonic modulation will occur between the two input frequencies when they encounter a fatigue crack existing in the target structure. Then, a nonlinear damage index (DI) is defined as a function of the magnitude of the modulation components and computed over the target structure by taking advantage of laser scanning. Finally, the fatigue crack is detected and localized by visualizing the nonlinear DI over the target structure. Numerical simulations and experimental tests are performed to examine the possibility of generating narrowband ultrasonic waves using the spatial mask. The performance of the proposed fatigue crack localization technique is validated by conducting an experiment with aluminum plates containing real fatigue cracks.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.267-272
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• 2020

The propagation of a truncated Airy beam with spatial phase modulation (SPM) is investigated in Kerr nonlinearity with an optical lattice. Before the truncated Airy beam enters the optical lattice, a sinusoidal phase is introduced on the wave-front of the beam. The effect of the spatial phase modulation and optical lattice on propagation behavior is analyzed by direct numerical simulation. It is found that the propagation direction of a truncated Airy beam can be effectively controlled by adjusting the values of phase shift. The effects of optical amplitude, truncation factor, spatial modulation frequency, lattice period and lattice depth on the propagation are discussed in detail. By choosing a high modulation depth, the finite-energy Airy beam can be deflected with a large deflection angle in an optical lattice.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제2권6호
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• pp.532-539
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• 2018

Multiple LED arrays can be utilized in visible-light communication (VLC) to improve communication efficiency, while maintaining smart illumination functionality through dimming control. This paper proposes a modulation scheme called "Spatial Intensity Modulation" (SIM), where the effective number of turned-on LEDs is employed for data modulation and dimming control in VLC systems. Unlike the conventional pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM), symbol intensity levels are not determined by the amplitude levels of a VLC signal from each LED, but by counting the number of turned-on LEDs, illuminating with a single amplitude level. Because the intensity of a SIM symbol and the target dimming level are determined solely in the spatial domain, the problems of conventional PAM-based VLC and related MIMO VLC schemes, such as unstable dimming control, non uniform illumination functionality, and burdens of channel prediction, can be solved. By varying the number and formation of turned-on LEDs around the target dimming level in time, the proposed SIM scheme guarantees homogeneous illumination over a target area. An analysis of the dimming capacity, which is the achievable communication rate under the target dimming level in VLC, is provided by deriving the turn-on probability to maximize the entropy of the SIM-based VLC system. In addition, a practical design of dimmable SIM scheme applying the multilevel inverse source coding (MISC) method is proposed. The simulation results under a range of parameters provide baseline data to verify the performance of the proposed dimmable SIM scheme and applications in real systems.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2004년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2004
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• pp.489-493
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• 2004

The Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) is commonly used to characterize the spatial quality of imaging systems. This work is the attempt to measure the MTF for KOMPSAT EOC using the non-parametric method as ground inputs. The spatial performance of the KOMPSAT EOC was analyzed by edge method while in flight using multi-temporal image data collected over test site in Seoul. The results from this work demonstrate the potential applicability of this method to estimate MTF for high spatial resolution satellite KOMPSAT-2 that is being developed to be launched in 2005.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.45-51
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 전체 송신 안테나 중 일부 안테나만을 활성화하여 신호 송신에 사용하는 일반화 공간변조(Generalized Spatial Modulation) 시스템을 위한 최대우도 수신기를 제안한다. 제안 수신기는 신호 검출시 채널 정보 오차의 효과를 완화시키기 위하여 채널 정보 오차로 인해 생성되는 실질 잡음 신호의 순시 공분산 행렬을 추정한다. 추정된 공분산 행렬은 검출 정확도를 높이기 위해 반복수행을 통해 갱신되며, 추정 결과는 최대 우도 검출에 사용된다. 모의 실험 결과에서 기존의 채널 정보 오차를 고려하지 않는 수신기와 비교하여 높은 성능을 얻음을 확인할 수 있다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.30-36
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• 2016

일반화 공간 변조(Generalized Spatial Modulation)는 다중안테나 시스템의 복잡도를 줄이기 위해 몇 개의 송신 안테나만을 선택하여 신호를 전송하고, 선택된 안테나의 인덱스로 정보를 표현하는 송신 방식이다. 본 연구에서는 일반화 공간 변조의 수신 방식을 고려하며, 구복호(Sphere Decoding) 수신기에서 수신 순서화를 적용하는 것을 제안한다. 기존 구복호 수신기에서 수신 신호에 대한 연산을 최적의 순서로 변형함으로써 탐색 영역을 효과적으로 줄이며 계산량 감소 이득을 얻게 한다. 모의 실험을 통해 일반화 공간 변조 시스템에서 제안한 구복호 수신기와 기존 구복호 수신기를 비교하였으며, 수신 순서화가 적용된 제안 수신기가 동일한 비트오류율 성능을 얻으면서 더 낮은 계산 복잡도를 요구하는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.516-522
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 다중 안테나 구조 중 일부 송신 안테나만 활성화하고 활성 안테나의 인덱스를 통해 정보를 전송하는 일반화 공간변조(Generalized Spatial Modulation)시스템을 위한 최대우도 신호 검파 방법을 제안한다. 제안 최대 우도 수신기는 기존의 채널 정보 오차에 강인한 최대 우도 수신기와 비교하여 공분산 행렬을 추정할 때 후보 해 집합을 확률적으로 추출하여 공분산 행렬을 추정함으로써 시스템 복잡도를 크게 줄이도록 한다. 모의 실험을 통해 제안 최대 우도 수신기가 기존의 채널 정보 오차를 고려하지 않는 수신기보다 높은 수신 성능을 가지며, 기존 강인 최대우도 수신기와 비교하여 동일한 비트 오류율 성능을 가지면서도 큰 폭으로 계산 복잡도를 낮춤을 확인하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제39A권1호
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• pp.12-18
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• 2014

In this paper, a new peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction method for spatial modulation(SM) is presented. By using the matrix with all non-zero elements to precode the signals before transmitting, the transmit power is scattered over all transmit antennas for achieving the goal of PAPR reduction. If this matrix is also an unitary matrix, the distribution of transmit power over transmit antennas will be uniform and it also could retain the characteristic of avoiding inter channel interference (ICI) due to the orthogonality of unitary matrix. In case of a non-ideal amplifier, the proposed method can produce a considerable improvement that increases with a number of transmit antennas in performance. Furthermore, the new scheme achieves an identical performance with conventional one in the case of ideal amplifier.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.98-108
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• 2020

We consider transmit antenna selection combined with power allocation for quadrature spatial modulation (QSM) systems to improve the error rate performance. The Euclidean distance-based joint optimization criterion is presented for transmit antenna selection and power allocation in QSM. It requires an exhaustive search and thus high computational complexity. Thus its reduced-complexity algorithm is proposed with a strategy of decoupling, which is employed to successively find transmit antennas and power allocation factors. First, transmit antennas are selected without considering power allocation. After selecting transmit antennas, power allocation factors are determined. Simulation results demonstrate considerable performance gains with lower complexity for transmit antenna selected QSM systems with power allocation, which can be achieved with limited rate feedback.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.145-159
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• 2019

To reduce the number of radio frequency (RF) chains in multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems, generalized spatial modulation (GSM) techniques have been proposed in the literature. In this paper, we propose a zero-forcing (ZF)-based detector, which performs an initial pruning of the search tree that will be considered as the initial condition in a sphere decoding (SD) algorithm. The proposed method significantly reduces the computational complexity of GSM systems while achieving a near maximum likelihood (ML) performance. We analyze the performance of the proposed method and provide an analytic performance difference between the proposed method and the ML detector. Simulation results show that the performance of the proposed method is very close to that of the ML detector, while achieving a significant computational complexity reduction in comparison with the conventional SD method, in terms of the number of visited nodes. We also present some simulations to assess the accuracy of our theoretical results.