• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2014년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.377-384
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• 2014

The requirement of acoustic material which is used in underwater environment more increases. The material is used to reduce acoustic signature and radiate noise for underwater vehicle. Underwater acoustic material was made by viscoelastic material such as a rubber and a polyurethane etc. The mechanical and acoustic characteristics of these material change with hydrostatic pressure. In order to increase an acoustic performance according to hydrostatic pressure, several kinds of scatterers were added to viscoelastic material. In this paper, acoustic modelling and analysis techniques of underwater acoustic material with hydrostatic pressure were introduced and proposed. The specimens for pulse tube test were made and echo reductions were calculated and measured with hydrostatic pressure. Also the characteristics of echo reduction of the specimens with hydrostatic pressure were obtained and discussed.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제24권11호
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• pp.868-875
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• 2014

The requirement of acoustic material which is used in underwater environment more increases. The material is used to reduce acoustic signature and radiate noise for underwater vehicle. Underwater acoustic material was made by viscoelastic material such as rubber and polyurethane etc. The mechanical and acoustic characteristics of these material change with hydrostatic pressure. In order to improve an acoustic performance according to hydrostatic pressure, several kinds of scatterers were added to viscoelastic material. In this paper, acoustic modelling and analysis techniques of underwater acoustic material with hydrostatic pressure were introduced and proposed. The specimens for pulse tube test were made and echo reductions were calculated and measured with hydrostatic pressure. Also the characteristics of echo reduction of the specimens with hydrostatic pressure were obtained and discussed.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.239-260
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• 2023

The underwater acoustic wireless communication networks are generally formed by the different autonomous underwater acoustic vehicles, and transceivers interconnected to the bottom of the ocean with battery deployed modems. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) has become the most popular modulation technique in underwater acoustic communication due to its high data transmission and robustness over other symmetrical modulation techniques. To maintain the operability of underwater acoustic communication networks, the power consumption of battery-operated transceivers becomes a vital necessity to be minimized. The OFDM technology has a major lack of peak to average power ratio (PAPR) which results in the consumption of more power, creating non-linear distortion and increasing the bit error rate (BER). To overcome this situation, we have contributed our symmetry research into three dimensions. Firstly, we propose a machine learning-based underwater acoustic communication system through long short-term memory neural network (LSTM-NN). Secondly, the proposed LSTM-NN reduces the PAPR and makes the system reliable and efficient, which turns into a better performance of BER. Finally, the simulation and water tank experimental data results are executed which proves that the LSTM-NN is the best solution for mitigating the PAPR with non-linear distortion and complexity in the overall communication system.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2008년도 추계종합학술대회 B
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• pp.231-234
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 음향의 비선형 채널에 적합한 새로운 수중 무선 동신 시스템을 제안하였다. 일반적으로 음향의 비선형 채널에서의 통신은 두 음파의 차의 주파수를 가지는 음파에 대한 파라메트릭 효과를 이용한 통신을 한다. 이러한 동신기법에서는 위상변조를 이용한 통신의 구현은 쉽지 않았다. 본 논문에서 제안된 시스템에서는 위상변조 후 오프셋을 주어 통신하는 비선형 채널에 적합한 통신 방식을 제안하였고 시뮬레이션을 통하여 그 타당성을 입증하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제21권1E호
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• pp.25-30
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• 2002

We report on the development of a fiber optic hydrophone consists of a sensing Michelson interferometer and a compensating Mach-Zehnder interferometer for optical path length compensation. The double interferometer configuration has the following advantages: the hydrophone can be made more small; a laser source with a relatively short coherence length can be used; and the compensating interferometer can be located near the signal processing electronics, far away from the sensing interferometer and noise introduced by reference arm can be greatly reduced. The performance of the hydrophone is evaluated experimentally by immersing the sensing interferometer in a water tank to detect underwater acoustic signals generated by an acoustic wave projector. Experimental results show that over the frequency range of 1 to 4 kHz, the hydrophone has an almost flat response with an average normalized sensitivity of -302 dB re 1/ μ Pa.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권9호
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• pp.755-759
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• 2013

A broad-band underwater acoustic transducer that uses thickness vibration mode, derived from a disk type piezoelectric ceramic, has been proposed and designed for DVL (Doppler Velocity Log). Three different types of acoustic transducer were evaluated with respect to the transmitting voltage response, receiving voltage sensitivity and bandwidth of the transducer. The effect of the acoustic impedance matching layer and backing layer is discussed. The results demonstrated that three matching layer with lossy backing layer is the best configuration for underwater transducer. The trial underwater acoustic transducer with three matching layer has a frequency bandwidth of 55%, maximum transmitting voltage response of 200 dB and a maximum receiving voltage sensitivity of -187.3 dB.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.327-329
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• 2021

Underwater acoustic communication channel is influenced by environmental parameters such as multipath, background noise and scattering. Therefore, a transmitted signal is influenced by the sea surface and the sea bottom boundaries, and a received signal shows a delay spread. These factors create a noise in the image and degrade the quality of underwater acoustic communication. To solve these problems, in this paper, we evaluate the performance of an underwater acoustic communication model using a denoising auto-encoder used for unsupervised learning. Noise images generated by the underwater multipath channel were collected and used as training data. Experimental results were analyzed as a PSNR parameter that expressed the noise ratio of the two images.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회논문지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.157-166
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• 2011

최근 수중 환경 모니터링 시스템에 대한 관심이 높아지면서 수중음파센서네트워크에 관련된 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 수중음파센서네트워크는 수중환경 모니터링, 수중자원탐사, 해양 데이터 수집, 군사 목적 등 다양한 분야에 활용되고 있다. 이러한 다양한 분야에서 활용 가능한 수중음파센서네트워크의 활성화를 위해서는 PHY-MAC 프로토콜의 정의가 필수적이다. 하지만, 수중음파센서네트워크는 제한된 대역폭, 다중경로 및 페이딩현상, 지상 무선통신에 비해서 낮은 음파 속도로 인한 전송 지연시간 등 수중환경의 특수성에 고려해서 구현을 해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 수중환경과 관련된 제약사항을 고려하여 적응적인 PHY 프로토콜의 주파수, 네트워크 토폴로지, MAC 프로토콜, PHY-MAC 인터페이스, 데이터 프레임 포맷을 정의하고, 구현한 시스템의 구성에 대해서 설명하며, 수중환경에서의 실제 실험을 통한 데이터를 기반으로 성능 평가를 하였다.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.402-410
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• 2017

Acoustic based localization is essential to operate autonomous robotic systems in underwater environment where the use of sensorial data is limited. This paper proposes a localization method using artificial underwater acoustic sources. The proposed method acquires directional angles of acoustic sources using time difference of arrivals of two hydrophones. For this purpose, a probabilistic approach is used for accurate estimation of the time delay. Then, Gaussian sum filter based SLAM technique is used to localize both acoustic sources and underwater vehicle. It is performed by using bearing of acoustic sources as measurement and inertial sensors as prediction model. The proposed method can handle directional ambiguity of time difference based source localization by generating Gaussian models corresponding to possible locations of both front and back sides. Through these processes, the proposed method can provide reliable localization method for underwater vehicles without any prior information of source locations. The performance of the proposed method is verified by experimental results conducted in a real sea environment.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.336-342
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• 2017

최근 해양 자원 개발뿐만 아니라 지구 온난화에 따른 해양 환경 모니터링 및 해양 재난 대비 등을 위하여 수중 무선통신에 대한 연구가 요구되고 있다. 대부분의 수중 무선 통신에서는 수중에서의 매질 특성 및 환경 변화 특성을 고려하여 수십 KHz 대역의 음파를 이용하며, 특히 DSP를 비롯한 프로세서를 기반으로 하여 모뎀 연구가 진행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 수중 관측 및 제어를 위한 수중 음향 통신 시스템 중 수중기지제어국과 수중기지국 간의 음향 통신을 위한 Digital Up Converter(DUC)와 Digital Down Converter(DDC)를 연구하였다. 수중 음향 통신 시스템은 사용 환경의 제약 때문에 소형 및 저전력 시스템을 추구한다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 DUC 및 DDC 전용 하드웨어 모듈을 설계하였다. 수중 음향 통신 시스템의 4개의 링크를 지원하며, 각각 샘플링 레이트 및 주파수를 변환하였다. Verilog-HDL를 사용하여 설계하였으며, ModelSim 환경에서 수중 음향 통신 시스템의 베이스밴드 신호를 이용하여 동작을 검증하였다.