• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.496-504
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• 2003

In this paper, the error tolerance of each array element to ensure a given specified error level for the array pattern is analyzed using the Genetic Algorithm. In the conventional deterministic method for synthesis of sonar way problems the computational resource required in the simulation grows rapidly as the number of way elements increases. To alleviate this numerical inefficiency, the Monte-Carlo method may be considered as an alternative technique for array syntheses. However, it is difficult to apply the method to the synthesis of array patterns because of its relatively lower accuracy in spite of moderate computational complexity. A new analysis method for estimating error tolerances in sonar arrays is Proposed since the Genetic Algorithm has significant promise to efficiently solve way synthesis problems. Through several numerical tests in linear and planar arrays, it is demonstrated that the proposed method can provide accurate results for error tolerances of sonar arrays.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.471-474
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 유전자 알고리즘을 이용하여 소자간의 상호결합이 고려된 경우 빔 패턴 오차의 허용범위를 만족하는 개별소자의 허용오차를 분석하였다. 소나 배열을 통한 빔 패턴은 개별소자에 인가되는 가중치 뿐 아니라 소자간의 방사임피던스 즉 자기방사 임피던스와 음원 상호간의 음향적 간섭에 의한 상호방사 임피던스에 따라 달라진다. 본 논문에서는 유전자 알고리즘을 이용하여 상호결합이 있는 경우에 대해 1 차원과 2 차원 배열에서 주어진 빔 패턴 허용 범위를 만족하는 각 소자별 허용오차 분석하였다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06e
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• pp.155-158
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 2차원 평면 배열에서 소자들간의 간섭 영향을 빔 설계 기법을 제안한다. 실제적으로 빔을 구현할 때, 소자간 간섭이 전체 빔 패턴을 변화시키게 되어 성능을 저하시킬 수 도 있다. 따라서 보다 정확하게 빔을 설계하기 위해서는 소자간의 간섭 영향을 고려한 빔 설계 기법이 필요하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 특성을 알고 있는 소자로 구성된 평면 배열에서 다른 소자에 의한 간섭을 예측한 후 이것을 각 소자의 가중치에 포함 시켜 원하는 사양의 빔을 설계할 수 있도록 한다. 빔 설계방법으로는 선형 최소자승법을 이용하여 빔의 부엽준위의 위치와 크기를 변화시키면서 원하는 조건의 빔 가중치를 얻어내는 알고리듬을 도입하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.41 no.6
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• pp.637-646
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• 2022

Sub-arrays of arbitrary conformal array have different geometric shape through steering direction, thus the beam patterns of sub-arrays are always non-uniform. In this paper, we apply the beam pattern synthesis method using convex optimization into the conformal array, and shows the improvement of uniformity of beam performance. The simulation is performed with the conformal array of cut-sphere shape. As a result, the standard deviation of 3 dB beamwidth in elevation is greatly reduced but the directivity index is also reduced. To alleviate this trade-off, we propose a convex optimization using a shading function.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.9 no.2 s.25
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• pp.26-33
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• 2006

A sonar dome is basically designed and installed to protect sonar array from shocks, sea wave slaps and floating matters. The acoustic wave passing through sonar dome, however, can be distorted in magnitude and phase. This paper presents a numerical method for predicting the steady-state sound pressure on the surface of transducer array in the sonar dome and typical results of sonar beam pattern affected by sonar dome. A beam tracing model with phase information and a multi-layered elastic boundary model are involved. A full three-dimensional sonar dome is modeled as a GRP acoustic window, a rubber coated steel baffle and a rubber coated steel hull. A transducer array is modeled as thick steel cylinder. There are some assumptions such as incidence of plane wave, specular reflection on boundary and directionality of transducer element.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.593-600
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• 2017

This paper analyzes the performances of direction finding, interference cancellation, and beamforming performance by array antenna pattern measurement distance between the center of array antenna and reference emitter. Array antenna is widely adopted for example as wireless communications, radar, and sonar. In order to use array antenna, array antenna pattern must be known and it can be measured in anechoic chamber. However, the size of anechoic chamber is generally limited. So measurement error of array antenna can be occurred and this could effect performance decrease of direction finding, interference cancellation, and beamforming. It is verified by computer simulation that the performances of direction finding, interference cancellation, and beamforming by array antenna pattern measurement distance.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 1999.05a
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• pp.43-46
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• 1999

Various techniques for optimizing the performance indices of sonar arrays have been discussed, Maximizing the directivity or beamforming technique with constraints have been studied, however these performances are adapted on the condition of isotropic linear array. In this paper we discuss the problems resulting from application of conformal array by using previous techniques. Finally, we could get a desired beam pattern after use of the compensated weight vector to solve the problems.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.391-399
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• 2021

The conformal array sensor has different sub-array depending on different beam steering directions. According to the method to effective the sensor, the performance of the conformal array sensor can be different, where the sub-array selects an effective sensor. Also, due to the figure of the conformal array sensor, the figure of the sub-array can be different each other, which results in different performance on directivity index, beam width and etc. In this paper, two methods to select sub-array which is the criteria for each sensors position vector and directive vector were proposed. For two sub-array selection methods, the performance of the directivity index, horizontal and vertical beam width were compared with the average and variance. In addition, this comparison was conducted when the number of sensors was fixed. When the number of sensors was not fixed, the directional vector method mainly results in high performance, but the performance of vertical beam width was lower or equal. When the number of sensors was fixed, the performance of two methods is similar, but the performance of variance was deteriorated.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.21-33
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• 2020

This study develops a simulator for determining the sonar sensor configuration of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) based on a scenario, in order for UUVs to conduct an effective anti-submarine warfare (ASW). First, we analyze the missions and operational concepts of UUVs in the field of ASW, and then select a Hold-at-Risk scenario as the one with the highest priority. Next, for modeling the components of a simulator, the motion, acoustic characteristic, and environment condition of the platforms (UUV and target submarine) are specified. Especially, based on the beam pattern of each sonar configuration considered in this paper, the passive sonar equation is used to verify target detection, and we further estimate the azimuth and elevation of the target using amplitude and phase of the received signal, respectively. The simulation results show the performance tendency depending on the sonar sensor configurations of a UUV, and the simulator provides a high applicability under various scenarios.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.83-91
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• 2001

This paper proposes the Focused beamforming to estimate the location of target residing near to the observation platform in the underwater environment. The Focused beamforming technique provides the location of target by the coherent summation of a series of incident spherical waveforms considering distinct propagation delay times at the sensor array. But due to the movement of the observation platform and the variation of the underwater environment, the shape of the sensor array is no longer to be linear but it becomes distorted as the platform moves. Thus the Focused beamforming should be peformed regarding to the geometric shape variation at each time. To estimate the target location, the artificial image plane comprised of cells is constructed, and the delays are calculated from each cell where the target could be proximity to sensors for the coherent summation. After the coherent combining, the beam pattern can be obtained through the Focused beamforming on the image plane. Futhermore to compensate the variation of the shape of the sensor array, the paper utilizes the Nth-order polynomial approximation to estimate the shape of the sensor array obeying the water pulley modeling. Simulation results show the performance of the Focused beamforming for different frequency bands of the radiated signal.