• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.68-76
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• 2001

Sonar is the system that detects objects and finds their location in water by using the echo ranging technique. In order to have excellent performance in variable environment, acoustic characteristics of this system must be analyzed accurately. In this paper, based on the finite element analysis, modeling and analysis of acoustic characteristics of underwater acoustic sensors are preformed. Couplings between piezoelectric and elastic materials, and fluid and structure systems associated with the modeling of piezoelectric underwater acoustic sensors are formulated. In the finite element modeling of unbounded acoustic fluid, IWEE (Infinite Eave Envelop Element) is adopted to take into account the infinite domain. When an incidence wave excites the surface of Tonpilz underwater acoustic sensor, the scattered wave on the sensor is founded by satisfying the radiation condition at the artificial boundary approximately. Based on this scattering analysis, the electrical response of the underwater acoustic sensor under incidence, so called RVS (Receiving Voltage Signal) is founded accurately. This will devote to design Sonar systems accurately.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.28 no.12
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• pp.87-98
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• 2012

A sonar sensor system of a new socket roughness profiling system (SRPS) which can measure the socket roughness of the large-diameter drilled shafts under the in-situ condition was developed and verified. In model tests, the salinity, temperature, and high-turbidity have been changed for simulating the in-situ borehole water conditions. From the test results, it was found that the sonar sensor can measure the distance within an accuracy of 1mm. Because of the wave form characteristics of sonar sensor, the relative error exists in case of the inclined and curved surface, however, the shape of specimen was confirmed relatively exactly using the developed sonar sensor. Moreover, the salinity, temperature, and high-turbidity did not affect the measured data of socket roughness.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.696-699
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• 2004

A side scan sonar system uses the towfish installed sonars, It is an equipment that search images of the bottom surface of the sea in real time. It is a typical equipment that is related to a sea investigation such as a geological survey, seabed communication cable and power line cable placing repair investigation, fish breeding ground investigation, sea purification, relic and mineral investigation, and mine and submarine search. It used to fined objects and investigate on the seabed surface. But, recently, it is used to sea purification and geological survey that require information of the correct surface of the seabed. So, it needs various filtering technique and image processing techniques development to acquire high resolution image. therefore, this research develops a side scan sonar using multi-beam sensors that supply various information with the fast scan speed and correct high resolution that is not a simple underwater investigation equipment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2021.06a
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• pp.283-285
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 수중에서 선박 하부에 붙은 오손생물(fouling organism)을 탐지하고 격자지도(grid map)로 나타내는 시스템을 제안한다. 제안하는 시스템은 소나(sound navigation and ranging: SONAR) 센서와 오손생물사이의 시간 데이터를 수집한 후, 라즈베리 파이 4(raspberry pi 4)에서 수집된 데이터를 이용해 격자지도에 맵핑(mapping)함으로써, 선저하부의 상태를 파악하는데 도움을 줄 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 제안된 지도 시스템을 이용하여 선박 하부에 붙은 오손생물의 분포를 확인할 수 있다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.280-287
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• 2012

This paper presents a study on the experimental analysis of the impedance characteristics according to the rotational direction of the transmission beam of a cylindrical sensor array. Besides, this suggests a real time control technique of the transmitter output for the effective maximum power transmission, in order to drive efficiently the rotational transmission beam of the active sonar transmitter. The output characteristics of the transmitter and the real-time impedance variations of the sensor array are analyzed under the overload conditions. They are caused by electric and acoustic boundary conditions when the rotational transmission beam is operated. From these results, a new output control method of the transmitter is proposed to protect the transmitter and its loads. It can maximize the output power without the transmission pause even if the transient phenomena occur. The proposed technique is verified from the experiment.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.1159-1166
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• 2017

Cattle behavior detection system based on Internet of Things is designed and implemented by using gyroscope and acceleration sensor, Arduino pro-mini and bluetooth module. The implemented system measures cattle's moving and the measured data are transmitted to smart phone by bluetooth module. They are displayed by 2-dimensional graph on the smart phone and the number of cattle's step are calculated from the graph. The detected and gathered data from the system are analyzed by the proposed algorithm to decide which cows are in the estrus or not, and the proposed system can be used to increase the success rate of artificial insemination in normal estrus by detecting cow's behaviors such as the number of steps and jumping. In this paper, the implemented cattle behavior detecting system are strapped on cattle's leg and it measures cattle behaviors for determining that a cattle is estrus or not by the proposed algorithm. In the future research, the system which lengthens communication distance and increases the number of cattle under the test will be considered and also the measured data will be database for cattle research.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.145-153
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• 2019

Adaptive beamforming methods are known to suppress sidelobes and improve detection performance of weak signal by constructing weight vectors depending on the received signal itself. A standard adaptive beamforming like the MVDR (Minimum Variance Distortionless Response) is very sensitive to mismatches between weight vectors and actual signal steering vectors. Also, a large computational complexity for estimating a stable covariance matrix is required when wideband beamforming for a large-scale array is used. In this paper, we exploit the WBRCB (Wideband Robust Capon Beamforming) method for stable and robust wideband adaptive beamforming of a passive large uniform line array sonar. To improve robustness of adaptive beamforming performance in the presence of mismatches, we extract a optimum mismatch parameter. WBRCB with extracted mismatch parameter shows performance improvement in beamforming using synthetic and experimental passive sonar signals.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.53-59
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• 2018

In Korea, The number of installed LPG Charging stations is about 2000, increasing by 26 every year. In these, about 500 charging stations are older above 15 year, accounting about 25% of total stations. About 86% of them are located in the city, which is causing serious damage if accident occurs. In this paper, we developed a duel gas sensor module and integrated control system software that can prevent and correspondence to gas leaks and fire accidents at LPG/CNG charging stations. The dual type sensor module has the function of collecting and transmitting the measured data to the sensors of methane, butane and hydrogen through RF433Mhz communication. In addition, each sensor is attached with two to improve stability and accuracy. The integrated control system software detects real-time data of the devices measured by the sensors and it send to the PC and smart phone of manager. Therefore, if accident occurs, the manager can check the status of the charging station regardless of time and place.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.141-144
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• 2004

수중 음향 탐지 시스템에서 빔 형성 기법은 오랫동안 많은 연구자들에 의해 연구되어 왔다. 빔 형성 기법은 탐지성능에 직결되기 때문에 최적의 빔 설계는 중요한 문제가 된다. 그리고 최적의 빔 형성기를 구현하기 위해서는 개별 센서에 대한 가중회로의 구성이 필수적이며, 가중회로를 구성하기 위해서는 개별 센서에 대한 등가회로 모델링과 정합회로 설계가 필수적이다. 이전의 연구에서는 센서 등가회로 모델링 Tool과 정합회로 디자인 Tool 각각의 구성과 사용방법에 대해서 소개하였다. 본 논문에서는 이 두 가지 Tool을 모두 이용하여 센서 등가회로 및 정합회로를 모델링하였고, 이를 바탕으로 실제 가중회로를 구현하였다. 실험을 위해 물-공기의 상사효과를 가정하였으며, 공기 중에서 스피커 어레이를 이용하여 빔 형성을 하였다. 또한, 이론치와 실험치를 비교하여 BeamCAD, 센서 등가회로 모델링 Tool 그리고 정합회로 디자인 Tool로 이루어진 소나 센서 디자인 Tool의 타당성을 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.463-466
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• 2004

수중 음향 탐지 시스템에서 빔 형성 기법은 오랫동안 많은 연구자들에 의해 연구되어 왔다. 빔 형성 기법은 탐지성능에 직결되기 때문에 최적의 빔 설계는 중요한 문제가 된다. 그리고 최적의 빔 형성기를 구현하기 위해서는 개별 센서에 대한 가중회로의 구성이 필수적이며, 가중회로를 구성하기 위해서는 개별 센서에 대한 등가회로 모델링과 정합회로 설계가 필수적이다. 이전의 연구에서는 센서 등가회로 모델링 Tool과 정합회로 디자인 Tool 각각의 구성과 사용방법에 대해서 소개하였다. 이 두 가지 Tool을 모두 이용하여 센서 등가회로 및 정합회로를 모델링하였고, 이를 바탕으로 실제 가중회로를 구현하였다. 가중회로는 정합회로와 트랜스포머로 구성된다. 본 논문에서는 이와같이 구성된 가중회로와 스케일 모델에 맞게 제작된 스피커 어레이를 이용하여 빔형성 실험을 하였으며, 그 결과를 이론치와 비교하였다. 이것을 바탕으로 BeamCAD, 센서 등가회로 모델링 Tool 그리고 정합회로 디자인 Tool로 이루어진 소나 센서 디자인 Tool의 타당성을 검증하였다.