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A Study on the Coastal Navigation Safety by Navigational Risk Assessment Model (항해위험평가모델에 의한 연안역 항해의 안전 제고에 관한 연구)

  • KIM, Won-Ouk;KANG, Song-Jin;YOUN, Dae-Gwun;BAE, Jun-Young;KIM, Chang-Je
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.201-208
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    • 2017
  • The major cause of the marine accidents is the collision with a moving object such as ship as well as the fixed object such as breakwater. Therefore, the most effective way to reduce the maritime ship accidents is the prevention of collision. In order to decrease the collision, it is principle that the navigation officer promptly judges the dangerous condition and makes the quick response. The ship does not allow any object or other ships approaching its surrounded area called ship area so that it prevents the collision. Generally, the ship which has high speed or poor maneuvering capability shall be managed from the distance so that the other ship does not invade its ship domains(watching distance, blocking distance). Accordingly, this study sets the navigational risk assessment model by applying ship dynamic domain and collision judgement method considered ship length, speed and navigational capability. It also reviewed the validity of the model and evaluated the perilous water way (Maenggol Channel) and a curved route near Maenggol Channel. As a result, in case of a ship with 100m in length passing Maenggol Channel, it represented "warning" level before 1.5nm to the entry, "dangerous"level 0.75nm before to it and "very dangerous" level 0.5nm before to it and then "dangerous"level again up to the entry. Applying to the curved route also showed the same results as the Narrow Channel or Maenggol Channel. This analysis highly matched with the actual navigation results. In the future, this model will be useful for coastal navigation safety chart development and safety evaluation for route or port development. It also allows to evaluate the dangerous route or the best route by applying the result into ECDIS so that it will finally help to reduce the marine accidents. Eventually the model will be effective for the marine traffic simulation evaluation forced by Maritime Traffic Safety Act.

Primary Energy Conversion in a Direct Drive Turbine for Wave Power Generation

  • Prasad, Deepak Divashkar;Zullah, Mohammed Asid;Kim, You-Taek;Lee, Young-Ho
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.06a
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    • pp.237.1-237.1
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    • 2010
  • Recent developments such as concern over global warming, depletion of fossil fuels and increase in energy demands by the increasing world population has eventually lead to mass production of electricity using renewable sources. Ocean contains energy in form of thermal energy and mechanical energy: thermal energy from solar radiation and mechanical energy from the waves and tides. The current paper looks at generating power using waves. The primary objective of the present study is to maximize the primary energy conversion (first stage conversion) of the base model by making some design changes. The model entire consisted of a numerical wave tank and the turbine section. The turbine section had three components; front guide nozzle, augmentation channel and the rear chamber. The augmentation channel further consisted of a front nozzle, rear nozzle and an internal fluid region representing the turbine housing. Different front guide nozzle configuration and rear chamber design were studied. As mentioned, a numerical wave tank was utilized to generate waves of desired properties and later the turbine section was integrated. The waves in the numerical wave tank were generated by a piston type wave maker which was located at the wave tank inlet. The inlet which was modeled as a plate wall which moved sinusoidally with the general function, $x=asin{\omega}t$. In addition to primary energy conversion, observation of flow characteristics, pressure and the velocity in the augmentation channel, rear chamber as well as the front guide nozzle are presented in the paper. The analysis was performed using the commercial code of the ANSYS-CFX. The base model recorded water power of 29.9 W. After making the changes, the best model obtained water power of 37.1 W which represents an increase of approximately 24% in water power and primary energy conversion.

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Spatial Multiplexing Using Open-Loop Precoding in Maritime Communication Environment with Channel Correlation and LOS (채널 상관 및 직접파가 존재하는 해상 통신 환경에서 개루프 프리코딩 기반의 공간다중화 전송 기법)

  • Jang, Jungyup;Lee, Seong Ro;Kim, Dong Ho
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.40 no.7
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    • pp.1397-1404
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    • 2015
  • Recently, high data rate transmission is required in maritime communication. In this paper, we consider multiple input multiple output (MIMO) spatial multiplexing (SM). However, the performance of SM is severly degraded due to spatial channel correlation and line-of-sight (LOS) component. In the maritime communication, the MIMO channel correlation and LOS are critical due to the lack of scatteres around the transmitter and/or the receiver. When the feedback of channel information is available, precoding can enhance the error performance by exploiting the channel information. However, it is difficult to derive closed-form solution considering both the correlation and LOS. In this paper, we present open-loop precoding-based spatial multiplexing transmission method by showing that the effect of performance for the correlation and LOS. It is shown that the open-loop precoding can mitigate the performance degradation due to the LOS as well as the correlation. Consequently, we expect that the proposed open-loop precoding can be adopted to the maritime communication system.

Implementation of Time-Domain Beamformer with Cummulative Processing in decomposed channel using Polynomial Interpolation (다항식 보간기법을 이용한 채널별 누적처리 시간영역 빔형성기 구현)

  • Lee, Jung-Hoon;Kim, Eui-Jun;Kwon, Dae-Yong
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.83-84
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    • 2008
  • It is efficient to use the time-domain beamforming to operate the various pulse with the different pulse length, frequency, bandwidth in active sonar system. In this paper, we propose a time-domain beamformer with the cumulative processing in the decomposed channel using the polynomial interpolation to solve the problem of the computational cost, high transmission data rate, and the lack of internal memory.

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A Study on Feedforward System for IMT-2000

  • Jeon, Joong-Sung;Choi, Dong-Muk;Kim, Min-Jung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Marine Engineers Conference
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.1176-1185
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    • 2005
  • A linear power amplifier is particularly emphasized on the system using a linear modulations, such as 16QAM and QPSK with pulse shaping, because intermodulation distortion which causes adjacent channel interference and co-channel interference is mostly generated in a nonlinear power amplifier. In this paper, parameters of a linearization loop, such as an amplitude imbalance, a phase imbalance and a delay mismatch, are briefly analyzed to get a specific cancellation performance and linearization bandwidth. Experimental results are presented for IMT-2000 frequency band. The center frequency of the feedforward amplifier is 2140 MHz with 60 MHz bandwidth. When the average output power of feedforward amplifier is 20 Watt, the intermodulation cancellation performance is more than 21 dB. In this case, the output power of feedforward amplifier reduced 3.5 dB because of extra delay line loss and coupling loss. The feedforward amplifier efficiency is more than 7.2 % for multicarrier signals, 59 dBc for ACPR.

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Performance Evaluation of MIMO system by phase difference in underwater channel (수중통신환경에서 위상 차이에 따른 MIMO 시스템 성능 평가)

  • Park, Gun-yeol;Park, Tae-doo;Jung, Ji-won;Park, Sun;Choi, Myung Su;Lee, Sung Ro
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2013.10a
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    • pp.402-404
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    • 2013
  • The wireless communication channel different speed by depth of water or salt and it is influenced by multi-path according underwater. In the paper, MIMO(Multi-input-Multi-Output) system used turbo Equalizer combining Equalizer with Turbo codes for data rates by multi-path channel. we proposed and simulated that the Decision-Directed method used for phase offset. The simulation of proposed method show that the bit-error rate performance can be severely affected by phase errors.

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A Study on the Ship Channel Design Method using Variable Bumper Area Model (I) (가변범퍼영역모델을 이용한 항로설계기법(I))

  • Jeong Dae-Deug;Lee Joong-Woo
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.29 no.1 s.97
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    • pp.9-15
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    • 2005
  • To design ship channel is one of important factors for planning and developing a port. In most case, the core factors for designing ship channel are the layout and width of channel provided the net underkeel clearance is secured to be safe enough to pass. In this study, Variable Bumper Area(VBA) model is applied to design and assess ship channel. This model reflects ship's particular, ship domain theory, ship speed and mariner's ship handling skill and experience, especially external forces which cause leeway, set and drift and the change of ship maneuvering characteristics. A real time, full mission shiphandling simulator is used to analyze ship dynamic data according to mariner's ship control, external forces, ete. This model defines Domain degree and Domain-index for assessing the efficiency and safety of the channel. The proposed model is applied to Ulsan new port plan which has a channel width of 1.5 times the length of the largest vessel, a radius of 5 times the length of the largest vessel in a curve of 57 degree centerline angle and SBM facility adjacent to the lateral edge of channel. The result of this study shows that the width of the channel and radius of channel curve are suitable for the target ship but the difficulty of ship handling is caused by the large course change and SBM located in the vicinity of channel.

A Study on Efficient Packet Design for Underwater Acoustic Communication (수중음향통신에서 효율적인 패킷 설계에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Tae-Doo;Jung, Ji-Won
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.36 no.8
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    • pp.631-635
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    • 2012
  • Underwater acoustic communication has multipath error because of reflection by sea-level and sea-bottom. The multipath of underwater channel causes signal distortion and error floor. In this paper, in order to design an efficient packet structure, we employ channel coding scheme and phase recovery algorithm. For channel coding scheme, half rate LDPC channel coding scheme with N=1944 and K=972 was used. Also, decision directed phase recovery was used for correcting phase offset induced by multipath. Based on these algorithms, we propose length of data for optimal packet structure in the environment of oceanic experimentation.

Numerical Analysis of Reflection Characteristics of Perforated Breakwater with a Resonant Channel (공진수로 내장형 유공방파제의 반사특성에 관한 수치해석 연구)

  • Kim, Jeong-Seok;Seo, Ji-Hye;Lee, Joong-Woo;Park, Woo-Sun
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.38 no.5
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    • pp.503-509
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    • 2014
  • In this study, a new concept perforated breakwater is proposed, which is having resonant channels. In the channel, perforated plate is installed for dissipating wave energy induced by flow separations. The breakwater has two advantages compared with conventional perforated breakwater having wave chamber with slotted walls. One is easy to control the target wave condition for dissipating wave energy, and the other is having the high structural safety because the structural members are not exposed to impact waves, directly. To evaluate wave reflection characteristics of the proposed breakwater, numerical experiment was carried out by using Galerkin's finite element model based on the linear potential theory. The results indicated that considerable energy dissipation occurs near the resonant period of channel, and wave reflection characteristics are affected by channel shape, location and opening ratio.