An acoustic sensor fault detection method based on root-mean-square crossing-rate analysis for passive sonar systems

Yong Guk Kim; Jeong Won Park; Young Shin Kim; Sang Hyuck Lee; Hong Kook Kim

doi:10.7776/ASK.2017.36.1.030

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An acoustic sensor fault detection method based on root-mean-square crossing-rate analysis for passive sonar systems 수동 소나 시스템을 위한 실효치교차율 분석 기반 음향센서 결함 탐지 기법

31 January 2017. pp. 30-38

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose an underwater acoustic sensor fault detection method for passive sonar systems. In general, a passive sonar system displays processed results of array signals obtained from tens of the acoustic sensors as a two-dimensional image such as displays for broadband or narrowband analysis. Since detection result display in the operation software is to display the accumulated result through the array signal processing, it is difficult to determine the possibility where signal may be contaminated by the fault or failure of a single channel sensor. In this paper, accordingly, we propose a detection method based on the analysis of RMSCR (Root Mean Square Crossing-Rate), and the processing techniques for the faulty sensors are analyzed. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed method, the precision of detecting fault sensors is measured by using signals acquired from real array being operated in several coastal areas. Besides, we compare performance of fault processing techniques. From the experiments, it is shown that the proposed method works well in underwater environments with high average RMS, and mute (set to zero) shows the best performance with regard to fault processing techniques.

Keywords

Passive sonar

Acoustic sensor

Fault sensor detection

Root mean square

RMS (Root Mean Square) crossing-rate

본 논문에서는 수동 소나 시스템을 위한 수중 음향 센서 결함 탐지 기법을 제안하였다. 일반적으로 수동 소나 시스템에서는 수십개의 음향 센서를 통해 얻은 음향 신호를 이용하여 배열 신호처리 기법을 이용해 처리된 신호를 협대역 또는 광대역 분석을 위한 2차원 영상 형태로 전시한다. 운용 소프트웨어에서 전시되는 탐지 결과는 배열 신호처리를 통해 누적된 결과값을 전시하기 때문에, 단일 센서 채널의 결함 또는 고장에 따른 신호의 이상 여부를 판단하는데 어려움이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 인접 채널간 실효치 비교 및 실효치교차율(Root Mean Square Crossing-Rate, RMSCR) 분석기반 센서 자동 결함 탐지 기법을 제안하고, 결함 센서 채널에 대한 처리 기법을 비교 분석하였다. 제안된 기법의 성능 분석을 위하여 일부 연안 지역에서 실제 운용 중인 센서 배열을 통해 획득된 신호를 이용하여 결함 탐지 정확도를 측정하고, 결함 처리 기법의 성능을 비교하였다. 실험을 통해 제안된 기법이 높은 RMS의 주변소음 환경에서도 높은 결함 탐지 정확도를 보였으며, 결함 처리 기법으로는 0으로 설정 처리 기법이 가장 높은 성능을 보였다.

키워드

수동 소나

음향 센서

결함탐지

실효치

실효치교차율

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Publisher :The Acoustical Society of Korea
Publisher(Ko) :한국음향학회
Journal Title :The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
Journal Title(Ko) :한국음향학회지
Volume : 36
No :1
Pages :30-38
Received Date : 2016-10-14
Revised Date : 2016-11-07
Accepted Date : 2017-01-25
DOI :https://doi.org/10.7776/ASK.2017.36.1.030

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of KoreaISSN:1225-4428(Print) 2287-3775(Online)한국음향학회

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