• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.26-32
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• 2011

Recently, in the U-health area, there are research related on monitoring brainwaves in real-time for coping with emergent situations like the fatigue driving, cerebral infarction or the heart attack of not only the patients but also the normal elderly folks by transmitting of the EEG(Electroencephalograph). This system could be applied to hospitals or sanatoriums. In this paper, it is applied for the vehicular ad-hoc network to prevent the car accident in advance by monitoring the brainwaves of a driver in real-time. In order to do this, I used mobile ad-hoc nodes supported in the Opnet simulator for the efficient EEG brainwave transmission in the VANET environment. The vehicular ad-hoc networks transmitting the brainwaves to the nearest road-side unit are designed and simulated to draw an efficient and proper vehicular ad-hoc network environment.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38C no.7
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• pp.623-629
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• 2013

This paper presents the implementation result of the EEG(electroencephalogram) signal transmission protocol and its test platform. EEG measured by a dry-type electrode is directly converted into digital signal by ADC(analog-to-digital converter). Thereafter it is transferred DSP(digital signal processor) platform by $I^2C$(inter-integrated circuit) protocol. DSP conducts the pre-processing of EEG and extracts feature vectors of EEG. In this work, we implement the $I^2C$ protocol with 16 channels by using 10 or 12-bit ADC. In the implementation results, the overhead ratio for the 4 bytes data burst transmission measures 2.16 and the total data rates are 345.6 kbps and 414.72 kbps with 10-bit and 12-bit 1 ksps ADC, respectively. Therefore, in order to support a high speed mode of $I^2C$ for 400 kbps, it is required to use 16:1 and $(8:1){\times}2$ ratios for slave:master in 10-bit ADC and 12-bit ADC, respectively.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.343-344
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• 2007

본 논문은 의사표현이 어려운 전신마비환자의 뇌파(EEG)를 이용하여 긍정과 부정을 표현할 수 있는 방법에 대해서 소개한다. 더 나아가 인간의 감정에 따라 긍정과 부정을 민감하게 반응하는 뇌 영역을 분석하였다. 해당영역의 뇌파(EEG)변화를 측정하기 위해 컴퓨터 시스템과 접목시키는 목적도 포함하고 있다. 이를 위해서 미약한 뇌파를 증폭 시키는 전치 증폭기를 구현하였고 인공산물과 뇌파 주파수영역만을 통과시키는 아날로그 전자회로를 구현하였다. 또한 인간의 두뇌피질로부터 측정된 신호는 컴퓨터 시스템에 전송된다. 수신된 신호를 실시간 Fast Fourier Transform(FFT) 신호처리과정을 거쳐 뇌파의 주파수 영역을 분류하게 된다. 이때 분류된 뇌파를 바탕으로 인간의 긍정과 부정을 표현할 수 있는 방법을 제시한다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.329-334
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• 2014

Recently, various electronic functions are developed for car drivers as the advent of electrical automobile. Especially, there are functions to examine for preventing drowsy or healthcare through monitoring brainwave(EEG) of drivers in real time. This function can be provided by transmitting driver's EEG, and the network function for transmission among cars or between car and road side infrastructure is a vital issue. Therefore, in this paper, to provide efficient routing protocol for transmitting EEG data at a cross road in an urban area, 5 different wireless communication network applied each routing protocol such as AODV, DSR, GRP, OLSR, and TORA is designed and simulated in the OPNet network simulator, then it is evaluated for the result.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.40-47
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• 2013

To verify the condition of patients moving in the medical center like hospital needs to be consider the various wireless communication network protocols and network components. Wireless communication protocols such as the 802.11a, 802.11g, and direct sequence has their specific characteristics, and the various components such as the number of mobile nodes or the distance of transmission range could affects the performance of the network. Especially, the network topologies are considered the characteristic of the brain wave(EEG) since the condition of patient is detected from it. Therefore, in this paper, various wireless communication networks are designed and simulated with Opnet simulator, then evaluated the performance to verify the wireless network that transmits the patient's EEG data efficiently. Overall, the 802.11g had the best performance for the wireless network environment that transmits the EEG data. However, there were minor difference on the performance result depends on the components of the topologies.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.791-796
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• 2013

Advent of the brain wave health care system is considered as an important issues in the industrial and research area in these days. It is necessary to detect EEG signals in real-time in order to support the medical emergency service for the epileptic or brain infarct patients. Since the efficient network support is an essential factor for the system, several topologies using sensor node based wireless body area network is suggested and simulated in this paper. Finally the Opnet simulation result is evaluated for the efficient topology of the body area network.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.12
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• pp.216-222
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• 2010

To improve the quality of life, wireless ad-hoc network technologies are considered as one of the key research areas in computer science and healthcare application industries. The ubiquitous healthcare systems also provide alerting mechanisms against ill conditions in real time. This minimizes the need for care-givers and helps the chronically ill and elderly to survive. For the application of the system, supporting the efficient and proper network system is essential. So in this paper, I suggest some hospital network environments including patient mobile nodes continuously sending brainwaves to the server of the hospital area. Finally, the network systems are simulated by OPnet simulator and evaluate the performance among various mobility of the mobile nodes and topologies of the network for the efficient system.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.16-23
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• 2010

Since the interest of a brain science research is increased recently, various devices using brain waves have been developed in the field of brain training game, education application and brain computer interface. In this paper, we have developed a portable EEG measurement and a bluetooth based wireless transmission device measuring brain waves from the frontal lob simply and conveniently. The low brain signals about 10~100${\mu}V$ was amplified into several volts and low pass, high pass and notch filter were designed for eliminating unwanted noise and 60Hz power noise. Also, PIC24F192 microcontroller has been used to convert analog brain signal into digital signal and transmit the signal into personal computer wirelessly. The sampling rate of 1KHz and bluetooth based wireless transmission with 38,400bps were used. The LabVIEW programing was used to receive and monitor the brain signals. The power spectrum of commercial biopac MP100 and that of a developed EEG system was compared for performance verification after the simulation signals of sine waves of $1{\mu}V$, 0~200Hz was inputed and processed by FFT transformation. As a result of comparison, the developed system showed good performance because frequency response of a developed system was similar to that of a commercial biopac MP100 inside the range of 30Hz specially.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.1393-1395
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• 2015

군에서의 경계근무는 방위 임무에 있어 아무리 강조해도 부족할 정도로 중요한 업무이지만, 인간이라는 한계 때문에 어쩔수 없이 소홀히 되어지는 부분이 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 뇌파를 사용하여 경계병의 졸음을 검출하는 시스템을 제안하였다. 이 시스템은 IoT를 기반으로 설계되었으며, 주요기능으로는 뇌파 측정 기능, 신원 확인 기능, 졸음 판별 표시 기능, 실시간 뇌파 전송 기능 등이 있다. 현재 각 기능에 대한 구체적인 방법들을 구현하여 성능 분석중에 있으며 향후 이 시스템이 완전히 개발 된다면 국방 경계태세 강화 등 다른 여러 분야에서 유용하게 쓰일 것으로 기대된다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.10b
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• pp.155-156
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• 2008

This research measures EEG signals which are generating on head skin and extracts brain concentration level related with brain activity. We develop concentration wireless transmission system for controlling hardware by using this signal. Two channels are used for measuring EEG signal on front head and Biopac system with MP-100 and EEG100C was used for measuring EEG signal, amplifying and filtering the signal. LabView 8.5 was also used for FFT transformation, frequency and spectrum analysis of the measure EEG signal. As a result, ${\alpha}$ wave, ${\beta}$ wave, ${\theta}$ wave and ${\delta}$ wave were classified. we extracted the concentration index by adapting concentration extraction algorithm. This concentration index was transferred into lego automobile device by wireless module and applied for BCI application.