• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.176-181
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• 1997

A practical, easy-to-use data acquisition device has been developed for use in civil and envirionmental engineering applications. It uses the PC parallel port for the acquisition and data transfer and is simple enough to be setup and run in laboratory and field experiment conditions. The usual limitations of data storage capacity of several data loggers was solved by using PC resources. Also versatile programming capability using high level languages of the PC programming environment such as C and Visual Basic enables the data acquisition device to be configured as a general and practical data acquisition system. An example of effective uses of the device is. provided for the water environment measurement at the Bangwha bridge construction site. The in site. test proved the device to be practical in civil and environmental engineering applications.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.61-64
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• 2011

There are many applications that require robust and accurate eye tracking, such as human-computer interface(HCI). In this paper, a novel approach for eye tracking with a principal component analysis on rotated face. In the process of iris detection, intensity information is used. First, for select eye region using principal component analysis. Finally, for eye detection using eye region's intensity. The experimental results show good performance in detecting eye from FERET image include rotate face.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.72-77
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• 2010

This paper presents a method for measuring the shaft power of a marine main engine. Usually, in traditional systems for measuring shaft power, a strain gauge is used even though it has several disadvantages. First, it is difficult to set up the strain gauge on the shaft and acquire the correct signal for analysis. Second, it is very expensive and complicated. For these reasons, we investigated alternative approaches for measuring shaft power and proposed a new method that uses a vision-based measurement system. For this study, templates for image processing and CCD cameras were installed at the both ends of the shaft. Then, in order for the cameras to capture the images synchronously, we used a trigger mark and a optical sensor. The position of each template between the first and the second camera images were compared to calculate the torsion angle. The proposed measurement system can be installed more easily than traditional measurement systems and is suitable for any shaft because it does not contact the shaft. With this approach, it is possible to measure the shaft power while a ship is operating.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.74-80
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• 2009

Path tracking of unmanned vehicle is a basis of autonomous driving and navigation. For the path tracking, it is very important to find the exact position of a vehicle. GPS is used to get the position of vehicle and a direction sensor and a velocity sensor is used to compensate the position error of GPS. To detect path lines in a road image, the bird's eye view transform is employed, which makes it easy to design a lateral control algorithm simply than from the perspective view of image. Because the driving speed of vehicle should be decreased at a curved lane and crossroads, so we suggest the speed control algorithm used GPS and image data. The control algorithm is simulated and experimented from the basis of expert driver's knowledge data. In the experiments, the results show that bird's eye view transform are good for the steering control and a speed control algorithm also shows a stability in real driving.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.65-69
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• 2015

A vision-based blank alignment unit for a press automation line is introduced in this paper. A press is a machine tool that changes the shape of a blank by applying pressure and is widely used in industries requiring mass production. In traditional press automation lines, a mechanical centering unit, which consists of guides and ball bearings, is employed to align a blank before a robot inserts it into the press. However it can only align limited sized and shaped of blanks. Moreover it cannot be applied to a process where more than two blanks are simultaneously inserted. To overcome these problems, we developed a press centering unit by means of vision sensors for press automation lines. The specification of the vision system is determined by considering information of the blank and the required accuracy. A vision application S/W with pattern recognition, camera calibration and monitoring functions is designed to successfully detect multiple blanks. Through real experiments with an industrial robot, we validated that the proposed system was able to align various sizes and shapes of blanks, and successfully detect more than two blanks which were simultaneously inserted.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.207-212
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• 2008

최근 공장 자동화가 보편화됨에 따라 무인 운반설비의 자동화 시스템 개발의 한 부분으로써 Stereo Vision 장치를 이용하여 입력된 영상의 에지(Edge)를 추출하고, 추출된 에지를 이용하여 물체의 위치적 특징을 찾고 무인크레인이 이동해야할 위치좌표를 전달한다. 본 연구에서는 실제 산업현장에 가장 보편적인 형상인 판재와 원통을 기준으로 CCD 카메라 2대를 이용하여 물체의 형상을 인식하고, 그 물체의 중심점을 찾는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 우선 에지를 추출하고 사용자의 선택에 따라 추출된 에지의 특징을 판별하여 판재와 원통을 구분하여 원하는 물체의 위치정보를 찾아낸다. 본 연구는 무인 운반설비의 자동화 시스템 개발에 도움이 될 것으로 기대된다.

• Laser Solutions
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.19-24
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• 2009

Because of its fast and precise welding performance, laser welding is becoming a new excellent welding method. However, the precise focusing and robust seam tracking are required to apply laser welding to the practical fields. In order to laser weld a type of T joint like a circular pipe on a square pipe, which could be met in the three dimensional structure such as an aluminum space frame, a visual sensor system was developed for automation of focusing and seam tracking. The developed sensor system consists of a digital CCD camera, a structured laser, and a vision processor. It is moved and positioned by a 2-axis motorized stage, which is attached to a 6 axis robot manipulator with a laser welding head. After stripe-type structured laser illuminates a target surface, images are captured through the digital CCD camera. From the image, seam error and defocusing error are calculated using image processing algorithms which includes efficient techniques handling continuously changed image patterns. These errors are corrected by the stage off-line during welding or teaching. Laser welding of a circular pipe on a square pipe was successful with the vision tracking system by reducing the path positioning and de focusing errors due to the robot teaching or a geometrical variation of specimens and jig holding.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.347-357
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• 2011

Since legalization of performance management system in Korea Government, it has been very diffused throughout in Local Governments. So it is needed check about acceptance of performance management system. The aim of this paper is to find application for policy and draw up improving the system after analyzing cause of acceptance of performance management system. In summary, it is empirically proven that fair institution, education program and sympathy among employee are needed. Moreover, improving suitable evaluation system for organizational culture and developing manual for drawing KPI are properly required. Improving acceptance of performance management system, reforming performance management system and continuation of the system are guaranteed by Legal.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.12
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• pp.111-122
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• 2014

As radiotherapy has become one of the widely used techniques in cancer treatment, accurate tracking of patient's respiratory motion is considered to be more important in treatment planning and dose calculations. Inaccurate motion tracking can cause severe issues such as errors in target/normal tissue delineation and increasing the volume of healthy tissues exposed to high doses. Different methods have been introduced to estimate the respiratory motion, but most of them require some electronic devices or expensive materials. As an inexpensive and easy to use alternative to the previous methods, we propose a new 3D respiratory motion tracking method by using stereo vision techniques of detecting and decoding visual coded markers.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.309-314
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• 2017

Recently, the fields such as the service robot, the autonomous driving electric car, and the torpedo ladle cars operated autonomously to enhance the efficiency of management of the steel mill are receiving great attention. But development of automatic power supply that doesn't need human intervention be a problem. In this paper, a position tracking technology of power connector receptacle based on the computer vision is studied which can recognize and identify the position of the power connector receptacle, and finally its possibility is verified using OpenCV program.