• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.187-191
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• 2012

In these days, there are huge increases of concerning underwater acoustic sensor networks (UWASNs) to explore marine resources and to monitor climate change. To collect information from sensor nodes which are randomly deployed in underwater, Multi-Dimensional Scaling (MDS) based locating methods have been recently introduced, which consider sound speed to be constant in underwater. However, underwater sound speed tends to vary depending on underwater environment factors, such as depth, temperature, and salinity. In this paper, we propose a method considering environment factors, can influence upon sound speed in underwater, and introduce experimental setup which can follow up environmental factors.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2007년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.43-44
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• 2007

The Underwater Wireless Sensor Network (UWSN) consists of sensor nodes equipped with a small battery of limited energy resource. Hence, the energy efficiency is a key design issue that needs to be addressed in order to improve the lifetime of the network. In this paper, we use a hexagon tessellation with and ideal cell size to deploy the underwater sensor nodes for the UWSN and propose an enhanced hybrid transmission method that considers the load balancing once the data transmission occurs.

• 전자공학회논문지CI
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• 제48권6호
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• pp.88-96
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• 2011

수중 음파 통신은 해양 데이터 수집, 해저 탐사 및 개발, 군사 전술 감시 등 다양한 분야에 활용 가능하다. 이와 같이 다양한 분야에 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle(AUV)나 Remotely Operated Vehicle(ROV)와 같은 수중 로봇을 이용한 로봇 제어 시스템 구축은 필수적이다. 본 논문에서는 수중 음파 센서 네트워크 구성에서 중요한 부분인 에너지 효율적인 면을 고려하는 동시에 실시간 로봇 제어 시스템 구축에 적합한 Message Merging MAC($M^2$-MAC) 프로토콜을 제안한다. 제안된 Media Access Control(MAC) 프로토콜에서는 미리 할당된 타임 슬롯에 따라 로봇 노드들로부터 데이터를 수신하고, 베이스 스테이션으로부터 전달받은 메시지들을 버퍼링 과정을 거쳐 하나의 MAC 프레임으로 생성한 후 클러스터 내 모든 로봇 노드들에게 브로드 캐스팅 하게 된다. 또한 새로운 노드 진입 및 탈퇴 시 Maintenance&Sleep(M&S) 구간을 통해 관련 절차가 이루어짐으로써 경쟁과 비경쟁 방식이 혼합된 복합형 MAC 프로토콜의 형태를 이룬다. 본 논문에서는 실시간 로봇 제어 시스템 구축에 중요한 요소인 종단 간 지연과 에너지 소모량에 관련된 수학적 분석 모델을 제시하고 기존의 MAC 프로토콜과 비교함으로써 성능의 우수성을 검증한다.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.322-330
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• 2007

Recent advances in wireless networks and low-cost, low-power design have led to active research in large-scale networks of small, wireless, low power sensors and actuators, In large-scale networks, lots of timing-synchronization protocols already exist (such as NTP, GPS), In ad-hoc networks, especially wireless sensor networks, it is hard to synchronize all nodes in networks because it has no infrastructure. In addition, sensor nodes have low-power CPU (it cannot perform the complex computation), low batteries, and even they have to have active and inactive section by periods. Therefore, new approach to time synchronization is needed for wireless sensor networks, In this paper, I propose Energy-Efficient Time Synchronization (EETS) protocol providing network-wide time synchronization in wireless sensor networks, The algorithm is organized two phase, In first phase, I make a hierarchical tree with sensor nodes by broadcasting "Level Discovery" packet. In second phase, I synchronize them by exchanging time stamp packets, And I also consider send time, access time and propagation time. I have shown the performance of EETS comparing Timing-sync Protocol for Sensor Networks (TPSN) and Reference Broadcast Synchronization (RBS) about energy efficiency and time synchronization accuracy using NESLsim.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제18권8호
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• pp.699-705
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• 2012

In this paper, an infrastructure-based localization method using underwater wireless sensor network (UWSN) is addressed. A localization using the UWSN is necessary to widen the usage of underwater applications, however it is very difficult to establish the UWSN due to the restrictions of water. In this paper, to extend the usage of UWSN at the infrastructure, we propose a sophisticated UWSN localization method using the Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) of the electromagnetic waves. During the electromagnetic waves propagating in underwater, there arises a lot of attenuation according to the distance, while the attenuation shows uniformity according to the distance. Using this characteristics, the localization system in underwater infrastructure is proposed and the experimental results show the effectiveness.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제65권1호
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• pp.135-141
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• 2016

Recently, the needs for the development and application of marine robots are increasing as marine accidents occur frequently. However, it is very difficult to acquire the information by utilizing marine robots in the marine environment. Therefore, the needs for the researches of sensor networks which are composed of underwater, surface and aerial robots are increasing in order to acquire the information effectively as the information from heterogeneous robots has less limitation in terms of coverage and connectivity. Although various researches of the sensor network which is based on marine robots have been executed, all of the underwater, surface and aerial robots have not yet been considered in the sensor network. To solve this problem, a collaborative control method based on the acoustic information and image by the sonars of the underwater robot, the acoustic information by the sonar of the surface robot and the optical image by the camera of the static-floating aerial robot is proposed. To verify the performance of the proposed method, the collaborative control of a MUR(Micro Underwater Robot) with an OAS(Obstacle Avoidance Sonar) and a SSS(Side Scan Sonar), a MSR(Micro Surface Robot) with an OAS and a BMAR(Balloon-based Micro Aerial Robot) with a camera are executed. The test results show the possibility of real applications and the need for additional studies.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.64-69
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• 2014

초음파(Ultrasound) 시스템은 진단의학분야, 수중통신, 센서네트워크 등 현대산업분야에 광범위하게 사용되는 복잡한 무선 신호처리 시스템 중 하나이다. 최근에는 초음파 시스템의 소형화가 본격화 되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 소형화되고, 모바일화 되는 진단 초음파시스템에 적합한 혼성 저잡음증폭기(Low Noise Amplifier, LNA)를 개발 하였다. 제안된 LNA는 5dB이하의 낮은 잡음특성을 가지고, 다양한 초음파 변환기(Transducer)의 임피던스매칭을 위해 피드백 저항값들을 전기적으로 조정할 수 있도록 설계하였다. 주파수는 10kHz에서 150MHz까지 초음파주파수 전 대역을 지원할 수 있고, 슬립모드를 지원한다. 시스템의 특성에 맞춰 각각의 변환기를 통해 -17.8dB-29.5dB의 이득을 갖는다. 기존의 LNA와 비교해서 비슷한 성능에 소모전력은 최대 90%를 줄일 수 있었다.