• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.48 no.5
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• pp.81-92
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• 2011

In this paper, a new method to estimate the number of MU (motor unit) related to the widths and distribution of end plate in NMJ (neuromuscular junction) of biceps brachii is proposed by varying muscle parameter statistically in EMG model. This work is done by designing MU-simulator and EPZ-simulator. The proposed method was compared with the results of previous researchers. The proposed MU-simulator generates SMUAP (single motor unit action potential) and CMAP (compound muscle action potential) signal similar to detected SMUAP and CMAP signal obtained from muscle. The EPZ-simulator estimate the numbers of MU by varying the widths and distribution of end plate in neuromuscular junction of muscle. The results shows that the numbers of MU was estimated about 450 ea. and muscle fibers was about 340 ea., end plate widths was about 6 mm, and end plate was randomly distributed. The proposed method may be comparable with the method of anatomical studies.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.18 no.10
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• pp.1117-1125
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• 2007

In this paper, a study has been performed on the design of small loop probe and analysis of induced electromagnetic wave signal from a smartcard for contactless cryptographic analysis. Probes for cryptographic analysis are different from conventional EM probes, because the purpose of proposed probe is to obtain the information for secret key analysis of cryptographic system. The waveform of induced voltage on probe must be very close to radiated waveform from IC chip on smartcard because electromagnetic attack makes an attempt to analyze the radiated waveform from smartcard. In order to obtain secret key information, we need to study about cryptographic analysis using electromagnetic waves, an approximate model of source, characteristic of probe for cryptographic analysis, measurement of electromagnetic waves and calibration of probes. We measured power consumption signal on a smartcard chip and electromagnetic wave signal using proposed probe and compared with two signals of EMA point of view. We verified experimently the suitability of the proposed small loop probe for contactless cryptographic analysis by applying ARIA algorithm.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.731-742
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• 2010

Modeling of rubber for design or analysis often requires confusing or complex work because there are a large number of constitutive models to be considered. Some models have few material constants, while others have many. Researchers have to prepare and fit extensive experimental data with caution and discretion. In this paper, we first compared some typical rubber models in which deformation was carried out by stretching up to around eight times the original size. We conclude that continuum-based models and chain molecular models can be used in the study of the small deformation in most engineering applications, but chain molecular models are preferred in the study of the large deformations in most biomaterial applications. As discrimination problems, Treloar's patch and cylindrical balloon stick are tested theoretically and numerically for studying bifurcation. In the case of Treloar's patch, by using the Kearsley's equation, we show that bifurcation exists for continuum-based models but not for chain molecular models. Both models show bifurcation in the cylindrical balloon stick. Therefore, in the analysis of the bifurcation of rubber showed that its existence also depends on the constitutive model selected.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.87-94
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• 2017

Because the cavitation flow driven by an underwater propeller corrodes the materials around it and generates a high level of noise, it has become an important topic in engineering research. In this study, computational fluid dynamics techniques are applied to simulate cavitation flow, and the noise in the flow is predicted by applying the acoustic analogy to the predicted flow. The predicted results are compared with measurement results and other predictions in terms of surface pressure distribution and the temporal variation in liquid volume fraction. The predicted results are found to be in good agreement with the measured results. The source of the noise attributed to the time rate of change in the liquid volume fraction around the hydrofoil is modeled as a monopole source, and the source of the noise due to unsteady pressure perturbations on the hydrofoil surface is modeled as a dipole source. Then the predicted noise results are analyzed in terms of directivity and SPL spectrum. The noise caused by unsteady pressure perturbations was dominant in the entire frequency range considered in the study.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.9
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• pp.143-147
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• 2016

Recently, digital tomosynthesis system (DTS) has been developed to reduce overlap using conventional X-ray and to overcome high patient dose problem using computed tomography (CT). The purpose of this study was to develop image reconstruction algorithm and to evaluate image characteristics and dose with chest digital tomosynthesis (CDT) system. Image reconstruction was used for filtered back-projection (FBP) methods and system geometry was constructed ${\pm}10^{\circ}$, ${\pm}15^{\circ}$, ${\pm}20^{\circ}$, and ${\pm}30^{\circ}$ angular range for acquiring phantom images. Image characteristics carried out root mean square error (RMSE) and signal difference-to-noise ratio (SDNR), and dose is evaluated effective dose with ${\pm}20^{\circ}$ angular range. According to the results, the phantom image with slice thickness filter has superb RMSE and SDNR, and effective dose was 0.166 mSv. In conclusion, we demonstrated usefulness of developed CDT image reconstruction algorithm and we constructed CDT basic output data with measuring effective dose.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.7-16
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• 2009

A robot must be able to generate various skills to achieve given tasks intelligently and reasonably. The robot must first learn affordances to generate the skills. An affordance is defined as qualities of objects or environments that induce actions. Affordances can be usefully used to generate skills. Most tasks require sequential and goal-oriented behaviors. However, it is usually difficult to accomplish such tasks with affordances alone. To accomplish such tasks, a skill is constructed with an affordance and a soft behavioral motivation switch for reflecting goal-oriented elements. A skill calculates a behavioral motivation as a combination of both presently perceived information and goal-oriented elements. Here, a behavioral motivation is the internal condition that activates a goal-oriented behavior. In addition, a robot must be able to execute sequential behaviors. We construct skill networks by using generated skills that make action selection feasible to accomplish a task. A robot can select sequential and a goal-oriented behaviors using the skill network. For this, we will first propose a method for modeling and learning Bayesian networks that are used to generate affordances. To select sequential and goal-oriented behaviors, we construct skills using affordances and soft behavioral motivation switches. We also propose a method to generate the skill networks using the skills to execute given tasks. Finally, we will propose action-selection-mechanism to select sequential and goal-oriented behaviors using the skill network. To demonstrate the validity of our proposed methods, "Searching-for-a-target-object", "Approaching-a-target-object", "Sniffing-a-target-object", and "Kicking-a-target-object" affordances have been learned with GENIBO (pet robot) based on the human teaching method. Some experiments have also been performed with GENIBO using the skills and the skill networks.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.40-46
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 스윕곡면(sweep surface)을 기반으로 복잡한 3차원 물체의 형상을 변형하는 새로운 자유형상 변형(free-form deformation)기법을 제시한다. 본 논문에서 제시한 방법은 기존의 격자점(control lattices)을 조정하는 체적기반의 방법에 비해 스윕기반의 절차적 (procedural) 모델링 기법의 직관성을 활용하여 사용자에게 보다 효율적인 형상변형 기법을 제공한다. 3차원 물체의 정점들은 스윕곡면의 단면(cross-section)에 바인딩(binding) 되어 곡면의 변화에 따라 형상변형을 한다. 본 논문에서 제시한 스윕기반 형상변형 기법은 3차원 물체를 부분적으로 변형하는 기법과 계층구조를 기반으로 전반적인 형상을 변형하는 기법으로 구분된다. 부분적인 형상변형 기법은 스윕곡면을 구성하는 성분의 다단계(multi-level) 표현을 통하여 사용자에게 다중해상도(multi-resolution) 형상변형 기능을 제공한다. 계층구조에 기반한 형상변형 기법은 복잡한 3차원 물체를 위상구조에 따라 여러 계층으로 분할하고, 각 부분의 형상을 근사하는 스윕곡면들을 생성한다. 분할된 각 부분의 정점(vertices)들은 해당 스윕곡면에 바인딩 되어 스윕곡면의 단면의 변화를 따르게 된다. 이러한 상황하에서 스윕곡면들은 3차원 물체의 계층구조에 따라서 서로 상호작용(interaction)을 하게 되고, 결과적으로 3차원 물체의 각부분은 상호반응적 형상변형을 한다. 이러한 계층구조에 기반한 상호반응적 형상변형 기법은 사용자의 의도에 부합하는 보다 사실적이고 기능적인 형상변형을 가능하게 한다. 본 논문에서는 다양한 3차원 물체에 대한 실험을 통해 제시된 방법의 효율성을 입증한다. 결과 막성 사구체병증과 같은 신질환이 발견될 수 있으므로 신조직검사의 적응증에 합당한 경우 적극적인 신조직검사를 시행하여 원인 질환을 찾는 노력이 필요할 것으로 사료된다.. 남아가 75명으로 남녀비는 3.6:1을 보였다. 임상병리학적 분류상 일차성 신증후군이 89명(92.7%), 이차성 신증후군이 7명(7.3%)이었으며 일차성 신증후군에서 minimal change nephrotic syndrome이 71명으로 79.8%, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis 11.2%, mesangial proliferation 4.5%, membranoprolifrative glomeulonephritis 3.4%, membranous nephropathy 1명 1.1%이었으며 2차성 신증후군은 $Henoch-Sch\"{o}nlein$ nephritis가 3례로 가장 많았다. 미세변화 신증후군 71명 중 비재발군이 16명으로 22.5%, 비빈발 재발군 49.3%, 빈발 재발군 18.3%, 스테로이드 의존군 9.9%를 보였다. 결론 : 대전시에서의 신증후군 환아의 발생빈도는 15세이하 소아 10만명당 약 5명으로 추정되었으며 10여 년전과 비교하여 큰 변화를 보이지는 않았다. 또한 저자들의 임상병리학적 연구결과가 다른 문헌에서 보고된 소아 신증후군의 연구결과와 큰 차이를 보이지 않음을 알 수 있었다. 자극에 차이가 있지 않나 추측되며 이에 관한 추후 연구가 요망된다. 총대장통과시간의 단축은 결장 분절 모두에서 줄어들어 나타났으나 좌측결장 통과시간의 감소 및 이로 인한 이 부위의 통과시간 비율의 저하가 가장 주요하였다. 이러한 결과는 차가운 생수 섭취가 주로 결장 근위부를 자극하는

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.687-693
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• 2015

The present study proposed a k-value to determine the water-to-binder ratio of concrete using fly ash (FA) or ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS) as a partial replacement of ordinary portland cement (OPC) with regard to an equivalent strength of OPC concrete. From the regression analysis using an extensive database including 7076 concrete mixes, k-values were determined for various water-to-binder ratios when the replacement ratio of OPC by the addition of FA or GGBS were below 50%. For deriving an equation to identify k-value, the relationship of concrete compressive strength and water-to-binder ratio was generalized by an exponential function. In general, k-values decreased with the increases in the addition of FA or GGBS for replacement of OPC and water-to-binder ratio. The rate in decreasing k-value against water-to-binder ratio was marginally affected by the addition of FA or GGBS, although a higher k-value was commonly obtained for GGBS concrete than for FA concrete at the same water-to-binder ratio. Consequently, the determined k-values were simplified as a function of water-to-binder ratio and the addition ratio of FA or GGBS as replacement of OPC.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.2 s.302
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• pp.113-120
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• 2005

3D reconstruction of a scene structure from un-calibrated image sequences has been long one of the central problems in computer vision. For 3D reconstruction in Euclidean space, projective reconstruction, which is classified into the merging method and the factorization, is needed as a preceding step. By calculating all camera projection matrices and structures at the same time, the factorization method suffers less from dia and error accumulation than the merging. However, the factorization is hard to analyze precisely long sequences because it is based on the assumption that all correspondences must remain in all views from the first frame to the last. This paper presents a new projective reconstruction method for recovery of 3D structure over long sequences. We break a full sequence into sub-sequences based on a quantitative measure considering the number of matching points between frames, the homography error, and the distribution of matching points on the frame. All of the projective reconstructions of sub-sequences are registered into the same coordinate frame for a complete description of the scene. no experimental results showed that the proposed method can recover more precise 3D structure than the merging method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2009.04b
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• pp.49-49
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• 2009

최근 범세계적인 그린에너지 정책에 관련해 화석연료를 대체할 수 있는 수소, 풍력, 태양광 등의 대체 에너지에 대한 관심이 고조되고 있다. 이러한 여러 대체에너지 중에서도 태양광을 전기에너지로 변환하는 태양전지에 관한 연구가 집중되고 있다. 태양전지는 구조적으로 단순하고 제조 공정도 비교적 간단하지만, 보다 널리 보급되기 위해서는 경제성 향상이라는 문제점을 해결해야 한다. 이를 위해서는 기존의 실리콘 태양전지를 대체할 수 있는 신물질에 대한 연구가 필요하며, 그 중에서도 반도체 기술을 이용한 박막형 태양전지는 기존의 실리콘 태양 전지가 가지고 있는 고비용이라는 문제점을 극복할 수 있을 것으로 기대를 모으고 있다. 박막형 태양전지의 박막 재료로는 CIGS, CdTe 등이 연구되어지고 있지만, 아직까지는 기존의 실리콘 태양전지에 비해 에너지변환효율이 낮은 이유로 인해 실용화가 많이 이루어지지 못하고 있는 것이 사실이다. 이러한 박막형 태양전지의 재료들 중에서도 CdTe는 이종접합 박막형 태양전지에 흡광층으로 사용되는 것으로 상온에서 1.45eV 정도의 밴드갭(band gap) 에너지를 갖는 II-VI족 화합물반도체로써 태양광 스펙트럼과 잘 맞는 이상적인 밴드랩 에너지와 높은 광흡수도 때문에 박막형 태양전지로 가장 주목을 받고 있다. CdTe 박막의 제조 방법으로는 진공증착법(vacuum evaporation), 전착법(electrodeposition), 스퍼터링법(sputtering) 등이 있지만 본 연구에서는 스퍼터링법을 이용하여 박막을 증착하였다. 이상과 같이 증착된 CdTe 박막을 화학적기계적연마(CMP, chemical mechanical polishing) 공정을 적용시킴으로써, 태양전지의 에너지변환효율에 직접적인 영향을 끼칠 수 있는 CdTe 박막의 물리적, 전기적 특성들의 변화를 연구하기 위한 선행 연구를 진행하였다. 특히 본 연구에서는 CdTe 박막의 화학적 기계적 연마 특성을 분석하여 정규화를 통한 모델링을 수행하였다. 또한 화학적기계적연마 공정 전과 후의 표면 특성을 관찰하기 위해 SEM(scanning electron microscopy)과 AFM(atomic forced microscope)를 이용하였으며, 구조적 특성 관찰을 XRD(X-ray diffraction)를 사용하여 실험을 수행하였다.