• ETRI Journal
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• 제36권5호
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• pp.841-846
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• 2014

This study proposes a novel optical sensor structure based on a refractometer combining a bend waveguide with an air trench. The optical sensor is a $1{\times}2$ splitter structure with a reference channel and a sensing channel. The reference channel has a straight waveguide. The sensing channel consists of a U-bend waveguide connecting four C-bends, and a trench structure to partially expose the core layer. The U-bend waveguide consists of one C-bend with the maximum optical loss and three C-bends with minimum losses. A trench provides a quantitative measurement environment and is aligned with the sidewall of the C-bend having the maximum loss. The intensity of the output power depends on the change in the refractive index of the measured material. The insertion loss of the proposed optical sensor changes from 3.7 dB to 59.1 dB when the refractive index changes from 1.3852 to 1.4452.

• 센서학회지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.169-179
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• 2005

A multiplexed bend loss type single-mode fiber-optic sensor system was prepared to measure the displacement of several cm of the civil engineering structures such as many bridges, tunnels and various buildings. This bend loss type fiber-optic sensor used the signal difference between two reflection signals due to various bend losses generating at a pair of optical connectors by using OTDR (optical time domain reflectometer) for measuring displacements. And the experiments were conducted for showing the measurement feasibility on the range of 10 cm, and the multiplexing experiments were also performed to measure the displacements of 5 measuring positions of an object by setting these 5 fiber-optic sensors on a single mode fiber simultaneously.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.26-32
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• 2017

Previous shape sensors including bend sensors and optic fiber based sensors are widely used in various applications including goniometer and surgical robots. But theses sensors have large nonlinearity, limited in the range of sensing curvature, and sometimes are expensive. This study suggests a new concept of bend sensor using cable-conduit which consists of the outer sheath and the inner wire. The outer sheath is made of helical coil whose length of the central line changes as the sheath bends. This length change of the central line can be measured with the length change of the inner cable. The modeling and the experimental results show that the output signal of the proposed sensor is linearly related with the bend angle of the sheath with root mean square error of 5.3% of $450^{\circ}$ sensing range. Also the polynomial calibration of the sensor can decrease the root mean square error to 2.1% of the full sensing range.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.415-422
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• 2004

교량과 각종 건물을 비롯한 대형 토목 구조물에서 발생하는 수 mm의 변위를 한 개의 광섬유로 간편하게 측정하기 위하여 광커넥터에서 반사가 굽힘 손실에 의하여 변하는 현상을 이용한 새로운 다중화된 광섬유 변위센서를 제안하고 실험하였다. 한 쌍의 광커넥터 양끝에서 반사광의 신호차이가 두 광커넥터 사이에서 발생한 굽힘 변위에 의해서 달라지는 것을 Optical Time Domain Reflectometer로 측정하여 선형으로 그 변화가 측정되는 변위센서를 만들고, 이 센서 4개를 직렬형으로 배열하여 여러 지점의 변위를 동사에 측정이 가능한 다중화 센서 시스템을 구성하고 실험하였다. 그 결과 이 변위센서를 이용하면 4개 지점에서 각각 최대 6 mm까지의 변위를 6%의 오차범위 내에서 0.9942의 선형성을 가지고 변위를 측정할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• 한국광학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국광학회 2004년도 제15회 정기총회 및 동계학술발표회
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• pp.374-375
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• 2004

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.93-99
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• 2015

Economic burden of work-related musculoskeletal disorder(WMDs) is increasing. Known causes of WMDs include improper posture, repetition, load, and temperature of workplace. Among them, improper postures play an important role. A smart sensor called SensorTag is employed to estimate the trunk postures including flexion-extension, lateral bend, and the trunk rotational speeds. Measuring gravitational acceleration vector in the smart sensor along the tri-orthogonal axes offers an orientation of the object with the smart sensor attached to. The smart sensor is light in weight and has small form factor, making it an ideal wearable sensor for body posture measurement. Measured data from the smart senor is wirelessly transferred for analysis to a smartphone which has enough computing power, data storage and internet-connectivity, removing need for additional hardware for data post-processing. Based on the estimated body postures, WMDs risks can be conviently gauged by using existing WMDs risk assesment methods such as OWAS, RULA, REBA, etc.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.827-838
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• 2021

The dynamic displacement is considered to be an important indicator of structural safety, and becomes an indispensable part of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) system for high-speed railway bridges. This paper proposes an indirect strain based dynamic displacement reconstruction methodology for high-speed railway box girders. For the typical box girders under eccentric train load, the plane section assumption and elementary beam theory is no longer applicable due to the bend-torsion coupling effects. The monitored strain was decoupled into bend and torsion induced strain, pre-trained multi-output support vector regression (M-SVR) model was employed for such decoupling process considering the sensor layout cost and reconstruction accuracy. The decoupled strained based displacement could be reconstructed respectively using box girder plate element analysis and mode superposition principle. For the transformation modal matrix has a significant impact on the reconstructed displacement accuracy, the modal order would be optimized using particle swarm algorithm (PSO), aiming to minimize the ill conditioned degree of transformation modal matrix and the displacement reconstruction error. Numerical simulation and dynamic load testing results show that the reconstructed displacement was in good agreement with the simulated or measured results, which verifies the validity and accuracy of the algorithm proposed in this paper.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.39-45
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• 2015

지능형 센서 기반의 구조 건전성 감시를 통해 안전성을 확보하기 위한 연구는 우주항공을 비롯하여 기계/토목 구조물, 수송 기계 분야로 확대되었다. 특히, 실시간으로 운용되는 구조물은 사고로 인한 재산 및 인명 피해를 예방하기 위해 여러 스마트 센서 기반의 구조 건전성 감시 기술이 요구되는 결과로 이어졌다. 한편, 상용화되어 있는 대부분의 센서는 전자기 기반의 센서로써 전자기 간섭 및 부식과 같은 적용성의 제한과 환경적 요인에 취약할 수 있다. 따라서, 전자기 기반 센서의 단점을 보완하기 위한 신개념 센서로 광섬유 센서가 최근 각광을 받고 있다. 하지만, 광섬유 센서를 이용한 실제 구조물의 감시를 위해서는 고가 장비와 시스템이 요구되어 어려움이 존재한다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 한 가닥의 광섬유를 이용하여 여러 지점에서 발생할 수 있는 충격을 검출하는 센서 시스템을 제안하였다. 이를 위해, 광섬유 굽힘 손실 현상을 이용하여 같은 충격에 대해 위치별 광 강도의 변화량 차이가 존재하도록 센서부의 모듈을 제작하였다. 그리고, 광 강도 변화에 영향을 미치는 변수들을 이용하여 실험 설계를 하였으며, 충격 위치 검출이 가능함을 실험적으로 검증하였다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2001년도 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.2393-2395
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• 2001

The mobile robot is used as an instrument of transportation in automated plant. But the greater part of the moving method is the wheel-type. The wheel-type robot is easier control than the track-type, However the track-type is better than the wheel-type in bad landform(bend landform, an incline plane, stairs). In this paper, we propose the navigation algorithm of track-type robot in order to improve a defect of wheel-type. We experiment in bend landfrom and even ground to differentiate the navigation method. To estimate robot pose, we use the 80196 in a close distance and the vision-board in a long distance. Each data is managed in main PC and then the part of managing correspond to every sensor. We also use twelve supersonic wave-sensors to recognize external surroundings. As the result of experiment, we analyze the algorithm of control and make possible surroundings-adaptation.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.133-139
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 플라스틱 광섬유 센서가 운전자의 졸음 방지용 센서로서 응용 가능한 지에 관하여 논의된다. 졸음방지용 플라스틱 광섬유 센서는 광섬유의 구부림이 잘 유도될 수 있도록 소프트한 물질로 덮개를 씌운 핸들에 플라스틱 광섬유가 감겨져 여는 구조로 되어져 있다. 운전자가 핸들을 잡을 때 운전자가 핸들에 힘을 가하게 되고 이 힘이 플라스틱 광섬유의 구부림을 유도하여 플라스틱 광섬유 내부를 진행하는 빛의 양을 감소시킨다. 실험 결과로부터 핸들에 가해지는 힘이 크면 클수록 검출되는 광량이 적어짐을 보여주어 졸음 방지용 센서로서의 사용할 수 있음을 검증해 보인다.