• Advances in robotics research
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.129-140
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• 2018

With the increasing demand for the development of human pose estimation, such as human-computer interaction and human activity recognition, there have been numerous approaches to detect the 2D poses of people in images more efficiently. Despite many years of human pose estimation research, the estimation of human poses with images remains difficult to produce satisfactory results. In this study, we propose a robust 2D human body pose estimation method using an RGB camera sensor. Our pose estimation method is efficient and cost-effective since the use of RGB camera sensor is economically beneficial compared to more commonly used high-priced sensors. For the estimation of upper-body joint positions, semantic segmentation with a fully convolutional network was exploited. From acquired RGB images, joint heatmaps accurately estimate the coordinates of the location of each joint. The network architecture was designed to learn and detect the locations of joints via the sequential prediction processing method. Our proposed method was tested and validated for efficient estimation of the human upper-body pose. The obtained results reveal the potential of a simple RGB camera sensor for human pose estimation applications.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.791-796
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• 2013

뇌파 건강관리 시스템의 태동은 산업과 연구분야에서 요즘 중요한 쟁점으로 여겨지고 있다. 실시간으로 간질병이나 뇌경색의 환자들의 의료응급서비스를 지원하기 위해서는 EEG신호 감지가 필수적이다. 이러한 시스템을 위하여 효과적인 네트워크를 지원하는 것이 필수적이기 때문에 센서노드 기반의 무선통신 토폴로지를 제안하며 시뮬레이트한다. 마지막으로 이러한 네트워크의 효과적인 토폴로지를 위하여 옵넷 시뮬레이터의 결과를 평가한다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.67-70
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• 2006

A distributed healthcare monitoring system prototype for clinical and trauma patients was developed, using wireless sensor network node. The proposed system aimed to measure various vital physiological health parameters like ECG and body temperature of patients and elderly persons, and transfer his/her health status wirelessly in Ad-hoc network to remote base station which was connected to doctor's PDA/PC or to a hospital's main Server using wireless sensor node. The system also aims to save the cost of healthcare facility for patients and the operating power of the system because sensor network is deployed widely and the distance from sensor to base station was shorter than in general centralized system. The wireless data communication will follow IEEE 802.15.4 frequency communication with ad-hoc routing thus enabling every motes attached to patients, to form a wireless data network to send data to base-station, providing mobility and convenience to the users in home environment.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.453-462
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• 2015

Body area networks (BANs) have emerged as an enabling technique for e-healthcare systems, which can be used to continuously and remotely monitor patients' health. In BANs, the data of a patient's vital body functions and movements can be collected by small wearable or implantable sensors and sent using shortrange wireless communication techniques. Due to the shared wireless medium between the sensors in BANs, it may be possible to have malicious attacks on e-healthcare systems. The security and privacy issues of BANs are becoming more and more important. To provide secure and correct association of a group of sensors with a patient and satisfy the requirements of data confidentiality and integrity in BANs, we propose a novel enhanced secure sensor association and key management protocol based on elliptic curve cryptography and hash chains. The authentication procedure and group key generation are very simple and efficient. Therefore, our protocol can be easily implemented in the power and resource constrained sensor nodes in BANs. From a comparison of results, furthermore, we can conclude that the proposed protocol dramatically reduces the computation and communication cost for the authentication and key derivation compared with previous protocols. We believe that our protocol is attractive in the application of BANs.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.25-32
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• 2015

Powering wireless sensors with energy harvested from the environment is coming of age due to the increasing power densities of both storage and harvesting devices and the electronics performing energy efficient energy conversion. In order to maximize the functionality of the wireless sensor network, minimize missing packets, minimize latency and prevent the waste of energy, problems like congestion and inefficient energy usage must be addressed. Many sleep-awake protocols and efficient message priority techniques have been developed to properly manage the energy of the nodes and to minimize congestion. For a WSN that is operating in a strictly energy constrained environment, an energy-efficient transmission strategy is necessary. In this paper, we present a novel transmission priority decision scheme for a heterogeneous body sensor network composed of normal nodes and an energy harvesting node that acts as a cluster head. The energy harvesting node's decision whether or not to clear a normal node for sending is based on a set of metrics which includes the energy harvesting node's remaining energy, the total harvested energy, the type of message in a normal node's queue and finally, the implementation context of the wireless sensor network.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2007년도 한국컴퓨터종합학술대회논문집 Vol.34 No.1 (D)
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• pp.204-207
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• 2007

최근 대두되고 있는 무선 센서네트워크는 실생활의 많은 부분에 있어 그 응용 분야를 넓혀 가고 있다. 본 연구는 WSN의 응용 중 Human Health Care에 주안을 두어 WSN을 이용한 원격 진료 시스템에 대해 설계 및 구현을 하였다. 원격 진료 시스템을 위해 각 센서 노드들은 인체의 Body 정보를 수집할 수 있는 센서들을 가지고 신체의 각 부위에 부착된다. 또한 각 센서 노드들은 고유의 Human Body Code를 가지고 있으며 이 고유의 Code에 의해 인체의 어느 부위에서 측정된 Data인지를 Sink 노드로 전송하게 된다. Sink 노드는 수집된 정보를 원격에 위치한 의료진들에게 전송하며 원격의 의료진들은 Sink 노드에서 전송된 정보를 바탕으로 진료 정보를 환자 및 User에게 Feedback하게 된다. Human Body Code는 인체를 세분화하고 각 세분화한 신체 부위에 계층적으로 고유의 Code를 부여한다. 본 연구에서는 실제 Human Body Code를 직접 제작한 센서 Node에 주입하여 Human Body Network을 구성하여 인체에서 센싱되는 Data를 원격에 위치한 PC에서 진료 가능한 원격 진료 시스템을 구현하였다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2005년도 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.95-97
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• 2005

This paper deals with the implementation of walking for a humanoid robot by ZMP measurement using wireless sensor network. ZMP is measured by FSR sensors which are mounted at each corner of a sole. The wireless sensor network collects the sensor data according and exchanges robot information between host PC and a robot system. The master controller mounted on robot body receives trajectory data from the host PC via sensor network and drives the joint motor based on trajectory data. The time scheduler of the master controller controls the events at the ratio of 100ms. With this configuration, the walking of the humanoid robot KHR-1 could be realized successfully.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권6호
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• pp.18-25
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• 2014

WBAN(Wireless body area network)에서 신체에 삽입된 센서는 신체의 생물학적인 특성에 의해 일반 센서보다 프레임의 오류가 발생 할 확률이 높아진다. 본 논문에서는 신체에 삽입된 센서의 라이프타임을 향상시키기 위해 삽입 된 센서의 재전송을 외부 센서에서 대신 전송해주는 방법으로 삽입된 센서의 전송을 줄이는 방법을 제시한다. 제시된 LI(Lifetime Increment) 프로토콜은 기존의 CSMA/CA 전송방식에서 데이터 프레임에 외부 센서의 ID를 추가하고, 내부 센서가 전송한 프레임이 재전송이 요구 될 시에는 추가 되어있던 ID의 외부 센서에서 재전송을 책임지는 방법이다. 제안하는 프로토콜의 성능 비교를 위해 WBAN CSMA/CA 전송 방식과 비교한 결과 에너지 소모량이 적어져 라이프 타임이 향상되는 것을 확인하였다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.331-335
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• 2005

The fusion technology of small sensor and wireless communication was followed by various application examples of the embedded system, where the social infrastructural facilities and ecological environment were wirelessly monitored. In addition, this technology represents the primary application area being extended into the healthcare field. In this study, a body area network for ubiquitous healthcare is presented. More specifically this represents a wireless biomedical signal acquisition device characterized by small size, low power consumption, pre-processing and archiving capability. Using this device, a new method for monitoring vital signs and activity is created. A PDA-based wireless sensor network enables patients to be monitored during their daily living, without any constraints. Therefore, the proposed method can be used to develop Activities of Daily Living (ADL) monitoring devices for the elderly or movement impaired people. A medical center would be able to remotely monitor the current state of elderly people and support first-aid in emergency cases. In addition, this method will reduce medical costs in society, where the average life expectancy is increasing.

• 통합자연과학논문집
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.199-205
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• 2016

In this paper, we established ZIGBEE home network and combined smart-grid and u-Healthcare system. We assisted for amount of electricity management of household by interlocking home devices of wireless sensor, PLC modem, DCU and realized smart grid and u-Healthcare at the same time by verifying body heat, pulse, blood pressure change and proceeded living body signal by using SVM algorithm and variety of ZIGBEE network channel and enabled it to check real-time through IHD which is developed by user interface. In addition, we minimized the rate of energy consumption of each sensor node when living body signal is processed and realized Query Processor which is able to optimize accuracy and speed of query. We were able to check the result that is accuracy of classification 0.848 which is less accounting for average 17.9% of storage more than the real input data by using Mjoin, multiple query process and SVM algorithm.