• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.1619-1624
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• 2008

Recently, In order to provide ubiquitous service, we develop each middleware and interface for sensors networks, RFID(Radio Frequency IDentification) and GPS(Global Positioning System). We use GPS for the location-based services, RFID for identifying the distribution logistics services, sensor networks for collecting the context data such as temperature, humidity, barometric pressure. Recently, there is increasing the need of integrated interface for using these sensor elements complexly in agriculture and livestock, construction, medical applications and, etc. This paper developments a integrated common interface for supporting efficiently process of sensing data using RFID, GPS and sensor network. This interface have the filtering function, parsing function, queuing function, interface management function, access function and, etc. We present the integrated frame structure combined with the collected context data in GPS, RFID and sensor networks and, support the open interface for providing complex ubiquitous application systems. Therefore, this interface will be efficiently used the system using RFID, GPS and sensor network, and supported many ubiquitous application services.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.42-51
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• 2001

In this study, the effects of embedded optical fibers on the static properties under tensile load and dynamic properties under fatigue load of composite laminates were investigated by experimental tests and finite element analysis. Based on the results, it can be concluded that the embedded optical fiber sensors do not have significant effects on the structural integrity of the smart composite structures except when the sensors are embedded perpendicular to the adjacent reinforcing fibers under fatigue loading. An intensity-based optical fiber sensor was embedded in the crossply composite laminates to monitor the fatigue damage by detecting the stiffness changes of the laminates. The result of this experiment has shown that the intensity-based optical fiber sensor has large potential to monitor the fatigue damage of composite structures by detecting the stiffness changes of the structures with simple and inexpensive instruments and without complex post-processing of measured signals. In addition, the optical fiber sensor showed good resistance to fatigue loading and wide sensing ranges of stiffness.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.292-305
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• 2009

Wireless sensor networks have a lot of application areas such as industrial process control, machine and resource management, environment and habitat monitoring. One of the main objects of using wireless sensor networks in these areas is the event detection. To detect events at a user's request, we need a join processing between sensor data and the predicates of the events. If there are too many predicates of events compared with a node's capacity, it is impossible to store them in a node and to do an in-network join with the generated sensor data This paper proposes a predicate-merge based in-network join approach to efficiently detect multiple events, considering the limited capacity of a sensor node and many predicates of events. It reduces the number of the original predicates of events by substituting some pairs of original predicates with some merged predicates. We create an estimation model of a message transmission cost and apply it to the selection algorithm of targets for merged predicates. The experiments validate the cost estimation model and show the superior performance of the proposed approach compared with the existing approaches.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.329-339
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• 2003

In this study, an approach of image fusion in decision level has been proposed for unsupervised image classification using the images acquired from multiple sensors with different characteristics. The proposed method applies separately for each sensor the unsupervised image classification scheme based on spatial region growing segmentation, which makes use of hierarchical clustering, and computes iteratively the maximum likelihood estimates of fuzzy class vectors for the segmented regions by EM(expected maximization) algorithm. The fuzzy class vector is considered as an indicator vector whose elements represent the probabilities that the region belongs to the classes existed. Then, it combines the classification results of each sensor using the fuzzy class vectors. This approach does not require such a high precision in spatial coregistration between the images of different sensors as the image fusion scheme of pixel level does. In this study, the proposed method has been applied to multispectral SPOT and AIRSAR data observed over north-eastern area of Jeollabuk-do, and the experimental results show that it provides more correct information for the classification than the scheme using an augmented vector technique, which is the most conventional approach of image fusion in pixel level.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.1205-1212
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• 2021

Robots that can actually help people a lot by dealing with dangerous tasks that are difficult for people to do, such as disaster situations, lifesaving, handling dangerous goods, and reconnaissance of dangerous areas, continue to become an issue. Therefore, in this paper, we intend to implement a mobile robot arm that can implement a human motion will on the robot arm to enable active response according to the situation and control the vehicle according to hand movements to give mobility. A controller is manufactured using a flex sensor and agyro sensor, and the roll and pitch values of the two gyro sensors are adjusted to control the angle of the robot arm and specify the vehicle direction. In addition, by designating the levels of the three flex sensors, the motor is operated according to hand movements, and a robot arm is implemented so that objects can be picked up and moved.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.114-123
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• 2007

As a promising technology that enables ubiquitous computing and will lead the information technology industries of the next generation, the new field of sensor networks is one of the most active research topics today. From now on, each node, the network formation, and even the sensor network itself will interact with the generic network and evolve dynamically according to environmental changes, in a process of continual creation and extinction. In this paper, we propose a address-Internetworking scheme for interactive networking between a sensor network and the Internet based on the TCP port-numbers. The proposed scheme enables internetworking between a sensor network address scheme based on Zigbee and the Internet address scheme based on the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). We implement the proposed address-Internetworking scheme using Berkeley TinyOS, Mica Motes, and IP. In addition we verify the proposed scheme by an interconnection experiment, which involves wireless sensor networks and the Internet, using IPv4/IPv6.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.1987-1988
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• 2011

국내외적으로 스마트그리드 구축을 위해 스마트미터, 센서, PMU(Phasor Measurement Unit) 및 IED(Intelligent Electronic Device) 등의 다양한 장치들이 전력시스템에 보급되고 있다. 스마트미터는 전력소비자의 전력사용량 뿐 아니라 다양한 계량 정보를 상위 수집시스템에 전달할 수 있는 기능을 갖추고 있으며, 계통에 설치된 여러 종류의 센서, PMU 및 IED들 또한 상위 감시제어시스템에 수많은 데이터를 제공한다. 이렇듯 스마트그리드 구축에 따른 스마트미터의 보급, 센서 및 IED의 확산에 따라 전력시스템에서 발생되는 방대한 데이터의 관리 문제와 어떻게 이들 데이터를 전력시스템 운영에 유용하게 활용할 수 있는가에 대한 문제들이 새롭게 부각되고 있다. 본 논문은 스마트그리드 구축에 따라 발생되는 수많은 데이터의 관리와 이들 데이터의 활용사례에 대하여 기술한다.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.106-113
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• 2008

Perceiving a 3D moving target is important for automated machines including robots in a factory. Although stereovision or ultrasonic ranging is often employed for the purpose, the former requires high-cost systems, and the latter suffers from low-resolution. In this paper, we propose a PSD sensor array to acquire the 3D profile of an object conveyed by a belt. Rectangular parallelepiped target objects at random positions and orientations are assumed. Nine PSD sensors are configured in a $3{\times}3$ array above the belt, and fired in a sequence so that cross-talk can be avoided. Time gaps among sensor readings are compensated to get a result that is obtainable when sensors' measurements are made simultaneously along a sensing line. The system designed is tested with various objects in experiments.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.114-119
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• 2008

Wide dynamic range active pixel sensor(APS) using a charge pump circuit has been designed by using 2-poly 4-metal $0.35{\mu}M$ standard CMOS technology. The structure of the proposed APS is similar to the structure of the conventional 3-Tr APS. The proposed unit pixel consists of one photodiode and three MOSFETs. Using a charge pump circuit, the dynamic range of the proposed APS is increased, compared to the conventional 3-Tr APS.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.523-524
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 무인 자동화 주차시스템 개발을 위하여 차량이 스스로 주차공간을 판단하여 주차가 가능하게 하는 자동 주차 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안 알고리즘은 차량이 주행 중에 주차 공간의 크기를 판단하고, 주차 공간에 따라 일렬 후진주차, 평행 후진주차, 주차 불가능을 차량이 스스로 판단 후 자동으로 주차를 하게 한다. 자동주차가 가능하게 하기 위해 4개의 적외선 센서를 장착하여 센서의 세기를 거리로 환산하고, 센서를 통하여 얻어진 데이터를 이용한다. 설계된 주차 알고리즘의 성능을 테스트하기 위해 8개의 주차 공간에서 실험을 진행하였다. 8개의 주차 공간에서 상황에 따른 자동 주차를 실시하였고, 테스트 결과 95% 이상의 자동 주차 성공률을 보이는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.