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Remote Control of Autonomous Robots via Internet

  • Sugisaka, Masanori;Johari, Mohd Rizon M
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.24-27
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    • 2004
  • This paper describes the method how to control an autonomous robot remotely using Internet. The autonomous robot that has an artificial brain is called "Tarou". (1) It is able to move along the line on the floor based on processing the image data obtained from two CCD cameras. (2) It is able to understand dialogs between human being and it and is able to take actions such as turn right and lefts, go forward 1m and go backward 0.5m, etc. (3) It is able to recognize patterns of objects. (4) It is able to recognize human faces. (5) It is able to communicate human being and to speak according to contents written in the program. We show the techniques to control the autonomous robot "Tarou" remotely by personal computer and/or portable Phone via Internet. The techniques developed in our research could dramatically increase their performance for..the need of artificial life robot as the next generation robot and national homeland security needs.

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A Study on the Analysis of Trump Administration Cybersecurity Policy: Focusing on Critical Infrastructure (트럼프 행정부의 주요기반시설 사이버보안 정책분석에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Geunhye
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.907-918
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study is to understand the cybersecurity policies and critical infrastructure protection of the United States through analyzing Donald Trump's administration executive orders, the national cyber strategy, and the legislation. The analysis has three findings. First, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) became a main agent in the cybersecurity while the role of the White House was reduced. Second, Trump's administration expanded its role and mission in the policy area by extending the meaning of critical infrastructure. Third, in the case of cyber threats, the government can be involved in the operation of critical infrastructures in the private sector. The opinions of the professional bureaucrats and DHS were more reflected in the direction of the cybersecurity policy than those of the White House. In contrast to Barack Obama's administration, the Trump administration's cybersecurity strategies were not much studied. This study provides insights for improving cybersecurity policies and critical infrastructure protection.

Implementation of the U.S. Aviation Security Policy and Privacy Protection Problem (미국의 항공보안정책 적용과 프라이버시 문제점)

  • Kang, J.Y.;Kim, C.H.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.110-116
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    • 2005
  • TSA needs to be more transparent with the new passenger screening system and its functioning to build the citizen trust. The system is needed to be not only effective but supported by Congress and the general public. Until this occurs, skepticism will underlie any discussion about its effectiveness in balancing the protection from terrorism with respect to individual liberties. CAPPS II can be a viable system if it is developed appropriately. The objectives of the study are to introduce the security program in the U.S. aviation security policy and to discuss privacy problems when it applies. Korea also needs to study a harmonious plan with the basis of global approach mind in the case of considering the transferring of passenger information from other states for the purpose of security.

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A Method for Safety of RFID Systems

  • Karygiannis, Tom;Eydt, Bernard;Barber, Greg;Bunn, Lynn;Phillips, Ted
    • 한국정보컨버전스학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.63-70
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    • 2008
  • The authors, Tom Karygiannis of NIST, and Bernard Eydt, Greg Barber, Lynn Bunn, and Ted Phillips of Booz Allen Hamilton, wish to thank Steven Fick, Rick Korchak, Kate Remley, Jeff Guerrieri, Dylan Williams, Karen Scarfone, and Tim Grance of NIST, and Kenneth Waldrop and Beth Mallory of Booz Allen Hamilton. These individuals reviewed drafts of this document and contributed to its technical content. The authors would also like to express their thanks to several experts for their critical review and feedback on drafts of the publication. These experts include V.C. Kumar of Texas Instruments; Simson Garfinkel of the Naval Postgraduate School; Peter Sand of the Department of Homeland Security; Erika McCallister of MITRE; and several professionals supporting Automatic Identification Technology(AIT) program offices within the Department of Defense(DoD), especially Nicholas Tsougas, Fred Naigle, Vince Pontani, Jere Engelman, and Kathleen Smith. During the public comment period we received helpful comments from the following Federal Government agencies: the US Departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Labor, and State; the Office of the Director of National Intelligence; the Office of Management and Budget; and the General Services Administration. We also received several helpful contributions from commercial industry, including comments from EPCglobal, VeriSign, and Priway. Finally, the authors wish to thank the following individuals for their comments and assistance: Brian Tiplady, Daniel Bailey, Paul Dodd, Craig K. Harmon, William MacGregor, Ted Winograd, Russell Lange, Perry F. Wilson, John Pescatore, Ronald Dugger, Stephan Engberg, Morten Borup Harning, Matt Sexton, Brian Cute, Asterios Tsibertzopoulos, Mike Francis, Joshua Slob in, Jack Harris, and Judith Myerson.

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A Study on Improving Management of Substances Requiring Preparation for Accidents Facilities (사고대비물질 취급시설 관리방안 연구)

  • Kim, S.B.;Park, C.H.;Cho, M.S.;Lee, J.S.;Kim, J.M.;Noh, H.R.;Seok, G.S.
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.77-82
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    • 2012
  • The leakage of toxic chemicals impact seriously on human being and environment, therefore during their treatment process, a proper management system is necessary to control their toxic effect. This study was designed to suggest the management regulation that supports business managers and facilities management. There are no extra regulation to control emergency accidents and terrors in chemical facilities. Developed countries like USA operate the management standards to control the toxic chemical and facilities according to their toxicity and processes. In order to solve this problem, we have analysed the advanced nations standard methods of security in chemical plants to study the new security management regulation which helps to prevent the chemical accidents. Especially, in USA, CCPS (Center for Chemical Process Safety), SVA (Security Vulnerability Assessment) and RBPSs (Risk-Based Performance Standards) of DHS (Department of Homeland Security) were invest I gated. On the basis of the results, we have suggested the application methods of the security and safety regulation in Korea.

VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS AND RISK MANAGEMENT FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES FROM HOMELAND SECURITY VIEWPOINTS

  • Chun Nen Huang;Yao-Chen Kuo
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.292-301
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    • 2009
  • The employment of risk management theory in Urban Disaster Management System (UDMS) has become an important trend in recent years. The viewpoint of risk management is mainly a comprehensive risk assessment of various internal and external factors, and a subsequent handling of risks. Through continuous and systematic accumulation and analysis of risk information, disaster prevention and rescue system is established. Taking risk management theory as the foundation, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has developed a series of UDMS in the mega-cities all over the world. With this system as a common platform, OECD cooperates with different cities to develop disaster prevention and rescue system consisting of vulnerability assessment methods, risk assessment and countermeasures. The paper refers to the urban disaster vulnerability assessment and risk management of OECD and the mega-cities of different advanced and developed countries in the world, and then constructs a preliminarily drafted structure for the vulnerability assessment methods and risk management mechanism in the metropolitan districts of Taiwan.

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A Semiotics Framework for Analyzing Data Provenance Research

  • Ram, Sudha;Liu, Jun
    • Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.221-248
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    • 2008
  • Data provenance is the background knowledge that enables a piece of data to be interpreted and used correctly within context. The importance of tracking provenance is widely recognized, as witnessed by significant research in various areas including e-science, homeland security, and data warehousing and business intelligence. In order to further advance the research on data provenance, however, one must first understand the research that has been conducted to date and identify specific topics that merit further investigation. In this work, we develop a framework based on semiotics theory to assist in analyzing and comparing existing provenance research at the conceptual level. We provide a detailed review of data provenance research and compare and contrast the research based on d semiotics framework. We conclude with an identification of challenges that will drive future research in this field.

An Energy-Efficient Access Control Scheme forWireless Sensor Networks based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography

  • Le, Xuan Hung;Lee, Sung-Young;Butun, Ismail;Khalid, Murad;Sankar, Ravi;Kim, Miso Hyoung-Il;Han, Man-Hyung;Lee, Young-Koo;Lee, Hee-Jo
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.11 no.6
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    • pp.599-606
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    • 2009
  • For many mission-critical related wireless sensor network applications such as military and homeland security, user's access restriction is necessary to be enforced by access control mechanisms for different access rights. Public key-based access control schemes are more attractive than symmetric-key based approaches due to high scalability, low memory requirement, easy key-addition/revocation for a new node, and no key predistribution requirement. Although Wang et al. recently introduced a promising access control scheme based on elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), it is still burdensome for sensors and has several security limitations (it does not provide mutual authentication and is strictly vulnerable to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks). This paper presents an energy-efficient access control scheme based on ECC to overcome these problems and more importantly to provide dominant energy-efficiency. Through analysis and simulation based evaluations, we show that the proposed scheme overcomes the security problems and has far better energy-efficiency compared to current scheme proposed byWang et al.

Efficient container door Open/Closed detection mechanism for Container Security Device(ConTracer) (컨테이너 보안장치(ConTracer)를 위한 효율적인 컨테이너 도어 개폐감지 메커니즘)

  • Moon, Young-Sik;Lee, Eun-Kyu;Shin, Joong-Jo;Shon, Jung-Rock;Choi, Sung-Pill;Kim, Jae-Joong;Choi, Hyung-Rim
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.831-834
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    • 2011
  • This paper is intended as performance verification of efficient container door Open/Closed detection mechanism for Container Security Device(ConTracer) to container cargo transportation. Container door Open/Closed detection mechanism using Reed sensor is important to satisfies the US Department of homeland security customs and border protections requirements to many types of container door. Also, Verify that the container door is configured correctly and that you can check the illegal opening. In this article, Performance valuation of this Contacer on reed sensor has been verified through field test for each other 30 containers. Once the improvement has been made, we are suggest that propose skills will meet the highest standards for container security safety.

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Safety Management Network of Sports Facilities Abroad and System Status (해외의 스포츠시설 안전관리 네트워크 및 시스템 현황)

  • Kim, Il-Gwang;Kwon, Hei-Won;Choi, Jin-Ho
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.547-562
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this research was to provide the information of mandatory regulation for Korean sports facilities and the preliminary data for building sport safety management manual through sports facilities abroad and system status. Futhermore, based on the information of sports facilities safety management, this research performed the benchmarking of each country sports facilities safety management system. As a result, in the U.S, Department of Homeland Security(DHS) leads effort to achieve a safe, secure, and resilient homeland. In Germany, law & regulations, sports facilities safety guideline and expert extension have been reviewed. Germany is more realistic and practical than other countries. In Australia, Major Hazard Facilities(MHF) is responsible for eliminating the risk of a major incident. Emergency Management System(EMS) should spontaneously respond when the alarm is raised as early detection and intervention are vital to ensuring that a small incident does not escalate to become a major disaster.