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A Study on the Comparison between an Optical Fiber and a Thermal Sensor Cable for Temperature Monitoring (온도 모니터링을 위한 광섬유 센서와 온도센서 배열 케이블의 비교 연구)

  • Kim, Jung-Yul;Kim, Yoo-Sung;Song, Yoon-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2006.03a
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    • pp.1100-1109
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    • 2006
  • In this study, two different technologies which can measure temperature simultaneously at many points are introduced. One is to use a thermal sensor cable that is comprised of addressable thermal sensors connected in parallel within a single cable. The other is to use an optic fiber with Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) system. The difference between two technologies can be summarized as follows. A thermal sensor cable has a concept of 'point sensing' that can measure temperature at accurate position of a thermal sensor. So the accuracy and resolution of temperature measurement are up to the ability of the thermal sensor. Whereas optic fiber sensor has a concept of 'distributed sensing' because temperature is measured by ratio of Stokes and anti-Stokes component intensities of Raman backscatter that is generated when laser pulse travels along an optic fiber. It's resolution is determined by measuring distance, measuring time and spatial resolution. The purpose of this study is that application targets of two temperature measurement techniques are checked in technical and economical phases by examining the strength and weakness of them. Considering the functions and characteristics of two techniques, the thermal sensor cable will be suitable to apply to the assessment of groundwater flow, geothermal distribution and grouting efficiency within 300m distance. It is expected that the optic fiber sensor can be widely utilized at various fields (for example: pipe line inspection, tunnel fire detection, power line monitoring etc.) which need an information of temperature distribution over relatively long distance.

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Parameters of the Magnetic Field Waveform Radiated from Cloud Lightning Discharges (운방전에 의해서 방사된 자장 파형의 파라미터)

  • 이복희;안창환;장석훈
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.10 no.6
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    • pp.917-926
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    • 1999
  • In this paper, the recording device for measuring the magnetic field waveforms associated with the cloud lightning discharges was made by the loop-type magnetic field sensor, and the measuring system of a distance between lightning stroke point and observatory site was proposed. The parameters including the time interval of superimposed pulses, zero-to-zero crossing time and the percentage depth of the dip for the positive and the negative magnetic field waveforms were statistically analyzed as a function of the distance between the lightning discharge point and the observatory site. The results could be summarized as follows; Several superimposed pulses were observed at the initial front part of the magnetic field waveform produced by cloud lightning discharges, and the mean time interval between superimposed pulses was about $4\mu\textrm{s}$. Also, the bipolar characteristic appeared significantly and the percentage depth of the dip was about 57~65%. It was known that the zero-to-zero crossing time of the electromagnetic fields is gradually decreased as a distance between lightning discharge point and observatory site is increased.

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Development of a Measurement System for Contact Force Analysis of Trolley Line (전기철도 전차선 접촉력 측정 및 분석시스템 개발)

  • Kim, In-Chol;Choi, Kyu-Hyoung
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.59 no.1
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    • pp.82-87
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    • 2010
  • A measurement system of contact force between overhead contact line and pantograph of train is developed which measures the contact force by using four sets of full-bridge strain gauges instead of load cells and accelerometers. The sensors are installed on the pan head of pantograph and the measured data from the sensors are transmitted to a server system in the train by way of wireless Lan. This configuration of the measuring system makes it easy to install on the trains without any alteration of train system. The measurement system is applied to KTX on the Kyungbu high speed line, and the measured contact force data shows good agreement with those measured by load cell and accelerometers. The waveform of the contact force between overhead contact line and pantograph contains essential information about their conditions. The proposed measurement system can probe any defects on overhead contact lines with train running at high speed, which will be a powerful solution for the maintenance of long-distance overhead contact lines.

Improved Post-Filtering Method Using Context Compensation

  • Kim, Be-Deu-Ro;Lee, Jee-Hyong
    • International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.119-124
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    • 2016
  • According to the expansion of smartphone penetration and development of wearable device, personal context information can be easily collected. To use this information, the context aware recommender system has been actively studied. The key issue in this field is how to deal with the context information, as users are influenced by different contexts while rating items. But measuring the similarity among contexts is not a trivial task. To solve this problem, we propose context aware post-filtering to apply the context compensation. To be specific, we calculate the compensation for different context information by measuring their average. After reflecting the compensation of the rating data, the mechanism recommends the items to the user. Based on the item recommendation list, we recover the rating score considering the context information. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, we use the real movie rating dataset. Experimental evaluation shows that our proposed method outperforms several state-of-the-art approaches.

Sensor-based Remote Monitoring for Ship Block Assembly (선박 블록 조립을 위한 센서 기반 원격 모니터링)

  • Lee, Sang-Don
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.73-80
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    • 2009
  • This paper describes a sensor-based remote monitoring technique for ship block assembly and implementation of a prototype system. Instead of manual processing or optical measuring devices, the proposed approach attaches some distance-measuring sensor nodes to ship blocks. Remote monitoring of the assembly status makes it possible to minimize marginal errors during ship block assembly process, and helps efficient ship building.

Development of a Non-contacting Capacitive Sensor Based on Thompson-Lampard Theorem for Measurement of ${\mu}m-order$ Displacements (Thompson-Lampard 정리를 적용한 마이크로미터 변위 측정을 위한 비접촉식 전기용량 센서 개발)

  • Kim, Han-Jun;Kang, Jeon-Hong;Han, Sang-Ok
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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    • v.55 no.9
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    • pp.443-448
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    • 2006
  • Non-contacting capacitive sensor based on Thompson-Lampard theorem have been fabricated and characterized for measuring of 때 order displacements. To overcome disadvantages of the existed capacitive sensors of parallel plate type with 2-electrodes and 3-electrodes, the developed new sensor was designed to have 4-electrodes with a constant gap of 0.2mm between the electrodes. Two of the electrodes were used as a high potential electrode and a low one, the other two electrodes were used as guard electrodes. These electrodes were made from copper using RF sputtering system on a sapphire plate with diameter 17 mm and thickness 0.7 mm. This sensor can be used for measuring the distance not only between the sensor and metallic target connected to ground potential but also non-metallic target without ground connection.

A Study on the Level Limit Switch for Measuring Near-distance Variation with 1-3 Type Ceramic/Polymer Composite Ultrasonic Transducer (1-3형 복합압전체 초음파 트랜스듀서를 사용한 근접거리변동 측정용 레벨 Limit스위치에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, H.G.;Park, K.I.;Shin, K.H.;SaGong, G.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2003.08a
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    • pp.103-106
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    • 2003
  • In this study, an ultrasonic transducer is fabricated with 1-3 type composite resonators. Pulse-echo responses of an ultrasonic transducer are investigated in underwater dependent on the variable designated water-level. LED Output signals of a level limit with changing a water level is obtained by the 1-3 type self-made composite transducer and electric measuring unit. LED is turned on at above the up-limit level with increasing a water level, and LED is turned on at less than the down-limit level with decreasing a water level. There was good agreement between the virtual water level and output LED signal by using the self-made water-detecting system.

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A Simple Method for Determining Activity of Milk Clotting Enzymes (응유효소의 간편한 역가측정법)

  • Shin, H.K.;Pack, M.Y.
    • Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.109-113
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    • 1978
  • The process of milk clotting by enzymes was confirmed to be consisted of two distinct stages: an enzymic coagulation stage followed by a nonenzymic clotting stage. The endpoint of the enzymic stage was determined simply by measuring flow distance of milk-enzyme system in a regular test tube being laid down to five degree slope after the reaction. By measuring the time elapsed during the enzymic stage a new method of evaluating the power of milk clotting enzymes was proposed.

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DATA ACQUISITION METHOD USING A SMARTPHONE ON CONSTRUCTION SITE

  • Ahra Jo;Teahoon Kim;Hunhee Cho;Kyung-In Kang
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2013.01a
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    • pp.231-234
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    • 2013
  • According to the recent development of USN technology, it has been applied in various fields of construction management. In particular, the concrete curing management using the wireless measurement system is actively being conducted. However, the existing method has limitations such as the reinstallation of temperature sensors and repositioning of repeaters. It is also not easy to acquire the measured data. Thus, this study focuses on the concrete curing management. This study proposes data acquisition method using the smartphone on construction site and tests applicability of the data measuring device and the smartphone. The test allows us to suggest the actual communication distance on construction site and to determine the correction value that is applied to the measured temperature. The data acquisition method proposed in this study is intended to enable appropriate management on construction site and will be able to be applied effectively to a variable construction site. It can also be used in all fields of construction management.

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The Basic Study of Position Recognition Cow-teats Used Scanning Range Finder (레이저스캔 센서를 이용한 유두위치인식에 관한 기초연구)

  • Kim, Woong
    • Journal of Animal Environmental Science
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.93-100
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    • 2011
  • This study was conducted to verify the applicability of robot milking system through acquisition and analysis of model teat's position information using scanning range finder (SRF). Model teats, same size and shape as real teats, were designed to analyze the properties according to the material, distance error and angle error of the sensor. In addition, 2-dimensional distance information of each teats was obtained at same time with 4 teat models and the result were as follows. 1. In the case of the fingers on the experiment for selection of materials for teat model, the distance error was from 4.3 mm to 1.3 mm, average was 2.8 mm as a minimum record. In the case of rubber material, average distance error was 4.3 mm. So, this material was considered to be a most suitable model. 2. The distance error was maximum at 100 mm distance. The more distance increased, the less error increased up to 300 mm. Then the error increased after 300 mm and decreased again. 3. The maximum angle error of 10.1 mm was measured at $170^{\circ}$, in case of $70^{\circ}$ the error was 0.2 mm as a minimum value. There was no specific tendency to error of angle. 4. In the 2-dimensional location error for 4 teat models, distance error was 3.8 mm as minimum and 7.2 mm as maximum. The angle error was $1.2^{\circ}$ as maximum. All of errors were included within the accuracy of sensor, the robot milking system was considered to be applicable to measure the distance of teats due to the measuring velocity of SRF and the hole size of teat-cup.