• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.10c
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• pp.151-153
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• 2006

When distributed powers are interconnected to the grid, lack of source stability may cause some events that should be measured and stored as soon as they occur. This paper presents a real-time hardware system that has been developed for quick and reliable monitoring of the distributed powers quality. The system is composed of a digital signal processor (MPC7410, Motorola) and a 16 bits A/D board (VMIVME3122, GE). To guarantee the real time operation, it is based on a real time OS (VxWorks). Hardware tests of the embedded system have been made to check the performances of the proposed system. Test signals of several events are generated by using a LabView (hardware) system. The tests show that the system complies with the desired IEEE standard for power quality monitoring.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.273-279
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• 2015

The vehicle has lots of embedded systems. Each of systems has its own role. In case of the vehicle, simple failure of system can be critical to driver. Therefore all of embedded system should be managed based on importance factors to be effective. In this paper, we consider the resilience as the importance factor for the driving system with ACC(Adaptive Cruise Control). We propose metrics to calculate the resilience of the embedded system. To get the resilience of system, we calculate the reliability and the resilience of nodes in the system using its failure rate. The resilience of whole system can be presented by the resilience of nodes and its weight. We calculate the resilience and compare the centralized structure and the distributed structure.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.10A no.4
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• pp.295-304
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• 2003

Active object is an Independent runnable unit which is scheduled by CPU in creation time. In this paper, we define the active object and suggest ART(Active object RunTime support systems) which controls creation and execution of the active object. ART can Provide users locational transparency and support easy method call mechanism. We also designed a communication model among active objects and implemented a communication method to make the distributed programing possible. The implementation target platform of ART is an embedded system which has only limited resources and runs in the distributed computing environment.

• International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.35-53
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• 2015

This investigation deals with reliability and sensitivity analysis of a repairable embedded system with standby wherein repairman takes multiple vacations. The hardware system consists of 'M' operating and 'S' standby components. The repairman can leave for multiple vacations of random length during its idle time. Whenever any operating unit fails, it is immediately replaced by a standby unit if available. Moreover, governing equations of an embedded system are constructed using appropriate birth-death rates. The vacation and repair time of repairman are exponentially distributed. The matrix method is used to find the steady-state probabilities of the number of failed components in the embedded system as well as other performance measures. Reliability indexes are presented. Further, numerical experiments are carried out for various system characteristics to examine the effects of different parameter. Using a special class of neuro-fuzzy systems i.e. Adaptive Network-based Fuzzy Interference Systems (ANFIS), we also approximate various performance measures. Finally, the conclusions and future research directions are provided.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.227-239
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• 2012

Recent advances in electronics have enabled various conventional products to incorporate with numerous powerful microcontroller. Generally, an embedded system is a computer system designed for specific control functions within a larger system, often with real-time computing constraints. The growing performance and reliability of hardware components and the possibilities brought by various design method enabled implementing complex functions that improve the comport of the system's occupant as well as their safety. A cyber physical system (CPS) is a system featuring a tight combination of, and coordination between, the system's computational and physical elements. The concept of cyber physical system, including physical elements, cyber elements, and shared networks, has been introduced due to two general reasons: design flexibility and reliability. This paper presents a cyber physical system where system components are connected to a shared network, and control functions are divided into small tasks that are distributed over a number of embedded controllers with limited computing capacity. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of cyber physical system, an unmanned forklift with autonomous obstacle avoidance ability is implemented and its performance is experimentally evaluated.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.52-61
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• 2007

Networked embedded systems using the smart device and fieldbus technologies are now found in many industrial fields including process automation and automobiles. However the discrepancy between a node's view of current time and the rest of the system can cause many difficulties in the design and implementation of a networked system. To provide a networked system with a global reference time, the problem of clock synchronization has been intensively studied over the decades. However, many of the existing solutions, which are mainly developed for large scale distributed computer systems, cannot be directly applied to embedded systems. This paper presents a fault-tolerant clock synchronization technique that can be used for a low-cost embedded system using a CAN bus. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated with a set of microcontrollers and DC motor-based actuators.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.229-235
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• 2014

This paper presents an environmental navigation system which provides a guidance to the users of smart bicycle for a pollution-free route during their travel. The smart bicycle operates as a sensor node being composed of a distributed wireless sensor network over the whole urban area. Several environmental sensors measuring the amount of dust, CO, $CO_2$, $NO_2$ in the air are built into the smart bicycle to estimate the level of air pollution in the located area. Each smart bicycle sends/receives the measured sensor data and the city pollution map to/from the centralized server, which leads the bike-riders to a healthy route by providing the environmental navigation information. The proposed idea and its implementation give a useful insight on various application services with the distributed smart bicycles.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.115-121
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• 2022

This paper proposes a distributed model predictive formation control algorithm for a group of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) with guaranteeing collision avoidance between UGVs. Generally, the model predictive control based formation control has a disadvantage in that it takes a long time to compute control inputs when considering collision avoidance between UGVs. In this paper, in order to overcome this problem, the formation control algorithm is implemented in a distributed manner so that it could be individually controlled. Also, a collision-avoidance method considering real-time is proposed. The proposed formation control algorithm is implemented based on robot operating system (ROS), open source-based middleware. Through the various simulation tests, it is confirmed that the formation control of five UGVs is successfully performed while avoiding collisions between UGVs.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.56-63
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose the integrated security management framework supporting the trust for the ubiquitous environments. The proposed framework provides the gathering and analysis of the security related information including the location of mobile device and then dynamically configures the security policy and adopts them. More specially, it supports the authentication and delegation service to support the trusted security management for the ubiquitous networks. This system also provides the visible management tools to give the convenient view for network administrator.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.07d
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• pp.2717-2719
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• 2001

In this paper The embedded Web or Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server allows embedded systems developers to take advantage of a network infrastructure that is already in place to enhance their designs and provide new features for their customers. It has gained acceptance as a protocol for gleaning information from a wide variety of sources and its open extensible nature makes it suitable for the full range of networked embedded systems. Many companies are already building Web browser support into smart-phones and network computers, but the other end of the connection also has great potential for many more classes of embedded system. Once fitted with an embedded Web server, a device can report its status to any client on the network and can even be reprogrammed remotely to perform new tasks.