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A Design of the Vehicle Crisis Detection System(VCDS) based on vehicle internal and external data and deep learning (차량 내·외부 데이터 및 딥러닝 기반 차량 위기 감지 시스템 설계)

  • Son, Su-Rak;Jeong, Yi-Na
    • The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.128-133
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    • 2021
  • Currently, autonomous vehicle markets are commercializing a third-level autonomous vehicle, but there is a possibility that an accident may occur even during fully autonomous driving due to stability issues. In fact, autonomous vehicles have recorded 81 accidents. This is because, unlike level 3, autonomous vehicles after level 4 have to judge and respond to emergency situations by themselves. Therefore, this paper proposes a vehicle crisis detection system(VCDS) that collects and stores information outside the vehicle through CNN, and uses the stored information and vehicle sensor data to output the crisis situation of the vehicle as a number between 0 and 1. The VCDS consists of two modules. The vehicle external situation collection module collects surrounding vehicle and pedestrian data using a CNN-based neural network model. The vehicle crisis situation determination module detects a crisis situation in the vehicle by using the output of the vehicle external situation collection module and the vehicle internal sensor data. As a result of the experiment, the average operation time of VESCM was 55ms, R-CNN was 74ms, and CNN was 101ms. In particular, R-CNN shows similar computation time to VESCM when the number of pedestrians is small, but it takes more computation time than VESCM as the number of pedestrians increases. On average, VESCM had 25.68% faster computation time than R-CNN and 45.54% faster than CNN, and the accuracy of all three models did not decrease below 80% and showed high accuracy.

The Effect that Air Bag Deployment in Car Head-on Collision on Injury to Driver (승용차 정면충돌에서 에어백 전개가 운전자 손상에 미치는 영향)

  • Jeon, Hyeok-Jin;Kim, Sang-Chul;Lee, Kang-Hyun
    • Journal of Auto-vehicle Safety Association
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.13-19
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of air bag deployment in passenger car head-on collisions on injuries to the driver. The drivers in head-on collisions who were brought to the emergency rooms of two hospitals from January 2011 and October 2014 were evaluated, as were the vehicles involved. The driver injury level were assessed by utilizing Collision Deformation Classification (CDC) codes, and the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) and Injury Severity Score (ISS), respectively. In this study, it was shown that the chest ISS and AIS were significantly high when an air bag only is deployed. A statistically significant difference was found in the crush extent when the driver who fastened the seatbelt was found to be affected more than the ISS 9. Even when an air bag is deployed in a head-on car collision, injury severity can vary according to accident circumstances and crash severity. Accordingly, first aid can be rapidly given, and the injured person can be quickly referred to a hospital, only if the assessment of persons involved in a vehicle accident is accurately carried out.

Effects of hospital environment using health belief model in environmental management on preventive behaviors through responsiveness and health value (환경경영에서 건강신념모델을 이용한 병원환경이 대응성과 건강가치성을 통해 예방행동에 미치는 영향)

  • Jang, Googhyun;Hwang, Changyu;Song, Youngwoo
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.231-257
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    • 2016
  • Several efforts to replace the use of existing fossil energy resources have already been made around the world. As a result, a new industry of renewable energy has been created, and efficient energy distribution and storage has been promoted intensively. Among the newly explored renewable energy sources, the most widely used one is solar energy generation, which has a high market potential. An energy storage system (ESS) is a system as required. In this paper, the design and implementation of an ESS for the efficient use of power in stand-alone street lights is presented. In current ESS applied to stand-alone street lights, either 12V~24V DC (from solar power) or 110V~220V AC (from commercial power) is used to recharge power in systems with lithium batteries. In this study, an ESS that can support both solar power and commercial power was designed and implemented; it can also perform emergency recharge of portable devices from solar powered street lights. This system can maximize the scalability of ESSes using lithium batteries with efficient energy conversion, with the advantage of being an eco-friendly technology. In a ripple effect, it can also be applied to smart grids, electric vehicles, and new, renewable storage markets where energy storage technology is required.

Unsteady State Heat Transfer Analysis of Drum Brake System (드럼 브레이크 시스템의 비정상 열전달 해석)

  • 이계섭;국종영;천인범
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.7 no.9
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    • pp.172-181
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    • 1999
  • The brakes employed on commercial vehicles must be able to withstand three types of demanding services which are use-emergency stops from high speed, many repeated stops as in a delivery or bus route, and speed control in mountain descents. Two type of friction brakes are in use ; drum breaks and disc brakes. Drum brakes are of the internally expanding type in which two shoes fitted externally with friction material are forced outward against the inside of a rotating drum on the wheel unit. In this case, the Braking power is produced by the friction force between a drum and a lining, and is converted into heat. In this research an unsteady state heat transfer analysis for drum brake system of heavy truck has been performed by ABAQUS/standard code in the case of single-braking and the repeated braking condition. The temperature histories obtained by the finite Element analysis have been compared with the result calculated by the simplified formulation and the result obtained by the experiment of real vehicle conditions.

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A Case Study for the 1st Double-level Tunnel for Light vehicle in Urban Area in Korea (국내 최초 소형차 전용 도심지 대심도 복층터널 설계 사례)

  • Kim, Gyoung-Hun;Choi, Jun-Dong;Jun, Duk-Chan;Shin, Il-Jae;Sim, Dong-Hyun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2010.09a
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    • pp.1302-1313
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    • 2010
  • The west express way is notorious for extremely heavy traffic area in the west of Seoul, South Korea. Hence, the city government recently initiated a new underground BTO (Build-Transfer-Operate) road project to solve traffic congestion and a high construction cost. The proposed underground express road being designed is the first double-level tunnel ever designed in South Korea and using Conventional tunnelling method (NATM). A total length of tunnel for light vehicles is 10.91km long including both open cut structures and concrete lining with middle-deck in bored tunnel. There are also 4 ventilation shafts for ventilation and evacuation on emergency. Many design issues had been aroused during the preliminary design phase and detail design phase is currently going on. This paper discusses design focuses including excavation methods, ground water issues, a deck slab installation, and a construction cost etc. for the double level road tunnel design of urban area.

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An Study on the Travel Time Reduction System of Emergency Vehicles (응급차량 이동시간단축시스템에 관한 연구)

  • Kwon, Ki-Suk;Nam, Tak-Hoon;Rho, He-Jae;Cho, Sung-Hoon;Lee, Nam-Yong;Park, Jin-Ho
    • Annual Conference of KIPS
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    • 2017.04a
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    • pp.759-760
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    • 2017
  • 현재 국내 인구수가 약 5000만, 차량대수는 인구수의 절반가까이에 해당하는 2100만대를 넘어서고 있다. 이에 따라 국내 교통 혼잡도는 도로를 넓히고 대중교통을 장려하는 등의 노력을 기울이고 있음에도 증가하고 있다. 교통 혼잡도가 증가함에 따라, 사건 사고를 처리하는 응급차량의 이동이 수월하지 않은 편이다. 1분1초가 중요한 응급차량의 교통을 수월하게 하기 위해 고속도로에 갓길을 설치하는 등의 노력은 하고 있지만, 이것을 일반차량이 이용해도 제재수단이 없어 실효성이 부족하다. 이에 본 논문에서는 gps(네비게이션)를 이용하여 응급차량의 경로를 입력받았을 때 경로상의 차량에게 응급차량이 지나간다는 신호를 보내 사전에 응급차량이 지나갈 수 있는 도로를 확보하여 응급차량이 이동하는 시간을 단축시키는 것을 목적으로 한 시스템이다.

Development of HILS System for Performance Analysis of the ABS ECU for Commercial Vehicles (상용차용 ABS ECU의 성능분석을 위한 HILS 시스템 개발)

  • 황돈하;이기창;전정우;김용주;조정목;조중선
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.8 no.10
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    • pp.898-906
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    • 2002
  • Antilock Brake System (ABS) is designed to prevent wheels from being locked-up under emergency braking of a vehicle. Therefore it improves directional stability of the vehicle, shortens stopping distance, and enhances maneuvering during braking, regardless of road conditions. Hardware In-the-Loop Simulation (HILS) is an effective tool for design Performance evaluation and test of vehicle subsystems such as ABS, active suspension, and steering systems. This paper describes a HILS model for ABS/ ASR(Acceleration Slip Regulation) system applications. A fourteen degrees-of-freedom vehicle dynamics model is simulated in an alpha-chip processor board. The proposed HILS system is tested with a basic ABS control algorithm. The design and implementation of HILS system for the ABS ECU(Electronic Control Unit) development of commercial vehicle are presented. The results show that the proposed HILS system can be used to test the performance, stability, and reliability of a vehicle under braking.

A Study on the Flow and Power Characteristics of Rotor in the APU (보조동력장치 회전자 유동 및 출력특성에 관한 연구)

  • Yi, Chung-Seob;Jeong, In-Guk;Yun, Ji-Hun;Suh, Jeong-Se;Lee, Tae-Eui
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.805-810
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    • 2011
  • Recently, Use of Auxiliary power unit(APU) is increasing by growing demand for improvement of insufficient electric power and installation of emergency generation devices in military tracked vehicles and civil markets. And the trend is that the units are demanded for smaller size, lighter weight and higher output power, etc to suit consumer demands. To achieve these, it is essential to develop high performance system. Therefore, in this study, it was conducted in numerical analysis to investigate flow characteristics of rotor in APU generator. Also output performance of APU applied on the rotor is analyzed by experimental method. As the result, higher rotating speed of rotor caused high air flow rate at suction and it leads to linear increase of discharging flow rate. The maximum theoretical power was achieved at 12 $m^3$/min of flow rate and, at that time, output power of generator was about 7.825 kW. Also, it can be confirmed the stabilization of output performance is achieved in about 2 seconds by experiment.

Design and Implementation of an ESS for Efficient Power Management of Stand-Alone Type Street Lights (효율적 전력 관리를 위한 독립형 가로등의 ESS 설계 및 구현)

  • Kang, Jingu
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2016
  • Several efforts to replace the use of existing fossil energy resources have already been made around the world. As a result, a new industry of renewable energy has been created, and efficient energy distribution and storage has been promoted intensively. Among the newly explored renewable energy sources, the most widely used one is solar energy generation, which has a high market potential. An energy storage system (ESS) is a system as required. In this paper, the design and implementation of an ESS for the efficient use of power in stand-alone street lights is presented. In current ESS applied to stand-alone street lights, either 12V~24V DC (from solar power) or 110V~220V AC (from commercial power) is used to recharge power in systems with lithium batteries. In this study, an ESS that can support both solar power and commercial power was designed and implemented; it can also perform emergency recharge of portable devices from solar powered street lights. This system can maximize the scalability of ESSes using lithium batteries with efficient energy conversion, with the advantage of being an eco-friendly technology. In a ripple effect, it can also be applied to smart grids, electric vehicles, and new, renewable storage markets where energy storage technology is required.

Construction of The Urban Disaster Management System Using the Wireless Internet GIS (무선 인터넷 GIS를 이용한 도시재해관리시스템구축)

  • 유환희;안기원;이민우
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.55-66
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    • 2001
  • All kinds of disasters are occurring for several reasons in modern cities. So, We need the disaster management system to deal with them at this point that Those disasters are getting larger and more frequent. We organized the database into three categories; the traffic accident database on traffic accidents that is recognized as a typical disaster resulting from vehicles's increasement rapidly in modern urban life, the gas explosion disaster database on gas explosion that causes to fatal damage through broad areas, and the bridge management database that contains bridge resource information and repair record. In this study, we developed the Disaster Management System using the wireless internet GIS that can access the database and identify field information for the accident area in emergency situation as well as can modify and update the database in field directly, so that can cope with the disaster situations effectively.

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