• 한국전문물리치료학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.123-131
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• 2021

Background: Only 2% of falls in older adults result in serious injuries (i.e., hip fracture). Therefore, it is important to differentiate injurious versus non-injurious falls, which is critical to develop effective interventions for injury prevention. Objects: The purpose of this study was to a. extract the best features of surface electromyography (sEMG) for classification of injurious falls, and b. find a best model provided by data mining techniques using the extracted features. Methods: Twenty young adults self-initiated falls and landed sideways. Falling trials were consisted of three initial fall directions (forward, sideways, or backward) and three knee positions at the time of hip impact (the impacting-side knee contacted the other knee ("knee together") or the mat ("knee on mat"), or neither the other knee nor the mat was contacted by the impacting-side knee ("free knee"). Falls involved "backward initial fall direction" or "free knee" were defined as "injurious falls" as suggested from previous studies. Nine features were extracted from sEMG signals of four hip muscles during a fall, including integral of absolute value (IAV), Wilson amplitude (WAMP), zero crossing (ZC), number of turns (NT), mean of amplitude (MA), root mean square (RMS), average amplitude change (AAC), difference absolute standard deviation value (DASDV). The decision tree and support vector machine (SVM) were used to classify the injurious falls. Results: For the initial fall direction, accuracy of the best model (SVM with a DASDV) was 48%. For the knee position, accuracy of the best model (SVM with an AAC) was 49%. Furthermore, there was no model that has sensitivity and specificity of 80% or greater. Conclusion: Our results suggest that the classification model built upon the sEMG features of the four hip muscles are not effective to classify injurious falls. Future studies should consider other data mining techniques with different muscles.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.207-216
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• 2010

국내에서 현재까지 개발되어 적용된 낙석감지 시스템은 주로 낙석방지망에 와이어나 광섬유, 또는 경사계를 설치하여 와이어의 장력을 측정하거나 낙석 발생에 의해 와이어 단락이나 낙석방지망의 변형 또는 기울어지는 것을 감지하여 낙석을 확인하는 시스템들이다. 이러한 방법들은 낙석방지망이 먼저 설치되어 있어야 하며 낙석이 발생하면 일반적으로 관련 센서와 와이어 등에 대하여 재정비를 해야 다시 원래의 기능을 수행할 수 있게 된다. 이러한 단점을 해결하기 위하여 본 연구에서는 장력이나 변위 측정방식이 아니라 광센서와 카메라가 설치된 구역에서 낙석 통과 여부를 비접촉 방식으로 실시간 감지가 가능하도록 하는 방법을 제시하고 이를 구현하였다. 개발된 시스템을 실내실험 및 현장 적용을 한 결과 낙석 관련 정보를 효과적으로 수집하고 분석할 수 있었다. 또한 낙석 감지 전후 획득한 2장의 사진에 대하여 lighten 또는 difference 연산을 적용할 경우 낙석의 크기와 이동 방향에 대한 개략적 평가가 가능하였다.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제5권5호
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• pp.327-330
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• 2016

Currently, the world's elderly population continues to grow at a dramatic rate. As the number of senior citizens increases, detection of someone falling has attracted increasing attention for visual surveillance systems. This paper presents a novel fall-detection algorithm using motion estimation and an integrated spatiotemporal energy map of the object region. The proposed method first extracts a human region using a background subtraction method. Next, we applied an optical flow algorithm to estimate motion vectors, and an energy map is generated by accumulating the detected human region for a certain period of time. We can then detect a fall using k-nearest neighbor (kNN) classification with the previously estimated motion information and energy map. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can effectively detect someone falling in any direction, including at an angle parallel to the camera's optical axis.

• 한국산학기술학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국산학기술학회 2000년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.364-369
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• 2000

지리 정보 시스템은 컴퓨터 능력의 향상으로 제한된 분야에서 일반적인 분야의 업무에 확대 적용되고 있다. 그 예로는 우편경로 최적화 시스템, 차량항법 시스템 등이 있다. 본 논문에서 이러한 분야에서 꼭 필요한 최단 경로 생성 알고리즘에 대해 다양하게 다루어 볼 것이다. 또한 기존에 발표된 최단경로 생성 알고리즘에 대하여 비교 및 분석하고, 추후 연구 방법을 제시하고자 한다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제57권11호
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• pp.2131-2137
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• 2008

In this paper, COP (center of pressure) during quiet standing and squat-and-stand movement was analyzed to compare the postural control of young and elderly subjects with special interest in the elderly females who were reported to have higher fall rate than the elderly males. Subjects include the young subjects (10 males: $21.8{\pm}2.6yrs$, 10 females: $20.4{\pm}0.3yrs$) and the elderly subjects (8 males: $75.5{\pm}4yrs$, 8 females: $72.3{\pm}3.5yrs$). Analysis parameters were the mean of the distance between the instantaneous COP and the average COP (COP distance) and the mean of the COP movement velocity (COP velocity) in both AP (anterio-posterior) and ML (media-lateral) directions. During quiet standing, the COP distance in ML direction of elderly females was significantly greater than that of elderly males and the COP velocity of elderly females in both ML and AP direction were significantly greater than those of all the other groups. During squat and stand movement, the COP distance of elderly females was not significantly different with that of the elderly males. However, the COP velocity of elderly females was significantly greater than that of all the other groups. The large lateral weight shift (COP distance) of elderly females during quiet standing may explain their greater fall rate. However, this does not apply to squat-and stand movement. In contrast, COP velocity results show that the elderly females' COP is rapidly trembling compared to that of elderly males during both quiet standing and squat and-stand movement. This results suggest that rapid trembling or postural sway may reflect the reduced postural control ability and the risk of falling.

• 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.53-62
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• 2017

It is very important for the elderly to maintain their independence and to live safe and comfortable daily lives in order to lead an independent life. The bathroom in the house has the greatest number of fall accidents and has a great influence on the independence of the elderly. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to develop a bathroom design method that improves the independence of the elderly whose physical function is deteriorated through preventing falls. In this study, first of all, we investigated the causes of falling in bathrooms based on the previous studies, and identified the intelligent services that can prevent falls and selected them according to individual needs. Secondly, we investigated the bathroom size of the apartment among the various housing type, analyzed the type of the bathroom, and developed a standard type of the bathroom. Thirdly, we analyzed the design guidelines for the elderly residents in Korea and proposed improvement directions. We also divided the intelligent sanitary appliances and fall-prevention products and proposed the installation method and directions. Therefore, the comprehensive bathroom design standards and proposals proposed in this study will be the basis of bathroom design to prevent falls and improve independence of the elderly, and it will be easy to understand and help the designer in designing. Finally, this study is meaningful in that it provides independence of the elderly through fall prevention and increases the easiness of hygiene action and suggests direction to maintain self-sustaining life of the elderly.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제48권6호
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• pp.552-559
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• 2011

An interest in Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) finite element methods has been increased due to more accurate responses in Fluid-Structure Interaction(FSI) problems. The multi-material ALE approach was applied to the prediction of the acceleration response of free-fall lifeboat, and its responses were compared to those of the single-material ALE one. It could be found that even though there was no big difference in the simulation responses of two methods, the single-material and multi-material ALE ones, the latter multi-material ALE method showed a little bit more close response to those of experimental results compared to the former single-material ALE one, especially in the x- and z-direction acceleration responses. Through this study, it could be found that several parameters in the ALE algorithms have to be examined more carefully for a good structural safety assessment of FSI problems.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2022년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.516-518
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• 2022

본 논문에서는 낙상상태를 감지할 수 있는 장단기 메모리(Long Short-Term Memory)를 이용한 낙상감지 시스템에서 은닉층 노드 수 변경에 따른 영향을 소개한다. 3축 가속도 센서를 이용하여 x, y, z축 데이터를 중력 방향과 이루는 각도를 나타내는 파라미터 theta(θ)를 이용하여 훈련을 진행한다. 학습에서는 validation이 진행되어 8:2의 비율로 훈련 데이터와 테스트 데이터로 나뉘며, 효율성을 높이기 위해 은닉층의 노드 수를 변화하며 훈련을 진행한다. 노드 수가 128일 때 Accuracy 99.82%, Specificity 99.58%, Sensitivity 100%로 가장 좋은 정확도를 나타내었다.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.217-222
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• 2017

지구 중력장 내에 위치한 물체는 연직 아래 방향의 힘을 받고 있다. 중력장 내에서 물체의 운동을 기술하기 위하여 운동상태 방정식을 이용한다. 자유 낙하하는 물체를 해석할 때 기준 방향은 연직 하방을 +y으로, 연직위로 던져 올린 물체를 해석할 때 기준방향은 연직상방을 +y으로, 연직 아래로 던져 내린 물체를 해석할 때, 기준 방향은 연직 하방을 +y으로 선택하여 해석함이 일반적이다. 이 논문에서는 두 벡터의 스칼라 곱 (즉, 도트 곱)을 이용하여 연직 상방 또는 하방 두 경우를 방향으로 선택하여 구성한 벡터 운동 상태 방정식(vector kinematics equations)을 해석의 결과가 서로 일치함을 제시한다. 두 벡터의 스칼라 곱 (즉, 도트 곱)을 이용하여 물체의 상태 방정식를 해석한 예는 선행 연구에서 거의 찾아볼 수가 없다. 이 결과를 이용하면, 수평면의 방향 또는 빗각을 이루는 방향의 초속도로 던져 올리거나 던져 내린 물체의 운동 상태를 해석하기 위하여 연직 기준 방향을 상방 또는 하방으로 임의 선택할 수가 있다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.181-186
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• 2012

Telematics services include automatic location tracking for emergency rescue, which is available for use in case of a car accident due to falling off roadways. This paper presents a simulation study on how far a car will fall before it hits the ground if it drops off of a roadway due to an accident or a natural disaster. The greatest horizontal distance the falling car can travel is presented in this paper, based on the assumption that air resistance as well as the direction and degree of acceleration due to gravity is negligible. This paper also presents the depth of the dent caused by the car sinking into the ground, the time it took for the car to fall free, and the velocity at which it travelled and horizontal distance it traveled. In this paper, the damage done to cars that crash into the ground and the dangers thereof are graphically represented.