• Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Science
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.152-162
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• 2024

Objective: This study was conducted to analyze the effect of wearable Electromyography-controlled functional electrical stimulation (EMG-controlled FES) System on Gait Function and cardiopulmonary metabolic efficiency during walking in older adults. Design: Cross-section study Methods: Total 22 older adult participants suitable to selection criteria of this study participated in this study. The EMG-controlled FES System, which functions as a wearable physical activity assist FES system was used. All participations performed randomly assigned two conditions (Non-FES assist [NFA], FES assist [FA]) of walking. In all conditions, spatio-temporal parameters and kinematics and kinetics parameters during walking was collected via 3D motion capture system and 6 minutes walking test (6MWT) and metabolic cost during walking and stairs climbing was collected via a portable metabolic device (COSMED K5, COSMED Srl, Roma, Italy). Results: In Spatio-temporal parameters aspects, The EMG-controlled FES system significantly improved gait functions measurements of older adults with sarcopenia at walking in comparison to the NFA condition (P<0.05). Hip, knee and ankle joint range of motion increased at walking in FA condition compared to the NFA condition (P<0.05). In the FA condition, moment and ground reaction force was changed like normal gait during walking of older adults in comparison to the NFA condition (P<0.05). The EMG-controlled FES system significantly reduced net cardiopulmonary metabolic energy cost, net energy expenditure measurement at stairs climbing (P<0.05). Conclusions: This study demonstrated that EMG-controlled FES is a potentially useful gait-assist system for improving gait function by making joint range of motion and moment properly.

• 한국응용과학기술학회지
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• 제39권5호
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• pp.701-709
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• 2022

본 연구의 목적은 국내 발레단 소속 여자 무용수를 대상으로 연속 회전점프 시 시각선택과 회전순서에 따른 차이를 도약과 착지구간으로 분류하여 비교하였다. 10명의 대상자(연령: 26.0±2.9 yrs, 신장: 163.4±3.3 cm, 체중: 46.8±3.6 kg, 발레경력: 12.3±5.9 yrs)가 연구에 참여하였다. 3차원 동작분석기와 지면반력기를 이용하여 신체중심의 높이와 도약과 착지 시 지면반력을 측정하였다. 시각선택(양눈 사용, 왼눈 사용, 오른눈 사용)과 회전순서(첫번째 회전점프, 두 번째 회전점프)에 따른 차이를 반복측정 이원변량 분석을 통하여 분석하였다. 신체중심의 높이는 첫 번째 회전점프가 높게 나타났다. 도약 시 지면반력의 좌우힘은 좌우발 모두 두 번째 회전점프에서 왼발은 외측힘, 오른발은 내측힘이 강하게 나타났고, 전후힘은 오른발에서 첫 번째 회전점프 시 전방힘이 강하게 나타났으며, 수직힘은 좌우발 모두 차이가 없었다. 착지 시 전후힘은 왼발에서 두 번째 착지에서 후방힘이 강하게 나타났고, 오른발은 왼쪽 시각 사용에서 후방힘이 강하게 나타났다. 수직힘은 왼발에서 두 번째 착지, 오른발은 첫 번째 착지에서 강하게 나타났다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권11호
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• pp.1179-1182
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• 2011

RC servos are electro-mechanical devices that respond to a control signal, which instructs them to move their output shaft to a certain position. A servo is normally plugged into a radio receiver with a three pin connector. The three wires are a power (usually 4.8V to 6.0V), a ground, and a signal wire. The signal wire carries a PWM (Pulse-Width Modulation) signal consisting of a 1-2msec pulse repeated 50 times a second. A 1.5msec pulse will tell the servo to move to its output shaft to the center position, 0 degrees. For a servo with a 180 degree of motion, a 1msec pulse will move the servo to -90 degrees, and a 2msec pulse will move the servo to +90 degrees. In order to development a humanoid robot, mechanical design, fixtures design, analysis of kinematics, implementation moving program, selection of RC servo motor and controller are required. This study was performed to experimentally compare the rotation range of RC servo motors according to change of a periods.

• 국제초고층학회논문집
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.149-164
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• 2021

Most of high-rise buildings in Japan^*1 are structure with damping systems recently. The design procedure is performance-based design (PBD), which is based on the nonlinear response history procedure (NRHP) using 2 or 3-dimentional frame model. In addition, hysteretic property of steel plates or velocity-dependent property of viscous dampers are common practice for the damping system. However, for the selection of damping system, the easy dynamic analysis of recent date may lead the most of engineers to focus attention on the maximum response only without thinking how it shakes. By nature, the seismic design shall be to figure out the action of inertia forces by complex & dynamic loads including periodic and pulse-like characteristics, what we call seismic ground motion. And it shall be done under the dynamic condition. On the contrary, we engineers engineers have constructed the easy-to-use static loads and devoted ourselves to handle them. The structures with damping system shall be designed considering how the stiffness & damping to be applied to the structures against the inertia forces with the viewpoint of dynamic aspect. In this paper we reconsider the role of damping in vibration and give much thought to the basic of shake with damping from a standpoint of structural design. Then, we present some design examples based on them.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권3호
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• pp.926-939
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• 2022

The area of this study will cover the location-wise seismic response variation of an electrical cabinet in nuclear power point (NPP) based on classical reliability analysis. The location-based seismic ground motion (GM) selection is carried out with the help of probabilistic seismic hazard analysis using PSHRisktool, where the variation of reliability analysis can be understood from the relation between the reliability index and intensity measure. Two different approaches such as the first-order second moment method (FOSM) and Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS) are helped to evaluate and compare the reliability assessment of the cabinet. The cabinet is modeled with material uncertainty utilizing Steel01 as the material model and the fiber section modeling approach is considered to characterize the section's nonlinear reaction behavior. To verify the modal frequency, this study compares the FEM result with recorded data using Least-Squares Complex Exponential (LSCE) method from the impact hammer test. In spite of a few investigations, the main novelty of this study is to introduce the reader to check and compare the seismic reliability assessment variation in different seismic locations and for different earthquake levels. Alongside, the betterment can be found by comparing the result between two considered reliability estimation methods.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.71-85
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• 2010

터널의 동적 지진해석은 실무에서 널리 수행되고 있다. 동적해석은 하부 및 측면 경계 조건, Deconvolution, 구성모형, 동적 물성치 등을 적용 또는 결정하기 어려워서 해석 수행 시 주의해야 하지만 이에 대한 명확한 가이드라인이 제시된 바 없다. 또한 많은 경우에는 터널의 동적해석 자체가 필요없지만 이에 대한 필요성과 정적해석과의 차이에 대한 이해 없이 무분별하게 사용되고 있는 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 일차적으로 2차원 동적 해석을 올바르게 수행하기 위한 가이드라인을 제시하였다. 이차적으로는 제시된 가이드라인을 준수한 2차원 동적해석을 수행하였으며 해석결과를 응답변위법을 비교하였다. 응답변위법과 동적해석을 비교한 결과, 두 해석기법간의 차이는 크지 않은 것으로 나타났다. 즉, 터널 갱구부, 초연약지반, 또는 공간적 변이성을 고려해야 하는 경우를 제외하고는 터널의 횡방향 지진해석은 응답변위법으로도 충분히 정확하게 터널의 응답을 예측할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.