• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07f
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• pp.2475-2477
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• 1999

This paper describes a simulation model and scaled hardware model to analyze the dynamic performance of Unified Power Flow Controller, which adjust flexibly the active and reactive power flow through the ac transmission line. The design of control system was developed using vector control method. The results of simulation and scaled hardware test show that the developed control system works accurately. And both models are very effective to analyze the dynamic performance of the Unified Power Flow Controller.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.415-425
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• 2000

An open architecture manufacturing strategy intends to integrate manufacturing components on a single platform so that a particular component can be easily added and/or replaced. Therefore, the control scheme based upon the open architecture concept is hardware-independent. In this paper, a modular and object oriented approach for a PC-based open robot control system is investigated. A standard reference model for robot systems, which consists of three modules; hardware module, operating system module, and application software module, is first proposed. Then, a PC-based Open Robot Controller(PC-ORC), which can reconfigure robot control systems in various production environments, is developed. The PC-ORC is built upon the object-oriented method, and allows an easy implementation and modification of various modules. The PC-ORC consists of basic softwares, application objects, and additional hardware device on the PC Platform. The application objects are: sequencer, computation unit, servo control, ancillary equipment, external sensor control, and so on. In order to demonstrate the applicability of the PC-ORC, the proposed PC-ORC configuration is applied to an industrial SCARA robot system.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.33-36
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• 1983

This paper briefly describes the hardware side of "Development of a 16 bit computer system, " one of the national projects in which Samsung Semiconductor Telecommunication Inc. '||'&'||' KIET combined their efforts to develop a 16 bit microcomputer system based on IEEE 796 hardware bus structure. In the project CPU, memory and I/O controller boards were developed, tested and integrated into a complete system.m.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2001.06b
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• pp.741-746
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• 2001

This paper presents an investigation of a vehicle-to-vehicle distance control using a Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation(HiLS) system. Since vehicle tests are costly and time consuming, how to establish a efficient and low cost development tool is an important issue. The HiLS system consists of a stepper motor, an electronic vacuum booster, a controller unit and two computers which are used to form real time simulation and to save vehicle parameters and signals of actuator through a CAN(Controller Area Network). Adoption of a CAN for communication is a trend in the automotive industry. Since this environment is the same as that of a real vehicle, a distance control logic verified in laboratory can be easily transfered to a test vehicle.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.297-305
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• 2015

AFLS (Adaptive front lighting System) is being applied to improve safety in driving automotive at night. Safe embedded system for controlling head-lamp has to be tightly designed by considering safety requirement of hardware-dependent software, which is embedded in automotive ECU(Electronic Control Unit) hardware under severe environmental noise. In this paper, we propose an adaptive headlight controller with newly-designed symmetric angle sensor compensator, which is integrated with ECU-based adaptive front light system. The proposed system, on which additional backup hardware and emergency control algorithm are integrated, effectively detects abnormal situation and restore safe status of controlling the light-angle in AFLS operations by comparing result in symmetric angle sensor. The controlled angle value is traced into internal memory in runtime and will be continuously compared with the pre-defined lookup table (LUT) with symmetric angle value, which is used in normal operation. The watch-dog concept, which is based on using angle sensor and control-value tracer, enables quick response to restore safe light-controlling state by performing the backup sequence in emergency situation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 1993.06a
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• pp.907-910
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• 1993

This paper describes the use of fuzzy control and decision making to simulate the control of traffic flow at an intersection. To show the value of fuzzy logic as an alternative method for control of traffic environments. A traffic environment includes the lanes to and from an intersection, the intersection, vehicle traffic, and signal lights in the intersection. To test the fuzzy logic controller, a computer simulation was constructed to model a traffic environment. A typical cross intersection was chosen for the traffic environment, and the performance of the fuzzy logic controller was compared with the performance of two different types of conventional control. In the hardware verifications, fuzzy logic was used to control acceleration of a model train on a circular path. For the software experiment, the fuzzy logic controller proved better than conventional control methods, especially in the case of highly uneven traffic flow between different directions. On the hardware si e of the research, the fuzzy acceleration control system showed a marked improvement in smoothness of ride over crisp control.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.1
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• pp.180-184
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• 2013

In this paper, a low power antenna switch controller IC is designed using a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) CMOS technology. To improve power handling capability and harmonic distortion performance of the antenna switch, the proposed antenna switch controller provides 3-state logic level such as +VDD, GND, and -VDD for the gate and body of switch of FETs according to decoder signal. By employing input-coupled current ring oscillator and hardware efficient level shifter, the proposed controller greatly reduces power consumption and hardware complexity. It consumes 135 ${\mu}A$ at a 2.5 V supply voltage in active mode, and occupies $1.3mm{\times}0.5mm$ in area. In addition, it shows fast start-up time of 10 ${\mu}s$.

• Journal of Institute of Convergence Technology
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.13-19
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• 2015

Recently, quadcopters have been popular as aerial drones. The structure of quadcopters is simpler than traditional helicopters and they are easy to construct and maneuver. Various hardware platforms for quadcopters have been developed. However, the controller design is not easy due to the requirement of 6-DOF flights using 4 rotors(control inputs)(under-actuated systems). In order to overcome the underactuation problem, various control methods - PID, LQR, $H_{\infty}$, SMC, backstepping control, and etc. - have been suggested for the control of quadcopters. In this paper, dynamic features and control methods of quadcopters are reviewed and evaluated. Future works are proposed for designing the advanced controllers of quadcopters.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10c
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• pp.340-342
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• 2003

최근 수요가 급증하고 있는 이동 단말은 점차 소형화되고 있으며, 어느 곳에서든지 접속 가능한 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅의 주체가 되고 있다. 이러한 단말에 이동성을 지원하기 위해서는 Mobile IPv6가 필수적인데. 운영 체제를 기반으로 한 기존의 Mobile IPv6는 제한된 컴퓨팅 능력을 가진 소형 이동 단말에는 탑재할 수 없다는 문제점이 있다. 이를 해결하기 위해서는 Mobile IPv6를 운영 체제에 독립적인 하드웨어 모듈로 구현하는 것이 필요하다. 더불어 하드웨어 Mobile IPv6 모듈은 무선 접속을 전제로 하므로. 현재 가장 많이 보급되어 있는 무선 접속 기술인 IEEE 802.11b 기반의 무선랜을 통합한 형태로 구현되어야 한다. 이에 본 논문에서는 하드웨어 Mobile IPv6와 통합될 수 있는 IEEE 802.11b Modem Controller를 하드웨어로 설계 및 구현하였다.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.56 no.4
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• pp.799-808
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• 2007

BACnet is an international standard communication protocol especially designed for building automation and control systems. BACnet uses the Master-Slave/Token-Passing (MS/TP) protocol as one of its field-level networks. A BACnet MS/TP field controller prototype and MS/TP network monitoring system are developed in this study. This report introduces the design and implementation methodology of a BACnet MS/TP field controller hardware, firmware and protocol stack. This report also presents the implementation methodology of BACnet MS/TP network monitoring system using VTS (Visual Test Shell). The methodologies introduced in this report will facilitate the develop and implementation of the BACnet-based control systems in building automation area.