• 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.252-254
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• 2003

In this study, it was purposed to develop the new method for the prediction of pollutant concentration in road tunnels. The new method was the use of artificial neural network with the back-propagation algorithm which can model the non-linear system of tunnel environment. This network system was separated into two parts as the visibility and the CO concentration. For this study, data was collected from two highway road tunnels on Yeongdong Expressway. The tunnels have two lanes with one-way direction and adopt the longitudinal ventilation system. The actually measured data from the tunnels was used to develop the neural network system for the prediction of pollutant concentration. The output results from the newly developed neural network system were analysed and compared with the calculated values by PIARC method. Results showed that the prediction accuracy by the neural network system was approximately five times better than the one by PIARC method. ill addition, the system predicted much more accurately at the situation where the drivers have to be stayed for a while in tunnels caused by the low velocity of vehicles.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.19 no.11
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• pp.1144-1150
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• 2009

Appropriate vibration model is required to predict in advance the vibration level of a large vehicle which carries sensitive electronic/mechanical equipments and drives often on the unpaved and/or off-road conditions. Central tire inflation system(CTIS) is recently adopted to improve the mobile operation of military and bulletproof vehicles. In this paper, full vehicle model(FVM) having 11 degrees of freedom and equipped with CTIS has been developed for a large vehicle which has $8\times8$ wheels$\times$driving wheels. Usability of the developed model is validated via road tests for three different modes (i.e. highway, country, and mud/sand/snow modes) and for various velocity conditions. The developed FVM can be used to predict the vibration level of the large vehicle as well as to determine the driving velocity criterion for different road conditions.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.5-18
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• 1991

Two-Lane, two-way roads account for approximately 92% of total road length in Korea and accomplish the majority of regional transport activities. Nevertheless not too many research have been made on two-lane roads particularly efficiency related topics such as capacity and travel time studies. In this study a full scale data collection was conducted using video equippments on rural two-lane roads to determine capacity Passenger Car Equivalents(PCE) and Level of Service criterion. Various PC programs were utilized to reduce traffic data and Walker ME? and Headway Method were employed to determine PCE's for heavy vehicles. The reseach has shown that capacity and PCE's for two-land two-way roads in Korea are 3200 pcph and 1.1∼1.9 resectively. In addition percent time delay was used as the basis of developing Level of service criterion on two-lane roads in Korea.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.258-267
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• 1999

An intelligent safety vehicle(ISV) should have an ability to predict the possibility of an accident and help a driver avoid the accident in advance. The basic function of the ISV is to alert the driver by warning when the collision is to occur. For this purpose, the ISV has to function efficiently in sensing the environmental context. While image processing provides lane information, laser radar senses road obstacles including vehicles. By applying a simple clustering algorithm to radar signals, it is possible to obtain the vehicle information. Consequently, we can identify the existence of the vehicle of interest on my lane. The reliability of the sensing algorithm is evaluated by running on the highway with a test vehicle.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.821-824
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• 2009

고속도로를 주행 중인 차량에 강풍이 작용할 경우 차량의 주행안정성 저하와 운전자의 상황에 따른 치명적인 교통사고로 이어질 수 있다. 특히, 최근에 건설되거나 추진 중인 고속도로는 교량과 터널의 연속적인 조합으로 강풍발생위험에 노출되어 있어 적극적인 강풍저감 대책이 필요하다. 효과적인 방풍 시설 설치나 사전예고 시스템의 도입을 위해서는 차량의 동역학적 거동 분석, 주행 중인 차량의 위험도 판단기준 연구, 강풍위험지역의 정확한 풍속 추정기법 연구, 지능화된 방풍벽 개발, 방풍시설 설치판단 기준 제시, 합리적인 차량 속도 규제정책 등의 연구 개발이 수행되어야 한다. 본 연구에서는 강풍 발생 구간을 주행하는 차량의 동역학적 거동모델을 제시하고, 이를 기반으로 기존에 제안된 위험도 판단기준의 합리성을 제고하였으며, 운전자의 상황을 고려한 현실적인 차량주행위험도 판단기준 제시를 목표로 하였다.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.53 no.7
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• pp.509-516
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• 2004

This paper proposes an image processing algorithm for detecting obstacles on road using DLI(disparity of lane-related information) that is generated by stereo images acquired from dual cameras mounted on a moving vehicle. The DLI is a disparity that is acquired using a single lane information from road lane detection. For the purpose to reduce processing time, we use small block of edge-histogram based blocking logic. This algorithm detects moving objects such as preceding vehicles and obstacles. The proposed algorithm has been implemented in a personal computer with the road image data of a typical highway. We successfully performed experiments under a wide variety of road conditions without changing parameter values or adding human intervention. Experimental results also showed that the proposed DLI is quite successful.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.639-645
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• 2010

This paper presents the sensor fusion algorithm that recognizes a primary vehicle by fusing radar and monocular vision data. In general, most of commercial radars may lose tracking of the primary vehicle, i.e., the closest preceding vehicle in the same lane, when it stops or goes with other preceding vehicles in the adjacent lane with similar velocity and range. In order to improve the performance degradation of radar, vehicle detection information from vision sensor and path prediction predicted by ego vehicle sensors will be combined for target classification. Then, the target classification will work with probabilistic association filters to track a primary vehicle. Finally the performance of the proposed sensor fusion algorithm is validated using field test data on highway.

• Wind and Structures
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.71-80
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• 2011

This study presents a decision making process for installation of wind barrier which is used to reduce the wind speed applied to running vehicles on expressway. To determine whether it is needed to install wind barrier or not, cost and benefit from wind barrier are calculated during lifetime. In obtaining car accidental risk, probabilistic distribution of wind speed, daily traffic volume, mixture ratio in the volume, and duration time for wind speed range are considered. It is recommended to install wind barrier if benefit from the barrier installation exceed construction cost. In the numerical examples, case studies were shown for risk and benefit calculation and main risky regions on Korean highway were all evaluated to identify the number of installation sites.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2003.10c
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• pp.157-163
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• 2003

This paper proposed a new type of vehicle detector using a MR sensor. and addressed detector's apparatuses and detecting algorithms. Proposed detector has been tested on a local highway between Mishiryong and Sokcho in Korea. Through extensive field tests, the outputs of the detector in response to various kinds of passing vehicles have been collected and analyzed. It is verified from the analyses that the outputs of the detector take on very different aspects with each vehicle, so that information on not only traffic count but vehicle types could be extracted from the outputs. And, with the proposed detector, traffic volumes on the two lanes in the tested region were measured and compared when both congested and clear traffic situations.

• Journal of Auto-vehicle Safety Association
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.31-36
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• 2013

For the robust passenger NCAP 5star and the stable neck injury performance, a new concept of passenger airbag has been required strongly. Especially, the deployment stability and the vent hole control technology of the passenger airbag should be improved. According to these requirements, the deployment stability technique has been studied and the 'Active Vent' technology has been developed. As a result, these technologies have led to achieve the robust NCAP rating and are applied to the production vehicles.