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Dynamic Analysis of The Knee Brace for Ski Injuried Patient (스키환자용 특수 슬관절보조기의 동특성 해석)

  • 최진영;김명회;장대진;박영필
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2003.05a
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    • pp.893-898
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    • 2003
  • A new type of the Expanded Knee brace was developed to measure the human knee joint. This instrument was composed of six parts, four arranged for two hinge joints and two pin joint , and two hinge for the expanded system. With a developed instrument, the experimental results obtained the data of Accelerometer, the experimental results obtained of the data FEM, the experimental results obtained the data of Motion Analysis and Force platform. Compared to earlier developed sports type knee brace, new instrument shows its convenience in application and accuracy in measurement.

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A Study on the Walking Recognition Method of Assistance Robot Legs Using EEG and EMG Signals

  • Shin, Dae Seob
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.269-274
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    • 2020
  • This paper is to study the exoskeleton robot for the walking of the elderly and the disabled. We developed and tested an Exoskeletal robot with two axes of freedom for joint motion. The EEG and EMG signals were used to move the joints of the Exoskeletal robot. By analyzing the EMG signal, the control signal was extracted and applied to the robot to facilitate the walking operation of the walking assistance robot. In addition, the brain-computer interface technology is applied to perform the operation of the robot using brain waves, spontaneous electrical activities recorded on the human scalp. These two signals were fused to study the walking recognition method of the supporting robot leg.

Gait Implementation of Biped Walking Robot(IWR-III) for continuous trunk motion (이족보행로봇(IWR-III)의 지속적인 몸체 추진을 위한 걸음새 구현)

  • Jang, Chung-Ryoul;Choi, Young-Ha;Choi, Sang-Ho;Kim, Jin-Geol
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1998.11b
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    • pp.549-551
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    • 1998
  • This paper deals with the new gait implementation of biped walking robot(IWR-III). In the case of using old gait. The trunk should be stopped during the phase changing time. But using new gait, the trunk moves continuously for all walking time. As a result, IWR-III has a walking gait similar to human being, and the motion of balancing joints can be reduced by the trunk ahead effect in the double support phase, moreover, ZMP tracking is improved, therefore the stability of IWR-III is improved. The trajectory is planned with a 5th order spline interpolation and stability of IWR-III is certified with a biped simulator.

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Design of Fuzzy Control System for Dual-Arm robot Based-on TMS320C40 (TMS320C40를 이용한 이중아암 로봇의 퍼지제어 시스템 설계)

  • 김종수;정동연;한성현
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.241-249
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    • 2002
  • In this paper, a self-organizing fuzzy controller(SOFC) for the industrial robot manipulator with a actuator located at the base is studied. A fuzzy login composed of linguistic conditional statements is employed by defining the relations of input-output variable of the controller, In the synthesis of a FLC, one of the most difficult problems is the determination of linguistic control rules from the human operators. To overcome this difficult SOFC is proposed for a hierarchical control structure consisting of basic level and high level that modify control rules. The proposed SOFC scheme is simple in structure, fast in computation, and suitable for implementation of real-time control. Performance of the SOFC is illustrated by simulation and experimental results for robot with tow joints.

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The Effect that CST gets to autonomic nerve system (두개천골치료가 자율신경계에 미치는 영향)

  • Sea, Hyun-Kyu;Kim, Byoung-Gon;Jung, Yeon-Woo
    • The Journal of Korean Academy of Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapy
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.5-32
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    • 2004
  • We have studied the effect and application of CST which is the function and disease of the autonomic nerve system based on recovery of flexibleness of the autonomic nerve. CST purpose to keep sustenance of human body by recovering joints have limitation of mobility and controlling autonomic nerve system by diminution tense of the sympathetic nerve. CST makes well flowing of CSF by pressure the fourth ventricle of the brain or relaxation of soft tissues of the base of a cranial bone. There is no result of studies about CST in Korea yet. It will bring a benefit if it prove the effect of CST in countries depend on drugs way high such as Korea. It needs positive approach and definite research for the improvement.

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A Prototype of Flex Sensor Based Data Gloves to Track the Movements of Fingers

  • Bang, Junseung;You, Jinho;Lee, Youngho
    • Smart Media Journal
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.53-57
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    • 2019
  • In this paper, we propose a flex sensor-based data glove to track the movements of human fingers for virtual reality education. By putting flex sensors and utilizing an accelerometer, this data glove allows people to enjoy applications for virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR). With the maximum and minimum values of the flex sensor at each finger joint, it determines an angle corresponding to the bending value of the flex sensor. It tracks the movements of fingers and hand gestures with respect to the angle values at finger joints. In order to prove the effectiveness of the proposed data glove, we implemented a VR classroom application.

Studies on the Influence of Various factors in Ultrasonic Flaw Detection in Ferrite Steel Butt Weld Joints

  • Baby, Sony;Balasubramanian, T.;Pardikar, R.J.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.270-279
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    • 2003
  • Parametric studies have been conducted into the variability of the factors affecting the ultrasonic testing applied to weldments. The influence of ultrasonic equipment, transducer parameters, test technique, job parameters, defect type and characteristics on reliability far defect detection and sizing was investigated by experimentation. The investigation was able to build up substantial bank of information on the reliability of manual ultrasonic method for testing weldments. The major findings of the study separate into two parts, one dealing with correlation between ultrasonic techniques, equipment and defect parameters and inspection performance effectiveness and other with human factors. Defect detection abilities are dependent on the training, experience and proficiency of the UT operators, the equipment used, the effectiveness of procedures and techniques.

A Proposal of Shuffle Graph Convolutional Network for Skeleton-based Action Recognition

  • Jang, Sungjun;Bae, Han Byeol;Lee, HeanSung;Lee, Sangyoun
    • The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.314-322
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    • 2021
  • Skeleton-based action recognition has attracted considerable attention in human action recognition. Recent methods for skeleton-based action recognition employ spatiotemporal graph convolutional networks (GCNs) and have remarkable performance. However, most of them have heavy computational complexity for robust action recognition. To solve this problem, we propose a shuffle graph convolutional network (SGCN) which is a lightweight graph convolutional network using pointwise group convolution rather than pointwise convolution to reduce computational cost. Our SGCN is composed of spatial and temporal GCN. The spatial shuffle GCN contains pointwise group convolution and part shuffle module which enhances local and global information between correlated joints. In addition, the temporal shuffle GCN contains depthwise convolution to maintain a large receptive field. Our model achieves comparable performance with lowest computational cost and exceeds the performance of baseline at 0.3% and 1.2% on NTU RGB+D and NTU RGB+D 120 datasets, respectively.

Measuring hand kinematics in handball's game: A multi-physics simulation

  • Kun, Qian;Sanaa, Al-Kikani;H. Elhosiny, Ali
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.535-547
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    • 2022
  • Handball sport, as its name postulates, is a team sport which highly physical workout. During a handball play, several ball impacts are applied on the hands resulting vibration in the forearm, upper arm, shoulders and in general in whole body. Hand has important role in the handball's game. So, understanding about the dynamics and some issues that improve the stability of the hand is important in the sport engineering field. Ulna and radius are two parallel bones in lower arm of human hand which their ends are located in elbow and wrist joint. The type of the joint provides the capability of rotation of the lower arm. These two bones with their ends conditions in the joints constructs a 4-link frame. The ulna is slightly thinner than radius. So, understanding about hand kinematics in handball's game is an important thing in the engineering field. So, in the current work with the aid of a multi-physics simulation, dynamic stability analysis of the ulna and radius bones will be presented in detail.

HUMAN HEALTH EFFECTS DUE TO CONSUMPTION OF LOW TDS WATER (물이 인체 건강에 미치는 영향)

  • Rozelle, Lee T.
    • Proceedings of the Membrane Society of Korea Conference
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    • 1996.09a
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    • pp.39-64
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    • 1996
  • Probably over most of recorded time, the quality of drinking water has been praised for good health and blamed for bad health. Certainly it is true, considering pathogenic organism that cause typhoid fever, giardiasis, etc., or considering chemical contaminants suspected of causing cancer. Drinking "natural" waters with a high mineral content is generally accepted to be healthy. Water containing very low levels of total dissolved solids (TDS), such as distilled water, is believed by some to help "cure" arthritis by "washing out" calcium from deposits in joints. Along with this reasoning, many believe that drinking very tow TDS water, treated by distillation, reverse osmosis (RO) or deionization (DD, "leaches" minerals from the body and causes mineral deficiencies with subsequent ill health effects.cies with subsequent ill health effects.

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