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Computer-Interfacing Development for Propeller-Anemometer

  • Saad, Nor Hayati;Janin, Zuriati;Piah, Ruhaidawati Mohd Ali
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.515-519
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    • 2004
  • A Propeller-Anemometer is an instrument used specifically, to measure the wind speed. The accurate measurement of the wind speed is vitally important such required by any weather stations. In this research, the measurand of the instrumentation was the rotational speed of the propeller and the instrumentation result or output data was wind velocity. The speed measured was recorded digitally in the computer by using specific software. A specific sensor used to measure a variable by converting information of the variable (rotational speed of the propeller) into a dependent signal such as electrical signal in form of voltage. The development of Propeller-Anemometer involved few sets of instrumentation process and equipment. It included three major parts, mechanical, electronics and computer. The main instrumentation processes were physical and signal interfacing, signal conditioning, logic interfacing, data transmission to computer and processing the data. Generally, this paper presents the overall concept and design of Propeller-Anemometer Instrumentation. However, an emphasis was mainly in designing and building the interfacing system, hardware and software. Basically, for the first phase of the development, this project designed and built the RS232 terminal using Peripheral Interface Controller (PIC), PIC16F873. The hardware can be interfaced to computer or other compatible devices. This routine converted input voltage from the circuit to speed (velocity) and transmitted them afterwards to the target device by using the RS232 transmission protocol. This implementation implied a computer display as visual interface. For the purpose of this paper, RS232 data transmission was carried out using a Microsoft Visual Basic software routine.

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Improved ADALINE Harmonics Extraction Algorithm for Boosting Performance of Photovoltaic Shunt Active Power Filter under Dynamic Operations

  • Mohd Zainuri, Muhammad Ammirrul Atiqi;Radzi, Mohd Amran Mohd;Soh, Azura Che;Mariun, Norman;Rahim, Nasrudin Abd.
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.11 no.6
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    • pp.1714-1728
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    • 2016
  • This paper presents improved harmonics extraction based on Adaptive Linear Neuron (ADALINE) algorithm for single phase photovoltaic (PV) shunt active power filter (SAPF). The proposed algorithm, named later as Improved ADALINE, contributes to better performance by removing cosine factor and sum of element that are considered as unnecessary features inside the existing algorithm, known as Modified Widrow-Hoff (W-H) ADALINE. A new updating technique, named as Fundamental Active Current, is introduced to replace the role of the weight factor inside the previous updating technique. For evaluation and comparison purposes, both proposed and existing algorithms have been developed. The PV SAPF with both algorithms was simulated in MATLAB-Simulink respectively, with and without operation or connection of PV. For hardware implementation, laboratory prototype has been developed and the proposed algorithm was programmed in TMS320F28335 DSP board. Steady state operation and three critical dynamic operations, which involve change of nonlinear loads, off-on operation between PV and SAPF, and change of irradiances, were carried out for performance evaluation. From the results and analysis, the Improved ADALINE algorithm shows the best performances with low total harmonic distortion, fast response time and high source power reduction. It performs well in both steady state and dynamic operations as compared to the Modified W-H ADALINE algorithm.

A Design of Generalized Chebyshev LPF Using Defected Ground Structure (결함 기저면 구조를 이용한 일반화된 체비셰프 저역 통과 필터 설계)

  • Kim In-Seon;Kim Jong-Wook;Ahn Dal
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.17 no.7 s.110
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    • pp.673-683
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, we investgate variation of phase and magnitude characteristics which become different as the variables of DGS are changed and propose the new method to easily decide the best optimum DGS pattern taking advantage of this trend. Generalized Chebyshev(GC) low pass filter(LPF) is designed by using DGS obtained from this method GC DGS LPF is more available for filter application than Chevyshev DGS LPF because GC LPF have parallel resonators as series circuits, therefore unlikely Chebyshev LPF, transform step of the series elements can be omitted. By using the proposed method, GC DGS LPF(N=5) and as a subject of comparison, conventional Chbyshev LPF(N=7) are designed and implementation. From the comparison of the measured data, we confirmed that the implemented GC DGS 5th order LPF have much better cutoff characteristics and reduce by 0.58 times size, on the other hand the stop bandwidth become widen about 1.57 times or more in comparison with the conventional Chevyshev 7th order LPF.

Envelope Elimination and Restoration Transmitter for Efficiency and Linearity Improvement of Power Amplifier (전력증폭기의 효율 및 선형성 개선을 위한 포락선 제거 및 복원 송신기)

  • Cho, Young-Kyun;Kim, Changwan;Park, Bong Hyuk
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.292-299
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    • 2015
  • An envelope elimination and restoration transmitter that uses a tri-level envelope encoding scheme is presented for improving the efficiency and linearity of the system. The proposed structure amplifies the same magnitude signal regardless of the input peak-to-average power ratio and reduces the quantization noise by spreading out the noise to the out-of-band frequency, resulting in the enhancement of power efficiency. An improved linearity is also obtained by providing a new timing mismatch calibration technique between the envelope and phase signal. Implementation in a 130 nm CMOS process, transmitter measurements on a 20-MHz long-term evolution input signal show an error vector magnitude of 3.7 % and an adjacent channel leakage ratio of 37.5 dBc at 2.13 GHz carrier frequency.

Implementation of Down Converter for Ku-Band Application (Ku 대역용 주파수변환기의 구현)

  • 정동근;김상태;하천수
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.527-536
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    • 2000
  • This paper discusses the design of self-oscillating mixer type low noise down converter using the microwave field effect transistor. The mixer is consists of local oscillator in which high stability dielectric resonator and band pass filter to get rid of spurious oscillation at intermediate frequency stage. The microstrip antenna was integrated in the same substrate which generate 12.3GHz and low noise amplifier was also added after antenna using 3 stage of high electron mobility transistors. The output frequency from the local oscillator was chosen as 11.3GHz for the Ku-band application. The measured phase noise was -804dBc/Hz at 100kHz offset frequency, and the gain was 7~12dB in frequency range from 12.0GHz to 12.7GHz. The noise figure at intermediate frequency stage was 64H. The designed model shows less conversion loss than previous diode type mixer. The proposed mixer can be used in digital satellite broadcasting and communication system and expected to use in next generation low noise block design.

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Utilization and Needs Assessment of Health Promotion Programs for Middle-aged Women in Public Health Centers (중년 여성의 보건소 건강증진 프로그램 이용 실태 및 요구도)

  • Choi, Eun-Jin;Yoo, Ji-Soo;Kim, Hee-Soon;Oh, Eui-Geum;Kim, Sue;Bae, Sun-Hyung;Chu, Sang-Hui
    • Journal of Korean Public Health Nursing
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.193-205
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    • 2007
  • Purpose: To evaluate the current status of utilization and implementation of health promotion programs for Korean middle-aged women in public health centers. Methods: Three-phase stratified sampling was done to select 1304 middle-aged women (aged 40-64 years) from all regions of Korea. The data were collected by face-to-face interviews using a structured questionnaire for individual responses and mailed surveys to 126 public health centers. Descriptive statistics and $x^2$-test were done for data analysis. Results: Only 12 of the 126 public health centers (9.9%) implemented health promotion programs for middle-aged women, with the lack of manpower being cited as the main reason for the absence of programs. From individual responses, 11.3% had participated in health promotion programs offered by public health centers. The main reasons for not participating were inconvenient times and lack of information. Significant differences were found in the frequency of participation in programs, exercise programs and diabetes management according to the size of region. The majority of the respondents cited the need for medical services, followed by programs focused on stroke prevention and leisure time management. The responses on the willingness to participate followed a similar pattern. Conclusion: There are gaps between the utilization of health promotion programs by middle-aged women and what is offered by public health centers. The results of this study support the need to develop more health promotion programs focusing specifically on the needs of middle-aged women.

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Design of digital communication systems using DCSK chaotic modulation (DCSK 카오스 변조를 이용한 디지털 통신 시스템의 설계)

  • Jang, Eun-Young
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.10 no.5
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    • pp.565-570
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    • 2015
  • Spread spectrum communications have increased interest due to their immunity to channel fading and low probability of intercept. One of the limitations of the traditional digital spread spectrum systems is the need for spreading code synchronization. Chaotic communication is the analogue alternative of digital spread spectrum systems beside some extra features like simple transceiver structures. In this paper, This paper was used instead of the digital modulation and demodulation carriers for use in the chaotic signal in a digital communication system among the chaotic modulation schemes, the Differential Chaos Shift Keying(DCSK) is the most efficient one because its demodulator detects the data without the need to chaotic signal phase recovery. Also Implementation of Differential Chaos Shift Keying Communication System Using Matlab/Simulink and the receiver con decode the binary information sent by the transmitter, performance curves of DCSK are given in terms of bit-error probability versus signal to noise ratio with spreading factor as a parameter and we compare it to BPSK modulation.

The Implementation of Smart Raising Environment Management System based on Sensor Network and 3G Telecommunication (센서 네트워크와 3G 통신 기반 스마트 생장환경 관리시스템 개발)

  • Jeong, Kyong-Jin;Kim, Won-Jung
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.595-601
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    • 2011
  • This study proposed the system to automatically control the optimized raising environment for vegetation, raised in an equipment house, in which u-IT agricultural technology concept was applied. The system consists of environment sensors such as temperature, humidity, etc., biosensors such as EC, PH, etc., and requested automatic control devices, in which they were automatically controlled by the software system. The system is established in client systems, installed in each equipment house and the server system, collecting data from each client system as well. In addition, the system collects each farmer's data through the Internet and 3G network. In this phase, collected raising environment data comes to be analyzed in order to find out the optimized vegetation raising environment, finally, which is visualized and used for consulting each farmer.

Proposed STAR Procedure of Incheon International Airport Considering Safety and Efficiency (인천공항 도착항공기의 안전 및 효율 향상을 위한 표준접근절차 수정방안 연구)

  • Chang, Jaeho
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.292-297
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    • 2016
  • Since continuous descent operations (CDO) is one of several tools available to aircraft operators and air navigation service providers (ANSPs) to increase safety, flight predictability, and airspace capacity while reducing noise, controller-pilot communications, fuel burn and emissions, widespread implementation of CDO would result in significant reductions in the environmental impact and aircraft operation costs in south korea as well. After analyzing each procedure from standard terminal arrival routes used for the Incheon international airport, it can be noticed that one of the procedures has a relatively high altitude constraint at initial approach fix than others, which lead the pilots to use unnecessary drag device in certain situations. Therefore we came to a conclusion that some arrival procedures need to be revised, so unnecessary procedure required during approach can be minimized, thereby reducing fuel consumption, noise and emissions compared to current approach procedures. And it is going to increase the safety margin significantly during approach phase due to reduced workload.

Construction of Theme Melody Index by Transforming Melody to Time-series Data for Content-based Music Information Retrieval (내용기반 음악정보 검색을 위한 선율의 시계열 데이터 변환을 이용한 주제선율색인 구성)

  • Ha, Jin-Seok;Ku, Kyong-I;Park, Jae-Hyun;Kim, Yoo-Sung
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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    • v.10D no.3
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    • pp.547-558
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    • 2003
  • From the viewpoint of that music melody has the similar features to time-series data, music melody is transformed to a time-series data with normalization and corrections and the similarity between melodies is defined as the Euclidean distance between the transformed time-series data. Then, based the similarity between melodies of a music object, melodies are clustered and the representative of each cluster is extracted as one of theme melodies for the music. To construct the theme melody index, a theme melody is represented as a point of the multidimensional metric space of M-tree. For retrieval of user's query melody, the query melody is also transformed into a time-series data by the same way of indexing phase. To retrieve the similar melodies to the query melody given by user from the theme melody index the range query search algorithm is used. By the implementation of the prototype system using the proposed theme melody index we show the effectiveness of the proposed methods.