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Detailed Investigation on Factors Governing Liquid Crystal Alignment on Rubbed Polystyrene Films

  • Hahm, Seok-Gyu;Lee, Taek-Joon;Lee, Seung-Woo;Yoon, Jin-Hwan;Kim, Gha-Hee;Chang, Tai-Hyun;Ree, Moon-Hor
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.899-902
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    • 2004
  • The molecular reorientations and surface morphologies of rubbed films formed from atactic polystyrene (PS) samples with various molecular weights were investigated in detail. Previously unknown surface topography features were newly discovered in rubbed films, depending on molecular weights: submicroscale groove-like meandering structures composed of fine-grooves like pebbles in tens nanometers are present, oriented perpendicular to the rubbing direction. The vinyl main chains, however, were preferentially reoriented along the rubbing direction and the planes of the phenyl side groups were preferentially reoriented perpendicular to the rubbing direction with para-directions that were positioned nearly normal to the film plane. Nematic liquid crystal (LC) molecules were found to always align on the rubbed PS surfaces along the orientation direction of the submicroscale grooves generated by rubbing.

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Design of INS/Image Sensor Integrated Navigation System (INS/영상센서 결합 항법시스템 설계)

  • Oh Seung-Jin;Kim Woo-Hyun;Lee Jang-Gyu;Lee Hyung-Keun;Park Chan-Gook
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.12 no.10
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    • pp.982-988
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    • 2006
  • The errors of INS (Inertial Navigation System) are known to grow in time. To compensate the accumulated errors, measurements of external or onboard sensors are extensively utilized to form an integrated navigation system. Recently, INS/GPS integrated navigation systems have become popular since exact position and velocity information can be utilized by low cost GPS receivers. Unfortunately, this configuration cannot be trusted at all times especially when there are intentional or unexpected jammings and interruptions. To aid INS irrespectively of these cases, an INS/Image sensor integrated navigation system configuration is designed only based on the information of image sensor gimble angles. The performance of the INS/Image sensor integrated navigation system is evaluated by Monte Carlo simulation.

A Study on the Integrated Database for Port and Logistics (항만 물류 통합데이터베이스의 구축방안)

  • 최형림;박영재;박남규
    • Journal of Korean Port Research
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.207-216
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    • 1998
  • The export/import processing systems of the foreign advanced port use the integrated database to increase the productivity of the users involved in the port and logistics activities. However all the port and logistics related organizations in Korea such as container terminal, customs, ministry of maritime affairs and fisheries, etc. are using their own databases, so it is very inconvenient to the users to process their export/import affairs. It is necessary to develop the integrated database for the port and logistics affairs to provide the one stop service to the port and logistics related users. So we have investigated and analyzed the databases of port and logistics related organizations, and recognized the users' various needs of information. And then we have suggested the conceptual architecture of integrated database for port and logistics, and proposed the strategies for successful development of the integrated database in this paper.

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Anchoring Cadmium Chalcogenide Quantum Dots (QDs) onto Stable Oxide Semiconductors for QD Sensitized Solar Cells

  • Lee, Hyo-Joong;Kim, Dae-Young;Yoo, Jung-Suk;Bang, Ji-Won;Kim, Sung-Jee;Park, Su-Moon
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.28 no.6
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    • pp.953-958
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    • 2007
  • Anchoring quantum dots (QDs) onto thermodynamically stable, large band gap oxide semiconductors is a very important strategy to enhance their quantum yields for solar energy conversion in both visible and near-IR regions. We describe a general procedure for anchoring a few chalcogenide QDs onto the titanium oxide layer. To anchor the colloidal QDs onto a mesoporous TiO2 layer, linker molecules containing both carboxylate and thiol functional groups were initially attached to TiO2 layers and subsequently used to capture dispersed QDs with the thiol group. Employing the procedure, we exploited cadmium selenide (CdSe) and cadmium telluride (CdTe) quantum dots (QDs) as inorganic sensitizers for a large band gap TiO2 layer of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Their attachment was confirmed by naked eyes, absorption spectra, and photovoltaic effects. A few QD-TiO2 systems thus obtained have been characterized for photoelectrochemical solar energy conversion.

An Integrated Approach to Information Systems Development for Supporting Customer-Centric Business Process

  • Kim, Han-Gook;Iijima, Junichi;Ho, Sho
    • Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.28-39
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    • 2007
  • The issue of customer-centric enterprise focusing on realizing customer needs has recently received considerable attention in the corporate world. However, little research has yet been reported on developing Information Systems (IS) supporting the customer-centric enterprises. This research proposes an integrated approach of IS development that supports organizations aiming to become customer-centric enterprises using various customer profiles. In this paper, we propose an integrated approach unifying goal modeling, business process modeling, and information systems modeling. The approach is expected to be seamlessly linked with the object-oriented systems development approach. Finally, we apply this approach to the real case of a securities company in Japan.

Integrated engineering environment for the process FEED of offshore oil and gas production plants

  • Hwang, Ji-Hyun;Roh, Myung-Il;Lee, Kyu-Yeul
    • Ocean Systems Engineering
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.49-68
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, an offshore process front end engineering design (FEED) method is systematically introduced and reviewed to enable efficient offshore oil and gas production plant engineering. An integrated process engineering environment is also presented for the topside systems of a liquefied natural gas floating production, storage, and offloading (LNG FPSO) unit, based on the concepts and procedures for the process FEED of general offshore production plants. Various activities of the general process FEED scheme are first summarized, and then the offshore process FEED method, which is applicable to all types of offshore oil and gas production plants, is presented. The integrated process engineering environment is presented according to the aforementioned FEED method. Finally, the offshore process FEED method is applied to the topside systems of an LNG FPSO in order to verify the validity and applicability of the FEED method.

Integrated Indoor Positioning Systems Reflecting Map Information for Location Based Services (위치기반서비스를 위한 지도정보가 반영된 옥내측위통합 시스템)

  • Yim, Jae-Geol;Joo, Jae-Hun;Jeong, Seung-Hwan
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.131-153
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    • 2008
  • So many location based service systems, including automobile navigation system logistic management, taxi fleet management, and so on, are being used everywhere. However, these are all outdoors. This paper provides a stepping stone for commercial indoor location based services by developing an integrated system of our indoor positioning and map viewer modules. For the indoor positioning, we propose WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) based EKF (Extended Kalman Filter) which estimates user's current location and tracts user's trace in the sequence of time. Our map viewer renders a map recorded in an Autocad DXF file and provides functions of map manipulation such as zoom-in, zoom-out, and move. We integrate our indoor positioning and map viewer modules and discuss the experimental results of the integrated system.

Integrated Navigation and Sense & Avoid Systems for Micro Aerial Vehicles

  • Vorsmann, P.;Winkler, S.;Park, J.B.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • v.1
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    • pp.145-150
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    • 2006
  • The paper deals with integrated navigation and sense & avoid systems for small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). First an introduction to the current UAV activities of the institute is given. It is followed by an overview about the integrated navigation system developed for small UAVs. The system is based on a tightly-coupled GPS/INS architecture. But instead of using delta-ranges, time-differenced carrier phases are used to aid the INS. Finally, results from navigation filter validation in flight tests are presented. After that an overview about sense and avoid strategies for application in small unmanned aircraft is given. From this a guideline for developing such a system for the institute's UAVs is presented.

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Optimal Preventive Maintenance Period in Complex Systems in Considering Components Reliability Characteristic (하부 구성품의 신뢰도 특성을 고려한 복합 시스템의 최적 예방정비 주기 산출)

  • Lee, Youn-Ho;Lee, Ik-Do;Lee, Dong-Woo;Sohn, Ki-Hong
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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    • v.37 no.4
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    • pp.390-399
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    • 2011
  • Generally the life-cycle cost of complex systems composed of several sub systems or equipments such as train, aircraft weapon systems is spent much more during operation and maintenance phase than development phase. The maintenance cost for maintaining the availability and extending the life span of systems comprise a large proportion of systems operation cost. The cycle of preventive maintenance affects operation and maintenance cost a lot. In this study we introduce a way minimizing life-cycle cost of systems by calculating more reliable preventive maintenance period than the results of previous study using systems reliability data considered the reliability and failure effect ratio of sub-systems or components. We can solve the preventive maintenance period problem known as NP-Hard as quick as possible by using modified genetic algorithm than using other models introduced in previous study.

Effective Use of Radio Altimeter in GPS/DME Integrated Navigation Systems (GPS/DME 통합항법시스템에서 전파고도계의 효과적인 사용)

  • Koo, Moonsuk;So, Hyoungmin;Oh, Sang Heon;Hwang, Dong-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.272-279
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    • 2016
  • Many researches on use of local ground navigation systems can be found to overcome vulnerability of GNSS. Effective use of an altimeter is proposed in GNSS/DME integrated navigation systems. A weighted DOP based on statistics of measurement error is derived for a given vehicle motion trajectory. From the derived DOP, the vertical error is estimated. By comparing the estimated vertical error with error specification of the altimeter, use of the altimeter is determined in the GPS/DME integrated navigation systems. In order to show effectiveness of the proposed method, 50 times Monte-Carlo simulations were performed for a GPS/DME integrated navigation system. The results show that the proposed method gives more accurate navigation outputs when the number of GPS satellites in view varies.