• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.379-402
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• 2021

Traditional approaches for structural health monitoring (SHM) seldom take ambient uncertainty (temperature, humidity, ambient vibration) into consideration, while their impacts on structural responses are substantial, leading to a possibility of raising false alarms. A few predictors model-based approaches deal with these uncertainties through complex numerical models running online, rendering the SHM approach to be compute-intensive, slow, and sometimes not practical. Also, with model-based approaches, the imperative need for a precise understanding of the structure often poses a problem for not so well understood complex systems. The present study employs a data-based approach coupled with Empirical mode decomposition (EMD) to correlate recorded response time histories under varying temperature conditions to corresponding damage scenarios. EMD decomposes the response signal into a finite set of intrinsic mode functions (IMFs). A two-dimensional Convolutional Neural Network (2DCNN) is further trained to associate these IMFs to the respective damage cases. The use of IMFs in place of raw signals helps to reduce the impact of sensor noise while preserving the essential spatio-temporal information less-sensitive to thermal effects and thereby stands as a better damage-sensitive feature than the raw signal itself. The proposed algorithm is numerically tested on a single span bridge under varying temperature conditions for different damage severities. The dynamic strain is recorded as the response since they are frame-invariant and cheaper to install. The proposed algorithm has been observed to be damage sensitive as well as sufficiently robust against measurement noise.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.75-91
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• 2024

Reliable wind signal reconstruction can be beneficial to the operational safety of long-span bridges. Non-Gaussian characteristics of wind signals make the reconstruction process challenging. In this paper, non-Gaussian wind signals are converted into a combined prediction of two kinds of features, actual wind speeds and wind angles of attack. First, two decomposition techniques, empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and variational mode decomposition (VMD), are introduced to decompose wind signals into intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) to reduce the randomness of wind signals. Their principles and applicability are also discussed. Then, four artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are utilized for wind signal reconstruction by combining the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm with back propagation neural network (BPNN), support vector regression (SVR), long short-term memory (LSTM) and bidirectional long short-term memory (Bi-LSTM), respectively. Measured wind signals from a bridge site in a deep-cutting gorge are taken as experimental subjects. The results showed that the reconstruction error of high-frequency components of EMD is too large. On the contrary, VMD fully extracts the multiscale rules of the signal, reduces the component complexity. The combination of VMD-PSO-Bi-LSTM is demonstrated to be the most effective among all hybrid models.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제54권6호
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• pp.30-39
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• 2017

본 논문은 디지털영역에서의 평균화 기법을 이용한 cyclic ADC의 디지털 보정기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 보정기법은 1.5비트 MDAC의 커패시터 부정합으로 인해 발생하는 ADC의 비선형성을 보정한다. 부정합을 지니는 커패시터로 이루어진 1.5비트 MDAC은 이상적인 1.5비트 MDAC의 레지듀 플롯(residue plot)에 대해 대칭적인 레지듀 플롯을 지닌다. 커패시터 부정합을 지니는 1.5비트 MDAC의 고유한 레지듀 플롯은 대칭적인 아날로그-디지털 전달함수로 반영된다. 이상적인 아날로그-디지털 전달함수에 대해 대칭적인 두 아날로그-디지털 전달함수를 평균화함으로써, 비선형성이 보정된 아날로그-디지털 전달함수를 얻을 수 있다. 해당 아날로그-디지털 전달함수 평균화의 구현을 위해, 본 논문의 12비트 cyclic ADC는 1.5비트 MDAC의 동작 모드를 2개로 정의한다. 해당 cyclic ADC는 MDAC을 첫 번째 동작모드로 동작시킴으로써, 비선형성을 지니는 12.5비트 출력 코드를 획득한다. 샘플링 된 동일한 입력 아날로그 전압에 대해, MDAC을 두 번째 동작모드로 동작시킴으로써, cyclic ADC는 비선형성을 지니는 또 다른 12.5비트 출력 코드를 획득한다. 각 MDAC의 동작모드에 의해 발생하는 아날로그-디지털 전달함수는 이상적인 아날로그-디지털 전달함수에 대해 대칭적이기 때문에, 앞서 획득한 두 개의 비선형성을 지니는 12.5비트를 평균화함으로써, 비선형성이 보정된 최종 12비트 출력 코드를 획득할 수 있다. 제안하는 디지털 보정기법과 12비트 cyclic ADC는 $0.18-{\mu}m$ CMOS 공정을 이용하여 full-custom 형식으로 구현되었다. 측정된 SNDR(ENOB)와 SFDR은 각각 65.3dB(10.6비트 ENOB)와 71.7dB이다. 측정된 INL과 DNL은 각각 -0.30/+0.33LSB와 -0.63/+0.56LSB이다.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.579-586
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• 2018

단기 통행속도 예측을 위해 데이터 기반 비모수적 기법들을 활용한 다양한 연구들이 수행되고 있다. 그럼에도 교통신호 및 교차로로 인한 복잡한 동적 특성을 가지는 도시부의 예측 연구는 상대적으로 부족한 실정이다. 본 연구는 도시부 통행 속도를 예측하기 위해 앙상블 경험적 모드 분해법(EEMD)과 인공신경망(ANN)을 이용한 하이브리드 접근법을 제안하는 것을 목적으로 한다. EEMD는 통행속도의 시계열 자료를 고유모드함수(IMF)와 오차항으로 분해한다. 분해된 IMF는 시간단위의 국지적 특성을 반영하며, ANN을 통해 개별적으로 예측된다. IMF는 원본데이터가 가진 비선형성, 비정상성, 진동 등의 복잡성을 완화하기 때문에, 원래의 통행속도에 비하여 더 정확하게 예측될 수 있다. 예측된 IMF들은 합산되어 예측 통행속도를 표현한다. 본 연구에서 제시된 방법을 검증하기 위하여 대구시의 DSRC로부터 구득된 통행속도 데이터가 활용된다. 성능평가는 도시부 링크 중 특히 예측이 어려운 지점에 대해 수행되었으며, 분석 결과 제시된 모형은 15분 후 예측에 대해 각각 평상시 10.41%, 와해상태시 25.35%의 오차율을 가지며, 단순 ANN 기법에 비하여 우수한 성능을 보이는 것으로 확인된다. 본 연구에서 개발된 모형은 도시교통관리체계의 신뢰성 있는 교통정보를 제공하는 데에 기여할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.700-708
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• 2014

제트엔진 변조(Jet Engine Modulation: JEM)는 회전하는 제트엔진 터빈으로부터의 전자기 산란에 따른 레이더 신호의 주파수 변조 현상이다. JEM은 표적의 고유한 정보를 제공하여 대표적인 레이더 표적 인식 수단으로 활용되나, JEM 성분이 미약하게 존재하는 레이더 관측 범위에서는 JEM에 의한 레이더 표적 인식 성능이 저하될 수 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 복소 신호의 경험적인 모드분리법(Complex Empirical Mode Decomposition: CEMD)를 이용하여 레이더 신호를 여러 기본성분인 고유 모드 함수(Intrinsic Mode Function: IMF)로 분리하고, 신호의 이심률을 기반으로 이들 IMF를 조합하는 근거를 제공하여 JEM 성분을 추출하는 기법을 제시한다. 다양한 신호에 대한 적용 결과를 통하여 제안된 기법이 JEM의 명확성을 개선하는 한편, JEM 해석의 유효 관측 범위를 확장시킬 수 있음을 입증하였다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.587-609
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• 2018

There is greater significance in identifying the incipient damages in structures at the time of their initiation as timely rectification of these minor incipient cracks can save huge maintenance cost. However, the change in the global dynamic characteristics of a structure due to these subtle damages are insignificant enough to detect using the majority of the current damage diagnostic techniques. Keeping this in view, we propose a hybrid damage diagnostic technique for detection of minor incipient damages in the structures. In the proposed automated hybrid algorithm, the raw dynamic signatures obtained from the structure are decomposed to uni-modal signals and the dynamic signature are reconstructed by identifying and combining only the uni-modal signals altered by the minor incipient damage. We use these reconstructed signals for damage diagnostics using ARMAX model. Numerical simulation studies are carried out to investigate and evaluate the proposed hybrid damage diagnostic algorithm and their capability in identifying minor/incipient damage with noisy measurements. Finally, experimental studies on a beam are also presented to compliment the numerical simulations in order to demonstrate the practical application of the proposed algorithm.

• Mass Spectrometry Letters
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.31-37
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• 2015

Phosphorylation upon protein is well known to a key regulator that implicates in modulating many cellular processes like growth, migration, and differentiation. Up to date, grafting of multidimensional separation techniques onto advanced mass spectrometry (MS) has emerged as a promising tool for figuring out the biological functions of phosphorylation in a cell. However, advanced MS-based phosphoproteomics is still challenging, due to its intrinsic issues, i.e., low stoichiometry, less susceptibility in positive ion mode, and low abundance in biological sample. To overcome these bottlenecks, diverse techniques (e.g., SCX, HILIC, ERLIC, IMAC, TiO₂, etc.) are continuously developed for on-/off-line enrichment of phosphorylated protein (or peptide) from biological samples, thereby helping qualitative/quantitative determination of phosphorylated protein and its phosphorylated sites. In this review, we introduce to the overall views of enrichment tools that are universally used to selectively isolate targeted phosphorylated protein (or peptide) from ordinary ones before MS-based phospoproteomic analysis.

• 생물정신의학
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.68-74
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• 2017

Objectives It is well known that problem drinking is associated with alterations of brain structures and functions. Brain functions related to alcohol consumption can be determined by the resting state functional connectivity in various resting state networks (RSNs). This study aims to ascertain the alcohol effect on the structures forming predetermined RSNs by assessing their cortical thickness. Methods Twenty-six abstinent male patients with alcohol dependence and the same number of age-matched healthy control were recruited from an inpatient mental hospital and community. All participants underwent a 3T MRI scan. Averaged cortical thickness of areas constituting 7 RSNs were determined by using FreeSurfer with Yeo atlas derived from cortical parcellation estimated by intrinsic functional connectivity. Results There were significant group differences of mean cortical thicknesses (Cohen's d, corrected p) in ventral attention (1.01, < 0.01), dorsal attention (0.93, 0.01), somatomotor (0.90, 0.01), and visual (0.88, 0.02) networks. We could not find significant group differences in the default mode network. There were also significant group differences of gray matter volumes corrected by head size across the all networks. However, there were no group differences of surface area in each network. Conclusions There are differences in degree and pattern of structural recovery after abstinence across areas forming RSNs. Considering the previous observation that group differences of functional connectivity were significant only in networks related to task-positive networks such as dorsal attention and cognitive control networks, we can explain recovery pattern of cognition and emotion related to the default mode network and the mechanisms for craving and relapse associated with task-positive networks.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.1-13
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• 2015

This paper proposes an analytical mode decomposition (AMD) and Hilbert transform method for structural nonlinearity quantification and damage detection under earthquake loads. The measured structural response is first decomposed into several intrinsic mode functions (IMF) using the proposed AMD method. Each IMF is an amplitude modulated-frequency modulated signal with narrow frequency bandwidth. Then, the instantaneous frequencies of the decomposed IMF can be defined with Hilbert transform. However, for a nonlinear structure, the defined instantaneous frequencies from the decomposed IMF are not equal to the instantaneous frequencies of the structure itself. The theoretical derivation in this paper indicates that the instantaneous frequency of the decomposed measured response includes a slowly-varying part which represents the instantaneous frequency of the structure and rapidly-varying part for a nonlinear structure subjected to earthquake excitations. To eliminate the rapidly-varying part effects, the instantaneous frequency is integrated over time duration. Then the degree of nonlinearity index, which represents the damage severity of structure, is defined based on the integrated instantaneous frequency in this paper. A one-story hysteretic nonlinear structure with various earthquake excitations are simulated as numerical examples and the degree of nonlinearity index is obtained. Finally, the degree of nonlinearity index is estimated from the experimental data of a seven-story building under four earthquake excitations. The index values for the building subjected to a low intensity earthquake excitation, two medium intensity earthquake excitations, and a large intensity earthquake excitation are calculated as 12.8%, 23.0%, 23.2%, and 39.5%, respectively.

• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제44권5호
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• pp.45-54
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• 2007

시/주파수 분석은 생체 신호 처리에서 널리 사용되어왔다. 전기 생리학적 신호로부터 중요한 특징들을 추출함으로써 이 방법들은 특정 질병의 임상 병리학적 기전 해석이 가능하다. 하지만 이 방법은 신호가 안정하다는 가정 아래 적용되었으며 불안정한 시스템에서의 적용은 제한이 되어 있다. 본 연구에서는 비선형적이고 비정상적인 심실세동 심전도 파형의 분석을 위해 Hilbert-Huang 변환을 사용한 새로운 신호처리 방법을 제안하였다. Hilbert-Huang 변환은 경험모드분리법(EMD)과 힐버트 변환으로 크게 두 가지로 구성된다. Hilbert-Huang 변환은 EMD를 사용하여 각각의 특성을 지니고 있는 독립적인 내부모드함수들로 나누어지며, 힐버트 변환에 의해 순간 주파수와 크기를 구할 수 있게 된다. 이런 특성으로 신호의 국부적인 작용에 대하여 정확하게 설명할 수 있게 된다. 본 연구에서는 Hilbert-Huang 변환을 기반으로 심실세동 심전도 파형으로부터 두 종류의 파라미터(EMD-IF, EMD-FFT)를 추출하고 서포트 벡터 머신(Support Vector Machine)을 이용하여 소생성공 및 실패 여부 예측에 관하여 연구하였다. 평균적으로 민감도와 특이도는 각각 87.57%와 76.92%로 나타났다. Hilbert-Huang 변환은 더욱 정확하게 심실세동에서의 소생성공 예측을 가능하게 하였다.