• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제49권2호
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• pp.313-326
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• 2017

The systematic management of plant risk is crucial for enhancing the safety of nuclear power plants and for designing new nuclear power plants. Accident sequence precursor (ASP) analysis may be able to provide risk significance of operational experience by using probabilistic risk assessment to evaluate an operational event quantitatively in terms of its impact on core damage. In this study, an ASP methodology for two operation mode, full power and low power/shutdown operation, has been developed and applied to significant accident precursors that may occur during the operation of nuclear power plants. Two operational events, loss of feedwater and steam generator tube rupture, are identified as ASPs. Therefore, the ASP methodology developed in this study may contribute to identifying plant risk significance as well as to enhancing the safety of nuclear power plants by applying this methodology systematically.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1997년도 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.985-987
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• 1997

AMR(Automated Meter Reading) has been considered to solve the lack of meter mem caused by the rise of cost, inefficiency of manual meter reading. Demand forecasting and efficient management of facilities can be accomplished by increasing meter reading efficiency and correcting various data. In this paper, we introduce AMR system using LV PLC in KANG-DONG blanch office of KEPCO.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.211-221
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• 2012

한정된 자원으로 인해 개발이 더디게 진행되어오던 무선 센서 네트워크(Wireless Sensor Network)가 하드웨어 및 전원관리 기술의 발달로 인해 최근 IP를 기반으로 하는 IP-WSN으로 개발되고 있다. 그 방안으로 저 전력 장치에 IPv6를 탑재할 수 있는 6LoWPAN (IPv6 over Low power WPAN)이 주목받고 있다. 이런 IP 기반의 센서 네트워크에서는 기존 무선 센서 네트워크에서는 불가능하던 IP 기반의 기법들이 가능해진다. 6LoWPAN은 IEEE 802.15.4를 기반으로 하는 센서 네트워크에 IPv6를 지원하기 위한 기술이다. 호스트 기반의 이동성 관리 기법은 IP-WSN에 부가적인 시그널링으로 인해 적합하지 않고, 네트워크 기반의 이동성 관리 기법이 적합하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 다중 6LoWPAN 네트워크 환경을 고려한 PMIPv6 기반의 향상된 경로 최적화 방안을 제안한다. 6LoWPAN 도메인의 모든 SLMA(Sensor Local Mobility Anchor)는 SPIG(Sensor Proxy Internetworking Gateway)에 연결되어 6LoWPAN도메인 간 분산 이동성 제어를 수행한다. 6LoWPAN 도메인 내 모든 SLMA의 정보를 SMAG(Sensor Mobile Access Gateway)가 유지하도록 하여 신속하게 경로 최적화를 수행하도록 하였으며, SLMA에 경로 최적화 상태 정보를 SPIG로부터 수신받아 저장하여 추가적인 시그널링 없이 경로 최적화를 지원하도록 한다.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전력기술부문A
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• 제54권1호
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• pp.18-24
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• 2005

Various problems such as the increase of the power loss and the voltage instability may often occur in the case of low load power factor. The demand of reactive power increases continuously with the growth of active power and the restructuring of electric power companies makes the comprehensive management of reactive power a troublesome problem, so that the systematic control of load power factor is required. In this paper, the load power factor sensitivity of the generation cost is derived and it is used for determining the locations of reactive power compensation devices effectively and for enhancing the load power factor appropriately. In addition, the voltage variation penalty cost is introduced and the integrated costs including the voltage variation penalty cost are used for determining the value of the load power factor from the point of view of the economic investment and voltage regulation. It is shown through the application to a large-scale power system that the load power factor can be enhanced effectively and appropriately using the load power factor sensitivity and integrated costs.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.186-196
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• 2013

This paper presents a low voltage-stress AC-linked charge equalizing system for balancing the energy in a serially connected, valve-regulated lead acid battery string using a modular converter that consists of multiple transformers coupled together. Each converter was coupled through an AC-linked bus to increase the overall energy transfer efficiency of the system and to eliminate the problem of the unbalanced charging of batteries. Previous solutions are based on centralized and modularized topologies. A centralized topology requires a redesign of the hardware and related components. It also faces a high voltage stress when the number of batteries is expanded. Modularized solutions use low-voltage-stress, double-stage, DC-linked topologies which leads to poor energy transfer efficiency. The proposed solution uses a low-voltage stress, AC-linked, modularized topology that makes adding more batteries easier. It also has a better energy transfer efficiency. To ensure that the charge equalization system operates smoothly and safely charges batteries, a small intelligent microcontroller was used in the control section. The efficiency of this charge equalization system is 85%, which is 21% better than other low-voltage-stress DC-linked charging techniques. The validity of this approach was confirmed by experimental results.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.538-545
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• 1999

Objective : To compare the predictive power of International Classification of Diseases 10th Edition(ICD-10) based International Classification of Diseases based Injury Severity Score(ICISS) with Trauma and Injury Severity Score(TRISS) and International Classification of Diseases 9th Edition Clinical Modification(ICD-9CM) based ICISS in the injury severity measure. Methods : ICD-10 version of Survival Risk Ratios(SRRs) was derived from 47,750 trauma patients from 35 Emergency Centers for 1 year. The predictive power of TRISS, the ICD-9CM based ICISS and ICD-10 based ICISS were compared in a group of 367 severely injured patients admitted to two university hospitals. The predictive power was compared by using the measures of discrimination(disparity, sensitivity, specificity, misclassification rates, and ROC curve analysis) and calibration(Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness-of-fit statistics), all calculated by logistic regression procedure. Results : ICD-10 based ICISS showed a lower performance than TRISS and ICD-9CM based ICISS. When age and Revised Trauma Score(RTS) were incorporated into the survival probability model, however, ICD-10 based ICISS full model showed a similar predictive power compared with TRISS and ICD-9CM based ICISS full model. ICD-10 based ICISS had some disadvantages in predicting outcomes among patients with intracranial injuries. However, such weakness was largely compensated by incorporating age and RTS in the model. Conclusions : The ICISS methodology can be extended to ICD-10 horizon as a standard injury severity measure in the place of TRISS, especially when age and RTS were incorporated in the model. In patients with intracranial injuries, the predictive power of ICD-10 based ICISS was relatively low because of differences in the classifying system between ICD-10 and ICD-9CM.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제13권8호
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• pp.245-251
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• 2015

디지털 사이니지 시스템이 윈도우 OS에 장착 된 PC에서 작동 될 경우, 구현 가격이 매우 높다. 이러한 문제점을 해소하고자, 최신 스마트폰에 활용되는 ARM Coretex계열의 멀티코어 프로세서가 탑재된 안드로이드 OS 플랫폼 기반의 저전력 저가격의 디지털 사이니지 시스템과, 원격제어기술을 응용하여 어디서나 광고단말기를 원격제어하고 원격콘텐츠를 관리할 수 있는 융복합형 웹서버 기반의 원격 콘텐츠 관리용 서버프로그램을 개발하였다. 구현된 시스템은 디스플레이를 포함한 일체화된 디지털 사이니지 시스템으로, 저전력 모바일 플랫폼을 최적화한 하드웨어 인터페이스로 설계 구현되었고, 상황정보센서를 이용하여 조도, 온도, 날씨, GPS등의 주변상황 정보를 습득한 서비스 융합형 모델을 구현하는 구조로 설계 구현되었다. 또한 콘텐츠 자동생성 모듈은 컨텐츠 사용자에게 전용 저작 도구와 SMIL 기반의 자동으로 가동되도록 프레임 워크에 의해 규정된 컨텐츠를 제공하고, 사용자 정보 데이터베이스에 저장된 사용자 정보를 참조하여 사용자별 맞춤형 SMIL 컨텐츠를 생성해주는 융복합형 기능이 구현되었다. 개발된 디지털 사이니지 시스템은 기존 윈도우 OS 환경 대비 50% 이상의 소비전력 저감과 16포인트 멀티터치 기능을 구현하였고 상용화를 위한 기본 환경시험성능을 모두 만족하였다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.451-460
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• 2006

Since low earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations have important advantages over geosynchronous earth orbit (GEO) systems such as low propagation delay, low power requirements, and more efficient spectrum allocation due to frequency reuse between satellites and spotbeams, they are considered to be used to complement the existing terrestrial fixed and wireless networks in the evolving global mobile network. However, one of the major problems with LEO satellites is their higher speed relative to the terrestrial mobile terminals, which move at lower speeds but at more random directions. Therefore, handover management in LEO satellite networks becomes a very challenging task for supporting global mobile communication. Efficient and accurate methods are needed for LEO satellite handovers between the moving footprints. In this paper, we propose a new seamless handover management scheme for LEO satellites (SeaHO-LEO), which utilizes the handover management schemes aiming at decreasing latency, data loss, and handover blocking probability. We also present another interesting handover management model called satellite mobility pattern based handover management in LEO satellites (PatHO-LEO) which takes mobility pattern of both satellites and mobile terminals into account to minimize the handover messaging traffic. This is achieved by the newly introduced billboard manager which is used for location updates of mobile users and satellites. The billboard manager makes the proposed handover model much more flexible and easier than the current solutions, since it is a central server and supports the management of the whole system. To show the performance of the proposed algorithms, we run an extensive set of simulations both for the proposed algorithms and well known handover management methods as a baseline model. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithms are very promising for seamless handover in LEO satellites.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.259-269
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• 2007

The ubiquitous flexible operating system (UbiFOS) is a real-time operating system designed for cost-conscious, low-power, small to medium-sized embedded systems such as cellular phones, MP3 players, and wearable computers. It offers efficient real-time operating system services like multi-task scheduling, memory management, inter-task communication and synchronization, and timers while keeping the kernel size to just a few to tens of kilobytes. For flexibility, UbiFOS uses various task scheduling policies such as cyclic time-slice (round-robin), priority-based preemption with round-robin, priority-based preemptive, and bitmap. When there are less than 64 tasks, bitmap scheduling is the best policy. The scheduling overhead is under 9 ${\mu}s$ on the ARM926EJ processor. UbiFOS also provides the flexibility for user to select from several inter-task communication techniques according to their applications. We ported UbiFOS on the ARM9-based DVD player (20 kB), the Calm16-based MP3 player (under 7 kB), and the ATmega128-based ubiquitous sensor node (under 6 kB). Also, we adopted the dynamic power management (DPM) scheme. Comparative experimental results show that UbiFOS could save energy up to 30% using DPM.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.38-44
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 배전선의 전압관리를 위한 계측시스템의 개발에 관하여 제안한다. 배전선 전압특성 및 측정상의 문제점이 분석되고, 전압관리를 위한 계측기의 기능에 대하여 제안한다. 노이즈 특성이 좋은 이중기울기(dual-slope) 방식의 A/D 컨버터를 적용하여 전압측정을 하는 알고리즘과 배전선 전압관리계기의 개발에 관하여 제안한다. IEEE 1159기준 분석에 따른 배전선의 정전 및 복귀 와 규정전압 초과 빈도 수 같은 전압변동 특성 등이 데이터베이스 제안에 의하여 분석된다. 실험을 통하여 그 편리성이 증명된다.