• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.80-82
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• 2004

Personal robot consist of various modules that have independent functions. Because personal robot has requirement that support various construction for user's tendency. Therefore, Middleware mechanism at support not only personal robot's main functional element but also embedded modules functional elements is required. Each module have various heterogeneous network interfaces and variable services and variables. Therefore, Middleware must support these various network interfaces. This paper, pointed in Controller Area Network(CAN) inreface that usually used in embedded system for control. For connect various heterogeneous network interfaces (Ethernet, RS232 etc..), it is necessary to modify bagic CAN frame format. And also make some kind of BUS topology for CAN network.

• MALSORI
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• no.60
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• pp.125-144
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• 2006

W3C announced a standard software architecture for multimodal context-aware middleware that emphasizes modularity and separates structure, contents, and presentation. We implemented a distributed multimodal interface system followed the W3C architecture, based on SCXML. SCXML uses parallel states to invoke both XHTML and VoiceXML contents as well as to gather composite or sequential multimodal inputs through man-machine interactions. We also hire Delivery Context Interface(DCI) module and an external service bundle enabling middleware to support context-awareness services for real world environments. The provision of personalized user interfaces for mobile devices is expected to be used for different devices with a wide variety of capabilities and interaction modalities. We demonstrated the implemented middleware could maintain multimodal scenarios in a clear, concise and consistent manner by some experiments.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.1321-1328
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• 2008

The monitoring and controlling systems on middleware for agriculture service instead of pigpen is focused on context-awareness and event-centric structure in this paper. By processing and monitoring context information which obtained from a sensor field, the u-Farm middleware is to promptly provide the response for various queries from agriculture's application service. It allows a device to provide optimal ubiquitous farm environment.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.146-148
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• 2011

홈 네트워크 분야는 현재 유무선 통신과 디지털 정보 기기를 기반으로 지능화 된 주거 공간을 제공하고자 하는 스마트 홈 연구가 활발하게 진행 중이다. 최근 사용자에게 더 편리하고 실용적인 스마트 홈 서비스를 어떻게 제공할 것인가에 대한 이슈가 대두되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이를 위해 범용성, 유용성, 편의성을 고려한 서비스에 대해 연구하였다. 플랫폼 독립적인 웹서비스를 기반으로 홈 내 자원에 대한 기본 정보을 제공하고, 자원 사이의 관계 상황을 찾아 새로운 관계 정보를 제공한다. 이를 활용하여 사용자 편의적인 인터페이스를 가진 모바일 응용 프로그램을 개발하였다. 향후 장애 정보와 결합하여 홈 내 유지보수 서비스로의 확장을 기대한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.1549-1550
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• 2011

현재의 다양한 메쉬업(Mashup) 기술은 웹에서 제공되는 데이터, 웹서비스, RSS/Atom 피드 등에만 사용이 국한되어 있기 때문에, 클라우드 환경에 적용하게 되면 SaaS(Software as a Service) 형태의 서비스로만 구성되게 된다. 하지만, 클라우드에서는 인프라 자원들도 서비스의 형태로 접근될 수 있으며, 이를 이용한 메쉬업이 가능하다. 이에 본 논문에서는 클라우드의 인프라 자원 및 SaaS 형태의 서비스를 메쉬업 할 수 있는 효율적인 미들웨어 구조를 제안하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2011.06a
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• pp.1521-1522
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• 2011

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.55-64
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• 2009

For realizing ubiquitous computing, many research activities are geared towards various areas including embedded computing, RFID, USN, home networking, context-awareness, and etc. By using the ability of RFID technology to recognize a number of objects simultaneously, more convenient ubiquitous application services are effectively provided. In this case, RFID middleware playing a role as a bridge between RFID reader devices and application services is required as well. In this paper, we propose a method of handling a number of types of RFID reader devices in ALE middleware of EPCglobal. For this, the information of connection and data protocol for a reader device is stored in a database as ontology meta-data, and used to interpret the data read by a reader device. By adding ontology data into a database, even though an RFID device newly emerges, ALE middleware can not only handle the device, but also be effectively extended through reusing ontology data, without any changes in the middleware.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.217-228
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• 2016

Linux it self does not support real-time. To solve this problem RTiK-Linux was designed to support real-time in the kernel space. However, since the user space does not support real-time, it is not easy to develop application. In this paper, we designed and implemented a RTiK-middleware to support real-time in the user space. RTiK-middleware provides real-time scheduling for user space through signal request period after to register process information with request period using apis on application. To evaluate the performance of the proposed RTiK-middleware, we measured the periods of generated real-time threads using RDTSC instructions, and verified that RTiK-middleware operates correctly within the error ranges of 1ms.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.80-89
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• 2008

Because of different hardware specifications, there are no unified protocol commands to use with various kinds of RFID readers. The current commercial RFID middlewares do not satisfy the various requirements from users to support business process logic representation. The EPCglobal, which is leading organization for the RFID research, suggested a RFID middleware architecture which is called ALE(Application Level Events) standard. However, their architecture also does not provide the application level's interfaces. Therefore, a new RFID middleware architecture is required to provide basic RFID functions, conform to ALE's specification and, additionally, support application level's business logic representation. This paper proposes a ALE-based RFID middleware architecture which provides business process logic representation. At first, the basic RFID control functionalities are identified. Secondly, the business process logic requirements in RFID applications are identified and classified Into six categories. Third, the Middelware architecture is implemented with Java and XML technology so that it can easily extended to support the various RFID hardware's protocols. Finally, an example RFID prototype system is developed to show the proposed architecture's feasibility and validate it. The proposed middleware is expected to be used In various application areas since it is using XML technology for easy adaptation and it also con- forms to ALE interface which is standard specification.

• Transactions on Control, Automation and Systems Engineering
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.181-189
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• 2001

The software components of embedded control systems get extremely complex as they are designed into distributed systems get extremely complex as they are designed into distributed systems consisting of a large number of inexpensive microcontrollers interconnected by low-bandwidth real-time networks such as the controller area network (CAN). While recently emerging middleware technologies such as CORBA and DCOM address the complexity of distributed programming, they cannot be directly applied to distributed control system design due to their excessive resource demand and inadequate communication models. In this paper, we propose a CORBA-based middleware design for CAN-based distributed embedded control systems. Our design goal is to minimize its resource need and make it support group communication without losing the IDL (interface definition language) level compliance to the OMG standards. To achieve this, we develop a transport protocol on the CAN and a group communication scheme based on the well-known publisher/subscriber model. The protocol effectively realizes subject-based addressing and supports anonymous publisher/subscriber communication. We also customize the method invocation and message passing protocol, referred to as the general inter-ORB protocol (GIOP), of CORBA so that CORBA method invocations are efficiently serviced on a low-bandwidth network such as the CAN. This customization includes packed data encoding and variable-length integer encoding for compact representation of IDL data types. We have implemented our CORBA-based middleware on the mArx real-time operating system we have developed at Seoul National University. Our experiments clearly demonstrate that it is feasible to use CORBA in developing distributed embedded control systems possessing severe resource limitations. Our design clearly demonstrates that it is feasible to use a CORBA-based middleware in developing distributed embedded systems on real-time networks possessing severe resource limitations.