• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.119-126
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 불규칙적인 종양의 움직임에서 각각의 움직임 파라미터에 의해 발생되는 토모테라피 장비의 선량 오차 특성을 분석하여, 각각의 파라미터가 선량에 미치는 효과를 확인하기 위해 간소화된 이론 모델을 적용, 시뮬레이션 분석을 수행하고자 한다. 간단한 분석적인 모델이 tumor motion parameters에 의한 motion-induced dose error를 분석하기 위해 사용되었다. 분석적인 모델은 실제 tomotherapy 장비를 이용한 static dose와 Simulated tumor motion를 이용하여 dose profile을 획득하는 것이다. 본 연구에서는 Static dose를 얻기 위해 Hi-art tomotherapy unit을 이용하였다. Simulated tumor motion은 internet accessible respiratory trace generator (RTG) program을 이용하여 획득되었다. 종양의 움직임은 불규칙한 정도가 큰 케이스와 작은 케이스, 실제 환자의 종양 움직임을 모사한 케이스로 구분하였다. 불규칙도가 작은 케이스의 경우 종양의 진폭, 주기, 베이스라인 등 종양 움직임 파라미터에 10% 변동을 인가 하였으며, 불규칙도가 큰 케이스의 경우 40%의 변동을 인가 하였다. 위상변동 케이스의 경우 종양의 초기위상이 end inhale, mid exhale, end exhale, and mid inhale으로 나뉘어 졌고, 시뮬레이션을 통해 획득된 각각의 선량분포결과가 비교되었다. 또한, 환자 케이스에서는 임상과 동일한 조건에서의 종양 움직임을 인가하여 선량 오차를 획득하였다. 종양의 움직임에 의한 선량은 시뮬레이션 과정을 통해 계산되었으며 이를 종양의 움직임이 없는 케이스와 비교하여 종양 움직임이 선량에 미치는 영향을 확인했다. 진폭, 주기, 베이스라인 등 종양 움직임 파라미터가 불규칙하게 변하는 경우, 종양이 불규칙하게 움직이는 케이스의 경우 불규칙도가 큰 케이스의 경우가 불규칙도가 작은 케이스와 규칙적으로 움직이는 케이스보다 더 큰 선량오차가 발생하였다. 상쇄 효과는 종양움직임의 불규칙성에 반비례하기 때문에, 종양 움직임의 불규칙성이 큰 케이스의 경우 불규칙성이 작은 케이스, 종양의 움직임이 규칙적인 케이스에 비해 더 적은 상쇄 효과가 발생하였다. 위상변동 케이스의 경우, 불규칙한 종양의 움직임 케이스에서 규칙적인 움직임 케이스보다 더 큰 선량 차이가 관찰되었고, 또한 환자케이스에서 규칙적인 종양의 움직임의 경우보다 더 큰 선량의 차이가 발견되었다. 본 연구에서는 불규칙적인 종양의 움직임에서 각각의 움직임 변수들의 불규칙성에 따른 발생되는 토모테라피에서의 선량 오차 특성을 분석하였다. 본 연구의 결과를 통해 불균일한 종양 움직임의 불규칙성을 제어하는 것에 대한 중요성을 확인할 수 있었고, 이러한 불균일성의 제어의 경우 복부압박이나 호흡 훈련을 통해 해결이 가능할 것으로 생각된다.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.203-217
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• 2013

A PTO (power-take-off) mechanism by using relative heave motions between a floating buoy and its inner mass (magnet or amateur) is suggested. The inner power take-off system is characterized by a mass with linear stiffness and damping. A vertical truncated cylinder is selected as a buoy and a special station-keeping system is proposed to minimize pitch motions while not affecting heave motions. By numerical examples, it is seen that the maximum power can actually be obtained at the optimal spring and damper condition, as predicted by the developed WEC(wave energy converter) theory. Then, based on the developed theory, several design strategies are proposed to further enhance the maximum PTO, which includes the intentional mismatching among heave natural frequency of the buoy, natural frequency of the inner dynamic system, and peak frequency of input wave spectrum. By using the intentional mismatching strategy, the generated power is actually increased and the required damping value is significantly reduced, which is a big advantage in designing the proposed WEC with practical inner LEG (linear electric generator) system.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2008년도 추계학술대회 논문집 Vol.21
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• pp.193-193
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• 2008

Wearable and ubiquitous micro systems will be greatly growing and their related devices should be self-powered in order to avoid the replacement of finite power sources, for example, by scavenging energy from the environment. With ever reducing power requirements of both analog and digital circuits, power scavenging approaches are becoming increasingly realistic. One approach is to drive an electromechanical converter from ambient motion or vibration. Vibration-driven generators based on electromagnetic, electrostatic and piezoelectric technologies have been demonstrated. Among various generator types proposed so far, piezoelectric generator possesses considerable potential in micro system. To overcome low mechanical-to-electric energy conversion, the piezoelectric device should activate in resonance mode in response to external vibration. Normally, the external vibration excretes at low frequency ranging 0.1 to 200 Hz, whereas the resonant frequencies of the devices are fixed as constant. Therefore, keeping their resonant mode in varying external vibration can be one of important points in enhancing the conversion efficiency. We investigated the possibility of use of multi-bender type piezoelectric devices. To match the external vibration frequency with the device resonant frequency, the various devices with different resonant frequency were chosen.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.285-292
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• 2016

For articulated swimming robots, there have been no researches about controlling the motion or trajectory following. A control method for articulated swimming robot is suggested by extending a previous algorithm, ESPG (Extended Swimming Pattern Generator). The control method focuses on the situation that continuous pre-determined swimming pattern is applied for long range travelling. In previous studies, there has not been a way to control the propulsive force when a swimming pattern created by ESPG was in progress. Hence, no control could be made unless the swimming pattern was completed even though an error occurred while the swimming pattern was in progress. In order to solve this problem, this study analyzes swimming patterns and suggests a method to control the propulsive force even while the swimming pattern was in progress. The angular velocity of each link is influenced and this eventually modifies the propulsive force. However, The angular velocity is changed, a number of problems can occur. In order to resolve this issue, phase compensation method and synchronization method were suggested. A simple controller was designed to confirm whether the suggested methods are able to control and a simulation has affirmed it. Moreover, it was applied to CALEB 10 (a biomimetic underwater articulated robot) and the result was verified.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2006년도 제37회 하계학술대회 논문집 B
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• pp.719-720
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• 2006

In the mechanical system, optimization of motion control is very essential in the aspect of automation technique progress. In the servo system, the function of controller is very important but most of the controllers have played only the role of pulse generator because the controller with main function is very expensive. In this thesis, the system was composed of PC, commonly used driver AC servo motor and a produced control board. The PC transmit a gain, a locus data to a driver and controller. At the same time, it converts imformation from the controller and convert them into data and offer an output with graph. The role of a controller is to trasmit a locus data to a driver and counting the pulse on the phase of an encoder to the PC. We have performed the experiment in order to confirm with variable PID parameter capable of the optimization of gain tuning with the counting of feedback control sensor signal with regard to the external interface into the system, such as torque. Based on the experiment result, we have confirmed as follows: First, it was confirmed that we could easily input control factors P.I Gain, constant $K_P,\;K_I$ into PC. Second, not only pulse generator function was possible, but with this pulse it was also possible to count using software with PIC chip. And third, using the multi-purpose PIC micro chip, simple operation and the formation of small size AC Servo Controller was possible.

• 한국기계연구소 소보
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• 통권19호
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• pp.125-139
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• 1989

As an adaptive control function generator, the CMAC (Cerebellar Model Arithmetic or Articulated Controller) based learning control has drawn a great attention to realize a rather robust real-time manipulator control under the various uncertainties. There remain, however, inherent problems to be solved in the CMAC application to robot motion control or perception of sensory information. To apply the CMAC to the various unmodeled or modeled systems more efficiently, it is necessary to analyze the effects of the CMAC control parameters on the trained net. Although the CMAC control parameters such as size of the quantizing block, learning gain, input offset, and ranges of input variables play a key role in the learning performance and system memory requirement, these have not been fully investigated yet. These parameters should be determined, of course, considering the shape of the desired function to be trained and learning algorithms applied. In this paper, the interrelation of these parameters with learning performance is investigated under the basic learning schemes presented by authors. Since an analytic approach only seems to be very difficult and even impossible for this purpose, various simulations have been performed with pre specified functions and their results were analyzed. A general step following design guide was set up according to the various simulation results.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.201-206
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• 2005

Fretting, which is a special type of wear, is defined as small amplitude relative motion along the contacting interface between two materials. The structural integrity of steam generators in nuclear power plants is very much dependent upon the fretting wear characteristics of Inconel 690 U-tubes. In this study, a finite element model that can simulate fretting wear on the secondary side of the steam generator was developed and used for a quantitative investigation of the fretting wear phenomenon. Finite element modeling of elastic contact wear problems was performed to demonstrate the feasibility of applying the finite element method to fretting wear problems. The elastic beam problem, with existing solutions, is treated as a numerical example. By introducing a control parameter s, which scaled up the wear constant and scaled down the cycle numbers, the algorithm was shown to greatly reduce the time required for the analysis. The work rate model was adopted in the wear model. In the three-dimensional finite element analysis, a quarterly symmetric model was used to simulate cross tubes contacting at right angles. The wear constant of Inconel 690 in the work rate model was taken as $K=26.7{\times}10^{-15}\;Pa^{-1}$ from experimental data obtained using a fretting wear test rig with a piezoelectric actuator. The analyses revealed donut-shaped wear along the contacting boundary, which is a typical feature of fretting wear.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.375-385
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• 2016

Given the rapid progress made in understanding the dynamics of an offshore floating body in an ocean environment, the present study aimed to simulate ocean waves in a small-sized wave flume and to observe the motion of a cylindrical floating body placed in an offshore environment. To generate regular ocean waves in a wave flume, we combined a wave generator and a wave absorber. In addition, to precisely visualise the oscillation of the body, a set of light-emitting diode illuminators and a high-speed charge-coupled device camera were installed in the flume. This study also focuses on the spectral analysis of the movement of the floating body. The wave generator and absorbers worked well to simulate stable regular waves. In addition, the simulated waves agreed well with the plane waves predicted by shallow-water theory. As the period of the oncoming waves changed, the movement of the floating body was substantially different when tethered to a tension-leg mooring cable. In particular, when connected to the tension-leg mooring cable, the natural frequency of the floating body appeared suddenly at 0.391 Hz as the wave period increased.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.25-34
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• 2017

The concentric dual-buoy Wave Energy Converter (WEC), which consists of external buoy (hallow-cylinder) with toroidal appendage and cylindrical internal buoy within the moon-pool is suggested in this research and its performance in various wave conditions is studied. The Linear Electric Generator (LEG), consisting of a permanent magnet and coils, is used as a direct Power Take-Off (PTO) system. To maximize the electrical energy extracted from the PTO system, the relative heave motions between the dual buoys must be highly amplified by the multiple resonance phenomena of dual-buoy and internal-fluid motions. The high-performance range can be widened by distributing those natural frequencies with respect to the peak frequency of the wave spectrum. The performance of the newly developed dual-buoy WEC was measured throughout the systematic 1:5.95-model test in regular and irregular waves conducted in a wave tank at Seoul National University. The model-test results are also validated by an independently developed numerical method.

• 한국가시화정보학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.67-73
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• 2020

Flexible structures have been adopted in heat transfer systems as vortex generators. The flexible vortex generators immersed in a flow show a self-sustained oscillatory motion, which enhances fluid mixing and heat transfer. In the present study, the vortex generators in a two-dimensional channel flow are numerically investigated, and they are symmetrically mounted on the upper and lower walls with an inclination angle. The momentum interaction and heat transfer between the flexible vortex generators and the surrounding fluid are considered by using an immersed boundary method. The inclination angle is one of the important factors in determining the flapping kinematics of the flexible vortex generators. The flapping amplitude increases as the inclination angle increases, thereby enhancing fluid mixing. The heat transfer is enhanced up to 80% comparing to the baseline channel flow.