• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.243-256
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• 2019

Determination of the most meaningful structural modes and gaining insight into how these modes evolve are important issues for long-term structural health monitoring of the long-span bridges. To address this issue, modal parameters identified throughout the life of the bridge need to be compared and linked with each other, which is the process of mode tracking. The modal frequencies for a long-span bridge are typically closely-spaced, sensitive to the environment (e.g., temperature, wind, traffic, etc.), which makes the automated tracking of modal parameters a difficult process, often requiring human intervention. Machine learning methods are well-suited for uncovering complex underlying relationships between processes and thus have the potential to realize accurate and automated modal tracking. In this study, Gaussian mixture model (GMM), a popular unsupervised machine learning method, is employed to automatically determine and update baseline modal properties from the identified unlabeled modal parameters. On this foundation, a new mode tracking method is proposed for automated mode tracking for long-span bridges. Firstly, a numerical example for a three-degree-of-freedom system is employed to validate the feasibility of using GMM to automatically determine the baseline modal properties. Subsequently, the field monitoring data of a long-span bridge are utilized to illustrate the practical usage of GMM for automated determination of the baseline list. Finally, the continuously monitoring bridge acceleration data during strong typhoon events are employed to validate the reliability of proposed method in tracking the changing modal parameters. Results show that the proposed method can automatically track the modal parameters in disastrous scenarios and provide valuable references for condition assessment of the bridge structure.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2023년도 학술발표회
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• pp.314-314
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• 2023

Extreme climate events can have a large impact on human life by hampering social, environmental, and economic development. Global circulation models (GCMs) are the widely used numerical models to understand the anticipated future climate change. However, different GCMs can project different future climates due to structural differences, varying initial boundary conditions and assumptions about the physical phenomena. The multi-model ensemble (MME) approach can improve the uncertainties associated with the different GCM outcomes. In this study, a comprehensive rating metric was used to select the best-performing GCMs out of 11 CMIP5 and 13 CMIP6 GCMs, according to their skills in terms of four temporal and five spatial performance indices, in replicating the 21 extreme climate indices during the baseline (1975-2017) in South Korea. The MME data were derived by averaging the simulations from all selected GCMs and three top-ranked GCMs. The random forest (RF) algorithm was also used to derive the MME data from the three top-ranked GCMs. The RF-derived MME data of the three top-ranked GCMs showed the highest performance in simulating the baseline extreme climate which was subsequently used to project the future extreme climate indices under both the representative concentration pathway (RCP) and the socioeconomic concentration pathway scenarios (SSP). The extreme cold and warming indices had declining and increasing trends, respectively, and most extreme precipitation indices had increasing trends over the period 2031-2100. Compared to all scenarios, RCP8.5 showed drastic changes in future extreme climate indices. The coasts in the east, south and west had stronger warming than the rest of the country, while mountain areas in the north experienced more extreme cold. While extreme cold climatology gradually declined from north to south, extreme warming climatology continuously grew from coastal to inland and northern mountainous regions. The results showed that the socially, environmentally and agriculturally important regions of South Korea were at increased risk of facing the detrimental impacts of extreme climatology.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제51권3호
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• pp.807-817
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• 2019

Airborne Gamma Ray Spectrometry (AGRS) with its important applications such as gathering radiation information of ground surface, geochemistry measuring of the abundance of Potassium, Thorium and Uranium in outer earth layer, environmental and nuclear site surveillance has a key role in the field of nuclear science and human life. The Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno (BFGS), with its advanced numerical unconstrained nonlinear optimization in collaboration with Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) provides a noteworthy opportunity for modern AGRS. In this study a new AGRS system empowered by ANN-BFGS has been proposed and evaluated on available empirical AGRS data. To that effect different architectures of adaptive ANN-BFGS were implemented for a sort of published experimental AGRS outputs. The selected approach among of various training methods, with its low iteration cost and nondiagonal scaling allocation is a new powerful algorithm for AGRS data due to its inherent stochastic properties. Experiments were performed by different architectures and trainings, the selected scheme achieved the smallest number of epochs, the minimum Mean Square Error (MSE) and the maximum performance in compare with different types of optimization strategies and algorithms. The proposed method is capable to be implemented on a cost effective and minimum electronic equipment to present its real-time process, which will let it to be used on board a light Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). The advanced adaptation properties and models of neural network, the training of stochastic process and its implementation on DSP outstands an affordable, reliable and low cost AGRS design. The main outcome of the study shows this method increases the quality of curvature information of AGRS data while cost of the algorithm is reduced in each iteration so the proposed ANN-BFGS is a trustworthy appropriate model for Gamma-ray data reconstruction and analysis based on advanced novel artificial intelligence systems.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제18권9호
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• pp.34-43
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• 2018

본 연구는 인물사진의 평가 요소들과 감상자들의 일반적인 선호도와의 관계를 통하여, 감상자 중심의 제품 개발 및 설계를 위한 이미지 측정 프로그램 모형을 개발하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 사전 연구에서 개발된 프로그램을 분석하여 개선을 필요로 하는 항목과 이미지 평가 시에 필수적으로 포함해야하는 사항을 신규 항목으로 추가하였다. 본 연구에서는 첫 번째 단계로 얼굴의 초점을 확인하였고, 객관적, 주관적 화질 평가 항목으로 나누어 인물사진을 평가하였다. 객관적 평가 항목에는 RSC 콘트라스트, 다이내믹 레인지를 선정하였고, 통계학적 분석방법으로 각 이미지의 수치를 평가할 수 있었다. 주관적 평가 항목에는 얼굴의 노출, 구도, 위치, 비율 그리고 아웃포커스를 선정하였다. 또한 새로운 얼굴 인식 알고리즘을 통하여 사람의 감정을 판단할 수 있어, 이미지 관련 제조사가 사람의 감정 콘텐츠로 인물사진을 분석할 수 있는 정보를 제시하였다. 본 연구에서 개발된 프로그램은 인물사진을 평가할 때 고려해야하는 평가 항목들을 정량적, 정성적으로 규합하였다. 이를 통하여, 일반인 사용자들의 필요에 보다 부합할 수 있는 제품을 만들기 위한 평가 모형을 개발하는데 필수적인 데이터로 활용가능하다.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.185-189
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• 2018

오늘날 현대인들은 20~30대의 운동부족, 40대의 갱년기, 50대의 오십견 같은 운동 부족으로 인한 질병 발생률이 매년 증가하고 있는데, 그 이유는 스마트폰의 발전과 같은 새로운 기술들의 출시로 인해 인간에게 새로운 생활 습관이 생기고, 그에 따른 삶의 패턴이 편리하게 변하여 활동량이 줄어 듬으로, 운동량의 부족이 큰 영향을 끼친다. 이런 인간의 패턴을 기존의 스마트폰과 혼합현실을 융합하여 새로운 혼합현실 헬스케어 서비스 제품을 연구하고자 하는데, 이는 단지 기존에 나온 헬스케어 제품처럼 사람 몸에 부착하여 운동량의 수치를 보여주는 것 이 아닌 운동을 재미있고 간단하게 할 수 있도록 유도해줌과 동시에 운동량을 측정 및 분석하여 사람들의 건강관리에 도움이 되고자 본 연구를 개발하고자 한다.

• Korean Journal of Acupuncture
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.431-440
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• 2012

Objectives : Recently, network science is very popular topic in various scientific fields and many studies have reported that it gives meaningful results on studying characteristics of a complex system. In this study, based on network theory, we made acupoints network using data of combined acupoints which appeared at "Beijiqianjinyaofang". We focused to find out the distinctive roles of remote and local combinations on the network. Furthermore, we aimed to identify the possibility of numerical and quantitative application to acupuncture researches. Methods : Based on examples of combined acupoints in "Beijiqianjinyaofang", the network consisted of 291 nodes and 2,431 links. The spatial distances between combined acupoints were calculated by the human dummy model. We removed the links step by step for the three cases - remote, local, and random cases, and observed the characteristic changes by calculating path lengths, similarity indices, and clustering coefficients. Also cluster analysis was carried out. Results : The network had a small number of remote links, and a large number of local links. These two links had the distinct characteristics. Whereas the local links formed a cluster of nearby nodes, remote links played a role to increase the correlation between the clusters. Conclusions : These results suggest that acupoints network increases the connectivity between the distal part and the trunk of human body, and enables various combinations of the acupoints. This finding conclusively showed that mechanism of combined acupoints could be interpreted meaningfully by applying network theory in acupuncture researches.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.55-79
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• 2024

Korea, which is expected to enter a super-aged society in 2025, is facing the most worrisome crisis worldwide. Efforts are urgently required to examine problems and countermeasures from various angles and to improve the shortcomings. In this regard, from a new viewpoint, we intend to derive useful implications by applying the recent natural language processing techniques to online articles. More specifically, we derive three research questions: First, what topics are being reported in the online media and what is the public's response to them? Second, what is the relationship between these aging-related topics and individual happiness factors? Third, what are the strategic directions and implications for benchmarking discussed to solve the problem of population aging? To find answers to these, we collect Naver portal articles related to population aging and their classification categories, comments, and number of comments, including other numerical data. From the data, we firstly derive 33 topics with a semi-supervised BERTopic by reflecting article classification information that was not used in previous studies, conducting sentiment analysis of comments on them with a current open-source large language model. We also examine the relationship between the derived topics and personal happiness factors extended to Alderfer's ERG dimension, carrying out additional 3~4-gram keyword frequency analysis, trend analysis, text network analysis based on 3~4-gram keywords, etc. Through this multifaceted approach, we present diverse fresh insights from practical and theoretical perspectives.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.235-249
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• 2018

The Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model has been known as one of the most effective theories for automatic ship berthing, as it has learning ability and mimics the actions of the human brain when performing the stages of ship berthing. However, existing ANN controllers can only bring a ship into a berth in a certain port, where the inputs of the ANN are the same as those of the teaching data. This means that those ANN controllers must be retrained when the ship arrives to a new port, which is time-consuming and costly. In this research, by using the head-up coordinate system, which includes the relative bearing and distance from the ship to the berth, a novel ANN controller is proposed to automatically control the ship into the berth in different ports without retraining the ANN structure. Numerical simulations were performed to verify the effectiveness of the proposed controller. First, teaching data were created in the original port to train the neural network; then, the controller was tested for automatic berthing in other ports, where the initial conditions of the inputs in the head-up coordinate system were similar to those of the teaching data in the original port. The results showed that the proposed controller has good performance for ship berthing in ports.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.273-281
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 비선형 시스템을 제어하기 위한 CMAC 신경망을 제안한다. CMAC 신경망은 사람의 소뇌를 모방한 신경망으로서 복잡한 비선형 함수의 해를 수치적인 연산에 의해 구하지 않고 table look-up방식을 이용하기 때문에 학습이 타 신경망에 비해 월등히 빠르고 용이하며 제어신호를 출력하기 위한 계산시간이 거의 필요치가 않다. 본 논문에서는 제안한 제어기 구조의 타당성을 증명하기 위해 간단한 비선형 함수와 직류전동기 속도제어에 대한 CMAC 제어기를 시뮬레이션을 통하여 학습 제어기의 안정성 및 추적에러의 감소를 확인하였다. 또한 제안 CMAC 제어기를 실시간 장력제어에 적용하여 직류전동기의 속도를 제어하므로 시뮬레이션 값과 비슷한 장력제어를 보인으로서 유용성을 입증하였다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.2493-2503
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• 2018

Passive dynamic walking exhibits humanoid and energy efficient gaits. However, optimal design of passive walker at multi-variable level is not well studied yet. This paper presents a Chaotic Particle Swarm Optimization (CPSO) algorithm and applies it to the optimal design of flexible passive walker. Hip torsional stiffness and damping were incorporated into flexible biped walker, to imitate passive elastic mechanisms utilized in human locomotion. Hybrid dynamics were developed to model passive walking, and period-one gait was gained. The parameters global searching scopes were gained after investigating the influences of structural parameters on passive gait. CPSO were utilized to optimize the flexible passive walker. To improve the performance of PSO, multi-scroll Jerk chaotic system was used to generate pseudorandom sequences, and chaotic disturbance would be triggered if the swarm is trapped into local optimum. The effectiveness of CPSO is verified by comparisons with standard PSO and two typical chaotic PSO methods. Numerical simulations show that better fitness value of optimal design could be gained by CPSO presented. The proposed CPSO would be useful to design biped robot prototype.