• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.683-689
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• 2016

Most outdoor solid insulators may suffer from surface degradations due to non-stationary currents that flow on the insulator surface. These currents may be classified as leakage, discharge and tracking currents due to their disturbing potencies respectively. The magnitude of these currents depends on the degree of the contamination of surface. The leakage signals are followed by discharge signals and tracking signals which are capable of forming carbonized tracking paths on the surface between high voltage and earth contacts (surface tracking). Surface tracking is one of the most breakdown mechanisms observed on the solid insulators, especially polymers which may cause severely reduced lifetime. In this study the degradations observed on polyester resin based insulators are investigated according to the IEC 587 Inclined Plane Test Standard. The signals are monitored and recorded during tests until surface tracking initiated. In order to prevent total breakdown of an insulator, early detection of tracking signals is vital. Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) is proposed for classification of signals and their energy levels observed on the surface. The application of CWT for processing and classification of the surface signals which are prone to display high frequency oscillations can facilitate real time monitoring of the system for diagnosis.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권8호
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• pp.661-666
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• 2013

A state feedback controller with integration of output error is proposed for way-point tracking of an AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle). For the steering control on the XY plane, the proposed controller uses three state variables (sway velocity, yaw rate, heading angle) and the integral of the steering error, and for the depth control on the XZ plane, it uses four state variables (pitch rate, depth, pitch angle) and the integral of the depth error. From the simulation using Matlab/Simulink, we verify that the performance of the proposed controller is satisfactory within an error range of 1m from the target way-point for arbitrarily chosen sets of consecutive way-points.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.39-45
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• 2017

This paper presents the effect of solar collectors on the performance of solar tracking daylighting systems. A series of measurements were made for two different types of solar collectors mounted on double axis solar trackers: Parabolic dish concentrator and Fresnel Lens. Indoor light levels were measured at different locations of an office space (longitude: 126.33 E, latitude 33.45 N) as photo sensors were placed on a task plane 80 cm above the floor. To accurately monitor the applicability of the systems, measurements were performed under clear and overcast sky conditions with the roll-screen (on the south window) in the down position. Comparing the illuminance data, the system with Fresnel lens outperformed that of parabolic dish concentrator. On clear days, the former delivered the light levels of 400~600 lux on the task plane whereas the latter recorded 100~200 lux. Depending on the amount of cloud cover, on overcast days, illuminance readings fluctuated to some extent.

• 한국가시화정보학회지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.3-19
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• 2005

Novel optical techniques are presented for three-dimensional tracking of nanoparticles; Optical Serial Sectioning Microscopy (OSSM) and Ratiometric Total Internal Reflection Fluorescent Microscopy (R-TIRFM). OSSM measures optically diffracted particle images, the so-called Point Spread Function (PSF), and dotermines the defocusing or line-of-sight location of the imaged particle measured from the focal plane. The line-of-sight Brownian motion detection using the OSSM technique is proposed in lieu of the more cumbersome two-dimensional Brownian motion tracking on the imaging plane as a potentially more effective tool to nonintrusively map the temperature fields for nanoparticle suspension fluids. On the other hand, R-TIRFM is presented to experimentally examine the classic theory on the near-wall hindered Brownian diffusive motion. An evanescent wave field from the total internal reflection of a 488-nm bandwidth of an argon-ion laser is used to provide a thin illumination field of an order of a few hundred nanometers from the wall. The experimental results show good agreement with the lateral hindrance theory, but show discrepancies from the normal hindrance theory. It is conjectured that the discrepancies can be attributed to the additional hindering effects, including electrostatic and electro-osmotic interactions between the negatively charged tracer particles and the glass surface.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.27-32
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• 2019

We present an autofocus tracking system implemented by the digital refocusing of digital holographic microscopy (DHM) and the tunability of an electrically tunable lens (ETL). Once the defocusing distance of an image is calculated with the DHM, then the focal plane of the imaging system is optically tuned so that it always gives a well-focused image regardless of the object location. The accuracy of the focus is evaluated by calculating the contrast of refocused images. The DHM is performed in an off-axis holographic configuration, and the ETL performs the focal plane tuning. With this proposed system, we can easily track down the object drifting along the depth direction without using any physical scanning. In addition, the proposed system can simultaneously obtain the digital hologram and the optical image by using the RGB channels of a color camera. In our experiment, the digital hologram is obtained by using the red channel and the optical image is obtained by the blue channel of the same camera at the same time. This technique is expected to find a good application in the long-term imaging of various floating cells.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.177-189
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• 2015

The output of the controller is said to exceed the input limits of the plant being controlled when a control system operates in a non-linear region. This process is called the windup phenomenon. The windup phenomenon is not preferable in the control system because it leads to performance degradation, such as overshoot and system instability. Many anti-windup strategies involve switching, where the integral component differently operates between the linear and the non-linear states. The range of state for the non-overshoot performance is better illustrated by the boundary integral error plane than the proportional-integral (PI) plane in windup inspection. This study proposes a PI controller with a separate closed-loop integral controller and reference value set with respect to the input command and external torque. The PI controller is compared with existing conventional proportional integral, conditional integration, tracking back calculation, and integral state prediction schemes by using ScicosLab simulations. The controller is also experimentally verified on a direct current motor under no-load and loading conditions. The proposed controller shows a promising potential with its ability to eliminate overshoot with short settling time using the decoupling mode in both conditions.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.502-511
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• 2009

컴퓨터그래픽스에서 실세계의 피사계 심도를 표현하기 위해 많은 연구가 진행되어왔다. 피사계 심도는 초점이 맺히는 초점평면을 기준으로 초점거리보다 가깝거나 멀 경우 렌즈와 조리개의 특성에 따라 해당부분이 흐리게 표현되는 현상이다. 이것을 이용하면 사람의 눈처럼 수정체에 의한 아웃 포커스 현상을 표현할 수 있기 때문에 현실감 있는 영상 표현이 가능하다. 본 논문에서는 eye-tracking 기술을 이용하여 사용자의 착안점을 계산하고 이를 바탕으로 GPU기반의 피사계 심도 조절방법을 구현함으로써 입체영상을 볼 때 발생하는 부작용을 줄이는 방법을 제안한다. 일반적으로 입체영상은 사용자의 초점을 강제로 조정하기 때문에 장시간 입체영상을 보면 어지럼증 등 부작용이 나타난다. 제안하는 기법은 눈동자의 움직임을 실시간으로 추적하여 입체영상의 피사계 심도를 자동으로 조절할 수 있기 때문에 부작용 저감이 가능하며 몰입감을 향상시킬 수 있다.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.499-508
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• 2023

본 논문에서는 3차원 공간 내에서 동일 평면 상에 존재하는 특징점들의 좌표를 추정하기 위한 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 카메라 영상만을 이용하여 3차원 공간 내에 존재하는 다수의 특징점들을 검출한 다음 동일 평면 상에 위치하지 않는 특징점들은 제거시킨다. 이를 위해서 3차원 공간 내의 평면 객체와 2차원 카메라 영상 평면 사이의 평면 호모그래피(homography) 관계를 추정한 다음 각 특징점들의 평면 객체 상에서의 역사영 오차를 계산하고 오차값이 기준 값보다 큰 특징점들은 좌표값 추정 과정에서 제외시킨다. 제안된 방법은 별도의 센서 또는 최적화 알고리즘 없이 카메라 영상으로부터 추정된 평면 호모그래피 만을 이용한다. 실험 결과를 통해서 초당 40프레임 이상의 처리 속도를 보인다는 것을 확인할 수 있었으며, 또한 RGB-D 카메라를 이용하는 경우와 비교해도 처리 속도에 큰 차이를 보이지 않았으며, 특히 제안된 방법은 검출되는 특징점의 수가 지속적으로 증가하는 조건에서도 처리 속도가 거의 영향을 받지 않음을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2002년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.427-430
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• 2002

This paper presents on contamination performance of polymeric outdoor insulator with different contaminant accumulation. The ESDD (equivalent salt deposit density), tracking resistance and clean-fog test were performed to investigate the characteristics of contamination performance on polymeric outdoor insulator. Furthermore, we evaluated together with the porcelain samples for its comparison. It is found that ESDD of polymeric and porcelain insulator depends on the installation position. This surface accumulation of contaminant lead to the loss of surface hydrophobicity, expecially upper shed part of polymeric insulator. In addition, the effect of an artificial contaminant on the tracking resistance by inclined-plane method and leakage suppression ability under clean fog was surveyed. The time of tracking failure did not appear to change significantly with a much contaminant accumulation, while leakage current under clean-fog increased.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1991년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집(국내학술편); KOEX, Seoul; 22-24 Oct. 1991
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• pp.783-786
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• 1991

Generally, The position of mobile robot moving on the plane is measured by the method of dead reckoning, using the encoder system coupled on a wheel axis. But it is noted that the encoder system cannot check the slip of a wheel, often occurring in tracking of the mobile robot. In this study, using velocity angular velocity sensor with a tuning fork vibration system, the system is developed which can measure the directional angle of positional variables on the mobile robot. By measuring the variations of tracking direction mobile robot equipped with this system, following result is found; In spite of the slip at a wheel when measuring the tracking directional angle, the error occurs in the range of .+-. 1 (degree).