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U-Commerce in Service Space : Business Model Analysis and Case Study (서비스 공간에서의 유비쿼터스 상거래 비즈니스 모델 분석 및 사례연구)

  • Lee, Hyun-Seok;Lee, Kyoung-Jun
    • Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.45-61
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    • 2008
  • Previous U-Commerce researches have dealt with the business support systems for traditional commerce space such as real world shopping malls. This paper investigates U-Commerce business models in service space. The McDonald's Touch-Order case is analyzed from business model perspective and the Media-Embedded Place business model is introduced as a U-Commerce business model for value creation in service space. The media-embedded place business model attaches auto-identification tags to tables or billboards, triggers commercial transaction through the tags, and shares the revenues and the incentives among the place owners and commerce/content providers. This paper analyzes its scenario and applications and illustrates the profitability analysis using so-called 'tag evaluation model'.

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Knowledge Distributed Robot Control Framework

  • Chong, Nak-Young;Hongu, Hiroshi;Ohba, Kohtaro;Hirai, Shigeoki;Tanie, Kazuo
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.1071-1076
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    • 2003
  • In this work, we propose a new framework of robot control for a variety of applications to our unstructured everyday environments. Programming robots can be a very time-consuming process and seems almost impossible for ordinary end users. To cope with this, this work is to provide a software framework for building robot application programs automatically, where we have robots learn how to accomplish a commanded task from the object. An integrated sensing and computing tag is embedded into every single object in the environment. In the robot controller, only the basic software libraries for low-level robot motion control are provided from the robot manufacturer. The main contributions of this work is to develop a server platform that we call Omniscient Server that generates the application programs and send them to the robot controller through the network. The object-related information from the object server merges into robot control software to generate a detailed application program based on the task commands from the human. We have built a test bed and demonstrated that a robot can perform a common household task within the proposed framework.

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Detecting Boundaries between Different Color Regions in Color Codes

  • Kwon B. H.;Yoo H. J.;Kim T. W.
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2004.08c
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    • pp.846-849
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    • 2004
  • Compared to the bar code which is being widely used for commercial products management, color code is advantageous in both the outlook and the number of combinations. And the color code has application areas complement to the RFID's. However, due to the severe distortion of the color component values, which is easily over $50{\%}$ of the scale, color codes have difficulty in finding applications in the industry. To improve the accuracy of recognition of color codes, it'd better to statistically process an entire color region and then determine its color than to process some samples selected from the region. For this purpose, we suggest a technique to detect edges between color regions in this paper, which is indispensable for an accurate segmentation of color regions. We first transformed RGB color image to HSI and YIQ color models, and then extracted I- and Y-components from them, respectively. Then we performed Canny edge detection on each component image. Each edge image usually had some edges missing. However, since the resulting edge images were complementary, we could obtain an optimal edge image by combining them.

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Application of DAT (Data Acquisition Technology) in the Construction Projects (건설 프로젝트의 DAT (Data Acquisition Technology) 활용현황 및 개선방향)

  • Seo, Keun-Sol;Jung, Young-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.329-333
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    • 2008
  • As construction projects become getting bigger and complicated, the importance of resource management in construction sites is to be emphasized all the more than ever, but the reality is now gone far away leaving data filing and management dependent on the hands of in-field managers, which gives rise to a variety of problems such as decreased productivity. The manually-dependent data management makes it hard to acquire data and information needed for projects both quickly and correctly with abundant cost and endeavor by accumulating the related data, and efficient project management, being exemplified by such practical applications as Bar-code, RFID(Radio Frequency Identification), GPS(Global Positioning System), PDA(Personal Digital Assistants), USN(Ubiquitous Sensor Network) and DAT(Data Acquisition Technology). In this context literature survey is made theoretically, taken into account 14 classification of construction works, 31 types of work classification in CIS, Masterformat as follows;

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Micro Pattern Control of Metal Printing by Piezoelectric Print-head (압전 프린트 헤드에 의한 금속프린팅의 미세패턴제어)

  • Yoon, Shin-Yong;Choi, Geun-Soo;Baek, Soo-Hyun;Chang, Hong-Soon;Seo, Sang-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.147-151
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    • 2011
  • We were analyzed the piezoelectric characteristic for electronics printing to inkjet printing system. These applications were possible use to Actuator, MEMS, FPCB, RFID, Solar cell and LCD color filter etc. Piezoelectric print head is firing from ink droplet control consideration ink viscosity properties. At this time, micro pattern for PCB metal printing was possible by droplet control of piezoelectric driving. These driving characteristics are variable voltage pulse waveform. We are used the piezoelectric analysis software of Finite Element Method (FEM), Piezoelectric design parameters are acquired from piezoelectric analysis, and measurement of piezoelectric. It designed for piezoelectric head to possible electric print pattern of inkjet printing system. For this validity we were established through in comparison with simulation and measurement. Designed piezoelectric specification obtained voltage 98V, firing frequency 10 kHz, resolution 360dpi, drop volume 20pl, nozzle number 256, and nozzle pitch 0.33 mm.

Control the Length of Carbon Nanotube Array by Using Oxygen Plasma Etching Process (산소플라즈마 에칭공정을 응용한 탄소나노튜브 Array 길이 제어 연구)

  • Song, Yoo-Jin;Kang, Seong-Jun
    • Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.488-493
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    • 2009
  • We developed a simple method to control the length of carbon nanotube array by using oxygen plasma etching. In this way, we could obtain a carbon nanotube with a uniform length (20, 30, 50, $70\;{\mu}m$), that was parallel to the substrate. Moreover, our growing method of carbon nanotube array gives a uniform diameter ~3.5nm, which is consistent with our previous results. Using the same etching method, we demonstrated the carbon nanotube radio frequency identification (RFID) antenna. The results could be useful for carbon nanotube applications such as flexible and transparent conductive films.

Development of BioRobot System Based on Mobile Agent for Clinical Laboratory (임상병리검사를 위한 모바일 에이전트 기반의 바이오로봇 시스템 개발)

  • Choi, Byung-June;Jin, Sung-Moon;Sin, Seung-Hun;Koo, Ja-Choon;Kim, Min-Chul;Kim, Jin-Hyun;Son, Woong-Hee;Ahn, Ki-Tak;Chung, Wan-Kyun;Choi, Hyouk-Ryeol
    • The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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    • v.2 no.4
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    • pp.317-326
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    • 2007
  • Recently, robotic automation in clinical laboratory becomes of keen interest as a fusion of bio and robotic technology. In this paper, we present a new robotic platform for clinical tests suitable for small or medium sized laboratories using mobile robots. The mobile robot called Mobile Agent is designed as transfer system of blood samples, reagents, microplates, and any instruments. Also, the developed mobile agent can perform diverse tests simultaneously based on its cooperative and distributed ability. The driving circuits for the mobile agent are embedded in the robot, and each mobile agent communicates with other agents by using Bluetooth communication. The RFID system is used to recognize patient information. Also, the magnetic hall sensor is embedded to remove and compensate the cumulated error of locomotion at the bottom of mobile agent. The proposed mobile agent can be easily used for various applications because it is designed to be compatible with general software development tools. The Mobile agents are manufactured, and feasibility of the robot and localization of the agents using magnetic hall sensor are validated by preliminary experiments.

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Simultaneous Tracking of Multiple Construction Workers Using Stereo-Vision (다수의 건설인력 위치 추적을 위한 스테레오 비전의 활용)

  • Lee, Yong-Ju;Park, Man-Woo
    • Journal of KIBIM
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.45-53
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    • 2017
  • Continuous research efforts have been made on acquiring location data on construction sites. As a result, GPS and RFID are increasingly employed on the site to track the location of equipment and materials. However, these systems are based on radio frequency technologies which require attaching tags on every target entity. Implementing the systems incurs time and costs for attaching/detaching/managing the tags or sensors. For this reason, efforts are currently being made to track construction entities using only cameras. Vision-based 3D tracking has been presented in a previous research work in which the location of construction manpower, vehicle, and materials were successfully tracked. However, the proposed system is still in its infancy and yet to be implemented on practical applications for two reasons. First, it does not involve entity matching across two views, and thus cannot be used for tracking multiple entities, simultaneously. Second, the use of a checker board in the camera calibration process entails a focus-related problem when the baseline is long and the target entities are located far from the cameras. This paper proposes a vision-based method to track multiple workers simultaneously. An entity matching procedure is added to acquire the matching pairs of the same entities across two views which is necessary for tracking multiple entities. Also, the proposed method simplified the calibration process by avoiding the use of a checkerboard, making it more adequate to the realistic deployment on construction sites.

Factor Graph-based Multipath-assisted Indoor Passive Localization with Inaccurate Receiver

  • Hao, Ganlin;Wu, Nan;Xiong, Yifeng;Wang, Hua;Kuang, Jingming
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.703-722
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    • 2016
  • Passive wireless devices have increasing civilian and military applications, especially in the scenario with wearable devices and Internet of Things. In this paper, we study indoor localization of a target equipped with radio-frequency identification (RFID) device in ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless networks. With known room layout, deterministic multipath components, including the line-of-sight (LOS) signal and the reflected signals via multipath propagation, are employed to locate the target with one transmitter and a single inaccurate receiver. A factor graph corresponding to the joint posterior position distribution of target and receiver is constructed. However, due to the mixed distribution in the factor node of likelihood function, the expressions of messages are intractable by directly applying belief propagation on factor graph. To this end, we approximate the messages by Gaussian distribution via minimizing the Kullback-Leibler divergence (KLD) between them. Accordingly, a parametric message passing algorithm for indoor passive localization is derived, in which only the means and variances of Gaussian distributions have to be updated. Performance of the proposed algorithm and the impact of critical parameters are evaluated by Monte Carlo simulations, which demonstrate the superior performance in localization accuracy and the robustness to the statistics of multipath channels.

Applications and Strategies on Defense Acquisition based CPS & IoT Technology (사이버물리시스템(CPS)과 사물인터넷(loT) 기술의 군사적 활용방안 및 추진전략)

  • Kye, J.E.;Park, P.J.;Kim, W.T.;Lim, C.D.
    • Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.92-101
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    • 2015
  • 미래 전장은 정보 지식 기반의 첨단 전력체계를 확충하기 위해 향후 전력구조를 통합, 지휘통제통신(C4I) 체계와 생존성과 통합성이 향상된 전장의 네트워크중심전(NCW) 수행능력을 향상시킬 것이다. 사이버물리시스템(Cyber-Physical Systems: CPS)은 함정전투체계에 적용되고 있는 DDS를 포함하여 국방 M&S의 근간인 Live, Virture, Constructive(L-V-C) 체계의 큰 축을 형성하고 있다. 사물인터넷(Internet of Things: IoT) 기술은 센서네트워크, 통신, Radio Frequency Identification(RFID), Ubiquitous Sensor Network(USN), Machine to Machine(M2M), D2D 기술 및 상황인지, 지능서비스를 위한 정보수집/가공/융합/분석/예측기술을 포괄적으로 포함한 기술로서 미래산업을 이끌어 갈 차세대 선도 기술이며, 특히 군사적으로도 감시정찰 센서네트워크(USN), 견마형로봇, 경전투로봇과 무인기 기술 및 전술정보통신망체계(TICN) 등 첨단 통신네트워크 기술의 전력화 추세는 IoT 기술의 적용영역을 넓혀주고 있다. 감시정찰체계(Sensor)에서는 감시정찰 분야 영상정보 처리, 표적탐지 등과 관련된 IoT 기술 소요와 지휘통제통신(C4I) 체계의 상호운용성, 데이터링크, 지능형 통신체계 등 C4I 관련 IoT 기술 소요 및 타격체계(Shooter)의 내장형 SW 등 유 무인 무기체계 관련 IoT 기술의 소요가 증대될 것으로 예상된다. 본고는 CPS 및 IoT 기술의 군사적 활용방안 및 획득전략에 대한 적용기술 및 발전방향을 살펴본다.

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