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Development of a Racing Game for Mobile Robots using Multiple Smartphones (다중 스마트폰을 이용한 이동로봇 대상의 레이싱게임 구현)

  • Jung, Hahmin;Kim, Dong Hun
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.19 no.10
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    • pp.861-866
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    • 2013
  • This paper presents the development of a racing game by controlling multiple smartphones based on ad hoc communication. The proposed racing game by the smartphone-based control interface does not require any specific game console or remote controller. Thus, any multiple users who have smartphones are able to play the game in a monitor at the same time. In addition, the developed game is applicable to actual mobile robots in cases where the positions of all robots are measured, since its game unit is a mobile robot model with a differential drive. An experimental result shows that the racing game in a PC can be realized by the proposed communication interface through four iPhones based on acceleration sensors.

Estimation of Genetic Parameters for Finished and Furlong Times in Thoroughbred Racehorses

  • Cho, Byung-Wook;Ha, Tae-Yong;Cho, Kwang-Hyun;Kim, Si-Dong;Lee, Hak-Kyo;Kong, Hong-Sik;Park, Kyung-Do
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.22 no.12
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    • pp.1609-1613
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    • 2009
  • The objective of this study was to estimate genetic parameters for racing performance traits of thoroughbredracehorses, using a total of 58,124 racing records of 4,200 horses at Gwacheon Racing Park collected from January 2002 to December 2006. This study measured start one furlong time, last three and last one furlong times, and the resulting furlong time averages were 14.2 seconds, 39.9 seconds and 13.9 seconds, respectively. Furlong time means a split time measured based on a 1/8-mile (or approximately 201 m) distance and finished time means total racing time measured from start position to finish line. In the shortest distance races of 1,000 m, the average last three and last one furlong time was fastest at 38.7 seconds and 13.6 seconds, respectively. The correlation between finished time and start one furlong time decreased as the race distance increased, and the same trend was recognized from the correlation between finished time and last three furlong time. In short distance races of 1,400 m or less, the starting ability was found to be an important trait. The average speed was highest at 56 km/h for a 1,000 m race and lowest at 53.2 km/h for a 1,700 m race. Heritabilities of the start one furlong time, the last three and last one furlong time were estimated to be 0.337, 0.245 and 0.210, respectively; and repeatabilities for them were 0.452, 0.353 and 0.309, respectively. Phenotypic and genetic correlations between the start and the last one furlong time were negative at -0.141 and -0.155, respectively.

Effects of the Condition of Racetrack on Racing Time in Thoroughbred Racehorses (경주로의 상태가 더러브렛 경주마의 주파기록에 미치는 효과)

  • Cho, Kwang Hyun;Son, Sam Kyu;Cho, Byung Wook;Kim, Jong Gyu;Lee, Hak Kyo;Park, Kyung Do
    • Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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    • v.50 no.3
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    • pp.309-314
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    • 2008
  • The objective of this study was to estimate effects of the condition of racetrack on racing time in Thoroughbred racehorses, using 148,865 racing records for 8,189 heads that collected from KRA(Korea Racing Association). The results obtained were as follows. Based on moisture contents, the condition of racetrack was classified into Heavy, Good, Soft, Yielding and Sloppy. The condition of racetrack for last 12 years was 40.7%, 34.4%, 14.4%, 8.7% and 1.8% for Heavy, Good, Soft, Yielding and Sloppy, respectively. The frequency of heavy condition for racetrack was the highest and those of Yielding and Sloppy were relatively low. On the other hand, the frequency of heavy condition for racetrack was increased in spring and winter, whereas frequency of sloppy racetrack was increased in summer. The frequency of good condition was the highest in autumn. The regression coefficients of moisture contents in racetrack for racing time by racing distance ranged from -0.068~-0.162 seconds and the racing time was faster in sloppy condition than other track conditions. The time differences between Heavy and Sloppy ranged from -1.47~-3.41 seconds by distance.

Estimation of Genetic Trend on Racing Time of Thoroughbred Racehorses (더러브렛 경주마의 주파기록에 대한 유전적 개량량의 추정)

  • Park, K.D.;Son, S.K.;Rho, S.H.;Cho, K.H.;Lee, Z.H.;Cho, B.W.
    • Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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    • v.50 no.1
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    • pp.27-32
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    • 2008
  • The objective of this study was to estimate genetic trend on racing time of Thoroughbred racehorses in Korea, using a total of 209,725 racing records of 9,934 racehorses collection from January, 1990 to December, 2006. Phenotypic trends for all distances were negative at a rate of -0.148, -0.137, -0.137 and -0.139 second per race year for distances of 1,000m, 1,400m less than, 1,700m more than and overall dataset, respectively. Environmental trends were similar to phenotypic ones in all distances and trends in permanent environmental and jockey effects by race year were not found. Average genetic improvements for racing time were -0.037 and -0.030 second per race year at the 1,000m and overall dataset, respectively, which is low. But Genetic trends were decreased consistently. There is need to establish the genetic improvement program for quality of racehorses.

Real-Time Generation of City Map for Games in Unity with View-dependent Refinement and Pattern Synthesis Algorithm

  • Kim, Jong-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.51-56
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    • 2019
  • In this paper, we propose an algorithm that can quickly generate and synthesize city maps in racing games. Racing games are characterized by moving a wide map rather than a fixed map, but designing and developing a wide map requires a lot of production time. This problem can be mitigated by creating a large map in the preprocessing step, but a fixed map makes the game tedious. It is also inefficient to process all the various maps in the preprocessing step. In order to solve this problem, we propose a technique to create a terrain pattern in the preprocessing process, to generate a map in real time, and to synthesize various maps randomly. In addition, we reduced unnecessary rendering computations by integrating view-dependent techniques into the proposed framework. This study was developed in Unity3D and can be used for various contents as well as racing game.

Multiple Genes Related to Muscle Identified through a Joint Analysis of a Two-stage Genome-wide Association Study for Racing Performance of 1,156 Thoroughbreds

  • Shin, Dong-Hyun;Lee, Jin Woo;Park, Jong-Eun;Choi, Ik-Young;Oh, Hee-Seok;Kim, Hyeon Jeong;Kim, Heebal
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.28 no.6
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    • pp.771-781
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    • 2015
  • Thoroughbred, a relatively recent horse breed, is best known for its use in horse racing. Although myostatin (MSTN) variants have been reported to be highly associated with horse racing performance, the trait is more likely to be polygenic in nature. The purpose of this study was to identify genetic variants strongly associated with racing performance by using estimated breeding value (EBV) for race time as a phenotype. We conducted a two-stage genome-wide association study to search for genetic variants associated with the EBV. In the first stage of genome-wide association study, a relatively large number of markers (~54,000 single-nucleotide polymorphisms, SNPs) were evaluated in a small number of samples (240 horses). In the second stage, a relatively small number of markers identified to have large effects (170 SNPs) were evaluated in a much larger number of samples (1,156 horses). We also validated the SNPs related to MSTN known to have large effects on racing performance and found significant associations in the stage two analysis, but not in stage one. We identified 28 significant SNPs related to 17 genes. Among these, six genes have a function related to myogenesis and five genes are involved in muscle maintenance. To our knowledge, these genes are newly reported for the genetic association with racing performance of Thoroughbreds. It complements a recent horse genome-wide association studies of racing performance that identified other SNPs and genes as the most significant variants. These results will help to expand our knowledge of the polygenic nature of racing performance in Thoroughbreds.

Analysis of the Body Segment Kinematics by Lap Time during Men's 5,000m Racing (남자 5000M 경주 시 순위에 따른 랩 타임별 운동학적 변인 분석)

  • Chung, Nam-Ju
    • Korean Journal of Applied Biomechanics
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.197-207
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the body segment kinematics by lap time during men's 5,000m racing. The subjects in this study were 4 male athletics who take part in the competition. The two dimension motion analysis with DLT(direct linear transformation) method was executed using digital video cameras. The following conclusion was that : It was shown that top ranking in a competition is continuous race pattern and the last Lap time is the most fast. It was shown that top ranking in a competition is continuos the stride length and it was the largest in the last Lap time. It was shown that according to the passing Lap time trunk frontal angle was decreasing and shoulder angle was continuous.

The Changes of Blood Chemistry and Electrolytes on the Furosemide Administration in Thoroughbred Racing Horses (Thoroughbred 경주마에서 Furosemide 투여에 따른 혈액 및 전해질의 변화)

  • Lee, Young-Woo;Kim, Byung-Sun;Choi, Gui-Cheol;Lee, Kyoung-Kap;Kang, Tae-Young;Lee, Joo-Myoung;Yun, Young-Min
    • Journal of Veterinary Clinics
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.597-602
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    • 2007
  • Furosemide is a potent diuretic used in the horse for the prophylaxis of exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage(EIPH), and in a variety of clinical condition. The purpose of this study was to set up the effect of furosemide in Thoroughbred horses, and to examine the time of maximal effect of furosemide to prevent the EIPH. The animals of the experiment were 4 Thoroughbred racing horses(female, average 6 yrs, BW $507{\pm}80.2kg$) in Jeju stud farm and the experiment was cross-over design between furosemide(1 mg/kg IV) and normal saline(0.1 ml/kg, IV) administration. We investigated the changes of clinical signs(body weight, skin turgor, capillary refilling time, jugular distensibility), CBC(PCV RBC), serum chemistry(TP, AST, GGT, glucose, LDH, BUN and creatinine) and electrolytes ($Na^+,\;K^+,\;Cl^-,\;Ca^{2+}$) on 0, 30 mins, 1, 2, 4, 8 and 24 hrs in furosemide and saline administration roup, respectively. The weight decreased significantly(P<0.05) in 4 hrs after furosemide treatment, but skin turgor, CRT, jugular distensibility remained unchanged throughout the experimental period. RBC and PCV decreased after furosemide administration but soon recovered. TP increased to the highest level in 30 mins after furosemide administration and recovered in 8 hrs. Furosemide administration resulted in increases in glucose, AST, GGT, LDH, BUN, creatinine(P<0.05) and decreases in $Ca^{2+},\;Na^+,\;K^+,\;Cl^-$ (P<0.05). All of values were within normal range throughout the experimental period. There was the alteration of blood and serum chemistry after furosemide administration, all of values were within normal range. And the best time of furosemide administration will be 30 minutes before the racing in order to preventing EIPH.

Genetic Evaluation of Thoroughbred Racehorses Using the Integrated Racing Records Collected from Different Racetracks (과천.부산경남 경마공원의 통합경주자료를 이용한 더러브렛 경주마의 유전능력 평가)

  • Cho, Kwang-Hyun;Son, Sam-Kyu;Cho, Byung-Wook;Kim, Jong-Gyu;Kong, Hong-Sik;Lee, Hak-Kyo;Park, Kyung-Do
    • Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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    • v.52 no.2
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    • pp.97-102
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    • 2010
  • The objective of this study was to examine the suitability of genetic evaluation models using the integrated racing records collected from Gwacheon and Busan Gyeongnam racetracks. Results obtained are summarized as follows: In the short-distance races of 1,400 meters and less the records of finishing time at Gwacheon racetrack was superior, whereas, in the races of 1,800 meters and more it was superior in the records from Busan Gyeongnam racetrack. The effects of contemporary groups accounted for 42.7~70.2% of the total variation, and the effects of the individual race considering racing classes was the biggest in all racing distances. Heritabilities and repeatabilities for the finishing time were estimated in the range of 0.153-0.238 and 0.401-0.498, respectively. Correlation coefficients between the breeding values estimated from the integrated records and the breeding values estimated from records of Gwacheon and Busan-Gyeongnam were 0.907 and 0.803, and coefficients of rank correlations were 0.891 and 0.846, respectively. The correlation coefficients between sire's annual earning of the integrated records and Gwacheon and Busan Gyeongnam racetracks records were 0.943 and 0.886, and coefficients of rank correlations were 0.938 and 0.853, respectively. Also, the correlation coefficient of sire's annual earning between Gwacheon and Busan Gyeongnam racetracks was 0.742. The results of this analysis indicate that the genetic evaluation using the integrated racing records are reliable when the racing records from Busan Gyeongnam racetracks are stabilized and more data are accumulated.

Survey on Incidence of Exercise Induced Pulmonary Hemorrhage(EIPH) of Thoroughbred Racehorses in Seoul Racecourse (서울경마장 경주마의 운동기인성 페출혈 발생동향 조사)

  • 김병선;황용규;권철재;임영재
    • Journal of Veterinary Clinics
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.417-426
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    • 1998
  • During the 5 years period(93-197) of Seoul racecourse Thoroughbred racing, 2i963 holies took an active part in Seoul Racecourse and 61,181 horses entered the racing.400 horses(305 : 1 time, 76 :2 times, 19 :3 times, total : 514 cases) had bled(EIPH) from their nostils after their races. Incidence of bleeding horses from the 21963 racehorses was 13.5%, and incidence of bleeding cases from the 61,181 horses was 0.84%. The average racing frequence (1.05 times/1 month) of bleeders was more than that(0.8 times/1 month) of total race-horses. There was tendency to higher incidence of bleeding at older in age, female in sex, England/ Ireland horses in origin, higher grade in performances heavier in body weight increased, larger in weight to be carried, mid or longer in racing distance, handicap race, spring in season. Relationship did not exist between bleeding and respiratory disease. These results suggested that frequent entering into the race should be controlled. And body weight regulation with conditioning is recommended far reducing incidence of EIPH. It is supposed to prevent bleeding that decrescent performance horses should not be entering long distance or handicap race.

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