• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.23 no.6 s.165
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• pp.922-930
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• 1999

This paper describes a new 14-CPU real-time distributed automatic gauge control (AGC) system for POSCO's No. 2 Hot Strip Mill at Pohang Works. The new AGC system has adopted gaugemeter AGC, Monitor AGC, and roll gap disturbance compensators. The computer system for the new AGC system has been developed based on VMEbus computer systems and a commercial real-time operating system. A VMEbus computer system is also used for the position servo control of hydraulic cylinders. All the application programs and input/output signals have been reasonably distributed over the control computer systems for the maximum reliability and effectiveness of the system. The new AGC system has been successfully used for the No. 2 Hot Strip Mill.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38B no.4
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• pp.298-304
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• 2013

Channel attenuation must be taken into account when designing Time Division Multiple Access(TDMA) communication systems. In addition, Automatic Gain Control (ACG) is a requirement in satellite communication systems in order to form a stable network regardless of rapidly changes in channel environment. In this study, we present an AGC with possible real-time application to time slots in satellite TDMA communication systems. A satellite TDMA system was designed and implemented in order to test the performance of the proposed real-time AGC, and the system's BER (Bit Error Rate) was found by applying the proposed AGC algorithm. These results can be expected to be of high value in improving the stability of satellite TDMA communication systems in the future.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.269-277
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• 2018

NAND flash memory has widely been used because of non-volatility, low power consumption and fast access time. However, it suffers from inability to provide update-in-place and the erase cycle is limited. The unit of read/write operation is a page and the unit of erase operation is a block. Moreover erase operation is slower than other operations. We proposed the Adaptive Garbage Collection (called "AGC") policy which focuses on not only reducing garbage collection process time for real-time guarantee but also wear-leveling for a flash memory lifetime. The AGC performs better than Cost-benefit policy and Greedy policy. But the AGC does not consider the operation characteristics. So we proposed the Advanced Adaptive Garbage Collection (called "A-AGC") policy which considers the page write operation count and block erase operation count. The A-AGC reduces the write operations by considering the data update frequency and update data size. Also, it reduces the erase operations by considering the file fragmentation. We implemented the A-AGC policy and measured the performance compared with the AGC policy. Simulation results show that the A-AGC policy performs better than AGC, specially for append operation.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.634-640
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• 2009

The plate manufacturing processes are composed of the reheating furnace, finishing mill, cooling process and hot leveling. The finishing rolling mill (FM) as a reversing mill has produced the plate steel through multiple pass rolling. The automatic gauge control (AGC) is employed to maintain the thickness tolerance. The high grade products are forming greater parts of the manufacturing and customers are requiring strict thickness margin. For this reason, the advanced AGC method is required instead of the conventional AGC based on the PI control. To overcome the slow response performance of the conventional AGC and the thickness measurement delay, a fuzzy AGC based on the thickness deviation and its trend is proposed in this paper. An embedded controller with the fuzzy AGC has been developed and implemented at the plate mill in POSCO. The fuzzy AGC has dynamically controlled the roll gap in real time with the programmable logic controller (PLC). On line tests have been performed for the general and TMCP products. As the results, the thickness deviation range (maximum - minimum of the inner plate) is averagely from 0.3 to 0.1 mm over the full length. The fuzzy AGC has improved thickness deviation and completely satisfied customer needs.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.45-49
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• 1985

This paper presents a simple method for drastic reduction of computational requirement for realization of the quasi.noise alone reference (QNAR) estimation of noise power. (1 ) The new estimator docs not bring forth performance degradation, as shown by extensive computer simulations, and is amenable to hardware implementation for certain real-time signal processing problems.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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• 1998.03a
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• pp.6-10
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• 1998

RTO(Real-time Object) 모델로 불리는 실시간 객체지향 모델은 컴퓨터에 의해 제어되는 실시간 제어기 및 이의 응용 환경 시뮬레이터를 정밀하게 표현하는데 유용한 모델로 정착되었다. 이 모델은 실시간 분산 컴퓨터 시스템과 이의 응용 환경에 대한 실시간 시뮬레이터를 통합적으로 설계하는데 강력한 표현력을 보여주고 있다. RTO 기반의 접근 방법에 의한 통합 설계는 RTO로 불리는 객체의 네트워크 형태로 표현된다. 본 논문에서는 이와 같은 설계 방법을 자동판두께제어기(Automatic Gauge Controller, AGC)라고 불리는 실시간 분산 시스템의 설계 사례를 통해 제시하고자 한다. AGC 시스템은 압연공정 제어기로서 압연공정 실시간 시뮬레이터의 소재 이송 및 압하 공정을 제어한다. 설계과정을 통해서 실시간 분산 시스템 명세의 추상화 방법에 대하여 논하고, 네트워크의 구축 과정을 통한 시뮬레이션 모델의 정밀한 표현 방법을 제시하며, RTO의 분산구조 및 명확하고 엄밀한 실시간 설계 방법에 대하여 논한다.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.502-508
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• 2014

This paper has reviewed the performances of various AGCs which can be adopted in IEEE802.11p modems. IEEE802.11p, a high speed mobile communication standard for vehicles, requires high performance signal detector since the channel impulse responses are varied rapidly in time. In order to select the optimal signal detector, we simulated the performances of three detection methods. One is using RSSI signal, the other is using RSSI signal and I/Q signal, and the third is using I/Q signal through the Monte Carlo simulation. We evaluated the performances of the algorithms using our own system based on MAX 2829 transceiver(MAXIM $Integrated^{TM}$) in a real vehicular environment. As a result, the experiment using Fully I/Q signal derives the most excellent performance with the lowest minimum receiver sensitivity, packet error rate (PER) and false alarm rate (FAR).

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.633-654
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• 2010

High quality camera images, with good contrast and intensity, are needed to obtain the desired information. Images need to be enhanced when they are dark or bright. The histogram equalization technique, which flattens the density distribution of an image, has been widely used to enhance image contrast due to its effectiveness and simplicity. This technique, however, cannot be used to enhance images that are either too dark or too bright. In addition, it is difficult to perform histogram equalization in real-time using a general-purpose computer. This paper proposes a histogram equalization technique with AGC (Automatic Gain Control) to extend the image enhancement range. It is designed using VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) to enhance images in real-time. The system is implemented with an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array). An image processing system with this FPGA is implemented. The performance of this image processing system is measured.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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• v.35D no.9
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• pp.1-12
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• 1998

We have implemented receiver for a 3 Dimensional Phased-Array Radar detecting the azimuth angle, the altitude, the range of a target on real time. This system consists of high frequency module, which protects receiver and controls sensitivity, intermediate frequency module, monopulse detector, IQ phase detector, AGC controller. A two-channel receiver with same function is implemented for increasing accuracy of target altitude data by amplitude comparison monopulse method. The TSS sensitivity of the receiver is -98dBm. The bandwidth of the receiver is 500 MHz. We can control the system gain manually by 100 dB when be AGC off. The gain and phase unbalance of two channels is 5 dB and 30 degree, respectively. The image rejection rate of the IQ detector is 30 dB. We used duroid substrate and package- type device.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.789-796
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• 2013

Next Generation Weapon system from the center of the platform to share information in real-time Network Centric Warfare(NCW: Network Centric Warfare) has been changed. Data link system is defined as a network. That is, all in real-time battlefield information is to enable sharing. Data link system is classified as a precision strike, Monitoring/control, control of a Patriot missile battery systems. These systems are most effective in a Joint warfare and precision strike. Data Link Systems(Data Communications) implementation is accomplished by using the KDLM(Korean Data Link Modem) and Radio Transceiver. KDLM is operated in conjunction with the legacy Radios(re-using fielded HF/VHF/UHF radio systems). In this paper, we describe in terms of KDLM system design. In this paper, the proposed design structure is how to effectively interact with legacy various radio. First, The results provide an analysis of that Dynamic TDMA system and apply modem structure. Radio characteristics data are necessary for an effective TDMA system design. This article analyzes the test results and describes the structure to improve the receive performance.