• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.181-188
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• 2001

This paper deals with a newly developed direction indicator system of a car which displays left turn and U-turn signal differently, so that the following driver can identify the intent of the next car ahead easily. In general, when a car want to change its direction, the driver move the blinker lever below the steering wheel up or down. However, as the left turn and U-turn signal are the same, there always be the risk of rear-end collision by misinterpreting U-turn signal as left turn signal. In this paper, a new direction indicator system which differentiates left turn and U-turn signal is developed. The left turn signal is the same as before, but when a driver want to U-turn, an additional U-turn signal blinks at the rear of the car. By identifying the direction signals clearly, the developed system is expected to alleviate the risk of car accident.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.553-563
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• 2015

Reportedly the fatality rate from secondary collision is six times higher than the average fatality rate from all traffic accidents. So prevention of the secondary collision is attracting significant attention from automotive industries. However, the secondary collision prevention systems that have been developed are not considering possibility of brake actuator failure that can occur by the impact during the initial collision. In this paper, a new system has been developed that could prevent secondary collision even in case of brake actuator failure by taking advantage of still operating actuators. In this system, a steering control is performed for maintaining a lane by using linear quadratic regulator. Additionally, the system attempts differential brake control with the remaining braking capability to stop the vehicle in the shortest distance. Through simulation in various collision scenarios, the system has demonstrated significant potential of preventing secondary collision that could otherwise have resulted in severe fatality.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제36권6호
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• pp.416-421
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• 2011

This study was initiated to prevent rear-end collision which causes the most frequent human damage by agricultural tractors. Therefore, this study was aimed to evaluate the luminous performance of a stop lamp for an agricultural tractor which could reduce rear-end collision. The performance test of luminous intensity distribution was conducted for a total of 12 tractor models classified by size (above 44 kW for large, 30~43 kW for medium, and below 29 kW for small) and production area (domestic, foreign manufacture) in accordance with Regulation No.7 of UNECE Vehicle Regulations-1958 Agreement considering ${\pm}$20 standard deviation. Three out of 5 large, 3 out of 4 medium, and all small tractors were resulted as inadequate for the test criterion. This study found that the luminous performance results were better as the size of agricultural tractors became bigger. One out of 4 foreign and 2 out of 8 domestic manufacturers were suitable for the test criterion, and overall no difference from the luminosity test results was observed between domestic and foreign manufacturers. In addition, the measuring points, HV, 5L, 5R, 5U and 5D with the minimal luminosity revealed flaws (80% of the proportion of faulty products). Therefore, it is urgent to improve the quality for measuring points (HV, 5U, 5L, 5R, 5D) of stop lamps to apply Regulation No. 7.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.137-143
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• 2009

고속도로에서 전방 시인이 용이하지 않은 구간에 사고차량이 존재 할 경우, 사고차량과의 충돌을 사전에 예방하기 위한 운전지원정보의 필요성이 높아지고 있다. 본 연구는 충돌방지정보 제공에 따른 운동행동에 미치는 영향을 드라이빙 시뮬레이터를 이용하여 검토하였다. 충돌방지정보를 교통상황에 따른 위험 정도에 따라 주의, 경계, 경고정보의 3단계로 나누어 검토하였고, 차량기기를 통해 제공된 정보에 대한운전자의 시인행동 및 사고차량과의 충돌회피를 위한 운전행동을 분석하였다. 또한, 제공된 정보에 대한 중요성 평가를 실시하였다. 실험 결과에 따르면, 충돌방지정보를 두 단계로 나누어 연속으로 제공할 경우에 사고발생을 낮추는 데에 효과가 있었고, 또한 두 번째 제공되는 정보는 시각정보보다는 청각 중심의 정보가 제공되어야 한다는 것을 밝혔다.

• 자동차안전학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.37-43
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• 2012

The purpose of this research is to obtain and analyze dynamic responses from human volunteers for the development of the human-like mechanical or mathematical model for Korean males in automotive rear collisions. This paper focused on the introduction to a low-speed rear impact sled test involving Korean male subjects, and the accumulation of the motion of head and neck. A total of 50 dynamic rear impact sled tests were performed with 50 human volunteers, who are 30-50 year-old males. Each subject can be involved in only one case to prevent any injury in which he was exposed to the impulse that was equivalent to a low-speed rear-end collision of cars at 5-8 km/h for change of velocity, so called, ${\Delta}V$. All subjects were examined by an orthopedist to qualify for the test through the medical check-up of their necks and low backs prior to the test. The impact device is the pendulum type, tuned to simulate the crash pulse of a real vehicle. All motions and impulses were captured and measured by motion capture systems and pressure sensors on the seat. Dynamic responses of head and T1 were analyzed in two cases(5 km/h, 8 km/h) to compare with the results in the previous studies. After the experiments, human subjects were examined to check up any change in the post medical analysis. As a result, there was no change in MRI and no injury reported. Six subjects experienced a minor stiffness on their back for no more than 2 days and got back to normal without any medical treatment.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.153-162
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• 2008

본 연구는 청주시 4지 신호교차로를 대상으로 한 교통사고를 다루고 있다. 연구의 목적은 143개 교차로 사고자료를 이용하여 사고유형별 특성을 비교분석하고 모형을 개발에 있다. 이를 위해 본 연구에서는 정면충돌, 후미추돌, 측면직각, 접촉, 차로변경접촉 등의 모형을 개발하는데 중점을 두고 있다. 분석된 주요결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 첫째 가산자료모형 설정을 위해 과산포 검정을 한 결과 음이항 회귀모형이 선정되었다. 둘째, 통계적으로 설명력이 높은 5개의 음이항 모형이 개발되었다. 셋째, 공통변수(ADT)와 특정변수를 활용하여 모형의 차이가 비교 분석되었다.

• 자동차안전학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.6-10
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• 2016

The objective of this paper is to understand value of active safety features on the customer perspective. In this study, 30 participants who don't have experience with active safety features were recruited and asked for preference, usefulness and consideration of each active safety feature after driving evaluation by them. Through this research, the preference of active safety features were analyzed and which of active safety features were the most useful and the most considered by customer when they purchase new vehicle. As a result, adaptive cruise control and side blind zone alert were the most strongly preferred and considered features by respondents and it means that respondents wanted comfort environment while driving and seemed to value features that compensated for limited visibility. On the other hand, active safety features that warned driver without control of the vehicle was deemed generally less desirable such as lane departure warning and forward collision alert. But autonomous emergency braking was higher than the other active safety features with only warning even if they did not have experience for it while this test. They thought it will be helpful in case of front-end collision situation even they just listened description before the test.

• International Journal of Safety
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.29-34
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• 2010

When doing maintenance works at the trackside of railway, the method which delivers information on approaching of train to maintenance workers through alarm devices such as the flag or indication light, etc., is being used by locating persons in charge of safety alarm in addition to the maintenance workers at fixed distances in the front and rear of the workplace. Workers maintaining at the trackside may collide with the train since they cannot recognize the approach of train although it approaches to the vicinity of maintenance workplace because of the sensory block phenomenon occurred due to their long hours of continued monotonous maintenance work. The clash or rear-end collision accidents between many maintenance trains called motor-cars can be occurred since there are cases where the signal systems for safe operation of motor-car such as track circuit etc. are blocked or not operated normally. We developed the new safety equipment for protection of trackside maintenance workers using radio frequency signals and bidirectional detection mechanism. The developed safety equipment must analyze the several operational mechanism for each different operation situations. In this paper the analysis results are represented.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제37권1B호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2012

차량 사용이 증가함에 따라 교통안전에 관한 문제가 심각해지고 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 근래에는 차량에 통신 기술을 접목한 ITS (Intelligent Transportation System)기술로 차량의 안전성을 강화하려는 연구가 진행되고 있다. 차량 안전 네트워크 규격인 WAVE는 방송형 멀티홉으로 전송하고 다중접속방법으로 CSMA/CA를 사용하므로 차량 수가 증가하면 빈번한 전송 시도로 인해 성능이 급격히 저하되는 특징이 있다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 메시지 전송차량과 수신차량의 위치관계를 이용하여 불필요한 메시지 전송을 줄이는 양방향 묵시적 수신확인 방안(TWIA: Two-Way Implicit Acknowledgement)을 제안한다. 제안한 TWIA는 전방과 후방의 차량으로부터 같은 메시지를 받으면 메시지 전달이 성공적인 것으로 간주하여 더 이상 재전송하지 않으므로 불필요한 메시지 전송을 줄인다. 실험을 통해 기존의 위험 경고 메시지 전송방안과 성능비교를 하였으며, 100대 차량을 기준으로 맨 뒤 차량까지의 전송 지연은 9%의 성능 개선이 되었고, 일정 구간 내에 모든 차량의 메시지 수신 성능은 0.7초 이내 수신 성공률이 12%가 개선되었다.

• 대한인간공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한인간공학회 1997년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.321-330
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• 1997

교통사고로 인하여 정형외과를 찾는 환자 중 60%정도가 경추부 상해 때문이나 이에 대한 보호장구개발은 미흡한 실정에 있다. 자동차 충돌사고시의 경추부 상해는 대 부분이 후면 충돌로부터 기인하며 특히 차체의 변형이 적은 저속충돌시에도 경추부의 연질 조직이 상하는 편차성 상해가 쉽게 발생된다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 편타성 상 해를 보다 근본적으로 분석하기 위하여 활차 실험과 그에 대한 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션 결 과를 소개하였다. 현재 진행 중인 본 연구를 통하여 아직까지 규명되지 않은 경추부 의 하중 경로와 상해기구를 파악하고자 하며 이를 바탕으로 보다 인체공학적인 시트 설계에 필요한 기반 기술을 확보하고자 한다.