• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.82-90
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• 2006

Reconfigurability of machine tools is one of the critical factors to realize the responsive manufacturing systems to satisfy the mass customization production. This paper presents the methods to model the reconfigurable machine tools (RMTs) on Internet in response to change in the machining requirements. Specifically, the structure and motion model of machine tools using module combination rules and connectivity graph are developed. And we developed Internet-based simulator for designing of RMTs (ISD-RMT). In response to the user requirements, various structures of RMTs can be derived using the module combination rules and connectivity graph relationships. In addition, the user can verify generating structures through the control and simulation procedures.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.620-623
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• 2002

To cope with the challenge of competitive market, manufacturing system needs to be agile in terms of its reconfigurability and scalability. For a system to be adapted to changed requirements, decision support tools such as configurator have to be provided. This paper introduces the basic framework of a configurator for assembly system Based on the factory data model(FDM) depicting the overall structure of a manufacturing system, functions of the configurator are described, i.e., requirements analysis, module selection and configuration optimization.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.07d
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• pp.2755-2757
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• 2002

In this paper, we propose a now architecture for hardware implementation of digital neural network. By adopting flexible ladder-style bus and internal connection network into traditional SIMD-type digital neural network architecture, the proposed architecture enables fast processing that is based on parallelism, while does not abandon the flexibility and extensibility of the traditional approach. In the proposed architecture, users can change the network topology by setting configuration registers. Such reconfigurability on hardware allows enough usability like software simulation. We implement the proposed design on real FPGA, and configure the chip to multi-layer perceptron with back propagation for alphabet recognition problem. Performance comparison with its software counterpart shows its value in the aspect of performance and flexibility.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.148-150
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• 2004

최근 내장형 시스템의 보급과 발전으로 휴대용 기기에서 다양한 애플리케이션들을 이용하고 있다. 특히. 핸드폰과 스마트폰과 같은 정보 통신 기기들은 과거의 전화 기능 외에도 개인 정보 관리 및 게임 등 다양한 기능을 수행한다. 또한 차세대 무선 통신 기술로써 SDR(Software Defined Radio)등의 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 이렇게 소형의 휴대 기기에서 다양한 기능과 서비스를 제공하기 위해서는 시스템의 구조가 동적으로 재구성되어야 할 필요성이 증대되고 있다. SDR 시스템의 경우, 하나의 장치에서 두 개 이상의 신호 처리(Signal Processing) 기법이 소프트웨어적으로 제공되어야 한다. 이러한 유연성(Flexibility) 및 재구성(Reconfigurability)을 요건들을 만족시키는 시스템을 위해서는 운영체제 단계에서 동적인 재구성 기법을 제공해주어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 컴포넌트의 비동기적(Asynchronous) 교체를 이용하여 기존의 동적 재구성 기법의 지연 시간을 줄이는 방법을 설명하며 실험을 통해 그것을 증명하도록 한다.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.207-216
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• 2009

Modern engineering design problems involve complexity of disciplinary coupling and difficulty of problem formulation. Multidisciplinary design optimization can overcome the complexity and design optimization software or frameworks can lessen the difficulty. Recently, a growing number of new multidisciplinary design optimization techniques have been proposed. However, each technique has its own pros and cons and it is hard to predict a priori which technique is more efficient than others for a specific problem. In this study, a software system has been developed to directly solve MDO problems with minimal input required. Since the system is based on MATLAB, it can exploit the optimization toolbox which is already developed and proven to be effective and robust. The framework is devised to change an MDO technique to another as the optimization goes on and it is called a reconfigurable MDO framework. Several numerical examples are shown to prove the validity of the reconfiguration idea and its effectiveness.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.129-140
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• 2017

This paper presents a systematic approach for design of timely and proper layouts of a manufacturing system facilitating reconfigurability, referred to as a reconfigurable manufacturing system. A proper methodology for design of a system layout is required for reconfiguration planning - adding or removing machines for supplying the exact capacity needed to fulfill market demands, as well as minimizing the cost of adding new machines. In this paper, theory of constraints is used to make reconfiguration manufacturing systems more cost-effective and efficiency. The proposed approach is validated by using a real industrial case. This paper suggests that the proposed study should be performed concurrently with the design of a new manufacturing system.

• Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.299-304
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• 2003

Manufacturing companies must possess a new type of production system with characteristics of reconfigurability, reusability and scalability (Dove 1995), i.e. an agile manufacturing system. Such system will allow flexibility not only in producing a variety of part, but also in changing the system itself, which is a difference form flexible manufacturing systems. A fundamental early step in the reconfiguring process for agile manufacturing system is to develop a model that adequately describes the proposed systems, in order to be able to study and evaluate the impact of the reconfiguring decision on the system performance, before its construction. Therefore, in this paper, an Object & Knowledge-based Interval Timed Petri-Net (OKITPN) approach is proposed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.349-351
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• 2003

무선 센서 네트웍은 동작 환경과 구조가 매우 특이하du 개발자들은 센서 네트웍의 노드를 디자인할 때 많은 제약 조건들과 요구 조건들을 고려해야 한다. 먼저 우선 센서 네트웍 상의 각 센서 노드에는 극도로 제한된 하드웨어 자원 조건 하에서도 무선 통신 기능뿐만 아니라 동시에 여러 이벤트를 재빠르게 처리할 수 있는 기능이 포함되어야 한다. 또한 환경과 응용 프로그램의 변화에 잘 대처하기 위해 런타임(run-time)에 각 센서 노드들을 동적으로 재구성할 수 있는 기능이 제공되어야 한다. 이러한 디자인 요구 조건들과 제약 조건들은 얼핏 서로 상반된 것처럼 보이는데, 무선 센서 노드들을 위한 실행 환경을 디자인할 때는 이러한 조건들을 모두 만족시킬 수 있는 운영 체제가 반드시 필요하다. 본 논문에서 우리는 무선 센서 노드들을 위한 매우 효율적이고 효과적인 유한 상태 머신(finite state machine) 기반의 운영체제, SenOS를 제안한다. 또한 새로운 운영 체제인 SenOS가 극도의 제한적인 자원에서도 동시성과 반응성, 재구성성의 요구 조건을 모두 만족시키면서 동작할 수 있다는 것을 보일 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.355-357
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• 2003

최근 급속한 발전으로 인해 다양해지고 있는 무선 통신 기술들은 각자의 고유한 주파수, 채널 부호화 기법. 변복조 기법을 쓰는 경우가 많다. 이로 인해, 다양한 무선 통신 기술간의 비호환성 문제가 제기되고 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위한 기술이 SDR(Software Defined Radio)이다. SDR은 신호 처리(Signal Processing)를 소프트웨어적으로 구현하는 것이다. 이러한 SDR 기술은 하나의 하드웨어를 이용해서 설러 무선 통신 기술들을 이용할 수 있게 한다. 현재 대부분의 SDR의 연구는 재구성 가능한 하드웨어 로직과 코어 프레임워크인 SCA(Software Communication Architecture)로 초점이 맞추어지고 있다 하지만 SDR 시스템의 특성을 고려했을 때, 실시간성(Real-Time)과 유연성(Flexibility), 재구성(Reconfigurability)을 위한 기능을 추가하기 위해 이에 적합한 운영체제의 연구가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 휴대 기기에서의 SDR 시스템에 대해 간략히 알아보고 이를 위한 운영체제의 요구사항을 설명하여 그에 적합한 운영체제의 구조와 재구성 기법을 설명한다.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.119-132
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• 2021

To accommodate various mobile communication frequency bands, the study of metamaterial antennas have begun since the mid-2000s to solve the Trilemma problem between antenna gain-occupied bandwidth-size. As an adaptive reconfiguration function is required in a multi-array antenna system since 4G, the metamaterial array antenna using low-power variable elements has been used to change the basic structure of the antenna. Recently, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), which is made of metasurface with reconfigurability, has been studied to effectively cope with the randomly varying radio channels and be used for various purposes such as reflection/transmission/modulation. As a result of RIS-related patent information analysis in this study, it was confirmed that most of the patents are metamaterial antennas and metamaterial array antennas, but the metasurface antenna technology was in the early stages. Particularly, as the intelligent metasurface antenna is in a more initial stage, the investment to R&D of RIS is urgent to secure patent competitiveness in B5G and 6G.