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A Study on Performance Enhancement for Remote Operation of Industrial Equipments

  • Lho, Tae-Jung;Joo, Hyun-Woo;Kang, Dong-Jung;Song, Se-Hoon;Park, Ki-Tae
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.813-817
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    • 2003
  • By increasing trades between countries, importance of harbors is becoming serious, including our country. When it comes to Container Crane Operation, the most important matter is how many containers are loaded in a truck or a ship by given time. This can be a crucial matter of harbors in taking care of materials. The present harbors' crane uses a wire-rope conveyance materials are transported in the air and have high free-angle of location. The sway can cause the delay of time, wrong position of Trolley and the damage of materials. In this study, we obtain the optimal PID parameters with GA(Genetic Algorithm) and apply those parameters to the PID Controller. In the result of the experimentation, we can see how effectively the PID controller, applied with the optimal parameters obtained by GA, can control the sway angle.

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A Tele-rehabilitation System with an Automated Pegboard Utilizing Radio Frequency Identification

  • Jeong, Da-Young;Ryu, Mun-Ho;Yang, Yoon-Seok;Kim, Nam-Gyun;Kim, Seong-Hyun
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.8-13
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    • 2010
  • Due to the expense of health care and the need to contain costs, many stroke patients are discharged from hospitals while still in an impaired condition. Using Tele-rehabilitation, these patients can receive rehabilitation services remotely. A pegboard is a conventional rehabilitation therapeutic device that integrates cognition, sensation and hand motor function. This study proposes a Tele-rehabilitation content with automated pegboard and shows its functional feasibility. The evaluation of the pegboard session was automated with RFID (radio frequency identification), and a 16-hole pegboard was rapid-prototyped. After a pegboard session is completed, the session result is uploaded to a server automatically for viewing on a web browser by a remote therapist. The therapist can also send messages to remote patients to encourage them or to manage the rehabilitation process.

New techniques for estimating the shut-in pressure in hydro-fracturing pressure-time curves

  • Choi Sung O.
    • 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.272-280
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    • 2003
  • A definite shut-in pressure in hydraulic fracturing techniques is needed for obtaining the correct information on the in-situ stress regimes in rock masses. The relation between the behaviour of hydraulically induced fractures and the condition of remote stress is considered to be major reasons of an ambiguous shut-in pressure in hydraulic fracturing pressure-time history curves. This paper describes the results of a series of numerical analyses carried out using UDEC(Universal Distinct Element Code, Itasca), which is based on the discrete element method, to compare several methods for determining the shut-in pressure during hydraulic fracturing. The fully coupling of hydraulic and mechanical analysis was applied, and the effects of four different discontinuity geometries in numerical modelling have been investigated for this purpose. The effects of different remote stress regimes and different physical properties on hydraulic fracture propagation have been also analyzed. Several methods for obtaining shut-in pressure from the ambiguous shut-in curves have been applied to all the numerical models. The graphical intersection methods, such as (P vs. t) method, (P vs. log(t)) method, (log(P) vs. log(t)) method, give smaller values of the shut-in pressure than the statistical method, (dP/dt vs. P). Care should be taken in selecting a method for shut-in pressure, because there can be existed a stress anomaly around the wellbore and fracturing from the wellbore by a constant flow rate may have a more complicate mechanism.

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A feasibility study of audio-video communication application using mobile telecommunication in inter-hospital transfer situations (병원 간 전원 상황에서 이동통신망을 이용한 음성화상정보통신 애플리케이션의 유용성에 관한 연구)

  • Jeong, Joo;Kim, Tae-Han;Kang, Saee-Byel
    • The Korean Journal of Emergency Medical Services
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.125-134
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    • 2019
  • Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of video communication with medical staff located at a remote location, through a communication application connected to a long term evolution (LTE) mobile communication network in a moving ambulance. Methods: In this study, we recruited patients who were transferred by mobile intensive care unit ambulance from one hospital to another. In the moving ambulance, the information of the patient was transferred to a physician using the application in real time. Recorded video files were evaluated by emergency physicians with experience in video direct medical control. Results: A total of 18 patients were evaluated, and the average score was 5.9 out of a possible 9. It was expected that applying the use of the technology to actual clinical sites would enable the sites to provide assistance. Conclusion: In this study, we confirmed the possibility of benefiting from the clinical field when using the video-audio communication application which is connected to the remote location in real time through the current LTE mobile communication network in the ambulance.

Retrieval of High-Resolution Grid Type Visibility Data in South Korea Using Inverse Distance Weighting and Kriging

  • Kang, Taeho;Suh, Myoung-Seok
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.97-110
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    • 2021
  • Fog can cause large-scale human and economic damages, including traffic systems and agriculture. So, Korea Meteorological Administration is operating about 290 visibility meters to improve the observation level of fog. However, it is still insufficient to detect very localized fog. In this study, high-resolution grid-type visibility data were retrieved from irregularly distributed visibility data across the country. To this end, three objective analysis techniques (Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW), Ordinary Kriging (OK) and Universal Kriging (UK)) were used. To find the best method and parameters, sensitivity test was performed for the effective radius, power parameter and variogram model that affect the level of objective analysis. Also, the effect of data distribution characteristics (level of normality) on the performance level of objective analysis was evaluated. IDW showed a relatively high level of objective analysis in terms of bias, RMSE and correlation, and the performance is inversely proportional to the effective radius and power parameter. However, the two Krigings showed relatively low level of objective analysis, in particular, greatly weakened the variability of the variables, although the level of output was different depending on the variogram model used. As the level of objective analysis is greatly influenced by the distribution characteristics of data, power, and models used, care should be taken when selecting objective analysis techniques and parameters.

IOT Intelligent Watering Sensor For Indoor Plant

  • Hana, Mujlid;Haneen Daifallah, Alghamdi;Hind Abdulaziz, Alkharashi;Marah Awadh, Alkhaldi
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.12
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    • pp.171-177
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    • 2022
  • The number of people who own indoor plants is growing today, but as a result of their busy lifestyles-such as work or travel-as well as a lack of enthusiasm in caring for their plants, their plants wither. The use of an irrigation control system with a surveillance camera can assist such folks in taking care of their plants. Such a device can assist in remotely watering plants at predetermined times and checking on the health of the plants. The proprietors would be able to live comfortably without feeling bad thanks to this change. Internet access is required for this technology in order to monitor the plants and control the watering through apps. A sensor is installed in the soil to monitor soil humidity and send data to the microcontroller for irrigation, allowing the owner to schedule irrigation as they see fit and keep an eye on their plants all day. With the use of a remote irrigation control system, the plants will grow properly and be irrigated with the proper amount of water, and the owners will be so glad and delighted to watch their plants. Knowing the time and quantity of water are vital parts of the plant growth.

Lightweight Deep Learning Model for Heart Rate Estimation from Facial Videos (얼굴 영상 기반의 심박수 추정을 위한 딥러닝 모델의 경량화 기법)

  • Gyutae Hwang;Myeonggeun Park;Sang Jun Lee
    • IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.51-58
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    • 2023
  • This paper proposes a deep learning method for estimating the heart rate from facial videos. Our proposed method estimates remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) signals to predict the heart rate. Although there have been proposed several methods for estimating rPPG signals, most previous methods can not be utilized in low-power single board computers due to their computational complexity. To address this problem, we construct a lightweight student model and employ a knowledge distillation technique to reduce the performance degradation of a deeper network model. The teacher model consists of 795k parameters, whereas the student model only contains 24k parameters, and therefore, the inference time was reduced with the factor of 10. By distilling the knowledge of the intermediate feature maps of the teacher model, we improved the accuracy of the student model for estimating the heart rate. Experiments were conducted on the UBFC-rPPG dataset to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Moreover, we collected our own dataset to verify the accuracy and processing time of the proposed method on a real-world dataset. Experimental results on a NVIDIA Jetson Nano board demonstrate that our proposed method can infer the heart rate in real time with the mean absolute error of 2.5183 bpm.

Analysis of remote learning trends in the COVID-19 period using news big data (뉴스 빅데이터를 활용한 코로나 19시기의 원격 교육 동향 분석)

  • Lee, Youngho;Koo, Dukhoi
    • 한국정보교육학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2021.08a
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    • pp.193-197
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    • 2021
  • The pandemic situation caused by COVID-19 has a large and small impact on our society socially, economically, psychologically, and other aspects. In order to prevent the spread of COVID-19, various countries, including Korea, have entered into long-term home care and distance learning systems. However, distance learning experiments conducted in many countries have raised whether face-to-face education can be replaced by distance learning. Therefore, in this study, public opinion, social perception, and field trends were analyzed based on media reports on distance learning. For this purpose, 2,600 articles from 11 newspapers and four broadcasters related to distance learning were collected in this study. Based on this data, keyword trend analysis, topic modeling analysis, sentiment analysis were performed.

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Design and implementation of a smart glass-based emeraency tele-medical direction system (스마트 글래스 기반 응급원격의료지도 시스템 설계 및 구현)

  • Youngho Lee;Incheol Hwang;Hyunmo Yang;Gunwoo Park;Sungmin Lee
    • Smart Media Journal
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.26-32
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    • 2024
  • This paper proposes a smart glass-based emergency tele-medical direction system. This system is designed for hospital specialists to provide remote medical guidance to on-site coast guards or emergency responders. To identify the requirements necessary for system development, relevant technological trends and case studies were analyzed. Based on this analysis, three system requirements were defined: 1) The system must be able to determine the necessity of patient transport, 2) It should assist in providing emergency medical care during transport to the hospital, and 3) It must be capable of transmitting patient information to medical facilities. A prototype that meets these requirements was developed and its usability was evaluated.

The effect of the self-measurement frequency levels on SmartCare obesity management (스마트케어 비만관리에서 자가 측정 빈도 수준의 효과)

  • Lee, Chang-Hee;Chang, Byeong-Yun
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.1972-1980
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    • 2015
  • This study's purpose was to analyze the effect of the SmartCare obesity management pilot project, which was conducted between 09 March 2011 and 03 April 2013 in Korea (South). Of 212 subjects who were enrolled in the study, the final analysis was conducted with 147 subjects who completed their weight self-measurements and SmartCare services until the end of a 6-month service period. The self-measurement group for evaluation was classified into 3 groups (Low, Middle, and High) by evenly dividing the monthly average frequency of measurement for 6 months and the evaluation indices were weight, and BMI (Body Mass Index) transmitted from the SmartCare System. The monthly average weight and BMI were decreased more in the High Group than the Middle Group and Low Group (M5: High>Middle>Low), and they are showing statistically significant differences between groups (p< 0.05). In conclusion, analysis of the weight and BMI improvement effect showed a greater improvement effect when the self-measurement frequency level was higher.