• PNF and Movement
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.233-242
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• 2021

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the changes in foot contact area and pressure when walking with a functional insole that emphasizes the Hallux point as compared to a general insole. Methods: In this study, an experiment was conducted to investigate changes in plantar pressure and contact area for a functional insole that emphasized the Hallux point as compared to a general insole. A lower extremity robot was used for walking reproduction. First, the gait sequence according to the two insoles was determined through a randomized controlled trial comparison. According to the sequence procedure, the insole was attached to the shoe and then worn on the right side of the lower extremity robot for gait reproduction at a normal gait speed of 20 steps per minute. After programming the robot to walk, the experiment was carried out. The result value was determined by averaging the pressure and area data of the fore and rear foot measures after walking at 20 steps per minute. Results: The functional insole that emphasized the hallux point significantly increased the forefoot and rearfoot contact area (p < 0.05) and significantly decreased the forefoot and rearfoot contact pressure (p < 0.05) compared to the general insole. Conclusion: A functional insole that emphasizes the hallux point does not collapse the medial longitudinal arch during gait, increasing foot stability and reducing fatigue. Thus, this functional insole needs to be widely used clinically.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.11
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• pp.4937-4943
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• 2012

Butterfly valves have been used to control the flow rate of various fluids in many industries because it have unique manageability compare to other valves. The flow rate passing through the butterfly valves can be controlled according to the coefficient of capacity calculated by disk angle change. In this study, flow analysis by 3D modeling was performed to derive the coefficient of capacity to evaluate and improve newly developed butterfly valves. Also, required measurement system was established to verify the performance of the valves, and to compare with the calculated results.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.2267-2271
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• 2011

This study was focused on getting p-type copper-oxide thin-film semiconductors suitable for p-channel thin-film transistors. Vacuum thermal evaporation and thermal annealing were used to get copper-oxide thin-film semiconductor having properties adoptable as an active layer of thin-film transistors. n-type thin films having electron carrier density of about $10^{22}\;cm^{-3}$ before thermal annealing was converted to p-type thin films having hole carrier density of about $10^{16}\;cm^{-3}$ as the thermal annealing conditions were optimized.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.445-450
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• 2011

In this paper, we describe the implementation of an wireless sensor network testbed. We developed a web-based sensor network gateway and enhanced the Surge program which is used for sending and routing of packets in the sensor field. The developed program can transmit the source data of sensor nodes to the sink node via multi-hop routing, and deliver user commands to actuate sensor related equipments. Moreover, in this testbed, the data transport path from a node to the sink can be monitored. Thus we can approximate the network topology and the relative positions of sensor nodes. We also describe an application of the testbed that is used for controlling a remote robot.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.12
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• pp.6066-6071
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• 2013

This paper proposes a calibration method for a freehand 3-D ultrasound system in medical robotic research. The calibration block with six wires was designed to set the fixed target points. The positions of the ultrasound probe and calibration block were measured using an optical tracker. The relationship between the position of the ultrasound probe and the pixel coordinates in the images was derived using a calibration process. The scaling matrix was also calculated. The experimental results showed that the proposed method could find solutions using a simple least square method from one or multiple ultrasound images.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.3714-3721
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• 2015

Although sheath-type heating line is generally used for susceptor heater, performance deterioration problems in temperature uniformity occurs in the case of large scale and high temperature condition. We developed new design and prototype of the susceptor using sheet metal to provide performance improvement in temperature uniformity. Temperature uniformity below 1.4% in the surface temperature condition of $450^{\circ}C$ was verified in the susceptor prototype. Also we developed Kernel regression algorithm to estimate measured temperature using temperature learning data. The reliability of the measured temperature uniformity was confirmed by comparative analysis between predicted data and measured data.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.2913-2918
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• 2011

This paper proposed the friction model using Preisach algorithm with neural network based on experimental results. In order to apply the neural network algorithm, the back propagation update rule was used and the updated weighting factor of neural network was applied to distribute function of Preisach model. In order to implement the proposed algorithm, the LabView software was used to apply to the precision control of mechanical system. The evaluation of the proposed friction model was executed through experiments.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.1001-1005
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• 2004

The objective of this paper is to develop the flexible manufacturing system (FMS), which is cooperated with the automatic warehouse and inventory control under holonic manufacturing system (HMS). The HMS is a next wave of manufacturing revolution to deal with dynamic changing. The architecture of HMS is developed for cooperation system between the automatic warehouse agents and the manufacturing agents. This research applies the concept of HMS to develop a distributed control system for automatic warehouse and FMS by industrial network. The parts of prototype manufacturing agents consist of the conveyer system and 3-axises robot that provide the variety patterns in order to work as punch process. Each order of productions depends on the reorder points(RP) of inventory levels. The computation results indicate an improvement by comparing with traditional centralized control.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2009.12a
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• pp.806-809
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 FMC의 로봇 경로 분석 및 설계를 하기 위해 시뮬레이션을 이용해 FMC의 로봇 패턴을 분석하고 그 결과를 이용해 최적의 로봇 경로를 설계하는 방법을 제시하였다. 전형적인 FMC를 시뮬레이션으로 설계하고 설비에서 신호를 추출 해 순차 패턴 마이닝을 이용해 로봇의 최적 이동 경로를 도출하는 방법을 제시하였다. 이러한 신호의 패턴을 이용한 분석 방법은 로봇의 경로 설계를 도출하기가 용이하여 최적의 경로를 설계하여 FMC에 적용한 결과 기존보다 총 처리량의 증가와 총 처리시간 감소를 가져왔다. 또한 이 방법은 FMC 뿐만 아니라 로봇이 있는 모든 생산라인에 시뮬레이션을 통해 분석이 가능하기 때문에 생산성 향상에 크게 기여할 것으로 기대된다.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2009.12a
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• pp.144-147
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 21세기 지식정보사회에 학생들의 창의력 향상을 위하여 MSRDS에서 제공하는 에디터인 VPL(Visual Programming Language)를 이용한 로봇 프로그래밍 학습이 창의력에 미치는 효과를 연구하였다. VPL은 로봇 애플리케이션 개발을 프로그래머가 아닌 학생들도 쉽게 사용할 수 있도록 MSRDS에서 제공하는 프로그램이며, 이를 시뮬레이션과 연결시켜 로봇 하드웨어가 없이 손쉽게 학습을 할 수 있게 하였다. 이를 위하여 VPL에서 사용하는 기본 Activity를 이용하여 프로그래밍의 구문을 자연스럽게 학습할 수 있는 수업 내용을 개발하였으며, 연구 대상은 충청남도 B군에 위치한 B공고 3학년의 컴퓨터응용관련 학과 1개반을 대상으로 C언어를 이용한 기존의 마이크로 장비 프로그래밍 수업과 VPL을 이용한 로봇 프로그래밍 수업을 상호 비교하려고 한다. 이 연구에서는 VPL을 통하여 손 쉽게 프로그래밍을 하고 흥미가 유발되어 자신이 생각한 대로 로봇의 동작을 구현하는 과정에서 자연스럽게 문제해결능력이 신장된 것을 확인하고자 한다.