• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.465-474
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• 1994

This study is concerned with a method which helps human to generate EMG signals accurately and consistently to make reliable design samples of function discriminator for prosthetic arm control. We intend to ensure a signal accuracy and consistency by training human as a signal generation source. For the purposes, we construct a human training system using a digital computer, which generates visual graphes to compare real target motion trajectory with the desired one, to observe EMG signals and their features. To evaluate the effect which affects a feature variance and a feature separability between motion classes by the human training system, we select 4 features such as integral absolute value, zero crossing counts, AR coefficients and LPC cepstrum coefficients. We perform a experiment four times during 2 months. The experimental results show that the hu- man training system is effective for accurate and consistent EMG signal generation and reduction of a feature variance, but is not correlated for a feature separability, The cepstrum coefficient is the most preferable among the used features for reduction of variance, class separability and robustness to a time varing property of EMG signals.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.92-99
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• 2008

This paper describes an signal processing method for the hall sensorless position control of ETC control system using a BLDC motor. The proposed ETC control system, which is mainly consisted of a BLDC motor, a throttle plate, a return spring and reduction gear, has a position sensor with an analog voltage output on the throttle valve instead of BLDC motor for detecting rotor position of motor. So the additional commutation information is necessarily needed to control the mentioned ETC module. In order to estimate and determine the commutation state, it is proposed to properly manipulate the resolution of A/D converter considering the mechanical parameter, that is, the number of motor slot and the ratio of reduction gear. Through this method, the estimation of commutation state for operating the system is possible and the discrete signal for commutation is stably obtained. The validity of the method is examined through the experimental results.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.395-402
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• 1995

자기공명 영상 시스템에서 영상을 얻고자 하는 물체내의 자화율 차이는 복셀내의 스핀들의 위상을 변화시킨다. 또한 스핀들 상호간의 위상변화로 인하여 영상 신호는 감쇄된다. 이러한 신호 세기의 감쇄는 자기공명 영상분야에서 자화율 효과라 알려져 왔고 이런 효과를 억제시키거나 또는 이용하는 연구가 심도있게 논의되어왔다. 본 논문에서 자화율 효과로 인한 신호의 변화를 분석할 수 있는 새로운 스펙트럼 분해법과 영상법을 제안하였다. 그리고 자화율 스펙트럼 분해법을 위한 펄스시퀀스를 개발하였고, 이것을 상자성(paramagnetic) 성질 때문에 자화율 효과가 생기는 정맥영상에 적용하였다. 컴퓨터 모의 실험과 팬텀(phantom)을 대상으로 한 실험 결과로 스펙트럼 분해법의 타당성을 보였다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2006년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.817-818
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• 2006

In Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI), the QRS complex of ECG is used as a trigger signal for MRI scan. But, gradient and RF(radio frequency) artifacts which are caused to static and dynamic field in MRI scanner cause interference in the ECG. Also, the signal shape of theses artifacts can be similar to the QRS-complex, causing possible misinterpretation during patient monitoring and false gating of the MRI. In case of using general FIR or IIR band-pass filters for minimizing the artifacts, artifact-reduction-ratio is not excellent. So, an adaptive real-time digital filter is proposed for reduction of noise by gradient and RF(radio frequency) artifacts. The proposed filter for MRI-Gating is based on the noise-canceller with NLMS(Normalized Least Mean Square) algorithm. The reference signals of the adaptive noise canceller are a combination of the noisy three channel ECG signals. In conclusions, the proposed method showed the acceptable quality of ECG signal with sufficient SNR for gating the MRI and possibility of real time implementation.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.1302-1309
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 다중 신호 분류 기반의 음성신호의 입사각 추정 향상 방법을 제안한다. 기본적으로 제안한 방식은 복소 대역통과 필터를 이용하여 신호 분석을 위한 협대역 신호를 생성한다. 또한, 공간 스펙트럼에서의 반향 성분 제거 및 2차 함수 기반의 응답 근사화를 사용하여 추정 각도의 정확도를 향상시켰다. 실험결과 제안한 방법은 일반화된 상호상관도 방식의 입사각 추정 알고리즘보다 검출 오차 및 검출 성공률 측면에서 더 좋은 성능을 보였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권8호
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• pp.2879-2899
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• 2021

The tone reservation (TR) scheme is an attractive method to reduce peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) in the filter bank multicarrier with offset quadrature amplitude modulation (FBMC-OQAM) systems. However, the high PAPR of FBMC signal will severely degrades system performance. To address this issue, a cyclic shift based TR (CS-TR) scheme with embedding side information (SI) is proposed to reduce the PAPR of FBMC signals. At the transmitter, four candidate signals are first generated based on cyclic shift of the output of inverse discrete Fourier transform (IDFT), and the SI of the selected signal with minimum peak power among the four candidate signals is embedded in sparse symbols with quadrature phase-shift keying constellation. Then, the TR weighted by optimal scaling factor is employed to further reduce PAPR of the selected signal. At the receiver, a reliable SI detector is presented by determining the phase rotation of SI embedding symbols, and the transmitted data blocks can be correctly demodulated according to the detected SI. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme significantly outperforms the existing TR schemes in both PAPR reduction and bit error rate (BER) performances. In addition, the proposed scheme with detected SI can achieve the same BER performance compared to the one with perfect SI.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.729-736
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 비음수 행렬 분해 필터 뒷단에 위너필터를 추가하여 배경음 분리 성능을 향상하는 방법을 제안한다. 배경음이 혼재된 음성 신호의 경우 비음수 행렬 분해 기법으로 1차 분리된 신호에는 아직 완전히 분리되지 못한 부분이 잔류할 수 있다. 이러한 경우 위너필터에 의해 잔류하는 신호의 크기에 비례하여 줄여줄 수 있어 배경음 분리 또는 저감 효과를 기대할 수 있다. 실험을 통해 위너필터를 추가한 경우가 비음수행렬 분해 기법만 적용한 경우에 비해 저감 효과가 높은 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제16권12호
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• pp.3943-3959
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• 2022

People are constantly exposed to stress and anxiety environment, which could contribute to a variety of psychological and physical health problems. Therefore, it is particularly important to identify psychological stress in time and to find a feasible and universal method of stress reduction. This research investigated the influence of different music, such as relaxation music and natural rhythm music, on stress relief based on Electroencephalogram signals. Mental arithmetic test was implemented to create a stressful environment. 23 participants performed the mental arithmetic test with and without music respectively, while their Electroencephalogram signal was recorded. The effect of music on stress relief was verified through stress test questionnaires, including Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-6) and Self-Stress Assessment. There was a significant change in the stress test questionnaire values with and without music according to paired t-test (p<0.01). Furthermore, a model based on Transformer for stress level classification from Electroencephalogram signal was proposed. Experimental results showed that the method of listening to relaxation music and natural rhythm music achieved the effect of reducing psychological stress and the proposed model yielded a promising accuracy in classifying the Electroencephalogram signal of mental stress.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.85-91
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• 1997

Air grinding time in grinding process has a great effect on its efficiency due to low feedrate. This paper presents a reduction methos of air grinding time in cylindrical plunge grinding operation. Tje reduction of air grinding time is accomplished by finding the distance between contact point and rising point of ultra- sonic signal of the grinding wheel to workpiece. It uses a variation of sound signal generated by the flow of coolant when the grinding wheel approaches to workpiece. The ultrasonic sensor with 23 kHz center fre- quency and 8 kHz bandwidth is used to find the nearest approaching point(NAP). Monitoring and control system of the grinding conditions is implemented with CNC controller to control feedrate override and ultrasonic sensor to find NAP. The experimental result shows that the ultrasonic signal is a good measure- ment to find NAP. But it needs the considerations for the effect of the relationship between flowrate of coolant and diameter of workpiece.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.294-301
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• 2017

This paper presents a low power ${\Sigma}{\Delta}$ modulator for an implantable chip to acquire a bio-signal such as EEG, DBS, and EMG. In order to reduce a power consumption of the proposed fourth order modulator, two op-amps utilized for the first two integrators are reconfigured to drive the second two integrators. The KT/C noise reduction circuit in the first two integrators is employed to enhance SNR of the modulator. The proposed circuit was fabricated in a 0.18 um CMOS n-well 1 poly 6 metal process with the active chip core area of $900um{\times}800um$ and the power consumption of 830 uW. Measurement results were demonstrated to be SNDR of 76 dB, DR of 77 dB, ENOB of 12.3 bit at the input frequency of 250 Hz and the clock frequency of 256 kHz. FOM1 and FOM2 were measured to be 41 pJ/step and 142.4 dB, respectively.