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A Study of Efficient Access Method based upon the Spatial Locality of Multi-Dimensional Data

  • Yoon, Seong-young;Joo, In-hak;Choy, Yoon-chul
    • Proceedings of the Korea Database Society Conference
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    • 1997.10a
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    • pp.472-482
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    • 1997
  • Multi-dimensional data play a crucial role in various fields, as like computer graphics, geographical information system, and multimedia applications. Indexing method fur multi-dimensional data Is a very Important factor in overall system performance. What is proposed in this paper is a new dynamic access method for spatial objects called HL-CIF(Hierarchically Layered Caltech Intermediate Form) tree which requires small amount of storage space and facilitates efficient query processing. HL-CIF tree is a combination of hierarchical management of spatial objects and CIF tree in which spatial objects and sub-regions are associated with representative points. HL-CIF tree adopts "centroid" of spatial objects as the representative point. By reflecting objects′sizes and positions in its structure, HL-CIF tree guarantees the high spatial locality of objects grouped in a sub-region rendering query processing more efficient.

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A Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorder Risk Assessment Platform using Smart Sensor (스마트센서를 활용한 근골격계 질환 위험 평가 플랫폼)

  • Loh, Byoung Gook
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.93-99
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    • 2015
  • Economic burden of work-related musculoskeletal disorder(WMDs) is increasing. Known causes of WMDs include improper posture, repetition, load, and temperature of workplace. Among them, improper postures play an important role. A smart sensor called SensorTag is employed to estimate the trunk postures including flexion-extension, lateral bend, and the trunk rotational speeds. Measuring gravitational acceleration vector in the smart sensor along the tri-orthogonal axes offers an orientation of the object with the smart sensor attached to. The smart sensor is light in weight and has small form factor, making it an ideal wearable sensor for body posture measurement. Measured data from the smart senor is wirelessly transferred for analysis to a smartphone which has enough computing power, data storage and internet-connectivity, removing need for additional hardware for data post-processing. Based on the estimated body postures, WMDs risks can be conviently gauged by using existing WMDs risk assesment methods such as OWAS, RULA, REBA, etc.

Spherical arrangement of biomimetic polymer photonic structures (자연모사를 통한 미세 고분자 포토닉 구조의 구면배열에 관한 연구)

  • Jeong, Ki-Hun
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.403-404
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    • 2007
  • Compound eyes in nature present intriguing topics in physiological optics due to their unique optical scheme for imaging. For example, a bee's eye has thousands of integrated photonic units called ommatidia spherically arranged along a curvilinear surface so that each unit points in a different direction. The omni-directionally arranged ommatidium collects incident light with a narrow range of angular acceptance and independently contributes to the capability of wide field-of-view (FOV) detection. Artificial implementation of compound eyes has attracted a great deal of research interest because the wide FOV exhibits a huge potential for medical, industrial, and military applications. So far, imaging with a FOV over $90^{\circ}$ has been achieved only with fisheye lenses which rely on bulky and expensive multiple lenses and require stringent alignment. In this talk, we will discuss about the spherical 3D arrangement of the photonic structures of biologically inspired artificial compound eyes in a small form-factor to have and the functional and anatomical similiarity with natural compound eyes.

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Implementation of the Monitoring Program for the Analysis of Electric Consumption Characteristics in Home Appliances (가정용 전력소비형태 분석을 위한 모니터링 프로그램 구현)

  • Yoo, W.H.;Kwon, H.D.;Choi, J.H.;Ko, S.H.;Jeon, C.H.;Lee, S.R.
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.547-549
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    • 2008
  • This paper presents a implementation of the monitoring program for the analysis of electric consumption characteristics in home appliances, which uses a Labview program from National Instruments Corporation. It is can provide to be easy for small-scale researcher, development groups or individual researcher to analyze electric power consumption characteristics. Also, this paper apply to actual private home and then, analyze result of monitoring and a database result of power quality etc, like the power consumption form, power factor and harmonic which follow season, and time zone. For this measured the apartment where the family which is four lives in the object.

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Attenuation of S wave of the Southeastern Part of the Korean Peninsula (한반도 동남부의 S파 감쇠)

  • 박동희
    • Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2001.04a
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    • pp.51-57
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    • 2001
  • In order to estimate attenuation characteristics, nonparametric model is used. Evaluation of this model requires suites of average spectral amplitude data as a function of distance without adopting any assumed parametric forms. Values of Quality factor, Q were estimated for individual frequencies by matrix inversion of S wave amplitude spectra for 21 records of 8 small and intermediate earthquakes (2.7$(1/r)^{1/2}$. The best models for 1/Q values were found to be 0.000453+0.001851/f and 0.000451+0.009261/f, respectively. This results can be compared to the conventional functional form of Q=$af^{b}$ and be used to estimate source spectra and site response.

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Track following control of optical pick-up actuator using PZT (PZT를 이용한 광 정보저장기기용 엑츄에이터의 추적제어)

  • 이우철;양현석;박노철;박영필
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2003.06a
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    • pp.664-669
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    • 2003
  • This paper proposes a swing-arm type dual-stage actuator, which consists of a PZT actuator for fine motion and a VCM(Voice Coil Motor) for coarse motion, for SFF ODD(Small Form Factor Optical Disk Drive), in order to achieve fast access speed and precise track following control. We focus our attention on the design and control of the PZT actuator, because there have been a lot of previous researches related to the VCM and dual-stage actuators. Due to the dual cantilever structure, the PZT actuator can generate precise translational tracking motion at its tip where optical pickup is attached at, and the effect of hysteric behavior of the PZT element is reduced. The dynamic model of the PZT actuator is derived by using the Hamilton's principle, and verified by comparing with the experimental frequency response. The sliding mode control is designed in order to be robust against modeling uncertainties. Simulations and experimental results confirm the effectiveness of the suggested control scheme.

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FPGA Inplementation of the Extended ATA Interface (확장된 ATA 인터페이스의 FPGA구현)

  • 구대성;김정태;이강현
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 1999.11a
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    • pp.1037-1040
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    • 1999
  • In this paper, we designed the extended ATA(AT Attachment interface with extension) interface that combines with goods price and ability and intellectual behavior of SCSI, for make progress the ability and structure of ordinary interface for connect with device of using PC. ATA is establish a standard of IDE(Intelligent Drive Electronics) public in small form factor. SCSI bus is device behaving intellectual and have stable hardware structure, calssified instructions structure. But it is device that difficult to buy, because of price of more than two times. The other side, ATA device is worse than SCSI bus in part of ability, but it came to SCSI in part of speed after improve and it's price is less expensive. another improvement of ATA is a standard of ARAP(AT Attachment Packet Interface) and use method of packet transmission and behaves as if SCSI use a method. Finally, improvement of ATAPI behave from interface of only HDD to ability of ordinary interface. This paper propose the structure of extended interface that satisfied the price and ability.

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Ramp Load/Unload Velocity Control of VCM Using BEMF in HDD (램프 로드/언로드 HDD의 역기전력을 이용한 VCM 속도 제어)

  • 정준;강태식;김태수;정광조;이철우
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2004.05a
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    • pp.730-735
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    • 2004
  • Nowadays, most small form-factor drives adapt a load/unload mechanism and the flying height of the head becomes more and more low. So, the load/unload velocity also becomes one of the important factors to ensure the reliability of the load/unload operation. To control the load/unload velocity accurately, velocity sensing is most important because there is no special velocity sensor during the load/unload operation. In this paper, we proposed a very practical method that measures the velocity from the BEMF voltage of a VCM. Then, the proposed method is applied to the load/unload velocity control using 2.5' drives in order to verify its usefulness.

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ALTERNATING DIRECTION IMPLICIT METHOD FOR TWO-DIMENSIONAL FOKKER-PLANCK EQUATION OF DENSE SPHERICAL STELLAR SYSTEMS

  • Shin, Ji-Hye;Kim, Sung-Soo
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.40 no.4
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    • pp.91-97
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    • 2007
  • The Fokker-Planck (FP) model is one of the commonly used methods for studies of the dynamical evolution of dense spherical stellar systems such as globular clusters and galactic nuclei. The FP model is numerically stable in most cases, but we find that it encounters numerical difficulties rather often when the effects of tidal shocks are included in two-dimensional (energy and angular momentum space) version of the FP model or when the initial condition is extreme (e.g., a very large cluster mass and a small cluster radius). To avoid such a problem, we have developed a new integration scheme for a two-dimensional FP equation by adopting an Alternating Direction Implicit (ADI) method given in the Douglas-Rachford split form. We find that our ADI method reduces the computing time by a factor of ${\sim}2$ compared to the fully implicit method, and resolves problems of numerical instability.

Hardware Platforms for Flash Memory/NVRAM Software Development

  • Nam, Eyee-Hyun;Choi, Ki-Seok;Choi, Jin-Yong;Min, Hang-Jun;Min, Sang-Lyul
    • Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.181-194
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    • 2009
  • Flash memory is increasingly being used in a wide range of storage applications because of its low power consumption, low access latency, small form factor, and high shock resistance. However, the current platforms for flash memory software development do not meet the ever-increasing requirements of flash memory applications. This paper presents three different hardware platforms for flash memory/NVRAM (non-volatile RAM) software development that overcome the limitations of the current platforms. The three platforms target different types of host system and provide various features that facilitate the development and verification of flash memory/NVRAM software. In this paper, we also demonstrate the usefulness of the three platforms by implementing three different types of storage system (one for each platform) based on them.