• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제26권9호
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• pp.1436-1443
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• 1989

In this paper, we propose a maximum-likelihood estimation(MLE) method to obtain the location and the amplitude of the pulses in MPE( multi-pulse excitation)-LPC speech synthesis using multi-pulses as excitation source. This MLE method computes the value maximizing the likelihood function with respect to unknown parameters(amplitude and position of the pulses) for the observed data sequence. Thus in the case of overlapped pulses, the method is equivalent to Ozawa's crosscorrelation method, resulting in equal amount of computation and sound quality with the cross-correlation method. We show by computer simulation: the multi-pulses obtained by MLE method are(1) pseudo-periodic in pitch in the case of voicde sound, (2) the pulses are random for unvoiced sound, (3) the pulses change from random to periodic in the interval where the original speech signal changes from unvoiced to voiced. Short time power specta of original speech and syunthesized speech obtained by using multi-pulses as excitation source are quite similar to each other at the formants.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권8호
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• pp.2534-2546
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• 2021

Nuclear emergency preparedness and response is an essential part to ensure the safety of nuclear power plant (NPP). Key support technologies of nuclear emergency decision-making usually consist of accident diagnosis, source term estimation, accident consequence assessment, and protective action recommendation. Source term estimation is almost the most difficult part among them. For example, bad communication, incomplete information, as well as complicated accident scenario make it hard to determine the reactor status and estimate the source term timely in the Fukushima accident. Subsequently, it leads to the hard decision on how to take appropriate emergency response actions. Hence, this paper aims to develop a method for rapid source term estimation to support nuclear emergency decision making in pressurized water reactor NPP. The method aims to make our knowledge on NPP provide better support nuclear emergency. Firstly, this paper studies how to build a Bayesian network model for the NPP based on professional knowledge and engineering knowledge. This paper presents a method transforming the PRA model (event trees and fault trees) into a corresponding Bayesian network model. To solve the problem that some physical phenomena which are modeled as pivotal events in level 2 PRA, cannot find sensors associated directly with their occurrence, a weighted assignment approach based on expert assessment is proposed in this paper. Secondly, the monitoring data of NPP are provided to the Bayesian network model, the real-time status of pivotal events and initiating events can be determined based on the junction tree algorithm. Thirdly, since PRA knowledge can link the accident sequences to the possible release categories, the proposed method is capable to find the most likely release category for the candidate accidents scenarios, namely the source term. The probabilities of possible accident sequences and the source term are calculated. Finally, the prototype software is checked against several sets of accident scenario data which are generated by the simulator of AP1000-NPP, including large loss of coolant accident, loss of main feedwater, main steam line break, and steam generator tube rupture. The results show that the proposed method for rapid source term estimation under nuclear emergency decision making is promising.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.192-204
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• 2012

For a severe accident of nuclear power plant, an approach to estimation of the radiological source term using a severe accident code(MELCOR) has been proposed. Although the MELCOR code has a capability to estimate the radiological source term, it has been hardly utilized for the radiological consequence analysis mainly due to a lack of understanding on the relevant function employed in MELCOR and severe accident phenomena. In order to estimate the severe accident source term to be linked with the radiological consequence analysis, this study proposes 4-step procedure: (1) selection of plant condition leading to a severe accident(i.e., accident sequence), (2) analysis of the relevant severe accident code, (3) investigation of the code analysis results and post-processing, and (4) generation of radiological source term information for the consequence analysis. The feasibility study of the present approach to an early containment failure sequence caused by a fast station blackout(SBO) of a reference plant (OPR-1000), showed that while the MELCOR code has an integrated capability for severe accident and source term analysis, it has a large degree of uncertainty in quantifying the radiological source term. Key insights obtained from the present study were: (1) key parameters employed in a typical code for the consequence analysis(i.e., MACCS) could be generated by MELCOR code; (2) the MELOCR code simulation for an assessment of the selected accident sequence has a large degree of uncertainty in determining the accident scenario and severe accident phenomena; and (3) the generation of source term information for the consequence analysis relies on an expert opinion in both areas of severe accident analysis and consequence analysis. Nevertheless, the MELCOR code had a great advantage in estimating the radiological source term such as reflection of the current state of art in the area of severe accident and radiological source term.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.215-221
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• 2016

We consider a design of a combined quantizer and estimator for distributed systems wherein each node quantizes its measurement without any communication among the nodes and transmits it to a fusion node for estimation. Noting that the quantization partitions minimizing the estimation error are not independently encoded at nodes, we focus on the parameter regions created by the partitions and propose a cluster-based quantization algorithm that iteratively finds a given number of clusters of parameter regions with each region being closer to the corresponding codeword than to the other codewords. We introduce a new metric to determine the distance between codewords and parameter regions. We also discuss that the fusion node can perform an efficient estimation by finding the intersection of the clusters sent from the nodes. We demonstrate through experiments that the proposed design achieves a significant performance gain with a low complexity as compared to the previous designs.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제39B권10호
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• pp.715-721
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• 2014

두 개 센서에 도래하는 신호 간의 시간 지연을 추정 방법에는 여러 가지가 존재한다. 그 중에서 채널 추정 기법을 기반으로 한 방법의 경우는 두 센서에 입력되는 서로 다른 신호간의 상대적인 지연을 채널의 임펄스 응답처럼 추정하도록 되어 있다. 이 경우에는 해당 채널의 특성이 희박 채널의 특성을 가지고 있다. 기존의 방법들은 채널의 희박성을 이용하지 못하고 있는 방법이 대부분이다. 본 논문에서는 채널의 희박성을 이용하기 위하여 희박신호 최적화 방법의 하나인 LASSO 최적화를 사용한 시간 지연 추정 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법을 기존의 방법과 비교하여, 백색 가우시안 신호원에서는 약 10dB 이상의 성능 개선 결과를 보이고, 유색 신호원에서도 갑자기 추정성능이 열하되는 현상이 없음을 보인다.

• 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방재학회 2010년도 정기 학술발표대회
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• pp.16-24
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• 2010

This paper introduces the applications of Taiwan Earthquake Loss Estimation System (TELES), which is developed by the National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE). Seismic disaster simulation technology (SDST) integrates geographical information system to assess the distribution of ground shaking intensity, ground failure probability, building damages, casualties, post-quake fires, debris, lifeline interruptions, economic losses, etc. given any set of seismic source parameters. The SDST may integrate with Taiwan Rapid Earthquake Information Release System (TREIRS) developed by Central Weather Bureau (CWB) to obtain valuable information soon after large earthquakes and to assist in decision-making processes to dispatch rescue and medical resources more efficiently. The SDST may also integrate with probabilistic seismic source model to evaluate various kinds of risk estimates, such as average annual loss, probable maximum loss in one event, and exceeding probability curves of various kinds of losses, to help proposing feasible countermeasures and risk management strategies.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• 제49권2호
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• pp.24-29
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• 2012

자동차 배기음은 음성과 무관한 거의 독립적인 음원이라고 볼 수 있다. 따라서 자동차 배기음과 섞인 음성 신호의 경우에 두 음원에 대한 사전 정보가 없는 상황이므로 Blind Source Separation 의 한 방법인 Independent Component Analysis를 이용하여 분리해 내었다. 스테레오 마이크를 통해 섞여 들어 온 두 음원을 분리해 내기 위해 Maximum Likelyhood Estimation을 이용하여 각 신호들 사이의 독립성을 최대화 하는 방향으로 분리하였다. 분리된 신호는 어느 쪽이 음성 신호인지 알 수 없으므로 주파수 영역에서 자기 공분산을 구한 후 이 공분산 값들의 기울기를 이용하여 음성 신호와 자동차 배기음 신호을 구분하였으며 이 두 알고리즘을 결합하여 음성 신호 잡음 제거기를 구현하였다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.181-191
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• 2018

Rapid development of information technology makes our environment become smarter and massive high performance computers are providing powerful computing for that. Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) as a typical high performance component is being widely used for both graphics and general-purpose applications. Although it can greatly improve computing power, it also delivers significant power consumption and need sufficient power supplies. To make high performance computing more sustainable, the important step is to measure it. Current power technologies for GPU have some drawbacks, such as they are not applicable for power estimation at the early stage. In this article, we present a novel power technology to correlate power consumption and the characteristics at the programmer perspective, and then to estimate power consumption of source program without prerunning. We conduct experiments on Nvidia's GT740 platform; the results show that our power model is more accurately than regression model and has an average error of 2.34% and the maximum error of 9.65%.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제38권6호
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• pp.543-551
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• 2020

본 논문에서는 레이더를 이용한 표적 길이 추정 정확도를 향상시키기 위한 방법에 관해 소개한다. 레이더 수신신호를 통해 만들어지는 고해상도 거리측면도(HRRP: High Resolution Range Profile)은 표적의 1차원적인 산란 특성을 나타내며, HRRP에서의 피크(peak)는 전자기파를 강하게 산란시키는 산란점(scattering center)을 의미한다. 추출된 산란점을 이용하여 레이더 가시선 방향(RLOS: Radar Line of Sight)의 길이인 표적 종방향 거리(downrange) 길이를 추정하며, 표적과 레이더 가시선 방향이 이루는 각도를 통해 표적의 실제 길이를 추정한다. 길이 추정의 정확도를 향상시키기 위해, HRRP를 이용하는 방법보다 정확하게 산란점을 추출하기 위한 방법인 매개변수 추정방법(parametric estimation method)을 이용할 수 있다. 매개변수 추정방법은 산란점 개수가 결정된 후에 적용되며, 따라서 산란점 개수 추정의 정확도에 크게 영향을 받는다. 본 논문에서는 레이더를 통한 표적 길이 추정 정확도를 향상시키기 위해, 정보 이론적 판단 기준에 바탕을 둔 신호원 수 추정방법인 AIC (Akaike Information Criteria), MDL (Minimum Descriptive Length), GLE (Gerschgorin Likelihood Estimators)방법들을 이용하여 산란점 개수를 추정하였다. 매개변수 추정방법으로 ESPRIT기법을 이용하여, 간단한 표적 캐드 모델에 대한 길이 추정 시뮬레이션을 수행하였으며, GLE방법이 산란점 개수 추정과 표적 길이 추정에 우수한 성능을 보임을 확인하였다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.38-42
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• 2018

In this paper, we consider measurement allocation problem in a spatially correlated sensor field. Our goal is to determine the probability of each sensor's being measured based on its contribution to the estimation reliability; it is desirable that a sensor improving the estimation reliability is measured more frequently. We consider a spatial correlation model of a sensor field reflecting transmission power limit, noise in measurement and transmission channel, and channel attenuation. Then the estimation reliability is defined distortion error between event source and its estimation at sink. Motivated by the correlation nature, we model the measurement allocation problem into a cooperative game, and then quantify each sensor's contribution using Shapley value. Against the intractability in the computation of exact Shapley value, we deploy a randomized method that enables to compute the approximate Shapley value within a reasonable time. Besides, we envisage a measurement scheduling achieving the balance between network lifetime and estimation reliability.