• 한국안전학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.117-124
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• 2013

Emergency operating procedures(EOPs) of nuclear power plants should be described considering the cognitive capability and limitation of operators and provide appropriate information in the aspect of human factors. Procedures which doesn't consider cognitive characteristics of operators can become causes of human errors. In previous researches, in order to reduce these problems related to the description of EOP, an improvement suggestion for EOP writer's guide has been proposed, which is reflected human factors aspects that should be considered when describing EOPs. The proposed items, however, have a necessity to be validated because it was listed from various documents such as standards and guidelines without any special validation process. For that reason, in this study, a validation process were performed to show that procedures, which are described in compliance with the requirement items proposed in the improved EOP writer's guide, have positive effects in the aspects of human errors and performance comparing with previous procedures. Experiments were performed to compare the performances of two tasks which are described in compliance with each writer's guide of before and after the improvement During each task was performed in experiments, changes of physiological responses such as EEG and ECG were measured to evaluate the cognitive workload and the stress of operators in each task. And also, as the performance, frequencies of errors and cognition speeds of each task were evaluated. In the results of the experiment, the portions of the ${\beta}$ wave decreased in the tasks overall after the improvement. In the case of ECG, change rates of the mean of R-R interval were decreased in the tasks after improvement. In the results of the performance, the cognition and the response time of the tasks after the improvement were predominant with statistical significancies. Error times in the tasks after improvement were decreased or same to the tasks before improvement. Conclusively, it was validated that the procedures were described in compliance with the improved EOP writer's guide had effects on the reduction of human errors and improvement of performance.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.695-703
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• 2010

Training is one of the representative application fields of virtual reality technology where users can have virtual experience in a training task and working environment. Widely used in the medical and military fields, virtual-reality-based training systems are also useful in industrial fields, such as the aerospace industry, since they show superiority over real training environments in terms of accessibility, safety, and cost. The shipbuilding industry is known as a labor-intensive industry that demands a lot of skilled workers. In particular, painting jobs in the shipbuilding industry require a continuous supplement of human resources since many workers leave due to the poor working environment. In this paper, the authors present a virtual-reality-based training system for spray painting tasks in the shipbuilding industry. The design issues and implementation details of the training system are described, and also its advantages and shortcomings are discussed based on use cases in actual work fields.

• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈D:수학교육연구
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.33-51
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• 2007

The present study explores mathematics teachers' understanding of division by zero and their approaches to explaining the impossibility of division by zero. This study analyzes Chinese and Korean middle school mathematics teachers' responses to the teaching task of explaining the impossibility of dividing 7 by zero, and examples of teachers' reasoned explanations for their answers are presented. The findings from this study suggest that most Korean teachers offer multiple types of mathematical explanations for justifying the impossibility of division by zero, while Chinese teachers' explanations were more uniform and based less on mathematical ideas than those of their Korean counterparts. Another finding from this study is that teachers' particular conceptions of zero were strongly associated with their justifications for the impossibility of division by zero, and the influence of the teachers' conceptions of zero was revealed as a barrier in composing a well-reasoned explanation for the impossibility of division by zero. One of the practical implications of this study is those teachers' basic attitudes toward always attempting to give explanations for mathematical facts or mathematical concepts do not seem to be derived solely from their sufficient knowledge of the facts or concepts of mathematics.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2015년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.208-210
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• 2015

임베디드 시스템에서 멀티코어 프로세스의 채택이 늘어나고 있다. 멀티코어 시스템이 태스크들을 효율적으로 병렬화하여 성능을 극대화하였는지 살펴보기 위해서는 태스크들의 스케줄링 결과를 분석하고 시각화 해주는 도구가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 멀티코어 임베디드 시스템을 위한 태스크 스케줄링 결과 시각화 도구를 소개한다. 자원 제약이 있는 임베디드 타켓 디바이스의 부하를 줄이기 위해 스케줄링 결과는 호스트 컴퓨터에 전달되어 분석 및 시각화된다. 시각화 형태는 시스템의 전체 동작을 한 눈에 파악할 수 있게 해주는 그래프 형태와 정밀한 분석을 가능하게 해 주는 리스트 형태로 제공된다. 제시된 도구는 멀티코어 임베디드 시스템의 태스크들의 스케줄링 결과를 쉽고 정확하게 파악할 수 있게 해 주어 시스템의 성능 향상에 도움을 준다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2005년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.707-710
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a new communication network for on-chip communication. The network is based on a direct sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) technique. The new communication network is suitable for a parallel processing system and also drastically reduces the I/O pin count. Our network architecture is mainly divided into a CDMA-based network interface (CNI), a communication channel, a synchronizer. The network includes a reverse communication channel for reducing latency. The network decouples computation task from communication task by the CNI. An extreme truncation is considered to simplify the communication link. For the scalability of the network, we use a PN-code reuse method and a hierarchical structure. The network elements have a modular architecture. The communication network is done using fully synthesizable Verilog HDL to enhance the portability between process technologies.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2006년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.303-306
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• 2006

유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅의 핵심은 네트워크 환경에 대한 고 가용성이라 할 수 있다. 이러한 사실은 사용자 컨텍스트(Context)가 반영된 서비스를 제공하기 위한 필수조건이 이미 갖추어져 있다는 것을 시사한다. 지금까지 상황인지(Context-Aware) 서비스를 위한 여러 응용들이 제시되어 왔지만, 동적으로 변화하는, 즉 예측하기 어려운 환경을 충분히 반영할 만큼의 유연성을 제공하지 못했다. 왜냐하면, 응용 태스크 시나리오가 시작단계부터 이미 정해져 있었기 때문이다. 여기에, 본 고는 평생동안 개인화된 태스크를 동적으로 생성, 제공할 수 있는 멀티 에이전트 시스템 구조를 제안하고자 한다. 평생 개인화 태스크(Life Long Personalized Task)는 끊임없이 변화하는 사용자의 행동패턴을 반영할 수 있도록, 동적으로 생성, 제공되는 태스크를 의미한다. 이는 태스크 시나리오가 컴파일 타임에 이미 결정되지 않고, 실행 시간 중에 자동으로 생성된다는 것을 의미한다. 이러한 유연성은 평생학습 엔진(Life Long Learning Engine)을 활용함으로써 가능하다. 이 엔진은 사용자의 행동패턴을 학습하며, 결과적으로 사용자 행동패턴 규칙들을 생성한다.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2013

The determination of the pose of the imaging camera is a fundamental problem in computer vision. In the monocular case, difficulties in determining the scene scale and the limitation to bearing-only measurements increase the difficulty in estimating camera pose accurately. Many mobile phones now contain inertial measurement devices, which may lend some aid to the task of determining camera pose. In this study, by means of simulation and real-world experimentation, we explore an approach to monocular camera localization that incorporates both observations of the environment and measurements from accelerometers and gyroscopes. The unscented Kalman filter was implemented for this task. Our main contribution is a novel approach to landmark initialization in a Kalman filter; we characterize the tolerance to noise that this approach allows.

• Transactions on Control, Automation and Systems Engineering
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.236-241
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• 2001

Teach pendant is the most widely used means of robot teaching at present. Despite the difficulties of using the motion command buttons on the teach pendant, it is an economical, robust, and effective device for robot teaching task. This paper presents the development of a force/moment direction sensor named COSMO that can improve the teach pendant based robot teaching. Robot teaching experiment of a six axis commercial robot using the sensor is described where operator holds the sensor with a hand, and move the robot by pushing, pulling, and twisting the sensor in the direction of the desired motion. No prior knowledge of the coordinate system is required. The function of the COSMO sensor is to detect the presence f force and moment along the principal axes of the sensor coordinate system. The transducer used in the sensor is micro-switch, and this intuitive robot teaching can be implemented at a very low cost.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.346-360
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• 1998

It is challenging to parallelize problems with irregular computation and communication. In this paper, we propose an asynchronous algorithm for balancing unpredictable workload on distributed-memory machines. By using an initial workload estimate, we first partition the computations such that the workload is distributed evenly across the processors. In addition, we perform task migrations dynamically for adapting to the evolving workload. To demonstrate the usefulness of our load balancing strategy, we conducted experiments on an IBM SP2 and a Cray T3D. Experimental results show that our task migration strategy can balance unpredictable workload with little overhead. Our code using C and MPI is portable onto other distributed-memory machines.

• 대한인간공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한인간공학회 1993년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.252-262
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• 1993

The subject on office automation is gradually gaining more improtance due to the fact that the efficiency of office systems contribute to the increase of productivity as much as manufactoring systems themselves. For successful implementation of office automation, one must carefully plan and execute various steps such as the analysis of office tasks, personnel training, workplace design, equipment design, and so on. The previous studies related to the subject has not been concrete enough to be practically helpful for the actual realization of office automation. In this paper, a new analysis method of the office task is proposed. This analysis method is based on the Rasmussen's and Bennette's methods. The Rasmussen's method describes a way of quantifying mental workload while the Bennette's method provides a tool for the analysis of the office task. The posner's and Rouse's methods are also employed for the detailed division of tasks. The method proposed in this paper is believed to be easier for use and expected to be more helpful for us to cope with the clear definition of office tasks that is vital to successful implementation of office automation.