• 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국철도학회 2010년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1112-1117
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• 2010

The intelligent safety system for level crossing which employs information and communication technology has been developed in USA and Japan, etc. But, in Korea, the relevant research has not been performed. In this paper, we analyze the cause of railway level crossing accidents and the inherent problem of the existing safety equipments. Based on analyzed results, we design the intelligent safety system which prevent collision between a train and a vehicle. This system displays train approaching information in real-time at roadside warning devices, informs approaching train of the detected obstacle in crossing areas, and is interconnected with traffic signal to empty the crossing area before train comes. Especially, we present the video based obstacle detection algorithm and verify its performance with prototype H/W since the abrupt obstacles in crossing areas are the main cause of level crossing accidents. We identify that the presented scheme detects both pedestrian and vehicle with good performance. Currently, we demonstrate developed railway crossing intelligence system at one crossing of Young-dong-seon line of Korail with Sea Train cockpit.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2006년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.254-256
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• 2006

A Novel way to support typical Thermal Shut Down(TSD) circuit is proposed. In power ICs, on-time or on-duration is the key factor to anticipate an abrupt increase of internal temperature. Such an abrupt raise of the temperature can cause TSD circuit cannot protect on proper time due to the temperature detection delay come from the physical distance or the imperfect coupling between heat sources and detector. The proposed circuit checks the duty ratio touched their maximum or not in every cycle. Once duty ratio touches the maximum duty, new circuit generates the warning signal to the TSD circuit and lowers pre-determined temperature for shut down to compensate the detection delay. The novel circuit will be analyzed to the transistor level and checked the validity by simulation.

• 한국철도학회논문집
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.232-238
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• 2003

A health monitoring system becomes a very useful tool to obtain information on long term behavior of the important railway structures such as very long span and special type bridges. It can be also used to give a warning signal to the maintenance engineer when the structure shows abnormal behavior. However, due to long term use and temperature changes, the health monitoring system needs to be calibrated periodically. In this study, calibration and gauge factor readjustment process made for the health monitoring system installed in the railroad bridges and tunnel are reviewed and a few findings are updated. Future work will be concentrated on the long-term analysis of the measurement data and on the database structures so that the assessment of the structure is possible

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1998년도 하계학술대회 논문집 G
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• pp.2476-2479
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• 1998

The masticatory muscle relaxation appliance is developed to improve the malhabit of tooth clenching of the wearer. The repeated clenching of the tooth causes excessive attrition of tooth set. The intraoral appliance measures the tooth clenching pressure data and transmits the data to masticatory muscle relaxation appliance. The appliance compares the pressure data with the reference value and generates the warning signal. The relaxation appliance also stores the clenching pressure data for clenching habit analysis. The appliance is designed with a microprocessor, real time clock, nonvolatile read write memory and dual serial communication ports.

• 지구물리
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.7-14
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• 2005

Early detection in real-time response of slope movements ensures tremendous saving of lives and repair costs from catastrophic disaster. Therefore, it is essential to constantly monitor the performance and integrity of slope-stabilizing structures such as Rock bolt, Nail and Pile during or after installation. We developed a novel monitoring system using Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensor. It's advantages are highly sensitivity, small dimension and electro-magnetic immunity. capability of multiplexing, system integrity, remote sensing - these serve real-time health monitoring of the structures. Real-time strain measurement by the signal processing program is shown graphically and it gives a warning sound when the monitored strain state exceeds a given threshold level so that any sign of abnormal disturbance on the spot can be easily perceived.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.759-767
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• 2017

Wear and aging associated damage is a severe problem for safety and maintenance of engineering structures. To acquire structural operational state and provide warning about different types of damage, research on damage identification has gained increasing popularity in recent years. Among various damage identification methods, the Lamb wave-based methods have shown promising suitability and potential for damage identification of plate-type structures. In this paper, a comprehensive study was presented to elaborate four remarkable aspects regarding the Lamb wave-based damage identification method for plate-type structures, including wave velocity, signal denoising, image reconstruction, and sensor layout. Conclusions and path forward were summarized and classified serving as a starting point for research and application in this area.

• 센서학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.184-190
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• 2010

In this paper, a remote submersion warning system based on multi-mode optical fiber(MMF) sensors and a wireless sensor network(WSN) are proposed. To improve the reliability and stability of the sensors, the dual optical fiber sensors combined to the optical coupler are demonstrated. A slave zigbee as a wireless sensor module was used as a platform to monitor and record the signal from the MMF sensors and then transmits these information to a master zigbee wirelessly. The monitoring system running the $LabVIEW^{(R)}$ software was connected to the internet to support the short message service(SMS) through extensible markup language(XML) web service. No matter where the managers are, they can always receive the real-time remote-monitoring data for safety check.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.251-259
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• 2013

본 연구에서는 어린이보호구역에서 교통안전의 증진을 위하여 상류부에 접근하는 차량의 감속과 어린이보호구역 내에 위치한 횡단보도에서 발생하는 차대사람 간의 교통사고를 최소화하기 위하여 물리적인 보차분리가 가능한 구동식 bollard, 즉 smart bollard를 제안하고 설치와 운영에 요구되는 조건들을 교통공학적인 측면에서 이해하고 그 제원을 제시하였다. 미시적 시뮬레이션 모델을 통해 제안된 smart bollard를 평가해본 결과, 설치 전과 비교하여 구간 평균통행속도와 통과교통량의 감소효과를 보여 어린이보호구역 교통안전의 증진에 효과가 있음을 보였다. 또한 구간 평균통행속도와 통과교통량을 효과적으로 줄여줄 수 있는 가장 결정적인 파라미터는 smart bollard 사전 경보등의 설치에 관여하는 황색신호시간의 길이와 smart bollard의 구동시간으로서 각각 5~6초와 2~3초가 적합한 값으로 판명되었다.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제21권10호
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• pp.1109-1115
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• 2010

차량용 FMCW(Frequency Modulation Continuous Wave) 레이더는 선형적인 주파수 변조 방식을 이용하여 장애물의 거리와 속도를 구하는 시스템이다. 정확한 거리 및 속도 측정을 위해서 77 GHz 대역에서 300 MHz 이상의 광대역 주파수 선형성이 보장되는 RF부가 요구되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 VCO를 사용하는 FMCW 시스템에 적합한 선형성 개선을 위한 간단한 방법을 제안하고 있다. 제안된 방법은 FMCW 레이더 송신 파형을 변형하여 VCO의 전압 대 주파수 특성을 측정하고, 이를 LUT(Look-Up Table)로 보상하는 방식이다. 이 방식은 추가적인 회로 없이 기존의 FMCW 레이더에 그대로 적용이 가능한 장점이 있다.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.99-107
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• 2014

돌발적으로 발생하는 도로 장애물은 고속으로 주행하는 차량의 안전운행을 위협한다. 따라서, 악천후 시에도 도로상의 돌발 장애물을 탐지하고, 충돌을 방지할 수 있는 전천후 레이다 센서에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 도로 장애물 탐지 및 경보를 위한 Ka-대역 펄스 도플러 레이다 시험모델의 설계 제작 및 성능시험 결과를 제시한다. 레이다 센서는 도로 환경조건에 적합하고, 다양한 고정 및 이동 장애물에 대하여 탐지, 추적 및 차선 식별 기능이 요구된다. 개발된 레이다는 안테나, 송수신기, 신호처리기 및 제어기로 구성된다. 주요 적용 기술은 고정 장애물 탐지를 위한 클러터 맵 기반 변화 탐지 기법, 이동 장애물 속도 탐지를 위한 도플러 추정 기법, 그리고 차선 식별을 위한 3-horn 모노펄스 방위각 추정 및 추적 기법이 포함된다. 개발된 레이다 시스템의 장애물 탐지와 차량 감시 성능은 성능시험과 환경시험을 통하여 설계 요구 조건을 만족하는 것으로 확인되었다.