• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.271-278
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• 2011

This paper presents a LLC resonant controller IC for secondary side control without external active devices to achieve low profile and low cost LED back light units. A gate driving transformer is adopted to isolate the primary side and the secondary side instead of an opto-coupler. A new integrated dimming circuitry is proposed to improve the dynamic current control characteristic and the current density of a LED for the brightness modulation of a large screen LCD. A dual-slope clock generator is proposed to overcome the frequency error due to the under shoot in conventional approaches. This chip is fabricated using 0.35 ${\mu}m$ BCD technology and the die size is $2{\times}2\;mm^2$. The frequency range of the clock generator is from 50 kHz to 500 kHz and the range of the dead time is from 50 ns to 2.2 ${\mu}s$. The efficiency of the LED driving circuit is 97 % and the current consumption is 40 mA for a 100 kHz operation frequency from a 15 V supply voltage.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.777-783
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• 2010

In order to drive gas discharge lamps, DC-AC converters with a LCC resonant tank, whose output voltage is adjusted by a variable frequency control are frequently used. However, when they are activated by varying the operating frequency, converters are frequently damaged by unstable operation, due to the rising and falling of the operating frequency near the resonant frequency. To solve this problem, a simple protection circuit for the power supply of a gas discharge lamp is proposed in this paper. This circuit senses the primary current of the main transformer. Using this protection circuit, the operating frequency of the lamp driving inverter system is kept close to and on the right side of the resonant frequency and the inverter is always operated in the ZVS condition. The resulting stable variable frequency operation allows various gas discharge lamps to be tested without the risk of damaging the main switches, because the protection circuit can protect the power MOSFETs of bridge converters from abnormal conditions. The validity and effectiveness of the proposed protection circuit are verified through the experimental results.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.23-30
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• 2014

This paper proposes a single power-conversion ac-dc converter with a dc-link capacitor-less and high power factor. The proposed converter is derived by integrating a full-bridge diode rectifier and a series-resonant active-clamp dc-dc converter. To obtain a high power factor without a power factor correction circuit, this paper proposes a suitable control algorithm for the proposed converter. The proposed converter provides single power-conversion by using the proposed control algorithm for both power factor correction and output control. Also, the active-clamp circuit clamps the surge voltage of switches and recycles the energy stored in the leakage inductance of the transformer. Moreover, it provides zero-voltage turn-on switching of the switches. Also, a series-resonant circuit of the output-voltage doubler removes the reverse-recovery problem of the output diodes. The proposed converter provides maximum power factor of 0.995 and maximum efficiency of 95.1% at the full-load. The operation principle of the converter is analyzed and verified. Experimental results for a 400W ac-dc converter at a constant switching frequency of 50kHz are obtained to show the performance of the proposed converter.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.53-60
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• 2010

This paper dealt with the acoustic detection of partial discharge (PD) in insulation oil for insulation diagnostics of oil immersed transformers. Electrode systems such as needle to plane, plane to plane, and floating were fabricated to simulate some defects in transformers. A wide band acoustic emission(AE) sensor with the frequency ranges of 100 kHz~1 MHz and a narrow band AE sensor with the resonant frequency of 140 kHz were used in the experiment. Also, a decoupler and an amplifier were designed to detect and amplify the acoustic signal only. The decoupler separates acoustic signal from DC source without any distortion, and the amplifier has the gain of 40 dB in frequency ranges of 11 kHz~4 MHz. In the experiment, frequency components and propagation characteristics of acoustic signal were analyzed, and an algorithm of positioning of PD occurrence by the time difference of arrival was proposed. From the results, the frequency components of the acoustic signal exist from 50 kHz to 200 kHz and the positioning error of PD calculated by three AE sensors was within 1%.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제12권11호
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• pp.5188-5193
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• 2011

본 연구는 변압기 내부에 있는 절연유의 온도제어를 목적으로 열전소자인 펠티어 소자와 무전력 냉각장치인 Heat pipe를 이용한 다양한 시스템을 설계 제작하여, 절연유의 용량별 온도제어에 적용함으로써 최적의 시스템을 구현할 수 있었다. 실험을 통하여 $60^{\circ}C$ 이내의 상태에서는 Heat pipe 100 W + 펠티어 100 W의 조합형이 순수 Heat pipe 300 W보다 탁월한 성능을 확인할 수 있었다. 이를 통하여 조합형의 적정설계 방식이 우수하다는 것을 증명하고, 조합형을 사용함으로써 전기절약 효과와 수배전반의 보다 더 효율적인 관리에 기여하고자 한다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.1467-1476
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• 2019

Grid unbalanced faults can cause core saturation of power transformer and produce lower-order harmonics. These issues increase the electrical stress of power electronic devices and can cause a tripping of an entire HVDC system. In this paper, based on the positive-sequence and negative-sequence impedance model of a VSC-HVDC system as seen from the point of common connection (PCC), the resonance problem is analyzed and the factors determining the resonant frequency are obtained. Furthermore, to suppress over-voltage and over-current during resonance, a novel method using a virtual harmonic resistor is proposed. The virtual harmonic resistor emulates the role of a resistor connected in series with the commutating inductor without influencing the active and reactive power control. Simulation results in PSCAD/EMTDC show that the proposed control strategy can suppress resonant over-voltage and over-current. In addition, it can be seen that the proposed strategy improves the safety of the VSC-HVDC system under unbalanced faults.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2019년도 전력전자학술대회
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• pp.11-13
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• 2019

This paper proposes a novel high step-up non-isolated DC-DC converter, suitable for regulating dc bus in various inherent low voltage micro sources especially for photovoltaic (PV) and fuel cell sources. This novel high voltage Non-isolated Boost DC-DC converter topology is best replacement, where high voltage conversion ratio is required without the transformer and also need continuous input current. Since the proposed topology utilizes the stack-based structure, the voltage gain, and the efficiency are higher than other conventional non-isolated converters. Switches in this topology is easier to control since its control signal is grounding reference. Also, there is no need of extra gate driver and extra power supply for driver circuit, which reduces the cost and size of system. In order to show the feasibility and practicality of the proposed topology principle operation, steady state analysis and simulation result is presented and analyzed in detail. To verify the performance of proposed converter and theoretical analysis 360W laboratory prototype is implemented.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제84권3호
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• pp.323-335
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• 2022

The main idea of the framework is to seamlessly combine a reasonably accurate and fast surrogate model with the importance sampling strategy. Developing a surrogate model for predicting structures' dynamic responses is challenging because it involves high-dimensional inputs and outputs. For this purpose, a novel surrogate model based on cutting-edge deep learning architectures specialized for capturing temporal relationships within time-series data, namely Long-Short term memory layer and Transformer layer, is designed. After being properly trained, the surrogate model could be utilized in place of the finite element method to evaluate structures' responses without requiring any specialized software. On the other hand, the importance sampling is adopted to reduce the number of calculations required when computing the failure probability by drawing more relevant samples near critical areas. Thanks to the portability of the trained surrogate model, one can integrate the latter with the Importance sampling in a straightforward fashion, forming an efficient framework called TTIS, which represents double advantages: less number of calculations is needed, and the computational time of each calculation is significantly reduced. The proposed approach's applicability and efficiency are demonstrated through three examples with increasing complexity, involving a 1D beam, a 2D frame, and a 3D building structure. The results show that compared to the conventional Monte Carlo simulation, the proposed method can provide highly similar reliability results with a reduction of up to four orders of magnitudes in time complexity.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.131-140
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• 2023

This paper proposes an algorithm for the Unrelated Parallel Machine Scheduling Problem(UPMSP) without setup times, aiming to minimize total tardiness. As an NP-hard problem, the UPMSP is hard to get an optimal solution. Consequently, practical scenarios are solved by relying on operator's experiences or simple heuristic approaches. The proposed algorithm has adapted two methods: a policy network method, based on Transformer to compute the correlation between individual jobs and machines, and another method to train the network with a reinforcement learning algorithm based on the REINFORCE with Baseline algorithm. The proposed algorithm was evaluated on randomly generated problems and the results were compared with those obtained using CPLEX, as well as three scheduling algorithms. This paper confirms that the proposed algorithm outperforms the comparison algorithms, as evidenced by the test results.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.256-265
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• 2009

레이저 출력은 20w에서 100w까지 연속적으로 조절이 되고 노출시간은 0.01초에서 수초 사이로 조절이 가능 하다. 펄스동작은 레이저 빔을 주기적으로 차단할 수가 있고 슈퍼펄스는 0.1$\sim$1ms사이에서 방전을 이루어지며, 순간적인 레이저 출력은 5$\sim$10 까지 증가된다. 특히, 자궁암의 경우 자궁구 내벽에서 악성세포를 제거해야 하므로 펄스에 대한 튜브출력의 안정이 매우 중요하다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 영전압 스위칭동작을 확보하여 컨버터 1 차측 주 회로에 고주파 변압기 누설인덕턴스($L_1$) 증가 및 직렬 인덕터 없이 안정된 소프트 스위칭 동작영역이 확보, 인덕터($L_f$)전류의 순환전류 경로차단 컨버터 1차측 주회로 스위칭소자와 고주파 변압기의 도통손실이 크게 줄어, 고주파 2차측 정류부($D_5,\;D_6$)도 소프트 스위칭 되고, 스위칭손실 흡수분을 부하로 회생할 수 있는 특징을 갖고, 튜브안정화가 되어 설계 및 제작하여 실험한 결과, 기존장비에 비해 10%의 향상된 결과를 가져왔고, 추후 시스템적으로 보완을 하면 우수한 결과가 될 것으로 사려 된다.