• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.18-22
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• 2006

A small-sized gas identification system has been fabricated and characterized using an integrated gas sensor array and artificial neural-network. The sensor array consists of four thick-film oxide semiconductor gas sensors whose sensing layers are $In_{2}O_{3}-Sb_{2}O_{5}-Pd-doped\;SnO_2$ + Pd-coated layer, $La_{2}O_{5}-PdCl_{2}-doped\;SnO_2,\;WO_{3}-doped\;SnO_{2}$ + Pt-coated layer and $ThO_{2}-V_{2}O_{5}-PdCl_{2}\;doped\;SnO_{2}$. The small-sized gas identification instrument is composed of a GMS 81504 containing an internal ROM (4k bytes), a RAM (128 bytes) and four-channel AD converter as MPU, LEDs for displaying alarm conditions for three gases (liquefied petroleum gas: LPG, liquefied natural gas: LNG and carbon monoxide: CO) and interface circuits for them. The instrument has been used to identify alarm conditions for three gases among the real circumstances and the identification has been successfully demonstrated.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.1732-1739
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• 2018

With the explosion of digital devices, interaction technologies between human and devices are required more than ever. Especially, hand gesture recognition is advantageous in that it can be easily used. It is divided into the two groups: the contact sensor and the non-contact sensor. Compared with non-contact gesture recognition, the advantage of contact gesture recognition is that it is able to classify gestures that disappear from the sensor's sight. Also, since there is direct contacted with the user, relatively accurate information can be acquired. Electromyography (EMG) and force-sensitive resistors (FSRs) are the typical methods used for contact gesture recognition based on muscle activities. The sensors, however, are generally too sensitive to environmental disturbances such as electrical noises, electromagnetic signals and so on. In this paper, we propose a novel contact gesture recognition method based on Flexible Epidermal Tactile Sensor Array (FETSA) that is used to measure electrical signals according to movements of the wrist. To recognize gestures using FETSA, we extracted feature sets, and the gestures were subsequently classified using the support vector machine. The performance of the proposed gesture recognition method is very promising in comparison with two previous non-contact and contact gesture recognition studies.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.59-64
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• 2002

Passive sonar system forms the various beams in any desired directions to obtain the improvement in Signal-to-Noise(S/N) ratio, bearing detection and localization of targets, and the attenuation of interferences from other directions. Detection of modern underwater targets is becoming increasingly difficult as noise reduction technology leads to considerably low-level acoustic emissions. Therefore, the improvement of beamforming is very important to detect modern underwater targets at the long range in the complex environmental sea. Also, to react to the fast attack mobiles such as torpedoes, port and starboard discrimination is required to be performed very quickly. In this paper, we proposed the implementation of omnidirectional target bearing detector without port and starboard ambiguity to detect effectively the low-level underwater targets. The port and starboard discrimination is performed by cardioid processing and the improvement of beamforming utilizes the cross correlation matrix of individual hydrophone pairs of linear array sensors. The sea test result shows that the system implemented is good for the detection of the low-level underwater targets.

• 센서학회지
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.366-370
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• 2022

A 12 ㎛ pixel-sized 360 × 240 microbolometer focal plane array (MBFPA) was fabricated using a complementary metaloxide-semiconductor (CMOS)-compatible process. To release the MBFPA membrane, an amorphous carbon layer (ACL) processed at a low temperature (<400 ℃) was deposited as a sacrificial layer. The thermal time constant of the MBFPA was improved by using serpentine legs and controlling the thickness of the SiNx layers at 110, 130, and 150 nm on the membrane, with response times of 6.13, 6.28, and 7.48 msec, respectively. Boron-doped amorphous Si (a-Si), which exhibits a high-temperature coefficient of resistance (TCR) and CMOS compatibility, was deposited on top of the membrane as an IR absorption layer to provide heat energy transformation. The structural stability of the thin SiNx membrane and serpentine legs was observed using field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM). The fabrication yield was evaluated by measuring the resistance of a representative pixel in the array, which was in the range of 0.8-1.2 Mohm (as designed). The yields for SiNx thicknesses of SiNx at 110, 130, and 150 nm were 75, 86, and 86%, respectively.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제14권7호
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• pp.1603-1609
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• 2010

본 논문은 해군 호위함급에 장착/운용되는 LAS(Line Array Sensor, 예인선배열센서)로부터 A, B, C그룹 수중음향 신호의 시리얼 데이터를 입력 받아 약속된 Protocol로 Packing하여, 고속 데이터통신과 Optic-fiber채널 장거리 전송이 가능한 SFM(Serial FPDP Module)을 통해 신호처리단으로 실시간 전송하는 센서데이터 입출력처리보드의 설계/제작 및 시험에 관해 언급한다. VME(Versa Module Eurocard) 6U크기의 한정된 보드 공간을 고려하여 Freescale사의 PowerPC계열인 MPC8265 CPU와, 기존 외장 FIFO등의 외부디바이스를 줄이고 자체 시뮬레이션 데이터생성 등을 위해 Altera사의 CycloneIII 계열 FPGA등을 사용하여 설계하고, 실시간 데이터 전송을 보장하며 각종 Device Driver, Peripheral Controller등의 Library를 제공하는 RTOS인 VxWorks를 Porting하여 소프트웨어를 개발하였다.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.11-17
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• 2020

This study proposes a novel structure for the cross-eye, one of the representative jamming techniques of monopulse sensors. The proposed jammer tranceivers are composed of multi-channels with phased array antenna. We named this structure PRCJ(Phased array Retrodicetive Cross-eye Jammer). In this structure, formulas for calculating cross-eye gain and distance error are derived. We compare the properties of PRCJ with two-element retrodiredtive cross-eye jammer(TRCJ). PRCJ can achieve higher J/S because this structure can steer the spatially combined jamming signal in the direction of the incident monopulse signal. Because of the multiple channels in the phased array, it also increases the degree of freedom of channel matching. Finally, We preform a statistical analysis of the cross-eye gain according to the amplitude and phase errors. From this results, It has been found that PRCJ can get higher cross-eye gain than TRCJ.

• 센서학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.55-58
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• 2018

Low-cost and large-scale fabrication method of nanohole array, which comprises nanoscale voids separated by a few tens to a few hundreds of nanometers, has opened up new possibilities in biomolecular sensing as well as novel frontier optical devices. One of the key aspects of the nanohole array research is how to control the hole size following each specific needs of the hole structure. Here, we report the extensive study on the fine control of the hole size within the range of 500-2500 nm via surface-catalyzed chemical deposition. The initial hole structures were prepared via conventional photo-lithography, and the hole size was decreased to a designed value through the surface-catalyzed chemical reduction of the gold ion on the predefined hole surfaces, by simple dipping of the hole array device into the aqueous solution of gold chloride and hydroxylamine. The final hole size was controlled by adjusting reaction time, and the optimal experimental condition was obtained by doing a series of characterization experiments. The characterization of size-controlled hole array was systematically examined on the image results of optical microscopy, field emission scanning electron microscopy(FESEM), atomic-force microscopy(AFM), and total internal reflection microscopy.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제4권6호
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• pp.727-740
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• 2008

A down hole vertical seismic array is a sequence of instruments installed at various depths in the earth to record the ground motion at multiple points during an earthquake. Numerous studies demonstrate the unique utility of vertical seismic arrays for studying in situ site response and soil behavior. Examples are given of analyses made at two sites to show the value of data from vertical seismic arrays. The sites examined are the Lotung, Taiwan SMART1 array and a new site installed at Jingliao, Taiwan. Details of the installation of the Jingliao array are given. ARX models are theoretically the correct process models for vertical wave propagation in the layered earth, and are used to linearly map deeper sensor input signals to shallower sensor output signals. An example of Event 16 at the Lotung array is given. This same data, when examined in detail with a Bayesian inference model, can also be explained by nonlinear filters yielding commonly accepted soil degradation curves. Results from applying an ARMAX model to data from the Jingliao vertical seismic array are presented. Estimates of inter-transducer soil increment resonant frequency, shear modulus, and damping ratio are presented. The shear modulus varied from 50 to 150 MPa, and damping ratio between 8% and 15%. A new hardware monitoring system - TerraScope - is an affordable 4-D down-hole seismic monitoring system based on independent, microprocessor-controlled sensor Pods. The Pods are nominally 50 mm in diameter, and about 120 mm long. An internal 16-bit micro-controller oversees all aspects of instrumentation, eight programmable gain amplifiers, and local signal storage.

• 센서학회지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.341-346
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• 1999

일반적으로 FET형 전해질 이온 센서는 유리전극에 비하여 여러 가지 장점을 가지고 있으나 드리프트 및 기억효과가 있고 재현성이 부족한 단점을 가지고있어 이온 측정 시스템에 적용한 경우 전체적인 시스템의 신뢰성 저하를 가져온다. 이러한 점을 개선하기 위하여 본 논문에서는 8개의 동종 FET형 전해질 이온 센서 어레이를 사용하여 높은 신뢰성을 가지며 4종류의 이온($H^+$, $Na^+$, $K^+$, $Ca^{2+}$) 농도 측정이 가능한 시스템을 개발하였다. 개발된 측정 시스템은 전자식 스위치를 사용하여 단일의 신호 검출회로로 8개의 센서 신호를 검출하는 방법을 채택하였다. 또한 8개의 센서 신호를 삽입 정렬을 하여 신뢰성이 낮은 센서를 제외시키는 신호 처리 알고리즘을 개발하여 신뢰성을 향상시켰다. 제작된 시스템으로 3종류의 이온($H^+$, $Na^+$, $K^+$) 농도를 측정한 결과 개발된 신호처리 알고리즘은 여러 개의 센서 신호를 단순히 산술 평균을 취하는 방식에 비하여 오차의 범위를 더욱 줄일 수 있는 것으로 나타났으며, 기존의 단채널 방식의 전해질 이온 측정 시스템과 비교해볼 때 우수한 신뢰성을 가짐을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.30-38
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 수동 소나 시스템을 위한 수중 음향 센서 결함 탐지 기법을 제안하였다. 일반적으로 수동 소나 시스템에서는 수십개의 음향 센서를 통해 얻은 음향 신호를 이용하여 배열 신호처리 기법을 이용해 처리된 신호를 협대역 또는 광대역 분석을 위한 2차원 영상 형태로 전시한다. 운용 소프트웨어에서 전시되는 탐지 결과는 배열 신호처리를 통해 누적된 결과값을 전시하기 때문에, 단일 센서 채널의 결함 또는 고장에 따른 신호의 이상 여부를 판단하는데 어려움이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 인접 채널간 실효치 비교 및 실효치교차율(Root Mean Square Crossing-Rate, RMSCR) 분석기반 센서 자동 결함 탐지 기법을 제안하고, 결함 센서 채널에 대한 처리 기법을 비교 분석하였다. 제안된 기법의 성능 분석을 위하여 일부 연안 지역에서 실제 운용 중인 센서 배열을 통해 획득된 신호를 이용하여 결함 탐지 정확도를 측정하고, 결함 처리 기법의 성능을 비교하였다. 실험을 통해 제안된 기법이 높은 RMS의 주변소음 환경에서도 높은 결함 탐지 정확도를 보였으며, 결함 처리 기법으로는 0으로 설정 처리 기법이 가장 높은 성능을 보였다.