• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.468-471
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• 2005

The Air Quality Sensor(AQS), located near the fresh air inlet, serves to reduce the amount of pollution entering the vehicle cabin through the HVAC(heating, ventilating, and air conditioning) system by sending a signal to close the fresh air inlet door/ventilation flap when the vehicle enters a high pollution area. One chip sensor module which include above two sensing elements, humidity sensor and bad odor sensor was developed for AQS (air quality sensor) in automobile. With this sensor module, PIC microcontroller was designed with back propagation neural network to reduce detecting error when the motor vehicles pass through the dense fog area. The signal from neural network was modified to control the inlet of automobile and display the result or alarm the situation. One chip microcontroller, Atmega128L (ATmega Ltd., USA) was used. For the control and display. And our developed system can intelligently detect the bad odor when the motor vehicles pass through the polluted air zone such as cattle farm.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.539-546
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• 2006

The Air Quality Sensor(AQS), located near the fresh air inlet, serves to reduce the amount of pollution entering the vehicle cabin through the HVAC(heating, ventilating, and air conditioning) system by sending a signal to close the fresh air inlet door/ventilation flap when the vehicle enters a high pollution area. The sensor module which includes two independent sensing elements for responding to diesel and gasoline exhaust gases, and temperature sensor and humidity sensor was designed for intelligent AQS in automobile. With this sensor module, AVR microcontroller was designed with back propagation neural network to a powerful gas/vapor pattern recognition when the motor vehicles pass a pollution area. Momentum back propagation algorithm was used in this study instead of normal backpropagation to reduce the teaming time of neural network. The signal from neural network was modified to control the inlet of automobile and display the result or alarm the situation in this study. One chip microcontroller, ATmega 128L(ATmega Ltd., USA) was used for the control and display. And our developed system can intelligently reduce the malfunction of AQS from the dampness of air or dense fog with the backpropagation neural network and the input sensor module with four sensing elements such as reducing gas sensing element, oxidizing gas sensing element, temperature sensing element and humidity sensing element.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.150-155
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• 2005

We propose a newly developed automobile sensor monitoring system incorporated with a tire pressure monitoring sensor(TPMS). The RF-transmitter based on a tire pressure sensor, sends a frame data about measured tire-pressure to RF receiver. And the various sensing signals based on sensors such as fuel-level sensor, engine oil level sensor and temperature sensors, are converted into 10-bit digital data. The microprocessor displays converting data such as tire pressure, trip distance, fuel quantity, coolant temperature and car-room temperature, on LCD panel. The proposed system can be successfully adapted to monitoring of the tire pressure and various automobile sensors.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.24 no.3 s.192
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• pp.61-66
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• 2007

This work is aimed to measure the deterioration in oil sensor. For the study, the circuit of a coil-type oil sensor packaged was developed and applied to the automobile engine for monitoring the deterioration of engine oil in driving conditions. From the principle which the deterioration of automobile engine oil can be expressed to the dielectric constant, the capacitance bridge circuit and the integrator circuit were designed. As results, the range of operating temperature of engine oil was experimentally recommended within $55^{\circ}C$ for the stability of a sensor designed. It was also concluded that the characteristics of output voltage converted from the dielectric constant were linearly distributed and predicted the optimized time for the exchange of engine oil.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.339-347
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• 2001

Automatic automobile has been studied as the alternative energy system and the production flow automation device recently. But this is dependent on the import production, and its position cannot be controlled free from the fixed path. It is difficult to control the automobile position because of the eccentricity of inertia monent, slip and roughness between wheel and road surface. This problems is solved for the controller to be feedbacked the data of the multi-sensor system consisting of the rotary encoder and electronic compass. The proportional Integrated controller in the modified Ziegler-Nichols method is made up with Hitachi 7034 microprocessor. To the real time control the mechanical, electrical and electronic hardware and software device is produced by myself. The RF data of automobile speed and position is supplied to the remote PC to be displayed the automobile condition. By the experinent of the forward, spin, point path planning, it is known for autombile.

• Electrical & Electronic Materials
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.455-462
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• 1996

Automobile Fuel Shortage Detecting Sensor, in this paper, was fabricated by using heat dissipation coefficient difference between gasoline and air condition the NTC thermistor of Mn-Ni Co system with the composition ratio of Mn$_{3}$O$_{4}$ : 9wt%, NiO : 28wt%, and CO$_{3}$O$_{4}$ : 61wt%. The condition of sensor operation is that, for turn-on characteristics, the time of arriving at 135mA must be less than 180 second when the DC voltage of 11V is applied in the air condition of -10.deg. C and that, for turn-off characteristics, the saturation current must be less than 60mA when the DC voltage of 15V is applied in the gasoline condition of 60.deg. C. It is known, from the experimental results, that the resistance range and B-constant for the Automobile Fuel Shortage Detecting Sensor with dimension of 5*3*0.9mm were 850-1150.ohm. and 1150-1250.deg. C, respectively and the resistance range and B-constant were agree with that of sensor operation condition. When Bi$_{2}$O$_{3}$ of 0-0.5wt% was added to Mn$_{3}$O$_{4}$ : 9wt%, NiO : 28wt%, and CO$_{3}$O$_{4}$ : 61wt% composition, the resistivity and B-value were 380-430(.ohm.-cm) and 1930 - 2030, respectively. Particularly, for Bi$_{3}$O$_{3}$ of 0.25-0.5wt%, the sintering density of over 90% and the operation characteristics necessary to Automobile Fuel Shortage Detecting Sensor were obtained. The difference of heat dissipation coefficient gasoline and air condition was 15 times.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.394-399
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• 1999

An automobile hot-film air flow sensor is deposited with platinum by sputtering method, patterned by photoresisted lift-off method, annealed in $1,000^{\circ}C$ and passivated with PI-2723. The TCR of the fabricated hot-film is about $3500\;ppm/^{\circ}C$. In the experiment, the output voltage of the sensor is in proportional to the fourth power root in the air mass flow range of 300 kg/h. The error in the full flow range is about ${\pm}0.7%$. In the range of air temperature of $-20^{\circ}C{\sim}120^{\circ}C$, the error is about ${\pm}1%$ that is ${\pm}2%$ lower than that of the reference sensor. Therefore, the fabricated hot-film air flow sensor satisfies the specification for automobile. Lower temperature error of the sensor provides to control the precise air/fuel ratio of automobile engine and results in improvement of a fuel mileage and the less amount of toxic gases emitted by automobile.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.408-412
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• 2007

It is almost impossible to secure the reproductibility and stability of a commercial Thick-Film Metal Oxide Semiconductor Gas Sensor since it is very difficult to keep the consistency of the manufacturing environment. Thus it is widely known that the general Semiconductor-Oxide Gas Sensors are not appropriate for precise measurement systems. In this paper, the output characteristic analyzer of the various Thick-Film Metal Oxide Semiconductor Gas Sensors that are used to recognize the air quality within an automobile are proposed and examined. The analyzed output characters in a normal air chamber are grouped by sensor ranks and used to fill out the characteristic table of the Thick-Film Metal Oxide Semiconductor Gas Sensors. The characteristic table is used to determine the rank of the sensor that is equipped in the current air cleaner system of an automobile. The proposed air control system can also adapt the on-demand operation that recognizes the history of the passenger's manual-control.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.121-127
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• 2004

A reflection type optical fiber line sensor based on the speckle detection has been developed using the optical fiber mirror with the reflectance of 72 %. Some experiments were carried on with the automobile and the 500 m length multimod fiber. When the automobile passed on the fiber sensor, two abrupt changes of the output waveform occured like the transmission type sensor based on the speckle variations. The signal to noise ratio of this sensor was about 40 dB.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.191-196
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• 2013

A particulate matter sensor fabricated by MEMS process is proposed. It is developed to accommodate Euro6 on-board diagnostics regulation for diesel automobile. In the regulation, emission of diesel particulate matter is restricted to 9 mg/km. Particulate matter sensor is designed to use induced charges by charged particulate matter. To increase sensitivity of the sensor, groove is formed on sensor surface because wider surface area generates more induced charges. Sensitivity of the sensor is measured 10.6 mV/(mg/km) and the sensor shows good linearity up to 15.7 mg/km. Also its minimum detectable range is about 0.25 mg/km. It is suitable to detect failure of a diesel particulate filter which should filter particulate matter more than 9 mg/km. For removing accumulated particulate matter on the sensor which can disturb normal operation, platinum heater is designed on the backside of the sensor. The developed sensor can sense very low amount of particulate matter from exhaust gas in real-time with good linearity.