• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.30B no.11
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• pp.84-92
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• 1993

Calibration of Engine models is a painstaking process but very important for successful application to automotive industry problems. A combined heuristic and machine learning approach has therefore been adopted to improve the efficiency of model calibration. We developed an intelligent calibration program called ICALIB. It has been used on a daily basis for engine model applications, and has reduced the time required for model calibrations from many hours to a few minutes on average. In this paper, we describe the heuristic control strategies employed in ICALIB such as a hill-climbing search based on a state distance estimation function, incremental problem solution refinement by using a dynamic tolerance window, and calibration target parameter ordering for guiding the search. In addition, we present the application of amachine learning program called GID3*for automatic acquisition of heuristic rules for ordering target parameters.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.517-525
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• 2009

42V electrical power systems are on their way to replacing the present l4V systems in automobiles and 42V/14V dual voltage systems have been proposed to provide backward compatibility with the existing components for the 14V systems. A synchronous buck/boost converter is an attractive topology for 42V/14V dual voltage systems since it offers the possibility of bi-directional operation without additional components. In this paper, transient currents generated during converter startup or changes in operation modes between buck and boost are analyzed and a cost effective solution to remove the transient currents is proposed. The validity of the proposed control strategy is investigated through simulation and experiment with bi-directional converters.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.382-389
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• 2017

The development of electronic technology has been rapidly achieved in the automotive industry. A trend that attaches electric equipment, including ECUs at vehicles, is observed. However, decrepit vehicles have several electrical noises and errors. The effect of electric noise on vehicles that are focused on smoke was investigated. Many researchers have argued that one of the reasons of the occurrence of smoke in vehicles is the inexact time of the occurrence of ignition. Moreover, various physical, chemical, and thermodynamic solutions were attempted to approach and many improvements were accomplished. However, in this study, the reduction of electrical and electronic noise is confirmed to improve the accuracy of the injection time on decrepit vehicles with electrical and electric technologies. Previous studies suggest that the distance between the pilot and main ignitions affect the occurrence of smoke and control the variance value of the distance between pilot and main ignitions with electric filter. Thus, the effect of reducing smoke occurred.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2013.07a
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• pp.22-23
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 기존 3상 PWM 정류기의 문제점을 극복하기 위하여, 3상 Z-소스 PWM정류기와 시스템의 간소화, 안정화, 비용 상승을 고려한 센서리스 제어 기법을 제안하였다. 또한 DC-link단 전압제어기는 시스템에 대한 경험과 정성적인 정보에 기초하고 제어 대상에 대한 정확한 수식이 없어도 제어기 설계가 가능한 퍼지 PI제어기를 이용하였다. 제안한 정류기는 교류측 전압과 전류 센서 없이 DC-link단 전압과 전류 센서만을 이용하여 교류측 전압과 전류를 추정하고 단위역률을 구현하였으며, 이를 PSIM시뮬레이션을 통하여 검증 하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.968-978
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• 2014

Autonomous vehicle technology based on information technology and software will lead the automotive industry in the near future. Vehicle localization technology is a core expertise geared toward developing autonomous vehicles and will provide location information for control and decision. This paper proposes an effective vision-based localization technology to be applied to autonomous vehicles. In particular, the proposed technology makes use of numerical maps that are widely used in the field of geographic information systems and that have already been built in advance. Optimum vehicle ego-motion estimation and road marking feature extraction techniques are adopted and then combined by an extended Kalman filter and particle filter to make up the localization technology. The implementation results of this paper show remarkable results; namely, an 18 ms mean processing time and 10 cm location error. In addition, autonomous driving and parking are successfully completed with an unmanned vehicle within a $300m{\times}500m$ space.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.271-280
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• 2016

Predicting cutting forces in machine tools is essential to productivity improvement and process control in the manufacturing field. Furthermore, milling machining is more complicated than turning machining. Therefore, several studies have been conducted previously to simulate milling forces; this study aims to simulate the cutting forces in milling machines using multi-layered neural networks. In the experiments, the number of layers in these networks was 3 and 4 and the number of neurons in the hidden layers was varied from 20 to 200. The root mean square errors of simulated cutting force components were obtained from taught and untaught data for the various neural networks. Results show that the error trends for untaught data were non-uniform because of the complex nature of the cutting force components, which was caused by different cutting factors and nonlinear characteristics coming into play. However, trends for taught data showed a very good coincidence.

• Elastomers and Composites
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• v.44 no.3
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• pp.252-259
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• 2009

Bifunctional silane (TESPD) is added into silica filled SBR compound and its effects with respect to the vulcanization properties, the processability, and the physical properties are investigated. The addition of the TESPD into silica filled SBR compound increases the degree of crosslinking by formation of a strong 3-dimensional network structure with silica surface via coupling reaction, which results in an improved mechanical property. It also improves the processabilities compared to the Control compound.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.39-43
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• 2008

Productivity is one of the performance indices of the semiconductor equipment in manufacturing viewpoint. Among many ways tried and adopted for improvement of the productivity of the FAB equipment, variation of equipment configuration was considered and its effect on the throughput was analyzed. Parallel machine cycle charts that were generated based on the equipment log were used in the analysis. Efficiency of the equipment due to change of the structure and the probability of the usage in the manufacturing process were examined. The results showed that the modification of the control algorithm in the equipment and the redistribution of the process time for each process and transfer module along to the change in the structure enhance the throughput of the equipment.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.49 no.8
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• pp.545-550
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• 2000

This paper presents design and analysis of an HID lamp ballast for a fast turn on characteristics and stable operation. It produces a high open circuit voltage for the ignition and it is controlled to supply effectively the power required to shorten the warm-up period after the breakdown. The lamp modeling by empirical data is presented. It is very effective in the designing of the control loop in the steady-state operating region. A stable operation of the lamp power regulation in the steady state is achieved, which is crucial for the long life time and constant light output. Stability analysis of the system is performed and the results are verified through various simulation results and the hardware experiments.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.30 no.9 s.252
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• pp.1142-1147
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• 2006

A practical method for reducing the number of spot welds in automotive structures considering fatigue crack initiation life is suggested. At first, an influence index for the durability and the fatigue life of a spot weld itself is defined and then taken as the main effect of the DOE analysis. Spot welds that can be removed without serious reduction of durability through numerical experiments are selected by the results of DOE. The proposed method was applied to the shock tower and LCA(lower control arm) structure of a vehicle, which are important components in durability-related point of view.