• Journal of Convergence Society for SMB
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.23-30
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• 2013

In this paper, fuzzy entropy and similarity measure to measure the uncertainty and similarity of data as real value were introduced. Design of fuzzy entropy and similarity measure were illustrated and proved. Obtained measures were applied to the calculating process and discussed. Extension of data quantification results such as decision making and fuzzy game theory were also discussed.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.256-259
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• 2017

SENT (single edge nibble transmission) is a serial communication protocol between automotive sensors and ECU (electronic control unit). SENT exploits digital waveform, so it has a simple and cheap architecture without transceiver circuits. Usually it is exploited as an embedded communication interface in the sensors. In this paper, a SENT interface was designed in Verilog HDL, fully complying with SAE J2716. It was implemented in FPGA, and verified on a test board. When it was synthesized, the gate count is about 2,500 gates in 0.18um technology.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.183-196
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• 2010

Monitoring and economical design of alternative energy generators such as wind turbines is becoming increasingly critical; however acquisition of the dynamic output data can be a time-consuming and costly process. In recent years, low-cost wireless sensors have emerged as an enabling technology for structural monitoring applications. In this study, wireless sensor networks are installed in three operational turbines in order to demonstrate their efficacy in this unique operational environment. The objectives of the first installation are to verify that vibrational (acceleration) data can be collected and transmitted within a turbine tower and that it is comparable to data collected using a traditional tethered system. In the second instrumentation, the wireless network includes strain gauges at the base of the structure. Also, data is collected regarding the performance of the wireless communication channels within the tower. In both turbines, collected wireless sensor data is used for off-line, output-only modal analysis of the ambiently (wind) excited turbine towers. The final installation is on a turbine with embedded braking capabilities within the nacelle to generate an "impulse-like" load at the top of the tower. This ability to apply such a load improves the modal analysis results obtained in cases where ambient excitation fails to be sufficiently broad-band or white. The improved loading allows for computation of true mode shapes, a necessary precursor to many conditional monitoring techniques.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.81-89
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• 2012

This study propose the vibration-based damage monitoring scheme for steel girder bolt-connection member by using wireless acceleration sensor node. In order to achieve the objective, the following approaches are implemented. Firstly, wireless acceleration sensor node is described on the design of hardware components and embedded operation software. Secondly, the vibration-based damage monitoring scheme of the steel girder bolt-connection member is described. The damage monitoring scheme performed global damage occurrence alarming and damage localization estimation by the acceleration response feature analysis. The global damage alarming is applied to the correlation coefficient of power spectral density. The damage localization estimation is applied to the frequency-based damage detection technique and the mode-shape-based damage detection technique. Finally, the performance of the vibration-based damage monitoring scheme is evaluated for detecting the bolt-connection member damage on a lab-scale steel girder.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.218-224
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• 2013

Generally, SAW device, which uses Time Domain Sampling, requires high speed A/D converter because SAW device using TDS needs high sampling speed as much as its high data speed. However, the high price of A/D converter discourages makers from using it. On the other hand, SAW device, which uses Frequency Domain Sampling, does not required high speed A/D converter because SAW device using FDS does not need high sampling speed. It is very efficient in price comparison to its performance because high processing speed of SAW device using FDS can be implemented using low price Embedded Systems. The purpose of the paper is to solve the issues above by designing and realizing SAW device(FDS) using SAW sensor for TDS.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.580-585
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• 2009

Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS) are used to track and identify the location of objects in real time using simple, inexpensive tags attached to or embedded in objects and readers that receive the wireless signals from these tags to determine their locations. A tag is powered an internal source such as a battery. The blink frequency of a tag affects the energy efficiency and the locating accuracy of RTLS. The mobility of a tag also affects the locating accuracy. In this paper, we introduce a RTLS tag design which improves the locating accuracy and the power efficiency. We propose an adaptive transmission-rate control algorithm using a motion sensor. By analyzing the signal pattern of the motion sensor, we can build a model to estimate the speed of the motion. Using this model, our algorithm can achieve better locating accuracy and lower power consumption than those of the conventional method. In our experiments, the number of transmission reduced as 40%, keeping similar locating accuracy.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.112-121
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• 2016

AFLS (Adaptive front lighting system) is being applied to improve safety in driving automotive at night. Safe embedded system design for controlling head-lamps is required to improve noise robust ECU hardware and software simultaneously by considering safety requirement of hardware-dependent software under severe environmental noise. In this paper, we propose an adaptive headlight controller with a newly-designed symmetric angle sensor compensator, especially based on the proposed steering-swivel angle lookup table to determine whether the current controlling target is safe. The proposed system includes an additional backup hardware to compare the system status and provides safe swivel-angle management using a controlling algorithm based on the pre-defined lookup table (LUT), which is a symmetric mapping relationship between the requested steering angle and expected swivel angle target. The implemented system model shows that the proposed architecture effectively detects abnormal situations and restores safe status of controlling the light-angle in AFLS operations under severe noisy environment.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.221-228
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• 2022

With the application of artificial intelligence technology, robots can provide efficient services in real life. Unlike industrial manipulators that do simple repetitive work, this study presented design methods of 6 degree of freedom robot arm and intelligent object search and movement methods for use alone or in collaboration with no place restrictions in the service robot field and verified performance. Using a depth camera and deep learning in the ROS environment of the embedded board included in the robot arm, the robot arm detects objects and moves to the object area through inverse kinematics analysis. In addition, when contacting an object, it was possible to accurately hold and move the object through the analysis of the force sensor value. To verify the performance of the manufactured robot arm, experiments were conducted on accurate positioning of objects through deep learning and image processing, motor control, and object separation, and finally robot arm was tested to separate various cups commonly used in cafes to check whether they actually operate.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.601-609
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• 2024

In this paper, we present the design and implementation results of a system that classifies drones from other objects using an FMCW (frequency-modulated continuous wave) radar sensor. The proposed system detects various objects through a four-stage signal processing procedure, consisting of FFT, CFAR, clustering, and tracking, using signals received from the radar sensor. Subsequently, a deep learning process is conducted to classify the detected objects as either drones or other objects. To mitigate the high computational demands and extensive memory requirements of deep learning, a BNN (binary neural network) structure was applied, binarizing the CNN (convolutional neural network) operations. The performance evaluation and verification results demonstrated a drone classification accuracy of 89.33%, with a total execution time of 4 ms, confirming the feasibility of real-time operation.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.5 no.11
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• pp.1891-1908
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• 2011

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are an emerging discipline that involves engineered computing and communicating systems interfacing the physical world. The widespread applications of CPSs still face enormous challenges because of the lack of theoretical foundations. In this technical survey, we review state-of-the-art design techniques from various angles. The aim of this work is to provide a better understanding of this emerging multidisciplinary methodology. The features of CPSs are described, and the research progress is analyzed using the following aspects: energy management, network security, data transmission and management, model-based design, control technique, and system resource allocation. We focus on CPS resource optimization, and propose a system performance optimization model with resource constraints. In addition, some classic applications (e.g., integrating intelligent road with unmanned vehicle) are provided to show that the prospects of CPSs are promising. Furthermore, research challenges and suggestions for future work are outlined in brief.