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Resistive displacement transducer enhanced measurement resolution by electrical line contact (선형 전기접촉으로 계측해상도가 향상된 저항성 변위센서)

  • Kim, Kyung-Ah;Choi, Seong-Su;Cha, Eun-Jong
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.263-269
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    • 2007
  • Although variable resistance displacement transducer is widely applied for its technical simplicity, electrical point contact limits measurement resolution (precision). The present study introduced roller shaped structure for electrical line contact. Proto-type transducer was developed and measurement characteristics were compared with a commercialized product. When the displacement was varied with steps of 5 mm, 1 mm, and down to 0.1 mm, the correlation coefficient between resistance and displacement decreased lower than 0.9 in the commercialized product while the proto-type transducer maintained values higher than 0.99. Therefore, the measurement resolution was enhanced by approximately 10 times. Since manufacturing also seemed easier, the present results would enable more accurate and less expensive manufacturing of variable resistance displacement transducer.

Development of a Biological Reaction and Measurement Control System for Rapid Detection of the Insecticide Imidacloprid Residues (살충제 Imidacloprid 잔류물의 신속한 측정을 위한 생물반응 및 계측제어 시스템 개발)

  • Lim J. K.;Cho H. K.
    • Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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    • v.30 no.2 s.109
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    • pp.114-120
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    • 2005
  • In this study, a biological reaction and measurement control system was developed to rapidly measure the insecticide imidacloprid residues in agricultural products. The biological reaction part of the system was designed to include micro-pumps and valves for fluid transport, and a polystyrene covet as a reaction chamber. The measurement control part of the system consisted of a photodiode with a light-emitting diode for optical density measurement, and a control microcomputer to implement assay. Signal output was read as the rate of change in optical density at 645 nm. The sensitivity of the system was 2.2 ng/mL ($IC_50$). The system could execute a measurement cycle in about 19 minutes. Research will be continued to develop an automatic sampler fur imidacloprid residues from agricultural products.

An Evaluation on Energy Recovery Performance of the Ventilation System in Multi-Residential Building by Field Measurement (실험을 통한 공동주택 환기시스템의 실제 운전 시 전열교환성능 검토)

  • Choi, Younhee;Song, Doosam
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.68-73
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    • 2017
  • Recently, energy recovery ventilators (ERVs) have been installed for energy saving in many multi-residential buildings in Korea. The performance of the heat exchanger of an ERV is analyzed in this study under specific indoor and outdoor conditions in a test-cell measurement. However, the performance of the heat exchanger varies according to the indoor and outdoor condition. In this study, the performance of energy recovery of the ventilation system was therefore analyzed in actual weather conditions using field measurement. Experiments were conducted under winter conditions in a multi-residential building for 20 days. Based on the measurement results, the characteristics of sensible heat and latent heat exchange rates were analyzed.

The influence of model surface roughness on wind loads of the RC chimney by comparing the full-scale measurements and wind tunnel simulations

  • Chen, Chern-Hwa;Chang, Cheng-Hsin;Lin, Yuh-Yi
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.137-156
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    • 2013
  • A wind tunnel test of a scaled-down model and field measurement were effective methods for elucidating the aerodynamic behavior of a chimney under a wind load. Therefore, the relationship between the results of the wind tunnel test and the field measurement had to be determined. Accordingly, the set-up and testing method in the wind tunnel had to be modified from the field measurement to simulate the real behavior of a chimney under the wind flow with a larger Reynolds number. It enabled the results of the wind tunnel tests to be correlated with the field measurement. The model surface roughness and different turbulence intensity flows were added to the test. The simulated results of the wind tunnel test agreed with the full-scale measurements in the mean surface pressure distribution behavior.

Development of Portable Atmospheric Environment Measurement System using Low Power Wireless Communication

  • Chae, Soohyeon;Kim, Hack-Yoon;Gim, Jangwon
    • Journal of Advanced Information Technology and Convergence
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.99-109
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    • 2020
  • As environmental pollution has become severe due to the rapid increase in pollutant generation in the air, measurement, collection, and analysis of atmospheric environment information plays an important role. However, it is difficult to measure the high-resolution and real-time atmospheric environment of the cities and tourist spots with high population mobility only by measuring equipment of stationary measuring stations. Therefore, this paper proposes a portable atmospheric environment measurement system for real-time measurement and monitoring of atmospheric environment information. The proposed system is a portable client with a low-power wireless communication method. It is possible to reliably transmit and receive the measured data through a multi-threaded server to monitor the trend of pollutants in the air in real-time.

Compensation of errors caused by resonance vibration of measurement system in impact force measurement

  • Usui, Y.;Miyazawa, S.;Sawai, N.
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1994.10a
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    • pp.593-596
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    • 1994
  • When a force impulse acting on a massive and plex object is measured with a dynamometer, be resonant vibration of the measurement system often leads to serious inaccuracies. A more accurate measurement is obtained when the transfer function ,of the object-dynamometer system is used to compensate for the error in the dynamometer's output signal. The natural frequency and the damping coefficient of the transfer function are estimated by analyzing the waveform of the free damped vibration period after the loading of the force has ended. The residue of the system is determined such that the compensated force spectrum becomes smooth within a neighborhood of the natural frequency. The effectiveness of this signal processing method is experimentally tested on a hammer impulse, under the assumption that the hammer's high resonant frequency accurately models the problems encountered in force impact measurement. The compensation method is used to derive a improved estimate of the hammer impulse.

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Loop Selective Direction Measurement for Distance Protection

  • Steynberg, Gustav;Koch, Geyhard
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.1 no.4
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    • pp.423-426
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    • 2006
  • Distance relays achieve selective tripping by measurement of all short circuit fault conditions inside set reaches. The direction of the fault, forward or reverse is commonly determined with a dedicated measurement to ensure selectivity under all conditions. For the direction decision (measurement) a number of alternatives are available. This paper describes a loop selective direction measurement and illustrates by means of a typical fault why this is superior to a non loop selective direction measurement such as that based on negative sequence quantities.

Software Reliability of Safety Critical FPGA-based System using System Engineering Approach

  • Pradana, Satrio;Jung, Jae Cheon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Systems Engineering
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.49-57
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    • 2018
  • The main objective of this paper is come up with methodology approach for FPGA-based system in verification and validation lifecycle regarding software reliability using system engineering approach. The steps of both reverse engineering and re-engineering are carried out to implement an FPGA-based of safety critical system in Nuclear Power Plant. The reverse engineering methodology is applied to elicit the requirements of the system as well as gain understanding of the current life cycle and V&V activities of FPGA based-system. The re-engineering method is carried out to get a new methodology approach of software reliability, particularly Software Reliability Growth Model. For measure the software reliability of a given FPGA-based system, the following steps are executed as; requirements definition and measurement, evaluation of candidate reliability model, and the validation of the selected system. As conclusion, a new methodology approach for software reliability measurement using software reliability growth model is developed.

A Case Study of Six Sigma Project for Improving Measurement Method of Skin Elasticity (피부탄성 측정 문제점 개선을 위한 6시그마 프로젝트)

  • Lee, Hae-Jung;Kang, Nam-Sik;Jeon, Young-Ju;Kim, Keun-Ho;Kim, Hong-Gie;Kim, Jong-Yeol
    • Korean Journal of Oriental Medicine
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.135-140
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    • 2010
  • The usefulness of constitutional diagnoses based on skin measurements has been established in oriental medicine. According to Sasang constitutional medicine, humans can be distinguished based on properties of skin's friction, thickness and elasticity. To quantify and standardize skin diagnosis, the present study designed an equipment for measuring skin elasticity of hand. But there were some noises in measuring skin elasticity such as measurement method, environment, operator and conditions of patient. So we considered a six sigma project for reducing the measurement errors. The project was followed to discipline process of five macro phases: Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control(DMAIC). So, we could find the major factors which should be controled for stabilizing measurement system and we revised the SOP(Standard Operating Procedure) of the skin elasticity measurement.

Vision-based Automatic System for Non-contact Measurement of Morphometric Characteristics of Flatfish

  • Jeong, Seong-Jae;Yang, Yong-Su;Lee, Kyounghoon;Kang, Jun-Gu;Lee, Dong-Gil
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.1194-1201
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    • 2013
  • This paper introduces a vision-based automatic system (VAMS) for non-contact measurement of morphometric characteristics of flatfish, such as total length (TL), body width (BW), height (H), and weight (W). The H and W are simply measured by a laser displacement and a load cell, respectively. The TL and BW are measured by a proposed morphological image processing algorithm. The proposed algorithm cans measurement, when the tail of flatfish is deformed, and when it is randomly oriented. In the experiment, the average and maximum measurement errors were recorded, and standard deviations and coefficients of variation (CVs) for the measurements were calculated. From those results, when flatfish the TL measurements had an average of 266.844 mm, a standard deviation of 0.351 mm, a CV of 0.131%, and a maximum error of 0.87 mm with straightened flatfish ($TL_A$ : 267 mm, $BW_A$ : 141 mm), and when flatfish of different sizes were measured, the errors in the TL and BW measurements were both about 0.2 %. Using a single conveyor, the VAMS can process up to 900 fishes per hour. Moreover, it can measure morphometric characteristics of flatfish with a TL of up to 500 mm.