• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권7호
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• pp.2444-2452
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• 2022

The field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is gaining popularity in industrial automation such as nuclear power plant instrumentation and control (I&C) systems due to the benefits of having non-existence of operating system, minimum software errors, and minimum common reason failures. Separate functions can be processed individually and in parallel on the same integrated circuit using FPGAs in comparison to the conventional microprocessor-based systems used in any plant operations. The use of FPGAs offers the potential to minimize complexity and the accompanying difficulty of securing regulatory approval, as well as provide superior protection against obsolescence. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are a new technology for acquiring and processing plant data wirelessly in which sensor nodes are configured for real-time signal processing, data acquisition, and monitoring. ZigBee (IEEE 802.15.4) is an open worldwide standard for minimum power, low-cost machine-to-machine (M2M), and internet of things (IoT) enabled wireless network communication. It is always a challenge to follow the specific topology when different Zigbee nodes are placed in a large network such as a plant. The research article focuses on the hardware chip design of different topological structures supported by ZigBee that can be used for monitoring and controlling the different operations of the plant and evaluates the performance in Vitex-5 FPGA hardware. The research work presents a strategy for configuring FPGA with ZigBee sensor nodes when communicating in a large area such as an industrial plant for real-time monitoring.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.133-139
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• 2022

최근 국내 축산 농가들에서는 생산성 향상을 위해 축사 환경 및 사양관리, 안전한 축산물 생산, 동물 복지 등에 데이터를 기반으로 한 기술이 도입되고 있다. 또한, 정부는 정책적으로 축산물의 생산성 향상 및 축산 환경을 개선하기 위해 ICT기반의 축사시설 현대화를 통한 스마트 축사 보급 사업을 2017년부터 진행하고 있다. 그러나 현재 스마트 축사는 모니터링과 제어의 연계성, 다양성, 통합성 등에서 한계가 있다. 그러므로 다양한 모니터링과 제어의 연계 및 통합을 하기 위해 지능화된 알고리즘 및 원격 제어로 축산의 모든 과정을 지능적으로 시스템화하기 위해서는 사물인터넷, 빅데이터, 인공지능, 클라우드 컴퓨팅, 모바일 등 지능정보기술을 기반으로 한 스마트 축산 시스템 개발이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 지능정보기술 기반의 스마트 축사 관련 국내외 연구동향을 소개하고 첨단기술의 국내 적용 한계를 분석하였다. 끝으로 축산분야에 적용 가능한 미래 지능정보기술에 대해서 살펴보았다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.251-266
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• 2022

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of critical infrastructure comprises a major pillar of maintenance management, shielding public safety and economic sustainability. Although SHM is usually associated with data-driven metrics and thresholds, expert judgement is essential, especially in cases where erroneous predictions can bear casualties or substantial economic loss. Considering that visual inspections are time consuming and potentially subjective, artificial-intelligence tools may be leveraged in order to minimize the inspection effort and provide objective outcomes. In this context, timely detection of sensor malfunctioning is crucial in preventing inaccurate assessment and false alarms. The present work introduces a sensor-fault detection and interpretation framework, based on the well-established support-vector machine scheme for anomaly detection, combined with a coalitional game-theory approach. The proposed framework is implemented in two datasets, provided along the 1st International Project Competition for Structural Health Monitoring (IPC-SHM 2020), comprising acceleration and cable-load measurements from two real cable-stayed bridges. The results demonstrate good predictive performance and highlight the potential for seamless adaption of the algorithm to intrinsically different data domains. For the first time, the term "decision trajectories", originating from the field of cognitive sciences, is introduced and applied in the context of SHM. This provides an intuitive and comprehensive illustration of the impact of individual features, along with an elaboration on feature dependencies that drive individual model predictions. Overall, the proposed framework provides an easy-to-train, application-agnostic and interpretable anomaly detector, which can be integrated into the preprocessing part of various SHM and condition-monitoring applications, offering a first screening of the sensor health prior to further analysis.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제26권9호
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• pp.1259-1265
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• 2022

최근 인공지능, 빅데이터, 사물인터넷 기술이 안전사고 예방을 위한 화재 감지, 가스나 유해 물질 감지 등 다양한 솔루션에서 활용되고 있다. 2021년 고용노동부에서 발간한 산업 재해 발생 현황에 따르면, 2020년과 비교해 재해율, 재해자 수, 사망자 수가 증가하였으며 최근에는 중대재해 처벌 등에 관한 법률과 같은 안전조치를 강화하는 등 제도적, 사회적 관심이 높아지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 한국지능정보사회진흥원(NIA)에서 제공한 데이터셋 구축 가이드라인을 참고하여 현장에서 직접 수집해 데이터셋을 직접 구축하고 YOLOv4로 학습하여 객체 탐지를 통해 충돌위험 객체 탐지 시스템을 제안하고자 한다. 위험 상황 규칙 위반에 대한 정확도는 실내 88%, 실외 92%의 탐지 성능을 보였다. 이러한 시스템을 통해 산업 현장에서 발생하는 안전사고를 사전에 분석해 지능형 플랫폼 연구에 활용이 가능할 것으로 사료된다.

• 사물인터넷융복합논문지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.49-55
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• 2023

디지털 신기술의 진화가 빠르게 진행이 되고 있다. 특히 교육 관련 분야에서는 소프트웨어와 인공지능에 대한 많은 변화가 빠르게 진행이 되고 있다. 교육부에서는 소프트웨어와 인공지능 정규교육과정으로 연계에 의한 교육프로그램을 계획하고 있다. 정규교과로 적용하기 전에 다양한 소프트웨어와 인공지능 관련 체험 캠프를 추진하고 있다. 본 연구는 디지털 신기술을 기반으로 고등학생을 대상으로 소프트웨어와 인공지능 교육프로그램을 위한 교육 모델을 구성하고자 한다. 소프트웨어와 인공지능 교육을 확대 보급함으로써 고등학생들의 소프트웨어와 인공지능 기초역량 높이고자 한다. 고등학교에서의 소프트웨어와 인공지능의 개념을 정의하고 소프트웨어와 인공지능 학습요인을 정규교육과정으로 연계하는 모델을 제안하고자 한다.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2023년도 학술발표회
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• pp.357-357
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• 2023

2017년 7월 16일 집중호우로 인해 무심천 상류에 위치한 충청북도 청주시 상당구 남일면 고은리 655번지의 농경지 침수 피해가 발생하였다. 대상지역의 우안 제방에는 기존에 수동식 수문이 설치되어 있었으나 내구연한이 지나고 부식되어 수년전에 망실되었으며, 2017년 7월 홍수 이후 유사한 규모의 홍수가 발생 할 경우 대상지역은 홍수피해를 겪을 수밖에 없는 상황에 처해 있다. 이에 따라 홍수방어 시설인 전동식 수문을 설치하여 설치 전·후의 침수 피해를 분석하였다. 본 연구에서는 청주 수위관측소의 2017년 7월 15~16일 수위자료를 수집하여 수위-유량관계곡선식(Rating Curve)을 적용한 시간당 유량자료를 산정하였으며, 수문설치 지점인 고은리 655번지를 시점으로 하류 약 15.871km에 위치한 흥덕교까지 HEC-RAS 모형을 이용하여 홍수분석을 수행하였다. 무심천 우안 제방 내 수문이 설치되기 전과 후에 따른 대상지역의 제내지 침수구역 범위를 산정하여 비교 분석하였다. 측점은 96개의 횡단면으로 구성하였으며, 부정류 해석을 위한 경계조건으로 상류단 유입량, 측방 유입량 및 하류단 수위를 적용하였다. 홍수분석 결과 단면별 최대수위는 EL.41.92m~EL.66.29m의 범위를 나타내고 있으며, 적용 홍수에 따른 최대 유속은 3.17 m/s로나타났다. 수문설치 지점의 하천 횡단에서 발생하는 최고 수위는 EL.66.29m로 산정되었으며, EL.66.29m를 기준으로 전동식 수문이 설치되기 전과 후의 침수범위를 분석하였다. 설치 전 홍수분석 결과 제내지 침수구역의 면적은 141,309.3m²로 분석되었다. 전동식 수문을 설치함에 따라 대상지역의 제내지 침수 피해를 겪지 않은 것으로 분석되었다. 향후 전동식 수문과 IoT기술을 접목하여 지자체의 재난관리 시스템과 연동할 수 있다면, 유사한 침수피해를 최소화 하는데 기여할 것으로 판단된다.

• 공학교육연구
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.22-35
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• 2023

As information and communication technology has developed remarkably, it has become possible to analyze various types of large-volume data generated at a speed close to real time, and based on this, reliable value creation has become possible. Such big data analysis is becoming an important means of supporting decision-making based on scientific figures. The purpose of this study is to develop a big data analysis tool that can analyze large amounts of data generated through engineering education. The tasks of this study are as follows. First, a database is designed to store the information of entries in the National Creative Capstone Design Contest. Second, the pre-processing process is checked for analysis with big data analysis tools. Finally, analyze the data using the developed big data analysis tool. In this study, 1,784 works submitted to the National Creative Comprehensive Design Contest from 2014 to 2019 were analyzed. As a result of selecting the top 10 words through topic analysis, 'robot' ranked first from 2014 to 2019, and energy, drones, ultrasound, solar energy, and IoT appeared with high frequency. This result seems to reflect the current core topics and technology trends of the 4th Industrial Revolution. In addition, it seems that due to the nature of the Capstone Design Contest, students majoring in electrical/electronic, computer/information and communication engineering, mechanical engineering, and chemical/new materials engineering who can submit complete products for problem solving were selected. The significance of this study is that the results of this study can be used in the field of engineering education as basic data for the development of educational contents and teaching methods that reflect industry and technology trends. Furthermore, it is expected that the results of big data analysis related to engineering education can be used as a means of preparing preemptive countermeasures in establishing education policies that reflect social changes.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.65-76
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• 2023

This paper identifies the aspects of living environment elements (PM^2.5, PM¹⁰, Noise) throughout Seoul and the urban characteristics that affect them by utilizing the big data of the S-Dot sensors in Seoul, which has recently become a hot topic. In other words, it proposes a big data based urban computing research methodology and research direction to confirm the relationship between urban characteristics and living environments that directly affect citizens. The temporal range is from 2020 to 2021, which is the available range of time series data for S-Dot sensors, and the spatial range is throughout Seoul by 500mX500m GRID. First of all, as part of analyzing specific living environment patterns, simple trends through EDA are identified, and cluster analysis is conducted based on the trends. After that, in order to derive specific urban planning factors of each cluster, basic statistical analysis such as ANOVA, OLS and MNL analysis were conducted to confirm more specific characteristics. As a result of this study, cluster patterns of environment elements(PM^2.5, PM¹⁰, Noise) and urban factors that affect them are identified, and there are areas with relatively high or low long-term living environment values compared to other regions. The results of this study are believed to be a reference for urban planning management measures for vulnerable areas of living environment, and it is expected to be an exploratory study that can provide directions to urban computing field, especially related to environmental data in the future.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.110-122
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• 2023

Over the last few decades, various innovative technologies have emerged that have significantly contributed to making life easier for humans. Various information and communication technologies (ITCs) have emerged as a result of the global technological revolution, including big data, IoT, 4G and 5G networks, cloud computing, mobile computing, and artificial intelligence. These technologies have been adopted in urban planning and development, which gave rise to the concept of smart cities in the 1990s. A smart city is a type of city that uses ITCs to exchange and share information to enhance the quality of services for its citizens. With the global population increasing at unprecedented levels, cities are overwhelmed with a myriad of challenges, such as the energy crisis, environmental pollution, sanitation and sewage challenges, and water quality issues, and therefore, have become a convergence point of economic, social, and environmental risks. The concept of a smart city is a multidisciplinary, unified approach that has been adopted by governments and municipalities worldwide to overcome these challenges. Though challenging, this transformation is essential for cities with differing technological and social features, which all have the potential to determine the success or failure of the digital transformation of cities into smart cities. In recent years, researchers, businesses, and the government have all turned their attention to the emerging field of smart cities. Accordingly, this paper aims to represent a thorough understanding of the movement toward smart cities. The key themes identified are smart city definitions and concepts, smart city dimensions, and smart city architecture of different layers. Furthermore, this article discusses the challenges and some examples of smart cities.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.653-660
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• 2022

Gravel scattering that is generated during operation of high-speed railway vehicle is cause to damage of vehicle such as windows, axle protector and so on. Especially, those are frequently occurred in winter season when snow ice is generated easily. Above all, damage of vehicle windows has not only caused maintenance cost but also increased psychological anxiety of passengers. Various methods such as heating system using copper wire, heating jacket and heating air are applied to remove snow ice generated on the under-body of vehicle. However, the methods require much run-time and man power which can be low effectiveness of work. Therefore, this paper shows that large-area heating system was developed based on heating coat in order to fundamentally prevent snow ice damage on high-speed railway vehicle in the winter season. This system gives users high convenience because that can remotely control the heating system using IoT-based wireless communication. For evaluating the applicability to railroad sites, a field test on an actual high-speed railroad operation was conducted by applying these techniques to the brake cylinder of a high-speed railroad vehicle. From the results, it evaluated how input voltage and electric power per unit area of the heating specimen influences exothermic performance to draw the permit power condition for icing. In the future, if the system developed in the study is applied at the railroad site, it may be used as a technique for preventing all types of damages occurring due to snow ice in winter.