• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.59 no.6
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• pp.1059-1063
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• 2010

Shimming is an important technique in development of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) magnets where image resolution is highly dependent on magnetic field homogeneity. Classically, shimming may be categorized into two types: 1) active shimming that incorporates with extra coils and precise tuning of their currents; and 2)passive shimming that incorporates with pieces of steel placed in a bore of a main magnet and their uniform magnetization under homogeneous external fields. Additional magnetic fields, produced by the coils and/or the steel sheets, compensate original magnetic field from the main magnet in such a way that the total field becomes more homogeneous. In this paper, we developed a passive shimming method based on linear programming optimization. Linear programming is well known to be highly efficient to find a global minimum in various linear problems. We firstly confirmed the linearity of magnetization of ferromagnetic pieces under a presence of external magnetic fields. Then, we adopted the linear programming to find optimized allocation of the steel pieces in the inner bore of a main magnet to improve field homogeneity.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.65 no.11
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• pp.1907-1912
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• 2016

In fact, in order to obtain good performances and low torque ripple, a high-resolution sensor is needed, which is costly and usually needs a special construction for the machine. So researchers are becoming aware of their cost and are exploring the possibility of cost reduction. Information of rotor position is necessary to drive Linear Switched Reluctance Motor(LSRM). Therefore, linear optical encoder is used to detect a mover position. Normally, since the price of encoder, which is used for linear motor is relatively higher than the one used for rotory motor and the cost of additional equipment increases with the length of motor. This is not always appropriate, considering economical efficiency in case of using the linear optical encoder. As a results, LSRM has a great part for the total cost. Therefore, in this paper, we propose LSRM position detecting modeling with reflective type photo-sensor. Additionally, we have investigated the possibility of the reduced position sensor for LSRM drives with advanced control technique. To certify the overall characteristics of the proposed method, a simulation using PSIM software has been carried out and the informative results are displayed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.343-346
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• 2003

In order to discuss the availability of the hydrostatic guideway driven by the coreless linear motor to ultra precision machine tools, a prototype of guideway is designed and tested in this research. A coreless linear DC motor with the continuous force of 156 N and a laser scale with the resulution of 10 nm are used as the feeding system. The experiments are performed on the static stiffness. motion accuracy, positioning accuracy. microstep response and variation of velocity. The guideway has the infinite axial stiffness within 50 N of applied load, and has 0.08 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ of linear motion error and 0.1 arcsec of angular motion error. It also has 0.21 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ of positioning error and 0.09 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ of repeatability, and it shows the stable response against the 10 nm resolution step command. The velocity variation of feeding system is less than 5%. From these results, it is confirmed that the hydrostatic guideway driven by the coreless linear motor is very useful for the ultra precision machine tools.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.261-274
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• 2004

The feature extraction using remotely sensed imagery has been recognized one of the important tasks in remote sensing applications. As the high-resolution imagery are widely used to the engineering purposes, need of more accurate feature information also is increasing. Especially, in case of the automatic extraction of linear feature such as road using mid or low-resolution imagery, several techniques was developed and applied in the mean time. But quantitatively comparative analysis of techniques and case studies for high-resolution imagery is rare. In this study, we implemented a computer program to perform and compare GDPA (Gradient Direction Profile Analysis) algorithm and Hough transformation. Also the results of applying two techniques to some images were compared with road centerline layers and boundary layers of digital map and presented. For quantitative comparison, the ranking method using commission error and omission error was used. As results, Hough transform had high accuracy over 20% on the average. As for execution speed, GDPA shows main advantage over Hough transform. But the accuracy was not remarkable difference between GDPA and Hough transform, when the noise removal was app]ied to the result of GDPA. In conclusion, it is expected that GDPA have more advantage than Hough transform in the application side.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.44 no.4
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• pp.328-336
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• 2000

The pulsed-delayed extraction (PDE) in linear time-of-flight mass spectrometer(TOF MS) is characterized on the enhancement of resolution, mass-depth of focus and effect of instrumentahan 2000. The ion signals separate isotopically by up to molecular weight of 2500 in instrumental broadening of 5 ns, which is a good agreement with calculation. The fragmentation paths of PPG can be sug-gested by the isotopica distributions of fragment series produced when PPG desorbed from graphite surface.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.75-77
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• 2015

디스플레이 해상도가 지속적으로 고해상화가 되면서, 기존 저해상도 영상을 고해상도 디스플레이 크기에 맞춰 해상도를 키우는 기법인 초해상화(super-resolution, SR) 기법에 많은 관심이 쏟아지고 있으며 이에 대한 많은 초해상화 논문들이 게재되었다. 이 중 현재 최상 품질의 고해상도 영상을 복원하는 한 초해상화 기법은, 입력 받은 저해상도 영상을 자가 예제(self-examples)로 사용하여 선형 매핑(linear mapping)을 통해 점진적으로 여러 레벨(level)를 거쳐 조금씩 키우는 방법이다. 이때 각 레벨마다 기존 저해상도 영상 크기로 반복적으로 줄여 오차를 줄이는 역투영법(back-projection)을 사용하는데, 이 방법은 처리된 영상에 시각적 품질을 낮추는 링 아티팩트(ringing artifacts)를 생산하며, 이는 매 레벨마다 계속 누적이 되어 고해상도 결과 이미지 품질에 악영향을 미치는 단점이 있다. 이를 보완하기 위해, 본 논문에서는 저해상도 정지 영상을 고해상도 정지 영상으로 점진적으로 키울 때 일반적인 역투영법 대신 비국소적 평균법(non-local means, NLM) 기반 역투영법을 사용하는 초해상화 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법은 매 레벨마다 생기는 링 아티팩트를 효과적으로 제거하여 높은 시각적 품질의 고해상도 영상을 복원할 수 있게 한다. 실험을 통해 제안된 초해상화 기법을 사용 시 기존 초해상화 기법보다 향상된 고품질 고해상도 영상 복원이 가능한 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.204-210
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• 2012

In this paper, we study the method of estimating direction of departure(DOD) and direction of arrival(DOA) using estimation of signal parameters via rotational invariant techniques (ESPRIT) in uniform linear array MIMO radar system. While it is possible to improve the resolution by increasing the numbers of physical antennas and snapshots after matched filtering, such methods generally give rise to increase in complexity. In this paper, we propose to improve the resolution by optimally allocating the number of transmit and receive antennas. In particular, we show that the performance is optimized when the number of the receive antennas is approximately twice that of transmit antennas.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.47 no.12
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• pp.24-30
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• 2010

The super-resolution near-field structure (super-RENS) disc system is the most promising one for next-generation optical data storage systems to succeed the Blu-ray disc (BD). In this paper, we apply the simplicial canonical piecewise-linear (SCPWL) model to modeling super-RENS read-out signals since reliable and accurate channel modeling is essential for performance analysis and development of equalizers for super-RENS systems. The validity of this model is verified using radio frequency (RF) signal samples obtained from a super-RENS disc, The experiment results on modeling indicate that the SCPWL model can be efficiently utilized for the nonlinear modeling of the super-RENS systems.

• Computers and Concrete
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.101-116
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• 2008

The microscopic determination of air void characteristics in hardened concrete, defined in EN 480-11 as the linear-traverse method, is an extremely time-consuming and tedious task. Over past decades, several researchers have proposed relatively expensive mechanical automated systems which could replace the human operator in this procedure. Recently, the appearance of new high-resolution flatbed scanners has made it possible for the procedure to be automated in a fully-computerized and thus cost-effective way. The results of our work indicate the high sensitivity of such image analysis automated systems firstly to the quality of sample surface preparation, secondly to the selection of the air void threshold value, and finally to the selection of the probe system. However, it can be concluded that in case of careful validation and the use of the approach which is proposed in the paper, such automated systems can give very good estimate of the air void system parameters, defined in EN 480-11. The amount of time saved by using such a procedure is immense, and there is also the possibility of using alternative stereological methods to assess other, perhaps also important, characteristics of air void system in hardened concrete.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.55 no.12
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• pp.4350-4356
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• 2023

Radiation detection systems working at high count rates suffer from the overlapping of their output electric pulses, known as pulse pile-up phenomenon, resulting in spectrum distortion and degradation of the energy resolution. Pulse tail extrapolation is a pile-up correction method which tries to restore the shifted baseline of a piled-up pulse by extrapolating the overlapped part of its preceding pulse. This needs a mathematical model which is almost always nonlinear, fitted usually by a nonlinear least squares (NLS) technique. NLS is an iterative, potentially time-consuming method. The main idea of the present study is to replace the NLS technique by an integration-based non-iterative method (NIM) for pulse tail extrapolation by an exponential model. The idea of linear extrapolation, as another non-iterative method, is also investigated. Analysis of experimental data of a NaI(Tl) radiation detector shows that the proposed non-iterative method is able to provide a corrected spectrum quite similar with the NLS method, with a dramatically reduced computation time and complexity of the algorithm. The linear extrapolation approach suffers from a poor energy resolution and throughput rate in comparison with NIM and NLS techniques, but provides the shortest computation time.