• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.23-32
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• 2008

This paper presents a task planning system for a steward robot, which has been developed as an interactive intermediate agent between an end-user and a complex smart home environment called the ISH (Intelligent Sweet Home) at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology). The ISH is a large-scale robotic environment with various assistive robots and home appliances for independent living of the elderly and the people with disabilities. In particular, as an approach for achieving human-friendly human-robot interaction, we aim at 'simplification of task commands' by the user. In this sense, a task planning system has been proposed to generate a sequence of actions effectively for coordinating subtasks of the target subsystems from the given high-level task command. Basically, the task planning is performed under the framework of STRIPS (Stanford Research Institute Problem Solver) representation and the split planning method. In addition, we applied a state-partitioning technique to the backward split planning method to reduce computational time. By analyzing the obtained graph, the planning system decomposes an original planning problem into several independent sub-problems, and then, the planning system generates a proper sequence of actions. To show the effectiveness of the proposed system, we deal with a scenario of a planning problem in the ISH.

• 디자인학연구
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• 제13권
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• pp.153-162
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• 1996

최근의 경제성장과 아울러 우리의 주거 공간이 보다 더 확장되어 가는 추세에 있다. 따라서 PAC (PACKAGE AIR CONDITIONER) 가 종래에는 주로 업소 설치용으로 판매되었으나 최근에는 하절기 상품으로써 생활수준의 향상과 함께 업소용에서 가정용으로 옮겨가는 상태에 있다고 볼 수 있다. PAC는 최근의 기후 온난화 현상에도 영향을 받아 날로 그 수요가 늘어나고 있으며 필수품 화되어 가는 추세에 있다. 본 연구는 국내에 대표적인 가전 업체인 (주)금성사에서 추진 개발되었던 PAC의 제품개발과 DESIGN PROCESS에 대한 사례 연구로서 기업에서의 제품개발과 디자인이 어떠한 연구와 과정을 통해 이루어지는가에 대해 고찰에 보았으며 이러한 연구과정을 토대로 조형화(가사 화) 시키는데 역점을 두었다. 예컨대 우선 하절기 상품인 만큼 기후에 따른 한국인의 체질과 그 특수성을 알아보았으며 고객 환경으로써 PAC의 표적고객을 설정하여 그 수요를 예측해 보았다. 고객 환경으로써 PAC의 표적고객을 설정하여 그 수요를 예측해 보았다. 그리고 PAC와 직접적인 관계가 있는 주거환경으로써 APT 거주지의 거실에서의 행위를 분석하였으며 아울러 거실의 전반적인 INTERIOR IMAGE를 분석하여 PAC의 조형화 작업에 일조를 하였다. 실질적인 조형화 작업에 있어서는 DESIGN CONCEPT을 고객환경, 주거환경, 제품 환경으로 나누어 다음과 같이 추진하였다. 첫째. 성 SPACE화로써 설치공간의 극소화 및 시각적 개방 감을 유도하는 NEW SHAPE(ROUND SLIM)을 구현하였고 둘째. INTERIOR화로써 거실의 분위기와 조화되는 제품의 고급 감을 표출하였다. 셋째. HIGH-TOUCH화로 사용자의 감성을 자극하는 SHAPE 및 표면 처리에 역점을 두었고 넷째로, HI-QUALITY화로써 전자제품에서 보여지는 TECHNOLOGY IMAGE의 과감한 도입적용을 시도하였다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.699-711
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• 2003

홈 네트워크 기술과 인터넷 제어 기술이 가정에서 널리 사용되기 위해서는 세 가지 고려 사항을 충족해야 한다. 먼저 홈 네트워크 기술을 기존의 가전기기에 적용함으로써 발생하는 비용의 증가를 최소화할 수 있어야 하고, 인터넷에서 홈 네트워크로 접근이 가능하게 하기 위해 가정의 다양한 인터넷 사용 환경을 고려하여야 하며, 끝으로 가전기기 제어를 위해 홈 네트워크에 적용되는 제어 프로토콜과 인터넷 제어를 위해 사용되는 프로토콜 사이에 서로 호환이 되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 이 세 가지 사항을 고려한 ARCS(Appliance Remote Control System)를 설계하고 구현한다. ARCS는 기존 가전기기에 최소비용으로 통신 기능과 원격 제어 요청을 처리할 수 있는 홈 네트워크 프로토콜인 LnCP(Living network Control Protocol)를 기반으로 상용화된 가전기기론 대상으로 인터넷을 통해 원격 제어 서비스를 제공한다. ARCS는 홈 게이트웨이가 인터넷상의 홈 서버에게 통신 세션을 요청함으로써 인터넷에서 홈 네트워크로의 접근이 가능하게 하는 방식을 사용하고 있으며, 인터넷 응용 프로그램을 이용하여 집 안의 가전기기를 원격 제어할 수 있는 가상 제어 인터페이스를 제공한다. 구현을 위해 홈 게이트웨이와 인터넷 홈 서버간의 통신 세션 관리와 인터넷을 통한 가전기기 제어 통신을 위한 프로토콜이 요구되는데, 본 논문에서는 LnCP와 쉽게 호환 가능한 제어 메시지들을 정의한 AICS(Appliance Internet Control Specification)라는 새로운 프로토콜을 설계하여 ARCS와 홈 게이트웨이에 적용하였다.

• 한국주거학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국주거학회 2006년도 추계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.92-96
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• 2006

With the change of family type and diversify of life style, residents need various unit plan in Quality. A rate of economically productive women has increased, and generally double-income households will continuously increase in the future. So a research is requested to consider the double-income households's satisfaction for a unit plan based on their life characteristics. The purpose of this study is to find out double-income households's lifestyles, and to search and analyze users' needs for spatial composition according to their lifestyles, and then, embody spatial composition of Apartment Unit plans. The findings are as follows. (1) Housing lifestyles of users living in apartment are categorized into 5 types: seeking the way to make housework easy and comfortable, making the best use spatial composition, pursing the universalism, housework oriented, pursing the leisure. (2) The type of seeking the way to make housework easy and comfortable requests facility with home appliances and a shower bath, the type of making the best use spatial composition requests storage space and trial about new plan, the type of pursing the universalism is concerned about the protection of environment and a memorial service, the type of housework oriented wants a talk with their family and discuss some problem, and the type of pursing the leisure requests division of household with their family and likes traveling and sports.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.668-681
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• 2013

The Korean government announced a national mid-term target to reduce 30% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from business-as usual (BAU) level by 2020 in a voluntary and independent manner. In this study, we examined the $CO_2$ mitigation potential and conducted an economic effect analysis of green living actions in households in Korea. We also proposed some ways to implement green life to achieve the national target. If green lifestyle takes root in households nationwide, $CO_2$ emission would be reduced to 27.3% of the emission in 2007. This would save the country about 4.93 trillion won per year and each household could save about 300,000 won per year, which accounts for about 0.5% of GDP (as of 2007). Considering the five-year plan for green growth to invest 2% of GDP in green growth every year, this would not only reduce the economic burden on households, industries and the country but also increase economic growth potential by reinvesting the saved resources into green growth. Heating and lighting would be the greatest contributor to GHG mitigation of green life in the residential sector. It means we could achieve the national goal by reducing unnecessary heating and lighting and using energy-saving electric home appliances. The implementation of green living actions would reduce a significant amount of greenhouse gas emissions, ultimately relieving the burden on businesses to reduce GHG emissions. And it is one of the most cost-effective mitigation tools in order to achieve the mid-term GHG mitigation goal.

• 한국가구학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.166-174
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• 2009

Most of the furniture in the past was dedicated to its original use such as storage and accommodation of articles or sitting tools, but the concept of furniture in contemporary indoor spaces is gradually increasing in its meaning while exchanging close impacts with other spatial components. Indeed, in contemporary furniture, a component other than furniture constituting a space would sometimes serve the common roles of furniture or sometimes furniture would include all indoor objects used to make people's living more convenient. This study reviewed the meaning of furniture and changes in its roles in contemporary indoor spaces and summarized the characteristics presenting a few examples. First, in contemporary indoor spaces, furniture as an independent object does not having a meaning any more. The fusion of functions with other components constituting indoor spaces is the most important characteristics in contemporary furniture and it has been already attempted in diverse ways through fusion with buildings surpassing fusion with other pieces of furniture or electric home appliances. Second, the arrangement conforming to the roles required by spaces and diverse forms of attempts are essential. Since furniture is an item the most closely related to human residential life, studies on human behaviors in spaces must precede. The efforts to enhance work efficiencies and used limited spaces more efficiently will be continued and explorations of new forms should be also continued. Third, with regards to manufacturing methods, new technologies should be applied more widely and furniture materials must be diversified through the use of new materials including not only cutting-edge new materials but also all the materials that can be applied to furniture such as conventional natural materials and environment friendly materials that can be recycled.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.376-383
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• 2012

A number of scientific researches are currently being conducted on the potential health hazards of power frequency electric and magnetic field (EMF). There exists a non-objective and psychological belief that they are harmful, although no scientific and objective proof of such exists. This possible health risk from ELF magnetic field (MF) exposure, especially for children under 17 years of age, is currently one of Korea's most highly contested social issues. Therefore, to assess the magnetic field exposure levels of those children in their general living environments, the personal MF exposure levels of 436 subjects were measured for about 6 years using government funding. Using the measured database, estimation formulas were developed to predict personal MF exposure levels. These formulas can serve as valuable tools in estimating 24-hour personal MF exposure levels without directly measuring the exposure. Three types of estimation formulas were developed by applying evolutionary computation methods such as genetic algorithm (GA) and genetic programming (GP). After tuning the database, the final three formulas with the smallest estimation error were selected, where the target estimation error was approximately 0.03 ${\mu}T$. The seven parameters of each of these three formulas are gender (G), age (A), house type (H), house size (HS), distance between the subject's residence and a power line (RD), power line voltage class (KV), and the usage conditions of electric appliances (RULE).