• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제35권6호
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• pp.443-449
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• 2010

A machine vision-based instrument to measure a droplet size spectrum of a spray nozzle was developed and tested to evaluate its accuracy on measuring spray droplet sizes and classifying nozzle sizes. The instrument consisted of a machine vision, light emitting diode (LED) illumination and a desktop computer. The illumination and machine vision were controlled by the computer through a C++ program. The program controlled the machine vision to capture droplet images under controlled illumination, and processed the droplet images to characterize the droplet size distribution of a spray nozzle. An image processing algorithm was developed to improve the accuracy of the system by eliminating random noise and out-of-focus droplets in droplet images while measuring droplet sizes. The instrument measured sizes of the three different balls (254.0, 497.8 and $793.8\;{\mu}m$) and the measurement ranges were $241.2-273.6\;{\mu}m$, $492.9-529.6\;{\mu}m$ and $800.8-824.1\;{\mu}m$ for 254.0-, 497.84- and $793.75-\;{\mu}m$ balls, respectively. Error of the measured droplet mean was less than 3.0 %. Droplet statistics, $D_{V0.1}$, $D_{V0.5}$ and $D_{V0.9}$, of a reference nozzle set were measured, and droplet size spectra of five spray nozzles covering from very fine to extremely coarse were measured to classify spray nozzle sizes. Ninety percent of the classification results of the instrument agreed with manufacturer's classification. A comparison study was carried out between developed and commercial instruments, and measurement results of the developed instrument were within 20 % of commercial instrument results.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.6-13
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• 2017

본 연구에서는 혼화기의 혼화성능과 압력손실을 개선하기 위해 오리피스의 형상과 개수에 따른 영향을 해석하였다. 물의 정수에서 중요한 과정은 물속의 이물질을 포집하는 응집 과정이고 응집제가 얼마나 물속에 고른 분포를 가지고 물속에 혼화되어 있는 지가 정수에 큰 영향을 미친다. 기계식 혼화방식이 갖는 정수과정에서의 긴 체류시간, 기계 소음, 과다한 에너지의 소비 및 높은 유지관리 비용 등의 단점을 보완하기 위해서 최근에는 응집제가 원수에 주입됨과 동시에 가능한 한 빠르게 수중에 확산시킬 수 있는 장치로서 관내혼화장치의 도입이 증가추세에 있다. 본 연구에서는 관내 혼화기의 혼화성능과 압력손실을 개선하기 위해 오리피스의 유무, 형상과 개수에 따른 약품의 체적분률, 관내 압력손실 등 유동특성과 체적분률이 수치해석에 의해 계산된다. 관내 혼화장치에 장착된 오리피스는 혼화정도를 향상시키나 압력손실이 증가되므로 오리피스의 개수를 제한하여야 한다. 주요 인자에 대한 민감도 분석을 통해 가이드 베인을 장착한 오리피스 1개를 사용하여 약품의 체적분률과 압력손실이 개선된 관내 혼화장치를 제안하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제17권12호
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• pp.2875-2882
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• 2013

여러 가지 디지털통신 시스템에서 많이 사용되고 있는 의사 난수열을 설계하는데 있어 가장 중요한 문제는 생성된 수열들 사이의 상호상관관계가 낮은 수열을 생성하는 것이다. 또한 설계된 이진수열의 상호상관관계의 빈도분석은 많은 연구자에 의해 연구되어왔다. 본 논문에서는 n=2m, $d=2^{n-1}(3{\cdot}2^m-1)$일 때 5-값 상호상관관계를 갖는 비선형 이진수열군 $S^r=\{Tr^m_1\{[Tr^n_m(a{\alpha}^t+{\alpha}^{dt}]^r\}{\mid}a{\in}GF(2^m),0{\leq}t < 2^n-1\}$에 대한 상호상관관계에 대한 빈도 분석과 여러 가지 상호상관관계 성질을 분석한다. 여기서 $gcd(r,2^m-1)=1$이다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권9호
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• pp.3016-3033
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• 2014

The downlink performance of distributed antenna systems (DAS) with antennas selection is investigated in Rayleigh fading multicell environment, and the corresponding system capacity and bit error rate (BER) analysis are presented. Based on the moment generating function, the probability density function (PDF) and cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the effective signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) of the system are first derived, respectively. Then, with the available CDF and PDF, the accurate closed-form expressions of average channel capacity and average BER are further derived for exact performance evaluation. To simplify the expression, a simple closed-form approximate expression of average channel capacity is obtained by means of Taylor series expansion, with the performance results close to the accurate expression. Besides, the system outage capacity is analyzed, and an accurate closed-form expression of outage capacity probability is derived. These theoretical expressions can provide good performance evaluation for DAS downlink. It can be shown by simulation that the theoretical analysis and simulation are consistent, and DAS with antenna selection outperforms that with conventional blanket transmission. Moreover, the system performance can be effectively improved as the number of receive antennas increases.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제15권9호
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• pp.695-699
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 기울기와 밝기값 분포 정보를 고려하여 전립선 객체를 분할하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안방법은 네 단계로 이루어진다. 첫째, 일정 간격으로 방사선을 생성한다. 이 때, 방사선의 시작 위치와 길이를 산정함으로써 잡음의 영향을 최소화 한다. 둘째, 방사선에서 얻은 프로파일을 기울기 기준으로 경계점 후보들을 정렬하고 정렬 된 순서에 따라 우선순위를 부여한다. 셋째, 기울기 우선순위와 자기값 분포를 사용하여 경계점을 추출한다. 마지막으로 경계점 추출 오류를 줄이기 위하여 추출된 경계점을 B-스플라인 보간으로 보정한다. 정확성 평가를 위하여 전문가가 수동 분할한 결과와 본 제안방법을 적용하여 얻은 결과간 평균거리차이 측정과 중복지역비율 측정을 수행한다. 실험결과 평균거리차이는 1.09mm, 표준편차는 $\pm0.20mm$로 측정되었고, 중복지역비율은 92%로 측정되었다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제12권10호
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• pp.1897-1902
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• 2008

영상에 나타난 콘크리트 표면의 균열은 그 획득 과정에서 빛이나 외부환경에 의해 훼손되는 경우가 발생한다. 또한 콘크리트 표면이 고르지 않고 균열과 표면의 명암도 차이가 거의 없기 때문에 정확한 균열을 검출하기 어렵다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 콘크리트 표면 영상을 밝기에 따라 여러 영역으로 구분하기 위해 ART2 기반 양자화를 적용한다. 양자화된 영역에서 균열과 잡음의 분포를 조사하여 균열과 잡음이 같이 존재하는 영역에서는 잡음 제거 과정을 수행한 후, 균열 후보 영역을 추출하고 균열 후보 영역에서 형태학적인 정보를 이용하여 잡음을 제거하여 최종 균열 영역을 검출한다. 실제 콘크리트 표면 균열 영상을 대상으로 실험 한 결과, 제안한 방법이 기존의 방법보다 콘크리트 표면의 밝은 영역에서 균열이 비교적 정확히 검출되는 것을 확인하였다.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.455-464
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• 2009

Lee(2009)에서 영상 강도를 위해서 lognormal 확률 모형과 영상 texture를 위해서 Markov random field(MRF)에 기반하는 Bayesian 모형을 사용하는 boundary-adaptive despeckling 방법을 제안하였다. 이 방법은 speckle 제거 영상의 최대 사후(maximum a posteriori: MAP) 추정치를 구하기 위해서 Point-Jacobian iteration을 이용한다 인접하고 있는 다른 특성의 지역에 위치한 화소의 값을 사용하는 가능성을 줄이기 위해 Boundary-adaptive algorithm은 경계에 가까울 수록 멀리 떨어진 이웃 화소로부터 정보를 덜 수집하도록 고안된다. 이러한 boundary-adaptive 방법은 전반적으로 simulation 자료를 사용하여 Lee(2009)에서 평가되었고 그리고 제안된 방법의 효험을 증명하였다. 본 연구는 Lee(2009)의 확장 연구로 MAP 추정치를 구하기 반복 algorithm의 계산 효율성을 증가 시키고 noise 제거와 함께 분류를 수행하는 수정 algorithm을 제안한다. Simulation 자료를 사용한 실험을 통해서 boundary-adaption이 분류 오류를 줄여줄 뿐 아니라 더욱 명확한 경계선을 보여준다는 것을 알 수 있다. 또한 영종도 서해안에서 관측된 고해상도 Terra-SAR data에 적용한 결과는 boundary-adaption은 SAR 활용에서 분석의 정확성을 개선 시킬 수 있다는 것을 암시한다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.107-122
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• 2019

As one of the most important parameters in structural health monitoring, structural frequency has many advantages, such as convenient to be measured, high precision, and insensitive to noise. In addition, frequency-change-ratio based method had been validated to have the ability to identify the damage occurrence and location. However, building a precise enough finite elemental model (FEM) for the test structure is still a huge challenge for this frequency-change-ratio based damage detection technique. In order to overcome this disadvantage and extend the application for frequencies in structural health monitoring area, a novel method was developed in this paper by combining the cross-model cross-mode (CMCM) model updating algorithm with the frequency-change-ratio based method. At first, assuming the physical parameters, including the element mass and stiffness, of the test structure had been known with a certain value, then an initial to-be-updated model with these assumed parameters was constructed according to the typical mass and stiffness distribution characteristic of shear buildings. After that, this to-be-updated model was updated using CMCM algorithm by combining with the measured frequencies of the actual structure when no damage was introduced. Thus, this updated model was regarded as a representation of the FEM model of actual structure, because their modal information were almost the same. Finally, based on this updated model, the frequency-change-ratio based method can be further proceed to realize the damage detection and localization. In order to verify the effectiveness of the developed method, a four-level shear building was numerically simulated and two actual shear structures, including a three-level shear model and an eight-story frame, were experimentally test in laboratory, and all the test results demonstrate that the developed method can identify the structural damage occurrence and location effectively, even only very limited modal frequencies of the test structure were provided.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.46-53
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• 2019

Monte Carlo simulations were performed for a three-dimensional tissue model with and without an embedded large vessel, to understand how varying vessel geometry affects surface light distribution. Vessel radius was varied from 1 to 5 mm, and vessel depth from 2 to 10 mm. A larger difference in surface fluence rate was observed when the vessel's radius increased. For vessel depth, the largest difference was seen at a depth of approximately 4 mm, corresponding to human wrist region. When the vessel was placed at depths greater than 8 mm, very little difference was observed. We also tested the feasibility of using two source-detector pairs, comprising two detectors distinctly spaced from a common source, to noninvasively measure blood-scattering changes in a large vessel. High sensitivity to blood-scattering changes was achieved by placing the near detector closer to the source and moving the far detector away from the source. However, at longer distances, increasing noise levels limited the sensitivity of the two-detector approach. Our results indicate that the approach using two source-detector pairs may have potential for quantitative measurement of scattering changes in the blood while targeting large vessels near the human wrist region.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제71권4호
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• pp.391-405
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• 2019

Compared to the ambient vibration test mainly identifying the structural modal parameters, such as frequency, damping and mode shapes, the impact testing, which benefits from measuring both impacting forces and structural responses, has the merit to identify not only the structural modal parameters but also more detailed structural parameters, in particular flexibility. However, in traditional impact tests, an impacting hammer or artificial excitation device is employed, which restricts the efficiency of tests on various bridge structures. To resolve this problem, we propose a new method whereby a moving vehicle is taken as a continuous exciter and develop a corresponding flexibility identification theory, in which the continuous wheel forces induced by the moving vehicle is considered as structural input and the acceleration response of the bridge as the output, thus a structural flexibility matrix can be identified and then structural deflections of the bridge under arbitrary static loads can be predicted. The proposed method is more convenient, time-saving and cost-effective compared with traditional impact tests. However, because the proposed test produces a spatially continuous force while classical impact forces are spatially discrete, a new flexibility identification theory is required, and a novel structural identification method involving with equivalent load distribution, the enhanced Frequency Response Function (eFRFs) construction and modal scaling factor identification is proposed to make use of the continuous excitation force to identify the basic modal parameters as well as the structural flexibility. Laboratory and numerical examples are given, which validate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Furthermore, parametric analysis including road roughness, vehicle speed, vehicle weight, vehicle's stiffness and damping are conducted and the results obtained demonstrate that the developed method has strong robustness except that the relative error increases with the increase of measurement noise.