• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.429-436
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• 2014

Most mechanical systems are now operating consistently and getting faster due to the development of automation systems. Peoples' dependence on machines have increased as when problems occur within the mechanical system, personal injury and production loss may come as a result, as most of the mechanical system's malfunctions are caused by the failure of the rotational bearing. What we need now is a maintenance system that can warn us when it detects abnormal conditions before significant damage occurs to the bearing. In this study, we have developed an acoustic emissions sensor that can figure if the bearing works under the normal condition. With this acoustic emissions sensor, we can inspect the bearing for defects by using the Heterodyne technique, which converts the ultrasound signal into audio, as a signal conditioning process.

• Transactions on Control, Automation and Systems Engineering
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.229-235
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• 2001

Recently, service area has been emerging field f robotic applications. Even though assistant robots play an important role for the disabled and the elderly, they still suffer from operating the robots using conventional interface devices such as joysticks or keyboards. In this paper we propose an efficient computer interface using real-time eye-gaze tracking system. The inputs to the proposed system are images taken by a camera and data from a magnetic sensor. The measured data is sufficient to describe the eye and head movement because the camera and the receiver of a magnetic sensor are stationary with respect to the head. So the proposed system can obtain the eye-gaze direction in spite of head movement as long as the distance between the system and the transmitter of a magnetic position sensor is within 2m. Experimental results show the validity of the proposed system in practical aspect and also verify the feasibility of the system as a new computer interface for the disabled.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.603-608
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• 2007

In the conventional AOA(angle-of-arrival) positioning utilizing reverse-link wireless channel, each sensor should be equipped with an array antenna to measure the incident angle of signal transmitting from a tag. To perform the complicated signal processing for angle measurements, sensor size and its power consumption will be large. In some applications like mobile robot location, there exists no strict restriction in tag size or in power consumption. Rather, it is desirable that the sensor would be as small as possible. This paper presents a new AOA positioning method utilizing forward-link channel. Under the assumption that the mobile robot is operating on the flat surface, the measurement model for FLAOA(tiJrward-link AOA) is derived first. Two kinds of position estimation algorithms using FLAOA measurements are proposed; Gauss-Newton method and closed-fonn solution method. With the proposed methods, we can ohtain the attitude of robot as well as its position. Positioning performance of proposed methods is compared by computer simulation. Simulation results show that the closed-form solution method using FLAOA measurements is suitable for indoor robot positioning.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제26권8호
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• pp.351-356
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• 2014

Typical trouble patterns in solar thermal systems include working fluid leakage and freezing other than breakdown of pump. A fluid sensor for measuring electric resistance of fluid was developed and installed at the top of the collector piping in order to check the fault of solar system. Working fluid level in the pipe was determined by measuring electric resistance from a fluid sensor. On the base of this, it was confirmed that the fluid sensor diagnoses leakage of fluid. Electric resistance of propylene glycol aqueous solution was measured in the range of $0{\sim}70^{\circ}C$ and 0~40% of concentration. The response surface analysis was performed by using a central composite design, and the regression equation was derived from the relationship between electric resistance, temperature, and concentration. Through the experiment in a real solar system, we can estimate a concentration of working fluid when a pump is not operating and predict a possibility of freezing. Finally, an effective algorithm for trouble shooting was proposed to operate and maintain the solar system.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.213-218
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• 2017

발전소에서 전기를 생산 및 공급하기 위하여 고전압 전력 시스템이 동작하고 있다. 고전압 시스템은 저전압 시스템과 비교하여 구조가 복잡하고, 규모가 크고, 가격이 비쌀 뿐만 아니라. 사고 발생시 저압 시스템을 포함하는 대부분의 설비들에 정전사고가 발생하여 막대한 경제적 손실을 초래한다. 설계부터 시공 및 관리를 더욱 철저히 해야 한다. 설치환경 및 사용 조건 부하량 등에 따라 차이가 있겠지만, 증설과정, 부적절한 설계 등으로 인하여 케이블의 단면적이 부족할 경우가 발생하며, 운전 전류에 의하여 초과된 허용온도는 케이블의 열화 상태를 초래한다. 우리는 케이블의 사고를 체계적으로 감시 및 예방하기 위한 측정 장비를 개발, 한국서부발전 주식회사(Korean Western Power Co. Ltd.)에 설치하여 활선 케이블을 진단하였다. 이 논문에서 우리는 케이블의 부하전류를 측정하고, 측정된 부하전류에 의한 온도 특성을 예측 연구한 결과를 제시한다. 이 온도 값을 해석하여 케이블의 열화에 미치는 영향을 예측할 수 있다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1992년도 하계학술대회 논문집 A
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• pp.422-424
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• 1992

In this paper, we are designed a hierachical system controller and builed a robot system for high precision assembly consisting in multi-arms and multi-sensor. For the control of a multi-arms robot system, the robot system are consisted of cell controller, station controller and device. The Operating System of a cell controller is VxWorks for real-time multi-processing. Using by C-language, we are proposed a multi-arms robot control language based a RCCL, and this control language is partially implemented and tested in multi-robot control system.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2011년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.731-734
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• 2011

본 논문은 Single hop으로 구성된 WSN(Wireless Sensor Network)의 저전력 구성방식을 제안한다. WSN 시스템 동작 시 각 Tag간 RF통신이 이루어 질 때 가장 많은 전력을 소모한다. 그렇기 때문에 해당 RF통신 모듈을 주기적으로 on/off를 하여 Network를 구성한다면 상대적으로 Toggle하지 않고 항시 해당 모듈을 동작시키는 것 보다 많은 전력 소모를 방지 할 수 있다. 하지만 RF통신 모듈이 off인 상태에서는 외부적인 어떠한 통신 신호도 받을 수 없기에 Tag와 Base station사이 서로 간 송수신 통신이 이루어질시 일부분 Data누락이 일어날 수 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 RF통신 모듈을 내부 명령어를 통해 시스템적으로 Toggle함과 동시에 Tag와 Base station간 송수신 통신이 이루어질시 누락되는 Data없이 적절한 통신이 이루어지게끔 구성된 알고리즘을 제안한다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권4B호
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• pp.184-191
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• 2008

한국전자통신연구원에서 개발한 NanoQplus는 센서 네트워크 운용을 위한 임베디드 운영체제로, 프로그래머에게 친숙한 다중 쓰레드 프로그래밍 환경을 제공하지만 잘 알려진 TinyOS와 같은 운영체제와 비교해볼 때 네트워크 프로토콜 스택이 빈약하다는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)에서 표준화 중인 Dynamic MANET On-demand (DYMO) 라우팅 프로토콜을 NanoQplus에 적용해본다. DYMO 프로토콜은 본래 이동 애드혹 네트워크에 적합하도록 제안된 라우팅 프로토콜이며, 이동 애드혹 네트워크는 무선 센서 네트워크에 비해 자원의 제약에서 자유로우므로, 기본 DYMO 프로토콜을 아무런 수정 없이 무선 센서 네트워크에 적용하기는 힘들다. 게다가 매체 접근 제어 계층과 네트워크 계층 사이에 존재하는 중복되는 데이터를 줄이기 위해 두 계층 프로토콜간의 결합도도 고려할 필요가 있다. 따라서 우리는 DYMO 기본 명세를 수정하여 NanoQplus에 적합토록 수정하였다. 실제 센서 노드에서의 실험 결과를 통해 NanoQplus에 기반을 둔 DYMO 프로토콜이 무선센서 네트워크 시나리오에서 효율적으로 동작함을 알 수 있었다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.353-363
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• 2017

Recently, sink mobility has been shown to be highly beneficial in improving network lifetime in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Numerous studies have exploited mobile sinks (MSs) to collect sensed data in order to improve energy efficiency and reduce WSN operational costs. However, there have been few studies on the effectiveness of MS operation on WSN closed operating cycles. Therefore, it is important to investigate how data is collected and how to plan the trajectory of the MS in order to gather data in time, reduce energy consumption, and improve WSN network lifetime. In this study, we combine two methods, the cluster-head election algorithm and the MS trajectory optimization algorithm, to propose the optimal MS movement strategy. This study aims to provide a closed operating cycle for WSNs, by which the energy consumption and running time of a WSN is minimized during the cluster election and data gathering periods. Furthermore, our flexible MS movement scenarios achieve both a long network lifetime and an optimal MS schedule. The simulation results demonstrate that our proposed algorithm achieves better performance than other well-known algorithms.

• 한국분무공학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.134-139
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• 2012

The main purpose of this study is to analyze and compare the nano-particle emission characteristics by 3-different biodiesel blending rates in a CI engine. Nano-particle number density emitted from various operating conditions of compression ignition engine can be investigated by using the PPS (Pegasor Particle Sensor) system. Namely, some particle charged through the corona discharge in real-time can be measured by PPS system. Under the steady state operation of the 2.0L CRDi diesel engine with different operating condition and biodiesel blending rates, the nano-particle number density was analyzed at the downstream position of DOC system. As this research result, more engine load speed and higher the concentration of biodiesel blending rate showed that the nano-particle number density decreases. Also we found that DOC system for clean diesel engine is effectively useful instrument to reduce diesel particulate matter as resource of nano-particle generation.