• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권4호
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• pp.1189-1198
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• 2021

When performing remote tasks using robots in nuclear power plants, a 3D shape measurement system is advantageous in improving the efficiency of remote operations by easily identifying the current state of the target object for example, size, shape, and distance information. Nuclear power plants have high-radiation and underwater environments therefore the electronic parts that comprise 3D shape measurement systems are prone to degradation and thus cannot be used for a long period of time. Also, given the refraction caused by a medium change in the underwater environment, optical design constraints and calibration methods for them are required. The present study proposed a method for developing an underwater 3D shape measurement system with improved radiation tolerance, which is composed of commercial electric parts and a stereo camera while being capable of easily and readily correcting underwater refraction. In an effort to improve its radiation tolerance, the number of parts that are exposed to a radiation environment was minimized to include only necessary components, such as a line beam laser, a motor to rotate the line beam laser, and a stereo camera. Given that a signal processing circuit and control circuit of the camera is susceptible to radiation, an image sensor and lens of the camera were separated from its main body to improve radiation tolerance. The prototype developed in the present study was made of commercial electric parts, and thus it was possible to improve the overall radiation tolerance at a relatively low cost. Also, it was easy to manufacture because there are few constraints for optical design.

• 센서학회지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.341-346
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• 1999

일반적으로 FET형 전해질 이온 센서는 유리전극에 비하여 여러 가지 장점을 가지고 있으나 드리프트 및 기억효과가 있고 재현성이 부족한 단점을 가지고있어 이온 측정 시스템에 적용한 경우 전체적인 시스템의 신뢰성 저하를 가져온다. 이러한 점을 개선하기 위하여 본 논문에서는 8개의 동종 FET형 전해질 이온 센서 어레이를 사용하여 높은 신뢰성을 가지며 4종류의 이온($H^+$, $Na^+$, $K^+$, $Ca^{2+}$) 농도 측정이 가능한 시스템을 개발하였다. 개발된 측정 시스템은 전자식 스위치를 사용하여 단일의 신호 검출회로로 8개의 센서 신호를 검출하는 방법을 채택하였다. 또한 8개의 센서 신호를 삽입 정렬을 하여 신뢰성이 낮은 센서를 제외시키는 신호 처리 알고리즘을 개발하여 신뢰성을 향상시켰다. 제작된 시스템으로 3종류의 이온($H^+$, $Na^+$, $K^+$) 농도를 측정한 결과 개발된 신호처리 알고리즘은 여러 개의 센서 신호를 단순히 산술 평균을 취하는 방식에 비하여 오차의 범위를 더욱 줄일 수 있는 것으로 나타났으며, 기존의 단채널 방식의 전해질 이온 측정 시스템과 비교해볼 때 우수한 신뢰성을 가짐을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2021년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.611-613
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• 2021

최근, 고전컴퓨터(Classic Computer)의 한계를 뛰어넘는 양자컴퓨터(Quantum Computer)에 대한 연구개발이 다양한 분야에서 활발하게 이루어지고 있다. 고전컴퓨터의 전기적인 신호처리와는 다르게 양자역학적인 원리를 사용한 양자컴퓨터는 양자 중첩(Quantum Superposition), 양자 얽힘(Quantum Entanglement)과 같은 다양한 양자역학의 현상/특성을 활용하여 연산을 수행하기 때문에 고전컴퓨터의 연산에 비해 아주 복잡한 연산과정을 거치게 된다. 또한, 큐비트의 종류, 배치, 연결성 등 실제 양자컴퓨터를 구동시키기 위해 구성되는 많은 요소들에 의한 각각의 영향이 양자컴퓨터의 연산 결과와 연산 과정에서 많은 영향을 끼치기 때문에 각각의 요소를 효율적이고 정확하게 활용하기 위해 실제 양자컴퓨터의 구동 이전에 데이터를 시각화하여 오류검증/최적화/신뢰성검증을 할 필요가 있다. 하지만 양자컴퓨터 내부에 구성된 다양한 요소들의 데이터를 전부 시각화 할 경우 직관적으로 원하는 데이터를 파악하는 것이 어렵기 때문에 선별적으로 데이터를 시각화 할 필요가 있다. 본 논문에서는 양자컴퓨터를 구성하는 다양한 요소들의 데이터를 시각화 하여 직관적으로 데이터를 관측하고 활용할 수 있도록 복잡하게 구성되는 양자컴퓨터 내부 회로 구성요소들을 계층적으로 시각화 하는 방법을 제안한다.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.21-26
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• 2017

An IoT-based particulate matter (PM2.5) sensing device (PSD) is developed. The PSD consists of a PM2.5 sensor, signal processing circuit, and wi-fi enabled-microprocessor along with temperature and humidity sensors. The PSD estimates PM2.5 density by measuring light scattered by PM2.5. To gauge performance of the PSD, PM2.5 density of open air was measured with the PSD and compared with that of the collocated-government-certified measuring station. Measurements were taken at a sampling frequency of 100 Hz and moving-averaged to remove measurement noise. When compared to the result of the measuring station, average percentile error of PM2.5 density from the PSD is found to be 31%. A correlation coefficient is found to be 0.72 which indicates a strong correlation. Instantaneous variation, however, may far exceed average errors, leading to a conclusion that the PSD is more suitable for estimating average trend of PM2.5 density variations than estimating instantaneous PM2.5 density.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제41권5호
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• pp.91-97
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• 2004

음성신호 대역을 처리할 수 있는 정밀도를 가지는 디지털 과표본화 잡음변형기를 설계하였다. 디지털 잡음변형기가 IP의 형태로서 최적화 된 설계가 되기 위해, 2.0 V의 저 전압에서 동작할 수 있고 하드웨어 소모면적을 최소화 할 수 있는 방안에 초점을 맞추어 디지털 데이터처리 동작을 위한 곱셈기능, ROM 구조 등의 회로설계를 최적화 할 수 있는 방안을 제시하였다. 설계 및 검증의 방법론에 있어서는 동작수준의 시뮬레이션을 통하여 전체 구조 및 내부 비트 수를 결정하였고, 트랜지스터 수준의 시뮬레이션을 통해 전체 타이밍과 최종 성능을 예측하였다. 또한 0.35-㎛ 표준 CMOS 공정으로써 테스트 칩을 제작한 후 측정하여 시뮬레이션 결과와 부합함을 확인함으로써 제안하는 회로와 설계 방법론이 효과적임을 검증하였다.

• 한국공작기계학회논문집
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.31-36
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• 2007

The excavator is complex machinery which has widely used in the construction site, deck of harbor and deep sea. The one of important issue of excavator system in recent is an automation of it in order to improve a working efficiency, a convenience working circumstance and work satisfaction. However, since there are large nonlinearities of control circuit, actuating cylinder, joiners of hydraulic units and changing loads etc., it is difficult to develope an automatic excavator system. Therefore, in this study, toy scale pneumatic excavator system is constructed and the remote control system is installed on it, before developing the automatic excavator system. In order to design the control system of the developed pneumatic excavator system, the transfer function is obtained using signal processing method and the controller gains of PID are decided based on CDM(coefficient diagram method). The obtained transfer function and the performance of the proposed control system is evaluated through experiments and computer simulation.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제16권7호
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• pp.40-50
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• 1999

Recently, a laser displacement sensor is widely used for the manufacturing automation. The sensor is generally composed of a diode laser and a light receiving device. The diode laser emits a laser beam and the receiving device detects the light reflected from the measured object. The object position is obtained based upon triangulation method. As a light receiving device, a PSD is usually utilized since its structure is very simple and rugged and has a high accuracy. Although the theoretical relationship for this sensor had been developed, the characteristics of the sensor have not been much experimentally studied. In this paper, several experimental results will presented. The measurement accuracy is affected by the surface conditions such as the reflectance characteristics, the angle of the object's surface and the laser intensity. In addition, it is found that the PSD and the signal processing circuit have nonlinearities and showed that those nonlinearities can be reduced by controlling the emitting laser intensity.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제66권8호
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• pp.1250-1256
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• 2017

In this research, a high-performance ultrasonic positioning system is proposed to track the positions of an indoor mobile object. Composed of an ultrasonic sender (mobile object) and a receiver (anchor), the system employs three ultrasonic time-off-flights (TOFs) and trilateration to estimate the positions of the object with an accuracy of sub-centimeter. On the other hand, because ultrasonic waves are interfered by temperature, wind and various obstacles obstructing the propagation while propagating in air, ultrasonic pulse debounce technique and Kalman filter were applied to TOF and position calculation, respectively, to compensate for the interference and to obtain more accurate moving object position. To perform tasks in real time, ultrasonic signals are processed full-digitally with a Zynq SoC, and as a software design tool, Vivado IDE(integrated design environment) is used to design the whole signal processing system in hierarchical block diagrams. And, a hardware/software co-design is implemented, where the digital circuit portion is designed in the Zynq's fpga and the software portion is c-coded in the Zynq's processors by using the baremetal multiprocessing scheme in which the c-codes are distributed to dual-core processors, cpu0 and cpu1. To verify the usefulness of the proposed system, experiments were performed and the results were analyzed, and it was confirmed that the moving object could be tracked with accuracy of sub-cm.

• 한국신뢰성학회지:신뢰성응용연구
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.229-239
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• 2018

Purpose: There is a difficulty in Environmental Stress Screening (ESS) test design for weapon system's electrical/electronic components/products in small and medium-sized enterprises. To overcome this difficulty, I propose an easy ESS test design approach algorithm that is optimized with only one environment tolerance design information parameter (${\Delta}T$). Methods: To propose the mass production weapon system ESS test design for cost-effective optimization, I define an optimum cost-effective mathematical model ESS test algorithm model based on modified MIL-HDBK-344, MIL-HDBK-2164 and DTIC Technical Report 2477. Results: I clearly confirmed and obtained the quantitative data of ESS effectiveness and cost optimization along our ESS test design algorithm through the practical case. I will expect that proposed ESS test method is used for ESS process improvement activity and cost cutting of mass production weapon system manufacturing cost in small and medium-sized enterprises. Conclusion: In order to compare the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, I compared the effectiveness of the existing ESS test and the proposed algorithm ESS test based on the existing weapon system circuit card assembly for signal processing. As a result of the comparison, it was confirmed that the test time was reduced from 573.0 minutes to 517.2minutes (9.74% less than existing test time).

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.409-417
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• 2006

Research on neural circuit is a difficult area due to complexity and inaccessibility. Due to recent developments, the research using multi-electrode array of cells or tissues has become an important research area. However, there are some difficulties to decode the submerged meaning from huge and complex neural data. Moreover, it needs a harmonic collaboration between informatics and bioscience. In this paper, we have developed a custom-designed signal processing technique for multi-electrode array measured neural responses induced by electrical stimuli to the hippocampal tissue slices of the rat brain. The raw data from hippocampal slice using the multi-electrode array system were saved in a computer. Then we estimated characteristic points in each channel and calculated the total activity. To estimate the points, we used the Polynomial Fitting Approximation Method. Using the calculated total activity, we could provide the histogram or pseudo-image matrix to help interpretation of results.