• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.1102-1113
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• 2018

Vibrotactile feedback is widely used in designing non-visual interactions on mobile phones, such as message notification, non-visual reading, and blind use. In this work, novel vibrotactile codes are presented to implement a non-visual text reading system for mobile phones. The 26 letters of the English alphabet are formed in an index table with four rows and seven columns, and each letter is mapped using the codes of vibrations. Two kinds of vibrotactile codes are designed with the actuator's on and off states and with specific lengths (short and long) assigned to each state. To improve the efficiency of tactile perception and user satisfaction, three user experiments are conducted. The first experiment explores the maximum number of continuous vibrations and minimum vibration time of the actuator's on and off states that the human can perceive. The second experiment determines the minimum interval between continuous vibrations. The vibrotactile reading system is designed and evaluated in the third experiment according to the results of the two preceding experiments. Results show that the character reading accuracy reaches 91.7% and the character reading speed is approximately 617.8 ms. Our method has better reading efficiency and is easier to learn than the traditional Braille coding method.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.72-79
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• 2007

정밀 장비 운전시 지반진동 절연을 목적으로 널리 사용되는 공압제진대는 정밀 장비에서 요구하는 지반진동 규제의 강화에 따라 보다 개선된 절연성능을 요구받는다. 수동형 공압제진대의 경우, 제진대의 설계 변수들을 이용하여 그 성능을 개선하고 있으나, 제진대의 고유진동수 및 그 부근에서의 절연 성능 향상에는 한계가 있다. 이 연구에서는 진폭 의존성 등의 비선형성을 가지는 공압제진대에 대하여 비선형 강인성 능동제어이론인 시간지연 제어 기법을 적용하여 고유진동수 및 그 부근에서의 절연성능을 향상시키고자 한다. 공압제진대에 시간지연 제어기법을 적용하는 과정 및 능동제어 이론 적용에 따른 절연 성능 향상에 대한 모사실험 결과를 기술하고자 하며, 실험을 통하여 그 유효성 보이고자 한다.

• 토지주택연구
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.287-297
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• 2011

본 논문은 적층고무형베어링을 갖는 15층 면진 무량판 아파트건물의 내진거동을 진동대실험을 통하여 검증한 결과를 제시하고 있다. 진동대실험은 중국의 CABR에서 1/10규모의 모형실험체를 대상으로 수행되었다. 실험의 진행은 4개의 지진파를 이용하여 X, Y, X+Y방향으로 다양한 크기의 지진동이 입력되었다. 실험결과, 비 면진건물은 중진레벨에서 진동주기가 현저히 감소하고, 비선형적인 거동을 보였으며, 가속도가 건물의 높이에 따라 현저하게 증가하고, 층간변위도 허용한계를 넘는 거동을 보였다. 반면, 면진건물은 중진레벨에서 거의 일정한 진동주기의 탄성적인 거동을 나타내었으며, 지진하중과 층 가속도가 현저하게 감소하는 응답을 나타내었다. 또한 면진층의 변위는 허용범위 내에서 거동하고, 층간변위는 무시할 수 있을 만큼 작은 강체거동을 나타내었다. 결론적으로 면진은 건물에 대한 지진의 영향을 감소시키는데 매우 효과적이며, 층 가속도의 감소를 통하여 사용성을 증가시키고, 건물 내 설비 등을 안전하게 보호할 수 있음이 입증되었다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.281-295
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• 2023

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate and verify the application of phase-control absolute-acceleration-feedback active tuned mass dampers (PCA-ATMD) to multiple-degree-of-freedom (MDOF) building structures. In addition, servo speed control technique has been developed as a replacement for force control in order to mitigate the negative effects caused by friction and inertia. The essence of the proposed PCA-ATMD is to achieve a 90° phase lag for a structure by implementing the desired control force so that the PCA-ATMD can receive the maximum power flow with which to effectively mitigate the structural vibration. An MDOF building structure with a PCA-ATMD and a real-time filter forming a complete system is modeled using a state-space representation and is presented in detail. The feedback measurement for the phase control algorithm of the MDOF structure is compact, with only the absolute acceleration of one structural floor and ATMD's velocity relative to the structure required. A discrete-time direct output-feedback optimization method is introduced to the PCA-ATMD to ensure that the control system is optimized and stable. Numerical simulation and shaking table experiments are conducted on a three-story steel shear building structure to verify the performance of the PCA-ATMD. The results indicate that the absolute acceleration of the structure is well suppressed whether considering peak or root-mean-square responses. The experiment also demonstrates that the control of the PCA-ATMD can be decentralized, so that it is convenient to apply and maintain to real high-rise building structures.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.253-259
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• 2018

Structure behaviors resulting from an earthquake are experimentally simulated mainly through a shaking table test. As for large-scale structures, however, size effects over a miniature may make it difficult to assess actual behaviors properly. To address this problem, research on the hybrid simulation is being conducted actively. This method is to implement numerical analysis on framework members that affect the general behavior of the structure dominantly through an actual scale experiment and on the rest parts by applying the substructuring technique. However, existing studies on hybrid simulation focus mainly on Slow experimental methods, which are disadvantageous in that it is unable to assess behaviors close to the actual level if material properties change depending on the speed or the influence of inertial force is significant. The present study aims to establish a Real-time hybrid simulation system capable of excitation based on the actual time history and to verify its performance and applicability. The hybrid simulation system built up in this study utilizes the ATS Compensator system, CR integrator, etc. in order to make the target displacement the same with the measured displacement on the basis of MATLAB/Simulink. The target structure was a 2-span bridge and an RC pier to support it was produced as an experimental model in order for the shaking table test and Slow and Real-time hybrid simulations. Behaviors that result from the earthquake of El Centro were examined, and the results were analyzed comparatively. In comparison with the results of the shaking table test, the Real-time hybrid simulation produced more similar maximum displacement and vibration behaviors than the Slow hybrid simulation. Hence, it is thought that the Real-time hybrid simulation proposed in this study can be utilized usefully in seismic capacity assessment of structural systems such as RC pier that are highly non-linear and time-dependent.

• 한국생산제조학회지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.714-719
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• 2012

In this paper, the polishing force monitoring and the control method were implemented for the polishing machine with the airbag tool. Airbag tool has been known to be adaptable to the curvature variation such as the aspherical and the free-form surface. However, it was necessary to control the tool movement of vertical axis also because of the table rotational wobble and vibration. To solve it by the polishing force control, we installed another stepping motor to the z-axis. And the polishing force was measured with the load cell and controlled by the PID Labview controller. A few hundreds gram of the polishing force were well controlled under 0.8 second of the response time and 5% variation. An experiment was done to clean the edge burrs of the micro channel structure of width $87{\mu}m$ using the polishing force control.

• 소음진동
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.621-628
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 평면 계에서의 전기전하 입자의 기본적인 동특성을 간단한 모델을 이용하여 실험적으로 살펴보았다. 실험에서는 전기전하입자 모델로 4개의 소형구(전도체로 표면을 잘 도포한 탁구공)를 사용하였으며, 측정시 중력효과를 배제하기 위하여 잘 절연된 줄에 매달린 형태를 적용하였다. 실험으로 측정한 평형위치(각도)와 전하입자의 고유동수는 계산된 값과 상당히 근접함을 보인다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제61권5호
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• pp.675-684
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• 2017

In this paper, a hybrid seismic response control (HSRC) system was developed to control bridge behavior caused by the seismic load. It was aimed at optimum vibration control, composed of a rubber bearing of passive type and MR-damper of semi-active type. Its mathematical modeling was driven and applied to a bridge model so as to prove its validity. The bridge model was built for the experiment, a two-span bridge of 8.3 meters in length with the HSRC system put up on it. Then, inflicting the EI Centro seismic load on it, shaking table tests were carried out to confirm the system's validity. The experiments were conducted under the basic structure state (without an MR-damper applied) first, and then under the state with an MR-damper applied. It was also done under the basic structure state with a reinforced rubber bearing applied, then the passive on/off state of the HSRC system, and finally the semi-active state where the control algorithm was applied to the system. From the experiments, it was observed that pounding rather increased when the MR-damper alone was applied, and also that the application of the HSRC system effectively prevented it from occurring. That is, the experiments showed that the system successfully mitigated structural behavior by 70% against the basic structure state, and, further, when control algorithm is applied for the operation of the MR-damper, relative displacement was found to be effectively mitigated by 80%. As a result, the HSRC system was proven to be effective in mitigating responses of the two-span bridge under seismic load.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제63권6호
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• pp.771-777
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• 2017

The applications of smartphones or other portable smart devices have dramatically changed people's lifestyle. Researchers have been investigating useage of smartphones for structural health monitoring, earthquake monitoring, vibration measurement and human posture recognition. Their results indicate a great potential of smartphones for measuring pedestrian-induced loads like walking, jumping and bouncing. Smartphone can catch the device's motion trail, which provides with a new method for pedestrain load measurement. Therefore, this study carried out a series of experiments to verify the application of the smartphone for measuring human-induced load. Shaking table tests were first conducted in order to compare the smartphones' measurements with the real input signals in both time and frequency domains. It is found that selected smartphones have a satisfied accuracy when measuring harmonic signals of low frequencies. Then, motion capture technology in conjunction with force plates were adopted in the second-stage experiment. The smartphone is used to record the acceleration of center-of-mass of a person. The human-induced loads are then reconstructed by a biomechanical model. Experimental results demonstrate that the loads measured by smartphone are good for bouncing and jumping, and reasonable for walking.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.189-198
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• 2015

Most IoT-related approaches have tried to establish the relation by connecting the network between things. The proposed research will present how the pervasive interaction of eco-system formed by touching the objects between humans and things can be recognized on purpose. By collecting and sharing the detected patterns among all kinds of things, we can construct the environment which enables individualized interactions of different objects. To perform the aforementioned, we are going to utilize technical procedures such as event-driven signal processing, pattern matching for signal recognition, and hardware in the loop simulation. We will also aim to implement the prototype of sensor processor based on Arduino MCU, which can be integrated with system using Arduino-Matlab/Simulink hybrid-interoperation environment. In the experiment, we use piezo transducer to detect the vibration or vibrates the surface using acoustic wave, which has specific frequency spectrum and individualized signal shape in terms of time axis. The signal distortion in time and frequency domain is recorded into memory tracer within sensor processor to extract the meaningful pattern by comparing the stored with lookup table(LUT). In this paper, we will contribute the initial prototypes for the acoustic touch processor by using off-the-shelf MCU and the integrated framework based on Matlab/Simulink model to provide the individualization of the touch-sensing for the user on purpose.