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Design of Time Synchronization Mechanism of Wireless USB over IEEE 802.15.6 (WUSB over IEEE 802.15.6 WBAN 프로토콜의 시각 동기 구조 설계)

  • Hur, Kyeong
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.18 no.7
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    • pp.1619-1627
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    • 2014
  • Wearable computer systems can use the wireless universal serial bus (WUSB) that refers to USB technology that is merged with WiMedia PHY/MAC technical specifications. In this paper, we focus on an integrated system of the wireless USB over the IEEE 802.15.6 wireless body area networks (WBAN) for wireless wearable computer systems supporting U-health services. And a communication structure that performs the time-synchronization is proposed for WUSB over IEEE 802.15.6 hierarchical protocol. Proposed time-synchronization mechanisms adopt the WBAN Polling Access and combine it with a time-synchronization middleware using time stamps. In our performance evaluations, time-synchronization performances with only WBAN Polling Access scheme are analyzed first. After that, performances combined with the time-synchronization middleware are analyzed to evaluate the effectiveness of proposed time-synchronization structure in WUSB over IEEE 802.15.6.

Analysis of stair walking characteristics for the development of exoskeletal walking assist robot (외골격 보행보조로봇 개발을 위한 정상인의 계단보행특성 분석)

  • Cho, H.S.;Chang, Y.H.;Ryu, J.C.;Mun, M.S.;Kim, C.B.
    • Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.15-22
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    • 2012
  • The mechanical system of wearable walking assist robot needs to be optimized for adapting with human body structure and the planned control algorithm should have a secure procedure when a incongruity situation which can cause musculoskeletal injury occurs because a wearable robot is attached to a body. The understanding of walking or musculoskeletal motions characteristics must be preceeded and analyzed for developing novel wearable walking assist robot. In this study we tried to find out the capacities of powers and torques of joint actuators to design optimized performances of system and to obtain the analysis data to figure out the characteristics of joint movements during some types of walk. The major types of walk and motion are stair climbing and descending, sit-to-stand motion, and slope walking. In this study all these motions were analyzed experimentally except slope walking.

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Embroidery 'ㅂ' Character Type UHF RFID Tag Antenna Design ('ㅂ'자 자수형 도전사 UHF RFID 태그 안테나)

  • Chung, You-Chung;Kim, Yeon-Ho;Lee, Kyoung-Hwan
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.20 no.10
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    • pp.1071-1076
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    • 2009
  • A wearable embroidery 'ㅂ' character shape UHF RFID tag antenna has been designed using conductive electro-thread. After testing characteristics of various electro-threads, the embroidery tag, with a T-matching structure, has been designed on a cloth with 200D(denier) electro-thread which performs electrically better. The embroidery tag on a piece of fabric or clothes made with the flexible electro-thread is a wearable tag and possible to be recognized by an RFID system. The conductivity of different deniers of electro-threads has been measured. The measured conductivity has been used for simulation and fabrication to have accurate simulation results. To verify the characteristics of the tag antenna, the return loss and reading range of the fabricated embroidery electro-thread UHF RFID tag antenna have been tested. The reading range is approximately 1.52 m.

Development and Evaluation of Wearable Smart Clothing for Combined EMG Devices (웨어러블 근전도 디바이스 결합형 스마트의류 개발 및 성능평가)

  • Sojung Lee;Hyelim Kim;Wonyoung Jeong
    • Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.210-220
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    • 2023
  • Recently, smart wearable products, including electromyography (EMG) measurement devices and clothing, have been developed to monitor users' exercise levels, muscle activation, and muscle balance more effectively during fitness activities. However, technical and socioeconomic barriers, such as flexibility and durability, still pose challenges in terms of comfort, ease of wear, and wearability of smart clothing, which includes devices and circuits. To address these issues, this study developed a wearable EMG device integrated with clothing to collect valid EMG signals from desired muscles while maintaining comfort, functionality, and ease of wear. After deriving a combined structure that could stably position the wearable device within the clothing, a prototype was manufactured and evaluated for fit, compression, comfort, and exercise comfort test by ten participants (height = 176.2 cm, weight = 76.4 kg, chest circumference = 101.2 cm). The study found that the prototype had smaller circumferences around the chest, waist, and abdomen compared to commercial products, resulting in lower ratings for wearing comfort and ease of wear. However, the prototype received high ratings for fitting, pressure, and the exercise comfort test. Valid signals were obtained when the EMG device was combined to the prototype for the rectus femoris muscle, indicating stable positioning of the device during exercise.

Analysis of Scenario and Story Representational Structure for Story-based Content Creation (스토리 기반 콘텐츠 제작을 위한 시나리오 분석 및 스토리 표현 구조)

  • Lee, Hyejoo;Lee, Suk-Hwan;Kwon, Ki-Ryong;Park, Yun Kyoung;Park, Kyoung Deok
    • Annual Conference of KIPS
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    • 2015.10a
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    • pp.1553-1554
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    • 2015
  • 웹 상에 축척된 방대한 콘텐츠를 활용하기 위해 사용자가 입력한 스토리에 맞는 콘텐츠를 검색하고 제공하여 사용자가 자유로이 콘텐츠를 제작할 수 있는 서비스를 제공하고자 하는 경우, 컴퓨터가 이해 가능한 구조로 스토리를 입력할 수 있어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 영화, 드라마와 같은 영상물을 제작하기 위한 기초가 되는 시나리오(Scenario)를 분석하여 스토리 표현 구조를 제안한다.

Influence of Detailed Structure and Curvature of Woven Fabric on the Luminescence Effect of Wearable Optical Fiber Fabric (직물의 세부 구조 및 굴곡이 웨어러블 광섬유의 발광 효과에 미치는 영향)

  • Yang, Jin-Hee;Cho, Hyun-Seung;Kwak, Hwy-Kuen;Oh, Yun-Jung;Lee, Joo-Hyeon
    • Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.55-62
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    • 2018
  • The two main requirements of wearable optical fiber fabrics are that they must presuppose a high degree of flexibility and they must maintain the luminance effect in both flat and bent conformations. Therefore, woven optical fiber fabrics that satisfy the above conditions were developed by both weaving and by using computer embroidery. First, we measured the brightness of the wearable optical fiber fabric in the flat state at a total of 10 measurement points at intervals of 1 cm. Second, the wearable optical fiber fabric was placed horizontally on the forearm, where three-dimensional bending occurs, and the luminance values were recorded at the same 10 measurement points. For the woven fabric in the flat state, the maximum, minimum, average, and standard deviation luminance values were $5.23cd/m^2$, $2.74cd/m^2$, $3.56cd/m^2$, and $1.11cd/m^2$, respectively. The corresponding luminance values from the bent forearm were $7.92cd/m^2$ (maximum), $2.37cd/m^2$ (minimum), $4.42cd/m^2$ (average), and $2.16cd/m^2$ (standard deviation). In the case of the computer-embroidered fabric, the maximum, minimum, average, and standard deviation luminance values in the flat state were $7.56cd/m^2$, $3.84cd/m^2$, $5.13cd/m^2$, and $1.04cd/m^2$, respectively, and in the bent forearm state were $9.6cd/m^2$, $3.63cd/m^2$, $6.13cd/m^2$, and $2.26cd/m^2$, respectively. Therefore, the computer-embroidered fabric exhibited a higher luminous effect than the woven fabric because the detailed structure reduced light-loss due to the backside fabric. In both types of wearable optical fiber fabric the luminance at the forearm was 124% and 119%, respectively, and the light emitting effect of the optical fiber fabric was maintained even when bent by the human body. This is consistent with the principle of Huygens, which defines the wave theory of light, and also the Huygens-Fresnel-Kirchhoff principle, which states that the intensity of light increases according to the magnitude of the angle of propagation of the light wavefront (${\theta}$).

Design of OpenScenario Structure for Content Creation Service Based on User Defined Story (사용자 정의 스토리 기반 콘텐츠 제작 서비스를 위한 오픈 시나리오 언어 구조 설계)

  • Lee, Hyejoo;Kwon, Ki-Ryong;Lee, Suk-Hwan;Park, Yun-Kyong;Moon, Kyong Deok
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.170-179
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    • 2016
  • It is a story-based content creation service that provides any user with some proper contents based on a story written by the user in order to utilize a lot of contents accumulated on Internet. For this service, the story has to be described in computer-readable representation. In this paper, analyzing the structure of scenario, as known as screenplay or scripts, a structure of story representation, which is referred to as OpenScenario, is defined. We intend users to produce their own contents by using massive contents on Internet by the proposed method. The proposed method's OpenScenario consists two main parts, OSD (OpenScenario Descriptors) which is a set of descriptors to describe various objects of shots such as visual, aural and textual objects and OSS (OpenScenario Scripts) which is a set of scripts to add some effects such as image, caption, transition between shots, and background music. As an usecase of proposed method, we describe how to create new content using OpenScenario and discuss some required technologies to apply the proposed method effectively.

A Study on the E-textiles Dip-Coated with Electrically Conductive Hybrid Nano-Structures

  • Lee, Euna;Kim, Jongjun
    • Journal of Fashion Business
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.16-30
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    • 2017
  • Currently, e-textile market is rapidly expanding and the emerging area of e-textiles requires electrically conductive threads for diverse applications, including wearable innovative e-textiles that can transmit/receive and display data with a variety of functions. This study introduces hybrid nano-structures which may help increase the conductivity of the textile threads for use in wearable and flexible smart apparels. For this aim, Ag was selected as a conductive material, and yarn treatment was implemented where silver nanowire (AgNW) and graphene flake (GF) hybrid structures overcome the limitations of the AgNW alone. The yarn treatment includes several treatment conditions, e.g., annealing temperature, annealing time, binder material such as polyurethane (PU), coating time, in order to search for the optimum method to form stable conductive nano-scale composite materials as thin film on the surface of textile yarns. Treatedyarns showed improved electrical resistance readings. The functionality of the spandex yarn as a stretchable conductive thread was also demonstrated. When the yarn specimens were treated with colloid of AgNW/GF, relatively good electrical conductivity value was obtained. During the extension and recovery cycles of the treated yarns, the initial resistance values did not deteriorate significantly, since the network of nanowire structure with the support of GF and polyurethane stayed flexible and stable. Through this research, it was found that when one-dimensional structure of AgNW and two-dimensional structure of GF were mixed as colloids and treated on the surface of textile yarns, flexible and stretchable electrical conductor could be formed.

Development of bio-inspired hierarchically-structured skin-adhesive electronic patch for bio-signal monitoring (생체정보 진단을 위한 생체모사 계층구조 기반 피부 고점착 전자 패치 개발)

  • Kim, Da Wan
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.749-754
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    • 2022
  • High adhesion and water resistance of the skin surface are required for wearable and skin-attachable electronic patches in various medical applications. In this study, we report a stretchable electronic patch that mimics the drainable structure pattern of the hexagonal channels of frog's pads and the sucker of an octopus based on carbon-based conductive polymer composite materials. The hexagonal channel structure that mimics the pads of frogs drains water and improves adhesion through crack arresting effect, and the suction structure that mimics an octopus sucker shows high adhesion on wet surfaces. In addition, the high-adhesive electronic patch has excellent adhesion to various surfaces such as silicone wafer (max. 4.06 N/cm2) and skin replica surface (max. 1.84 N/cm2) in dry and wet conditions. The high skin-adhesive electronic patch made of a polymer composite material based on a polymer matrix and carbon particles can reliably detect electrocardiogram (ECG) in dry and humid environments. The proposed electronic patch presents potential applications for wearable and skin-attachable electronic devices for detecting various biosignals.

Wearable Force Sensor Using 3D-printed Mold and Liquid Metal (삼차원 프린트된 몰드와 액체 금속을 이용한 웨어러블 힘 센서 개발)

  • Kim, Kyuyoung;Choi, Jungrak;Jeong, Yongrok;Kim, Minseong;Kim, Seunghwan;Park, Inkyu
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.198-204
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    • 2019
  • In this study, we propose a wearable force sensor using 3D printed mold and liquid metal. Liquid metal, such as Galinstan, is one of the promising functional materials in stretchable electronics known for its intrinsic mechanical and electronic properties. The proposed soft force sensor measures the external force by the resistance change caused by the cross-sectional area change. Fused deposition modeling-based 3D printing is a simple and cost-effective fabrication of resilient elastomers using liquid metal. Using a 3D printed microchannel mold, 3D multichannel Galinstan microchannels were fabricated with a serpentine structure for signal stability because it is important to maintain the sensitivity of the sensor even in various mechanical deformations. We performed various electro-mechanical tests for performance characterization and verified the signal stability while stretching and bending. The proposed sensor exhibited good signal stability under 100% longitudinal strain, and the resistance change ranged within 5% of the initial value. We attached the proposed sensor on the finger joint and evaluated the signal change during various finger movements and the application of external forces.