• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.125-135
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• 2007

An automated guided vehicle (AGV) system is a group of collaborating unmanned vehicles which is commonly used for transporting materials within manufacturing, warehousing, or distribution systems. The performance of an AGV system depends on the dispatching rules used to assign vehicles to pickup requests, the vehicle routing protocols, and the home location of idle vehicles, which are called dwell points. In manufacturing and distribution environments which emphasize just-in-time principles, performance measures for material handling are based on response times for pickup requests and equipment utilization. In an AGV system, the response time for a pickup request is the time that it takes for the vehicle to travel from its dwell point to the pickup station. In this article, an exact dynamic programming algorithm for selecting dwell points in a tandem-loop multiple-vehicle AGV system is presented. The objective of the model is to minimize the maximum response time for all pickup requests in a given shift. The recursive algorithm considers time restrictions on the availability of vehicles during the shift.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제36권6호
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• pp.968-978
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• 2014

Autonomous vehicle technology based on information technology and software will lead the automotive industry in the near future. Vehicle localization technology is a core expertise geared toward developing autonomous vehicles and will provide location information for control and decision. This paper proposes an effective vision-based localization technology to be applied to autonomous vehicles. In particular, the proposed technology makes use of numerical maps that are widely used in the field of geographic information systems and that have already been built in advance. Optimum vehicle ego-motion estimation and road marking feature extraction techniques are adopted and then combined by an extended Kalman filter and particle filter to make up the localization technology. The implementation results of this paper show remarkable results; namely, an 18 ms mean processing time and 10 cm location error. In addition, autonomous driving and parking are successfully completed with an unmanned vehicle within a $300m{\times}500m$ space.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.43-50
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• 2010

This study aims to analyze the structural safety by comparing deformation and equivalent stress of door with a stiffener or no stiffener when the door crashes against something in case of overturn. Three types are classified on the basis of the no stiffener model in the vehicle door. One is the type which has a stiffener. Another is the type which has no stiffener and the other is the type which has a hole in the stiffener. These three types are compared with each other by analyzing. This side door of vehicle is the automotive part about the kind of vehicle as Mercedes Benz E-Klasse scaled down as 1/18 times as the real size. The study model of vehicle door is modelled by CATIA program and it is analyzed by ANSYS.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.23-35
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• 2009

유비쿼터스 환경을 기반으로 하여 돌발상황 발생 시 신뢰성 있는 통행시간 예측을 위해 새로운 개념의 노드-링크 설정 기법을 활용한 대표통행시간 산출기법을 연구하였다. 본 연구에서 제시한 방법론은 교통류의 특성에 따라 링크를 구분하여 개별적인 통행시간을 산출하는 기법이며, 개별차량의 특성을 반영하기 위해 일정 속도단위로 차량분류군을 구분하여 통행시간을 산출하는 방법을 제시하였다. 사고영향권과 사고영향권 상류부, 사고영향권 하류부를 독립적인 링크로 설정 하였으며, 돌발상황 발생 시 나타나는 차로별 통행시간의 특성을 반영하기 위해 통행시간 제공 방법을 차로별로 독립적인 통행시간 제공으로 설정하고, 차로별 통행시간을 산출하였다. 제안된 방법론의 정확도를 MAPE (Mean Absolute Percentage Error)를 이용하여 평가하였고, 프로브차량비율(Percentage of Probe Vehicles: PPV)에 따른 정확도의 변화를 분석하였다. 분석 결과 PPV가 20%이상 확보될 경우 오차율 10% 미만의 정확도를 가지는 것으로 분석되었다. 본 연구는 도래하는 유비쿼터스 교통환경에서 보다 신뢰성 있고, 실시간성 있는 교통정보 생성에 도움이 될 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.535-543
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• 2009

본 논문은 차량 범퍼에 부착된 번호판을 이용한 900 MHz 대역 RFID 태그 안테나의 설계를 기술하고 있다. 차량 번호판의 위쪽 중앙 지점에 위치한 제안된 태그 안테나의 크기는 162.5${\times}$40${\times}$1 $mm^3$이다. 설계 안테나의 공진 주파수와 - 10 dB 이하의 반사 손실을 가지는 대역폭은 각각 900 MHz와 약 720 MHz(640${\sim}$1,360 MHz)이다. 설계에 고려된 상용 칩의 임피던스는 16-j131${\Omega}$이었고, 칩의 복소 공액 임피던스가 태그 안테나의 입력 임피던스로써 사용되었다. 측정된 반사 손실과 방사 패턴은 계산된 결과들과 잘 일치하였다. 단지 차량 번호판 위에 설계된 태그 안테나의 측정된 인식 거리는 11.5 m였다. 또한, 번호판과 차량 범퍼가 볼트와 너트에 의해 고정되어진 제작된 태그 안테나의 인식 거리는 10.4 m로 관측되었다. 이 측정된 인식 거리는 상용 태그 안테나의 평균 인식 거리보다 약 5 m 이상 먼 거리였다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.637-644
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• 2019

공공 안전은 스마트 시티(Smart City)의 주요 목표 중 하나이다. 본 논문에서는 공공 안전에 도움을 줄 수 있는 차량 추적 시스템을 제안하고서 관련 애플리케이션을 설계 및 구현하였다. 제안하는 차량 추적 시스템의 목적은 경찰에게 도난 차량의 위치 정보를 실시간으로 제공해서 보다 효율적으로 도난 차량을 추적하는 것이다. 차량 소유자가 차량 추적을 요청하면, 이 요청을 수신한 공공 안전 서버 프로그램은 공간 정보 질의(Geospatial Query) 기법을 사용하여 도난 차량과 가장 가까운 경찰을 찾아 도난 차량의 위치와 시간, 거리 및 경로와 같은 정보들을 제공한다. 구현한 시스템의 유효성을 입증하기 위해 타임 스탬프(Time Stamp)를 이용한 트랜잭션 시뮬레이션을 수행하였으며, 이 시뮬레이션을 통해 1.2초 이내의 빠른 시간 내에 차량 소유자의 요청이 경찰에게 전달되는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.447-463
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• 1994

Despite the public health importance of injury and poisoning in terms of its high mortality and incidence, epidemiologic information to be utilized are scarce in Korea. This study was carried out in 1990 on a representative sample population (about 55,000 persons) along with the 6th National Tuberculosis Prevalence Survey in order to estimate the magnitude of injury and poisoning occurrence and to identify its epidemiologic characteristics which can be aided for establishing preventive strategy. Pre-tested and structured Questionnaire was used by trained interviewer to collect data including general information of the person, various information on the injury and poisoning during the past one year such as time and place of its occurrence, its nature and external causes, type of medical institute attended, duration of treatment and outcome of the accident occured. In analysis of the data collected incidence rates per 1000 persons by sex, age group and its nature as well as external causes, and relative frequencies were calculated. The result obtained are as followings; 1. The incidence rate per 1000 was 30 for both sexes, 39 for male and 22 for female, male being 1.8 times more frequent than female. Age adjusted incidences were not much different from the crude rates. Age group specific rate curve showed bimodal shape in both sexes, small peaks in preschool children and higher peaks in older ages. The incidence rate per 1000 people by area was highest in Jeon-bug province (57/1000) and the lowest in Daegu city(11/1000). 2. The place where the injuries occured were road in 46%, within the boundary of house in 25%, and working place in 12% The injuries and poisoning had occured more frequently during the months from March to August of the year than other months. 3. The relatively frequent injuries by its nature were contusion with intact skin surface (19%), fracture of upper limb (13%), open wound of head, neck and trunk (12%) and fracture of lower limb (11%) among males; contusion with intact skin surface (28%), sprains and strains of joints and adjacent muscle (14%), fracture of upper limb (10%) and fracture of lower limb (9%) among females. Higher incidence rate among males than females were fracture of skull (4.5 times), open wound and fractures of limbs ($2{\sim}3$ times). Age specific rate of injuries and poisoning by its nature showed increasing pattern by age in fractures of upper and lower limbs and sprains & strains of joints whereas the age group of 30's showed highest incidence in open wounds of upper limb. Fractures of radius and ulna in upper limb, fractures of tibia & fibula and ankle in lower limb were most frequent among fractures of upper and lower limbs. The frequent injuries among sprains and strains of joints and adjacent muscles were that of ankle, foot and back, and among open wound were that of head and fingers. 4. Relative frequency of injuries and poisoning by external causes showed following order : other accidents (25%), accidental falls (23%), motor vehicle accident (22%) and other road vehicle accident (14%) among males and accidental falls (37%), motor vehicle accident (24%) and other accident (18%) among females. The external causes revealing higher incidences among males than females, were other road vehicle accident (4.8 times), vehicle accident not elsewhere classifiable (4.4 times), accidental poisoning (4.4 times), accidents due to natural and environmental factors (2.8 times), and sucide & self-inflicted injuries (2.8 times). Age specific incidence by external causes for frequent injuries showed that incidence of other accident steadily increased from 10's till age 50's; motor vehicle traffic accident increased from age 20's and dropped after age 60's; on the other hand accidental fall increased strikingly by age. The most frequent external causes among motor vehicle traffic accidents was motor vehicle traffic accident involving collision with pedstrain (69%), pedal cycle accident (30%) and other road vehicle accident (71%) among other road vehicle accidents; falls on same level from slipping, tripping or standing (44%) and other falls from one level to another among accidental falls; accidents caused by machinary (32%) for male and striking against or struck accidentally by objects or person for female among other accidents. 5. Seventy nine percent of the injuries and poisonings were treated in general hospital or hospital/clinic. The duration of treatment ranged from a few days to 123 weeks; the majority(52%) took under 2 weeks, 36% for $3{\sim}8$ weeks and 4% over 21 weeks. 6. The accident resulted in full recovery of normal healthy state in 62%, residual functional defects in 21% and on process of treatment in 16%.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.141-150
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• 2017

A rapid increase in traffic accidents involving senior vehicle occupants has been an issue in Korea because of the aging of the population occurring at one of the fastest rates in the world; unfortunately, few studies beyond several looking at the effect of senior occupants on the level of accident injury severity can be found in the literature. A Multinomial logit model was estimated with Newton-Raphson algorithm to perform bias-reducing penalized likelihood optimization. Model covariates integral to developing the model were included, but the main focus was on the interaction of seating position and injury to senior vehicle occupants. It was found that the likelihood of an accident resulting in a fatality increased: 2.2 times for the driver seat, 2.7 times for the front passenger seat, and even 6.7 times for the rear seat. A mandatory seatbelt law to be extended to the rear seat needs to pass the assembly as soon as possible, and government, industry, and safety groups should be encouraged to join forces to strongly carry out targeted campaigns for the wearing of seatbelts in all vehicle seats to enhance the safety of senior occupants as well as other occupants who are vulnerable to road traffic accidents.

• 대한지역사회영양학회지
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.617-629
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• 2007

To ensure the microbiological safety of food items prepared after cooking process, this study was aimed to identify the hazards related with cooked foods donated to foodbanks through quantitative microbial analysis. Five foodbanks located in Incheon and Gyeonggi area among government-dominant foodbanks were surveyed from February to June, 2007. Manager, recipient, donator, type and quantity of donated foot and facility and equipment were examined for the general characteristics of foodbank. The time and temperature of food md environment were measured at steps from after-production to before-distribution, and the microbial analysis was performed mainly with indicator organism and major pathogens. The amount of cooked foods donated to each foodbank was about 20 to 30 servings and consisted of 80% of total donated foods. Only three foodbanks had separate offices for foodbank operation and four institutions had at least one temperature-controlled vehicle. The flow of donated foods was gone through the steps; production, meal service and holding at donator, collection by foodbank, transport (or holding after transport) and distribution to recipients. It took about 3.8 to 6.5 hours at room temperature from after-production to before-distribution. Only aerobic plate counts (APC) and coliforms were found in microbial analysis. The APC after production were relatively high in $8.2{\times}10^5,\;7.4{\times}10^5,\;6.9{\times}10^5$ and $4.2{\times}10^5 CFU/g$ while $2.8{\times}10^6, \;9.4{\times}10^5,\;1.0{\times}10^6$ and $5.4{\times}10^5CFU/g$ before distribution in mixed Pimpinella brachycarpa, mixed chard mixed amaranth and mixed spinach, respectively. The levels of coliforms in mixed chard and mixed spinach were complied with the standards of the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Management The level of APC in boiled pork was increased from $< 1.0{\times}10 CFU/g$ to $4.0{\times}10^2 CFU/g$. One of delivery vessels was shown $6.2{\times}10^3 CFU/100 cm^2$ in APC, which was over the standards for environment. One of serving tables also showed the high level of $1.2{\times}10^3 CFU/100 cm^2$ in APC and $6.6{\times}10^2 CFU/100 cm^2$ in coliforms. These results suggest the sanitary management of holding at donator and the time-temperature control are key factors to ensure the safety of cooked foods donated to foodbank.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.151-157
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• 1996

Vehicle occupant exposure to volatile organic compounds (VOCs) continues to be the subject of active research because of higher levels of VOCs in vehicles than in the surrounding ambient atmosphere and because of potential health risk. This study identified in-auto and in-bus exposures to 6 selected aromatic VOCs during rush-hour driving. A bus service route was selected to include an urban route (Taegu) and a suburban route (Hayang-Up) to satisfy the specified criteria of this study. The most abundant VOC concentration measured in this study was toluene. In-vehicle target Voc concentrations of the urban route were significantly different from those of the suburban segment. On the sum of average of the target VOCs, in-auto VOC concentration was about 1.5 times higher than in-bus VOC concentration. Based on the sum of average, in-automobile target VOC concentrations of this study were within the range of previous studies conducted in several cities of the United States, while in-bus VOC concentrations of this study were much lower than those of Taipei in Taiwan. In-vehicle VOC concentrations of present study significantly varied with sampling days, while they did not varied with driving period.