• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.6
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• pp.254-259
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• 2013

A newly developed fall recognition algorithm using gravity weighted 3-axis accelerometer data as the input of HMM (Hidden Markov Model) is introduced. Five types of fall feature parameters including the sum vector magnitude(SVM) and a newly-defined gravity-weighted sum vector magnitude(GSVM) are applied to a HMM to evaluate the accuracy of fall recognition. A GSVM parameter shows the best accuracy of falls which is 100% of sensitivity and 97.96% of specificity, and comparing with SVM, the results archive more improved recognition rate, 5.2% of sensitivity and 4.5% of specificity. GSVM shows higher recognition rate than SVM due to expressing falls characteristics well, whereas SVM expresses the only momentum.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.336-342
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• 2015

Fall-related injuries are the most common cause of accidental death for the elderly and the most frequent work-related injuries in construction sites. Due to the growing popularity of smartphones, there has been a number of research work related to the use of sensors embedded in the smartphone for fall detection. Falls can be detected easily by measuring the magnitude and direction of acceleration vectors. In general, the direction of the acceleration vector does not show the object movement, but the velocity vector directly indicates the tangential direction in which the object is moving. In this paper, we proposed a new method for computing the fall direction based on the characteristics of the velocity vector extracted from the accelerometer.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.45 no.2
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• pp.106-113
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• 2017

Attitude determination algorithms for aircraft and land vehicles use earth gravitational vector and geomagnetic vector; hence, magnetometers and accelerometers are employed. In dynamic situation, the output from accelerometers includes not only gravitational vector but also motional acceleration, thus it is hard to determine accurate attitude. The acceleration compensation method treated in this paper solves the problem to compensate the specific force vector for motional acceleration calculated by a GPS receiver. This paper analyzed the error from the corrected vector regarded as a constant by conventional acceleration compensation method, and improve the error by rederivation from measurements. The analyzed error factors and improvements by the proposed algorithm are verified by computer simulations.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.66-74
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• 2015

Conventional hydrophones can only measure acoustic pressure. To measure both acoustic pressure and incident direction, various types of vector hydrophones have been researched. In this paper, we deal with a ring-type multimode vector hydrophone divided into 4 elements and present a direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation method based on the pressure gradient-acceleration relationship. The performance of the presented method is analyzed by the simulation based on the sensor modeling and is verified by the water tank experiment. The proposed method could work under the multi-frequency condition and may be utilized in many applications due to its low computation complexity.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.251-255
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• 2008

최근 모바일 시스템의 성능이 향상되면서 다양한 형태의 동적인 메뉴 구성과, 메일 및 이차원 지도 등의 표현에 벡터 그래픽을 도입하고 있다. 모바일 기기에서 사용되는 벡터 그래픽 처리 기술은 Flash Lite, SVG(Scalable Vector Graphics)등이 널리 사용되고 있는데 두 가지 모두 소프트웨어 방식으로 사용되고 있다. 매크로미디어사의 Flash Lite는 연산에 많은 메모리를 필요로 하고, SVG는 웹 표준에 맞춘 스크립트 해석 기반으로 구동 속도가 느리다. 모바일 컴퓨팅 환경에서 벡터 그래픽스에 대한 필요성과 사용빈도가 증가함에 따라 메모리를 적게 사용하고 하드웨어 가속기를 지원 할 수 있도록 저 수준의 API(Application Programming Interface)인 OpenVG 1.0을 크로노스 그룹(Khronos Group)에서 제정하였다. 본 논문은 모바일 사용 환경에 맞추어 사용될 수 있도록 OpenVG 1.0에 기반한 API를 구현하고 실험하였다. 구현된 API는 느린 소프트웨어의 한계를 벗어나기 위해 하드웨어 가속기 설계에 적합하도록 각각의 API 블록 및 형태를 하드웨어 파이프라인 형태의 관점에서 설계하였고, 구현된 API를 윈도우즈 환경에서 기능을 검증하였다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.342-349
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• 2015

The objective of this study was to compare the unimanual and bimanual complementary movements of the affected upper extremity. Thirty participants living in Busan area with post-stroke hemiparesis were involved in this study. They were selected according to twelve criteria. We used the Fitmeter accelerometer to measure Signal Vector Magnitude, peak acceleration and peak deceleration. The movement time and Signal Vector Magnitude of bimanual complementary movement were less than those of unimanual movement(p<0.05). Therefore, we suggest that bimanual complementary movement is more useful, as for the kinematic aspect, than unimanual movement when a person with stroke perform activities of daily living.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.160-165
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• 2014

In this study, an efficiency test was performed by fabricating MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) based 3-axis acceleration sensor modules and an earthquake monitoring system was composed. Data acquisition device (NI-9239) with a 24bit ADC (Analog to Digital Converter) was used for improving the performance of 3-axis acceleration sensor modules and filtered data (100Hz Low Pass Filter) was used for reducing noises. Also this paper focused on detecting meaningful vibration in the building by developing the earthquake monitoring software. If vector sum of 3-axis acceleration is greater than the preset value, the value will be recorded and saved to the file.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.41 no.6
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• pp.610-620
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• 2022

An acoustic vector sensor can simultaneously receive vector quantities, such as particle velocity and acceleration, as well as acoustic pressure at one location, and thus it can be used as a single input multiple output receiver in underwater acoustic communication systems. On the other hand, vector signals received by a single vector sensor have different channel characteristics due to the azimuth angle between the source and receiver and the difference in propagation angle of multipath in each component, producing different communication performances. In this paper, we propose a channel parameter-based weighting method to improve the performance of an acoustic communication system using a single vector sensor. To verify the proposed method, we used communication data collected from the experiment conducted during the KOREX-17 (Korea Reverberation Experiment). For communication demodulation, block-based time reversal technique which is robust against time-varying channels were utilized. Finally, the communication results showed that the effectiveness of the channel parameter-based weighting method for the underwater communication system using a single vector sensor was verified.

• ICROS
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.40-45
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• 2010

물체의 운동을 측정하기 위하여 관성 센서(inertial sensor)에 대한 배경 지식이 없는 사용자가 가속도계(accelerometer)를 사용하고자 할 경우 센서의 이름이 주는 혼동에 의하여 물체의 운동 가속도(acceleration)를 쉽게 얻어낼 수 있으리라 기대하게 된다. 반면, 가속도계가 실제 측정하여 주는 값은 비력 가속도(acceleration due to specific force)에 해당되므로 적절한 처리를 부가하지 않으면 기대한 바와 같이 물체의 운동 가속도를 얻을 수 없다. 가속도계의 측정값으로부터 운동 가속도를 추출하기 위해서는 중력장 가속도 (gravitational acceleration), 중력 가속도 (acceleration due to gravity), 비력 가속도, 그리고 운동 가속도 사이의 관계를 명확하게 구분 이해할 필요가 있다. 본 고에서는 앞선 고들에서 다룬(막대) 벡터, 좌표값, 좌표계, 좌표변환행렬, 그리고 코리올리 효과 등의 개념을 확장하여 다양한 개념의 가속도들을 구분 설명하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.47 no.6
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• pp.429-437
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• 2019

This paper deals with a ZEM (Zero-Effort-Miss) based guidance law for the interception of moving targets and characteristics of the guidance law according to time-to-go estimation methods. To derive the ZEM vector feedback guidance command, we introduce a polynomial function with unknown coefficient, and then we determine the coefficient to satisfy initial and terminal constraints. Since the directions of the guidance command and ZEM vectors are adjusted by the time-to-go, general time-to-go estimation methods are proposed, which can generate the vertical and horizontal guidance commands with respect to an arbitrary reference frame. By performing various numerical simulations, the performance and characteristics of the proposed methods are investigated.