• Journal of the KSME
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.4-8
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• 1990

생산 자동화에 필요한 기술을 언급하기에 앞서 우선 자동화에 필요한 기술에 대해 언급하는 것이 순서일 것 같다. 자동화에 필요한 기술을 크게 나눈다면 다음의 세 가지로 요약할 수 있다고 생 각한다. (1) 자동화에 필요한 기본 기술 (2) 이런 기본 기술들에 바탕을 두어 전체 시스템을 구성하는데 필요한 기술 (3) 기본 기술과 전체 시스템 구성 기술을 연결시켜 주는 인터페이싱 기술(정보 처리 기술 포함) 기본 고유 기술은 나름대로 여러 가지로 나눌 수 있겠지만 다음과 같이 여섯 가지로 크게 나 누고 싶다. 첫째는 설계 기술이다. 둘째는 제어 기술이다. 셋째는 가공 기술인데, 특히 정밀 가공 기술은 앞으로 우리가 해결해야 할 난제인 것 같다. 넷째는 운반 및 자동 적재 기술인데, 여기에는 로봇 응용 기술, 컨베이어 기술, 무인 발송차 적용 기술 등이 주된 내용인 것 같다. 다섯째는 조립 기술인데, 이 부분에 대해서는 자동화를 하기 전에 충분한 연구가 필요한 것 같다. 마지막으로 계측 기술인데 최근에 많이 대두되는 문제가 센서 응용 문제이다. 센서는 종류가 다 양하기 때문에 잘 적용하면 적은 비용으로 큰 효과를 보기가 쉽다. 국내에서는 의외로 이 분야에 대한 연구가 자동화에 대한 연구보다 미진한 감이 있다. 특히 형상 센서쪽은 그 적용 범위가 광범위하고 어려운 일을 쉽게 해결해 나갈 수 있다는 이점이 있어서 앞으로 많은 성장이 예상 되지만 적용 기술이 까다로워서 많은 연구가 되어야 한다고 본다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• v.43 no.5
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• pp.557-561
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• 2010

In the treatment of myasthenia gravis, thymectomy is generally accepted as the standard of therapy. For thymectomy, there have been various conventional open approaches including sternal splitting, but recently minimally invasive approaches have been increasingly applied. A 28-year-old man presenting with weakness of both hands and fatigability was diagnosed as having myasthenia gravis with thymic hyperplasia. He underwent a robot-assisted thymectomy with the 'da Vinci' surgical system. Through the right thoracic cavity, two thirds of the thymic gland was dissected, and the remainder was resected through the left; these procedures took, respectively, 1 hour and 30 minutes. The patient was discharged on the 8th postoperative day without complications. The minimally invasive approach with the 'da Vinci' surgical system is emerging as a popular choice and various advantages have been reported. Here we report the first successful case of robot-assisted thymectomy.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.10
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• pp.527-536
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to explore the components of the geriatric robot pet, which might be helpful in caring for elderly people in the future. Focus group interview-with two focus groups-was performed between August 2014 and December 2014. Study participants were 13 geriatric experts from nursing, medicine, social work, and physical/occupational therapy. All interview data were transcribed, followed by debriefing and a qualitative content analysis. Three main themes emerged: acknowledgment of the usefulness of geriatric robot pet, establishment of elderly-centered appearance, and the functions of the robot pet to meet the needs of elders and family members. The robot pet was considered to be useful to elders who live alone since they can benefit from companionship and care provided by the robot pet. Geriatric robot pet needs to be manageable in size and weight, like a small dog. Moreover, a function that allows for interaction with and monitoring the elderly would be beneficial. The baseline elements that could guide further development of contents for the Korean geriatric robot pet were proposed from the results of FGI. Studies that validate these elements are necessary.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.47-53
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• 2018

Various types of robotic arms are being used for industrial purposes, particularly with the small production of multi-products, and the importance of the gripper, which can be used in industrial fields, is increasing. This study evaluated a variable stiffness mechanism gripper that can change the stiffness using the nonlinearity of a flexible material. A prototype of the gripper was fabricated and examined to confirm the change in stiffness. The previous gripper was unable to grip objects in some situations with three variable stiffness mechanism. In addition, these mechanisms were not balanced and rarely rotated when the object was gripped. Therefore, a new type of gripper was needed to solve this problem. Inspired by the movements of the human palm and Venus Flytrap, a new type of a variable stiffness soft robot hand was designed. The possibility of grasping could be increased by interlocking the palm folding mechanism by pulling the tendon attached to the variable stiffness mechanism. The soft robotic hand was used to grasp objects of various shapes and weights more stably than the previous variable stiffness mechanism gripper. This new variable stiffness soft robot hand can be used selectively depending on the application and environment to be used.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.343-350
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• 2022

It is worth verifying the effectiveness of data integration between data with different features. This study investigated whether the data integration affects the accuracy of deep neural network (DNN), and which integration method shows the best improvement. This study used two different public datasets. One public dataset was taken in an actual farm in India. And another was taken in a laboratory environment in Korea. Leaf images were selected from two different public datasets to have five classes which includes normal and four different types of plant diseases. DNN used pre-trained VGG16 as a feature extractor and multi-layer perceptron as a classifier. Data were integrated into three different ways to be used for the training process. DNN was trained in a supervised manner via the integrated data. The trained DNN was evaluated by using a test dataset taken in an actual farm. DNN shows the best accuracy for the test dataset when DNN was first trained by images taken in the laboratory environment and then trained by images taken in the actual farm. The results show that data integration between plant images taken in a different environment helps improve the performance of deep neural networks. And the results also confirmed that independent use of plant images taken in different environments during the training process is more effective in improving the performance of DNN.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.15B no.3
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• pp.197-204
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• 2008

It is well known that the tracking a certain person is a vary needed technic in the humanoid robot. In robot technic, we should consider three aspects that is cloth color matching, face recognition and motion analysis. Because a robot technic use some sensors, it is many different with the robot technic to track a certain person through the CCTV images. A system speed should be fast in CCTV images, hence we must have small calculation numbers. We need the statistical variable for color matching and we adapt the eigen-face for face recognition to speed up the system. In this situation, motion analysis have to added for the propose of the efficient detecting system. But, in many motion analysis systems, the speed and the recognition rate is low because the system operates on the all image area. In this paper, we use the moving energy only on the face area which is searched when the face recognition is processed, since the moving energy has low calculation numbers. When the proposed algorithm has been compared with Girondel, V. et al's method for experiment, we obtained same recognition rate as Girondel, V., the speed of the proposed algorithm was the more faster. When the LDA has been used, the speed was same and the recognition rate was better than Girondel, V.'s method, consequently the proposed algorithm is more efficient for tracking a certain person.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.173-184
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• 2014

The ability to need information-oriented society is the convergence ability based in information ability. A new curriculum is demanded by new technology and circumstance to need the core ability. Korea Association of Information Education have studied a new curriculum and suggest a new plan that content of information education classified by 'computer system', 'SW production' and 'convergence activities'. Therefore, we studied on convergence activities of K-9. In this paper we firstly suggested concept of convergence ability as activities to use ICT, information communication ethics and robot. We nextly suggested object to achieve, teaching-learning methods and evaluation methods of convergence activities. We expect the curriculum we suggested about convergence activities will contribute to training talented individuals.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38A no.9
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• pp.782-791
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• 2013

This paper proposes the location estimation techniques of distributed targets with the multi-sensor data perceived through IR sensors of the military robots. In order to match up targets with measured azimuths, we apply the maximum likelihood (ML), depth-first, and breadth-first tree search algorithms, in which we use the measured azimuths and the number of pixels on IR screen for pruning branches and selecting candidates. After matching up targets with azimuths, we estimate the coordinate of each target by obtaining the intersection point of the azimuths with the least square error (LSE) algorithm. The experimental results show the probability of missing target, mean of the number of calculating nodes, and mean error of the estimated coordinates of the proposed algorithms.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.137-147
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• 2018

To prepare for and implement policies for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which is characterized by convergence, super-connectivity, and AI, this study summarized the effects and characteristics of individual technologies on our society and discussed the issues with humanity and social science perspectives. As a result, in terms of AI technology, the issues of job losses, project-type works, basic income and robot taxes, accountability of AI, and algorithm inequality were dealt with. Security, cyber hacking and privacy infringement issues were highlighted in big-data technology. In the part of block-chain and bioengineering, the society of decentralization, the concentration, digital divide, and ethical issues were discussed. On-demand economic aspects highlighted the problems of civil ethics and human commercialization. Lastly, the development of VR is discussed including side effects such as cyber-syndrom, avoidance of reality, and so on.

• The Inventors News
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• no.54
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• pp.1-16
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• 2007

한국여성경제단체연합, 여성경제계 위해 공식 출범/발행인 칼럼/'마드리드 출원제도' 적극 활용 상표 침해 줄여라/일본 특허출원 심사기간 단축된다/기업.연구소 신입사원75%, 특허 관련 지식 전무/'주몽'이계인 씨 산자부 홍보대사 위촉/특허등록세, 신청 다음날 내도 된다/특허청, 6시그마 공공부문 혁신 주도/아듀 2006 한국여성발명협회 결산/자문위원 칼럼/로봇시장에도 브랜드 선점 열풍/농산물도 발명특허 상표 등록 시대/도소매업도 서비스업으로 출원 가능/기름대신 물 사용한 자동차, 항공기 현실화/반도체 배선 기술 특허 출원 상승세/자동차는 모바일 엔터네이너/'적외선 감지기술' 우리 생활속으로/서울반도체.바론테크, 일본 특허분쟁 승소/하나TV, 특허권 침해 피소/삼성전자, 분쟁.경쟁 대응위해 특허조직 통합/신한다이아몬드 일본 MDI 특허분쟁 승소/미니인터뷰/나노기술 응용한 디스플레이 특허출원 급증/미국의 두 배인 '휴면 특허', 대책 마련 시급/특허법원 "사용횟수 적다고 상표취소 못해"/종자번식 유전자 변형식물도 특허출원 가능/변리사 1차 시험 합격자 대폭 축소/역사 속의 발명품/하루 10분 발명교실/특허Q&A/신년인터뷰/화장하는 방법도 특허 받는다/'취업에서 결혼까지' 올인원 시스템 화제/아이디어 착상 및 발명 기법/아줌마의 힘이 발휘될 때까지 발명 또 발명/버뱅크의 식물 품종 개량/미국 청년, 몸짱 선탠용 티셔츠 발명/스위스, 국가경쟁력 1위의 비밀/저지방식,'유방암' 제발 위험 감소/서울대, 세계최초 암캐 복제 성공/국가 R&D 특허조사, 전체 R&D 부처로 확대/전국 초.중생 발명 글짓기.만화현상 공모전/특허청, 공공부문 성과주의 대통령상/한국여성발명협회 회원사 발명품 가이드