• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.198-206
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• 2009

This paper presents the reduction of the positional uncertainty of an ultrasonic sensor ring with overlapped beam pattern for the efficient obstacle detection of a mobile robot. Basically, it is assumed that a relatively small number of inexpensive low directivity ultrasonic sensors are installed at regular spacings along the side of a circular mobile robot with their beams overlapped. First, for both single and double obstacles, we show that the positional uncertainty inherent to an ultrasonic sensor can be reduced using the overlapped beam pattern, and also quantify the relative improvement in positional uncertainty. Second, given measured distance data from one or two ultrasonic sensors, we devise the geometric method to determine the position of an obstacle with respect to the center of a mobile robot. Third, we examine and compare existing ultrasonic sensor models, including Gaussian distribution, parabolic distribution, uniform distribution, and impulse, and then build the sensor model of overlapped ultrasonic sensors, adequate for obstacle detection in terms of positional uncertainty and computational requirement. Finally, through experiments using our prototype ultrasonic sensor ring, the validity of overlapped beam pattern for reduced positional uncertainty and efficient obstacle detection is demonstrated.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.101-107
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• 2001

The objective of this paper is to present a method for designing robust positioning control systems of a flexible arm using mixed $H_2/H_{\infty}$ and $\mu$ theory. We begin with a description of the flexible arm based on the model identification method and discuss the derivation of the model uncertainty. The validity of the obtained model is confirmed experimentally. Next, a robust controller is designed based on the mixed $H_2/H_{\infty}$ and $\mu$ theory by which we can improve robustness of the entire system. On this occasion, we also propose a general plant formation suitable to mixed $H_2/H_{\infty}$ control and $\mu$-theory. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed design method is verified through experimentation.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.182-188
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• 2004

Previous studies on the liquid Gallium ion sources used an electro-chemically etched tungsten wire with a coil-type heater. Such a structure requires excessive power consumption in the course of heating the liquid metal. In this work, a new structure is proposed that replaces the coil-type heater. It uses a Gallium reservoir made of six pre-etched 250$\mu\textrm{m}$ tungsten wires that surround the needle electrode. Gallium trading at the reservoir is observed to be much more stable, resulting in an improved beam stability.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.470-478
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• 2015

A heuristic method treating a layered ocean bottom in a ray modeling is to use the plane wave reflection coefficient for multiple-layered structure, named an one-layer assumption in this paper. We examine the validity of one-layer assumption in the case of two-layered ocean bottom, and obtain a simple inequality condition depending on the sound speed ratio, the ratio of layer thickness to source-receiver range, and the grazing angle of first reflected ray. From this inequality condition, it is shown that an one-layer assumption can be applicable to ray propagation problems at mid frequencies. Finally, numerical experiments are performed in the ocean environment similar to the East Sea in Korea. Incoherent transmission loss is calculated by the geometrical beam model with the plane wave reflection coefficient for multiple-layered ocean bottom and compared with the result of SNUPE 2.0, which is a parabolic equation package developed in Seoul National University.

• Composites Research
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.158-164
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• 2017

The fiber metal laminate is a type of hybrid materials laminated thin metallic sheets with fiber reinforced plastic sheets. The laminate has been researched or applied in automotive and aerospace industries due to their outstanding impact absorbing performance in view of light weight aspect. Specially, the replacement of side-impact beam as the fiber reinforced plastic has been researched actively. The objective of this paper is the primitive investigation in the development of side-door impact beam using the fiber metal laminate. First, the three-point bending simulations were conducted to decide the shape of impact beam using the numerical analysis. Next, two cases impact beam (pure DP 980 and fiber metal laminate) were installed in the side-door, and then the bending tests (according to FMVSS 214S) were simulated using the numerical analysis. It is noted that the side-door impact beam can be replaced with the fiber metal laminate sufficiently based on the numerical analysis results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.42-45
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• 2008

Recently, aluminum is widely used to reduce the vehicle weight. Aluminum curved extruded products are used for the design of automotive frame parts. This study focuses on the determination of process condition fur automotive bumper beam with various curvatures. In this study, a curvature prediction model has been proposed considering the geometric relationship and the characteristic of the curvature extrusion equipment. Using the proposed model and FE analysis, the appropriated process condition was determined to produce the bumper beam. Finally, curvature extrusion experiment was carried out to verify the effectiveness of the proposed curvature prediction model and the process condition.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06c
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• pp.75-78
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• 1998

이 논문에서는 대용량 연속음성 인식에서 인식 속도를 향상시키기 위한 방법들에 대해서 연구하였다. 음성인식에 있어서 많은 양의 계산을 요하는 부분은 관측 확률의 계산과 탐색에 필요한 계산이다. 탐색에 필요한 계산을 줄이기 위하여 빔 탐색법과 phoneme look-ahead기법을 통해 탐색 공간을 줄였으며, 관측 확률을 계산하는데 소요되는 시간을 줄이기 위하여 입력 특징 벡터와 이웃 관계에 있는 가우시안 성분들만 정확한 계산을 하는 VQ에 의한 계산량 감축 방법과 tree-structured pdf 방법을 구현하였다. 3천개의 어휘와 2천여개의 트라이폰 모델로 구성된 연속 음성인식 시스템에서 보통의 Viterbi 빔 탐색법을 적용한 경우에 실시간의 2.73배의 인식 속도로 93.39%의 단어 인식률을 얻을 수 있는데 phoneme look-ahead 기법과 tree-structured pdf 방법을 추가 적용함으로써 비슷한 인식 성능에서 1.55배의 인식 속도를 얻을 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.179-182
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• 2004

수중음향통신을 위한 빔형성 알고리듬은 수중음향통신 신호가 상대대역폭(대역폭에 대한 반송주파수 비)이 큰 광대역 신호 특성을 고려해야한다. 우리는 본 논문에서 위상동기식 디지털 수중음향통신을 위한 협대역 신호 가정을 하지 않은 기저대역 배열 신호 모델을 유도하고 RLS 알고리듬을 이용하여 가중치를 갱신하는 FTR 필터 구조의 광대역 적응 빔형성 알고리듬에 대해서 전산 모의실험을 통하여 FIR 필터 길이, tap간 간격 등과 같은 최적의 FIR 필터 파라미터를 제시하였다.

• New & Renewable Energy
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.25-30
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• 2009

The wind tunnel test to identify the acoustic noise source position of the wind turbine blade was conducted in KARI low speed wind tunnel. Microphone array and time-domain beamforming methodology was applied to this study. To reduce the data processing time, a modified beamforming method with a criteria between calculation time step and grid size for rotating angle in the cylinderical coordinate system was proposed. The test results shows that the data processing time to identify the noise source position was reduced to 20% compared with conventional method. And the dominant noise source of the blade moves from inboard to blade tip as the frequency increases.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.42.2-42.2
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• 2010

2009년부터 2010년에 걸쳐 22 및 43GHz 대역에서의 KVN 단일경 시험관측이 이루어졌다. KVN 관측소는 연세대학교, 울산대학교, 탐라대학교에 위치하고 있으며, 시험관측의 주된 내용은 안테나 지향모델 구축, 22/43 GHz 빔 정렬, 이득곡선 측정 및 안테나 효율측정 등이다. 구축된 지향오차의 정밀도는 세 곳의 관측소 모두 rms가 5초 이내였으며, 두 빔도 5초 이내로 정렬되어 있음이 확인되었다. 안테나 효율은 22 및 43GHz에서 모두 60%를 넘는 값을 얻을 수 있었다.