• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
• /
• v.9 no.6
• /
• pp.577-583
• /
• 2004

Optimal parameters were selected to design an inverter circuit that drives a cold cathode fluorescent lamp for LCD backlight using a piezoelectric transformer and it was verified by an experiment. In this paper, the applied inverter topologies are a push-pull type and a half-bridge type, and the dimming control methods of these drive system were used a analog control method and a burst control method each other. When change a control voltage from 2.5V to 4.5V in the analog control method, the brightness 0-100% was seen in current 1-6 mA. And, the input/output efficiency were obtained 90.3%. Also, the control performance of 1-6 mA was seen in duty ratio 5-50% in the burst control method, and the input/output efficiency of the designed inverter got 82.1%.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
• /
• v.30 no.4
• /
• pp.359-366
• /
• 2010

For the application of Lamb wave to structural health monitoring(SHM), understanding its physical characteristic and interaction between Lamb wave and defect of the host structure is an important issue. In this study, reflected, transmitted and mode converted Lamb waves at discontinuity of a plate structure were simulated and the amplitude ratios are calculated theoretically using Modal decomposition method. The predicted results were verified comparing with finite element method(FEM) and experimental results simulating attached PZTs. The result shows that the theoretical prediction is close to the FEM and the experimental verification. Moreover, quantitative estimation method was suggested using amplitude ratio of Lamb wave at discontinuity.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
• /
• v.34 no.9
• /
• pp.45-52
• /
• 2006

In this study, a nonlinear control by feedback linearization method, one of nonlinear control schemes based on the nonlinear model, is proposed to suppress the flutter of a supersonic composite panel using piezoelectric materials. Most of the previous panel flutter controllers are the LQR(Linear Quadratic Regulator) which is based on the linear model. A nonlinear feedback linearizing controller proposed in this study considers the nonlinear characteristics of the system model. We use the actuator implemented by piezoceramic PZT. Using the principle of virtual displacements and a finite element discretization with the conforming four-node rectangular element, we first derive the discretized dynamic equations of motion, which are transformed into a nonlinear coupled-modal equations of motion of state space form. The effectiveness of the proposed method is also compared with the LQR based on the linear model through numerical simulations in the time domain using the Newmark method.

• Composites Research
• /
• v.28 no.4
• /
• pp.148-154
• /
• 2015

In order to detect damage in early stages and properly maintaining structures, the structural health monitoring technology is employed. In most cases, active-sensing SHM needs many piezoelectric (PZT) sensors and actuators. Thus, if there is a defect on PZT used for active-sensing SHM, the structural status could be misclassified. This study, for reliable SHM performance, investigated to detect defects of sensors by using the admittance-based sensor diagnostics. This study also introduced an algorithm that can diagnose sensor defects based only on data measured from the sensors in case that information about the changes in adhesive and environmental investigation, this study confirms that the proposed algorithm could be efficiently applied to real-world structures in which a significant temperature variation could take place.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
• /
• v.8 no.6
• /
• pp.905-910
• /
• 2022

Drowsy driving requires a lot of social attention because it increases the incidence of traffic accidents and leads to fatal accidents. The number of accidents caused by drowsy driving is increasing every year. Therefore, in order to solve this problem all over the world, research for measuring various biosignals is being conducted. Among them, this paper focuses on non-contact biosignal analysis. Various noises such as engine, tire, and body vibrations are generated in a running vehicle. To measure the driver's heart rate and respiration rate in a driving vehicle with a piezoelectric sensor, a sensor plate that can cushion vehicle vibrations was designed and noise generated from the vehicle was reduced. In addition, we developed a system for classifying whether the driver is sleeping or not by extracting the model using the CNN-LSTM ensemble learning technique based on the signal of the piezoelectric sensor. In order to learn the sleep state, the subject's biosignals were acquired every 30 seconds, and 797 pieces of data were comparatively analyzed.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
• /
• 2009.04a
• /
• pp.106-109
• /
• 2009

본 논문에서는 교량의 상태감시 테스트베드 구축을 위한 한-미 국제공동연구의 현황 및 활동 내용들을 논하였다. 이 국제공동연구는 최첨단 센서와 구조건전도 모니터링 방법의 유용성 및 통합화하는데 그 목적을 두고 있다. 테스트베드 구축을 위해 가속도계과 동적 FBG 센서, 압전 센서 등과 같은 스마트 센서를 사용하였으며, 무선 데이터수집 시스템이 도입되었다. 교량 모니터링 기법으로는 압전 센서 및 EM센서로부터 취합된 데이터를 이용하여 국부손상검색을 수행하였으며, 가속도계, 동적 FBG센서 및 이미지 프로세싱을 이용하여 진동기반 전역손상검색을 수행하였다. 테스트베드 교량으로는 PC박스 거더교, 강상자형교, 강판형교, 사장교의 4가지 형식의 교량이 사용되었다. 테스트베드 교량에 최신 이동통신 인터넷 연결기술을 이용하여 교량에 설치된 센서로부터 취합된 데이터와 모니터링 시스템으로부터 교량의 상태를 실시간 감시할 수 있는 네트워크 시스템을 구축하였다. 이러한 원거리 이동통신시스템을 통하여 구조물의 건전성 평가결과를 실시간으로 전송 및 분석할 수 있도록 하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
• /
• v.43 no.2 s.308
• /
• pp.1-10
• /
• 2006

This paper is concerned with $H_2$ control design for active vibration control of a plate vibration system. We construct a plate vibration system with a plate, PZT ceramics actuators and sensors. The plate titration system is MIMO system and its transfer matrix is obtained by system identification experiments. We design a $H_2$ controller using the state space model obtained from system identification. Effectiveness and performance of the designed controller are verified by both simulation and experiment results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
• /
• 1994.10a
• /
• pp.165-169
• /
• 1994

This paper describes the vibration control of a cantilever beam that is reformulated as the sensitivity minimization problem and solved in H$_{\infty}$ controller that is studied widely nowadays. The result of suggested controller is compared with that special form of H$_{2}$ controller, i.e., LQG. Piezoelectric actuator is chosen and disturbance is applied in the form of base excitation to match real aeronautical problems. Simulations are given, whose results reveals the performance of suggested controller is better than LQG in many cases.

• Journal of KSNVE
• /
• v.11 no.2
• /
• pp.257-264
• /
• 2001

In this research, piezoelectric smart structures are applied for SEA(Statistical Energy Analysis), which is well known approach for high frequency analysis. A new input power measurement based on piezoelectric electrical power measurement is proposed and compared with the conventional method in SEA. As an example, a simple aluminum beam on which piezoelectric actuator is attached is considered. By measuring the electrical impedance and electrical current of the piezoelectric actuator, the electrical power given on the actuator is found and this is In turn converted into the mechanical energy. From the measured value of the stored energy of the beam, the Internal loss factor is calculated and this value shows a good agreement with that given by the conventional method as well as the theoretical value. To compare the coupling loss factor, L-shape beam system which consists of a aluminum beam subsystem and a steel beam subsystem coupled by three pin is taken as second example. The input power and stored energy of each subsystem are found by the proposed approach. The coupling loss factor found by the electrical input power obtained from the piezoelectric actuator exhibits similar trend to the value found by the conventional method as well as the theoretical value. In conclusion, the use of SEA for high frequency application of piezoelectric smart structures is Possible. Especially, the input power that is essential for SEA can be found accurately by measuring the electrical input power of the piezoelectric actuator.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
• /
• v.18 no.2
• /
• pp.18-24
• /
• 1999

In this paper, we have investigated on the development of ultrasonic speakers that have higher directivity and much wider bandwidth than those of conventional loudspeakers. For optimal structure of speaker, we have analyzed material properties and dimension of the piezoelectric element and the vibrating metal plate, and their support type as well as the housing case. Based on the design, we have fabricated ultrasonic speaker prototypes, measured their performance, and verified validity of the design theory. For higher sound pressure level, the ultrasonic array speaker prototype has been fabricated in the form of an array. The design and fabrication method worked in this paper can be utilized in development of various ultrasonic speakers with higher directivity and broader bandwidth.