• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.37 no.12
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• pp.1521-1527
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• 2013

This study proposes a wearable master device that can measure the joint stiffness and the angular displacement of a human operator to enhance the adapting capability of a slave system. A lightweight inertial sensor and the exoskeleton mechanism of the master device can make an operator feel comfortable, and artificial pneumatic muscles having a working principle similar to that of human muscles improve the performance of the slave device on emulating what a human operator does. Experimental results revealed that the proposed master/slave system based on the muscle stiffness sensor yielded uniform tracking performance compared with a conventional position-feedback controller when the payload applied to the slave system changed.

• The korean journal of orthodontics
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• v.37 no.1 s.120
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• pp.44-55
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• 2007

Objective: Previous studies have reported that morphological features of the first cervical vertebra (atlas) have been associated with mandibular growth direction. The purpose of this study was to show the possible positional and morphological changes of the Atlas from activator treatment in Class II malocclusion patients. Methods: Lateral cephalometric radiograph tracings were made at initial, middle and final stages of treatment. Angular and linear measurements of skeletal and morphological features were measured on the anatomical landmarks and reference planes. Results: The skeletal effects of activator treatment on Class II malocclusion patients were evident on ramal height, body length, effective body length, ANB, and overjet. Clockwise rotation of the long axis of the Atlas was found in Group 1, but there was no inclination change of the Atlas in groups 2 and 3. There was no significant correlation between anterior and posterior positions of the atlas or morphological change in all groups. - except for posterior movements of the Atlas found in group 1. Conclusion: Clockwise rotation of the atlas axis resulted from activator treatment in Cl II malocclusion patients. Change in atlas axis can be thought of as an indicator for success of activator treatment.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.516-523
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• 2001

This paper introduces a indirect rotor position and speed estimation algorithm for the SRM(switched reluctance motor) sensorless control based on the sliding mode observer and evolutionary programming The information of position and speed is generally provided by encoder or resolve. However, the position sensor not only adds complexity, cost and size to the whole drive system, but also causes limitation for industrial applications. In this paper, in order to eliminate the position sensor, indirect position sensing, indirect position sensing method using sliding mode observer is used for SRM drives. But if sliding mode observer parameters are selected to be large, the corresponding rapid changes of estimated position and velocity result in chattering phenomenon. Therefore in order to reduce the chattering, this observer parameters are optimized by evolutionary programming. And PID controller is also optimized to track precisely for the SRM using evolutionary programming.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.157-164
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• 2007

In this paper, a novel sensorless drive for brushless DC (BLDC) motor using the fuzzy back-EMF observer is proposed to improve the performance of conventional sensorless drive methods. Existing sensorless drive methods of the BLDC motor have low performance at transients or low speed range and occasionally require additional circuits. To cope with these problems, the back-EMF of the BLDC motor must be precisely estimated by a fuzzy logic, which is suitable to estimate the back-EMF which has a trapezoidal shape. The proposed algorithm using fuzzy back-EMF observer can achieve robust control for the change of an external condition and continuously estimate position of the rotor at transients as well as at steady state. The superiority of the proposed algorithm is proved through the simulation compared with other sensorless drive methods.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.18-31
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• 2018

Rotorcrafts have more severe crashworthiness conditions than fixed wing aircraft owing to VTOL and hovering. Recently, with the increasing demand for highly efficient transportation system, application of composite materials to aircraft structures is increasing. However, due to the characteristics of composite materials that are susceptible to impact and crash, demand to prove the crashworthiness of composite structures is also increasing. The purpose of present study is to derive the structural concept of composite subfloor for rotorcrafts and verify it. In order to design a crashworthy composite subfloor, the conceptual design of the testbed helicopter for the demonstration and the derivation of energy absorbing requirement were carried out, and the composite energy absorber was designed and verified. Finally, the testbed for the demonstration of a crashworthy composite structure was fabricated, and performed free drop test. It was confirmed that the test results meet the criteria for ensuring occupant survivability.

• Journal of radiological science and technology
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.389-394
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• 2015

There is a progressive development in the medical imaging technology, especially of descriptive capability for anatomical structure of human body thanks to advancement of information technology and medical devices. But however maintenance of correct posture is essential for the medical imaging checkup on the shoulder joint requiring rotation of the upper limb due to the complexity of human body. In the cases of MRI examination, long duration and fixed posture are critical, as failure to comply with them leads to minimal possibility of reproducibility only with the efforts of the examiner and will of the patient. Thus, this study aimed to develop an auxiliary device that enables rotation of the upper limb as well as fixing it at quantitative angles for medical imaging examination capable of providing diagnostic values. An auxiliary device has been developed based on the results of precedent studies, by designing a 3D model with the CATIA software, an engineering application, and producing it with the 3D printer. The printer is Objet350 Connex from Stratasys, and acrylonitrile- butadiene-styrene(ABS) is used as the material of the device. Dimensions are $120{\times}150{\times}190mm$, with the inner diameter of the handle being 125.9 mm. The auxiliary device has 4 components including the body (outside), handle (inside), fixture terminal and the connection part. The body and handle have the gap of 2.1 mm for smooth rotation, while the 360 degree of scales have been etched on the handle so that the angle required for observation may be recorded per patient for traceability and dual examination.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.173-176
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• 2003

지문은 종생불변성, 만인부동성, 그리고 사용상의 편리함 때문에 신원인증을 위한 생체인식에 많이 사용되고 있다. 최근에는 기하학구조에 기반한 특이점 매칭방식이 제안되어 인식성능이 매우 높고 잡음에 강한 특성이 있으나 매칭 회수가 많아 인식속도가 느린 단점이 있다. 따라서 기존의 방식은 소수의 지문에 대한 1:다 매칭이나 1:1매칭에 주로 사용된다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 문제점들을 개선하기 위하여 생체 면역계의 자기-비자기 인식 능력에 주목하였다. 생체 면역계는 자기-비자기의 구별 능력을 바탕으로 바이러스나병원균 등의 낮선 외부침입자로부터 자신을 보호하고 침입자를 식별, 제거하는 시스템이다. 본 논문에서는 생체 면역계를 이루는 면역세포 중의 하나인 세포독성 T세포의 생성과정에서 자기, 비자기를 구별하기 위한 MHC 인식부를 형성하는 과정에 착안한 빠르고 신뢰성 있는 지문 인식 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안한 방식은 지문에 존재하는 특이점(minutiae)인식을 통해 1단계로 global 패턴을 생성하고 2단계로 기하학적인 구조를 만들며, 인식시 global 패턴을 인식한 MHC 인식부에 대해서만 2차 local 매칭을 수행함으로써 매칭 속도가 매우 빠르며 지문의 비틀림이나 회전 등에 대하여 강인하게 인식된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2019.10a
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• pp.538-539
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• 2019

타워크레인은 조선, 건설 등 산업 현장에서 중량물 운반 운전을 위한 도구로 사람이 수동 작업으로 대부분 수행된다. 이러한 타워크레인 운전 훈련 과정은 훈련 실습자에게 장시간 교육하기에 비효율적 뿐 아니라 위험한 작업이므로 최근에는 가상 훈련 시뮬레이션을 통해 이루어 지고 있다. 이러한 가상 타워크레인 시뮬레이션을 구현하기 위해서는 기후환경, 중량물, 줄걸이와 같은 외부적 요인도 중요하지만 타워크레인의 운반 중량물과 직접적으로 연결이되는 로프를 정밀하게 표현하는 것이 중요하다. 하지만, 현재 개발된 대다수의 로프는 단면이 원통형을 띄고 있어 물리적인 요인이 작용하였을 때, 회전축이나 물리적인 형태를 가늠하기가 어렵다. 그러므로, 가상의 타워크레인 시뮬레이션 로프를 실제 타워크레인 슬링벨트와 유사한 면의 형태를 가지고 구축하여 실 환경과 유사한 환경에서 숙련된 타워크레인 시뮬레이션을 훈련하기 위한 로프 시뮬레이션이 필요하다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 로프 시뮬레이션이 실제와 동일한 형태의 슬링벨트를 제공할 뿐만 아니라 로프의 면 형태 구현하고, 물리시뮬레이션을 통해 로프의 사실적인 움직임을 나타낼 수 있는 가상현실(VR) 기반 훈련 로프 시뮬레이션을 제시한다.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.33-42
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• 2003

This paper deals with the FEM analysis of nonlinear sloshing of incompressible, invicid and irrotational flow in two dimensional rectangular tank. We use laplace equation based on potential theory as governing equation. For large amplitude sloshing motion, kinematic and dynamic free surface conditions derived from Bernoulli equation are applied. This problem is solved by FEM using 9-node elements. For the time integration and accurate velocity calculation, we introduce predictor-corrector time marching scheme and least square method. Also, numerical stability in tracking of free surface is obtained by direct calculation of free surface location to time variation. Numerical results of sloshing induced by harmonic excitations, while comparing with those of linear theory and references, prove the accuracy and stability. After verification of our program, we analyze sloshing response characteristics to the fluid height and the excitation amplitude.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TE
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.29-34
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• 2005

The wound induction motor can provide high starting torque and reduced starting current simultaneously by inserting large resistor externally when starting. And this technique is one of the well known methods among the induction motor starting methods and generally used for heavy load starting such as crane and cement factories. The conventional PI controller has been widely used in industrial application due to the simple control algorithm and is generally used for control of current torque, position, and speed for the wound induction motor drive system. However, the conventional control system for wound induction motor may result in poor performance because sensors have to be used but are often limited by the environmental condition. Recently, to overcome these problems, many sensorless vector control methods for the wound induction motor have been studied. This paper presents a MRAS method for sensorless vector control of the wound induction motor drive. In the conventional MRAS method, in low frequency, the stator resistance variation may result in poor performance. Therefore, this paper presents a MRAS method with stator and rotor resistance tuning for sensorless vector control of the wound induction motor to overcome several shortages of the conventional MRAS caused by parameter variation and to enhance the robustness of the sensorless vector control. The validity and effectiveness of the proposed method is verified through digital simulation.