• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.373-379
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• 2016

As the five-day workweek has been implemented in Korea many people are focusing their attention on hobbies, leisure activities or camping to enjoy the weekend. Recently many workers are purchasing personal mobility devices for commute, due to the launch of cheap personal mobility devices by Xiaomi. Under such circumstances, this study aimed to develop turn signals by using gyroscope sensors for safe use of personal mobility devices or for leisure activities. This study focused on previous cases of turn signal production for the safety during leisure activities or for personal mobility devices and analyzed their cases and identified problems. This study further presented an alternative design to overcome such problems and to develop turn signals for the safety of users. This is ring shape and included LED and then it expresses user's direction for backside. This study is one of the solution for safety of personal mobility product user.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.07d
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• pp.2274-2276
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 미세 구조물 가공 기술(MEMS)로 제작된 실리콘 자이로스코프를 위한 폐루프 제어기를 주파수 가중 $H_{\infty}$ 제어 기법과 주파수 가중 모델 축소 기법을 이용하여 설계하였다. 실리콘 자이로스코프는 수 kHz 대의 공진 특성을 이용하여 각속도를 측정하는 센서로서, 공진 주파수 영역의 특성이 매우 중요하므로 주파수 영역을 고려하고 공정 오차를 감안한 주파수 가중 $H_{\infty}$ 제어기가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 고차 강인 제어기의 회로적 구현과 ASIC화가 가능하도록 하기 위해, 주파수 가중 모델 축소 기법을 이용하여 공진 주파수 영역에서 성능을 유지하는 저차 제어기를 설계하였으며, 시뮬레이션을 통해 기존의 제어기 및 고차 제어기와 성능을 비교하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.518-524
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• 2011

This paper presents a study on the calibration of accelerometer data in the gyroscope free inertial navigation system(GFINS) using fuzzy inference system(FIS). The conventional INS(inertial navigation system) which can measure yaw rate and linear velocity using inertial sensors as the gyroscope and accelerometer. However, the INS is difficult to design as small size and low power because it uses the gyroscope. To solve the problem, the GFINS which does not have the gyroscope have been studied actively. However, the GFINS has cumulative error problem still. Hence, this paper proposes Fuzzy-GFINS which can calibrate the data of an accelerometer using FIS consists of two inputs that are ratio between linear velocity of the autonomous ground vehicle(AGV) and the accelerometer and ratio between linear velocity of the encoders and the accelerometer. To evaluate the proposed Fuzzy-GFINS, we made the AGV with Mecanum wheels and applied the proposed Fuzzy-GFINS. In experimental result, we verified that the proposed method can calibrate effectively data of the accelerometer in the GFINS.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39C no.1
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• pp.82-89
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• 2014

Recently, inertial sensors are popularly used for the location and position recognition of small devices for M2M/IoT. In this paper, we designed low power, low noise, small sized 6-axis inertial sensor IC for mobile applications, which uses a 3-axis piezo-electric gyroscope sensor and a 3-axis piezo-resistive accelerometer sensor. Proposed IC is composed of 3-axis gyroscope readout circuit, two gyroscope sensor driving circuits, 3-axis accelerometer readout circuit, 16bit sigma-delta ADC, digital filter and control circuit and memory. TSMC $0.18{\mu}m$ mixed signal CMOS process was used. Proposed IC reduces 27% of the current consumption of LSM330.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.28 no.9
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• pp.1297-1305
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• 2004

Reliability of MEMS devices is receiving more attention as they are heading towards commercial production. In particular are the reliability and long-term stability of wafer level vacuum packaged MEMS gyroscope sensors subjected to cyclic mechanical stresses at high frequencies. In this study, we carried out several reliability tests such as environmental storage, fatigue, shock, and vibration, and we investigated the failure mechanisms of the anodically bonded vacuum gyroscope sensors. It was found that successful vacuum packaging could be achieved through reducing outgassing inside the cavity by deposition of titanium as well as by pre-taking process. The current gyroscope structure is found to be safe from fatigue failure for 1000 hours of operation test. The gyroscope sensor survives the drop and vibration tests without any damage, indicating robustness of the sensor. The reliability test results presented in this study demonstrate that MEMS gyroscope sensor is very close to commercialization.

• ICROS
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.29-35
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• 1997

본 논문에서는 인공위성의 자세를 측정하는 장치로서 태양센서, 지구수평센서, 자이로스코프, 별센서, 자장계 등의 자세감지장치와 궤도조정 및 자세제어를 하기 위한 모멘텀 휠, 반작용 휠, 가스 제트 추력기 등 각종 구동장치의 기술적 특성에 대해서 검토하고자 한다. 본 논문의 주목적은 최근 국내에서 활발히 추진되고 있는 인공위성 개발 사업 관련 위성체와 관련된 일반의 관심을 증대시키고 관련 실무 지식을 소개하고자 하는데 있다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.179-185
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• 2015

Although an accelerometer is a sensor that measures acceleration, it cannot be used by itself to measure the acceleration when the orientation of the sensor changes. This paper introduces a Kalman filter for the estimation of a sensor acceleration based on a six-axis inertial sensor (i.e., a three-axis accelerometer and three-axis gyroscope). The novelty of the proposed Kalman filter lies in the fact that its state vector includes not only the tilt angle variable but also the sensor acceleration. Thus, the filter can explicitly estimate the latter with a high accuracy. The accuracy of acceleration estimates were validated experimentally under three different dynamic conditions, using an optical motion capture system. It could be concluded that the performance of the proposed Kalman filter was comparable to that of the state-of-the-art estimation algorithm employed by the Xsens MTw. The proposed algorithm may be more suitable than inertial/magnetic sensor-based algorithms for various applications adopting six-axis inertial sensors.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.39-46
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• 2016

본고에서는 차량 내 운전자 제스처 인식을 위한 웨어러블 디바이스 플랫폼과 차량 시스템 모델을 소개한다. 특히 저가형 가속도, 자이로스코프 센서를 적용한 웨어러블 디바이스용 HW를 설계하고, 제스처 인식률을 높이기 위한 SW 시스템 및 알고리즘에 대해 설명한다. 운전 중 가장 많이 제어하는 편의 기능을 기준으로 제스처를 구분하고, 제스처 마다 발생하는 센서 값의 특징을 이용해 잡음에 강한 제스처 인식 시스템에 대해 설명한다. 마지막에 진행한 본 논문의 실험을 통해 본 고에서 설명한 제스처 인식 시스템이 잡음과 방향성을 갖는 동작인식에 강함을 확인할 수 있다.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.5 no.10
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• pp.331-338
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose a system for transmitting army hand signals using motion sensors. The proposed system consists of a squad commander device, squad member devices, and a server. The squad command device and squad member device have been implemented using a micro arduino, an accelerometer sensor, and a gyroscope sensor, and the server has been implemented using a Rasberry Pi 3. Because the devices are made in the form of band, they are lightweight and portable. The proposed system can transmit the hand signals through vibration in conditions of poor visibility. We have designed and implemented the squad member device to be able to recognize four military hand signals. Through experiments, the proposed system have shown 88.82% of correct recognition. In conclusion, we expect to increase effectiveness of army operations and survival rate of soldiers.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.26 no.7
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• pp.45-55
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• 2021

Information obtained through various sensors embedded in a smartphone can be used to identify and analyze user's movements and situations. In this paper, we propose two rule-based motion detection systems that can detect three alphabet motions, 'I', 'S', and 'Z' by analyzing data obtained by the acceleration and gyroscope sensors in a smartphone. First of all, the characteristics of acceleration and angular velocity for each motion are analyzed. Based on the analysis, two rule-based systems are proposed and implemented as an android application and it is used to verify the detection performance for each motion. Two rule-based systems show high recognition rate over 90% for each motion and the rule-based system using ensemble shows better performance than another one.